Re: Calling Crown Castle Fibre sales

2020-04-09 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Thanks for all the replies. I’m in contact with them now, thanks to the support here. > On Apr 9, 2020, at 11:01 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > > Can someone from Crown Castle Fibre sales ping me? I haven’t heard back > after submitting on your contact form. > > Thanks.

Calling Crown Castle Fibre sales

2020-04-09 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Can someone from Crown Castle Fibre sales ping me? I haven’t heard back after submitting on your contact form. Thanks.

WTR: 1-2RU @ Equinix Ashburn

2020-02-04 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi, I’m wondering if anyone is looking to subsidize their Equinix Ashburn colo costs by way of carving out 1-2 RU to a friendly for a low density networking application. If so, I’d love to hear from you! Thanks in advance!

Re: SFP oraganizers / storage recommendations

2019-10-30 Thread Jason Lixfeld
on FS.com is the serial, so you'd need to receive them in or enter > them with PN and SN. > > > > Ns > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jason Lixfeld > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 9

Re: SFP oraganizers / storage recommendations

2019-10-30 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I’m wondering if the barcodes on the SFPs would let you simplify things a bit more vs. updating a spreadsheet. IE: Some sort of barcode scanner app for your phone that could automagically add/remove from some sort of document or database? > On Oct 30, 2019, at 9:53 AM, Warren Kumari wrote:

Re: sfps from fs dot com

2019-09-20 Thread Jason Lixfeld
> On Sep 20, 2019, at 8:54 AM, Bryan Holloway wrote: > > In my travels we see a high failure rate -- higher than I'd like to see --, > but $boss likes the price, and, as Jason pointed out below, for the price, it > can be a "successful" business model. > For someone who doesn't want to deal

Re: sfps from fs dot com

2019-09-20 Thread Jason Lixfeld
We have maybe 1:50 DOA, but they’re so cheap, we just throw them out because it’s not worth the RMA. That said, I can’t remember the last time we’ve had any of these fail in the field, or have had any issues with variablity in TX/RX power. We have tens of thousands of these in the field, from

Real-world MPLS P/LSR experience on BCM T3 (X5/X7) vs T2+

2019-07-04 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hey all, In the role of an MPLS P/LSR, I’m curious if there have been any gotchas (or fixes) revealed with BCM T3 vs. T2+. I remember reading somewhere some years ago that there were oddities on the T2+ that I’d like to believe have been addressed on T3, but does anyone have any real-world

BGP person from Bell Canada/AS577

2019-06-19 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hello, I’m looking to make contact with someone at Bell Canada/AS577 who is able to perform BGP prefix filtering facing their on-prem Akamai caches. Normal sales rep and NOC channels are not producing any meaningful results so far. Thanks in advance!

Re: Flexible OTN / fractional 100GbE

2019-05-28 Thread Jason Lixfeld
> On May 28, 2019, at 6:41 AM, Jérôme Nicolle wrote: > > Hi NaNOG ! > > I'm looking for a muxponder that would take OTU4s on the network side > and provide 10/40/100GbE on the client side, with some kind of > oversubscription, as to provide a "fractional 100GbE" e.g. starting with > 30-60Gbps

Re: Free Program to take netflow

2019-05-22 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I loved using ElastiFlow, but we didn’t quite work out in the end. Here’s my $0.02 - - ElastiFlow setup is easy-ish. - ELK setup is easy-ish. - Scaling ELK is not easy unless you know what you’re doing. If you’ve got enough flows that you need to scale ELK, you’re probably also using multiple

Optical routes from MI-OH regionals

2019-05-01 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi, Looking for someone who might have routes (lit or dark) from Detroit, MI to Columbus, OH preferably using a straight’ish shot from Toledo to Columbus. Most routes I’ve seen from the larger providers tend to run Toledo - Lima - Columbus or Toledo - Cleveland - Columbus, so I’m hoping a

Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

2019-03-09 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I could be making this up, but my understanding is that the Broadcom SDK is not free, and without the SDK, hardware interaction is limited. At one time ONL was a free ONIE NOS but sans SDK. https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux

Re: BGP topological vs centralized route reflector

2019-02-19 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi Adam, > On Feb 19, 2019, at 10:28 AM, > wrote: > > -Type-1 RDs will help you simulate full-mesh. By “Type-1 RD”, are you referring to a unique RD per PE?

Calling LinkedIn, Amazon and Akamai @ DE-CIX NY

2019-01-30 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi, In late October 2018, DE-CIX announced that they would be renumbering their IPv4 address block in New York between 01-28-19 and 01-30-19. This was followed by numerous reminders in months, weeks and even days leading up to the renumbering activity. The renumbering activity has come and

Re: Amazon Peering

2019-01-24 Thread Jason Lixfeld
We circled back with them yesterday on a request we made in late November where at the time they said they wouldn’t be turned up until 2019 due to holiday network change freeze. They responded within about 4 hours, thanked us for our patience and understanding and said we should expect them to

Re: Waves between Buffalo and Manhattan

2019-01-18 Thread Jason Lixfeld
o that there are other small players > in this region. > > Mehmet > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 9:49 AM Jason Lixfeld <mailto:jason%2bna...@lixfeld.ca>> wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have knowledge of carriers who are able to deliver 10G or 100G > waves between Buffalo

Waves between Buffalo and Manhattan

2019-01-18 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hello, Does anyone have knowledge of carriers who are able to deliver 10G or 100G waves between Buffalo and Manhattan that *do not* touch Albany? I know Zayo is one. I’m waiting to hear back from CenturyLink. I’ve reviewed networkatlas.org , to see if anything pops

Re: Non-profit IX vs. neutral for-profit IX

2018-12-21 Thread Jason Lixfeld
New rates for 2019 just posted yesterday! Get yer ports while they’re hot! > On Dec 21, 2018, at 9:14 AM, Clayton Zekelman wrote: > > > TorIX is a great example of a not for profit IX that is very successful. > > https://www.torix.ca/ > > A very dedicated team of

Re: A few GPON questions...

2018-12-11 Thread Jason Lixfeld
> On Dec 11, 2018, at 11:32 AM, Ben Cannon wrote: > > Rip it out and run 9/125 SMF fiber home runs. Use BiDi SFPs to re-use your > existing (likely SMF thankfully) cable plant. My opinion. There’s only so much space in conduits, risers and ducts. At some point, scale would press this up

350 E Cermak

2018-11-22 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hey all, Looking for some clue on how things work, and who’s who for colo at 350 E Cermak. Looking at possibly putting a rack in somewhere there for a Peering/Transit/PNI POP. Is there a list somewhere of colo facilities in that building? Also, how does it work there in terms if inter-colo,

Peering management software

2018-10-30 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hello all, I’m researching various peering management software options, commercial or otherwise, geared towards network operators. Wondering if folks might be able to help add to my list - https://github.com/loopodoopo/pms https://www.6connect.com/peering-manager/

Re: NAT on a Trident/Qumran(/or other?) equipped whitebox?

2018-10-09 Thread Jason Lixfeld
as a specific selling point that they were pushing ... > > Edward Dore > Freethought Internet > > On 09/10/2018, 16:38, "NANOG on behalf of Jason Lixfeld" > wrote: > >Has anyone played around with this? Curious if the BCM (or whatever other > chi

NAT on a Trident/Qumran(/or other?) equipped whitebox?

2018-10-09 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Has anyone played around with this? Curious if the BCM (or whatever other chip) can do this, and if not, if any of the box vendors have tried to find a way to get these things to do a bunch of NAT - say some flavour of NAT, line-rate @ 10G. If so, anyone know of a NOS that has support for it?

Re: Not announcing (to the greater internet) loopbacks/PTP/infra - how ?

2018-10-04 Thread Jason Lixfeld
> On Oct 4, 2018, at 3:07 PM, Brandon Applegate wrote: > > Thanks in advance for insights on this. If you’re MPLS enabled, one implementation could see place the loop/infra/p2p in the global table and customer/internet traffic inside a VRF.

Re: Towards an RPKI-rich Internet (and the appropriate allocation of responsibility in the event an RIR RPKI CA outage)

2018-10-01 Thread Jason Lixfeld
> On Oct 1, 2018, at 4:36 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > On 1/Oct/18 10:26, John Curran wrote: > >> Indeed… Hence the question of liability during a RIR CA outage, should the >> liability for misconfigured ISPs (those handful of ISPs who do not properly >> fall back to using state NotFound

Re: What NMS do you use and why?

2018-08-15 Thread Jason Lixfeld
(resending with really, really the correct from:) Here’s a snapshot of what tends to work for me, along with my $0.02 of thoughts: - Observium handles polling, graphing and alerting for SNMP exposed objects on network devices, - I feel that a visual representation of the physical network

Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?

2018-03-22 Thread Jason Lixfeld
you’re using, or the quality/reliability of the underlying circuit you’re trying to protect? Something else? Also, interesting to read about why some folks don’t care much about BFD at all. > On Mar 21, 2018, at 9:10 AM, Jason Lixfeld <jason+na...@lixfeld.ca> wrote: > > Hey,

Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?

2018-03-21 Thread Jason Lixfeld
> > >> Le 21 mars 2018 à 18:10, Jason Lixfeld <jason+na...@lixfeld.ca> a écrit : >> >> A few years ago I did some testing and found that the time between the >> transceiver detecting LOS and the routing protocol (ISIS in this case) being >> infor

Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?

2018-03-21 Thread Jason Lixfeld
A few years ago I did some testing and found that the time between the transceiver detecting LOS and the routing protocol (ISIS in this case) being informed that the link was down (triggering the recalculation) took longer than it took BFD to signal ISIS to recalculate. > On Mar 21, 2018, at

How are you configuring BFD timers?

2018-03-21 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hey, For those running BFD on your land-based point-to-point links, I’m interested in hearing about what factors you consider when deciding how to configure your timers and multiplier. On paper, BFD between two devices over a local or metro dark fibre or wave seems pretty trivial: Assuming

Any Telus (AS852) BGP customers in the house?

2017-12-13 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hello! As a fellow AS852 BGP customer, I’m looking to chat with other AS852 BGP customers on the topic of modifications to the prefix filters attached to your BGP session(s). Specifically, understanding the procedure Telus wants you to follow to request any changes, how long it takes the

Re: What's the point of prepend communities?

2017-10-26 Thread Jason Lixfeld
> On Oct 26, 2017, at 2:55 PM, Job Snijders wrote: > > If Network B offers some kind of “Prepend to Network C” BGP community, > network A will be able to utilize all of network B except the pieces that > perform less well. (This is ofcourse assuming that Network C picks some >

Re: What's the point of prepend communities?

2017-10-26 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi Bill, > On Oct 26, 2017, at 2:37 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > BGP routing is based on "distance". Distance in BGP is primarily calculated > as the number of ASNs in the AS Path. Prepends make a path more distance, > encouraging routers to choose a different path if one is

What's the point of prepend communities?

2017-10-26 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi, Of all the ISPs that I am familiar with that have a BGP community structure usable by their peering partners and/or downstream customers, among other things, they allow the customer to signal the ISP to prepend their own AS to the as-path of a particular prefix announcement. What

Re: Allstream/Zayo in the house?

2017-10-21 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Thanks for all the private responses. Contact made, and the issue has been resolved. Thank you all. > On Oct 21, 2017, at 10:00 AM, Jason Lixfeld <jason+na...@lixfeld.ca> wrote: > > Having an issue where you’re caching announcements for my AS via a peering > session th

Allstream/Zayo in the house?

2017-10-21 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Having an issue where you’re caching announcements for my AS via a peering session that was turned down hours ago causing * * *, and my Saturday to suck :) Emails out to NOC/Peering contacts on peeringdb haven’t had a response yet. Hoping someone here can poke and/or prod. Thanks in advance.

Re: MPLS in the campus Network?

2016-10-20 Thread Jason Lixfeld
> On Oct 20, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > > > > On 20/Oct/16 17:12, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > >> >> It’s only more expensive the more big vendor products you use. Sometimes >> you need to (i.e.: Boxes with big RIB/FI

Re: MPLS in the campus Network?

2016-10-20 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi, > On Oct 20, 2016, at 9:43 AM, steven brock wrote: > > Compared to MPLS, a L2 solution with 100 Gb/s interfaces between > core switches and a 10G connection for each buildings looks so much > cheaper. But we worry about future trouble using Trill, SPB, or other >

Customers announcing communities to SP of SP

2016-09-19 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi, Consider the following scenario: - Customer A is a customer of SP A - SP A is a customer of SP B - SP B has a traffic engineering community implementation With regards to using BGP communities for TE: - Does SP A write their own community implementation that maps to (some portion of) the

Re: Any ISPs using AS852 for IP Transit?

2016-09-15 Thread Jason Lixfeld
et.com> wrote: > > So, to be blunt, I would cast this as their charging you NRC for manual work > because of their failure to automate this. > > -- > Hugo Slabbert | email, xmpp/jabber: h...@slabnet.com > pgp key: B178313E | also on Signal > > On Thu 2016-

Re: Any ISPs using AS852 for IP Transit?

2016-09-15 Thread Jason Lixfeld
ow up by asking if they > support filtering by IRRdb and are merely trying to encourage the practice? > > > /Steve > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Jason Lixfeld <jason+na...@lixfeld.ca> wrote: > If there are any ISPs who use TELUS/AS852 for IP Transit over BGP

Any ISPs using AS852 for IP Transit?

2016-09-15 Thread Jason Lixfeld
If there are any ISPs who use TELUS/AS852 for IP Transit over BGP, I’d be interested in hearing from you. I’d like to compare notes to see if you are also paying $250 for each BGP prefix filter updated request, or if we’re the only ones… Thanks in advance!

Recommendations for used satellite decoder resellers

2016-07-05 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hello, I’m wondering if anyone can refer me to a company they’ve used in the past who may have (access to) used satellite decoder equipment. I’m in the market for some used Sencore kit. Thanks in advance!

Re: Network traffic simulator

2016-05-24 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I’m in the process of building a box using MoonGen [1] and a supported Intel 82599 6 port SFP+ NIC [2] that is coming in at just under US$3800 all-in. Supposed to be able to drive at least the entire card at line rate for that price and have enough CPU and memory slots free to fill the box up

Perspectives about customer M/A/C in triple play environments

2016-05-16 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hello, I think it’s fair to say that most broadband/FTTx customers don’t have to think very much or need to have a very high degree of understanding if they want to move their wired Internet device from one room or another in their house. Maybe to keep things simple, let’s assume that we’re

Duplex negotiation over 100Base fibre

2016-02-29 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hello, My understanding is that for 1G and 10G optical networks, there is no concept of half-duplex mode, but I’m unclear about half duplex in the 100M optical world. Specifically, if I connect two 100Base-LX (or BX) transceivers together, is there a requirement for the controller(s on either

BCM SOC based IPTV STBs

2016-01-28 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Howdy, What are folks using for BCM SOC (7424 gen, or newer) based IPTV STBs?[1] I’m looking for something pretty simple - HDMI, S/PDIF (optical and 1/8” digital coax) and an Ethernet port is all I’m really interested in. No RCA audio, component video or Wifi. Nice and simple. If GreenPeak

Re: configuration sanity check

2015-10-29 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Either of these might come in handy.. https://www.nanog.org/meetings/abstract?id=2673 https://www.nanog.org/meetings/abstract?id=2678 > On Oct 29, 2015, at 4:16 AM, marcel.durega...@yahoo.fr wrote: > > Hi Nanogers, > > Any recommendation about a software which check the live config of >

Segment Routing for L2VPN?

2015-09-20 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hello! I've been doing some reading recently on Segment Routing. By all accounts, it seems that the (only?) implementation for SR supports L3VPN. Am I dumb and just missing the L2VPN bits, or is L3VPN simply the extent of the first generation? Sent from my iPhone

Mac compatible SFP+/XFP programmer

2015-07-30 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Does anyone know where I might find a SFP+/XFP programmer with a Mac compatible programmer application? Thanks!

In-rack DC distribution

2015-07-13 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Mornin’, I’ve been looking for the holy grail of in-rack A/B DC distribution, unfortunately without much success so far. In a perfect world, I’d have the equivalent of what we know and love about 0U vertical AC distribution rails (i.e.: APC), except with A/B feeds - lots of outlets, takes up

Infinera sales contact?

2015-04-23 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Might someone have an Infinera sales contact handy for Canada? Information submitted via their web form doesn’t seem to be getting much attention. Thanks!

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-19 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On Apr 19, 2015, at 6:09 AM, William Waites wwai...@tardis.ed.ac.uk wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 11:23:53 +0200, Baldur Norddahl baldur.nordd...@gmail.com said: So why is IX peering so expensive? But the only service is running an old layer 2 switch. The 40 dix particants should

Ixia or Spirent around?

2015-04-16 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I tried the contact form on their respective websites a couple of weeks back, but have not heard back. If anyone from there is lurking about or if anyone has a sales contact that covers Toronto and could send me off-list, I'd be grateful. Thank you! Sent from my iPhone

802.11 based WISP hardware

2015-03-27 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi all, I’m looking to gather some public opinion, links and pointers around the current landscape of WISP hardware vendors. I’m familiar with Cisco, Ruckus, AdTran, Motorola and Aruba (HP) but I’m wondering who else is out there that folks have used with success. My main areas of interest

Google served from non-google IPs?

2015-03-12 Thread Jason Lixfeld
So today, I saw this: BlackBox:~ jlixfeld$ host google.ca 8.8.8.8 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: google.ca has address 206.126.112.166 google.ca has address 206.126.112.177 google.ca has address 206.126.112.172 google.ca has address 206.126.112.187 google.ca has

Is there a case for storm control and/or unknown traffic flood control in 'protected' bridge-domain?

2014-12-16 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Greetings, Conceptually, a layer 2 port that is configured for either port protect mode (a’la Cisco 2950 vintage), UNI port-type (a’la Cisco ME3400 vintage) or EVC + split-horizon (a’la ME3600 vintage) should negate any requirement for features such as storm control or unknown traffic flood

Private ASNs in the wild

2014-12-11 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I just fat fingered a regex that was intented to show how many private ASNs we’re using on our network for various things. The results of the fat fingers showed that there are an astronomical number of private ASNs in the wild. I checked the CIDR report, and those ASNs are shown there in a

Re: 10Gb iPerf kit?

2014-11-10 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I gotta wonder. How reliable is iPerf over something like RFC2544 or Y.1564? Especially at those speeds? I just picked up a couple of Accedian’s RFC2544/Y.1564 boxes to use as loopbacks to our field Exfos. We’ll probably wind up buying a few more Accedian boxes for the field where we don’t

Multi-port RFC2544/EtherSAM loopback appliance

2014-09-26 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Group, I'm looking for options and opinions on a cost effective, multi-port (6'ish port SFP/SFP+) RFC2544/EtherSAM rack appliance that can act as the remote/loopback for our field installers' portable RFC2544/EtherSAM enabled Exfo test sets. I came across XenaNetworks XenaCompact which looks

AM dust filters

2014-08-12 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi, I'm interested in knowing what sorts of material folks use to make after-market dust filters for their various devices which wouldn't normally have any. This seems to almost be a necessity when these kinds of devices are deployed in environments that are overly dusty and dirty (it should

Re: AM dust filters

2014-08-12 Thread Jason Lixfeld
of issues. On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Jason Lixfeld ja...@lixfeld.ca wrote: Hi, I'm interested in knowing what sorts of material folks use to make after-market dust filters for their various devices which wouldn't normally have any. This seems to almost be a necessity when these kinds

Re: AM dust filters

2014-08-12 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On Aug 12, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 08/12/2014 11:19 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: Hi, I'm interested in knowing what sorts of material folks use to make after-market dust filters for their various devices which wouldn't normally have any. This seems

Re: Best practice for BGP session/ full routes for customer

2014-07-07 Thread Jason Lixfeld
1. You already know that multihop is very ugly. If it's for a one-off, it's probably fine. But building a product around multi-hop wouldn't be my first choice. 2. Most of the router/switch vendors that can support a full table are pretty expensive, per port. Your best bet here might be to

Anyone from AS577 and AS852 in the house?

2014-04-03 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Bell and Telus, if you're listening - I need to inquire about BGP community support on your respective networks that cannot be addressed by info published in RADB, by our assigned AM, SE, your NOC or any support documentation on your respective websites on the subject. Please hit me up

Who uses ARIN's IRR?

2014-03-07 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I don't need to use it much, but when I do, it's an ever-increasing royal pain in the ass. My current plight revolves around not being able to get full dumps of objects. Certain mandatory fields in objects are 'filtered' and/or replaced with dummy data. This poses a problem because one can

Re: Who uses ARIN's IRR?

2014-03-07 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On Mar 7, 2014, at 12:01 PM, Koch, Andrew andrew.k...@tdstelecom.com wrote: You will notice right at the top of the output there is a hint on getting an unfiltered object. Try using the -B flag on your query to get around this. Indeed, however that doesn't help with the dummy objects that

Cogeco in the house?

2014-02-07 Thread Jason Lixfeld
If someone from Cogeco could ping me, I'd like to have a chat about something odd and intermittent: It works: BlackBox:~ jlixfeld$ mtr -c 1 -rw 162.243.142.155 Start: Fri Feb 7 18:46:06 2014 HOST: BlackBox.localLoss% Drop Rcv Snt Last Best Avg 1.|--

Re: BRAS

2013-12-10 Thread Jason Lixfeld
What's so interesting about a guy asking for info on a Broadband Remote Access Server for DSL aggregation? On Dec 11, 2013, at 1:11 AM, Nick Cameo sym...@gmail.com wrote: Sir whatever that is an acronym for, you have my undivided. This is going to make for an interesting thread in about 6

Re: bgp traceroute tool?

2013-11-30 Thread Jason Lixfeld
It would be slick if someone could patch mtr to do this too. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 30, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Rene Wilhelm wilh...@ripe.net wrote: On 11/30/13 1:18 AM, Lee Clark wrote: The traceroute variant included with CentOS 6.4 Mint 13 has an -A flag which does ASN lookups.

Re: Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian Network Sovereignty

2013-09-09 Thread Jason Lixfeld
That notwithstanding, it's stupid to send traffic to/from one of the large $your_region/country incumbents via $not_your_region/country. It's just not good Internet. You make enough money already. Be a good netizen. It pays more in the long run and that's all you're really after for your

Recommendations for dynamic imix traffic generators

2013-08-15 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi folks, I'm trying to put together a test bench to soak some CPE equipment with an imix of eyeball traffic. I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations on open-source platforms that might be able to accomplish this. I'd like to simulate traffic conditions that various tiers of Internet

Re: Ciena 6200 clue?

2013-07-03 Thread Jason Lixfeld
of how the thing really worked so he didn't really have any answers. On 2013-07-02, at 7:30 PM, Jason Lixfeld ja...@lixfeld.ca wrote: So I've got a bunch of Ciena 6200 kit in, with some of their professional services folks onsite, helping with the initial setup. I know nothing of this kit

Ciena 6200 clue?

2013-07-02 Thread Jason Lixfeld
So I've got a bunch of Ciena 6200 kit in, with some of their professional services folks onsite, helping with the initial setup. I know nothing of this kit, other than from what I'm being told, it's pretty bleeding edge, so much so that not even many people at Ciena know how to use it. The SE

AS1239 AS701 IP Transit sales folks

2013-04-01 Thread Jason Lixfeld
If there are any IP Transit sales folks[1] listening form Sprint or Verizon, please drop me a line off-list. Thanks. [1] No resellers, please.

Re: BCP38 tester?

2013-03-31 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2013-03-31, at 10:48 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Is there a program which users can run on an end-site workstation which would test whether they are being some link which is doing BCP38, or some related type of source-address ingress filtering? I'm hoping for something that

Re: BCP38 tester?

2013-03-31 Thread Jason Lixfeld
spoof a packet to save their lives. Maybe it's useful for the people who have no idea that their computers are infected by bots that spoof packets. On Mar 31, 2013 6:37 PM, Jason Lixfeld ja...@lixfeld.ca wrote: On 2013-03-31, at 10:48 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote

ATT AM Director for New York

2013-03-07 Thread Jason Lixfeld
To any ATT sales folks listening, my account manager has not been very good at following up on multiple requests to quote increases in my IP transit commits. If any account manager directors or other tiers who these AMs might report to could contact me, I'd love to give you their name so you

Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I got notification of their maintenance window, albeit with 24 hours notice. Notice came in at 11:00GMT-5 yesterday, maintenance was scheduled for 00:00GMT-5 this morning. That said, the notice said that the maintenance was in Phoenix but I got a notice about my IPT circuit at 60 Hudson

Validation of FCS

2012-12-19 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi all, I'm trying to confirm (or debunk) my current understanding of FCS errors. An FCS error is a layer 2 error. In Ethernet spake, the 4 bytes of FCS data within each Ethernet frame is validated by a CRC check, which is done by the device receiving said frame. If the CRC check fails, an

Re: Validation of FCS

2012-12-19 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2012-12-19, at 10:02 AM, Saku Ytti s...@ytti.fi wrote: On (2012-12-19 09:53 -0500), Jason Lixfeld wrote: Perhaps in simpler terms, a CRC error is a localized thing and would never be forwarded from one device to another. It would be forwarded in cut-through switching. ... until

Procera Networks contact

2012-08-02 Thread Jason Lixfeld
If anyone has a contact at Procera Networks who can answer some technical questions about their product, could you please pass it along? The suggested methods at www. have so far gone unanswered. Thanks in advance.

Rate shaping in Active E FTTx networks

2012-07-26 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi all, I'm trying to gauge what operators are doing to handle per-subscriber Internet access PIR bandwidth in Active E FTTx networks. I presume operators would want to limit the each subscriber to a certain PIR, but within that limit, do things like perform preferential treatment of

AS209/CenturyLink NOC email?

2012-03-06 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Anyone from AS209/CentryLink around to troubleshoot some routing weirdness? If not, anyone have a NOC email address for them? Google-fu and RADB searches came up empty. Thanks in advance.

Re: Network Traffic Collection

2012-02-23 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Splunk is an amazing tool and did an awesome thing and introduced a free license in 4.3. I'm using it at two sites now and I'm loving it! On 2012-02-23, at 3:34 PM, Mike Lyon wrote: Random thought, anyone ever used Splunk for this kind of thing? -mike Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23,

Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?

2011-12-12 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2011-12-12, at 4:22 PM, Simon Lockhart si...@slimey.org wrote: I guess most (i.e. those which aren't Akamai) are more concerned with making money than with delivering a good service to the end user. Really? I always thought that higher profits and buying transit were mutually exclusive

Re: Recommendation for customer monitoring network tool/portal for a large ISP

2011-10-27 Thread Jason Lixfeld
We've just deployed Intermapper to do all of our device polling, link status and topology mapping. Works very well and looks real pretty. For graphing, we use cacti with the Discovery and Autom8 plugins. For SNMP trap parsing, we use SNMPTT. We're currently evaluating Splunk to eat the SNMP

Re: events

2011-09-30 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2011-09-30, at 2:13 PM, Brandon Kim wrote: I've been happy with my basic ManageEngine's syslog, but I may be looking at Solarwinds too... I've just installed the Splunk eval myself, but I'm curious about your ManageEngine experiences. I don't have any interest in using ManageEngine as

FTTH CPE landscape

2011-08-04 Thread Jason Lixfeld
This isn't necessarily operational content, so I apologize in advance for the noise and thus encourage off-list replies (and/or flames). I figure the NANOG demographic might be able to point me in the right direction seeing as how far reaching into the industry the readership is. I'm doing

Re: FTTH CPE landscape

2011-08-04 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Nope, Ethernet. -- Sent from my mobile device. On 2011-08-04, at 6:10 PM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote: Are you looking for an xPON ONT? Frank -Original Message- From: Jason Lixfeld [mailto:ja...@lixfeld.ca] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 9:58 AM To: nanog@nanog.org

Re: Verizon Issues? East Coast US

2011-08-03 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2011-08-03, at 3:50 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: On 8/3/2011 3:31 PM, James Smallacombe wrote: However, I AM seeing problems right now as described below...anybody aware of any Verizon issues? I was told by TATA one of their core routers in NY is not reachable. So perhaps some inadvertent

Community troubleshooting étiquette/BCP (was: L3 Issues)

2011-08-01 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2011-08-01, at 1:48 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: Things seem to be moving again. I happen to have an L3 link out of NYC, but unfortunately I don't have a list of on-net L3 prefixes in any of the reportedly affected regions, so I'm unable to provide any data from my vantage point up here. I'm sure

Re: Cisco IOS MPLS VPN Bug

2011-03-12 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2011-03-12, at 2:31 AM, Joe Renwick wrote: These routers are configured as BGP route-reflectors. ... Niether soft nor hard clears on the BGP neighbors worked, only the config removal. Once re-applied life was good. ... The bug itself was with the BGP updates sent by the RR. During

Any ATT IP Transit sales folks listening?

2011-03-10 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I'm looking for an ATT IP Transit sales contact. Email links on the website don't seem to work and I was on hold for 30 minutes with an auto-attendant when I tried to call. I'm looking for transit on a 1Gbps access out of TelX @ 60 Hudson. Thanks in advance.

SFP vs. SFP+

2011-02-17 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I was asked today what the difference between SFP and SFP+ is. I did really know, so I looked it up and it seems that the SFP spec provides capabilities for data rates up to 4.25Gb/s, whereas SFP+ supports up to 10Gb/s. Naturally, this made me wonder whether or not an optic that supported

Re: Packet over SONET failback

2011-02-14 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2011-02-14, at 6:47 AM, Rob Evans wrote: PoS failure detection happens in under 50ms, but what about the failback? Same deal? I ask because I've got two routers connected to opposite ends of a spare PoS link that I've been playing with and I'm noticing that the failback on the far

Packet over SONET failback

2011-02-13 Thread Jason Lixfeld
PoS failure detection happens in under 50ms, but what about the failback? Same deal? I ask because I've got two routers connected to opposite ends of a spare PoS link that I've been playing with and I'm noticing that the failback on the far side seems to be about 15 seconds (assuming the near

Re: Good MPLS/VPLS book?

2010-12-23 Thread Jason Lixfeld
While on a MPLS related TAC case recently, I was speaking to an engineer who helped vet portions of Cisco Press' MPLS Fundamentals (http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587051974). He said it's one of the best he's come across, but there may perhaps be some bias there ;) Not

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-20 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2010-10-20, at 11:24 AM, Eric Merkel wrote: Any suggestions, success or horror stories are appreciated. ;) I've been going through pretty much the same exercise looking for a decent PE for almost two years. Our requirements were for a PE device that had between 12-24 ports (in a perfect

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