Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Anthony Newman via NANOG
On 1 Apr 2022, at 11:17, Abraham Y. Chen wrote: > > 4)    EzIP proposes an overlay cyberspace with geographic flavor to restore > the society infrastructure back to Pt. 2) above, while providing the daily > services of Pt. 3). It essentially offers a parallel Internet for the > peasants who

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 3/31/22 9:26 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: On Mar 31, 2022, at 20:51, Masataka Ohta wrote: Owen DeLong wrote: It still suffers from a certain amount of opacity across administrative domains. So, if an IPv6 prefix is assigned to an apartment building and the building has no

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported Re: 20220326125.AYC

2022-04-01 Thread Seth David Schoen
Owen DeLong via NANOG writes: > Just because there is a small code snippet you found that prevents casting > 240/4 as unicast on an interface doesn’t mean that removing that code will > magically make 240/4 usable in the entire stack. > > [...] > > The code you found may just be a safety

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-01 Thread Abraham Y. Chen
Hi, Pascal: 1)    " ... for the next version. ... ":    I am not sure that I can wait for so long, because I am asking for the basics. The reason that I asked for an IP packet header example of your proposal is to visualize what do you mean by the model of "realms and shafts in a multi-level

Re: RFC 9225 - Software Defects Considered Harmful

2022-04-01 Thread Mel Beckman
This is a complete aside, but still germane given todays date. For the youngsters among us, the title of this RFC is a sarcastic homage to one of the landmark computer papers of the 1960s: “Go To Statement Considered Harmful“, by legendary computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra. Published to the

Re: RFC 9225 - Software Defects Considered Harmful

2022-04-01 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 3:12 PM Eric Kuhnke wrote: > If there's a bug in an ISP's implementation of RFC2549 carrier > 'equipment', is that considered a software bug, hardware, or subject of > ornithological research? > > Certainly that would depend on what part of the pipeline was involved, no?

Re: RFC 9225 - Software Defects Considered Harmful

2022-04-01 Thread Eric Kuhnke
If there's a bug in an ISP's implementation of RFC2549 carrier 'equipment', is that considered a software bug, hardware, or subject of ornithological research? On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 at 10:40, Job Snijders via NANOG wrote: > Hi all, > > It's super official now: no more software bugs in networking

Re: Opinions on Arista for BGP?

2022-04-01 Thread jim deleskie
I did an eval for some folks last Aug on Arista and 2 other vendors, one of the others decided they didn't want to play the 3rd did. Of the 3 Arista performed better/best. The test plan was shared with all 3 vendors prior to testing and it definitely push all this to and then past their

Re: Cogent ...

2022-04-01 Thread Eric Kuhnke
I have a morbid curiosity what their CRM system looks like, and how many entries are in it and what their internal notes/work flow looks like. This opinion is formed from the external perspective of being a person who is a very cold sales lead and yet continues to be occasionally called by a new

Re: Opinions on Arista for BGP?

2022-04-01 Thread Jeff Tantsura
Important note - Arista has 2 BGP implementations in the routing stack, old (NH/ribd) that has been there since day 1 and newly written (I believe mostly driven by EVPN development), when compared to other vendors - make sure to compare with the new (modern code, highly multithreaded, cache

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Abraham Y. Chen
Hi, Christian: 0)    Allow me following your "towers of babel world" metaphor to tell a short story. 1)    In the ancient days, peasants labored under the shadow of the Tower, following the rules of and paid tax to the Lord living in the Tower. In return, they expected protection from the

RE: Opinions on Arista for BGP?

2022-04-01 Thread Adam Thompson
TL;DR: Yes, go ahead, they’re good, we like them. I won’t say they’re perfect, but we’re using them at the edge (two of them in a hybrid core/edge model right now, even!) and I would happily endorse them for edge routers. Their BGP stack hasn’t put up any major roadblocks for us so far (at

Weekly Global IPv4 Routing Table Report

2022-04-01 Thread Routing Table Analysis Role Account
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Global IPv4 Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. The posting is sent to APOPS, NANOG, AfNOG, SANOG, PacNOG, SAFNOG TZNOG, MENOG, BJNOG, SDNOG, CMNOG, LACNOG and the RIPE Routing WG. Daily listings are sent to

RE: DMARC ViolationAS21299 - 46.42.196.0/24 ASN prepending 255 times

2022-04-01 Thread Adam Thompson
> -Original Message- > From: NANOG On > Behalf Of Joe Maimon > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2022 6:20 PM > Subject: Re: DMARC ViolationAS21299 - 46.42.196.0/24 ASN prepending 255 > times > > [...] > I think more and perhaps different knobs were and still are needed. YES. YESYESYES. Having

RFC 9225 - Software Defects Considered Harmful

2022-04-01 Thread Job Snijders via NANOG
Hi all, It's super official now: no more software bugs in networking gear. Sorry it took so long to document what the best current practise is! Kind regards, Job / Chris / Remco - Forwarded message from rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org - Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 10:17:37 -0700 (PDT) From:

Proper Planning for Cellular Networks in Ukraine

2022-04-01 Thread Sean Donelan
Whether its preparing for a natural disaster like a hurricane or a russian invasion, proper advance planning makes a difference. The cellular network operators and national regulator in Ukraine have been preparing for years. "It must be kept in mind, that many of these changes could not

deadly wifi

2022-04-01 Thread William Herrin
In Venezuela, asking for the wifi password can get you killed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/31/venezuela-army-yanomami-killing/ -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread James R Cutler
On Mar 31, 2022, at 11:51 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote: > > Owen DeLong wrote: > >> It still suffers from a certain amount of opacity across administrative >> domains. > > So, if an IPv6 prefix is assigned to an apartment building and > the building has no logging mechanism on how addresses are

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Makes sense, Abe, for the next version. Note that the intention is NOT any to ANY. A native IPv6 IoT device can only talk to another IPv6 device, where that other device may use a YATT address or any other IPv6 address. But it cannot talk to a YADA node. That’s what I mean by baby steps for

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-01 Thread Abraham Y. Chen
Hi, Pascal: What I would appreciate is an IP packet header design/definition layout, word-by-word, ideally in bit-map style, of an explicit presentation of all IP addresses involved from one IoT in one realm to that in the second realm. This will provide a clearer picture of how the real

RE: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Ohta-san > > - there's no way to know if 2 locations are OK (anycast) > > If you mean IPv6 anycast to allow 2 or more hosts sharing an anycast address, > it is just broken not useful for any purpose and ignored. One case I have in mind is when one wants to bundle multiple physical

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Abraham Y. Chen
Hi, Owen: The EzIP addresses (the 240/4 netblock) are proposed to be treated as "natural resources" without a price tag (or, "free") following the old-fashioned PSTN discipline, instead of "personal properties" for auction according to the current Internet way. Regards, Abe (2022-04-01

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Masataka Ohta
Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG wrote: - Stateful NATs the size of the Internet not doable, Stateful NATs are necessary only near leaf edges of ISPs for hundreds of customers or, may be, a little more than that and is doable. If you make the stateful NATs static, that is, each private

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-04-01 Thread Masataka Ohta
Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: You can't expect people still working primarily on v6 have much sense of engineering. That includes me Sorry for confusion. I mean "people still working primarily on v6" are people who insist on IPv6 and ND as is, because any required repair on it would

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Ryland Kremeier
I had no idea that actually went through. That makes my morning much better knowing someone saw it hahaha. I'm all in on v6. Thank you, -- Ryland From: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) Sent: Friday, April 1, 2022 6:59:19 AM To: Owen DeLong ; Ryland Kremeier Cc: Philip

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Actually, Owen, now the day has come, I can say I love it. No one likes tradeoffs. No one wants to compromise. Ryland just told us we have a near perfect title for a spec that is bound to be hated. Keep safe; Pascal From: Owen DeLong Sent: mercredi 30 mars 2022 22:33 To: Ryland Kremeier

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
There are 2 ways to stop a war: 1) one side it utterly defeated and disaggregated 2) both sides suffered enough and agree to start thinking of the best terms for coexistence 1) is not close to happening any time soon From this, the conclusion is that we have not suffered enough. On the side,

RE: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
For the sake of it, Justin, I just published https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thubert-v6ops-yada-yatt/. The first section of the draft (YADA) extends IPv4 range in an IPv4-only world. For some people that might be enough and I’m totally fine with that. Keep safe; Pascal From: NANOG On

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
He he, why do you think YADA starts with yet another? The devil is in the details I guess. AA makes A twice longer, that's the easy piece. But then, what is the story for the A->AA transition? The key piece the concept of the shaft, that enables to transit AA between levels while seeing plain

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Rubens Kuhl
> Are you ready for that, or should we wait another 80 years with dual stack > and gigantic stateful NATs? That's what this network is going to do: https://www.aa.net.uk/etc/news/ipv6-end-of-trial/ There is something odd about the day this was published, though. Rubens

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
A very long thread. Face it: everyone is right, and even technically correct. There's no good and evil. We'd know, after 20 years. I live in France and my country has a famous 100-years war in its long history with England. Do we want to beat this here? The plain truth: - IPv4 is here to

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Masataka Ohta
Owen DeLong wrote: It still suffers from a certain amount of opacity across administrative domains. is the corner case. Obviously, if the apartment complex has no log files, then yes, it remains relatively useless It is completely useless for the opacity required by police. In your one

Re: IPv6 Only

2022-04-01 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mark Andrews wrote: Write down what you find is broken and report it. According to your logic, it is a lot more constructive to write down what we find are broken with IPv6 and report it to IETF, which will make IETF obsolete IPv6. Masataka Ohta

Re: What's a "normal" ratio of web sites to IP addresses...

2022-04-01 Thread John McCormac
On 31/03/2022 23:15, Bill Woodcock wrote: …in a run-of-the-mill web hoster? This is really a question specifically for folks with web-site-hosting businesses. If you had, say, ten million web site customers, each with their own unique domain name, how many IPv4 addresses would you think was

RE: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
> > Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: > > > You're perfectly correct. This is exactly what the registration would > > be for. I'm concerned about its adoption that I do not see coming on > > Wi-Fi/ Ethernet, even for v6 (SLAAC) where the problem is a lot > > worse*. > > You can't expect people