Re: Standard DC rack rail distance, front to back question

2023-04-27 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2023-04-27 16:05, Dobbins, Roland via NANOG wrote: > There isn’t a standard for rack depth, AFAIK, but one typically sees > anywhere from 27in/69cm – 50in/127cm, in my experience. 42in/106.7cm > & 48in/122cm are quite common depth dimensions. You are talking about the depth of the entire

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2023-01-23 19:08, I wrote: > I get that for 1310 nm light, the doppler shift would be just under > 0.07 nm, or 12.2 GHz: > [...] > In the ITU C band, I get the doppler shift to be about 10.5 GHz (at > channel 72, 197200 GHz or 1520.25 nm). > [...] > These shifts are noticably less than typical

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2023-01-23 17:27, Tom Beecher wrote: > What I didn't think was adequately solved was what Starlink shows in > marketing snippets, that is birds in completely different orbital > inclinations (sometimes close to 90 degrees off) shooting messages to each > other. Last I had read the dopplar

Re: Energy Efficiency - Data Centers

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-12-18 22:14 CET, Rod Beck wrote: > Well, the fact that a data center generates a lot of means it is > consuming a lot of electricity. Indeed, they are consuming lots of electricity. But it's easier to measure that by putting an electricity meter on the incoming power line (and the power

Re: Energy Efficiency - Data Centers

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-12-18 20:06 CET, Rod Beck wrote: > I was reasoning from the analogy that an incandescent bulb is less > efficient than a LED bulb because more it generates more heat - more > of the electricity goes into the infrared spectrum than the useful > visible spectrum. Similar to the way that an

Re: Energy Efficiency - Data Centers

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-12-18 15:57, Rod Beck wrote: > This led me to wonder what is the inefficiency of these servers in data> > centers. Every time I am in a data center I am impressed by how much> heat > comes off these semiconductor chips. Looks to me may be 60% of the> > electricity ends up as heat. What

Re: Request comment: list of IPs to block outbound

2019-10-23 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-10-22 22:38 -0700, Stephen Satchell wrote: > So, to the reason for the comment request, you are telling me not to > blackhole 100.64/10 in the edge router downstream from an ISP as a > general rule, and to accept source addresses from this netblock. Do I > understand you correctly?

Re: BGP prefix filter list

2019-05-31 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-05-31 01:18 +, Mel Beckman wrote: > No, that's not the situation being discussed. Actually, that *was* the example I was trying to give, where I suspect many are *not* following the rules of RFC 1930. > As I've pointed out, a multi homed AS without an IGP connecting all > prefixes

Re: BGP prefix filter list

2019-05-30 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-05-30 20:00 +, Mel Beckman wrote: > I’m sure we can find corner cases, but it’s clear that the vast ^ > majority of BGP users are following the standard. "Citation needed". :-) How is it clear that the vast majority are following

Re: Power cut if temps are too high

2019-05-28 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-05-27 18:18 +, Mel Beckman wrote: > Before the trigger temperature is reached, the NMS would have sent > various escalating alarms to on call staffers, who hopefully would > intervene before this point. Would they actually have time to react and do something? In our datacenters, we

Re: QFX5k question

2019-03-23 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-03-23 12:41 -0700, Mehmet Akcin wrote: > I am trying to get my hands on some QFX5000s and I have a rather quick > question. First, there is no model named QFX5000. There is QFX5100, QFX5110, QFX5120, QFX5200 and QFX5210 (and some of them have several submodels, e.g. QFX5100-48T,

Re: ICMPv6 "too-big" packets ignored (filtered ?) by Cloudflare farms

2019-03-05 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-03-05 07:26 CET, Mark Andrews wrote: > It does work as designed except when crap middleware is added. ECMP > should be using the flow label with IPv6. It has the advantage that > it works for non-0-offset fragments as well as 0-offset fragments and > also works for transports other than

Re: Last Mile Design

2019-02-11 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-02-11 04:57 CET, Mark Tinka wrote: > On 10/Feb/19 17:46, Baldur Norddahl wrote: [...] >> In any case, we are now building out our own fiber to cover the gaps >> left by TDC. Here the end user has to pay DKK 12,000 (USD 1,824 / EUR >> 1,608) one time fee and with that he gets everything

Re: Last Mile Design

2019-02-09 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2019-02-09 18:59 CET, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > For anyone saying it's "impossible" to do AE they're welcome here to > the nordic region and especially Sweden where PON is basically unheard > of. We have millions of AE connected households. I live in one of them. However, large parts

Re: Stupid Question maybe?

2018-12-19 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2018-12-19 21:28 MET, William Herrin wrote: > Easy: .97 matches neither one because 64 & 97 !=0 and 32 & 97 != 0. > That's a 0 that has to match at the end of the 10.20.30. D'oh! Sorry, I got that wrong. (Trying to battle 10+% packet loss at home and a just upgraded Thunderbird at the same

Re: Stupid Question maybe?

2018-12-19 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2018-12-19 20:47 MET, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > There was indeed a fairly long stretch of time (until the CIDR RFC came out > and > specifically said it wasn't at all canon) where we didn't have an RFC that > specifically said that netmask bits had to be contiguous. How did routers

Re: Multicast traffic % in enterprise network ?

2018-08-09 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2018-08-08 23:36, na...@jack.fr.eu.org wrote: > Let me fix that for you. > Using multicast on IPv6 grant us the ability to do more. > Today, this is worthless. > Will it be the same tomorrow ? Problem is, to handle the Neigbour Discovery design (16M multicast groups), we need hardware that

Re: Juniper BGP Convergence Time

2018-05-16 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2018-05-16 15:22, Adam Kajtar wrote: > I wasn't using per-packet load balancing. I believe juniper default is per > IP. The Juniper default is to not do ECMP at all. Only a single route is programmed into the FIB for each prefix in your RIB. If you e.g. have routes to 198.51.100.0/24

Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?

2018-03-21 Thread Thomas Bellman
ier for that wavelength. (This was using 120km CWDM gigabit transceivers directly in the routers at each end. We have since retired those and use 10 gigabit DWDM with transponders and EDFA amplifiers.) Yes, it was a duct-tape solution, but it was cheap and got the work done. :-) /Thomas Bell

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2017-12-28 22:31, Owen DeLong wrote: > Sure, but that’s intended in the design of IPv6. There’s really no need > to think beyond 2^64 because the intent is that a /64 is a single subnet > no matter how many or how few machines you want to put on it. > Before anyone rolls out the argument

Re: Temp at Level 3 data centers

2017-10-11 Thread Thomas Bellman
y to get the manufacturer to tell you what the most power-efficient inlet temperature is, they will just tell you "oh, we support anything between 5°C and 40°C" (or whatever their actual limits are), and absolutely refuse to answer your actual question. -- Thomas Bellman National Superco

Re: IPv6 Loopback/Point-to-Point address allocation

2017-09-10 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2017-09-10 00:09, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > You want to configure point to point interfaces as /127 or /126 even if you > allocate a full /64 for the link. This prevents an NDP exhaustion attack > with no downside. An alternative is to just have link-local addresses on your point-to- point

Re: Some advice on IPv6 planning and ARIN request, please

2017-07-10 Thread Thomas Bellman
y initially wanted to give us only a /56. Of course, they can only give out a few /52:s; other departments will have less structured address plans than us. - -- Thomas Bellman, National Supercomputer Centre, Linköping Univ., Sweden "Life IS pain, highness. Anyone who tells ! b

Re: Point 2 point IPs between ASes

2017-07-03 Thread Thomas Bellman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2017-06-29/17 17:06, Job Snijders wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:09:25PM +0200, Thomas Bellman wrote: >> I know that many devices allow you to configure any subnet size, but >> is there any RFC allowing you to use e.

Re: Point 2 point IPs between ASes

2017-06-29 Thread Thomas Bellman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2017-06-28 17:03, William Herrin wrote: > The common recommendations for IPv6 point to point interface numbering are: > > /64 > /124 > /126 > /127 I thought the only allowed subnet prefix lengths for IPv6 were /64 and /127. RFC 4291 states: