Re: Enhancing automation with network growth

2010-01-26 Thread Andy Davidson
On 26/01/2010 00:48, Steve Bertrand wrote: My original post was completely concerned on automating the process of spinning traffic throughput graphs. Are there any software packages that stand out that have the ability to differentiate throughput between v4/v6, as opposed to the aggregate of

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:34:46 -0500 Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Jan 25, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Mathias Seiler wrote: Ok let's summarize: /64: +     Sticks to the way IPv6 was designed (64 bits

DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-26 Thread Tom Sands
With Guard appliance and 65xx module being EoL'd, and Cisco's desire to exist the DDoS mitigation market, I'd like to get some recommendations of what other products people are having good success with. We are looking for something that can support 3Gbps - 10Gbps, multi-tenancy, seamless

Re: DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Stewart
Arbor stuff comes to mind and works very well in our experiences Paul -- Paul Stewart Senior Network Administrator Nexicom Inc. http://www.nexicom.net/ - Original Message - From: Tom Sands tsa...@rackspace.com To: nanog na...@merit.edu Sent: Tue Jan 26

Fusion Splicers

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Hunt
Anyone here with any experience with Jilong fusion splicers ? Our old Fujikura has died and I have to at least consider the Jilong.

RE: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread TJ
-Original Message- From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 22:38 To: Owen DeLong Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Once you

RE: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread TJ
-Original Message- From: Mark Smith [mailto:na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 23:07 To: TJ Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links SNIP I didn't realize human friendly was even a nominal design

RE: DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-26 Thread Korten, Sean
One more for Arbor. -Original Message- From: David Freedman [mailto:david.freed...@uk.clara.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 8:17 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: DDoS mitigation recommendations Arbor stuff comes to mind and works very well in our experiences Arbor++ This

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 26/01/2010 13:35, TJ wrote: The US DoD has the equivalent of a /13 ... what is the question? In fact, they have a little less than a /18. This is still the largest block when aggregated - France Telecom comes second with a single /19.

Re: DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-26 Thread Stefan Fouant
There was an interesting thread on this topic a few weeks back. I really liked the Guards, it's too bad Cisco decided to pull this from the marketplace - it was as close to a panacea as it gets. As alternatives, I've worked with the Riorey boxes as well as Arbor gear. They are both very good

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread David Barak
From: Mark Smith na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org Why can't IPv6 node addressing be as easy to understand and work with as Ethernet addresses? They were designed in the early 1980s*. 28 years or so years later, it's time for layer 3 addressing to catch up. Becase

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Joe Maimon
Owen DeLong wrote: No, they're not impossible to exhaust, just pretty difficult. However, If we see exhaustion coming too soon in this /3, we can always apply a more conservative numbering policy to the next /3. (And still have 5 /3s left to innovate and try other alternatives). Owen

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Daniel Senie
On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: For me, the entire debate boils down to this question. What should the objective be, decades or centuries? If centuries, how many planets and moons will the address space cover? (If we as a species manages to spread beyond this world before we

Re: DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
The RioRey per prefix issue is fixed although the patch they released to us had a lot of bugs. Were still waiting on a working appliance with the new code. IntruGuard fits the bill and is probably 1/5th the cost of Arbor pound for pound. We use both RR and IG, each having their pros and cons.

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Joe Maimon
Daniel Senie wrote: On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: For me, the entire debate boils down to this question. What should the objective be, decades or centuries? If centuries, how many planets and moons will the address space cover? (If we as a species manages to spread

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Tim Durack
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Nathan Ward na...@daork.net wrote: Why do you force POP infrastructure to be a /48? That allows you only 16 POPs which is pretty restrictive IMO. Why not simply take say 4 /48s and sparsely allocate /56s to each POP and then grow the /56s if you require more

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Tim Durack
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: some of what you're saying (tim) here is that you could: (one of these) 1) go to all your remote-office ISP's and get a /48 from each 2) go to *RIR's and get /something to cover the number of remote sites you

unreachable Sites

2010-01-26 Thread Reynold Guerrier
I have been notified this morning by several people that there is some websites that are unreachable from Haiti: http://www.hostcentric.com, http://www.gama.ht those are examples. It happens with different ISP. When we change th DNS using the google one 8.8.8.8 it's ok for some but some others

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn
On 2010-01-26 at 10:05:29 -0500, Daniel Senie wrote: If centuries, how many planets and moons will the address space cover? (If we as a species manages to spread beyond this world before we destroy it). Will separate /3's, or subdivisions of subsequent /3's, be the best approach to

Re: unreachable Sites

2010-01-26 Thread Reynold Guerrier
It's Ok Now. Thanks for your replies. reynold On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Scott Berkman sc...@sberkman.net wrote: I was able to reach both of these from where I sit in Atlanta. -Scott -Original Message- From: Reynold Guerrier [mailto:rey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Ron Bonica
Chris, Discussion of draft-kohno-ipv6-prefixlen-p2p is on the IETF 6man WG mailing list. But please do chime in. Operator input very welcomed. Ron Christopher Morrow wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Mathias Seiler mathias.sei...@mironet.ch

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/26/10 7:43 AM, Tim Durack wrote: o will your remote-office's ISP's accept the /48's per site? (vz/vzb is a standout example here) Not too worried about VZ. Given that large content providers are getting end-site address space, I think they will have to adjust their stance. However,

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Ron Bonica rbon...@juniper.net wrote: Chris, Discussion of draft-kohno-ipv6-prefixlen-p2p is on the IETF 6man WG mailing list. But please do chime in. Operator input very welcomed. oh damned it! almost as many v6 ietf mailing lists as there are v6 addresses

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Grzegorz Janoszka
On 26-1-2010 1:33, Owen DeLong wrote: - Waste of addresses - Peer address needs to be known, impossible to guess with 2^64 addresses Most of us use ::1 for the assigning side and ::2 for the non-assigning side of the connection. On multipoints, such as exchanges, the popular

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Tim Durack tdur...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: some of what you're saying (tim) here is that you could: (one of these) 1) go to all your remote-office ISP's and get a /48 from each 2)

RE: DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-26 Thread Gerald Wluka
I am new to this mailing list - this should be a response to an already started thread that I cannot see: IntelliguardIT has a new class of network appliance that installs inline (layer 2 appliance). It has no impact on current network capacity and automatically manages flash crowds

Re: DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-26 Thread Ryan Brooks
On 1/26/10 11:56 AM, Gerald Wluka wrote: I am new to this mailing list We can tell. - this should be a response to an already started thread that I cannot see: ad deleted

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 26, 2010, at 6:54 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: Owen DeLong wrote: No, they're not impossible to exhaust, just pretty difficult. However, If we see exhaustion coming too soon in this /3, we can always apply a more conservative numbering policy to the next /3. (And still have 5 /3s

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Tim Durack wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: some of what you're saying (tim) here is that you could: (one of these) 1) go to all your remote-office ISP's and get a /48 from each 2) go to *RIR's and get

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Grzegorz Janoszka wrote: On 26-1-2010 1:33, Owen DeLong wrote: - Waste of addresses - Peer address needs to be known, impossible to guess with 2^64 addresses Most of us use ::1 for the assigning side and ::2 for the non-assigning side of the connection.

Re: Enhancing automation with network growth

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: Can anyone offer up ideas on how you manage any automation in this regard for their infrastructure gear traffic graphs? (Commercial options welcome, off-list, but we're as small as our budget is). By popular request, a list of the most suggested software packages. Some

Re: DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-26 Thread jul
Sorry but RTFM http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2010-January/thread.html#16675 Best regards

Re: DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-26 Thread Brian Raaen
On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Ryan Brooks wrote: On 1/26/10 11:56 AM, Gerald Wluka wrote: I am new to this mailing list We can tell. - this should be a response to an already started thread that I cannot see: ad deleted Ha, that's great. When will vendors learn

IOS family naming

2010-01-26 Thread Andrey Gordon
Hi List, Anyone recalls ever seeing the IOS naming convention document. In particular I'm interested in differences between families and trains. This is all I found: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/620/1.html#topic1 But im looking for something a bit more recent maybe? Can figure out

Re: IOS family naming

2010-01-26 Thread Arie Vayner
Andrey, I could not find a good link, but let me give you some info on SG, SGA, EW and EWA. All these trains are for the 4500 family (including 4900). They are just different generations. The EW (and then EWA) were the older trains for 4500, which were replaced by the SG trains. If I am not too

Re: IOS family naming

2010-01-26 Thread Philip Davis
Not sure how relevant this still is, but it explains some of the older ones. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1818/products_tech_note09186a0080101cda.shtml On 1/26/2010 4:21 PM, Arie Vayner wrote: Andrey, I could not find a good link, but let me give you some info on SG,

Re: IOS family naming

2010-01-26 Thread Matt Simmons
Have you checked out the IOS Feature Navigator? http://tools.cisco.com/ITDIT/CFN/jsp/index.jsp On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Philip Davis pda...@i2k.com wrote: Not sure how relevant this still is, but it explains some of the older ones.

Re: unreachable Sites

2010-01-26 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Reynold Guerrier rey...@gmail.com wrote: I have been notified this morning by several people that there is some websites that are unreachable from Haiti: http://www.hostcentric.com, http://www.gama.ht those are examples. It happens with different ISP. When we

RE: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Igor Gashinsky
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Matt Addison wrote: :: You're forgetting Matthew Petach's suggestion- reserve/assign a /64 for :: each PtP link, but only configure the first /126 (or whatever /126 you :: need to get an amusing peer address) on the link. Matt meant reserve/assign a /64 for each PtP link,

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Igor Gashinsky wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Matt Addison wrote: :: You're forgetting Matthew Petach's suggestion- reserve/assign a /64 for :: each PtP link, but only configure the first /126 (or whatever /126 you :: need to get an amusing peer address) on the link. Matt meant

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:38:43 -0800 (PST) David Barak thegame...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Mark Smith na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org Why can't IPv6 node addressing be as easy to understand and work with as Ethernet addresses? They were designed in the early 1980s*. 28

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:13:22 -0500 Tim Durack tdur...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Mark Smith na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:15:55 -0500 TJ trej...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't realize human friendly was even a

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Mark Smith na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org wrote: The general intent of the /48 allocation is that it is large enough for nearly everybody, with nearly everybody including all but the largest 'nearly everybody with a single site'

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:11:41 -0500 Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Mark Smith na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org wrote: The general intent of the /48 allocation is that it is large enough for nearly everybody,

RE: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Pekka Savola
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Igor Gashinsky wrote: Matt meant reserve/assign a /64 for each PtP link, but only configure the first */127* of the link, as that's the only way to fully mitigate the scanning-type attacks (with a /126, there is still the possibility of ping-pong on a p-t-p interface) w/o

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20100127160401.1a963...@opy.nosense.org, Mark Smith writes: Sure. However I think people are treating IPv6 as just IPv4 with larger addresses, yet not even thinking about what capabilities that larger addressing is giving them that don't or haven't existed in IPv4 for a very long

Ethernet Services cards types queue values

2010-01-26 Thread Burak Dikici
Hello, There is different types for the Cisco 7600 Series Ethernet Services cards. ( More expensive cards with high queue values and less expensive cards with low queue values.) http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps368/data_sheet_c78-549419.html Hardware queues ES Plus XT 40G

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:47:35 +0200 (EET) Pekka Savola pek...@netcore.fi wrote: On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Igor Gashinsky wrote: Matt meant reserve/assign a /64 for each PtP link, but only configure the first */127* of the link, as that's the only way to fully mitigate the scanning-type attacks