Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Tim Franklin
I do not live over there, I have never seen a Vonage or Magic jack or any other VoIP service ad on TV in the UK, ever. Vonage *are* advertising on UK TV. Hardly the carpet-bombing the OP suggests is the case in the US, but they are doing something. It is quite a different market here. I

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:25:23 + (GMT) Tim Franklin t...@pelican.org wrote: I do not live over there, I have never seen a Vonage or Magic jack or any other VoIP service ad on TV in the UK, ever. Vonage *are* advertising on UK TV. Hardly the carpet-bombing the OP suggests is the

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-03-01 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 01/03/2011 04:24, Joel Jaeggli wrote: Oddly enough the meeting NOC is in the business of providing services to customers and we generally assume that to be with the highest availability and minimum breakage feasible under the circumstances... That is exactly my point. [...] I am

Re: Switch with 10 Gig and GRE support in hardware.

2011-03-01 Thread Leigh Porter
Juniper MX80 does all this. On 1 Mar 2011, at 01:07, Jeff Hartley intensifysecur...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:15 PM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: On 2/18/11 6:30 AM, Matt Newsom matt.new...@rackspace.com wrote: I am looking for a switch with a

Re: Switch with 10 Gig and GRE support in hardware.

2011-03-01 Thread sthaug
Juniper MX80 does all this. 1. It's not a switch (so don't expect switch pricing). 2. It doesn't offer 12 x 10GE ports. And I believe this has been mentioned earlier in the same thread... Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: William Pitcock neno...@systeminplace.net That is the same market Vonage is now targeting in the US, basically. National calling in the US is basically bundled with most calling plans now. I'm not convinced that many people use Vonage in the US - my

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Scott Helms
offered through the various broadband providers I have had. Let us be clear: if you're getting digital telephone service from a cable television provider, it is *not* VoIP, in the usage in which most speakers mean that term -- Voice Over Internet is what they should be saying, and cable-phone

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Scott Helms
There may be no compelling reason to do so, at least. However, digital gear offers benefits, and some people want them. Others, like me, live in bad RF environments where POTS picks up too much noise unless you very carefully select your gear and shield your cables. Further, the digital

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 05:51 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: William Pitcockneno...@systeminplace.net That is the same market Vonage is now targeting in the US, basically. National calling in the US is basically bundled with most calling plans now. I'm not

Re: Switch with 10 Gig and GRE support in hardware.

2011-03-01 Thread tsi...@gmail.com
is the requirment still 1-2 U switch? - Reply message - From: sth...@nethelp.no Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 4:44 am Subject: Switch with 10 Gig and GRE support in hardware. To: leigh.por...@ukbroadband.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Juniper MX80 does all this. 1. It's not a switch (so don't

RE: Switch with 10 Gig and GRE support in hardware.

2011-03-01 Thread Leigh Porter
OK. Please show me a “switch” that will terminate Layer 3 GRE tunnels.. If it does GRE then it is making Layer 3 forwarding decisions which is a router function. It may be built into a switch as well, but it is still a router. -- Leigh Porter From: tsi...@gmail.com

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Joe Greco
There may be no compelling reason to do so, at least. However, digital gear offers benefits, and some people want them. Others, like me, live in bad RF environments where POTS picks up too much noise unless you very carefully select your gear and shield your cables. Further, the

IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread George Bonser
Fairly major global network provider likes to call themselves a Tier 1. Asking about native IPv6 in one of their colo facilities in the UK. They say their US facilities won't be v6 capable until Q4 2011. The UK rep acted like it was the first he'd ever heard of it and implied we were the very

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Paul Graydon
On 03/01/2011 07:39 AM, George Bonser wrote: Fairly major global network provider likes to call themselves a Tier 1. Asking about native IPv6 in one of their colo facilities in the UK. They say their US facilities won't be v6 capable until Q4 2011. The UK rep acted like it was the first he'd

Re: Verizon Issues? East Coast US

2011-03-01 Thread Bret Palsson
From our experience and smoke pings on Verizon's alternet, they ALWAYS have issues. Which is why we moved away from them. -Bret On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Chris Tracy wrote: Seeing some packet loss via Cogent. www.internetpulse.net seems to be lighting up. I'm noticing it too. POP in

Re: Verizon Issues? East Coast US

2011-03-01 Thread Randy McAnally
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:47:39 -0500, Chris Tracy wrote In both cases, mtr shows ~50% loss beginning at google- gw.customer.alter.net (152.179.50.62), the first hop in AS15169. It's clear that I must be losing more ICMP than TCP packets given that google webpages come up fairly quickly, but

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Jake Khuon
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 07:46 -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: Having worked both inside and outside the ISP industry, I wouldn't necessarily trust a salesman to know a DSL from a leased line, let alone IPv6 vs IPv4, nor to have remembered being asked about it before. That's stuff for pre-sales

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Scott Helms
We've been the first for one of the oldest and best known Tier 1's in Metro Atlanta for quite some time It only took them 3 weeks to get the order right in their billing system and another 4.5 months to get it working. And I agree with the previous poster that in this day and age, it is

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Christian de Larrinaga
Do please let me know which major global network provider this is. Off-list if you prefer. Christian On 1 Mar 2011, at 18:39, George Bonser wrote: Fairly major global network provider likes to call themselves a Tier 1. Asking about native IPv6 in one of their colo facilities in the UK.

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Franck Martin
Don't forget there is no commission for the salesperson to enable IPv6 for you, so definitively they are not interested and you asking them to deal with the issue, will just lower their pay at the end of the month because they could not use this valuable time to find customers with

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2011-03-01 22:16, Franck Martin wrote: Don't forget there is no commission for the salesperson to enable IPv6 for you, so definitively they are not interested and you asking them to deal with the issue, will just lower their pay at the end of the month because they could not use this

RE: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread George Bonser
Perhaps that particular salesperson had not but he/she should have been briefed on it and should be familiar enough with deployment status to be able to talk intelligently and honestly with a potential customer. I could buy that if it weren't for the fact that it took two days to come

Coffer MAC Address Vendor Database

2011-03-01 Thread Scott Berkman
Is anyone on the list that knows about the Coffer MAC address vendor database (http://www.coffer.com/mac_find/)? I have used this resource for years and I am now getting a permission error (403 Forbidden) when I try to go to any page on that site. Otherwise, anyone have recommendations for

Re: Coffer MAC Address Vendor Database

2011-03-01 Thread Randy Carpenter
Straight from the source: http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/public.html -Randy - Original Message - Is anyone on the list that knows about the Coffer MAC address vendor database (http://www.coffer.com/mac_find/)? I have used this resource for years and I am now

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - From: Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org To: Franck Martin fra...@genius.com Cc: George Bonser gbon...@seven.com, NANOG list nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, 1 March, 2011 1:41:45 PM Subject: Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it! On 2011-03-01 22:16,

RE: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread -Hammer-
I don't know about that. Even though the carriers (USA) I've talked to are having trouble presenting native IPv6 to me in the next few quarters, they have no problem pitching professional services to help me with the implementation. Several of my hardware vendors have too. Don't be surprised

RE: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Deepak Jain
The board to the managers/sales people: Please explain us again why we can't have more customers? Let's be real for a second, there are plenty of backbone-ish companies that have been around long enough to accumulate tons, and tons of IPv4 space. I remember an old SP that used to give every

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Mark Andrews
In message d338d1613b32624285bb321a5cf3db25130d83a...@ginga.ai.net, Deepak Ja in writes: The board to the managers/sales people: Please explain us again why we can't have more customers? Let's be real for a second, there are plenty of backbone-ish companies that have been around long

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Jason Bertoch
- Original Message - From: George Bonser gbon...@seven.com I could buy that if it weren't for the fact that it took two days to come back with that answer. An off the cuff wow, nobody has ever asked me that before, I need to check on it would have been understandable for a new rep.

Request for assistance with BGP feeds

2011-03-01 Thread Geoff Huston
Hi I am conducting some research relating to BGP behaviour and I need some eBGP multihop feeds - IPv4 and/or IPv6 eBGP, and full eBGP route table feeds please. These are incoming feeds only (I will be announcing _nothing_ back in these sessions - I'll filtering outbound and you should

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread JC Dill
On 01/03/11 12:07 PM, Jake Khuon wrote: And I agree with the previous poster that in this day and age, it is unlikely that the sales group of a global provider would not have encountered such a request. If anything, they should have been hit with those kinds of requests starting ten years ago.

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com On 03/01/2011 05:51 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Let us be clear: if you're getting digital telephone service from a cable television provider, it is *not* VoIP, in the usage in which most speakers mean that term -- Voice Over

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Bret Palsson
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com On 03/01/2011 05:51 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Let us be clear: if you're getting digital telephone service from a cable television provider, it

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
What everyone is actually *selling* commercially, except for cable providers, is *not* VoIP; it's a subset of that: VoN; Voice Over Internet; where the IP transport *goes over the public internet*, and through whatever exchange points may be necessary to get from you to the provider. This

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Scott Helms khe...@ispalliance.net Let us be clear: if you're getting digital telephone service from a cable television provider, it is *not* VoIP, in the usage in which most speakers mean that term -- Voice Over Internet is what they should be saying,

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 08:01 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Bret Palssonb...@getjive.com VoN? Didn't know there was a difference. Same protocols, same RTP,RTCP, Codecs, DSCP values. Am I missing something? Well, you try to hold a conversation with

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 07:51 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: As I said, this second channel doesn't exist in almost all cases (its not cost effective nor needed in almost all cases). Having said that over the top VOIP providers do suffer in comparison because they don't get the benefit of prioritization in the

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Bret Palsson
Works just fine. Yes that is one of the many tests we do. It's call partnerships with carriers and prioritization. DSCP works wonders, so do EF queues and policies, yes this is on the carrier side. Sounds like you need a VoIP company that cares. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:03 PM,

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com I wasn't suggesting QOS. I was suggesting *there's a completely separate pipe*, on non-Internet connected IP transport, carrying only the voice traffic, directly to a termination point, which is dedicated from the

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Bret Palsson
I'm sensing you have been burned badly by VoIP... which is too bad. I'm going to step out of the conversation since no one but you is likely to win. Which isn't a bad thing, but trying to help someone understand a bit more about how some VoIP providers actually work now a days, who have already

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Jeff Wheeler
I guess I'll plug this Wikipedia page again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_by_major_transit_providers -- Jeff S Wheeler j...@inconcepts.biz Sr Network Operator  /  Innovative Network Concepts

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, George Bonser wrote: Note to providers: That might have worked a couple of years ago but when we hear that today, we know it is false. Please be honest in your responses to that question. If you aren't going to deploy it for another year or two, just say so. The notion

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Frank Bulk
Scott: Are you saying that the large MSOs don't use CM configuration files that create separate downstream and upstream service flows for Internet, voice signaling, and voice bearer traffic? Frank -Original Message- From: Scott Helms [mailto:khe...@ispalliance.net] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-01 Thread Frank Bulk
I'm extremely annoyed by the marketing PR of those professional service arms when their transit/service provide business doesn't have IPv6 fully deployed. Please have your own house in order first, or be more humble about your services, please. Frank -Original Message- From: -Hammer-

Re: Request for assistance with BGP feeds

2011-03-01 Thread Geoff Huston
thanks heaps everyone - I'm now well provisioned - now to configure them all! Geoff On 02/03/2011, at 1:53 PM, Geoff Huston wrote: Hi I am conducting some research relating to BGP behaviour and I need some eBGP multihop feeds - IPv4 and/or IPv6 eBGP, and full eBGP route table feeds

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:01 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Bret Palsson b...@getjive.com VoN? Didn't know there was a difference. Same protocols, same RTP,RTCP, Codecs, DSCP values. Am I missing something? Well, you try to hold a conversation with someone while