Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Erik Bais
We have a full purple network, so my answer for this would be Extreme Networks. Check out the Lipis report on the X670 / x670v 48 port 10G 1U switches. vs other vendor equipment : http://www.extremenetworks.com/libraries/products/ExtremeX670V_Lippis%20Report_Fall.pdf Regards, Erik Bais

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Grant Ridder
I have experience with the Extreme's Alpine, Blackdiamond, x250, and x450 and i discovered that the command line is fairly different than Cisco, HP, or Dell. However, since they are a relatively small company with a small but strong customer base, their support is fairly good. I can't speak for

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Tim Vollebregt
I would not recommend EX4500 as an 10G aggregator switch, it has really small buffers. EX3300 as TOR EX82** as 10G aggregator -Tim On 26-01-12 22:13, Raul Rodriguez wrote: Juniper EX4500. -RR On 1/26/12, Deric Kwokderic.kwok2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I would like to have 10G

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Fabien Delmotte
I worked for Extreme, and I deployed a lot of X650 (24 10G ports) for DataCenter environment. The box is really good. In fact if you use the box at a layer 2 it is perfect, BUT DON'T use their BGP code, they never understood what is BGP :) Regards Fabien Le 27 janv. 2012 à 09:54, Grant Ridder

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Leigh Porter
On 27 Jan 2012, at 10:21, Fabien Delmotte fdelmot...@mac.com wrote: I worked for Extreme, and I deployed a lot of X650 (24 10G ports) for DataCenter environment. The box is really good. In fact if you use the box at a layer 2 it is perfect, BUT DON'T use their BGP code, they never

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Randy Bush
Can internet in USA support that? Call of Duty 15 releases may 2014 and 30 million gamers start downloading a 20 GB files. Would the internet collapse like a house of cards?. not a problem. the vast majority of the states is like a developing country [0], the last mile is pretty much a tin

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Just curious to know at what bandwidth big ISP's like ATT, Verizon, Level3, Cogent etc are operating? Are all at or above 40Gbps core bandwidth? On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: Can internet in USA support that? Call of Duty 15 releases may 2014 and 30

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Randy Bush
Just curious to know at what bandwidth big ISP's like ATT, Verizon, Level3, Cogent etc are operating? Are all at or above 40Gbps core bandwidth? yes

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2012-01-27 11:35 +0100), Tei wrote: Theres also a rumour that these new consoles will require internet to download games. These games can weigth 9 to 20 GB. That may be 30 million users in USA, maybe 50 worldwide. Source to these rumours? It seems ridiculous thought, considering you can

Re: Hotmail.com/live.com email admin needed

2012-01-27 Thread Rich Kulawiec
You'll probably have better luck with such requests on the mailop list; that's what it's for (among other things). ---rsk

RE: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread James Braunegg
How small is the buffer on the EX4500 ?? Kindest Regards James Braunegg W:  1300 769 972  |  M:  0488 997 207 |  D:  (03) 9751 7616 E:   james.braun...@micron21.com  |  ABN:  12 109 977 666   This message is intended for the addressee named above. It may contain privileged or confidential

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Tim Vollebregt
2,5MB shared approximately. Aggregating 10G with microbursts is definately a no-go on such box. -Tim On 27-01-12 12:33, James Braunegg wrote: How small is the buffer on the EX4500 ?? Kindest Regards James Braunegg W: 1300 769 972 | M: 0488 997 207 | D: (03) 9751 7616 E:

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:35:49 +0100, Tei said: Theres also a rumour that these new consoles will require internet to download games. Apply some logic here - is it in the vendor's best interests to *require* internet to download games? As somebody else pointed out, there's an awful lot of

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Jared Mauch
It's already done on a similar scale when apple releases new software for their mobile devices. Just don't do it if you are on a low cap plan (eg: mobile, satellite etc). Caps will be the new market discriminator IMHO. Jared Mauch On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:35 AM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com

RE: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Drew Weaver
I would like to point out that in my experience if you do a lot of coding/devops/automation work with SNMP extreme is a lot harder to work with than Cisco and some of their OIDs/MIBs produce unusual results. Thanks, -Drew -Original Message- From: Grant Ridder

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread -Hammer-
Here's your baseline: Sony Vita. They already tossed the UMD out with the PSP-GO and that failed miserably. Now they are trying again to go to digital only with the Vita. It's not the scale of PS3 or XBOX360 but it may be a good way to gauge the potential success of the concept. -Hammer- I

RE: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Eric Tykwinski
The PS Vita still uses a proprietary memory card format, so it's not just download only. The best example of download only would be OnLive, which basically is a game system that only delivers on demand games. IMHO, it's the market that will determine whether this is the right choice in the long

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread -Hammer-
Now we are venturing OT but I thought the format was proprietary but you still had to get the content on the memory via the glorious Internet? Are you saying I can go to Gamestop and buy a stick with whatever game I'm looking for? Is that the plan? -Hammer- I was a normal American nerd -Jack

RE: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Eric Tykwinski
That's the case, but yeah, definitely off-topic... http://www.gamestop.com/ps-vita/games/uncharted-golden-abyss-ps-vita/91436 Which would be on-topic, though. If anyone knows of an OnLive box just to check out the bandwidth usage, I would be interested. Sincerely, Eric Tykwinski TrueNet, Inc.

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Fabien Delmotte
Only for a full table BGP, in fact it is not able to learn a full BGP table. The X480 could do it, but it is very slow and they miss some features Fabien Le 27 janv. 2012 à 11:25, Leigh Porter a écrit : On 27 Jan 2012, at 10:21, Fabien Delmotte fdelmot...@mac.com wrote: I worked for

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Fabien Delmotte
You can use BGP only for the default route no more :) forget a full view Le 27 janv. 2012 à 15:34, Fabien Delmotte a écrit : Only for a full table BGP, in fact it is not able to learn a full BGP table. The X480 could do it, but it is very slow and they miss some features Fabien Le 27

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Fabien Delmotte
Partially agree, Extreme has a quit good TCL implementation, and you can develop a lot of things around that. The system is able to reconfigure itself without external management console (SNMP) Fabien Le 27 janv. 2012 à 14:53, Drew Weaver a écrit : I would like to point out that in my

RE: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Matthew Huff
From what I've read, the XBOX 720 is still going to have traditional distribution but also including online purchasing (think Steam). The goal is to go with a key system to play the game. I think the idea you will be able to register the game via phone, or other means as well. However, their

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Alain Hebert
Hi, We like the purple too. But their licensing scheme is starting to get in our way. We're going to choose Brocade for a our new 10G Metro rings. ( Watch out for Brocade 10G licensing per set of ports... ) PS: OP you never told us for which application. Good

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Sean Harlow
It doesn't have to. Look at Steam on the PC, where digital distribution has been the norm for years (I literally can't remember the last physical copy PC game I purchased). Preorder a game and it gets preloaded in an encrypted form days to weeks in advance of release. On release day, the

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Sean Harlow
I don't know if the box uses any different settings, but using the Windows client on my PC with quality maxed just now I saw a consistent 5.35mbit/sec during action sequences and fast-paced cutscenes, much less of course in menus and such. -- Sean Harlow s...@seanharlow.info On Jan 27,

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Tei wrote: Can internet in USA support that? Call of Duty 15 releases may 2014 and 30 million gamers start downloading a 20 GB files. Would the internet collapse like a house of cards?. I don't see a problem with supporting this. As other posters have said, any

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Anurag Bhatia wrote: Just curious to know at what bandwidth big ISP's like ATT, Verizon, Level3, Cogent etc are operating? Are all at or above 40Gbps core bandwidth? Probably a mix of 10G, 40G and 100G as appropriate. By 2014, that might tilt more heavily toward 40G and

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Ray Soucy
This is already very normal (tens of millions of people doing this). World of Warcraft, RIFT, and Star Wars: The Old Republic, etc. are all around 20G of downloads. Sure they have boxed versions, but after you install them they need another 10G of patches to download (looking at you, Blizzard).

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Ray Soucy
Well, those are the numbers we can see from a single transceiver (right now mostly 10G and some 40G right now, and 100G on its way); but most of the big players are using multiples of these with DWDM and link aggregation. I'd say the actual numbers are closer to 680G average right now, per path.

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Hello Ray You are refering to dark fiber capacity or is that lit capacity and already in use? On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: Well, those are the numbers we can see from a single transceiver (right now mostly 10G and some 40G right now, and 100G on its way);

RE: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service

2012-01-27 Thread Thomas Cooper
Digital distribution like Steam have the infrastructure built for it. The entry fee for independent and smaller devs to Steam is way way lower than all the licensing crap that Microsoft offers with their XBLA, and for the larger companies, it costs next to nothing to host it digitally as

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Bao Nguyen
+1 Arista. -bn 0216331C On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Rodrick Brown rodrick.br...@gmail.comwrote: Not to mention Arista's cli runs a busybox Linux inside! Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2012, at 9:02 PM, Tom Sands tsa...@rackspace.com wrote: Arista is good but depends on the

10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread bas
Hi, Is there a reason switch vendors 1U TOR 10GE aggregation switches are all cut-through and there are no models with deep buffers? I've ben looking at all vendors I can think of and all have the same models. TOR switches as cut-through with little buffers, and chassis based boxes with deep

Re: LX sfp minimum range

2012-01-27 Thread Steven Tardy
On 01/26/12 16:33, Pierre-Yves Maunier wrote: LX can work on both. It can happends that SX works on singlemode but it can fail anytime. LX over multimode fibre is documented on Cisco SFP/GBICs datasheets.

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Ray Soucy
Cogent, for example, openly advertises 680G lit capacity for its intercity links; I have not idea if that's just marketing or not. Perhaps some people on list who work for these providers can provide some data. On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Anurag Bhatia m...@anuragbhatia.com wrote: Hello

Re: LX sfp minimum range

2012-01-27 Thread Pierre-Yves Maunier
2012/1/27 Steven Tardy s...@its.msstate.edu On 01/26/12 16:33, Pierre-Yves Maunier wrote: It can happends that SX works on singlemode but it can fail anytime. just because you can doesn't mean you should. we have experience multiple cases where LX-MMF-LX works great for 3-5+ years...

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2012-01-27 17:35 +0100), bas wrote: Chassis: Juniper EX8200-8XS512MB/10GE Cisco WS-X6708-10GE 32MB/10GE (or 24MB) Cisco N7K-M132XP-12 36MB/10GE Arista DCS-7548S-LC 48MB/10GE Brocade BR-MLX-10Gx8-X128MB/10GE (not sure) 1GE

Re: ANNOUNCE: bgptables.merit.edu - understanding visibility of your prefix/AS

2012-01-27 Thread Manish Karir
All, Just a quick update on various feedback we have received from folks on the bgpTables Project (http://bgptables.merit.edu) 1: You can now simply enter an AS number in the search/query box without the need to prepend the letters as before the number 2: You can now lookup an IP address

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-27 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/27/12 7:52 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: This is already very normal (tens of millions of people doing this). World of Warcraft, RIFT, and Star Wars: The Old Republic, etc. are all around 20G of downloads. Sure they have boxed versions, but after you install them they need another 10G of

RE: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread Tom Ammon
The HP6600 is a store and forward, not a cut-through. The HP reps that I have dealt with seem to be pretty open to sharing architecture drawings of their stuff, so I bet you could probably get your hands on the same one that I have. Their NDA is a mutual disclosure, though, so that might make

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Erik Bais
Hi Fabien, I strongly have to disagree with you. We run a full bgp implementation on Extreme in our network and are very pleased with it and the support that we get from Extreme. One of our x480's we run has about 1.4 milj learned routes and another has around 200 bgp peers on the AMS-iX... So

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread Grant Ridder
I agree with the previous statement. The previous company i worked for had a pair of x450's with the full bgp internet routing table and they worked just fine. -Grant On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Erik Bais eb...@a2b-internet.com wrote: Hi Fabien, I strongly have to disagree with you.

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-27 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Today it looks like we have received the letter from the DOJ which gives us login information, for listing of ip's within our network that where affected with date and time stamps. Anyone else get these yet? Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 101 Haskins Way, So. San

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-27 Thread Bryan Horstmann-Allen
+-- | On 2012-01-27 18:12:16, Carlos Alcantar wrote: | | Today it looks like we have received the letter from the DOJ which gives | us login information, for listing of ip's within our network that where | affected with

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-27 Thread Randy Epstein
Bit odd, if it's a phish. Even more odd if it's actually from the Fed. Cheers. -- bdha cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk. It's for real. Yes, it's really odd and wasteful. Randy

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-27 Thread Mike
On 01/27/2012 10:16 AM, Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote: +-- | On 2012-01-27 18:12:16, Carlos Alcantar wrote: | | Today it looks like we have received the letter from the DOJ which gives | us login information, for listing

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:16:27 EST, Bryan Horstmann-Allen said: Bit odd, if it's a phish. Even more odd if it's actually from the Fed. What if it's a phish from a compromised Fed box? :) pgpIlK6iR0Hh4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread James McMurry
We have used both Arista and the LG-Ericsson switches, both have done very well, and both have a great $/value proposition. We use the Solarflare boards in an upcoming product ourselves, and they have been quite dependable, and again the performance is great. Just our 2 cents jim

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-27 Thread Randy Epstein
On 1/27/12 1:23 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:16:27 EST, Bryan Horstmann-Allen said: Bit odd, if it's a phish. Even more odd if it's actually from the Fed. What if it's a phish from a compromised Fed box? :) We've spoken to folks at

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-27 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I'll admit there tokens are a bit crazy I had to enter it in about 5 times to figure out if the characters where 1's l's I's ect. Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com

Customer service (was Re: US DOJ victim letter)

2012-01-27 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Mike wrote: Honestly, I could care less about customer virus infections. I am not going to do anything with the information and am likely to ignore future occurrences from the fbi if this is all they got. Each ISP will makes its own business decision what they want to do.

Weekly Routing Table Report

2012-01-27 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. The posting is sent to APOPS, NANOG, AfNOG, AusNOG, SANOG, PacNOG, LacNOG, TRNOG, CaribNOG and the RIPE Routing Working Group. Daily listings are sent to

MD5?

2012-01-27 Thread Brian Stengel
We have a potential customer that is asking for us to enable MD5 authentication on a TCP connection between two BGP peers? Is this still common practice today? Any potential problems or gotchas to keep in mind? Thanks! -- Brian Stengel KINBER Director of Operations bsten...@kinber.org

RE: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-27 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: Fabien Delmotte Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:20 AM To: Grant Ridder Cc: nanog list Subject: Re: 10G switchrecommendaton I worked for Extreme, and I deployed a lot of X650 (24 10G ports) for DataCenter environment. The box is really good. In fact if

Re: MD5?

2012-01-27 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/27/12 11:26 AM, Brian Stengel wrote: We have a potential customer that is asking for us to enable MD5 authentication on a TCP connection between two BGP peers? Is this still common practice today? Any potential problems or gotchas to keep in mind? Sprint requires it to enable remote

Re: MD5?

2012-01-27 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us wrote: On 1/27/12 11:26 AM, Brian Stengel wrote: We have a potential customer that is asking for us to enable MD5 authentication on a TCP connection between two BGP peers?  Is this still common practice today?  Any potential

RE: interim SIDR meeting at NANOG 54

2012-01-27 Thread Murphy, Sandra
I previously announced (http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2012-January/044095.html) the interim IETF SIDR (Secure Inter-Domain Routing) working group meeting that is being held on Thu Feb 7 in San Diego. Room arrangements are now complete. If you wish to attend, please register by sending

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-27 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote: +-- | On 2012-01-27 18:12:16, Carlos Alcantar wrote: | | Today it looks like we have received the letter from the DOJ which gives | us login information, for listing of

RE: interim SIDR meeting at NANOG 54

2012-01-27 Thread Murphy, Sandra
Thanks for the eyes who noticed my typo below. The meeting is being held Thu Feb 9. No matter how often I read over what I type, . --Sandy From: Murphy, Sandra Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:06 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: interim SIDR

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-27 Thread Harry Hoffman
We get these letters all of the time. They are indeed legit but pretty much worthless. About as good as some of our DMCA letters. Original Message From: Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org Sent: Fri, Jan 27, 2012 3:23 PM To: Bryan Horstmann-Allen b...@mirrorshades.net CC:

Re: MD5?

2012-01-27 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Christopher Morrow wrote: lots of folks still use it yes. is it helpful? maybe? maybe not? is this peering over a shared media (like a 10base-T hub). You might point out that you'll be enabling this, then promptly writing the 'secret' on a large whiteboard in your noc...

Re: MD5?

2012-01-27 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Christopher Morrow wrote: lots of folks still use it yes. is it helpful? maybe? maybe not? is this peering over a shared media (like a 10base-T hub). You might point out that you'll be enabling this, then

RE: MD5?

2012-01-27 Thread George Bonser
All that may be true, but still, the random hacker in Romania who wants in on their BGP session won't know the secret...probably. -- Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you

MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-27 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
MD5 on BGP sessions is the canonical example of a cure worse than the disease. There has been /infinitely/ more downtime caused by MD5 than the mythical attack it protects again. (This is true because anything times zero is still zero.) It is far easier to take a router out than try to

Re: MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-27 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: MD5 on BGP sessions is the canonical example of a cure worse than the disease.  There has been /infinitely/ more downtime caused by MD5 than the mythical attack it protects again.  (This is true because anything

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread bas
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Saku Ytti s...@ytti.fi wrote: On (2012-01-27 17:35 +0100), bas wrote: But generally nice list, especially the 10GE fixed config looked realistic, sometimes I wish we'd have 'dpreview' style page for routers and switches, especially now with dozen or more

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:40:03PM +0100, bas wrote: But do you generally agree that the market has a requirement for a deep-buffer TOR switch? Or am I crazy for thinking that my customers need such a solution? You're crazy. :) You need to google bufferbloat, which

BGP Update Report

2012-01-27 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 19-Jan-12 -to- 26-Jan-12 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS840253911 3.0% 32.8 -- CORBINA-AS OJSC Vimpelcom 2 - AS28683 46880 2.6%

The Cidr Report

2012-01-27 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Jan 27 21:12:43 2012 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date

Re: MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-27 Thread Grzegorz Janoszka
On 27-01-12 21:52, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Who would want to reset a BGP that will come back up in 30-90 seconds when you can packet an entire router off the 'Net easier, more quickly, and for longer a period? +1 Actually, when you have lot of MD5 BGP session coming up at the same time (a

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread bas
Hi, On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org wrote: In a message written on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:40:03PM +0100, bas wrote: But do you generally agree that the market has a requirement for a deep-buffer TOR switch? Or am I crazy for thinking that my customers need

RE: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread George Bonser
Buffers in most network gear is bad, don't do it. +1 I'm amazed at how many will spend money on switches with more buffering but won't take steps to ease the congestion. Part of the reason is trying to convince non-technical people that packet loss in and of itself doesn't have to be a

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread bas
While I agree _again_! It does not explain why TOR boxes have little buffers and chassis box have many. On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:36 PM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: Buffers in most network gear is bad, don't do it. +1 I'm amazed at how many will spend money on switches

Re: MD5?

2012-01-27 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 1/27/12 12:35 , Christopher Morrow wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Christopher Morrow wrote: lots of folks still use it yes. is it helpful? maybe? maybe not? is this peering over a shared media (like a 10base-T hub). You

RE: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: bas Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:54 PM To: George Bonser Subject: Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton) While I agree _again_! It does not explain why TOR boxes have little buffers and chassis box have many.

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:30:14PM +0100, bas wrote: While your reasoning holds truth it does not explain why the expensive chassis solution (good) makes my customers happy, and the cheaper TOR solution makes my customers unhappy. Bufferbloat does not matter to them

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread bas
Hi, On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:54 PM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: My customers want to buffer 10 to 24 * 10GE in a 1 or 2 10GE uplinks to do this they need some buffers Bas It might be cheaper for them to go to 3 or 4 10G uplinks than to replace all their switch hardware.

Re: MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-27 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Your network, your decision. On my network, we do not do MD5. We do more traffic than anyone and have to be in the top 10 of total eBGP peering sessions on the planet. Guess how many times we've seen anyone even attempt this

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread bas
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:01 AM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: Going to 4 10G aggregated uplinks instead of 2 might get you a much better performance boost than increasing buffers. But it really depends on the end to end application. Also these TOR boxes go to my (more expensive

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread bas
Hi, The margin on a top-of-rack switch is very low.  48 port gige with 10GE uplinks are basically commodity boxes, with plenty of competition. Saving $100 on the bill of materials by cutting out some buffer makes the box more competitive when it's at a $2k price point. The list of 10GE TOR

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 1/27/12 14:53 , bas wrote: While I agree _again_! It does not explain why TOR boxes have little buffers and chassis box have many. you need purportionally more buffer when you need to drain 16 x 10 gig into 4 x 10Gig then when you're trying to drain 10Gb/s into 2 x 1Gb/s there's

Re: MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-27 Thread Keegan Holley
2012/1/27 Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net: On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Your network, your decision.  On my network, we do not do MD5.  We do more traffic than anyone and have to be in the top 10 of total eBGP peering sessions on the planet.  Guess how many

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 1/27/12 15:01 , George Bonser wrote: -Original Message- From: bas Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:54 PM To: George Bonser Subject: Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton) While I agree _again_! It does not explain why TOR boxes have little buffers

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread bas
Hi All, On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: On 1/27/12 14:53 , bas wrote: While I agree _again_! It does not explain why TOR boxes have little buffers and chassis box have many. you need purportionally more buffer when you need to drain 16 x 10

Re: MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-27 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Keegan Holley keegan.hol...@sungard.com wrote: realizes that it's ok to let gig-e auto-negotiate.  I've never really seen MD5 cause issues. I have run into plenty of problems caused by MD5-related bugs. 6500/7600 can still figure the MSS incorrectly when using

Re: MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-27 Thread Keegan Holley
2012/1/27 Jeff Wheeler j...@inconcepts.biz: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Keegan Holley keegan.hol...@sungard.com wrote: realizes that it's ok to let gig-e auto-negotiate.  I've never really seen MD5 cause issues. I have run into plenty of problems caused by MD5-related bugs. 6500/7600

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 1/27/12 15:40 , bas wrote: Hi All, On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: On 1/27/12 14:53 , bas wrote: While I agree _again_! It does not explain why TOR boxes have little buffers and chassis box have many. you need purportionally more buffer

Re: MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-27 Thread Zaid Ali
I am in the camp of no MD5 in general and more specifically IX. It is a real pain to manage MD5 and no network in my experience has ever implemented a sustainable solution. There is no BCP that folks follow so generally its a verbal agreement that someone in either party will maintain the record.

Re: MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-27 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 27, 2012, at 6:20 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Your network, your decision. On my network, we do not do MD5. We do more traffic than anyone and have to be in the top 10 of total eBGP peering sessions on the planet. Guess how many

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 27 Jan 2012, at 23:08, bas kilo...@gmail.com wrote: Im my (our) busines model _is_ the internet connectivity... We could give the customer double the port capacity, if they were willing to pay, but in real life they do not care... While all respondents replies hold truth a (technial

RE: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread George Bonser
It is also possible and in fact easy to have enough to accumulate latency in places where you should be discarding packets earlier. I'd rather not be in either situation, but in the later I can police my way out of it. That is why I added the it depends on the end to end application

RE: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread George Bonser
I assumed since he was asking about a top of rack (TOR) switch, he was actually using it as a top of rack switch and adding a couple more uplinks to his core would be cheaper than replacing all the hardware. Not understanding the topology and the application makes good recommendations a crap

pontification bloat (was 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton))

2012-01-27 Thread Randy Bush
for those who say bufferbloat is a problem, do you have wred enabled on backbone or customer links? randy

Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)

2012-01-27 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 04:00:36PM -0800, Joel jaeggli wrote: And people who care have been using something other than a c6500 for years. it's a 15 year old architecture, and it's had a pretty good run, but it's 2012. One of the frustrating things, which the c6500

Re: pontification bloat (was 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton))

2012-01-27 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:06:20AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: for those who say bufferbloat is a problem, do you have wred enabled on backbone or customer links? For *most backbone networks* it is a no-op on the backbone. To be more precise, if the backbone is at least 10x,

Re: pontification bloat (was 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton))

2012-01-27 Thread Randy Bush
for those who say bufferbloat is a problem, do you have wred enabled on backbone or customer links? For *most backbone networks* it is a no-op on the backbone. To be more precise, if the backbone is at least 10x, and preferably more like 50x faster than the largest single TCP flow from any

Re: pontification bloat (was 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton))

2012-01-27 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:31:20AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: when a line card is designed to buffer the b*d of a trans-pac 40g, the oddities on an intra-pop link have been observed to spike to multiple seconds. Please turn that buffer down. It's bad enough to take a 100ms

Re: pontification bloat (was 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton))

2012-01-27 Thread Randy Bush
when a line card is designed to buffer the b*d of a trans-pac 40g, the oddities on an intra-pop link have been observed to spike to multiple seconds. Please turn that buffer down. not my router. research probes seeing fun anomalies around the global network. cribbing from a previous ob

Re: pontification bloat (was 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton))

2012-01-27 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:31:20AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: (embarrassed to say, but to set an honest example, i do not believe iij does) I also want to take this opportunity to say there are some cool new features (that I have not had a chance to deploy myself) that may

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