Arbor boxes (E30/E100) also do this kind of reporting with very granular
options - not cheap, but work well...
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Raymond Macharia [mailto:rmacha...@gmail.com]
Sent: January-22-10 1:46 AM
To: Isaac Conway
Cc: nanog list
Subject: Re: Network Bandwidth Reporting
No issues from Toronto area on an HE connection...
-Original Message-
From: Tim Burke [mailto:t...@tburke.us]
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 12:43 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: he.net down/slow?
Can't access http://he.net from my location here in Chicago...
traceroute to he.net (
Our results with NHR were a disaster - that's all I'm say on a public list.
I highly recommend Knowledge Computers anytime someone asks - mention my name
as a reference and you'll get a good price for sure ;) Hit me up offline for
contact details should you wish...
Paul
-Original Mes
Biased opinion because we distribute/sell Tilgin related products, but
they are supposed to do IPv6
Having said that, we have not lab tested them ourselves and plan to
early next year
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Wade Peacock [mailto:wade.peac...@sunwave.net]
Sent: December-02-
Yes, we use Arbor here and *really* like it... powerful system - not
cheap but worth every penny...;)
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Stefan Fouant [mailto:sfou...@shortestpathfirst.net]
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 3:05 PM
To: 'Babak Pasdar'; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Bandwidth Moni
We are heading towards that type of deployment beginning next year with
Juniper EX4200 switches in a redundant configuration. This will be pure
Layer2 in nature on the switches and they will "uplink" to Juniper
M10i's for layer3... the power savings, space savings etc over
traditional Cisco 6500 c
this time. Cost is an obvious
concern,
but if say you are an ISP, and end up with more support calls with one
company
or the other.. it might outweigh the monthly cost differences.
You would get better results if people with the same size and
environment
commented
-- Michael --
On
Hi folks...
Anyone have much experience with outsourcing antispam/antivirus to
Tucows? We use Postini today and are overall pleased. The Tucows
pricing seems to be MUCH lower so curious on any feedback...
Thanks,
Paul
--
Thanks - we're not really looking for so much a ticketing system as more
of a "change management approval" system I guess. There was a hosted
package offering called "Sargeant Change" at one time but the website
disappeared - while I'd rather not have something hosted it was exactly
what would wor
Thanks - it's been a little while since we ran RT .. I believe we were
using the actual packages at the time (but could be mistaken).
-Original Message-
From: Phil Regnauld [mailto:regna...@nsrc.org]
Sent: October 26, 2009 7:22 AM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: Duane Waddle; nanog@nano
ers,
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Duane Waddle [mailto:duane.wad...@gmail.com]
Sent: October 26, 2009 7:08 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Simple Change Management Tracking
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Paul Stewart wrote:
> Hi folks...
>
>
>
> I'm just lookin
Hi folks...
I'm just looking for some feedback ... we are looking for a *really*
simple Change Management ticket system. All we want is a system that
does the following:
Technician opens ticket requesting a network level or server level
change outlining the brief details, severity level and
I totally agree with everything that Mike has posted here... one thing I
wanted to add is that a wireless link is only as good as it's
engineered. We have many rock solid wireless links in use here - with
proper engineering and ongoing maintenance we very rarely have issues.
We do have some links
Since it was brought up - curious as we were recently approached by
Extreme. Good/bad experiences? We're a Cisco shop and I plan to keep
us that way but some "powers to be" are interested in them at this
point..
Thanks,
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Justin Shore [mailto:jus...@justins
This may have changed a bit - but we used to use 2000 high speed = 100
meg of capacity. Based on 5000/800 ADSL or 8000/1000 cable modem
profiles mainly...
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:06 PM
To: 'sjk'; nanog@nanog.o
/29's here for everyone great for troubleshooting and any future
additions typically required...;)
-Original Message-
From: Jim Wininger [mailto:jbot...@gmail.com]
Sent: July 29, 2009 4:00 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Subnet Size for BGP peers.
I have a question about the subnet si
Agreed... we migrated away from GSR to 7600 and now looking at migrating
back...;) GSR was 100% rock solid for us with PRP-2 processors
sup720-3bxl has been good but no comparison...
-Original Message-
From: Neil J. McRae [mailto:n...@domino.org]
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 6:26 AM
To
Yeah, just don't ask a certain female sales person there for more than a
few quotes without buying...
I was utterly embarrassed while dealing with NHR - never been told off
by a commissioned sales person before. Requested a series of quotes on
a Cisco GSR and made it very clear we already had a p
That is crazy when we turn up new BGP customers, we always put a /29 in
place now - for that reason and for others saves a LOT of headaches when
some changes are needed down the road...;)
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Bret Clark [mailto:bcl...@spectraaccess.com]
Sent: Friday,
We were 30% higher than ever seen before in our network quite a jump
for about an hour...
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com]
Sent: July 8, 2009 9:11 PM
To: 'Justin Shore'; Shon Elliott
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday
Remember that they resell bandwidth similar to that of WBS, but just
like WBS they also have their own transit networks in place now it
seems never been a customer of either but have talked to them
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Matthews [mailto:exstat...@gmail.com]
Sent: W
Level(3) has a lot of fiber in that ring route ... not sure who else
covers those areas from a physical perspective
Paul
-Original Message-
From: MKS [mailto:rekordmeis...@gmail.com]
Sent: June 18, 2009 6:08 PM
To: Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: tire 1 in
er to use, with some out bound
spam filtering?
It would seem this is to be expected, as you don't want your IP ranges
showing up on RBL filters.
Do you force SSL connectivity like AT&T does?
Paul Stewart wrote:
> We still do it and never get any complaints - we don't filter sta
We still do it and never get any complaints - we don't filter static IP
customers but dynamic customers can either use our SMTP relays or
alternate ports
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Zhiyun Qian [mailto:zhiy...@umich.edu]
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 3:37 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sub
[mailto:bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com]
Sent: June 18, 2009 3:22 AM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Hurricane Electric
used them for years, from when they were just a local ISP
till today. a good addition to your mix... great value for money.
--bill
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:41:23PM -0400
Hi folks...
Looking for some feedback on using Hurricane Electric as an upstream?
Thanks,
Paul
"The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which
it is addressed and contains confiden
Our experience with them was at least one major (longer than an hour)
outages PER MONTH and many of those times they were black holing our
routes in their network which was the most damaging aspect. The outages
were one thing but when our routes still somehow managed to get
advertised in their net
We've never pushed a NPE-G2 to 800Mb/s before but I would think they
would topple over... hopefully someone on here could confirm my
statement?
Moving the BGP to the 12008's would be my choice with PRP-2 processors
if the budget fits we're faced with a similar upgrade next year
possibly moving
We use Orion NCM here from Solarwinds - not only does it do backups etc.
but also allows us to script changes, updates and IOS upgrades as well
(after extensive testing of course). For example, we still have 50-60
Cisco 806 routers deployed at customer sites - takes about 20 minutes to
do an IOS u
ways due to the cluster configuration) we send an email to
n...@akamai.com.
Typical response times on a 24X7 basis never normally exceed 20 minutes
at most. I can remember one time where it might have been an hour.
That's a long ways from "blackhole" based on our experience...
Paul S
Hi there..
Chicagotribune.com is coming up from here (Toronto area) but very slow
loading suntimes.com loads nice and fast from here.
Having said that, we're an Akamai powered network here so presume
most/all is coming from local caches didn't break down each page to
see sources...
Paul
Looks like a Nessus scan.
-Original Message-
From: Eric Gearhart [mailto:e...@nixwizard.net]
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 12:18 AM
To: na...@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Hostile probe recording
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Lou Katz wrote:
> I happen to have some non-standard applicatio
*Some* airlines pay penalties - not all.
I was in Florida on business last summer and when I went to do "web
checkin" I was told "call this number 1-800xx". When I did, they
apologized and said they couldn't get me out of Florida for 2 additional
days.
Quite upset, I wanted to know what they
http://www.ams-ix.net/technical/config_guide/
has some great info specific to IX connections..
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Joe Maimon [mailto:jmai...@ttec.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:42 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: external L2 ethernet connections
Does anyone have a bes
The only ill effect is if set it too low we tested it a bit at 20-30 AS
path length range figuring we shouldn't see *much* and it was staggering over
time. The unfortunate thing more related to your question is that we found
some AS's that were prepending 40-50 times to ALL their upstreams
Just seen that here too:
Feb 19 16:20:35: %BGP-6-ASPATH: Long AS path 8001 8928 20912 20912 20912
20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912
20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912
20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20
Telebec's only upstream is Bell Canada (AS577) hence why you see
that...;)
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Michael Smith [mailto:msm...@internap.com]
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:34 PM
To: Charles Regan; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: One /22 Two ISP no BGP
I see multiple paths to that
e list and thank you Jeff for taking the time to
respectively share your insight
Paul
-Original Message-
From: jeffrey.l...@gmail.com [mailto:jeffrey.l...@gmail.com] On Behalf
Of Jeffrey Lyon
Sent: February 11, 2009 7:14 PM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Cogen
ently were offered 10 meg
incremements...
Again, appreciate all the input - got a tonne of replies...
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Paul Stewart [mailto:pstew...@nexicomgroup.net]
Sent: February 11, 2009 6:49 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Cogent Question - Increments Question
Just w
Just wanted to say thanks - I already got 5+ replies offline stating
that all these folks have ever been offered was either 10 or 100 on FE
basis...
Cheers,
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Paul Stewart [mailto:pstew...@nexicomgroup.net]
Sent: February 11, 2009 6:30 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
r pricing it shows 10 meg increments - is their
enterprise customers different from their service provider customers on
product offering? I've only dealt with them on the service provider
front and found this information so far confusing
Just looking for feedback on increments itself
That was one of our biggest worries people make mistakes and route
leaks happen.
The unfortunate part we're faced with now is that we have several
downstream customers who are multihomed. Because we're filtering out
some of the prefixes that are not in an IRR, those routes are not nearly
Hi folks...
I would like to know whether folks are limiting their peering sessions
(BGP peering at public exchanges) only by max-prefix typically? Are we
the only folks trying to filter all peers using IRR information?
We've run across several peers now with 10,000+ prefixes who do not
regis
Yeah, agreed I had a customer last week call us because we were
"blocking them from an important site". After someone called them they
found we could access the website no problem... upon further
investigation we found their internal IP space had been numbered as
157.166.226.0/24.
When we as
What reason could you possibly have to use non RFC 1918 space on a
closed network? It's very bad practice - unfortunately I do see it done
sometimes
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Trey Darley [mailto:t...@kingfisherops.com]
Sent: February 2, 2009 10:48 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject:
Yeah, weird here if I'm logged in everything works - if I logout
stuff breaks.. at least to google.ca (southern Ontario as well).
-Original Message-
From: steven.glog...@swisscom.com [mailto:steven.glog...@swisscom.com]
Sent: January 31, 2009 10:16 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: A
Depends on the hardware - GSR's have different MTU's than 7600's for
example (and dependant on linecard too). We use 9216 between 7206VXR
and 7606 for example.
No, the change is immediate - "show interface" will tell you among other
commands...
Paul
-Original Message-
From: adrian kok
Just curious on that note with COW .. did you have much security related
problems setting up stuff nearby?
-Original Message-
From: Mike Lyon [mailto:mike.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:52 PM
To: Jack Carrozzo
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: inauguration streams revie
Um.. no. I can't speak for the others on this list who were
effected like us - but we take this stuff very seriously and
respectively you would too *if* you had a previous legit issue that
appeared to the same **on the surface**. A cautious and indepth look at
this was taken upon us hoping th
Hi Jim...
We treated it with P1 until we realized it was a total waste of our
time. It was the point of it too...
About 6 months ago we had a similar alarm (on the surface) where someone
in Europe was advertising our AS number. After some careful checking it
seemed to be simply a typo error but
t was
undesirable/offensive content from entering their network?
-
Michienne Dixon
Network Administrator
liNKCity
312 Armour Rd.
North Kansas City, MO 64116
www.linkcity.org
(816) 412-7990
-Original Message-
From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 4:47 PM
To:
For us, it was annoying - we look for prefix hijackings or what appear
to be. In this case it was a false alarm but one that consumed NOC
resources to troubleshoot and resolve... later to find out it was an
"academic test" and nothing was really going on.
Paul
-Original Message-
From: C
City, MO 64116
www.linkcity.org <http://www.linkcity.org/>
(816) 412-7990
From: karli...@gmail.com [mailto:karli...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Josh
Karlin
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:57 PM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: Majdi S. Abbas; Michienne Dixon; nanog@nanog.or
Same here.. got a notice this morning and while it's false, I still have
no response from Randy neither on this matter...
If they are going to involve our AS numbers and trigger alarms it would
be nice to notify us first... especially on something as major as a
prefix hijacking (potentially)
Paul
Ahh.. yes seeing that now here from Toronto ON - didn't see this issue when the
original poster sent the first message... it's now happening here too...
Shutting down their session until something looks "better"
-Original Message-
From: Pierre-Henri [mailto:phac...@gmail.com]
Sent: Decem
What country, location, where you fed from??
-Original Message-
From: marco [mailto:ma...@zero11.com]
Sent: December 28, 2008 12:59 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Level 3 issues
is anyone having issues with Level3?
Well put Joe...
I haven't had a landline in quite a bit neither and rely on VOIP today.
This doesn't mean that it's never gone down but for the few times it
ever has it has never worried me.
There's at least two cell phones in our house whenever the family is
home and I have neighbors within quic
I talked to Yahoo! NOC a little while ago and they are working on the
issue - definitely DNS related and appears to possibly be east coast
only details are vague but they are aware of it and no ETA yet...
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Nathan Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wedne
essage-
From: Tomas L. Byrnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:34 PM
To: vijay gill; Paul Stewart
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Peering - Benefits?
As with all things, this isn't so cut and dried as everyone makes it
seem. The OP was asking for an easy answe
Best guess would be traffic ratio related - that always seems to be related to
de-peering. One side doesn't like the amount of traffic coming in versus going
out etc...
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Justin Shore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 9:03 AM
To: Nic
Hi there...
We've done the financial study and we've taken great lengths in netflow
analysis to do estimated traffic flows at each peering location etc.
This was factored before I posted and as I mentioned in an earlier
posting - the cost element is pretty much addressed already with our
transit/p
ing for now - thank you.
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Tomas L. Byrnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: October 30, 2008 10:34 PM
To: vijay gill; Paul Stewart
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Peering - Benefits?
As with all things, this isn't so cut and dried as everyone makes it
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:06 PM
To: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits?
On Oct 30, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Paul Stewart wrote:
> Thanks for playing devil's advocate... I am truly trying to cover
> both
> sides of the discussion - technically it'
Hey Patrick...
Thanks for playing devil's advocate... I am truly trying to cover both
sides of the discussion - technically it's what we want for sure but the
top of the food chain looks beyond just what a technical team wants to
do as I'm sure we're all plagued by sometimes ...
In our specific
mber of them in various parts of the world currently which adds
another level of redundancy per say
Take care,
Paul
-Original Message-
From: HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:04 AM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: [EMAIL PR
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Steven King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: October 29, 2008 6:22 PM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits?
It would only be a redundant connection if the AS your peering with is a
transit AS. The AS that I wo
Thanks! That's a really good one and surprised myself I missed it..;)
_
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:28 PM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits?
* PGP Sign
Hi there...
I'm in a meeting next week to discuss settlement-free peering etc.
always an interesting time. A push is on (by myself) to get into other
physical locations and participate on the peering exchanges.
Besides costs, what other factors are benefits to peering?
I can think of some b
They always respond very quickly anytime I email them you sure there
isn't any spam filters etc. playing nasty on you? ;)
-Original Message-
From: matthew zeier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: October 13, 2008 3:53 PM
To: NANOG
Subject: peeringdb admin contact?
Been trying to get some
A city, IP address or something along those lines would be helpful ;)
We have a level(3) connection and haven't seen anything yet today
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Josh Marchant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: October 10, 2008 10:32 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: LVL3 Issues?
Any
We have a lot of APC managed power bars (zero U vertical, and 19" 1U
rackmount) and they work great. We SNMP manage them and access them via
web - they just work, and work well for our needs. Tripplite we've had
issues with over time, especially their UPS units (SNMP sucks on them).
Hope this he
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: September 23, 2008 6:13 PM
To: Paul Stewart; Michael K. Smith
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Seattle Peering
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Michael K. Smith wrote:
> Hello Paul:
>
> On 9/18/08 8:01 AM, "Paul Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > H
Can you post a couple of IP's ? We're out of Level(3) Detroit node and
don't see anything towards Disney.com etc
Paul
-Original Message-
From: James Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 8:01 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Level(3) Issues
Is anyone els
Hi folks...
We're working on some plans to peer in the Seattle area. Choices so far
considered are SIX and PAIX Seattle pretty much
I was of the impression that if you get a port on one of these
exchanges, you can connect to the other one as well? Just looking for
clarification from folks w
Thanks very much we're looking a series of models currently and all
the feedback I've received so far has been extremely helpful...
Best regards!
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Matthew Elmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 9:19 AM
To: nanog
Subject: Re: Cisco v
riday, July 18, 2008 11:53 AM
To: Paul Stewart; Smith, Steve B; Chris Heighway
Cc: nanog
Subject: RE: Cisco vs Adtran vs Juniper
> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:48 AM
> To: Smith, Steve B; Chris Heighway
> Cc:
July 18, 2008 11:44 AM
To: Chris Heighway; Paul Stewart
Cc: nanog
Subject: RE: Cisco vs Adtran vs Juniper
And remember Adtran has a 5 year warranty and support for free.
-Original Message-
From: Chris Heighway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 10:22 AM
To: Paul Stew
Hi there..
I'm looking for some constructive feedback on **real world** experiences
please...
We're primarily a Cisco shop today - our core and distribution are all
Cisco driven and will continue to be (won't change that so not worth
discussing today).
My question is oriented towards two other m
Or at least buy Cisco refurb and save $$$...;)
We have lots of 2950's in use ... moving to 2960's for low end
applications currently - then moving to 3560 etc from there
You might also checkout the Express500 stuff... more basic switch and
priced right.
Paul
-Original Message-
We're using Cirrus from Solarwinds for this works pretty good (at least
since they brough out the latest patch a few months ago)
It does full config backup but will only backup changed configs - also sends a
daily email to us with any changes made to routers etc also daily report
(i
Just to confirm from here (Toronto):
core2-rtr-to#sh ip bgp 73.72.92.0
% Network not in table
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: comcast
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Thompson, Taeko wrote:
> Does
A lot of it is common sense - New York is a GREAT city .. no question
and very safe overall. But common sense will tell you not to take a
leisure walk through Harlem at 3AM .. having said that, I've walked
through Central Park (65th St.) at various times of the night and never
had a problem, but t
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