Re: 365x24x7

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Hicks
On 15 Apr 2011, at 14:14, harbor235 wrote: If I were going to provide a 365x24x7 NOC, how many teams of personnel do I need to fully cover operations? I assume minimally you need 3 teams to cover the required 24 hr coverage, but there is off time and schedule rotation? Although more

Re: SDSL circuits in UK?

2010-12-27 Thread Peter Hicks
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 21:51 +, Paul Cupis wrote: There are a number of network operators capable of supplying SDSL (Annex B) in the UK depending on the location. Really? I heard BT were phasing out SDSL due to the low take-up, and the likes of TalkTalk are providing Annex M services with

Re: BGP next-hop

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Hicks
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 07:01 -0700, Leo Bicknell wrote: I have suggested more than a few times to vendors that the command: show bgp ipv4 unicast 100.10.0.0/16 why-chosen Would be insanely useful. +1 for that, in a similar manner to packet-tracer on ASAs. Peter

Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections

2010-05-27 Thread Peter Hicks
On 27/05/2010 16:48, Tim Franklin wrote: I get a lovely vision from that of a real old-style manual switchboard operator, frantically plugging internet connections together with patch cords as each SYN packet rings a little bell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqEIp2YmtE Poggs

Re: NANOG48 HD streams now active

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Hicks
Anton Kapela wrote: Web browser embedded flash player: http://nanog.iristransport.net/nanog48/ 7pm appears to be a bad time to tune in if you're in the UK... Poggs

Re: Strange Cisco 6503 problem

2010-01-28 Thread Peter Hicks
Dean Belev wrote: I'm curious if some of you faced such a problem - reboot of the router caused by the console connection. I once managed to send a BREAK signal to a 3640 by plugging in a console cable. At the time, it was a pretty key router in the network and sat at the rommon prompt :)

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Hicks
Tony Finch wrote: Stateful inspection is useful for breaking things in subtle and hard-to-debug ways. http://fanf.livejournal.com/102206.html http://fanf.livejournal.com/95831.html Is that really stateful inspection? Isn't the SMTP fixup on a PIX an application-level gateway? I

Re: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Peter Hicks
Glen Kent wrote: Any idea if folks use AH or ESP to protect IGMP/PIM packets? Wondering that if they do, then how would snooping switches work? Would encrypting multicast not fundamentally break the concept of multicast itself, unless you're encrypting multicast traffic over a backbone?

Re: Routing to multiple uplinks

2009-12-18 Thread Peter Hicks
rodrick brown wrote: This may be slightly off topic however I have a very unique situation where I need to provide two diverse paths to a major stock exchange. Each host may either use route A or B for any given reason to access this particular exchange using two distinct routers and target

What happened to Quick Eagle?

2009-11-17 Thread Peter Hicks
All, I have a Quick Eagle DL087E here, but Quick Eagle's website has fallen off the planet: p...@angel:~$ host -t any www.quickeagle.com Host www.quickeagle.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Can anyone help me out with a firmware update and/or PDF manuals? It's been a little while since I had

Re: Beware: a very bad precedent set

2009-08-31 Thread Peter Hicks
Bret Clark wrote: How does this stuff ever make it to court??? Why is it an ISP is responsible for policing it's customers? I'm constantly getting called up from scammers trying to offering me bogus warranty insurance for cars I don't own...does that mean I can sue Verizon because they are

Re: Link capacity upgrade threshold

2009-08-30 Thread Peter Hicks
Nick Hilliard wrote: Definitely. For fun and giggles, I recently turned on 30 second polling on some kit and it turned up all sorts of interesting peculiarities that were completely blotted out in a 5 minute average. Would RMON History and Alarms help? I've always considered rolling them

Re: Using CE Router for Internet and VPN services

2009-07-17 Thread Peter Hicks
Hello Akhmedd Aly wrote: can someone explain me why service providers (Internet and/or L3 VPN services) obligate customers to use CE routers. Why they cannot configure more than /30 (in some cases /31) subnet mask on PE interface side for me? In that case I can use cheap L2 switch and use