Art and Tech is madness

2019-09-04 Thread Kasper Adel
In SPRING a time when segment and routing had no mismatch, a time when isis and ospf ate a forbidden encap, all they had to do was forward bgp like its hot, but crazy flapping doesnt leave any real LDP without some real FSM check, My dynamic unnumbered neighbor. Suddenly, Out of order, an AS is

Re: Application or Software to detect or Block unmanaged swicthes

2018-06-08 Thread Kasper Adel
How about some scripts around fail2ban, if the same account logs in multiple times, its banning time. Kasper On Friday, June 8, 2018, David Hubbard wrote: > This thread has piqued my curiosity on whether there'd be a way to detect > a rogue access point, or proxy server with an inside and

Re: Application or Software to detect or Block unmanaged swicthes

2018-06-08 Thread Kasper Adel
I guess you can do that and more with a linux based switch like cumulus and pica8. They allow you to do all sorts of things like that because they are open. On Thursday, June 7, 2018, wrote: > In my previous life, we used a nac appliance from Bradford Networks > whereby the mac address of

Re: Intel DPDK vs Broadcom/Mellanox SDK

2018-06-05 Thread Kasper Adel
then there are a lot more factors and the CPU factors > may > outweigh the chipset factors. You may want to look at a list related to > home > routers for more guidance. > > Mack > > -Original Message- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ka

Re: VPP-based router vs Hardware assisted ones

2018-06-05 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi Ross Did you make a decision to take that direction after reviewing ‘open networking’ platforms like cumulus and pica8? Are you trying to use the full routing table? ~kim On Thursday, May 24, 2018, Ross Tajvar wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone had any luck building their own routers on

Intel DPDK vs Broadcom/Mellanox SDK

2018-06-03 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi Anothe email thread to get some guidance on points to consider when comparing new platforms that advocate using DPDK as the hardware acceleration SDK vs the broadcom/mellanox. The DPDK ones claim enhanced performance but every time i ask questions, i get the logical and typical answer of “it

Broadcom vs Mellanox based platforms

2018-06-03 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello I’m asked to evaluate switching platforms that has different forwarding chips but the same OS. Assuming these vendors give the same SDK and similar documentation/support, then what would be comparison points to consider, other than the obvious (price, features, bps, pps). I’m thinking,

Re: Open Souce Network Operating Systems

2018-05-03 Thread Kasper Adel
Feedback about Cumulus has been positive : https://www.mail-archive.com/cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net/msg66192.html if i am not mistaken, they have added lots of networking enhancements to the OS, they have videos on youtube that will paint the picture. On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Colton

(Network Orchestrators evaluation) : tail-f vs Anuta vs UBIqube vs OpenDaylight

2017-08-09 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, This is not a vendor bashing thread. We are a group of networking engineers less experience with software) in the middle of the process of procuring a network automation/orchestration controller, if that is even a good definition and we are clueless on how to evaluate them. Other than the

DevOps workflow for networking

2017-08-09 Thread Kasper Adel
We are pretty new to those new-age network orchestrators and automation, I am curious to ask what everyone is the community is doing? sorry for such a long and broad question. What is your workflow? What tools are your teams using? What is working what is not? What do you really like and what do

SD-WAN for enlightened

2017-04-16 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, I'm not sure if the buzzword SD-WAN is used to compensate for another buzzword that got over-utilized (SDN) or it is a true 'new and improved' way of doing things that has some innovation into it. I heard different explanation from different vendors: 1) appliances (+ controller) placed

Brainstorming acceptance issues - WAN impediment

2017-02-06 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, I am in the process of testing an 'automation/sdn' kind of controller, it will be managing configuration on our routers and also deploying some VNFs too. Before accepting it, i'd like to perform some testing, to make sure of the behavior if there are network issues between the controller and

Accepting a Virtualized Functions (VNFs) into Corporate IT

2016-11-28 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, Vendor X wants you to run their VNF (Router, Firewall or Whatever) and they refuse to give you root access, or any means necessary to do 'maintenance' kind of work, whether its applying security updates, or any other similar type of task that is needed for you to integrate the Linux VM into

NFV Solution Evaluation Methodology

2016-08-02 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, I am interested in hearing the approach and thought-process that senior people on NANOG are following when presented with an NFV solution. Assuming that the exercise at hand is to consider NFV for future expansions of Firewalls and L3VPNs or stay with the existing model of what is called PNF

Thinking Methodically about building a PoC

2016-06-12 Thread Kasper Adel
hi, I am asked to build a large lab/test it. I'm provided crazy scale numbers for lots of technologies (L*VPN, IPv*, IGP*, All Tunnels flavors...etc). It took me a lot of time to build this lab, because when I got the request/test plan handed over to me, I did not verify that these scaled

Data Mining/Crawling through a Mailing List

2013-09-05 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, A bit off topic but i was looking for a way/tool that could crawl through nanog(or other) archives and try to filter most common discussions and things like that, if anyone is aware of such a tool, pls let me know. Thanks, Kim

Parsing Syslog and Acting on it, using other input too

2013-08-29 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello. I am looking for a way to do proactive monitoring of my network, what I am specifically thinking about is receiving syslog msgs from the routers and the backend engine would correlate certain msgs with output/data that i am receiving through SSH/telnet sessions. What i am after is not

Vendors CLI Usability vs UNIX Shell

2013-07-20 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, My vendor is giving me speeches on how they are improving their product Serviceability, Usability and Manageability. They told me they are adding a lot of new way of doing things, introducing more Unix-like utilities and over all making CLI smarter by exposing more visibility into system

Re: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-15 Thread Kasper Adel
...maintaining the status quo is not always the best possible outcome despite the biases we usually have when we begin the analysis. :-) If you work closely with all of your stakeholders, everyone will learn and benefit from the experience. Dave -Original Message- From: Kasper Adel

Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-14 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, We are a 2nd level of escalation in a service provider, trying to put a $ value on the support we give to our NOC and other implementation teams, when they email us about problems they face. But we are merely bits and bytes engineers that cant quantify and justify the value of what we do

Re: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-14 Thread Kasper Adel
them the dump tables and numbers that they are looking for. Kim On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Andrew Latham wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Kasper Adel karim.a...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: Hello, We are a 2nd level of escalation in a service provider, trying to put

Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU

2012-11-11 Thread Kasper Adel
-Original Message- From: Kasper Adel [mailto:karim.a...@gmail.com javascript:;] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 5:23 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Whats so difficult about ISSU Hello, We've been hearing about ISSU for so many years and i didnt hear that any vendor was able to achieve

Whats so difficult about ISSU

2012-11-08 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, We've been hearing about ISSU for so many years and i didnt hear that any vendor was able to achieve it yet. What is the technical reason behind that? If i understand correctly, the way it will be done would be simply to have extra ASICs/HW to be able to build dual circuits accessing the

Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU

2012-11-08 Thread Kasper Adel
with the 9K have gone through some hurdles but ISSU is actually usable now if the software versions support it. The main remaining hurdle is updating microcode on linecards, they still need to be rebooted after an upgrade. Phil On Nov 8, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Kasper Adel karim.a...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU

2012-11-08 Thread Kasper Adel
, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Kasper Adel karim.a...@gmail.comjavascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'karim.a...@gmail.com'); wrote: What i was asking is full ISSU, even with micro code. I assume between Major release there will be microcode upgrade most of the time. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Phil

CLI Roadmap

2012-10-14 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, I have never used any CLI other than Cisco so i am curious what useful and creative knobs and bolts are available for other network appliance Vendors. I guess what makes *NIX CLI/Shell so superior is that you can advanced stuff from the CLI using sed, awk and all the great tools there so

Software Bugs

2011-02-20 Thread Kasper Adel
Good Day, I have always been exposed to one vendor only so i can never compare but I am curious to know what every one here have seen in their lives on the below: 1) Which vendor has more bugs than others, what are the top 3 2) Who is doing a better job fixing them 3) What do you consider is a

Re: Software Bugs

2011-02-20 Thread Kasper Adel
Good Day, Sorry, previous email sent by mistake I have always been exposed to one vendor only so i can never compare but I am curious to know what every one here have seen in their lives on the below: 1) Which vendor has more bugs than others, what are the top 3 ? 2) Who is doing a better job

Re: Software Bugs

2011-02-20 Thread Kasper Adel
Thanks Valdis. On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:43 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:05:44 +0200, Kasper Adel said: (Disclaimer - I've never filed a bug report with Cisco or Juniper, but I've spent 3 decades filing bugs with almost everybody else in the computer industry

Auditing a network to add Voice

2010-11-22 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, My customer would like to add VoIP over their network and they asked us for an audit. the result of the audit would be simply you guys are ready for it Breaking it down [high level] for me sounds like : (suggestions are more than welcomed) : 1) Looking at hardware computation finite

Re: Auditing a network to add Voice

2010-11-22 Thread Kasper Adel
Sorry i forgot to add more detail. We are not looking for IP Telephony type of voice but RTP from Media Gateways. Cheers, Kim On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Kasper Adel karim.a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My customer would like to add VoIP over their network and they asked us for an audit

Re: Auditing a network to add Voice

2010-11-22 Thread Kasper Adel
WAN infrastructure. Bret On 11/22/2010 09:59 AM, Kasper Adel wrote: Hi, My customer would like to add VoIP over their network and they asked us for an audit. the result of the audit would be simply you guys are ready for it Breaking it down [high level] for me sounds like : (suggestions

Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-27 Thread Kasper Adel
Havent seen a thread on this one so thought i'd start one. Ripe tested a new attribute that crashed the internet, is that true? Kim

Calculating Cost

2010-08-22 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello everyone, How would you calculate the cost of a network outage, specifically if its related to a software bug or a misconfiguration. Suppose that this could have been avoided by testing in a lab before deployment, how can i calculate that too? Unicast replies are welcomed. Cheerio, Kim

Re: NOC Best Practices

2010-07-16 Thread Kasper Adel
best practices and working with operations/engineering when a change will be implemented Should i be looking for ITIL stuff or its not any good? Thanks, Kim On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Kasper Adel karim.a...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I am currently working on building a NOC so i'm

NOC Best Practices

2010-07-14 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello Everyone, I am currently working on building a NOC so i'm looking for materials/pointers to Best Practices documented out there. On the top of my head are things like: 1) Documenting Incidents and handling them 2) Documenting Syslog messages 3) Documenting Vendor Software Bugs 4) Shift to

Common statistics from your NOC

2010-04-05 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, I want to collect experience from the Gurus on this mailer on how they make use of the data they can get from NOC. what i mean by data, trouble tickets opened internally or with vendors. I wonder what would be common or even uncommon type of statistics that a network operator would like

sniffing x.25 on SUN/Solaris

2009-07-05 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, I am trying to capture x.25 traffic from a Sun Machine and i wonder if snoop supports it because i asked my customer to capture it and send it over but the trace doesnt include anything x/25 related. Regards, Kas