Re: AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO

2013-11-29 Thread Rob Seastrom
I'd like to call everyone's attention to ARIN's policy on IPv6 transition space https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#six531 which was created specifically in response to the standardization of 6rd. The discussion at the time that this policy was under consideration was that encoding the [m,n] in

Re: Meraki

2013-11-26 Thread Rob Seastrom
Ray Soucy writes: > Can confirm the current ER Lite is a plastic enclosure. I got mine almost a year ago, and mine is plastic too. > But for $ 100 I can definitely look past that. Likewise. > I believe the chips they use are from Cavium [1], but I could be mistaken. The bootloader output ag

Re: Meraki

2013-11-24 Thread Rob Seastrom
Ray Soucy writes: > Pricing just popped up for the new EdgeRouter PRO last night and I was > pretty blown away: > > $360 > > For a device with 2 SFP ports, and 2M PPS. That is music to my ears since > we do a lot of dark fiber around the state even for smaller locations. I'm > pretty excited t

Re: minimum IPv6 announcement size

2013-10-01 Thread Rob Seastrom
William Herrin writes: > IPv4 jumped from 8 bits to 32 bits. Which when you think about it is > the same ratio as jumping from 32 bits to 128 bits. Sorry for the late reply, Bill, but you were snoozing when they taught logarithms in high school weren't you? Jumping from 8 bits to 32 bits (1:16

Re: Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian Network Sovereignty

2013-09-10 Thread Rob Seastrom
William Waites writes: > Is this a good or a bad thing? I can remember back when there was a > project in the 'states called Carnivore, and we had some American > police -- I believe they were FBI -- come up and ask us politely if > we'd like to put some of their machines on our network. Everybo

Re: Comcast contact

2013-08-06 Thread Rob Seastrom
"Shaw, Matthew" writes: > Make sure the remote phone is using a low bandwidth codec too. In a > previous life changing a remote (home) user's phone from G.711 to > G.729 made all the difference in the world to their call quality. i think you've got that backwards. 80 kbit/sec on the wire is no

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-23 Thread Rob Seastrom
This may be just a case of getting what you pay for, but Maxmind marks entire netblocks as proxies, puts 'em in the wrong country, and ignores repeated efforts by the registrant of the address space to set the record straight. The problem comes when people actually do stuff with the information,

Re: Data Center Installations

2013-05-01 Thread Rob Seastrom
Warren Bailey writes: > Do any of you have a "go to" resource for materials used in > installations? Tie wraps, cable management, blahblahblah? For stuff that they carry, Deep Surplus has been acceptable quality and the price is generally right. Others have recommended monoprice but I've found

Re: Andros Island Connectivity?

2013-04-30 Thread Rob Seastrom
Good 'ol Warren, sure knows how to make friends and influence people. -r Warren Bailey writes: > Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Seastrom! ;) > > On 4/30/13 7:02 PM, "Joel M Snyder" wrote: > >>> >>> Protracted discussion (and promotion) has glossed over one key point: >>> > None of t

Re: Andros Island Connectivity?

2013-04-30 Thread Rob Seastrom
Joel M Snyder writes: > Actually, Citrix (in particular) works quite well over satellite > latencies. The network project I'm working on right now is wrapping > up an app rollout to about 100 countries, many of which we can only > reach via VSAT. Testing showed that Citrix performance is much

Re: Andros Island Connectivity?

2013-04-30 Thread Rob Seastrom
Protracted discussion (and promotion) has glossed over one key point: >> None of the people on-site are technical, and all their data is accessed >> via RDP on a server in the United States. They will not be happy with VSAT latency (typically 700ms though physics says you can never do better tha

Re: Verizon DSL moving to CGN

2013-04-09 Thread Rob Seastrom
Huasong Zhou writes: > We got this modem and router all in one box from Comcast directly. OK, so the NAT is taking place in the router you got from Comcast, not in Carrier Grade NAT in Comcast's network. A fine distinction but an important one. The external address of your router is (a) globa

Re: Verizon DSL moving to CGN

2013-04-07 Thread Rob Seastrom
Jimmy Hess writes: > On 4/6/13, Matthew Kaufman wrote: >> On 4/6/2013 6:24 PM, cb.list6 wrote: >> >> I'd love to see a CGN box that is cheaper than IPv4 addresses currently >> are on the transfer market. > > You mean like a few linux servers running iptables nat-masquerade? > > You think the "

Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network

2013-02-26 Thread Rob Seastrom
Owen DeLong writes: > N on 5Ghz takes advantage of the increased bandwidth of the 5Ghz > channel where A merely replicated G on 5Ghz for all practical > purposes. You have that backwards, actually, but the legacy support in 802.11g for 802.11b clients does represent a performance hit even in th

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