Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 7/17/12, Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: [snip I'm not sure I follow the logic there. If the anycast router changes the packet will be resent to the new subnet anycast router eventually (assuming some layer cares enough about the packet to resend it). The last known hardware address

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 16, 2012, at 9:40 PM, Karl Auer wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 23:38 -0400, Matt Addison wrote: Oliver oli...@8.c.9.b.0.7.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa wrote: Additionally, as an alternative to RAs, you can simply point default at the all-routers anycast address. Wouldn't this result in

Re: NAT66 was Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 16, 2012, at 10:20 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:31:42 -0700, Owen DeLong said: Think HA pairs in Pittsburgh, Dallas, and San Jose. Now imagine each has different upstream connectivity and the backbone network connecting all the corporate sites lives

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 16, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Seth Mos wrote: Hi, Op 16 jul 2012, om 18:34 heeft valdis.kletni...@vt.edu het volgende geschreven: On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:09:28 -0500, -Hammer- said: ---That is clearly a matter of opinion. NAT64 and NAT66 wouldn't be there if there weren't enough

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 16, 2012, at 11:16 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On 7/17/12, Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: [snip I'm not sure I follow the logic there. If the anycast router changes the packet will be resent to the new subnet anycast router eventually (assuming some layer cares enough about the

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 23:44 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: The whole concept of gratuitous arp is strictly IPv4. Isn't an unsolicited neighbour advertisement pretty much the same thing? Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Seth Mos
Op 17-7-2012 8:43, Owen DeLong schreef: On Jul 16, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Seth Mos wrote: Hi, Op 16 jul 2012, om 18:34 heeft valdis.kletni...@vt.edu het volgende geschreven: To highlight what the current NAT66 is useful for, it's a RFC for Network Prefix translation. It has nothing do with

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 23:36 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: Reread the spec... [the subnet router anycast address] gets the packet to one or more of the routers and it may well lead to packet duplication. There may or may not be coordination between the routers. It isn't in the spec. Which spec?

Re: NAT66 was Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Lee
On 7/16/12, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message CAD8GWsswFwnPKTfxt=squumzofs3_-yrihy8o4gt3w9+x6f...@mail.gmail.com, Lee writes: On 7/16/12, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Why would you want NAT66? ICK!!! One of the best benefits of IPv6 is being able to eliminate NAT. NAT

Re: NAT66 was Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Lee
On 7/16/12, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com wrote: If you are running an HA pair, why would you care which box it went back through? You wouldn't. But if you've got an HA pair at site A and another HA pair at site B.. Lee -Grant On Monday, July 16, 2012, Mark Andrews wrote: In

MPLS L2VPN monitoring

2012-07-17 Thread Peter Ehiwe
Hello , For those who provide l2vpn services to customers over MPLS , what kind of tools do you use for monitoring the circuits and what kind of values do you proactively monitor I have tools in place to monitor these circuits but i want to know based on group members experiences in order to

Managing free pairs to prevent DSL sync. loss

2012-07-17 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Hello everyone. I am having some very bad time due to my ISP's poor last mile (in India). DSL is loosing sync. consistently and this time problem seems quite interesting so I though to ask how ISPs across world managing it. Problem is high attenuation low SNR because of lot of free pairs in

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Matt Addison
On Jul 17, 2012, at 3:15, Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: Reading it with a squint: The phrase packets [...] will be delivered to one router on the subnet does not specifically exclude the possibility that packets will be delivered to more than one router on the subnet. Still, I do

Re: MPLS L2VPN monitoring

2012-07-17 Thread Sergey V. Lobanov
Hello, For example, cpwVcOperStatus for Cisco devices. Look at proprietary mibs On 07/17/2012 02:14 PM, Peter Ehiwe wrote: Hello , For those who provide l2vpn services to customers over MPLS , what kind of tools do you use for monitoring the circuits and what kind of values do you

Re: NAT66 was Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread -Hammer-
I have almost one hundred FWs. Some physical. Some virtual. Various vendors. Your point is spot on. -Hammer- I was a normal American nerd -Jack Herer On 7/16/2012 8:55 PM, Lee wrote: On 7/16/12, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Why would you want NAT66? ICK!!! One of the best benefits of

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread -Hammer-
-Hammer- I was a normal American nerd -Jack Herer On 7/16/2012 11:18 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On 7/16/12, -Hammer- bhmc...@gmail.com wrote: hurdles. Example? HSRP IPv6 global addressing on Cisco ASR platform. If HSRP is a legacy proprietary protocol; try VRRP. Stateless autoconfig and

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Saku Ytti
I wonder who really believes there is no usage case for NAT66. Have these people seen non-trivial corporate networks? I'm sure many people in this list finance part of their lives with renumber projects costing MUSDs. For many companies just finding out where addresses have been punched in (your

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread -Hammer-
There's are routing and switching people and there are security people. And they look at things different. That, IMHO, is the root of the emotion on this thread. No one is actually wrong except me for stirring the pot as the OP. :) -Hammer- I was a normal American nerd -Jack Herer On

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Ray Soucy
With all due respect to Owen, I don't share the view that everyone should be jumping into BGP or getting an allocation from ARIN, but that's been a long-standing debate between us. NPT allows you to get prefixes from multiple ISPs without having to get an allocation to coordinate routing; or in

RE: MPLS L2VPN monitoring

2012-07-17 Thread Siegel, David
We deploy NIDs to the customer premise. You just can't get enough alarm data be looking only at your router/switch on your side of an Ethernet NNI to give you a proper indication of whether the service is functional, and it also happens to be quite handy to have when a performance

RE: Managing free pairs to prevent DSL sync. loss

2012-07-17 Thread John Souvestre
Hello Anurag. I have not heard of this problem before, but I imagine that the non-terminated pairs could be acting like antennas and picking up noise. Have you considered grounding one end (or both) of the free pairs? Perhaps this would reduce the amount of noise they pick up. Regards, John   

Re: Managing free pairs to prevent DSL sync. loss

2012-07-17 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:15:59 -0500, John Souvestre said: Have you considered grounding one end (or both) of the free pairs? Perhaps this would reduce the amount of noise they pick up. Grounding both ends will probably result in hilarity ensues. And I suspect that Anurag can't ground the

RE: Managing free pairs to prevent DSL sync. loss

2012-07-17 Thread Matlock, Kenneth L
Yeah, grounding both ends will result in some current traversing across the pairs all the time because of differences in ground potential over long-ish distances. Ken Matlock Network Analyst 303-467-4671 matlo...@exempla.org -Original Message- From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu

RE: Managing free pairs to prevent DSL sync. loss

2012-07-17 Thread John Souvestre
Yes, but would this result in more or less noise than an open end acting like an antenna? And would the ground loop noise be in the DSL spectrum? John     John Souvestre - New Orleans LA - (504) 454-0899 -Original Message- From: Matlock, Kenneth L [mailto:matlo...@exempla.org] Sent:

Re: Real world sflow vs netflow?

2012-07-17 Thread Simon Leinen
James Braunegg writes: In the end I did real life testing comparing each platform Great, thanks for sharing your results! (It would be nice if you could tell us a little bit about the configuration, i.e. what kind of sampling you used.) [...] That being said both netflow and sflow both under

Re: Managing free pairs to prevent DSL sync. loss

2012-07-17 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:16:17 -0500, John Souvestre said: Yes, but would this result in more or less noise than an open end acting like an antenna? And would the ground loop noise be in the DSL spectrum? No, it will be strictly a DC current, with the amperage easily calculated from the voltage

Re: Real world sflow vs netflow?

2012-07-17 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 17/07/2012 16:32, Simon Leinen wrote: That's one reason, but another reason would be that at least in Netflow (but sFlow may be similar depending on how you use it), the reported byte counts only include the sizes of the L3 packets, i.e. starting at the IP header, while the SNMP interface

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Oliver
On Monday 16 July 2012 21:11:18 you wrote: The disadvantage to this is the high probability of packet duplication. For someone worried about ICMP spam on the subnet, I'm surprised you're not worried about what happens when 2 or more routers copy the same packet and route both copies on to the

Re: Real world sflow vs netflow?

2012-07-17 Thread Peter Phaal
In the case of sFlow, the collector determines how to report bytes. The sFlow agent reports the size of the sampled layer 2 frame (along with the first 128 bytes of the frame) and the collector can choose whether to report L2 bytes, L3 bytes, L4 bytes etc. by subtracting the sizes of the headers.

RE: Managing free pairs to prevent DSL sync. loss

2012-07-17 Thread Matlock, Kenneth L
-Original Message- From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu [mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu] No, it will be strictly a DC current, with the amperage easily calculated from the voltage difference between the two ends and the resistance of however many cable-feet of wire is involved. Not usually

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 7/17/2012 12:15 AM, Karl Auer wrote: But I do not have an encylopaedic knowledge of all the RFCs, so perhaps this has been superseded, obsoleted or updated... This gets a lot easier if you use the tools site:

Re: Managing free pairs to prevent DSL sync. loss

2012-07-17 Thread Mike Andrews
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:16:07AM -0600, Matlock, Kenneth L wrote: That brings up an interesting question. I assumed the ground potential stays the same between 2 points, but have there been any studies to see if it's actually DC, or if there's an AC component to it? Thaat's not a safe

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Doug Barton
On 7/17/2012 5:47 AM, Saku Ytti wrote: I wonder who really believes there is no usage case for NAT66. Have these people seen non-trivial corporate networks? I'm sure many people in this list finance part of their lives with renumber projects costing MUSDs. For many companies just finding out

RE: Managing free pairs to prevent DSL sync. loss

2012-07-17 Thread John Souvestre
You could ground then via some small capacitors. This would block DC and the low frequency power line trash and even act somewhat as a fuse should there be a lightning strike. John     John Souvestre - New Orleans LA - (504) 454-0899 -Original Message- From: Mike Andrews

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/13/12 7:38 AM, -Hammer- wrote: OK. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get some flak for this but I'll share this question and it's background anyway. Please be gentle. In the past, with IPv4, we have used reserved or non-routable space Internally in production for segments that won't be seen

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-07-18 00:21, Seth Mattinen wrote: [..] Don't, because there's already a /10 defined for such things. It's called ULA (unique local address) aka RFC 4193. ULAs are not globally routable. Here's a calculator that will generate a random one for you: http://bitace.com/ipv6calc/ A

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/17/12 3:34 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2012-07-18 00:21, Seth Mattinen wrote: [..] Don't, because there's already a /10 defined for such things. It's called ULA (unique local address) aka RFC 4193. ULAs are not globally routable. Here's a calculator that will generate a random one for

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-07-18 00:47, Seth Mattinen wrote: [..] Here's a calculator that will generate a random one for you: http://bitace.com/ipv6calc/ A random one indeed, because the javascript for it is just: [..] does not follow RFC4193 in any way at all. A such do not use it. The original real

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-07-18 00:57, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2012-07-18 00:47, Seth Mattinen wrote: [..] Here's a calculator that will generate a random one for you: http://bitace.com/ipv6calc/ [..] Yes, it is a shame that the bitace thing references RFC4193 and then does not use it. Lets Bcc: them and see

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/17/12 3:57 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: I am wondering what you meaning with 'squat', note that what I reference above is real full RFC4193 calculated ULA. By squat I meant take a random chunk of IPv6 space and use it as private address space. He said: On 7/13/12 7:38 AM, -Hammer- wrote:

Adtran NetVanta deployment experience

2012-07-17 Thread Brandon Ross
I'd like to speak to someone who's had deployment experience around the Adtran NetVanta product line that has used it's firewalling and/or VPN functionality. Feel free to reply off-list. I'm trying to get an idea of real-world performance expectations. -- Brandon Ross

Another LTE network turns up as IPv4-only squat space + NAT

2012-07-17 Thread Cameron Byrne
FYI http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r27324698-LTE-access-early- So much for next generation technology ... CB

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 5005e87d.6060...@unfix.org, Jeroen Massar writes: On 2012-07-18 00:21, Seth Mattinen wrote: [..] Don't, because there's already a /10 defined for such things. It's called ULA (unique local address) aka RFC 4193. ULAs are not globally routable. Here's a calculator that will

Re: Another LTE network turns up as IPv4-only squat space + NAT

2012-07-17 Thread TJ
On Jul 17, 2012 7:54 PM, Cameron Byrne cb.li...@gmail.com wrote: FYI http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r27324698-LTE-access-early- So much for next generation technology ... No IPv6, and using duplicate IPv4 space. #sigh #fail /TJ

Re: Another LTE network turns up as IPv4-only squat space + NAT

2012-07-17 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Cameron Byrne wrote: FYI http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r27324698-LTE-access-early- Short-sighted and foolish. Shame on you, Sprint. jms