Re: Leaving public peering?

2009-12-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 2, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Jonas Frey wrote: the DE-CIX pricing is now 500 Euro/month...since 1st october...see end of that page. Both DE-CIX and AMS-IX have decreased their pricing this year..almost at the same time. I guess this is a move to stop company leaving public exchanges...i have

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: Since people need to *explicitly* choose using the OpenDNS servers, I can hardly see how anybody's wishes are foisted on these people. If you don't like the answers you get from this (free) service, you can of course choose to use a

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: i loved the henry ford analogy -- but i think henry ford would have said that the automatic transmission was a huge step forward since he wanted everybody to have a car. i can't think of anything that's happened in the automobile market that

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any errors. On Nov 9, 2009, at 19:32, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 06:24:52PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: i loved the henry ford analogy -- but i think henry ford would

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
As someone just said to me privately: I dislike the pedantic nerds pull sometimes. (The is mine, not the original quote, so the Communications Committee doesn't send me a warning.) On Nov 9, 2009, at 8:10 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: good question - does

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-11-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 2, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Randy Bush wrote: But seriously now, the reason we have these squishy things taking up space between our ears in the first place is so we can come up with new ideas and better ways to solve our problems. and they need not be cute, clever, or complex. unless we

Re: Small guys with BGP issues

2009-11-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
- practice good behaviour (bcp38) and don't preach it Did you mean preach but don't practice it? While I appreciate everyone who preaches it, I am not going to complain in the slightest at any big guy who practices BCP38. Just the opposite, I'm going to praise them whether they preach

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-11-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 1, 2009, at 5:11 AM, Karl Auer wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:06 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: The answer is fairly simple. Does your business benefit by having the ability to modify routing strategy as you see fit? hint: we live in a commons Yes. I was about to ask Tony what if

Re: Nanog Mentioned in TED Video: Jonathan Zittrain

2009-10-25 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 25, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Oct 24, 2009, at 6:59 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote: Remember when youtube went down? Mr. Zittrain briefly mentions nanog during his TED talk in July 2009. http://www.ted.com/talks

Re: DMCA takedowns of networks

2009-10-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: Outside of child pornography there is no content that I would ever consider censoring without a court order nor would I ever purchase transit from a company that engages in this type of behavior. A DMCA takedown order has the force of law.

Re: Slashdotted - Peering Disputes Migrate To IPv6

2009-10-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Scott Howard wrote: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/10/23/1715235/Peering-Disputes-Migrate-To-IPv6 I wouldn't bother with the comments unless you really need to know how the analogy between IP peering and two gay guys ends up... (hey, it's Slashdot, what

Re: ISP port blocking practice

2009-10-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Justin Shore wrote: Dan White wrote: On 23/10/09 17:58 -0400, James R. Cutler wrote: Blocking the well known port 25 does not block sending of mail. Or the message content. It does block incoming SMTP traffic on

Re: DMCA takedowns of networks

2009-10-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 24, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Brett Frankenberger wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:06:29AM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 09:36:05AM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Jeffrey Lyon

Re: DMCA takedowns of networks

2009-10-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
that up. Try not to be so absolute next time. -- TTFN, patrick On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: Outside of child pornography

Re: DMCA takedowns of networks

2009-10-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 24, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Joe Greco wrote: Laws frequently have multiple options for compliance. Doesn't mean you don't have to follow the law. A DMCA takedown notice isn't law, Patrick, and does not have the force of law claimed above. You say potato, I say whatever. In the field

Re: Nanog Mentioned in TED Video: Jonathan Zittrain

2009-10-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote: Remember when youtube went down? Mr. Zittrain briefly mentions nanog during his TED talk in July 2009. http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_zittrain_the_web_is_a_random_act_of_kindness.html Been discussed. He's obviously wrong about some

Re: ISP port blocking practice

2009-10-23 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
The original intent of Net Neutrality laws had nothing to do with blocking or not on random ports. It had to do with giving an unfair advantage to the provider in question to sell competing services. Much like anti-trust legislation doesn't stop a company from cornering a market, just

Science vs. bullshit

2009-10-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Lightning talk followup because I want to make sure there was not a miscommunication. A two sentence comment at the mic while 400+ of your not-so-close friends are watching does not a rational discussion make. The talk in question:

Re: Is v6 as important as v4? Of course not [was: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering]

2009-10-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 14, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Randy Bush wrote: I think you are stretching things to make a pithy post. More importantly, you are missing the point. and hundreds of words do not cover that you accused HE of something for which you had no basis in fact. type less, analyse and think more.

Re: Is v6 as important as v4? Of course not [was: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering]

2009-10-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
...@ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:09:58 -0400 Subject: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering In-Reply-To: a05493650910120441i27550f17qaa7d3377824af...@mail.gmail.com References: a05493650910120441i27550f17qaa7d3377824af...@mail.gmail.com Message-ID

Is v6 as important as v4? Of course not [was: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering]

2009-10-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote: sure would be nice if there was a diagnosis before the lynching If this happened in v4, would customers care 'why' it happened? Obviously not. Why should v6 be any different? It either is or is not production ready. I'm interested in HE's view

Re: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering

2009-10-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Igor Ybema wrote: I recently noticed that there seems a peering issue on the ipv6 internet. As we all know hurricane is currently the largest ipv6 carrier. Other large carriers are now implementing ipv6 on their networks, like Cogent and Telia. However, due

Re: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering

2009-10-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Hogewoning mar...@marcoh.net To: Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net Cc: NANOG list nanog@nanog.org Sent: Mon Oct 12 12:15:34 2009 Subject: Re: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering On Oct 12, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: It is sad to see that networks which used

Re: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering

2009-10-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Randy Bush wrote: sure would be nice if there was a diagnosis before the lynching If this happened in v4, would customers care 'why' it happened? Obviously not. Why should v6 be any different? It either is or is not production ready. I'm interested in

Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?

2009-10-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 7, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: :- Hank == Hank Nussbacher h...@efes.iucc.ac.il writes: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/17-10/ts_burningquestion -Hank There are TXCOs and OXCOs inside equipment for a reason. And rubidium lamps as well, sometimes.

Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?

2009-10-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 7, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Scott Howard wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: I read the article and the follow up posts and I wonder if we are all using the same definition for speed here. The article seems to imply you don't get 6 Mbps

[Nanog-futures] Update on NANOG Marketing Working Group

2009-10-05 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
Everyone, The NANOG Marketing Working Group has been working hard to help NANOG find new profitable revenue to ensure the meetings keep getting better without raising prices. The group's most active members are: Betty Burke (Merit, SC) Carol Wadsworth (Merit) Greg Dendy Dave Tempkin Martin

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Leland Vandervort wrote: Would anyone happen to have an operations contact at Facebook by anychance? Our systems are being overwhelmed by a facebook application that we were neither aware of nor condoned. Clearly I do not have all the information, so please

Re: Advertising BGP-4 from two islands

2009-09-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 13, 2009, at 2:22 AM, William Herrin wrote: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Francois Menardfranc...@menards.ca wrote: I have an opportunity to launch services in a remote marke, where I cannot extend my backbone to. However, this market is big enough that I can afford to put a Cisco

Re: Link capacity upgrade threshold

2009-08-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 30, 2009, at 1:23 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, William Herrin wrote: If your 95th percentile utilization is at 80% capacity, it's time to start planning the upgrade. If your 95th percentile utilization is at 95% it's time to finish the upgrade. I now see why

Re: Redundancy Summarization

2009-08-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
that one provider goes down. Good idea. Still uses just two prefixes and allows for backup connectivity. Just be careful that the internal routing table does not stop the conditional announcement. -- TTFN, patrick On 8/21/2009 4:08 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Aug 21, 2009, at 3:47

Re: Redundancy Summarization

2009-08-21 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 21, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Brian Dickson wrote: My institution has a single /16 spread across 2 sites: the lower / 17 is used at site A, the upper /17 at site B. Sites A B are connected internally. Currently both sites have their own ISPs and only advertise their own /17's. For

Re: The Cidr Report

2009-08-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 14, 2009, at 6:00 PM, cidr-rep...@potaroo.net wrote: This report has been generated at Fri Aug 14 21:11:44 2009 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a

Re: Weekly Routing Table Report

2009-08-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Routing Analysis Role Account wrote: BGP routing table entries examined: 293130 By at least one count, we are still below 300K. -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
There is NO fix. There never will be as the problem is architectural to the most fundamental operation of DNS. Other than replacing DNS (not feasible), the only way to prevent this form of attack is DNSSEC. The fix only makes it much harder to exploit. Randomizing source ports and QIDs

Re: XO - a Tier 1 or not?

2009-08-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:36 AM, John van Oppen wrote: XO has been offering a product lately that is all routes except level3 and sprint which leads me to believe that they pay both of those peers... Or there is a settlement in place, which is kinda-sortta the same thing, only not necessarily.

Re: Happy Sysadmin Day

2009-07-31 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 31, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: On Jul 31, 2009, at 10:35 AM, J. Oquendo wrote: Andrew Euell wrote: Happy Sysadmin Day nanog'ers. Thank you for keeping the internet running! http://www.sysadminday.com/ Keeping the Internet running? You mean as in the flakiness of what

Re: The Cidr Report

2009-07-31 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 31, 2009, at 6:00 PM, cidr-rep...@potaroo.net wrote: Recent Table History Date PrefixesCIDR Agg 24-07-09298785 182835 25-07-09299168 182751 26-07-09298909 182973 27-07-09299265 183099 28-07-09

Re: XO - a Tier 1 or not?

2009-07-28 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Pekka Savola wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Charles Mills wrote: Is XO Communications a Tier 1 ISP? ... Any help here? Thanks as always. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network Having written a good portion of that page, in the interest of full

Re: ATT. Layer 6-8 needed.

2009-07-27 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:04 AM, John C. A. Bambenek wrote: Because most of the net libertarians insist that they should do whatever they want and everyone else should help cater to them. Liberty for me but not for thee. I am very much of the my network, my rules camp. As soon as att pays back

Re: ATT. Layer 6-8 needed.

2009-07-27 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Hiers, David wrote: Im not a lawyer, but I think that the argument goes something like this... The common carriers want to be indemnified from the content they carry. In other words, the phone company doesn't want to be held liable for the Evil Plot planned

Re: Nanog mentioned on BBC news website

2009-07-23 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any errors. On Jul 23, 2009, at 4:27, Jim Mercer j...@reptiles.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:44:21PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: My fav part: quote That's precisely how packets move around the internet, sometimes in a many as 25 or 30 hops

Re: Nanog mentioned on BBC news website

2009-07-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 22, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:27:39 +0100 From: andrew.wallace andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com Big up the Nanog community, you do the net proud... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8163190.stm First showed up on NANOG 7 hours ago, but it was a

Re: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 16, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 06:32:32PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: As for trying to determine where your inbound traffic is coming from by looking at natural bgp, this is absolutely impossible to do correctly. First off, your inbound is

Re: Can someone from SORBS contact me offlist?

2009-07-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 14, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Mark Smith wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:34:18 -0500 William Pitcock neno...@systeminplace.net wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 11:11 -0600, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 7/11/09 11:05 AM, Ronald Cotoni wrote: Yes, they are really bad. It is actually quite silly that a

Please do not CC NANOG when e-mailing Dean Anderson [was: Can someone from SORBS contact me offlist?]

2009-07-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
[SNIP] Everyone, Please do not CC nanog@nanog.org when replying to one of Dean Anderson's ... uh ... missives[*]. We do not see the original, so by replying and CC'ing the list, you are helping him get his ... er ... message[*] to a wider audience. And if you have actually read any of

Re: Can someone from SORBS contact me offlist?

2009-07-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 11, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 7/11/09 11:05 AM, Ronald Cotoni wrote: Yes, they are really bad. It is actually quite silly that a blacklisting service is that slow on responding to problems. I find it unacceptable that people demand instant service from a company

Re: Can someone from SORBS contact me offlist?

2009-07-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 11, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: Further, there is such thing as a local whitelist of IP addresses. Easier to just not use the BL. Besides, there are plenty of useful blacklists with very low FP rates who are responsive. Why use one that has high FP and is unresponsive?

Re: Can someone from SORBS contact me offlist?

2009-07-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 11, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Nuno Vieira - nfsi wrote: That's good to know. I'll avoid using it. Holy crap, what's with all the AHBL hate? At the very least they have a responsive human and - last time I checked - they don't require an exchange of money to get off the

Re: Bandcon

2009-07-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 10, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Paul Wall wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:43 PM, tbtbran...@gmail.com wrote: My name is Todd Braning, I work on the technical side of the BandCon house. I am afraid Paul's email is inaccurate. Yo Todd! It's good to hear that you've listened to feedback and made

Re: ATT and having two BGP peers

2009-07-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 10, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Jay Nakamura wrote: We are getting an Ethernet DIA circuit from ATT but they insist that they can't BGP peer with 2 routers on our side. The WAN circuit can only have /30 they say. Has anyone been able to successfully talk them in to bending their rule? If so,

Re: Drop in IPv6 traffic

2009-07-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 9, 2009, at 9:58 AM, michiel.muhlenbau...@atratoip.net wrote: Hi Jeroen others, Yep, looks like we are doing a great portion of AMSIX's IPv6 traffic and our (free) IPv6 service was affected because of an internal error last night around 00.30 am. Michiel, Thank you for the

Re: Drop in IPv6 traffic

2009-07-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 9, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: [..] I ask because the AMS-IX is frequently used as an example that v6 is being heavily adopted. If it is all one source for one application, that is important information to the people fighting for v6 adoption. Going

Re: OT: Wireless Network Strength Dependent On Wired Network?

2009-06-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any errors. On Jun 20, 2009, at 7:47, Neil kngsp...@gmail.com wrote: Consider the following setup: internet pipe - wired network - (wireless router) wireless network - computer1, computer2 Suppose the signal coming in on the pipe is good, but the

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any errors. On Jun 19, 2009, at 8:53, Jeroen Wunnink jer...@easyhosting.nl wrote: We just open port 2525 for customers from ISP's blocking official SMTP ports so they can use their dedicated servers/domain mailservers. Is there any reason you do not use

Re: spamhaus drop list

2009-06-16 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jun 16, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Quinn Mahoney wrote: Is there a competing droplist, that can be compared against Spamhaus's droplist? That seems like an extraordinary claim, so I'm not satisfied with the evidence provided. Is this not the best droplist? Extraordinary claims require

Re: spamhaus drop list

2009-06-16 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
they should do is make these rules clear and prominent on their website so you could know before you use the resource! Oh, wait, they do -- TTFN, patrick Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jun 16, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Quinn Mahoney wrote: Is there a competing droplist, that can be compared

Re: Any2 Exchange experiences to share?

2009-06-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jun 11, 2009, at 3:56 AM, Michael J McCafferty wrote: I am interested to hear any experiences with the Any2 Exchange at One Wilshire Blvd, especially regarding performance and reliability to the other exchange participants in comparison to routing to the same networks via Tier 1

Re: [Nanog-futures] modest proposal for moderation

2009-06-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jun 9, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Note: topic in the presentation room, not topic at the hotel bar ;-) ... which clearly means that you've missed where the real discussions happen. and only want to discuss what has already been discussed The original post also said and is

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

2009-06-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jun 9, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Jeff Kell wrote: Reminds me of the old warning/attention sign over a termination rack... WARNING: Do not look into laser with remaining eye. It will be the last thing you never saw. -- TTFN, patrick

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

2009-06-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jun 9, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:43:09PM -0400, Jeff Kell wrote: Reminds me of the old warning/attention sign over a termination rack... WARNING: Do not look into laser with remaining eye. The only problem with those funny signs is they

Re: Temporary mail queue services?

2009-05-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 20, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Mike Lyon wrote: Does anyone know of a service that you can sign up for to add as a secondary MX to act as a mail queue if your primary MX isn't available? I'm going to be doing a mail migration and I need a service to point my MX record to that isn't my mail

Re: you're not interesting, was Re: another brick in the wall[ed garden]

2009-05-16 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 14, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: [TLB:] I can think of an argument they might make: that it is/could be used by bots as a fallback. However, redirecting DNS/UDP fits the model of providing a better service for the average user; blocking/redirecting TCP is more likely to

Re: two interfaces one subnet

2009-05-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 11, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Chris Meidinger wrote: This is a pretty moronic question, but I've been searching RFC's on- and-off for a couple of weeks and can't find an answer. So I'm hoping someone here will know it offhand. I've been looking through RFC's trying to find a clear statement

Re: two interfaces one subnet

2009-05-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 11, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Alex H. Ryu wrote: Unless you configure Layer 2 for two interfaces, it's not going to work. It can work. Of course it _may_ not, depending upon your implementation, but then some implementations can't get a single interface to work properly per subnet.

Re: two interfaces one subnet

2009-05-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 11, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Chris Meidinger wrote: On 11.05.2009, at 22:34, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On May 11, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Chris Meidinger wrote: I would be grateful for a pointer to such an RFC statement, assuming it exists. Why would an RFC prohibit this? Most

Re: how to fix incorrect GeoIP data?

2009-05-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Of course the GeoIP people are going to vet the submissions, but if existing entry is Spain or Germany and the traceroute shows that the previous hop was somewhere in the US midwest, I think they can figure it out. =) The hop before it is not necessarily a good indication these days with

Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 30, 2009, at 11:43 PM, Shane Ronan wrote: I think it depends on the industry you are in, in the financial industry, no one uses MPLS clouds or VPN's over the Internet, everyone uses either 1G or 10G links. I think Jack's point was that many 1G and 10G links are really just MPLS

Re: route flap dampening

2009-04-27 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 27, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Jonathan Park wrote: Hello all, I was wondering how many of you use route flap dampening in your network. If you have it enabled, what is the main reason? We've been considering it after the last flap around the world; perhaps with extremely

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 22, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Kevin Loch wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Zhenkai Zhu wrote: I just want to make sure if I understand correctly. You mean that the anycasted address space can be announced in different places yet with the same

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 22, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Joe Provo wrote: And the overall message is that only the (prefix holder|originating ASn[s]) can tell you if it is intended or not. Sadly, this is not a useful metric for a third-party to use to determine prefix annoucnement legitimacy.

Re: Forward Erasure Correction (FEC) and network performance

2009-04-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 10, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I work with FEC in various ways, mostly to protect video streams against packet loss, including as co-chair of the IETF FECFRAME WG and in the Video Services Forum. Most FEC is driven by congestion in the edge, RF issues on wireless LANs,

Re: Vandalism Likely ...

2009-04-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:57 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: at least this year its been changed from Terrorists to Vandals. (when most likley, its over-aggressive metals recyclers who have run out of catalitic converters to steal...) I didn't see a smiley. And I seriously doubt metal

Re: Vandalism Likely ...

2009-04-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 10, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Steven M. Callahan wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.netwrote: I didn't see a smiley. And I seriously doubt metal recyclers are going 10 feet down into man holes, breaking into locked cabinets, cutting _fiber_optic_ cables

Re: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 10, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Scott Doty wrote: George William Herbert wrote: Scott Doty wrote: (Personally, I can think of a MAE-Clueless episode that was worse than this, but that was in the 90's...) The gas main strike out front of the building in Santa Clara? Or something else?

Re: Outside plant protection, fiber cuts, interwebz down oh noes!

2009-04-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 9, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Charles Wyble wrote: Seriously though I want to start some discussion around outside plant protection. This isn't the middle of the ocean or desert after all. There were multiple fiber cuts in a major metropolitan area, resulting in the loss of critical

Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site

2009-04-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Joe Abley wrote: Anybody here have experience shipping pre-built cabinets, with ~20U of routers and servers installed, connected and tested, to remote sites for deployment? How tall are the doors in the destination datacenter? How much weight can be rolled over the

[Nanog-futures] Call for volunteers: NANOG Marketing Working Group

2009-04-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Everyone, The NANOG Marketing Working Group (MWG) is looking for a few good volunteers! The MWG was created to investigate ways to bring in more sponsor support without changing the spirit of the NANOG meeting. We are looking for additional sponsorship opportunities, that will bring

Re: Akamai wierdness

2009-03-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Belive it or not, n...@akamai.com is a real address which is read and responds 24/7. Perhaps using the RFC required address would be more productive than e- mailing 10k strangers? -- TTFN, patrick Sent from my iPhone 3-J, please excuse any errors. (That's 3-Jezuz for the uninitiated.) On

Re: speakeasy connectivity

2009-03-17 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:38 PM, John Martinez wrote: Anyone having issues with speakeasy dsl connectivity? Supposedly they're having a national outage. -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Comcast - No complaints! [was: Re: Craptastic Service!

2009-02-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:26 PM, JC Dill wrote: Seth Mattinen wrote: If I give someone money to do something, and they fail to meet the contracted metrics, what else can they give me except money back? They can pay a penalty. Simply giving you your money back may not make you whole. Many

Re: Great outage of 1997 - Does anyone recall?

2009-02-21 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:39 AM, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Feb 22, 2009, at 2:28 PM, neal rauhauser wrote: Does anyone have the full story on this? http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/msg00444.html Avi happened to be next to me when I read the first post in this thread - and

Re: Great outage of 1997 - Does anyone recall?

2009-02-21 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Randy Bush wrote: Does anyone have the full story on this? http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/msg00444.html bottom line: o do not redistribute bgp into igp o do not redistribute dynamic igp into bgp o filter your peers and customers And don't

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Bill Blackford wrote: In scaling upward. How would a linux router even if a kernel guru were to tweak and compile an optimized build, compare to a 7600/ RSP720CXL or a Juniper PIC in ASIC? At some point packets/sec becomes a limitation I would think. I've

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 14, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Steven M. Bellovin: As Randy and Valdis have pointed out, if this isn't done very carefully it's an open invitation to a new, very effective DoS technique. You can't do this without authoritative knowledge of exactly who owns any prefix;

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Matthias Leisi wrote: Mark Andrews schrieb: I don't see any reason to complain based on those numbers. It's just a extremely high growth period due to technology change over bring in new functionality. OTOH, Verizon is not the only

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Dave Temkin wrote: Chuck Anderson wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:31:38PM +0100, Matthias Leisi wrote: Mark Andrews schrieb: I don't see any reason to complain based on those numbers. It's just a extremely high growth period due to technology

Re: World famous cabling disasters?

2009-02-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 10, 2009, at 10:16 PM, joe mcguckin wrote: I'm looking for a couple of pictures of the worst cabling infrastructure ever seem. One Wilshire meet me room comes to mind. Anyone got any links to their photo albums, etc? I've always considered this the worst:

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

2009-02-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 7, 2009, at 2:09 AM, Nathan Ward wrote: On 6/02/2009, at 12:00 PM, Joe Maimon wrote: This assignment policy is NOT enough for every particle of sand on earth, which is what I thought we were getting. There is enough for 3616 /64s, or 14 /56s per square centimetre of the earth's

Re: Networking performance

2009-02-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 6, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Deric Kwok wrote: I would like to ask your professional experience about switch throughput I have Gig Switchs eg: H P3400 /3500, cisco c4 948../ dlink In their spec, they said that it can handles Gig So far, I couldn't see their ports are used up over 200M in mrtg

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)

2009-02-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Scott Howard wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.netwrote: Except the RIRs won't give you another /48 when you have only used one trillion IP addresses. Of course they will! A /48 is only the equivalent of 65536 networks

v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

2009-02-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 4, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Second, where did you get 4 users per /64? Are you planning to hand each cable modem a /64? That was the generally accepted subnet practice last time I had a discussion about it on the ipv6-ops list. I'm

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-03 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:01 AM, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Except the RIRs won't give you another /48 when you have only used one trillion IP addresses. Are you sure? According to ARIN staff, current implementation of policy is that all requests are approved since

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:30 AM, Anthony Roberts wrote: Let's face it - they're going to have to come up with much more creative $200/hour chucklehead consultants to burn through that much anytime soon. It has been my experience that when you give someone a huge address space to play with

Re: expectations for bgp peering?

2009-01-21 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 21, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: As for the you're not allowed to prepend thing, have you experimented to see what happens if you try? Unless they're giving you special pricing based on the idea that they're providing you with strictly backup transit, they shouldn't be doing

Re: IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009 (C|Net Cisco)

2009-01-21 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Google is not the only company which will put caches into any provider - or school (which is really just a special case provider) - with enough traffic. A school with 30 machines probably would

Re: IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009 (C|Net Cisco)

2009-01-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 20, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Paul Vixie wrote: Cisco VNI projections indicate that IP traffic will increase at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every two years. This will result in an annual

Re: IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009 (C|Net Cisco)

2009-01-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: to play devils advocate, how much impact does caching have on the total traffic flow anyway? Less and less would be my estimate. How much video is cached ? How much P2P is cached ? Define cached. For instance, most of

Re: expectations for bgp peering?

2009-01-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:25 AM, mike wrote: So I am just wondering what my expecations should be in a bgp peering scenario where I am multihomed with my own ASN and arin assigned ip space. At issue is the fact that my backup isp forced me to use ebgp multihop to peer with a router internal

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-15 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 15, 2009, at 3:54 AM, Andy Davidson wrote: On 14 Jan 2009, at 16:06, Jeroen Massar wrote: Simon Lockhart wrote: (Yes, I'm in the minority that thinks that Randy hasn't done anything bad) Nah, I agree with Randy's experiment too. People should protect their networks better and this

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