Re: IPv6? Re: Where to Use 240/4 Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block

2024-01-13 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Thank you, everyone, for your responses. Abe, I appreciate your enthisam but it is obvious you are not interested in collaboration. You are singularly-minded and trollish. I am assigning your email address to my spam filters. I will not see any future communication from you. O. On Sat, Jan

Re: ipv6 address management - documentation

2023-11-18 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
I used NIPAP about seven or eight years ago. It's quite customizable and easy enough to code against but not the easiest to work with, overall. It has some quirks. I think I would have chosen Netbox had it been as mature as it is now. Oliver On Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 3:41 p.m. JASON BOTHE via NANOG

Re: IP tracking system

2021-12-14 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
I've found success with NIPAP: https://spritelink.github.io/NIPAP/ I've built some yaml-based templates and python-based loading tools that populate everything from the VRF to the prefix pools and descriptions etc... in a pretty complex setup. It's quite flexible, though you will spend some time

Re: AWS and IPv6

2021-11-28 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
On Sun., Nov. 28, 2021, 17:13 William Herrin, wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 1:18 PM Karl Auer wrote: > > On Sun, 2021-11-28 at 12:53 -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > I was reading their howto yesterday and it seems they are only > > > allocating a /64? Why? > > > > That's a /64 *per

Re: IPv6 and CDN's

2021-11-27 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
On Sat., Nov. 27, 2021, 12:59 Gary Buhrmaster, wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 5:05 PM Oliver O'Boyle > wrote: > > > On Sat., Nov. 27, 2021, 10:46 Scott Morizot, wrote: > >> Since we are deploying BYO IPv6 in AWS, I can assure you they do offer > it now

Re: IPv6 and CDN's

2021-11-27 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
On Sat., Nov. 27, 2021, 13:34 Michael Thomas, wrote: > > On 11/27/21 7:46 AM, Scott Morizot wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 6:51 PM Oliver O'Boyle > wrote: > >> They're getting better at it, at least. They also recently added v6 >> support in their NLBs and y

Re: IPv6 and CDN's

2021-11-27 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
On Sat., Nov. 27, 2021, 10:46 Scott Morizot, wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 6:51 PM Oliver O'Boyle > wrote: > >> They're getting better at it, at least. They also recently added v6 >> support in their NLBs and you can get a /56 for every VPC for direct >> access. I

Re: IPv6 and CDN's

2021-11-26 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
ill come. Mike > > > > *From:* Michael Thomas > *Sent:* November 26, 2021 7:37 PM > *To:* Oliver O'Boyle > *Cc:* Jean St-Laurent ; Ca By > ; North American Network > Operators' Group > *Subject:* Re: IPv6 and CDN's > > > > That's a start, I guess. B

Re: IPv6 and CDN's

2021-11-26 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
AWS has been gradually improving support and adding features. They just announced this service, which might help with adoption: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-nat64-dns64-communication-ipv6-ipv4-services/ On Fri., Nov. 26, 2021, 19:28 Michael Thomas, wrote: > > On

Re: AS6461 issues in Montreal

2021-09-24 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
We have an office in Montreal that is showing signs of intermittent routing issues. So can confirm there's an issue somewhere. On Fri, 24 Sept 2021 at 11:25, Jason Canady wrote: > > We're in Indianapolis / Chicago and seeing 854,787 routes. > > On 9/24/21 11:17 AM, Eric Dugas via NANOG wrote: >

Re: AWS re:Invent

2019-11-28 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
. >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 5:46 PM Oliver O'Boyle >> wrote: >> >>> Just a reminder. The ticket remains unclaimed. If it makes you feel >>> better, I'll raise the price from free to $10 :) >>> >>> $1800 USD value and the confe

Re: AWS re:Invent

2019-11-28 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Just a reminder. The ticket remains unclaimed. If it makes you feel better, I'll raise the price from free to $10 :) $1800 USD value and the conference is excellent. Reply off-list if you're interested. Oliver On Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 22:39 Oliver O'Boyle, wrote: > Nanog: > > I have a

AWS re:Invent

2019-11-27 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Nanog: I have a free AWS re:Invent full access pass for any community member who can reasonably demonstrate regular knowledge transfer or contributions of useful help to other community members in the past year+. Reply off list with your evidence if that's you. Conference starts Monday in Las

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
We apologize for finally getting around to our job and doing what we were paid to do... On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:27 PM Matt Hoppes < mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: > “During an internal maintenance cycle last night, 168,149 previously > undelivered text messages were inadvertently

Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge

2018-12-02 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Well... they can until they can't because I'm no longer a customer... On December 2, 2018, at 6:23 PM, James R Cutler wrote: On Dec 2, 2018, at 6:04 PM, Clayton Zekelman wrote: I can't imagine how the corporate sociopaths could justify charging an American recovery fee on a service

Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge

2018-12-02 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Same situation with us. We have dozens of circuits with them as a result of that acquisition and the previous ACI acquisition of Canopco and OneConnect. Not impressed. Not a happy customer. Already flipping to alternatives. On December 2, 2018, at 5:31 PM, Clayton Zekelman wrote: GTT is

Re: Internet diameter?

2018-11-21 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
^ This On Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 00:32 William Herrin On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 7:58 PM Christopher Morrow > wrote: > > now, why does it matter? > > Good question! It matters because a little over two decades ago we had > some angst as equipment configured to emit a TTL of 32 stopped being > able to

Re: Youtube Outage

2018-10-16 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Same in Montreal. On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 9:52 PM Marshall Eubanks wrote: > Reports (and humor) are flooding twitter. > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 9:44 PM Ross Tajvar wrote: > > > > You beat my email by seconds. Yes, it is widespread. > > > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Kenneth McRae via

Re: BGP in a containers

2018-06-14 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
There's no reason why it shouldn't work well. It's just a minor paradigm shift that requires some solid testing and knowhow on the ops team. On Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 22:26 Eric Tykwinski, wrote: > The funny part is I don’t like containers but love VMs, so kvm, vmware, > citrix, hvm, et al. > Not

Re: ICANN GDPR lawsuit

2018-05-31 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
whoisnt On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2018, b...@theworld.com wrote: >> >> FWIW a German court has just ruled against ICANN's injunction and in >> favor of Tucows/EPAG. >> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-4-2018-05-30-en > > > Welcome to

Re: list blockchain

2018-01-28 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Because we'd all have to show work to prove our comments are legit... On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:52 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > why is no one exploring converting this mailing list to a blockchain? > major missed opportunity. > > randy -- :o@>

Re: Comparison of freeware open source switch software?

2018-01-09 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
https://www.opennetworking.org/ Hardware works quite well. I have a number of whitebox units deployed based off their designs and will be ordering more. On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:17:59 -0500, Hank Nussbacher

Re: Companies using public IP space owned by others for internal routing

2017-12-20 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Excellent, thanks! Will dig into it. Oliver On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Ca By <cb.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 1:01 PM Oliver O'Boyle <oliver.obo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Agreed. There now. We need cheap, open source, opti

Re: Companies using public IP space owned by others for internal routing

2017-12-20 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Agreed. There now. We need cheap, open source, options for widespread adoption. Oliver On Dec 20, 2017 12:51, "Michael Crapse" wrote: > +1 for Nat64. dual stack is just keeping ipv4 around longer than it needs > to be > > On 19 December 2017 at 18:50, Owen DeLong

Re: Some advice on IPv6 planning and ARIN request, please

2017-07-07 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
story. Thanks for the tip on IoT sizing. That's precisely the kind of thing i am concerned about being constrained with in the future if we size sites too small. Oliver On Jul 7, 2017 6:18 PM, "William Herrin" <b...@herrin.us> wrote: On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Oliver O'B

Re: Some advice on IPv6 planning and ARIN request, please

2017-07-07 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
with our justification for a /36 thus far. On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Jima <na...@jima.us> wrote: > On 2017-07-07 11:07, Oliver O'Boyle wrote: > >> We would prefer to summarize at the /42 level, announced from our >> last-mile >> providers. There are 3 primary last-m

Some advice on IPv6 planning and ARIN request, please

2017-07-07 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Hello, If anyone out there could provide some input or advice on how to best handle our upcoming leap into IPv6, it would be much appreciated. I want to make sure we're playing nicely and not causing anyone any unnecessary grief before we deploy. We're currently in the planning stage and can make

Re: Consumer networking head scratcher

2017-03-01 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Next --> On March 1, 2017, at 9:31 PM, Ryan Pugatch <r...@lp0.org> wrote: On Wed, Mar 1, 2017, at 09:29 PM, Oliver O'Boyle wrote: Each device associated with the AP consumes memory. Small low-end routers don't typically come with much memory. If you've got a lot of devices a

Re: Consumer networking head scratcher

2017-03-01 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Each device associated with the AP consumes memory. Small low-end routers don't typically come with much memory. If you've got a lot of devices associated with the AP you will run out of memory. I'm not sure how many devices you're connecting, though. Three will not cause this problem. 30 might.

Re: Canada joins the 21st century !

2016-12-23 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Awesome, some maybe in 5 years we'll see the speeds we should have seen 20 years earlier! Can't wait! On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > The government getting involved with the Internet rarely goes well. The > FCC is a shining example of how to usually do

Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema

2016-03-14 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
carabiner that you can clip to the rack or to other stable items wherever you're working (not individual cables in case you dislodge them). On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 11:58 PM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:21:48 -0400, "Oliver O'Boyle" said: > > J

Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema

2016-03-13 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Just place a piece of tape under the padding and it won't slide anymore. 5 seconds of extra work per end, though. On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > The only problem I’ve had with those is that they tend to slide down the > fiber and you can > end up having

Re: Automated alarm notification

2016-02-11 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Check_MK over OMD. Good event parsing capabilities. Easy to set up, nagios core but rewritten app for much better performance. Multisite master/slave capabilities +++. Free or supported. Your pick. On Feb 11, 2016 9:26 PM, "John Adams" wrote: > datadog will do this without

Re: Opinions on Cologix data centers?

2015-12-14 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
I used/inherited them in Montreal after they bought out a series of colos. The corporate management team is good and I would work with them again. They saw themselves as partners and not just a vendor. The local DC manager/team was honest and easy to work with and they were very knowledgeable.

Re: internet visualization

2015-09-09 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
A bit of salt on that will help... On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Joly MacFie wrote: > Crow for lunch today. > > On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, Larry Sheldon > wrote: > > > On 9/8/2015 21:05, Joly MacFie wrote: > > > >> ​3/10 for spelling > >> > >>

Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it.

2015-09-09 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
I love cat videos. On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Tony Hain wrote: > Dovid Bender wrote: > > I would. Once I see legal stuff I know to stop reading. It does not hurt > > anyone. Not sure why this hurts so much. Some things will remain a > > mystery. > > > > No mystery ...

Re: udp 500 packets when users are web browsing

2015-09-03 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Precisely. On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > Sounds like Opportunistic Encryption. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunistic_encryption#Windows_OS > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 09:53:46AM -0400, Robert Webb wrote: > > There is no VPN in the picture here.

Re: udp 500 packets when users are web browsing

2015-09-03 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
ng in the right direction > tracking this down. This just showed up in our monitoring and makes sense > as we just brought up a new locked down domain. > > Robert > > > > On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:19:53 -0400 > "Oliver O'Boyle" <oliver.obo...@gmail.com> wrot

Re: udp 500 packets when users are web browsing

2015-09-03 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
You can configure Windows to encrypt traffic based on protocol definitions. E.g., Use IPSEC to encrypt all traffic on port 80 between hosts X and hosts Y. It's possible that such a policy is in place locally on the workstations and/or servers and it's also possible that it's being enforced using

Re: load balancer product for dns content switching

2015-08-27 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Citrix Netscaler as well. On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Robert Webb rw...@ropeguru.com wrote: F5 Big-IP? Pricey but it should do what you are looking for. Robert On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:13:37 -0700 Brooks Bridges bro...@firestormnetworks.net wrote: Spent quite a bit of time

Re: Data Center operations mail list?

2015-08-12 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Done, thanks! On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Chris Boyd cb...@gizmopartners.com wrote: On Aug 12, 2015, at 7:53 AM, Oliver O'Boyle oliver.obo...@gmail.com wrote: I missed the subscription info. Can you repost please? I can be #100 :) http://lists.nadcog.org Welcome aboard

Re: Data Center operations mail list?

2015-08-12 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
I missed the subscription info. Can you repost please? I can be #100 :) On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Rafael Possamai raf...@gav.ufsc.br wrote: I was actually surprised with how many people subscribed already. I think we are close to 100 already in less than 24 hours. I could use some

Re: ISP DHCPv6 and /48

2015-07-11 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
That said this really isn't your problem. It is their problem. Marc, Your response surprises me a bit. I wish more ISP would consider their customer's use cases more thoroughly and aim to address them as best as possible. Regional differences in expectations are reasonable and provide a

Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

2015-07-10 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
32 bit connection with a 32 bit address will open up an three-dimensional portal under the hotel. They all know this and work around it by selecting a lower connection speed. On July 10, 2015, at 3:59 AM, Alan Buxey a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: 2 mbit is still more than 32 bit ;) alan

Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

2015-07-09 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
We manage 65+ hotels in Canada and the topic of IPv6 for guest internet connectivity has never been brought up, except by me. It's not a discussion our vendors or the hotel brands have opened either. On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Mel Beckman m...@beckman.org wrote: I working on a large

Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

2015-07-09 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Oliver O'Boyle Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 10:20 AM To: Mel Beckman Cc: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6 We manage 65+ hotels in Canada and the topic of IPv6 for guest

Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

2015-07-09 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Absolutely agree. It's not their job to even know to ask for a specific protocol version in the first place. Their experience should be as seamless and consistent as possible at all times. What we should be be concerned about is that the hospitality industry is so far behind the game on

Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

2015-07-09 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Unfortunately, the hotel staff wouldn't be able to answer that question. But they might give them free internet in exchange and hope the guest doesn't ask any more questions! On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Carsten Bormann c...@tzi.org wrote: Oliver O'Boyle wrote: It's not their job to even

Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

2015-07-09 Thread Oliver O'Boyle
Unfortunately, there are still some that would report 2mbit via dsl and think that was ahead of their competition (and it might be in some cases...)... On Jul 9, 2015 5:51 PM, Alan Buxey a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: No. They should just ask, with the best geek intonation, whether this place