RE: L3/HE/Inbound Pathing Question

2014-06-09 Thread Brandon Lehmann
If you're not familiar with how you can engineer traffic on L3's network take a peek at http://www.scn.rain.com/~neighorn/PDF/Traffic_Engineering_with_BGP_and_Level 3.pdf (slightly outdated but still useful) As far as HE is concerned, when I asked them about communities a few weeks ago all they

RE: Mikrotik Cloud Core Router and BGP real life experiences?

2013-12-27 Thread Brandon Lehmann
I too am curious... We've used them for a few months as edge devices and most (if not all) *knock on wood* of the issues we've had have been fixed by RouterOS updates, configuration changes (lots of chefs in the kitchen), or were circuit/carrier related. While I would never compare them

RE: BGP instability?

2013-05-17 Thread Brandon Lehmann
Thomas, We saw some instability this morning around 2:53am (EST) that resulted in practically complete communication failure in our Detroit colo. It lasted approximately 45 minutes and service was restored rather gradually. --- Brandon Lehmann CCNA, CCAI, CFOT, Net+, A+, Security+ BitRadius

RE: It's the end of the world as we know it -- REM

2013-04-24 Thread Brandon Lehmann
I find it more entertaining that I recognized no less than three organizations on that list that we've seen come up a lot recently in our spam scanning systems. -Original Message- From: Andrew Latham [mailto:lath...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:11 PM To: Valdis

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-18 Thread Brandon Lehmann
In any event, I'm pretty sure that I'd rather get hit with tampering with evidence versus them retrieving data that may incriminate me. I believe this may be a the lesser of two evils game. -Original Message- From: Kyle Creyts [mailto:kyle.cre...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 17,

Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

2009-09-15 Thread Brandon Lehmann
I believe there is another side to that argument as well. If I operate a regional ISP and request address space for dynamic address pools I am aware of a few things: 1) I am fully aware that there is a chance a customer's system could become infected and generate millions of malicious