Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations

2015-01-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
[snip] To inject science into the discussion: http://bsdrp.net/documentation/examples/forwarding_performance_lab_of_an_ibm_system_x3550_m3_with_10-gigabit_intel_x540-at2 And he maintains a test setup to check for performance regressions:

Re: abha ahuja

2013-11-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
[resurrecting this thread, as it's been a while since I read nanog-ml, and this is surprisingly important to me...] On 19 October 2013 15:36, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: abha ahuja, researcher and operator, died this day in 2001 at a tragically early age. if you did not know her, search a

Re: New vyatta-nsp list

2011-05-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Fri, May 27, 2011, George Bonser wrote: It's actually rather hard with current pc hardware to get to multiple cores engaged in paralell per input interfaces. while you can plan for various cases the the one to account for is the small packet performance not overwhelming the

Re: Ham Radio Networking (was Re: Rogers Canada using 7.0.0.0/8 for internal address space)

2011-05-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, May 26, 2011, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: Sorry, poorly worded. What I was wondering is there is an equivalent of KA9Q for IPv6. I believe one of the comments we got back when we were trying to reclaim 44/8 was that folks couldn't migrate to IPv6 because no software was available...

Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible with today's technology.

2011-05-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, May 19, 2011, Warren Kumari wrote: Just wanted to say yes, this is entirely what I meant. Of course the smaller the file the more pointless it gets but still... If the file was 1GB instead of just 7 bytes I'm wondering if a regular old workstation could put it back together in

Re: coprorations using BGP for advertising prefixes in mid-1990s

2011-05-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Fri, May 13, 2011, Hank Nussbacher wrote: I always liked seeing the string tli in the IOS bundle in those days. Whoa, you mean Cisco IOS images have built by names other than prod rel team ? (heh.) Adrian

Re: OPERATIONAL: Royal Wedding expected to break traffic records

2011-04-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011, Jay Ashworth wrote: (cough)multicast(cough) But... but... how do we count the viewers, then? With HTML cookies and AJAX, like everyone else[1]. Adrian [1] and small embedded flash apps in small frames. Hi Facebook.

Re: Bandwidth growth

2011-04-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
If it's a true research project, wouldn't you really be interested in both evidence for/against? :-) Just my 2c here, Adrian On Wed, Apr 20, 2011, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Apr 20, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Curran, David wrote: I'm interested in any evidence (even anecdotal) that general

Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks

2011-03-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011, Leo Bicknell wrote: Having looked around the world I personally believe most communities would be best served if the government provided layer-1 distribution, possibly with some layer 2 switching, but then allowed any commercial entity to come in and offer layer 3

AS7007 incident - would someone please fix the article?

2011-02-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
There's a wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident .. that a post I wrote up for a local computer club magazine somehow suffices as primary reference material for. Even though I think this is partially hilarious, would someone mind making it a little more authoritive and

Re: US Warships jamming Lebanon Internet

2011-02-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: I try to install C-Band bandpass filter, no effect at all, so it is in-band interference. Putting foil (yes i try almost everything) near LNB doesn't affect interference level too. Can you get access to some kind of spectrum analyser kit to

Re: US Warships jamming Lebanon Internet

2011-02-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: On Tuesday 08 February 2011 14:18:59 Adrian Chadd wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2011, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: I try to install C-Band bandpass filter, no effect at all, so it is in-band interference. Putting foil (yes i try almost

Re: 802.11g with WPA-PSK

2011-02-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
if it's running a recent net80211 stack, you'll need to create a vap sttion interface first eg, ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev rum0 then do stuff to wlan0, not rum0. Adrian On Sun, Feb 06, 2011, Atticus wrote: Im not familiar with wpa_supplicant, but you can preface external commands to

Re: ipv4's last graph

2011-02-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011, Randy Bush wrote: with the iana free pool run-out, i guess we won't be getting those nice graphs any more. might we have one last one for the turnstiles? :-)/2 and would you mind doing the curves now for each of the five rirs? gotta give us all something to repeat

Re: quietly....

2011-02-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
s/IPv6/ATM/g Just saying... Adrian On Tue, Feb 01, 2011, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 1 feb 2011, at 13:01, Owen DeLong wrote: IPv4 is very dead in the sense that it's not going to go anywhere in the future. taking the long view - your statement applies equally to IPv6.

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
(Top-posting because the whole message is context. Oh, and I'm lazy.) I do indeed love it when people break out IPv6 addressing as there's so many addresses, we'll never ever go through them! Sure, if they're only used as end-point identifiers. Say you want to crack out that 64k-port space into

Re: Routing Suggestions

2011-01-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011, Jon Lewis wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Jared Mauch wrote: I suggest using one of the reserved/private BGP asns for this purpose. ASNumber: 64512 - 65535 It sounds to me like Company B isn't doing BGP (probably has no experience with it) and if there's only a

Re: Routing Suggestions

2011-01-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011, Jon Lewis wrote: Unless you'd like to ensure the sensitive traffic doesn't cross an unsafer default rout path if the XC is down. BGP would have that same issue since B is default routing to their provider. [config for B] ip route A's prefix mask gw to A ip route

Re: The tale of a single MAC

2011-01-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
So along simlar lines, Ubiquiti sell routerstation pro boards with sequential MAC addresses. The trouble is they've allocated a single MAC for the first port - the second ethernet port (also attached to the bridge) doesn't get a second MAC. So in a purchase of a few hundred boards, we had plenty

Re: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

2010-12-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: [Frank Bulk] Some MSOs (including ourselves) have power systems (e.g. Alpha) in place throughout the plant to provide backup power for at least some time. Does that back up the cablemodem in the residence? If not, game over. Thing is, not

[OT]: WCCPv2 and gige?

2010-12-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi all, I have a customer who is looking for examples of WCCPv2 deployments for traffic levels 3 gige (and above, up to 10ge.) Now I know that theoretically there's no reason why this shouldn't be the case, but as I don't have a lab of 10GE capable Cisco L3 devices, I'm unable to verify that

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: The private sector (FedEx/UPS, etc...) brought us overnight delivery where USPS couldn't... ...and next-day air ...and freight delivery ...and package tracking that reports more than just We don't know where it is/It's at the post office

Re: Mastercard problems

2010-12-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010, Ben McGinnes wrote: On 9/12/10 7:49 PM, William Pitcock wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 18:34 +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote: On 9/12/10 8:04 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Philip Dorr tagn...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that they were also

Re: Mastercard problems

2010-12-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010, Adrian Chadd wrote: Be careful - plenty of Squid's make HTTP/1.0 version. make HTTP/1.0 requests, not version. Tsk. (And here I am, studying linguistics. Pshaw.) Adrian

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
Botnets are the symptom. The real problem is people. Adrian On Wed, Dec 08, 2010, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Sean Donelan wrote: Other than trying to hide your real address, what can be done to prevent DDOS in the first place. DDoS is just a symptom.

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: The real problem is people. Well, yes - but short of mass bombardment, eliminating people doesn't scale very well, and is generally frowned upon. ; I think history can conclusively state

Re: U.S. officials deny technical takedown of WikiLeaks

2010-12-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010, Ken Chase wrote: And if they come and ask the same but without a court order is a bit trickier and more confusing, and this list is a good place to track the frequency of and responce to that kind of request. Except of course when you're asked not to share what has

Re: Want to move to all 208V for server racks

2010-12-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010, Joel Jaeggli wrote: (OK, so it's not as practical when you have other customers to worry about... but it might not be so crazy when you're looking at the efficiency numbers for 100,000 small 1u power supplies vs a set of much larger ones.) Ohm's law is a bitch.

Re: wikileaks unreachable

2010-11-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010, Ken Chase wrote: This is always the best way to deal with disagreement. But I think this is the wrong list to tender such contracts. Also, it's odd you hate DDOS's more than murder. Time to take some time off work perhaps? For the first time I'm hoping to not meet

Re: Emulating a cellular interface

2010-11-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010, Andy Davidson wrote: Not withstanding Mikael's comments that it shouldn't be lossy, at times when you want to simulate lossy (and jittery, and shaped, and ) conditions, the best way I have found to do this is FreeBSD's dummynet :

Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching

2010-11-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010, Jacob Broussard wrote: Wow... Reading this thread I feel like some sort of time traveler, what with my cable internet, multicore processor, and smartphone. Hi, I'm from the year 2000. I've got my cable internet, some prototype DSP/CPU combination cores that I've been

Re: IPv6 rDNS

2010-10-29 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010, Randy Bush wrote: http://www.fpsn.net/?pg=toolstool=ipv6-inaddr windows mentality, wrap it all in a complex gui that also washes your car. use simple hack that just takes an ipv6 address and makes the bleeping reversed dotted to death lhs of the ptr record.

Re: DDOS attack via as702 87.118.210.122

2010-10-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010, Cutler James R wrote: Jack, I agree that whois is hard. Please explain how you knew to query AS701 when Serg asked about AS702. Brainfart. I understand why people confuse 701 with 702. $ whois -h whois.ripe.net AS702 % Information related to 'AS702' aut-num:

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010, Leo Bicknell wrote: If you could number your internal network out of some IPv6 space (possibly 1918 style, possibly not), probably a /48, and then get from your two (or more) upstreams /48's of PA space you could do 1:1 NAT. No PAT, just pure address translation, 1:1.

Re: IPv4 sunset date revised : 2009-02-05

2010-10-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: The IPv4 space here was retired in 2009. We love the IVI translator code. Whats keeping the rest of you? Just hazarding a guess: router# conf t router(config)# ipv6 ivi enable router(config)# ^Z Adrian

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 ? Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010, Graham Beneke wrote: I've seen this too. Once again small providers who pretty quickly get caught out by collisions. The difference is that ULA could take years or even decades to catch someone out with a collision. By then we'll have a huge mess. You assume that

Re: Routers in Data Centers

2010-09-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010, ym1r...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know open source solutions doesn't have support for fabric or high speed asics. So the throughput will always be a big difference. Unless you are comparing a pure packet software interrupt platform. Hasn't there been a post about

Re: Routers in Data Centers

2010-09-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010, Rubens Kuhl wrote: Not high speed ASICs, but there are hardware-forwarding open-source(in a broad definition) solutions: http://netfpga.org There are 3 related presentations on NANOG 50, which suggests these solutions are reaching real ops quality. I hate to sound

Re: Online games stealing your bandwidth

2010-09-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010, Matthew Walster wrote: I once read an article talking about making BitTorrent scalable by using anycasted caching services at the ISP's closest POP to the end user. Given sufficient traffic on a specified torrent, the caching device would build up the file, then

Complain to your vendors (was Re: Did your BGP crash today?)

2010-08-29 Thread Adrian Chadd
Guys/girls/furry-creatures-from-!Earth, Complaining on nanog-ml is likely to only achieve personal stress relief. This is something you should bring up with your vendor. Say that you'll move vendors if they don't start making better BGP implementations and adding the features you guys want. Make

Re: Appliance Vs Software based routers

2010-07-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
The official answer: commodity hardware doesn't handle all the features needed at line rate. The (more often than not) unofficial answer: using a custom platform raises the entry barrier for cloning/abuse/etc. It's a bit hard to run your appliance MIPS software on an off-the-shelf PC; but it

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: Why does it cost $100 million to install and configure OpenBSD on a bunch of old systems? I think you've misunderstood the question if you think openbsd on old systems is the answer. :) Adrian

Re: Question about Manycore processor- Tilera

2010-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
There's been plenty of multi-dimensional processor interconnects over the years. You should do some further research. :) Adrian (hypercube-connected O2000, anyone?) On Tue, Jul 06, 2010, ?? wrote: Hello, all. I am not sure is it suitable or not that I ask this question here. My

Re: Mikrotik OC-3 Connection

2010-07-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010, Michael Sokolov wrote: OK, I'll bite and add my 2 Russian kopecks to the Cisco vs. Linux router thread. It's ok. I'll trade you Russian for Australian currency. I don't know which is going to be better in the long run. With non-Ethernet WAN interfaces one really needs an

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hypothetically speaking, if I were currently engaged in this business, I'd pay. Both for the ability to ask questions and the ability to be asked questions by a sensible group of people with similar goals (ie, non-trolling) in mind[1]. And to follow

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010, Larry Sheldon wrote: You might not have the state inspection rip-off, but I'll bet that if your state accepts federal highway money, you have mechanical condition standards that include tires, brakes, seat belts and a lot of other things. .. and a change in the minimum

Re: Junos Asymmetric Routing

2010-05-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Fri, May 28, 2010, Ken Gilmour wrote: Yes sir I have used SSG for several years but mainly used BSD for the last decade and most recently OpenBSD. There is an easy fix for this on PF for OpenBSD and that is to tag the packets from each provider (as in not using 802.1q but a specific

Re: Junos Asymmetric Routing

2010-05-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
We replaced our OpenBSD routers with these SRXes since they were supposed to be multifunction devices (gateways and routers at the same time) which was the selling point. So we expected them to do asymmetric routing and were told they could, easily, but apparently they are not acting normally

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010, Matthew Kaufman wrote: Fortunately, the IPv6 address space is so large and sparse, that scanning it would be quite a feat, even if a random outside attacker already knew for a fact that a certain /64 probably contains a vulnerable host. All I need to do is run a

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010, Joly MacFie wrote: I also grabbed the list http://isoc-ny.org/wiki/Networking Thanks to all who contributed. Please feel free to add a link to the above url in the nanog wiki. j On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.au wrote: On Fri

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010, Perry Lorier wrote: One of my colleagues here (Shane Alcock) did some research into Service Provider NAT based off passive traces from a New Zealand Residential ISP[1]. By passively looking at connections he investigated how you could dimension a NAT box for an ISP.

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010, joel jaeggli wrote: my load balancer needs 16 ips for every million simultaneous connections, so does yours. Only because it hasn't broken the spec further. :) adrian

Re: [Nanog-futures] Transition FAQ

2010-04-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010, Randy Bush wrote: i figure it'll be a fun community meeting i sf. i suggest we go back to serving the alcohol first. :) Two scotch minimum before participating in discussions? Adrian ___ Nanog-futures mailing list

Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space

2010-04-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010, Joe Greco wrote: Because a legacy holder doesn't care about ARIN; a legacy holder has usable space that cannot be reclaimed by ARIN and who is not paying anything to ARIN. The point here is that this situation does not encourage adoption of IPv6, where suddenly there'd

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010, Vadim Antonov wrote: Step 1: specify an IP option for extra low order bits of source destination address. Add handling of these to the popular OSes. Don't IP options translate to handle in slow path on various routing platforms? :) THat makes leave backbones unchanged

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? Since I thought this was worthwhile summarising, I've dumped it on the mail topics page in the Wiki: http://nanog.cluepon.net/index.php/MailTopics I specifically left out the programming

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010, Dobbins, Roland wrote: None of the large, well-known Web properties on the Internet today - at least, the ones which stay up and running, heh - have stateful firewalls in front of them. Including prominent vendors of said stateful firewall solutions. But as you

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010, Stefan Fouant wrote: Almost all of the scalable DDoS mitigation architectures deployed in carriers or other large enterprises employ the use of an offramp method. These devices perform a lot better when you can forward just the subset of the traffic through as opposed to

Re: Chinese bgp metering story

2009-12-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009, Dobbins, Roland wrote: Existing hardware does this today with NetFlow, et. al. .. not only that, we've been doing this for a bloody long time in internet years. About all that really matter is figuring out how to engineer your network to allow for netflow based billing

Re: Small guys with BGP issues

2009-11-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: If you don't like the service you're getting, vote with your money and buy from someone else. This is quite simply not a NANOG issue, but in the interests of being helpful the best advice I can give you is this: Your request is

Re: Strip AS in BGP peer

2009-10-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
Take a read of the quagga documentation. There's a BGP neighbor option for stripping out the local AS when speaking eBGP. Adrian On Wed, Oct 28, 2009, Sherwin Ang wrote: Hello Nanog, am not sure if i should have placed this on the cisco-nsp or the juniper-nsp but someone may have a direct

Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks

2009-10-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009, Jeroen Massar wrote: But yes, the network stack itself is a different question, then again, you can just route a /64 into the loopback device and let your apache listen there... (which also allows you to do easy-failover as you can move that complete /64 to a different

Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

2009-10-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: What does that have to with anything? IPv6 stateless autoconfig predates the widespread use of DHCPv4. So does IPX and IPX/RIP. Why does this thread seem to rehash some big disconnect between academics, IETF and actual deployment-oriented

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009, Alex Balashov wrote: oh my goodness. You're behind on your reading... I didn't mean DPI. I meant in a way that can be inferred from the headers themselves, and aside from the port number. You don't think that statistical analysis of traffic patterns of your UDP

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009, Alex Balashov wrote: I was not aware that tools or techniques to do this are widespread or highly functional in a way that would get them adopted in an Internet access control application of a national scope. Tell me more? It's been a while since I tinkered with

Re: Science vs. bullshit

2009-10-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Corner cases like the one above are barely noise, so the curve it still valid. Strictly speaking, with the subject of Science vs bullshit, you and msa have named a hypothesis, no? Can either of you think of a way to disprove that, and if so,

Re: multicast nightmare #42

2009-10-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009, Adrian Minta wrote: 1 sender 1 mcast group 2+ receivers on same VLAN and physical segment = data loss Probably a crappy switch. specifically, is your switch doing frame replication on ingress or egress? :) adrian

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
Nathan Ward, please stand up. Adrian On Tue, Oct 13, 2009, TJ wrote: -Original Message- From: Justin To go along with Dan's query from above, what are the preferred methods that other SPs are using to deploy IPv6 with non-IPv6-capable edge hardware? We too have a very limited

Re: IPv6 internet broken, Verizon route prefix length policy

2009-10-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote: It's not the RIR's fault. IPv6 wasn't designed with any kind of workable site multihoming. The only goal seems to have been to limit /32's to an ISP but screw you if you aren't one. There was no alternative and it's been how long now? PI,

Re: IPv6 internet broken, Verizon route prefix length policy

2009-10-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: You get some substantial wins for the non-TE case by being able to fix the legacy cruft. For instance, AS1312 advertises 4 prefixes: 63.164.28.0/22, 128.173.0.0/16, 192.70.187.0/24, 198.82.0.0/16 but on the IPv6 side we've just got

Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?

2009-10-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009, Fred Baker wrote: Are we talking about bit rate, which one might expect to be modified by environmental characteristics and is in fact very tightly controlled to prevent that, or traffic volume? Not true with modem type technologies, where the available transmission

wanted: facebook technical contact

2009-10-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
howdy, I'm chasing a technical contact at Facebook. There's some broken HTTP being served which is confusing Squid in a way that isn't easily, cleanly worked around. Please feel free to contact me off-list. Thanks, Adrian

Re: wanted: facebook technical contact

2009-10-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
A few people have asked what the specific problem is. http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-dev/200910/0089.html Adrian On Sat, Oct 10, 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: howdy, I'm chasing a technical contact at Facebook. There's some broken HTTP being served which is confusing Squid

Re: wanted: facebook technical contact

2009-10-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
to go direct to the proxy it does not seem to have the same issue. (At least so far). - Jared On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: A few people have asked what the specific problem is. http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-dev/200910/0089.html Adrian

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, robert.e.vanor...@frb.gov wrote: The address space is daunting in scale as you have noted, but I don't see any lessons learned in address allocation between IPv6 and IPv4. Consider A lesson learned is that thinking about

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009, Joe Greco wrote: I'm sorry, but seeing a good fraction of my local IX simply containing a few ISP's deaggregated view of their local internal networks versus a sensible allocation policy makes me cry. IPv6 may just make this worse. IPv6 certainly won't make it

Re: UDP and IP fragmentation

2009-09-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009, Philip Lavine wrote: To all, I am running a Windows based high performance computing application that uses reliable multicast (29West) on a gigabit LAN. All systems are logically on the same VLAN and even on the same physical switch The application is set to use an

Re: Google Pagerank and Class-C Addresses

2009-09-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: We used to have a lot of people buying IP's in bulk for SEO. They would all cancel within one or two months citing that they couldn't afford it or the project failed, etc. Guess they realized that the whole thing is a myth. .. or, which is more likely

Re: What is good in modular routers these days?

2009-07-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009, Petersen, Mark wrote: FreeBSD provides support for 802.11q, bgpd, ospfd, pf(firewall) and ALTQ(QOS) but since I haven't tested it I have no idea what kind of real world performance you can get with all these features in use. This is one group trying to pony up at least

Re: What is good in modular routers these days?

2009-07-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009, William Pitcock wrote: I don't need any of that stuff, just BGP, OSPF and fast packet forwarding for IPv4. But the point is that I need only routing functionality, I don't need switching functionality like on a Cisco 6500-class system. I bet if you went and spoke to

Re: Request for contact and procedure information

2009-07-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009, Charles Wyble wrote: I did. Still getting pounded. And its not covered by your SLA? Adrian

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009, Roland Perry wrote: Unfortunately, the number of students polling the website for news means it can't cope with the traffic. I don't believe they can justify paying more for better web hosting, just to manage this once-a-year half hour event. Is Twitter making a

Re: tor

2009-06-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Adrian Chaddadr...@creative.net.au wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Rod - you wouldnt qualify as an ISP - or even a provider of an interactive computer service to go by the

Re: White House net security paper

2009-05-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009, Randy Bush wrote: and why do we think that throwing a jillion bodies at the problem is a useful approach? No, but it does keep people employed. Sorry, I think I reached a new low in my stabby, jaded level when a past employer (a network consulting firm) blasted me for

Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re impacting revenue]

2009-04-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009, William Allen Simpson wrote: Some wag around here re-christened it the IVTF (V stands for Vendor, not Victory). ;-) I haven't bothered to go in years If the people with operational experience stop going, you can't blame the group for being full of vendors. Methinks

Re: IXP

2009-04-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009, Leo Bicknell wrote: It's the technological equvilient of bringing everyone into a conference room and then having them use their cell phones to call each other and talk across the table. Why are you all in the same room if you don't want a shared medium? Because you

Re: IXP

2009-04-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009, Holmes,David A wrote: But I recollect that FORE ATM equipment using LAN Emulation (LANE) used a broadcast and unknown server (BUS) to establish a point-to-point ATM PVC for each broadcast and multicast receiver on a LAN segment. As well as being inherently unscalable (I

Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009, Steven Champeon wrote: [snip interode related hostnames such as this] adsl.adelaide.on.net That's a safe assumption. Unfortunately, it's not. Even more unfortunately, we see more junk from their generic statics than we do from their obvious dynamics. Have

Re: SUP720 vs. SUP32

2009-03-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009, Norrie, David wrote: article discussed below. I would appreciate it if someone does find the article if they can provide a copy/link to this : http://markmail.org/message/hzwfh27bgtitadpq (First hit from googling c-nsp rodney dunn NPE-G2 CPU) Make sure you read all the

Re: Anyone using any Linux SSL proxies?

2009-03-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009, Michael K. Smith wrote: We use Apache with mod_security and mod_proxy to do this, although the application is more as an application layer firewall than an SSL offloader. It works well for lower traffic applications; I haven't tested it under the loads that are

Re: SUP720 vs. SUP32

2009-03-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009, Bill Blackford wrote: Can the 32 handle a full table? Start here: http://www.mail-archive.com/cisco-...@puck.nether.net/msg12492.html adrian

Re: SUP720 vs. SUP32

2009-03-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009, Bill Blackford wrote: Thank you to everyone who offered advice. I thinks it's clearer what my path should be. Incidentally, I am using 7300/7200 based units with G1 RP and found that at 200M they start seeing 50% CPU load which is why I'm looking to go to the next

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009, Leen Besselink wrote: If you had to choose, it's probably smarted to go with OpenBSD, it has a lot better integration of packet filter, bgpd-daemon, ospf, vrrp-like, etc. If you'd like a hope in hell of handling higher packet rates, where higher packet rates is more than

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009, Bob Snyder wrote: Frank Bulk wrote: Considering that the only real IPv6-ready CPE at your favorite N.A. electronics store is Apple's AirPort, it seems to me that it will be several years before the majority (50% plus 1) of our respective customer bases has IPv6-ready

Re: Appropriate list for Linux routers (was: real hardware router VS linux router)

2009-02-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009, Brian Keefer wrote: If anyone would like to drop me a line off-list to point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful. So far the most useful information I've found on the topic has been via this list. PS I'm talking specifically about Linux. The FreeBSD

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009, Jack Bates wrote: Kevin Loch wrote: Just how DO we get the message to the IETF that we need all the tools we have in v4 (DHCP, VRRP, etc) to work with RA turned off? You don't, because there isn't really a technical reason for turning off RA. RA is used as a starting

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009, Tony Hain wrote: No, the decision was to not blindly import all the excess crap from IPv4. If anyone has a reason to have a DHCPv6 option, all they need to do is specify it. The fact that the *nog community stopped participating in the IETF has resulted in the situation

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009, Nathan Ward wrote: So, those people don't use DHCP in IPv4 if this is a concern, so I'm guessing they are not hoping to use DHCPv6 either. Static configuration of IP addressing information and other configuration will work just fine for them. I wonder, do they use

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009, Nathan Ward wrote: Yep. You asked your vendors to support equivalent IPv6 things at the time though, so when you roll out IPv6 the support is ready, right? The point is that these deficiencies exist in IPv4, and I'm not sure how you would solve them in IPv6

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On the other hand, the fact that various entities have gone out of their way to advertise that they're running old hardware/out-of-date software has been noted elsewhere. I'd strongly suggest, if you're reading NANOG, that you update, before

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