Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Seth Mattinen: In the past I've always used /30's for PTP connection subnets out of old habit (i.e. Ethernet that won't take unnumbered) but now I'm considering switching to /31's in order to stretch my IPv4 space further. Has anyone else does this? Good? Bad? Bad. For some systems, such

Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Mathias Seiler
Hi In reference to the discussion about /31 for router links, I d'like to know what is your experience with IPv6 in this regard. I use a /126 if possible but have also configured one /64 just for the link between two routers. This works great but when I think that I'm wasting 2^64 - 2

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Mathias Seiler wrote: So what do you think? Good? Bad? Ugly? /127 ? ;) This thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nsp/ipv6/20788 had a long discussion regarding this topic. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 23, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nsp/ipv6/20788 A couple of points for thought: 1. Yes, the IPv6 address space is unimaginably huge. Even so, when every molecule in every soda can in the world has its own IPv6 address in years

Re: UC phone system for Haiti (was Katrina Response)

2010-01-23 Thread Israel Lopez-LISTS
Hey guys, Just to add to the thread, I am helping run the LA/OC Event. We just started a google group called CRISISTELECOM right now its in alpha stage; the more expertise we have the better we can discuss how to help now and for future situations.

Foundry CLI manual?

2010-01-23 Thread David Hubbard
Anyone have the Foundry/Brocade CLI reference PDF they could send me? Brocade feels you should have a support contract to have a list of commands the hardware you purchased offers and I'm having difficulty with a oc12 pos module. Thanks, David

Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC

2010-01-23 Thread Zartash Uzmi
Just to be technically correct: Even if you could, you wouldn't do that with 1/8 and 2/8: will need to pair up 2/8 with 3/8! On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Richard Barnes richard.bar...@gmail.comwrote: To echo and earlier post, what's the operational importance of assigning adjacent /8s?

Re: Foundry CLI manual?

2010-01-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:51:57AM -0500, David Hubbard wrote: Anyone have the Foundry/Brocade CLI reference PDF they could send me? Brocade feels you should have a support contract to have a list of commands the hardware you purchased offers and I'm having difficulty with a oc12 pos

Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC

2010-01-23 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:40 PM, Joe Provo wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:13:39PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: [snip] Some of that water is dirtier than the rest. I wouldn't want to be the person who gets 1.2.3.0/24 Yeah, I encountered some lovely wireless hotspots that use visit

Status as of Friday COB @ Boutillers, Port au Prince, Haiti

2010-01-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
[sent to a smaller distribution yesterday evening, now to NANOG for wider information and coordination purposes, ebw] All I am looking into booking Reynold's wife and children into short-term lodging in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic or in a nearby island. There has been some progress on

Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Tony Varriale
That's a vendor specific issue. Maybe you could take it up with them and ask what year they think this is? tv - Original Message - From: Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de To: Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us Cc: nanOG list nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 4:06 AM

Best Practices - BGP community to signal transit announces.

2010-01-23 Thread Patrick Tracanelli
Hello Nanogers, I am acting as transit for a number of ASNs, and my upstream peers do filter my announces (as they should as I understand). Therefore I am in the way to set up a community agreement with 'em asking 'em to allow my transit announces for a certain community I wil signal 'em up.

Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Michael Sokolov
Mark Smith na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org wrote: What about NAT, ATM cell tax, unnecessary addressing fields in PTP protocols (including your beloved HDLC), SSAP, DSAP fields not being big enough in 802.2 necessitating SNAP, IPX directly over 802.3, AAL1 through

Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Jens Link
Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: Bad. For some systems, such tricks work to some degree only due to lack of input validation, and you get failures down the road (ARP ceases to work, packet filters are not applied properly and other fun). I never had any problems using Cisco to

Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Jens Link
Chris Costa cco...@cenic.org writes: We recently did a backbone router upgrade and the vendor surprisingly didn't support /31's. Mind dropping a name? Jens -- - | Foelderichstr. 40 | 13595 Berlin, Germany |

Re: Foundry CLI manual?

2010-01-23 Thread Jens Link
Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net writes: Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login, but the list of manuals is not. Outch. Personally I don't like when company's hides documentation or require me to register (or even get a support contract) to read the

Re: Network Bandwidth Reporting Tool

2010-01-23 Thread Andy Davidson
On 22 Jan 2010, at 02:13, Isaac Conway wrote: I am curious what tools you use to generate monthly usage and billing reports This : I was thinking about writing some quick scripts to poll the router interfaces and put it to database, Mainly because organisations have different methods for

RE: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Erik L
As for ATM... The part that totally baffles me about the use of ATM on xDSL lines is that I have never, ever, ever seen an xDSL line carrying more than one ATM VC. OK, there may be someone out there who has set up a configuration like that just for fun, but 99.999% of all ATM'd xDSL

Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Robert Glover
[Michael Sokolov said:] *snip* but 99.999% of all ATM'd xDSL lines out there carry a single PVC at 0*35 or 0*38. So what then is the point of running ATM?!?! *snip* We've got several ADSL and SDSL circuits that carry two PVC's: 0/35 and 0/36. Covad has a product called Voice Optimized

Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Tony Varriale: That's a vendor specific issue. Maybe you could take it up with them and ask what year they think this is? I think they support it on point-to-point media only, which seems sufficient for RFC 3021 compliance. Ethernet is a different story, unfortunately.

Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Michael Sokolov wrote: That is why I hate Ethernet with a passion. Ethernet should be for LANs only; using Ethernet for WANs and PTP links is the vilest invention in the entire history of data networking in my opinion. Ah, but who's to say that all PTP links are WANs? Are you really

Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Michael Sokolov
Stephen Sprunk step...@sprunk.org wrote: Ah, but who's to say that all PTP links are WANs? Are you really going to run an OC-48 from one router to another _in the same building_ when you need 1Gb/s between them? Can't say - I have never needed that much bandwidth. :) I still live in an

Re: Foundry CLI manual?

2010-01-23 Thread Bjørn Mork
Jens Link li...@quux.de writes: Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net writes: Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login, but the list of manuals is not. Outch. Personally I don't like when company's hides documentation or require me to register (or even get

Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 1/23/10 11:52 AM, Michael Sokolov wrote: Oh, and yet another soapbox of mine, an xDSL modem that puts out V.35 instead of goddamn Ethernet would be a true modem: a modulator/demodulator that modulates/demodulates the bits at the electrical level without caring about what's in those bits.

Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Michael Sokolov
Brielle Bruns br...@2mbit.com wrote: Back in the days of Rhythms and Copper Mountain gear, Netopia had the D series routers which were actually xDSL to DSU units. Yes, I am very familiar with them: http://ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG/OpenSDSL/existing_cpe/netopia/dsu.html As that page explains, they

Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
Michael Sokolov wrote: Wait a moment here. With a MAN/WAN involving wires/fiber running over public property, what one is paying for is the right to use those wires for your data, right? The wires themselves do NOT run Ethernet at the electrical level, so if you have some MAN/WAN Ethernet

CRISISTELCOM2 is entry for Helping

2010-01-23 Thread Everett Batey
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Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-23 Thread Robert Bonomi
From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi@nanog.org Fri Jan 22 21:16:53 201G Subject: Re: Anyone see a game changer here? From: Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:16:03 -0500 To: Bruce Williams williams.br...@gmail.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org On Jan 22, 2010,

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:50:00 + Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Jan 23, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nsp/ipv6/20788 A couple of points for thought: 1.Yes, the IPv6 address space is unimaginably huge. Even so,

Re: Foundry CLI manual?

2010-01-23 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:25:28 +0100 Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no wrote: Jens Link li...@quux.de writes: Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net writes: Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login, but the list of manuals is not. Outch. Personally I don't like

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 24, 2010, at 4:43 AM, Mark Smith wrote: That's a new bit of FUD. References? It isn't 'FUD'. redistribute connected. --- Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net // http://www.arbornetworks.com Injustice is relatively

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread James Hess
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Jan 23, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil --Donald Knuth A couple of points for

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 24, 2010, at 6:07 AM, James Hess wrote: Then obviously, it's giving every molecule in every soda can an IP address that is the waste that matters. There are several orders of magnitude between the number of molecules in a soda can (~65000 times as many) as the number of additional

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Mathias Seiler mathias.sei...@mironet.ch wrote: Hi In reference to the discussion about /31 for router links, I d'like to know what is your experience with IPv6 in this regard. I use a /126 if possible but have also configured one /64 just for the link

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Mathias Seiler mathias.sei...@mironet.ch wrote: Hi In reference to the discussion about /31 for router links, I d'like to know what is your experience with IPv6 in this

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:04:26 + Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Jan 24, 2010, at 4:43 AM, Mark Smith wrote: That's a new bit of FUD. References? It isn't 'FUD'. redistribute connected. In my opinion it's better not to do blind redistribution. More control means

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:08:05 -0500 Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Mathias Seiler mathias.sei...@mironet.ch wrote: Hi In reference to the discussion about /31 for router links, I d'like to know what is your experience with IPv6 in this

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Mark Smith na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org wrote: On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:08:05 -0500 Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Mathias Seiler mathias.sei...@mironet.ch wrote: Hi In

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread James Hess
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: It isn't 'FUD'. redistribute connected. In that case, the fault would lie just as much with the unconditional redistribution policy, as the addressing scheme, which is error-prone in and of itself. No matter how you

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 1/23/2010 8:24 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jan 23, 2010, at 4:52 AM, Mathias Seiler wrote: In reference to the discussion about /31 for router links, I d'like to know what is your experience with IPv6 in this regard. I use a /126 if possible but have also configured one /64 just for the link

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Sometimes good enough perfect Never know what is going to come along to turn your addressing plan on its head. -brandon On 1/23/10, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: On 1/23/2010 8:24 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jan 23, 2010, at 4:52 AM, Mathias Seiler wrote: In reference to the

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:55:52 -0600 Brandon Galbraith brandon.galbra...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes good enough perfect Never know what is going to come along to turn your addressing plan on its head. It seems to me that what this really is about is trying to be in the best position in

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Owen DeLong
That's why we have the safety valve... 2000::/3 is the total address space being issued currently. So, if we discover that there aren't enough /64s like we currently think there are, then, before we start issuing from 4000::/3, we can have a new address plan for that address space while leaving

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 1/23/2010 9:47 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: 64 bits is enough networks that if each network was an almond MM, you would be able to fill all of the great lakes with MMs before you ran out of /64s. Did somebody once say something like that about Class C addresses? The number of /24s in all of

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:52:21PM +0100, Mathias Seiler wrote: I use a /126 if possible but have also configured one /64 just for the link between two routers. This works great but when I think that I'm wasting 2^64 - 2 addresses here it feels plain wrong. So what do

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-23 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Gadi Evron g...@linuxbox.org wrote: I just wrote a blog on the subject called the fog of cyberwar: http://darkreading.com/blog/archives/2010/01/fog_of_cyberwar.html In short: While we are all talking of Google's morals and US/China diplomacy, there are some

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-23 Thread Gadi Evron
On 1/24/10 6:37 AM, Damian Menscher wrote: So... you're taking incomplete information hyped up by tech reporters operating based on leaks from people tangential to an investigation as fact, and deciding that if Google doesn't tell you the details of an ongoing criminal investigation that you'll

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-23 Thread Gadi Evron
On 1/24/10 7:20 AM, Gadi Evron wrote: On 1/24/10 6:37 AM, Damian Menscher wrote: So... you're taking incomplete information hyped up by tech reporters operating based on leaks from people tangential to an investigation as fact, and deciding that if Google doesn't tell you the details of an

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-23 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Gadi Evron g...@linuxbox.org wrote: On 1/24/10 6:37 AM, Damian Menscher wrote: So... you're taking incomplete information hyped up by tech reporters operating based on leaks from people tangential to an investigation as fact, and deciding that if Google

looking for Rogers Wireless DNS contact

2010-01-23 Thread Jan Koum
hi there, looks like Rogers Wireless is the only mobile carrier in the world that does not want to resolve our server hostname correctly. anybody from Rogers Wireless here who can help or can point me in the right direction? thanks, -- jan