Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
off their brains after thinking things like 1 2 so it must be better. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
can aim your default/tie breaks towards networks you have more faith in, but that doesn't mean much in practice. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: nLayer IP transit

2013-08-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, it still breaks some things just by having it enabled (like NSR, though I suppose one could argue that NSR breaks itself :P), so you might be better served with a netconf distribution of rules if you want to avoid those potential issues. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http

Re: nLayer IP transit

2013-08-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and do better with it, I don't expect to see any major changes in this position any time soon. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: GTT/Inteliquent/nLayer

2013-07-31 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
is why it hasn't really been promoted as a new product in many years. If you've heard differently, please contact me off-list. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Issues with level3?

2013-01-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, please go find a blunt object and hit yourself in the head as punishment for using the words Class C in 2013 in a non-historic or ironic context. Hard. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA

Re: [j-nsp] Krt queue issues

2013-01-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
to the FIB is not acceptable to you. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: [j-nsp] Krt queue issues

2013-01-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:10:16PM +0100, bas wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net wrote: PR 836197 That looks like a spanking new PR number to me. The highest PR number I found in 12.2 release notes was 82. Rather strange

Re: Semi-automated L3 interface DNS records

2012-10-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
against the vlan tables. The later part was only tested on Cisco 6500s, and I haven't touched that code (or those boxes) in many many years, so no guarantees about using it on anything else. :) Out of date DNS PTRs in traceroute make baby jesus cry, so please use copiously. -- Richard

Re: Real world sflow vs netflow?

2012-09-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
with a JUNOS wrapper), support sFlow only. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: HE.net BGP origin attribute rewriting

2012-06-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
to force your network to do something you probably don't want to do (or at least probably wouldn't want to do, if you had any idea what you were doing :P). Please see the previous commentary from Joe Provo, Saku Ytti, etc, they are quite correct. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net

Re: HE.net BGP origin attribute rewriting

2012-05-31 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
in the end turned out to be us sending the customer MEDs based on our IGP cost, other networks sending them MEDs of 0, and them not knowing enough to do something useful with the data or else rewrite it to 0. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
that BGP really sucks as a way to pick a best path. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: 4.0.0.0/8?

2011-09-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
12.0.0.0/8 because they don't prefix-list filter customers properly IIRC. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Cogent HE

2011-06-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
minded who don't understand how peering works that HE is the victim, but please don't try to feed a load of bullshit to the rest of us. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Cogent HE

2011-06-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
used by the finest networks for years, but at least have the decency to admit it for what it is, that's all I'm saying. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Cogent HE

2011-06-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
Cogent so I'm willing to overlook it, that's fine, but you're just making things up if you're trying to claim that they AREN'T causing this partition. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA

Re: Cogent HE

2011-06-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
disputes, as they try to trade short term customer pain for long term advantages. Sorry to all the HE guys, but trying to simultaniously complain about your treatment at the hands of other networks and their peering disputes while emulating their actions is bullshit and you know it. :) -- Richard

Re: Downstream Usage-BGP Communites

2011-05-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
make it to AS4323 (or any other network). Personally my belief is that this is a bad thing, and you should only filter communities in your own name-space (i.e. $YOURASN:*), but this doesn't stop a large number of obnoxious networks from doing it anyways. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e

Re: Downstream Usage-BGP Communites

2011-05-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
have no problems. This is completely different from peering, when money changes hands communities get listened to. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Anyone still maintaining altdb.net?

2011-04-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
over a commercial solution. There is infact more than 1 person volunteering for AltDB, but from what I can see of this April 11th email, it falls into the please provide support category. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC

Re: Level 3 Agrees to Purchase Global Crossing

2011-04-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
significant reduction in competition that comes to either carrier, it will do exactly that. Infact, I encourage them to try, it will probably be good for my business. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C

Re: Peering Traffic Volume

2011-03-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
directly from content networks to eyeball networks, so the Tier 1's are effectively left as the higher priced and lower capacity last resorts for the remaining traffic. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: bfd-like mechanism for LANPHY connections between providers

2011-03-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
first customer to request BFD, we'd be happy to offer it (with reasonable timer values of course). :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: bfd-like mechanism for LANPHY connections between providers

2011-03-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
the area where we've seen the least traction among peers, with zomg why are you sending me these udp packets complaints outnumbering people interesting in configuring BFD 10:1. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C

Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations

2011-03-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
network, but imagine customers connecting to their ISPs as well) , and now tell me how you plan on identifying a particular link with a traceroute. The two words that best sum this up would be epic disaster. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID

Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations

2011-03-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
on not having subnets longer than /64s when doing IPv6 lookups, and there are many other good reasons why you should just not be using those boxes in the first place. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: ATT via Tata and Level3

2011-03-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
for the same networks being selected by two different large networks, unless the routes in question are single homed and there are no other choices (which is a small minority of the routes on the Internet). -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID

Re: 6453 routing leaks (January and Today)

2011-02-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of a negative match. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: SFP vs. SFP+

2011-02-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
on the quality of the device you're plugging them into. SFP+ is still mostly an enterprise box or high density / short reach offering, and XFP is still required for full functionality. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204

Re: SFP vs. SFP+

2011-02-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
have to be implemented). -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: SFP vs. SFP+

2011-02-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. The device must be specifically designed to support both PHYs, which is NOT a given. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Announcing the Community FlowSpec trial

2011-01-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, but anyone thinking about turning on flowspec from a third party source (especially one who may be sending them a large number of rules) should give serious consideration to the potential impact on their network first. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net

Re: Comcast vs Level 3 - This time with video

2010-12-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
/8134089/ -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-19 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
at work lobbying against it, so I don't expect it to happen any time soon. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-19 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of dollars at stake protecting the status quo that it's not even funny, which IMHO is why you'll never see any of this happen in the US, in any kind of scale at any rate. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-19 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
for a new company to enter the market and try to compete. Right now the number is roughly 2, cable and dsl, give or take a few outliers. I do believe the point would be to encourage a little more competition than that. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net

Re: potential new and different architectural approach to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
that Comcast agreeing to haul the bits was part of their commercial transit agreement, probably in exchange for lower transit prices. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Comcast vs Level 3 - This time with video

2010-12-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
A simplified explanation of the situation between Level 3 and Comcast, from the perspective of a Comcast customer who is asking for the same thing Comcast is asking for. :) http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8124137/ -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras

Re: potential new and different architectural approach to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
positive yours isn't going to get through. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, to expect that people are not going to comment on those facts just because you've put money into NANOG sponsorship is absurd. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 02:13:47PM -0600, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Seriously guys, this is an operator forum and you're running a congested network, to expect that people are not going to comment on those facts just because you've put money into NANOG sponsorship is absurd. Forgot

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, it's to make the transit paths minimally functional so they can force content networks to buy from them directly (at above market rates, from what people tell me :P), so they don't WANT to add capacity or transit paths. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
betting on lower costs from the technical innovation of the networks who DON'T pay $50k for a 10GE port. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
been observing between Tata and Comcast. I've also seen some third party Smokeping graphs which visually show the rate of loss, and the pattern looks very very similar, but I'll let someone who actually maintains them be the one to post them. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
people who claim that it proves nothing because the graphs can't be positively associated to a specific customer port, but realistically these kinds of leaks are probably the best public info you'll ever see. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
to be called out publicly whenever possible. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-12-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 06:31:39AM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:59:25PM -0600, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: I believe that's what I said. To be perfectly clear, what I'm saying is: * Comcast acted first by demanding fees * Level 3 went

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-11-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
Suppress_to_AS6762 Suppress_to_AS7018 Suppress_to_AS7132 -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-11-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
only made possible by the double dipping mentioned above. They were already in for a world of hurt based on their CDN infrastructure investment and the revenue they were able to extract from it, this certainly isn't going to help things. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-11-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
a lot more respect for the ones who compete fairly and honestly, rather than by forcing people to use their services or else. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: experience with equinix exchange

2010-11-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, but that doesn't mean anyone is going to show up and peer there. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: experience with equinix exchange

2010-11-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Outage between GBLX and HE?

2010-11-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, they have a router that has been blackholing traffic in Ashburn for a good long while now. I almost put on my Global Double Crossing t-shit this morning too. :) http://www.printfection.com/ras/Global-Double-Crossing-2-T-Shirt/_p_4935066 -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http

Re: flow analysis for juniper devices

2010-11-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
I'd have been just as happy if everyone had standardized on sFlow (especially since I already wrote a parser for it :P), but alas it isn't meant to be. Some differences between v9 and IPFIX that googling turned up: http://www.plixer.com/blog/netflow/what-is-ipfix-vs-netflow-v9/ -- Richard

Re: flow analysis for juniper devices

2010-11-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 08:59:33AM +, Paolo Lucente wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:17:55PM -0600, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Oh and the sFlow on EX is actually pretty cripled when used for routing. It's missing support for a bunch of important extended message tpes, and doesn't

Re: flow analysis for juniper devices

2010-11-13 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. For example you won't get any data on ASNs, nexthops, dest ifindexes, or even netmasks of the src/dst route the flow matched, making it pretty darn useless for a lot of tasks. It's functional if you're just analyzing L2 networks at any rate. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http

Re: Extra latency at ATT exchange for UVerse

2010-11-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and destination IPs that were being tested, so *ALWAYS* provide those along with your traceroutes if you want to ever have any hope of having your problem solved. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
with the cheaper interior technology, eventually they start shoehorning on all the features and functionality that you wanted from the other one in the first place. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
kook status with these absurd claims based on no logic whatsoever. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-06 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
Unreach Needfrag messages for PMTUD, and then all your jumbo frame end users going through that router would be blackholed as well. Great idea in theory, epic disaster in practice, at least given the mechanisms currently at our disposal. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-06 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
significant demand they would have already turned it on already. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-06 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, I promise you this isn't as easy as you think it is. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
on page 7 when it starts talking about peering infrastructure. Infact pretty much every sentence on that page is blatantly wrong. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Equinix of Candia?

2010-11-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. If there is anything interesting going on in Vancouver I haven't heard of it, but I don't know the market well enough to say for certain. Everywhere else is either too small to care about on a national scale, or is serviced by non-neutral colos (e.g. Peer1, etc). -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net

Re: ATT/L3 interconnect?

2010-10-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
is probably). -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: reachability problems Europe-US?

2010-10-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
to this issue, and suggest that anyone who doesn't want their packets blackholed by the Floundrys be prepared to vote with their wallet. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: BGP next-hop

2010-09-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
still buy Juniper instead of Cisco despite all the $%^*ing bugs these days. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: BGP next-hop

2010-09-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
on a secret 5 year mission to come over to Juniper, completely $%^* the company, and then go back to Cisco and get a big bonus for it. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Routers in Data Centers

2010-09-26 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
or other power hungry configs. Remember the original XMR 32 chassis, which had side to side airflow? They quickly disappeared that sucker and replaced it with the much larger version they have today, I can only imagine how bad that was. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http

Re: Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-27 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
will we as operators rise up against the ivory tower protocol designers at the IETF and demand that they add a mechanism to not bring down the entire BGP session because of a single malformed attribute? Did I miss the memo about the meeting? I'll bring the punch and pie. -- Richard A Steenbergen

Re: Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-27 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
a single argument against this which isn't political or philosophical in nature. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs

2010-07-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
have 31337 instead? which in turn was granted. ) I tried to time it to get 6.9 from ARIN, ended up with 6.8 instead, and they kept 6.9 for themselves. Bastards! :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: BGP convergence problem

2010-06-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of course we all know that isn't true :P). Oh and also the OP should take this to the cisco-nsp mailing list, where all the good bitching about broken Crisco routers takes place. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59

Re: Junos Asymmetric Routing

2010-05-31 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
the concepts dismissed out of hand because of some old BGP ideology about a problem that can be addressed any number of other ways. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: BGP and convergence time

2010-05-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
like this when negotiating between two parties, but BGP does the opposite. I still run into bad bgp implementations which can't keep up with my 30 sec hold timers all the time *coughghettoequinixrouteservercough*. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG

Re: SFP+ ER and ZR

2010-05-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. There are also some CWDM units in the works, but because SFP+ doesn't support onboard EDC you are limited by dispersion to 10km in the traditional 8ch 1470-1610nm CWDM space over SMF28. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204

Re: BGP and convergence time

2010-05-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, regardless of the benefit. Try a clueful carrier and they'll be happy to run BFD with you. Of course after promoting it for more than a year now we have something like 5 peers and 0 customers using it (mostly because of broken vendor implementations), but hey it's never too late to start. :) -- Richard

Re: Juniper firewalls - SSG or SRX

2010-04-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: what about 48 bits?

2010-04-04 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
those low cost switches and wifi adapters DO use unique mac addresses? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address The IEEE expects the MAC-48 space to be exhausted no sooner than the year 2100[3]; EUI-64s are not expected to run out in the foreseeable future. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e

Re: what about 48 bits?

2010-04-04 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
but guaranteeing end to end jumbo frame support will never be practical. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: CSIRT - Backbone Security : Runtime Monitoring and DynamicReconfiguration for Intrusion Detection Systems

2010-03-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:18:40AM +, char...@www.knownelement.com wrote: Mods, Can we get the spam off the list? Its getting old. FYI this guy has been spamming individuals and PeeringDB contacts for a couple months now too. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:34:10AM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Oh, I understand what's going on exactly. YouTube is trying to balance their ratios. :) That might explain why they're only announcing it behind Cogent. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e

Re: Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

2010-02-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: [NANOG] Contacts @ China Unicom and China Telecom

2010-02-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
than 2000::/3), which is a FAR cry from the 2^128 omg big number, we can give every molecule an IPv6 address math of the popular imagination. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
get a /16 just by asking, and every big network could get a /8 just by asking, just bit shifted a little bit. That's all well and good, but it isn't a bazillion. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: Foundry CLI manual?

2010-01-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, I'd say you're in need of far more help than any manual can provide. :) http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/xmr_user/current/NetIron_04100_ConfigGuide.pdf http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/xmr_diag/current/NetIronXMR-MLX_04100_DiagnosticRef.pdf -- Richard

Re: Enhancing automation with network growth

2010-01-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, pretty much every modern poller system can manage this. MRTG is absurdly old, slow, and generally nasty, and should not be used by anyone in this day and age. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41

Re: dark fiber and sfp distance limitations

2010-01-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
you could potentially expect to get the entire distance out of a standard 100km optic. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: UltraDNS Failure?

2009-12-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
million packets/sec of UDP/53 DoS traffic, starting at about the same time as the UltraDNS problems. No clue if it's related, but it certainly sounds suspicious. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: fight club :) richard bennett vs various nanogers, on paid peering

2009-11-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
your misinformation with free advice, and you repaid them with delusional rants. Now you simply look like a fool to everyone. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: fight club :) richard bennett vs various nanogers, on paid peering

2009-11-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
interest for me to be well-informed; I don't really have an ax to grind one way or another, but I do want law and regulation to be based on fact, not speculation and ideology. So far none of the above statements seem to be true. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e

Re: fight club :) richard bennett vs various nanogers, on paid peering

2009-11-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
result in major changes to the amount of traffic delivered over IX fabrics vs private interconnection. Again, something you could have actually asked operators about rather than making up conclusons in your head. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key

Re: Juniper M120 Alternatives

2009-11-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:24:24AM -0600, Jack Bates wrote: Richard A Steenbergen wrote: They've definitely been improving it over the years though, so much that I almost never trigger a session reset on me unintentionally any more. They must have. This was new to me and came as a shock. I

Re: Juniper M120 Alternatives

2009-11-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
user friendly if they could tell you what sessions would be reset as part of a commit check process though. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Resilience - How many BGP providers

2009-11-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
transit providers also means more 95th calculations, and thus a higher bill, but that is another story for another day. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-11-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:04:18AM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote: On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:13:38PM -0600, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Rather than simply double the size and break it up into 32:32, the designers reserved the top 16 bits for type and subtype attributes, leaving you only 48

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-11-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
with communities, but I've never seen them. Being clever is a good thing when it helps you find new ways to do more with less, and those who can't innovate in this industry are dooming themselves to obsolescence. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-11-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
(for example, regexp support), or if they only exist for l3vpn support and are not actually prepared to use them to work with 32-bit ASNs. Hint: Some vendors still fall into this category last I looked. Apologies if this post contained too much clever and made Randy's head explode. -- Richard

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