Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-25 Thread David Freedman
whatever fits your situation anyway.) Depends on your routing requirements, for example, you need to rely on a default or disable as_path checks (or re-write the path) to be able to see your other clusters (if they do need to communicate)... -- David Freedman Group Network Engineering

Re: ANNOUNCE: NANOG List and Website Downtime

2011-02-14 Thread David Freedman
) 404-9050 PGP: B49A DDF5 8611 27F3 08B9 84BB E61E 38C0 (Key ID: 0x9A96777D) -- David Freedman Group Network Engineering Claranet Group

Re: ANNOUNCE: NANOG List and Website Downtime

2011-02-14 Thread David Freedman
Dave. David Freedman wrote: Has this move completed yet? I'm getting redirect loop: $ curl -I www.nanog.org HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:15:04 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.6 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.8e DAV/2 PHP/5.2.4 with Suhosin-Patch Location: http

Re: Too bigs are sacred, was: Re: IPv6 addressing for core network

2011-02-10 Thread David Freedman
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 10 feb 2011, at 0:26, David Freedman wrote: Unless every packet you emit is ≤ the minimum MTU (1280), then, you need to be able to receive TOOBIG messages. Can you think of a packet type I will emit from my publically numbered backbone interface which may

Re: IPv6 addressing for core network

2011-02-09 Thread David Freedman
I think the solution to all of these problems is really to use public addressing but filter access to it at your edge (yes, even ICMP TOOBIG can be filtered safely if you have designed things in a sane way) Dave. -- David Freedman Group Network Engineering Claranet Group

Re: Too bigs are sacred, was: Re: IPv6 addressing for core network

2011-02-09 Thread David Freedman
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 9 feb 2011, at 18:30, David Freedman wrote: (yes, even ICMP TOOBIG can be filtered safely if you have designed things in a sane way) NO. Even if you run with 1280-byte MTUs everywhere so you'd think path MTU discovery wouldn't be needed, this can still

Re: Too bigs are sacred, was: Re: IPv6 addressing for core network

2011-02-09 Thread David Freedman
, if I'm getting a TOOBIG in response to my TOOBIG then we all have bigger problems to worry about :) Dave. Owen -- David Freedman Claranet http://www.clara.net

Re: Ciscos, BGP, L2TPV3 pseudowires and loopback IPs

2010-11-11 Thread David Freedman
forgotten :) -- David Freedman Group Network Engineering Claranet Group

Re: Ciscos, BGP, L2TPV3 pseudowires and loopback IPs

2010-11-10 Thread David Freedman
which doesn't require any re-subnetting (if you are happy for this address to be unreachable) and it should have a /32 mask... -- David Freedman Group Network Engineering Claranet Group

Re: Ciscos, BGP, L2TPV3 pseudowires and loopback Ips

2010-11-10 Thread David Freedman
support, don't know if it actually works on anything else) Dave. -- David Freedman Group Network Engineering david.freed...@uk.clara.net Tel +44 (0) 20 7685 8000 Claranet Group 21 Southampton Row London - WC1B 5HA - UK http://www.claranet.com Company Registration: 3152737 - Place of registration

Re: IPv6 rDNS

2010-11-02 Thread David Freedman
but another headache DoS vector to manage well) Thoughts? -- David Freedman Group Network Engineering Claranet Group

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread David Freedman
? -- David Freedman Group Network Engineering Claranet Group

Internet in DPRK / North Korea

2010-10-10 Thread David Freedman
about this? -- David Freedman Claranet http://www.clara.net

Re: Tagged vlan inside isolated pvlan

2010-08-24 Thread David Freedman
sfou...@shortestpathfirst.net wrote: Hello, I have a catalyst 6503 with sup32 and was trying to set a tagged vlan inside a pvlan. Basically I wanna have the behavior of: switchport mode access switchport access vlan 101 switchport protected. So that other machines connected to the 6503

Re: Real ops talking to future ops

2010-08-24 Thread David Freedman
snip http://condor.depaul.edu/~jkristof/tdc375/ It is just me that found the location Loop Campus amusing in this context? Thanks, John -- David Freedman Group Network Engineering Claranet Group

Re: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space

2010-08-16 Thread David Freedman
number infrastructure out of RFC1918 and then permit internet traceroutes over it are misguided and should consider avoiding TTL decrement (i.e using mpls without internet TTL propagation) as a less stressful (for us) alternative to simply filtering. Dave. -- David Freedman Group Network

Re: vpn exchange point

2010-07-23 Thread David Freedman
If you are going to go multi-VLAN data plane (as opposed to multi-label) then 10A will cause you scaling issues as you'll need multiple BGP peers (or static routing), I'd prefer to use http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kulmala-l3vpn-interas-option-d-02 which already has implementations, i.e

Re: Raised floor, Solid floor... or carpet?

2010-04-01 Thread David Freedman
Nice to see smaller companies take the time to put up a good April fool's joke as well. Carpeted datacenters are no joke, check out Telehouse in London Docklands, the existing two buildings have been *fully carpeted* in both the corridors and data floors for some time (but as carpeted

Re: Security Guideance

2010-02-23 Thread David Freedman
What tools/practices do others use to resolve this issue? use lsof, should be able to show you consumption of network socket resources by process (and hence user, hopefully) Dave.

Re: Comcast IPv6 Trials

2010-01-28 Thread David Freedman
John Jason Brzozowski wrote: Folks, I am emailing you today to share some news that we hope you will find interesting. Today we are announcing our 2010 IPv6 trial plans. For more information please visit the following web site: I was privileged enough to visit the Comcast DOCSIS3/IPv6

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread David Freedman
Chris Gotstein wrote: I think we had to let ARIN know the time frame of deploying IPv6 and how many customers we expected to put on in the first couple years. They did not ask for an addressing scheme. Reading over the RFC's and other IPv6 resources, we have decided to hand out /56's to

RE: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread David Freedman
, internal policy) David Freedman Group Network Engineering Claranet Limited http://www.clara.net -Original Message- From: Mark Andrews [mailto:ma...@isc.org] Sent: Fri 8/14/2009 23:05 To: David Freedman Cc: Chris Gotstein; Nanog Subject: Re

Re: Eye protection in DWDM systems -- what threshold?

2009-06-09 Thread David Freedman
I forget who the vendor is now, but their shelves are sealed with a door which, when opened, turns off all the lasers on the shelf so you can work on it, yes, a simple provisioning operation causes an outage / protection switchover!! Dave. Deepak Jain wrote: At what power level do DWDM systems

Re: Anomalies with AS13214 ?

2009-05-11 Thread David Freedman
Randy doing testing again? Jay Hennigan wrote: We're getting cyclops[1] alerts that AS13214 is advertising itself as origin for all of our prefixes. Their anomaly report shows thousands of prefixes originating there. Anyone else seeing evidence of this or being affected? [1]

Re: Anomalies with AS13214 ?

2009-05-11 Thread David Freedman
Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:41 PM, David Freedman david.freed...@uk.clara.net wrote: Randy doing testing again? 13214 != 3130

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread David Freedman
I think, for example, that Juniper is making a mistake by rolling v6 capability into a license that also includes BGP and ISIS on some platforms. Cisco is guilty of this as well. I am not necessarily advocating that v6 must be a basic feature on every new box; but I don't think it is

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread David Freedman
It's a 128 bit address. Routing is done on VLSM, but, generally for DNS purposes, these are expected to be at least on nibble boundaries. There is an intent to support what is known as EUI-64, which means every subnet should be a /64, however, there are people who number smaller

Re: IPv6: IS-IS or OSPFv3

2008-12-30 Thread David Freedman
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Re: DOS attack assistance?

2008-11-27 Thread David Freedman
Null routing the source isn't going to stop snip Except when doing source based blackholing, see http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kumari-blackhole-urpf-02 section #4 Dave.

RE: MPLS for IPv6

2008-11-10 Thread David Freedman
they choose to implement it. I would be interested to know what your views on this are with your vendor hat on :) Dave. -Original Message- From: Mark Tinka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 10:46 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Cc: David Freedman Subject: Re: MPLS

Re: ECN

2008-11-07 Thread David Freedman
When I thought about it, the IP core (10G links etc) first came to mind, and there it's fairly easy to roll out (since I guess a lot of us do WRED already), but what about on slower links? Would it make sense to have our DSLAMs do this? What about DSL/cable modems (well, vendors should first

Re: ECN

2008-11-07 Thread David Freedman
Interesting , I hadn't followed this since draft-ietf-mpls-ecn-00, , I eagerly await a vendor implementation :) Dave. Bjørn Mork wrote: David Freedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Implementing this in an MPLS core is not an easy task, you can really only do this on the edge, when the MPLS

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-04 Thread David Freedman
2. The Internet cannot route around de-peering I know everyone believes the Internet routes around failures. While occasionally true, it does not hold in this case. To route around the failure would require transit. See item #1. The internet routes around technical failures, not political

Re: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other ISPs IP space by mistake

2008-08-15 Thread David Freedman
Danny McPherson wrote: On Aug 14, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: You're missing a step: janitor. No really, the reason for some leaks isn't because so-and-so was never a customer, they were. 5 years ago. nobody removed the routes from the IRR or AS-SET or insert

Re: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other ISPs IP space by mistake

2008-08-14 Thread David Freedman
but, why wouldn't something like formally requiring customers/peers/transits/etc to have radb objects as a 'requirement' for peering/customer bgp services Step 1 : Enforce IRR for customers *now*. Step 2 : Enforce trusted replacement for IRR when available Step 3 : Profit Not progressing