Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase punishment for early adopters

2011-02-09 Thread Sam Stickland
, but in the enterprise land it seems accepted. Sam

Re: IPv6 addressing for core network

2011-02-09 Thread Sam Stickland
to handle real point-to-point links like SDH/SONET today, to avoid the ping-pong problem. Works fine with Cisco and Juniper, not tried with other vendors. Can you elaborate on this? What's the ping-pong problem? Sam (who's experience is pretty much mostly ethernet)

Is it permissible to advertise number resources allocated by one RIR to a ISP in a region governed by a different RIR? Practical?

2011-02-09 Thread Crooks, Sam
Is it permissible, from a policy perspective, for a multi-homed end user to announce the numbering resource allocation received from one RIR (for discussion purposes, let's say ARIN) to upstream service providers in a different region (for example, in the RIPE region)? Is it feasible from a

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase punishment for early adopters

2011-02-08 Thread Sam Stickland
I've worked in plenty of places where registered address was used on private interconnections between organisations to avoid overlaps, but never announced globally. S On 8 Feb 2011, at 14:35, gb10hkzo-na...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hint: even IPs not pingable from the Internet are being used. Not

Re: Routing Suggestions

2011-01-14 Thread Sam Silvester
, if you wish to prevent the static being withdrawn if the interface goes down. Sam

Re: IPv6 - real vs theoretical problems

2011-01-08 Thread Sam Stickland
things far worse. Roland, I'm missing something here. Why do you say there is zero state at the server, but the not at the client? (Because of all the servers TCP/UDP ports are well known perhaps?) Sam

Re: TCP congestion control and large router buffers

2010-12-21 Thread Sam Stickland
? I've come too late to networking to know). Reducing that number to 10 (~60ms @ 1500 bytes @ 8Mbps) has noticeably increased the latency response and fairness of the connection under load. Sam

Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections

2010-05-28 Thread Sam Hayes Merritt, III
workers in 1978 1968 Memphis garbagemen 1974 Baltimore police strike 1969 Cicero, Illinois police strike 1919 Boston police strike 1980 Chicago firefighters strike sam

RE: CRS-3

2010-03-09 Thread Crooks, Sam
Spend the GDP of a small nation on a single box! -Original Message- From: Brian Feeny [mailto:bfe...@mac.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:51 PM To: nanog@nanog.org list Subject: CRS-3 So who is going to be the first to deploy these?

RE: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread Crooks, Sam
I had good luck getting my dad some form of broadband access in rural Oregon using a 3g router (Cradlepoint), a Wilson Electronics signal amp (model 811211), and an outdoor mount high gain antenna. It's not great, but considering the alternatives (33.6k dialup for $60/mo or satellite broadband

Query regarding maintenance menu on Liebert PeX units

2010-01-05 Thread Sam Silvester
the noise down. Thanks, Sam

RE: Arrogant RBL list maintainers

2009-12-10 Thread Sam Hayes Merritt, III
to point people at for how to do things the right way. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-msullivan-dnsop-generic-naming-schemes-00 sam

RE: WS-X6148A-GE-TX performance question

2009-09-10 Thread Crooks, Sam
the other difference between WS-X6148-GE-TX and WS-X6148A-GE-TX is the A has better QoS queuing potential (more hardware queues available) and a lower list price... As I recall, there are 6 ethernet controllers with 8 ports on each... (8:1 oversubscription among the adjacent ports in a port group

Re: Issues with Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Sam Oduor
Back up .. Nairobi Kenya. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Jason Lixfeld ja...@lixfeld.ca wrote: On 2009-09-01, at 4:34 PM, James Downs wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Dominic J. Eidson wrote: It appears to be much more a problem with gmail (the MUA) than gmail (the MDA).

Re: cisco.com

2009-08-04 Thread Sam Oduor
http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/final_update_ciscocom_outage/ On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:51 PM, deles...@gmail.com wrote: So cisco has no BGP is that what I'm hearing... Oh the irony :) --Original Message-- From: Aaron Millisor To: R. Benjamin Kessler Cc: nanog@nanog.org

Bandcon

2009-07-08 Thread Kretchmer, Sam
Anyone on here care to comment on Bandcon transit services? Anyone even using them? They are offering me an incredible deal on transit, and I was wondering what their reputation is. thanks

RE: NPE-G2 vs. Sup720-3BXL

2009-05-15 Thread Crooks, Sam
You may also take a look at the Cisco ASR1000 line... Supposedly a middle step between 7200 and 7600 router sizing.. -Original Message- From: Arie Vayner [mailto:arievay...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 1:34 PM To: David Storandt Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: NPE-G2 vs.

RE: delays to google

2009-05-14 Thread Crooks, Sam
Also seeing this in Dallas, TX area, from ATT and Verizon -Original Message- From: Mario Fernandez [mailto:ma...@fernandez.ca] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:53 AM To: Athanasios Douitsis Cc: na...@merit.edu Subject: Re: delays to google Seeing the same thing from NY using

RE: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-14 Thread Crooks, Sam
Cisco makes a 16 port Async card for ISR routers, they even bundle it with a 2811 router for fairly inexpensive $$$... Cisco2811-16TS is the partnum I think You can scale up very high or down very low for your console needs with cisco routers, and inexpensive used or obsolete routers are

RE: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-28 Thread Crooks, Sam
-Original Message- From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:33 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: one shot remote root for linux? That said there are a few 'network devices' which are linux based (not just Vyatta! :) )

RE: Config Backup / Inventory

2009-04-24 Thread Crooks, Sam
inexpensive) Sam Crooks GTS Network Architecture 701 Experian Pkwy B5302 Allen, TX 75013 972-390-3186 sam.cro...@experian.com -Original Message- From: Joe Provo [mailto:nanog-p...@rsuc.gweep.net] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:11 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Config Backup

RE: The real issue

2009-04-21 Thread Crooks, Sam
And exactly how are you determining it is 'unused'? Not announced to the internet? (which means virtually nothing as far as 'use' status of an IP block) For pete sake, the time has come to resolve the issues that prevent widespread adoption of IPv6: - resolve RIR IPv6 allocation hassles for

Looking for ATT / Verizon / Sprint WWAN service impressions - on or off-list replies welcome

2009-04-14 Thread Crooks, Sam
-america Regards, Sam Crooks

RE: ACLs vs. full firewalls

2009-04-07 Thread Crooks, Sam
Beware off using ACL filtering on 6500s with many vlans (100+) and long acls (hundred+ lines)... You'll soon find out more than you ever wanted to know about TCAM, different TCAM types used in various sup's and what the limitations imposed by TCAM on processing ACLs in hardware... Sam Crooks

RE: Cisco ASR100x

2009-04-01 Thread Crooks, Sam
Michael Morris of Network World wrote an article about ASR1000s and IOS XE a few months ago, if I recall correctly. Sam Crooks GTS Network Architecture 601 Experian Pkwy A2035 Allen, TX 75013 972-390-3186 sam.cro...@experian.com aim: expsamcrooks -Original Message- From: Bill

RE: Redundant Array of Inexpensive ISP's?

2009-03-12 Thread Crooks, Sam
In answer to a question below about experience with similar products... Cisco IOS has the dynamic routing injection feature as part of recent IOS versions. The feature is now called Performance Routing (PfR) formerly known as OER (Optimized Edge Routing) and as of 12.4(24)T, it can optimize

Re: Usage-Based Billing for DIA

2009-03-09 Thread Sam Stickland
) can use the Cisco MIBs to graph pre and post-policy packets. http://www.torrus.org/plugins/tp-cisco-cbqos.pod.html Sam

SNMP and syslog forwarders

2009-03-04 Thread Sam Stickland
recommendations / experience? This needs to scale to ~1,500 devices. Thanks, Sam

Re: can I ask mtu question

2009-02-03 Thread Sam Stickland
Ricky Beam wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:00:00 -0500, Saku Ytti saku+na...@ytti.fi wrote: Which standard are you referring to? AFAIK, nothing above 1500 is standardised None that have ever been accepted. From a quick google for manufacturer support, 9216 looks like the most popular number.

Re: can I ask mtu question

2009-02-03 Thread Sam Stickland
Niels Bakker wrote: * sam_mailingli...@spacething.org (Sam Stickland) [Tue 03 Feb 2009, 13:04 CET]: For what it's worth, TCP will negiogate MSS and will work with mismatched MTU in a single LAN segment. No Machine 1 -- switch with 1500 byte MTU -- switch with smaller MTU -- switch with 1500

Re: Cisco uRPF failures

2008-09-07 Thread Sam Stickland
collection of traffic statistics hs-6513-1(config)#no ip cef distributed %Cannot disable CEF on this platform hs-6513-1(config)#exit hs-6513-1#sh version | inc IOS IOS (tm) s72033_rp Software (s72033_rp-ADVENTERPRISEK9_WAN-M), Version 12.2(18)SXF11, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Sam

Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

2008-08-29 Thread Sam Stickland
AS-MACRO at random) whois -h filtergen.level3.net RIPE::AS-DEMON Sam

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-21 Thread Sam Stickland
Randy Bush wrote: and consider matsuzaki-san's dos vulnerability on a /64 p2p link. the prudent operational advice today is to use a /127. randy Can you provide some more information on this vulnerability? My google-fu appears to be weak. Sam

Re: IP Fragmentation

2008-08-20 Thread Sam Stickland
/925280 Sam

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-06 Thread Sam Stickland
the possible attacks to the following bounds: 1) They advertise no address space, and you end up with no bogon filtering. 2) They advertise all of the IPv4 address space, but your prefix list limits this to (an admittedly out-of-date) list of bogons. Sam

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-31 Thread Sam Stickland
speeds. Depends what you mean by 'hub' I guess. I thought the term referred to a device that was half-duplex only, and had no address learning. GE has never supported half-duplex. Sam

Re: Analysing traces for performance bottlenecks

2008-07-17 Thread Sam Stickland
is what I'm after, although I doubt a standard packet capture will be able to provided as many metric as web100 stack can. Sam

Analysing traces for performance bottlenecks

2008-07-15 Thread Sam Stickland
for performance issues, but it's relatively time consuming. Googling for variations on Analyse TCP stream limit throughput didn't find anything. Sam

Re: Analysing traces for performance bottlenecks

2008-07-15 Thread Sam Stickland
A bit more googling has found the Web100 projects NDT (http://e2epi.internet2.edu/ndt/). I'm currently making a Linux VM that can run it. It's useful, but I'm still really after something that can do it's type of analysis from a packet capture. Sam Sam Stickland wrote: Hi, Are there any

Re: [Nanog-futures] Announce list: Re: Hughes Network

2008-05-23 Thread Sam Stickland
. Kinda makes you wonder what the purpose on the announce list is though. Are there actually people subscribed to nanog-annouce that aren't subscribed to nanog? Sam

Re: 24x7 Support Strategies

2007-06-14 Thread Sam Stickland
response time? How about CCNP? If people could also give an identication of the size of their organisation/network it would be useful. Sam Sam Stickland wrote: Hi, I'm wondering how different organisations structure their 24x7 network operations? We are undergoing some restructuring here

Re: 24x7 Support Strategies

2007-06-14 Thread Sam Stickland
Joe Abley wrote: On 14-Jun-2007, at 02:32, Sam Stickland wrote: Does anyone have any CCIE (or equivalent technical ability) staff on a 24x7 shift? What about CCIE level staff on an on-call rota with a garanteed response time? How about CCNP? Does anybody actually put any stock

Re: 24x7 Support Strategies

2007-06-14 Thread Sam Stickland
People are asking me to port a summary back to the list, but as I'm still getting replies coming in I'm going to leave this until tomorrow. S Sam Stickland wrote: All, Thanks for the replies that have started rolling in. They've made me realise I should have added an additional question

24x7 Support Strategies

2007-06-13 Thread Sam Stickland
Hi, I'm wondering how different organisations structure their 24x7 network operations? We are undergoing some restructuring here and it would be interesting for us to know how other large enterprises and service providers arrange this. We are particulary interested in service providers.

Re: Security gain from NAT (was: Re: Cool IPv6 Stuff)

2007-06-06 Thread Sam Stickland
off the NAT and try again. Precisely. I don't think anyone is suggesting that you should put NAPT in an IPv6 gateway. A few days ago it was suggested by Sam Stickland that a blocker to moving to IPv6 was the lack of NAPT, and the security features that are an integral part of it's functionality

Re: Security gain from NAT

2007-06-04 Thread Sam Stickland
Joe Abley wrote: On 4-Jun-2007, at 14:32, Jim Shankland wrote: Shall I do the experiment again where I set up a Linux box at an RFC1918 address, behind a NAT device, publish the root password of the Linux box and its RFC1918 address, and invite all comers to prove me wrong by showing

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