Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/20/2014 10:47 PM, David Miller wrote: Unless I am reading the tea leaves wrong "competition" will require "regulation". "regulation" prevents "competition". That is why people want regulation. Look at this thread at the people who do not want to be competed-with at L1, for example. --

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2014-03-20 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Bryan Fields wrote: > On 3/20/14, 12:34 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: >> The solution seems to be competition or regulation. > I'd prefer competition to regulation. When regulation is done well, competition is the result. Consider the following hypothetical regulation:

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2014-03-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday, March 21, 2014 04:51:07 AM Owen DeLong wrote: > At some point, we will need to recognize that for the > population densities in the vast majority of the united > States (including most urban areas), Layer 1 is > effectively a natural monopoly and you will rarely get > more than one prov

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-20 Thread David Miller
Unless I am reading the tea leaves wrong "competition" will require "regulation". Original message From: "Mike." Date: 03/20/2014 21:56 (GMT-05:00) To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica On 3/20/2014 at 4:17 PM Bryan Field

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2014-03-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/20/2014 9:51 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: The only way we will ever see real and true competition is if we prohibit Layer 2+ providers from playing in the Layer 1 space. As long as you have artificial impediments and restrictions, you will have what you have today. -- Requiescas in pace o ema

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2014-03-20 Thread Owen DeLong
The only way we will ever see real and true competition is if we prohibit Layer 2+ providers from playing in the Layer 1 space. At some point, we will need to recognize that for the population densities in the vast majority of the united States (including most urban areas), Layer 1 is effective

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2014-03-20 Thread Jeremy
And of course that only last until someone else decides to buy the competition, I mean "invest in other companies". On Mar 20, 2014 7:58 PM, "Mike." wrote: > On 3/20/2014 at 4:17 PM Bryan Fields wrote: > > |On 3/20/14, 12:34 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: > |> The solution seems to be competition or reg

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2014-03-20 Thread Mike.
On 3/20/2014 at 4:17 PM Bryan Fields wrote: |On 3/20/14, 12:34 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: |> The solution seems to be competition or regulation. |I'd prefer competition to regulation. = If real and true competition exists, yes.

Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R

2014-03-20 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 20, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Jay Hennigan wrote: > On 3/18/14 3:54 PM, George Herbert wrote: > >> This sort of thing is usually an adapter, a little cylinder with a L6-20R >> on one end and a L6-30P on the other, since the loads are safe. Either >> that, or a short jumper cable wired the same

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2014-03-20 Thread Jeff Kell
On 3/20/2014 7:32 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > Then there is this whole matter of end-to-end connectivity. Just > because your WAN device links up at 8 Megabits, does not mean you have > been guaranteed 8 Mbits end-to-end. Have run into this one more times that I care to count. We're running very marg

Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R

2014-03-20 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 3/18/14 3:54 PM, George Herbert wrote: > This sort of thing is usually an adapter, a little cylinder with a L6-20R > on one end and a L6-30P on the other, since the loads are safe. Either > that, or a short jumper cable wired the same way. The loads aren't safe. You will have a 30-amp circui

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2014-03-20 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: > > I don't see this as a technical problem, but one of business and ethics. > ISP X advertises/sells customers "up to 8Mbps" (as an example), but when it > comes to delivering that product, they've only guaranteed 512Kbps (if any) > because th

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2014-03-20 Thread Warren Bailey
Sounds like a lot of 6 to 4 links to me.. ;) On 3/20/14, 3:04 PM, "Paul Ferguson" wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA256 > >Are carriers prepared to tunnel IPv4 traffic? > >Carriers offering v6 is a novel idea, but the edge networks, >enterprises, etc. are moving very fast. > >

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2014-03-20 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Are carriers prepared to tunnel IPv4 traffic? Carriers offering v6 is a novel idea, but the edge networks, enterprises, etc. are moving very fast. - - ferg On 3/20/2014 2:58 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: > Meh.. Some providers need to/should comply

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2014-03-20 Thread Warren Bailey
Meh.. Some providers need to/should comply with the majority of the requirements. I¹d support ipv6 if I could and it wasn¹t a big deal, but my traffic originates from (usually) the ipv4 sphere. So unless all of these carriers start magically migrating to v6, I don¹t know that a lot of ³hosting² pro

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2014-03-20 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: > This email is the reason I spend money with digital ocean. :) > > You should too. uhh, no. It's the 21st century. I prefer to spend my money with those that, at a bare minimum, provide IPv6. -Jim P.

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2014-03-20 Thread Petter Bruland
+1 Is this what happens when a vendor gets too big? -Petter -Original Message- From: Bryan Socha [mailto:br...@digitalocean.com] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 9:35 AM To: mark.ti...@seacom.mu Cc: nanog list Subject: Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on ISPs' refusal to upgrade net

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2014-03-20 Thread Warren Bailey
This email is the reason I spend money with digital ocean. :) You should too. On 3/20/14, 9:34 AM, "Bryan Socha" wrote: >I don't know where everyones traffic goes but level3 and us, nothing. >We've dropped all but 1 line which will be gone in 60 days.I don't >care >what their excuse is, the

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2014-03-20 Thread Bryan Fields
On 3/20/14, 12:34 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: > The solution seems to be competition or regulation. I'd prefer competition to regulation. -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice 727-214-2508 - Fax http://bryanfields.net

Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R

2014-03-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On 03/20/2014 12:27 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: "Think of the children!" I hear the 2017 edition of NFPA 70 (aka NEC) may require one to turn off the power to the entire household in order to plug in a coffee maker to minimize potential arc flash hazard (just kidding). Gary ROTFL. No

Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R

2014-03-20 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Is it too late to demand code be in open Github repos with changes tracked at no cost? On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > . >> Tracking code changes fuels an entire industry, and several websites. >> :-) > > The

Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R

2014-03-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: . > Tracking code changes fuels an entire industry, and several websites. > :-) The redline PDF at least makes it (more easily) possible to notice the changes for your evening reading pleasure.

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2014-03-20 Thread Bryan Socha
I don't know where everyones traffic goes but level3 and us, nothing. We've dropped all but 1 line which will be gone in 60 days.I don't care what their excuse is, they have been horrible this last 14 months and I'd rather get bw from cogent who isn't great but doesn't blame everyone else for t

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2014-03-20 Thread Blake Hudson
Mark Tinka wrote the following on 3/20/2014 11:05 AM: On Thursday, March 20, 2014 04:18:59 PM Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: "The market" can only "work around" things if there is a functioning market. Monopolies are not a functioning market. When did we ever have a "functioning market", even in ma

Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R

2014-03-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Rob Seastrom wrote: > > Lamar Owen writes: > >> Actually, there is no NEC 384.16 any more, at least in the 2011 code. > > Guilty. I reflexively reached for my 2008 copy since that's the code > of record here where I live. Glad we're not on 2011, wish we were > s

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2014-03-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 04:18:59 PM Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > "The market" can only "work around" things if there is a > functioning market. Monopolies are not a functioning > market. When did we ever have a "functioning market", even in markets that are considered "liberalized" :-)? It

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2014-03-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 04:16:26 PM Blake Hudson wrote: > I don't see this as a technical problem, but one of > business and ethics. ISP X advertises/sells customers > "up to 8Mbps" (as an example), but when it comes to > delivering that product, they've only guaranteed 512Kbps > (if any) beca

Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R

2014-03-20 Thread Rob Seastrom
Lamar Owen writes: > Actually, there is no NEC 384.16 any more, at least in the 2011 code. Guilty. I reflexively reached for my 2008 copy since that's the code of record here where I live. Glad we're not on 2011, wish we were still on 2005; a lot of stupidity has crept in since then. Tamper-

Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R

2014-03-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On 03/19/2014 06:33 PM, Rob Seastrom wrote: It's not the conductor that you're derating; it's the breaker. Per NEC Table 310.16, ampacity of #12 copper THHN/THWN2 (which is almost certainly what you're pulling) with 3 conductors in a conduit is 30 amps. Refer to Table 310.15(B)(2)(a) for derati

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2014-03-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Mar 20, 2014, at 08:39 , Mark Tinka wrote: > On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 09:06:47 PM Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >> The angle on my right shoulder wants to congratulate a >> "tier one" (whatever the F that means) provider for >> finally admitting, in writing, in public, from a lawyer, >> what t

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2014-03-20 Thread Blake Hudson
Mark Tinka wrote the following on 3/20/2014 7:39 AM: On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 09:06:47 PM Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: The angle on my right shoulder wants to congratulate a "tier one" (whatever the F that means) provider for finally admitting, in writing, in public, from a lawyer, what the r

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2014-03-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 09:06:47 PM Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > The angle on my right shoulder wants to congratulate a > "tier one" (whatever the F that means) provider for > finally admitting, in writing, in public, from a lawyer, > what the rest of us have known for decades. Every time th

Re: open source with flowspec ?

2014-03-20 Thread Tom Hill
On 2014-03-13 23:13, joel jaeggli wrote: exabgp from ripe labs can inject flowspec routes. You mean from Exa Networks[1], not RIPE: https://github.com/Exa-Networks/exabgp Tom [1] http://www.exa.net.uk/