Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-11 Thread John Osmon
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 01:04:28PM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: > I don't even know where this conversation has gone anymore. You have reached a terminal point in the NANOG mailing list state machine: NOP-ARGUE Many paths lead to this state, and it isn't unique to NANOG. The sub-state is:

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-11 Thread Mike Hammett
;Matthew Walster" Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 7:00:07 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) Mike Hammett wrote: > " With plain IP routers?" > Yes, or, well, relatively plain, depending on the implementation. As completely plain routers have no difficulty to t

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-11 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mike Hammett wrote: " With plain IP routers?" Yes, or, well, relatively plain, depending on the implementation. As completely plain routers have no difficulty to treat a default route, it is a waste of money and effort to try to have not so plain routers to do so regardless of whether the

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-10 Thread Mike Hammett
"Masataka Ohta" To: "Matthew Walster" Cc: "nanog list" Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2023 8:44:59 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) Matthew Walster wrote: >>> No... It's action based. You can send it a different route, you can

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-10 Thread Mike Hammett
nuary 7, 2023 8:44:59 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) Matthew Walster wrote: >>> No... It's action based. You can send it a different route, you can >>> replicate it, you can drop it, you can mutate it... >> >> Replication is a poor alternative f

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-10 Thread Mike Hammett
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Walster" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "NANOG" , "Forrest Christian (List Account)" Sent: Friday, January 6, 2023 10:10:56 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) On Fri, 6 Jan 2023, 18:38 Mike Hammett, &l

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-07 Thread Masataka Ohta
Matthew Walster wrote: No... It's action based. You can send it a different route, you can replicate it, you can drop it, you can mutate it... Replication is a poor alternative for multicast. You conveniently ignore things like IDS, port mirroring, things like that. Wrong. Instead, you

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-07 Thread Matthew Walster via NANOG
On Sat, 7 Jan 2023, 20:52 Masataka Ohta, wrote: > Matthew Walster wrote: > > > No... It's action based. You can send it a different route, you can > > replicate it, you can drop it, you can mutate it... > > Replication is a poor alternative for multicast. > You conveniently ignore things like

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-07 Thread Masataka Ohta
Matthew Walster wrote: No... It's action based. You can send it a different route, you can replicate it, you can drop it, you can mutate it... Replication is a poor alternative for multicast. For other actions, why, do you think, they are performed? Just for fun? Or to differentiate

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Jeff Tantsura
ot; Cc: "Mel Beckman" , "NANOG" Sent: Friday, January 6, 2023 9:51:43 AMSubject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)Gotcha. Setup a Quagga/Bird box. Do your top talker analysis , use that box to inject the routes you deem important with communities.  On your routers , create policy str

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Jeff Tantsura
Freertr folks have just published (I didn’t look into the details of their implementation though):“rare/freertr just got fib compression.. in our nren, the v4 table can be compressed from 900k to 260k, the v6 table from 160k to 52k... the tofino2 asic with our dataplane code (

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Matthew Walster via NANOG
On Sat, 7 Jan 2023, 03:17 Masataka Ohta, wrote: > Matthew Walster wrote: > > > it's just one aspect of it. Some use it for > > classifying guest traffic etc. > > If special path is provided for guest or otherwise > prioritized traffic, that's QoS routing. > No... It's action based. You can send

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Masataka Ohta
Matthew Walster wrote: SDN does not imply QoS routing, As long as the shortest path is comfortable enough, no, it does not have to. it's just one aspect of it. Some use it for classifying guest traffic etc. If special path is provided for guest or otherwise prioritized traffic, that's QoS

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Tom Beecher
ernet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ---------- > *From: *&q

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Matthew Walster via NANOG
On Fri, 6 Jan 2023, 18:38 Mike Hammett, wrote: > I suspect it always will have value, whether it's peering routers, POP > routers, multi-homed customer routers, etc. > Indeed. It's not "clean" but it is an acceptable tradeoff if you know what you're doing, and how traffic sloshes around etc. I

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Mike Hammett
- Original Message - From: "Tom Beecher" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "Mel Beckman" , "NANOG" Sent: Friday, January 6, 2023 9:51:43 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) Gotcha. Setup a Quagga/Bird box. Do your top talker analysis , use

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Tom Beecher
/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ---------- >

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Mike Hammett
NANOG" To: "Forrest Christian (List Account)" Cc: "NANOG" Sent: Friday, January 6, 2023 9:34:16 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) On Fri, 6 Jan 2023, 11:25 Forrest Christian (List Account), < li...@packetflux.com > wrote: In the end though, I do

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Matthew Walster via NANOG
On Fri, 6 Jan 2023, 11:25 Forrest Christian (List Account), < li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > In the end though, I do expect that the hassle of setting up and managing > a solution like this is likely to result in most people deciding that it > isn't worth the extra complexity just to avoid

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Mike Hammett
Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Tom Beecher" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "Mel Beckman" , "NANOG" Sent: Friday, January 6, 2023 9:16:19 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) Thanks

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Matthew Walster via NANOG
On Fri, 6 Jan 2023, 17:07 Masataka Ohta, wrote: > Christopher Morrow wrote: > > > Some of the reasoning behind 'i need/want to do SDN things' is 'low fib > > device' sort of reasonings. > > What? > > SDN is a poor alternative for those who can't construct a > network with fully automated QoS

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Tom Beecher
/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > -- > *From: *"Mel Beckman" > *To: *"Mike Hammett" > *Cc: *"Joe Maimon" , "NANOG" > *Sent: *Thursday, January 5, 2023 2:54:27 PM > *Subject: *Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Masataka Ohta
Christopher Morrow wrote: Some of the reasoning behind 'i need/want to do SDN things' is 'low fib device' sort of reasonings. What? SDN is a poor alternative for those who can't construct a network with fully automated QoS guarantee. Even with SDN, QoS guarantee implies QoS routing

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Mike Hammett
I didn't know where the conversation on routing flows differently came from and just ignored it. Now I realize the thread has SDN in the title. SDN can mean many things and if someone didn't properly evaluate the link in the original post, their understanding could be tainted by their

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Mike Hammett
/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg ] From: "Mel Beckman" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "Joe Maimon" , "NANOG" Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 4:36:09 PM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) Mike, Thanks for that useful example. On a side note, Netflix i

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-06 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
n.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ---

RE: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
tt Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) And here is another interesting approach Ive left open in my browser window for who knows how long https://inog.net/files/iNOG14v_oliver_sourcerouting.pdf The problem with BGP is that local actors can exact global costs trivially by consuming as

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Joe Maimon
*From: *"Mel Beckman" *To: *"Mike Hammett" *Cc: *"Joe Maimon" , "NANOG" *Sent: *Thursday, January 5, 2023 2:54:27 PM *Subject: *Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) Mike, I’m not sure I understand w

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Mel Beckman
;Mel Beckman" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "Joe Maimon" , "NANOG" Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 2:54:27 PM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) Mike, I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “suboptimal“ routing. Even though the Internet uses AS path length fo

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Joe Maimon
;https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp><https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > > *From: *"Christopher Morrow" > *To: *"Mike Hammett" > *Cc: *"Tom Beecher&quo

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Mike Hammett
nt: Thursday, January 5, 2023 2:54:27 PM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) Mike, I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “suboptimal“ routing. Even though the Internet uses AS path length for routing, many of those path lengths are bogus, and don’t really represent any kind of path p

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Mel Beckman
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Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Mike Hammett
ok.com/thebrotherswisp><https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > > -------------------- > *From: *"Christopher Morrow" > *To: *"Mike Hammett" > *Cc: *"Tom Beecher" , &qu

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Joe Maimon
: *"Tom Beecher" , "NANOG" *Sent: *Thursday, January 5, 2023 12:27:08 PM *Subject: *Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 11:18 AM Mike Hammett <mailto:na...@ics-il.net>> wrote: Initially, my thought was to use community filtering to push just

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Mike Hammett
r tomorrow). - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Joe Maimon" To: "Mike Hammett" , "Tom Beecher" Cc: "NANOG" Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 2:22:22 PM Subject: R

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Joe Maimon
*From: *"Tom Beecher" *To: *"Mike Hammett" *Cc: *"Mel Beckman" , "NANOG" *Sent: *Thursday, January 5, 2023 9:55:38 AM *Subject: *Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) "The right tool for the job" gets into a religious argument in assuming that

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Mike Hammett
. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Christopher Morrow" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "Tom Beecher" , "NANOG" Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 12:27:08 P

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 11:18 AM Mike Hammett wrote: > Initially, my thought was to use community filtering to push just IXes, > customers, and defaults throughout the network, but that's obviously still > sub-optimal. > > I'd be surprised if a last mile network had a ton of traffic going to any

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Mike Hammett
;NANOG" Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 10:30:35 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) Mike, Your original question was: “Given that the project was abandoned six years ago, are there any other efforts with a similar goal (more intelligently placing routes into FIBs

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Mel Beckman
v7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> From: "Tom Beecher" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "Mel Beckman" , "NANOG" Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 9:55:38 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) "The right tool for the job" gets into a religious a

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Mike Hammett" To: "Tom Beecher" Cc: "NANOG" Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 10:02:40 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) Then please

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Mike Hammett
The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Tom Beecher" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "Mel Beckman" , "NANOG" Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 9:55:38 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) "The right tool for the job" gets into a re

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Tom Beecher
lt;https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > -- > *From: *"Tom Beecher" > *To: *"Mike Hammett" > *Cc: *"Mel Beckman" , "NANOG" > *Sent: *Wedn

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-05 Thread Mike Hammett
uot; Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 7:36:58 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) Disagree that it’s a line in the sand. It’s use the right tool for the job. If a device is low FIB, it’s that way for a reason. There are plenty of ways to massage that with policy and software, depe

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-04 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 8:37 AM Tom Beecher wrote: > Disagree that it’s a line in the sand. It’s use the right tool for the > job. > > If a device is low FIB, it’s that way for a reason. There are plenty of > ways to massage that with policy and software, depending on capabilities , > but at the

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-04 Thread Tom Beecher
<http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ---------- > *From: *"Mel Beckman" > *To: *"Mike Hammett" > *Cc: *"NANOG&q

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-03 Thread Michel Blais
If your BGP router supports sflow or netflow and includes ASN in those, you can use akvorado, as-stat, or elastiflow. Le mar. 3 janv. 2023 à 12:16, Peter Phaal a écrit : > https://github.com/sflow-rt/active-routes > > Inspired by SIR, but uses Bird multi-table capability to separate RIB/FIB >

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-03 Thread Mike Hammett
Message - From: "Mel Beckman" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "NANOG" Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 10:57:34 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) It’s not a problem, due to cheap, plentiful high-speed memory and rapid prefix search silicon in backbone router

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-03 Thread Mike Hammett
Cc: "NANOG" Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 10:57:34 AM Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir) It’s not a problem, due to cheap, plentiful high-speed memory and rapid prefix search silicon in backbone routers. The entire Internet routing table consumes at most a few gigabytes when fu

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-03 Thread Peter Phaal
https://github.com/sflow-rt/active-routes Inspired by SIR, but uses Bird multi-table capability to separate RIB/FIB routes. On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 7:47 AM Mike Hammett wrote: > https://github.com/dbarrosop/sir > > I came across this over the weekend. Given that the project was abandoned > six

Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

2023-01-03 Thread Mel Beckman
It’s not a problem, due to cheap, plentiful high-speed memory and rapid prefix search silicon in backbone routers. The entire Internet routing table consumes at most a few gigabytes when fully structured (and only a few hundred Mbytes stored flat). That’s less memory than your average laptop