OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Robert Lusby
Sorry to start the day OT, but I'm sure you lovely lot will have some tips/experience! ;) We have a HP Server Cabinet (42U 10842 G2), that we've stripped down to the bare-bones chassis. It now measures 750mm wide. We have a door-way that said server cabinet must fit through, measuring up at

RE: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Leigh Porter
This may be a silly question but.. How did it get in there? -- Leigh Porter -Original Message- From: Robert Lusby [mailto:nano...@gmail.com] Sent: Wed 5/4/2011 9:43 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: OT: Server Cabinet Sorry to start the day OT, but I'm sure you lovely lot will have

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Tom Hill
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 09:43 +0100, Robert Lusby wrote: Can you see where this is leading yet? Is there no other entrance that's wider, perhaps a window/skylight? Cutting-up a cabinet (only to find that it's pretty impossible to make it sturdy again) or demolishing the wall may well be more

Re: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread James Aldridge
On 04/05/2011 10:53, Leigh Porter wrote: This may be a silly question but.. How did it get in there? I'm assuming that it's not yet in there :-) I'd probably knock the wall down and fit a more reasonably sized door - 620mm (2') seems a bit narrow for a door anyway. One could of course get a

Re: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Bill Woodcock
I've removed the doorframe before, and usually replaced with a wider doorframe later. -Bill On May 4, 2011, at 11:07, James Aldridge j...@mcvax.org wrote: On 04/05/2011 10:53, Leigh Porter wrote: This may be a silly question but.. How did it get in there? I'm

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Robert Lusby
Not a silly question my fault for not making clear - cabinet is still outside the room ... yet to go in. And, no other entrance points. Room is below ground level, with a stupidly narrow door frame. Old client building, with a room not originally designed for purpose. Short of scrapping this

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article BANLkTin4qhFifiTeFcnZ+EU_02-h=wd...@mail.gmail.com, Robert Lusby nano...@gmail.com writes 1) Have you ever had to fit a cabinet through a doorway that's too small? Yes, but it was height not width 2) How did you do it? Cut cabinet, demolish wall ...? by taking the fan tray off

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article banlktin1qsuj_knoamc4n+yame0odz3...@mail.gmail.com, Robert Lusby nano...@gmail.com writes Short of scrapping this cabinet If you have no other use for it - sell on eBay! That's where my spare cabinet went last year. -- Roland Perry

PCH survey on peering

2011-05-04 Thread Bill Woodcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Over the past several months, Packet Clearing House has been working on a survey of peering agreements, to which many of you responded. We are very grateful for your participation, and would like to share the resulting report:

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2011-05-04 Thread Joly MacFie
You may have seen the recent Freedom House report on Internet Freedomhttp://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=664that cited Estonia as the most free Internet in the world, and Iran as among the least. As we know Korea has some of the fastest, while Senegal is rapidly developing. SO this

Re: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread TR Shaw
On May 4, 2011, at 5:06 AM, James Aldridge wrote: On 04/05/2011 10:53, Leigh Porter wrote: This may be a silly question but.. How did it get in there? I'm assuming that it's not yet in there :-) I'd probably knock the wall down and fit a more reasonably sized door - 620mm (2') seems a

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jeffrey S. Young
On 04/05/2011, at 1:54 AM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: Multicast is an elegant solution to a dwindling problem set. And that is fundamentally where we disagree. I see this as not elegant at all. It is a fundamental part of the protocol suite. It is no more elegant than

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 09:43:53 +0100 Subject: OT: Server Cabinet From: Robert Lusby nano...@gmail.com Sorry to start the day OT, but I'm sure you lovely lot will have some tips/experience! ;) We have a HP Server Cabinet (42U 10842 G2), that we've stripped down to the bare-bones chassis.

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Joe Greco
Can you see where this is leading yet? Three obvious questions: 1) Have you ever had to fit a cabinet through a doorway that's too small? 2) How did you do it? Cut cabinet, demolish wall ...? 3) If you cut the cabinet, any tips? Comment: you need to recognize that you are 'making

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Dorn Hetzel
It's admittedly far from ideal in some ways, but a great way to deal with this sort of situation can be to get a pair of two-post open frame relay racks; most of them bolt together and can be put just about anywhere. Many times we forget that these can be used as the front and back of a

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Randy Carpenter
If you have a need for a 4-post rack, do not accomplish that by using 2 2-post racks. You will likely find that rack rails that are designed for a 4-post rack will not fit. Get an open-frame 4-post rack. It will come unassembled. It will also likely be no more costly that 2 2-post racks.

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Joe Greco wrote: Good comments so far. I didn't see this one though: It's admittedly far from ideal in some ways, but a great way to deal with this sort of situation can be to get a pair of two-post open frame relay racks; most of them bolt together and can be put just

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Robert Lusby nano...@gmail.com wrote: We have a HP Server Cabinet (42U 10842 G2), that we've stripped down to the bare-bones chassis. It now measures 750mm wide. We have a door-way that said server cabinet must fit through, measuring up at 620mm. Hi Rob, My

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Joe Greco
If you have a need for a 4-post rack, do not accomplish that by using 2 2-po= st racks. You will likely find that rack rails that are designed for a 4-pos= t rack will not fit. Why? With *any* rack, there are always scenarios where the rack rails for some random item don't end up fitting

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:09:33AM +0100, Robert Lusby wrote: And, no other entrance points. Room is below ground level, with a stupidly narrow door frame. Old client building, with a room not originally designed for purpose. I think folks can help you find a bolt

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net said: Now of course we have no idea what's going to be mounted in this, but it's an HP rack so I assume maybe HP servers, which tend towards the heavy. One thing about using a 2-post rack for servers that can be a problem is that most 2-post racks

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Joe Greco
Once upon a time, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net said: Now of course we have no idea what's going to be mounted in this, but it's an HP rack so I assume maybe HP servers, which tend towards the heavy. One thing about using a 2-post rack for servers that can be a problem is that most 2-post

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Jameel Akari
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Joe Greco wrote: If you have a need for a 4-post rack, do not accomplish that by using 2 2-po= st racks. You will likely find that rack rails that are designed for a 4-pos= t rack will not fit. Possibly, though you can usually order universal rails to fit tapped-hole

Re: [c-nsp] 7600 SXF and IPv6

2011-05-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 03, 2011 01:54:00 PM Jay Ford wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2011, vince anton wrote: Anyone has experiemces to share or known v6 issues with SXF (or v4 issues with v6 enabled for that matter), or should I be looking at SRC/SRD/SRE for 7600 ? I have 9 6500+SUP720-3BXL boxes with a

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Chaim Rieger
Do you have any kids ? If yes ask them to do it, leave and come back a few hours later

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Jason Baugher
On 5/4/2011 10:07 AM, Chaim Rieger wrote: Do you have any kids ? If yes ask them to do it, leave and come back a few hours later At last, a helpful answer! Seriously, disregarding all the helpful comments from everyone questioning your judgment in trying to move a large cabinet through a

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jeffrey S. Young yo...@jsyoung.net I think it's elegant, in think Deering did an incredible job to create it and some many years ago I played a role to bring multicast to the Internet at large. I believed that multicast would play a huge role in the

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Chaim Rieger chaim.rie...@gmail.com Do you have any kids ? If yes ask them to do it, leave and come back a few hours later And the Webby for Best Short Answer to a NANOG Question goes ... to. What's your 5 word acceptance speech, Chaim? Cheers, -- jra

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Tim Franklin
I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the world shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is amenable to multicast, and not well served by unicast, is likely to grow, and it would be a Good Idea to be ready for that situation already when it arrives. Really?

RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Leigh Porter
I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the world shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is amenable to multicast, and not well served by unicast, is likely to grow, and it would be a Good Idea to be ready for that situation already when it arrives.

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Scott Helms
On 5/4/2011 12:26 PM, Tim Franklin wrote: I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the world shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is amenable to multicast, and not well served by unicast, is likely to grow, and it would be a Good Idea to be ready for that

RE: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Barry Shein
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Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Leigh Porter leigh.por...@ukbroadband.com wrote: Agreed, it seems the only demand really for this live viewing is sport, news and background programming like the mentioned breakfast television. I disagree with the general notion that multicast is not useful

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Scott Helms
On 5/4/2011 2:07 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Leigh Porter leigh.por...@ukbroadband.com wrote: Agreed, it seems the only demand really for this live viewing is sport, news and background programming like the mentioned breakfast television. I disagree with the

Re: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
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RE: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Alex Rubenstein
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RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread George Bonser
I disagree with the general notion that multicast is not useful except for live content. Oh, there are all SORTS of things it would be well-suited for. Live content is just the lowest hanging fruit. WINDOWS UPDATES Most of us have some number of Windows machines on our networks,

Re: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Ken Chase
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Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Scott Helms khe...@ispalliance.net wrote: Local caching is MUCH more efficient than having the same traffic running in streams and depending on everyone's PC to try and update in the same time This only works, of course, if there is a local cache which PCs are

Rwhois not serving all records - it is almost working though.

2011-05-04 Thread Landon Stewart
Hello NANOG, I sent this information to the rwhoisd mailing list originally but I've been informed that the mailing list is mostly dead now. I hope this is not too far off-topic for NANOG. One person replied to me off-list from the rwhois mailing list and had some help but I haven't found a

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Steven Bellovin
On May 4, 2011, at 3:37 48PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Scott Helms khe...@ispalliance.net wrote: Local caching is MUCH more efficient than having the same traffic running in streams and depending on everyone's PC to try and update in the same time This only

Tech writer in Seattle

2011-05-04 Thread Raj Singh
Do anyone know of any good technical writer in Seattle/Bellevue area that we can contract for a month? Thanks Raj Please NOTE: This electronic message, including any attachments, may include privileged, confidential and/or inside information owned by Demand

Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes

2011-05-04 Thread Yaoqing(Joey) Liu
Thanks for clarifying this, actually I have a few more blocks with four origin ASNs that I'm not positive if they are anycast prefixes. Please help distinguish them if the provide anycast service. 27.130.0.0/16 58.147.0.0/20 58.147.0.0/17 58.147.16.0/20 58.147.64.0/20 58.147.80.0/20

Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes

2011-05-04 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-05-04, at 23:11, Yaoqing(Joey) Liu wrote: Thanks for clarifying this, actually I have a few more blocks with four origin ASNs that I'm not positive if they are anycast prefixes. Please help distinguish them if the provide anycast service. You could probably get a good distance

Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes

2011-05-04 Thread Yaoqing(Joey) Liu
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: On 2011-05-04, at 23:11, Yaoqing(Joey) Liu wrote: Thanks for clarifying this, actually I have a few more blocks with four origin ASNs that I'm not positive if they are anycast prefixes. Please help distinguish them if the

RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Wed, 4 May 2011, George Bonser wrote: There is a security aspect to such things, though, as how do you know the content is from a trusted source? That is the bugaboo with multicast. It needs to be information that isn't going to hurt anything if it is bogus. Also, it opens up a DoS

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jeff Wheeler j...@inconcepts.biz The potential savings is limited by the over-speed of the mcast stream vs real-time, and the density of mcast listener groups. Given that access network speeds continue to increase, yet ISPs are really not increasing

Re: Rwhois not serving all records - it is almost working though.

2011-05-04 Thread Larry Smith
Landon, By no means an expert in rwhoisd, but my net directory has the following: atrribute_defs directory data directory schema file soa file and the DATA directory contains the following: network directory org directory referral directory From what you describe it sounds like things

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 4, 2011 5:43:04 PM -0400, Jay Ashworth is alleged to have said: You know what would make this work *well*? If IAPs *didn't include mcast traffic in your cap*. Since the reason for their caps is, in the final analysis *to limit THEIR transit costs*, multicast would seem to be a

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jeff Young
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/05/2011, at 2:53 AM, Scott Helms wrote: On 5/4/2011 12:26 PM, Tim Franklin wrote: I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the world shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is amenable to multicast, and

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Tim Durack tdur...@gmail.com wrote: Multicast is a great technical solution in search of a good business problem. It's a useful replacement for broadcast on a local link. It's of limited utility elsewhere. On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:21 PM, George Bonser

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net --As of May 4, 2011 5:43:04 PM -0400, Jay Ashworth is alleged to have said: You know what would make this work *well*? If IAPs *didn't include mcast traffic in your cap*. Since the reason for their caps is, in the final

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 04 May 2011 18:20:09 EDT, William Herrin said: And of course such a cache system could work well for popular non-streamed content as well. Never quite linked up with someone interested in seeing an implementation though... I suspect to generate interest, it would have to be

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: No business is entitled to protection of its business model. Unless it has a market monopoly, deep pockets, and lobbyist friends. That does not mean they're *entitled* to it... just that they

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Jeremy Parr
On 4 May 2011 04:43, Robert Lusby nano...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to start the day OT, but I'm sure you lovely lot will have some tips/experience! ;) We have a HP Server Cabinet (42U 10842 G2), that we've stripped down to the bare-bones chassis. It now measures 750mm wide. We have a

Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes

2011-05-04 Thread Yaoqing(Joey) Liu
Hi NANOG, I manually extracted the origins and their org info for the announced block of prefixes. All these prefixes were observed being originated by at most four ASNs simultaneously. I suspect they provide anycast or IXP service, but not positive. Please confirm my conjecture if you know them.

RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread George Bonser
There is a security aspect to such things, though, as how do you know the content is from a trusted source? That is the bugaboo with multicast. It needs to be information that isn't going to hurt anything if it is bogus. Also, it opens up a DoS possibility with noise traffic sent to