Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
or ignore/block russia and north korea and china network blocks takes away 5% of network ranges for memory headroom, especially the large number of smaller china blocks. Some may say this is harsh but is the network contacts refuse to co-operate with abuse and 100% of the traffic is bad then why

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Stefan Neufeind
Of course it's not something you should generalise about all people or all traffic from certain countries. But it's obvious that there are some countries which seem to care almost not at all about abuse or maybe even are sources for planned hack-attempts. And at least some large ISPs there seem to

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Paul S.
Do you have data on '100% of the traffic' being bad? I happen to have a large Chinese clientbase, and this is not the case on my network. On 4/2/2015 午後 04:35, Colin Johnston wrote: or ignore/block russia and north korea and china network blocks takes away 5% of network ranges for memory

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
On 2 Apr 2015, at 08:40, Paul S. cont...@winterei.se wrote: Do you have data on '100% of the traffic' being bad? as a example anything in 163data.com.cn is bad Colin I happen to have a large Chinese clientbase, and this is not the case on my network. On 4/2/2015 午後 04:35, Colin

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread Piotr
It's close to Sydney, 203.18.241.0/24 What's the reason, there are some telecoms,isp that have paths eastbound, southbound but in routing table they prefer longer path via US ? regards, Piotr W dniu 2015-04-02 o 01:45, Matt Perkins pisze: Some times you can get luck and go through

Re: How are you doing DHCPv6 ?

2015-04-02 Thread Henri Wahl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So back in 2012 there was some discussion on DHCPv6 and the challenge of using a DUID in a dual-stack environment where MAC-based assignments are already happening though an IPAM. Have a look at https://dhcpy6d.ifw-dresden.de, our MAC address

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 10:07, Colin Johnston wrote: Open ranges as necessary and mention will will reblock if bad traffic seen. Might be a bit too much work for a customer to figure out when access will be granted or taken away. Would be for me, if I was your customer. It is called protect what you

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
customers are paying for good traffic to generate eye balls and revenue, not bad traffic which clouds the good work done. I know we are getting into filtering traffic wars here but if the source admins refuse to respond, refuse to cooperate, then if 100% of the traffic is bad then why not put

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Paul S.
163data is announced as Chinanet, a China Telecom brand. Dropping 4134 (http://bgp.he.net/AS4134) globally will get my customers up at my doors with pitchforks fairly fast, I dunno about yours Simply too big to do anything that drastic against. On 4/2/2015 午後 05:04, Colin Johnston wrote:

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread Elmar K. Bins
piotr.1...@interia.pl (Piotr) wrote: What's the reason, there are some telecoms,isp that have paths eastbound, southbound but in routing table they prefer longer path via US ? Come on - you do know that it's called policy routing for a reason? Costs, reserved bw/s for high-rollers,

Re: How are you doing DHCPv6 ?

2015-04-02 Thread Randy Carpenter
I've been trying to get an answer from Juniper on this for months. Most of the responses have been something to the effect of I have no idea what you are talking about. I recently got an answer of Juniper has no plans to support that. I am responsible for several small ISPs' networks, and if

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 09:35, Colin Johnston wrote: or ignore/block russia and north korea and china network blocks takes away 5% of network ranges for memory headroom, especially the large number of smaller china blocks. Some may say this is harsh but is the network contacts refuse to co-operate

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 09:52, Stefan Neufeind wrote: Of course it's not something you should generalise about all people or all traffic from certain countries. But it's obvious that there are some countries which seem to care almost not at all about abuse or maybe even are sources for planned

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
On 2 Apr 2015, at 08:57, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: On 2/Apr/15 09:52, Stefan Neufeind wrote: Of course it's not something you should generalise about all people or all traffic from certain countries. But it's obvious that there are some countries which seem to care almost

Re: Question about EX - SRX redundancy

2015-04-02 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Hi Tried exactly same. Note: it's ae18 and ae20 on EX side and reth4 on SRX side. Initially worked but when I took down ae18, i.e ae18 is disabled, now on ae20 I am getting: show interfaces ae20 Physical interface: ae20, Enabled, Physical link is Up Interface index: 533, SNMP ifIndex: 924

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mike Hammett
If you fix that, I think you deserve an award of some kind. You sir, will have won the Internet. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Barry Shein b...@world.std.com To: Colin Johnston col...@gt86car.org.uk Cc:

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Barry Shein
The essence of this discussion is IMHO a little...um...trite. Be that as it may how many of you have attempted to contact these providers in Chinese? Or do you all have good reason to believe that is never the problem? On April 2, 2015 at 11:05 goe...@anime.net (goe...@anime.net) wrote: On

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Barry Shein
Sounds there's a need for a higher level of dialogue. Hey, if it can be done with Iran... These are identifiable companies not sub-rosa criminal gangs (as we get with spam) so there ought to be some hope. On April 2, 2015 at 21:10 col...@gt86car.org.uk (Colin Johnston) wrote: yes have tried

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
yes have tried chinese language communication as well. none of it works, they dont believe bad traffic is a big issue where it has been proved 100% is bad we do belive this is due to bad abuse practice not informing customers and also deliberately sending bad traffic to test exploits on a large

Re: Meeting IRS requirements for encrypted transmission of FTI

2015-04-02 Thread Watson, Bob
Macsec use cases are valid when working with hop by hop encryption needs between closets / buildings where structured wiring is not within control of agency personnel, in the case of other states we provide consulting services to, think multi tenant building with shared closet from other

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Frederik Kriewitz frede...@kriewitz.eu wrote: In practice the biggest problem with [Cisco 6500s] is their poor BGP scalability due to the CPU/memory limitations. Hi Frederik: Are you sure about that? I would expect you to hit the wall on the TCAM long before

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Holloway
I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing more dialog regarding the original poster's query ... On Apr 2, 2015, at 14:53, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: The essence of this discussion is IMHO a little...um...trite. Be that as it may how many of you have attempted to contact these

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Filtering countries is a bad idea, but it is probably possible to create filters so 99% of your actual traffic is handled by a relatively small subset of global routes and the remaining 1% routed via a default route or via a Linux box. Anyone know of tools and methods to do this? How effective is

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
Most of the spam I get comes from North America. Go figure. I'm not about to cut access to that continent off. I'd have to consider all other options really exhausted about fixing this for myself before I have to go and fix it in the network in a way that impacts other customers who may

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 12:34, Stefan Neufeind wrote: Not fully block / null-route of course. You might however consider to not allow ssh-logins from certain countries (if you know what you're doing) to avoid noise in the logs, might monitor incoming emails with smtp-auth for suspicious activity based

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Pawel Rybczyk
Hi Freddy, As Paul has mentioned, you could check the David's project - SIR, look at his presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1njanXhQqM We've also developed a platform for the BGP monitoring and routing optimization which could solve your problem. It would inject to the border routers

Tier 1 robust DDoS protection solution! No, not yet!

2015-04-02 Thread Ramy Hashish
Due to the enterprise market demand on DDoS protection solutions - which was initiated by a DDoS vendor, all operators in my country are trying to deploy their solution as fast as they can. As a result to the recent vendor's competition in DDoS protection, the detection/mitigation time can be

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 13:06, Colin Johnston wrote: It is not spam we are talking about,... I'm aware - but someone mentioned it, so it deserved it's on post. But having said that... it is bad invalid network packets, bad web traffic probing exploits, bad port traffic looking for open network

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Paul S.
David Barroso's (Spotify) SDN Internet Router [0] comes to mind. 0 - https://github.com/dbarrosop/sir On 4/2/2015 午後 07:47, Baldur Norddahl wrote: Filtering countries is a bad idea, but it is probably possible to create filters so 99% of your actual traffic is handled by a relatively small

Fwd: Holborn fire is still burning under the pavement - BBC News

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
Will take a lot of water to clear this up if gone into main tunnels :( Colin http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32157618 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32157618 Holborn fire is still burning under the pavement Local road closures are in place but Holborn Tube

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Stefan Neufeind
On 04/02/2015 09:57 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: On 2/Apr/15 09:52, Stefan Neufeind wrote: Of course it's not something you should generalise about all people or all traffic from certain countries. But it's obvious that there are some countries which seem to care almost not at all about abuse or

Re: How are you doing DHCPv6 ?

2015-04-02 Thread Baldur Norddahl
This reminds me that we have switches that will tag DHCPv6 packets with the equallent to option 82 however ISC-DHCP has no support for it. The switch will create a DHCP packet with two options, one being the user info and the other is encapsulating the original packet. ISC-DHCP will pick the

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
customers are paying for good traffic to generate eye balls and revenue, not bad traffic which clouds the good work done. I know we are getting into filtering traffic wars here but if the source admins refuse to respond, refuse to cooperate, then if 100% of the traffic is bad then why not put

Any google network admins out there?

2015-04-02 Thread Randy
I've started to get some message today from google claiming that my computer or network was sending automated queries, and they are blocking me. I'm not sending automated queries, Ive logged all of my outbound traffic and there is only my browser traffic going to google. I'm not responsible

Re: Meeting IRS requirements for encrypted transmission of FTI

2015-04-02 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
Dumb question. So this is essentially physical or link layer encryption. That’s fine out on the wire, but is decrypted in memory (if I understand what you said), and requires point to point connectivity to be any better than that. Are you aware of anyone at NIST or other places suggesting end

Re: Question about EX - SRX redundancy

2015-04-02 Thread Hugo Slabbert
Putting the EXs in a VC and splitting your AEs across the 2x VC members takes care of that. EXVC (ae1) Two Patches to SRX0 (reth1) EXVC (ae2) Two Patches to SRX1 (reth1) ...where EXVC is a VC composed of EX0 and EX1, and ae1 and ae2 both have one member interface from each VC member.

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread joel jaeggli
On 4/2/15 10:08 AM, McDonald Richards wrote: If you want a direct path then SMW3 remains the only cable for the final leg from Singapore to Perth and it's capacity is only a few hundred gigabits. There are at least 2 proposed new systems racing to get into the water between Singapore and Perth

Meeting IRS requirements for encrypted transmission of FTI

2015-04-02 Thread Hunt, Fred - DCF
Does anyone have previous experience meeting IRS requirements for the encrypted transmission of FTI across a LAN and WAN, specifically the requirements called for in IRS Publication 1075? The IRS tests for the following: All FTI data in transit is encrypted when moving across a Wide Area Network

Re: PoC for shortlisted DDoS Vendors

2015-04-02 Thread John Kristoff
On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 19:51:54 +0300 Mohamed Kamal mka...@noor.net wrote: The setup will be inline. So it would be great if anyone have done this before and can help provide the appropriate tools, advices, or the testing documents for efficient PoC. Hi Mohamed, We recently introduced a

Re: Question about EX - SRX redundancy

2015-04-02 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Hi I thought cross chassis lag is supposed by the use of reth bundled at SRX end. I read this is basically the major difference in reth Vs ae bundle in SRX. Interesting factor here is that ae bundles can spread across multiple EX chassis in a virtual chassis environment but this cannot be the

Re: PoC for shortlisted DDoS Vendors

2015-04-02 Thread Mohamed Kamal
Hello Pavel, I'm certainly biased to the open-source tools if they do the job required, and I appreciate your effort exerted on this project. However, based upon what I saw under the features list of your tool, I assume that it can detect only volumetric DDoS attacks based upon anomalies such as

Re: Question about EX - SRX redundancy

2015-04-02 Thread Hugo Slabbert
In: EX0 (ae1) Two Patches to SRX0 (reth1) EX1 (ae2) Two Patches to SRX1 (reth1) with: that if one EX goes down then I cannot make use of other corresponding SRX. Do you mean that e.g. if SRX0 is the chassis cluster primary and EX0 goes down, then you can't use SRX0, but you

Re: PoC for shortlisted DDoS Vendors

2015-04-02 Thread den...@justipit.com
You should include Radware on that list . - Reply message - From: Mohamed Kamal mka...@noor.net To: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: PoC for shortlisted DDoS Vendors Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 9:51 AM In our effort to pick up a reasonably priced DDoS appliance with a competitive features,

Re: Denver

2015-04-02 Thread Tim Burke
Handy Networks in Denver have a pretty decent footprint, good people too. http://www.handynetworks.com/ On Mar 27, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Mike Hammett na...@ics-il.net wrote: So in Denver Comfluent\CoreSite seems to be the place to be... except as someone that predominately serves eyeball

Re: PoC for shortlisted DDoS Vendors

2015-04-02 Thread den...@justipit.com
You should include Radware on that list . - Reply message - From: Mohamed Kamal mka...@noor.net To: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: PoC for shortlisted DDoS Vendors Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 9:51 AM In our effort to pick up a reasonably priced DDoS appliance with a competitive features,

Re: Question about EX - SRX redundancy

2015-04-02 Thread Bill Blackford
It's my understanding that a cross chassis LAG is not supported. If there is a way, I'm not aware of it. I'm running the same set up as your working example in my locations and for now, this suits my requirements. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 2, 2015, at 07:12, Anurag Bhatia

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 16:23, Jared Mauch wrote: I think this stability is key, I’ve been watching a testing team go round and round with a telco that seems to think that 1 second hits is acceptable through this area and they are unwilling to resolve it and seem to be begging “please just accept the

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread Jared Mauch
On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: On 2/Apr/15 16:23, Jared Mauch wrote: I think this stability is key, I’ve been watching a testing team go round and round with a telco that seems to think that 1 second hits is acceptable through this area and they

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/Apr/15 16:32, Jared Mauch wrote: Seeing multiple hit times within a 24h period isn’t really acceptable and keeps these paths from being viable. Agreed. They are claiming they are within 50ms. Which makes sense if the end-to-end path is less than 50ms re: seeing hitless failovers on

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread Martin Hepworth
There's a new AAE-1 cable currently being laid (sunk!) that comes online early 2016 that will help. But right now alot of traffic cuts across the US as it's still the 'best' route for reasons other that latency as others have already mentioned. The new AAE-1 will have 40Tbps connections from

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread Jared Mauch
On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Martin Hepworth max...@gmail.com wrote: The new AAE-1 will have 40Tbps connections from Europe to Hong Kong so hopefully the routes will start to migrate in 2016 and give us an Easterly route to APAC that has enough capacity to be stable in that direction I

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread Jared Mauch
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 10:43:25AM +0200, Elmar K. Bins wrote: piotr.1...@interia.pl (Piotr) wrote: What's the reason, there are some telecoms,isp that have paths eastbound, southbound but in routing table they prefer longer path via US ? Come on - you do know that it's called policy

Re: PoC for shortlisted DDoS Vendors

2015-04-02 Thread Pavel Odintsov
Hello! What about open source alternatives? Main part of commercial ddos filters are simple high performace firewalls with detection logic (which much times more stupid than well trained network engineer). But attacks for ISP is not arrived so iften and detection part coukd be executed manually

Fwd: Question about EX - SRX redundancy

2015-04-02 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Hello everyone! I have got two Juniper EX series switches (on virtual chassis) and two SRX devices on native clustering. I am trying to have a highly available redundancy between them with atleast 2Gbps capacity all the time but kind of failing. I followed Juniper's official page here

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread McDonald Richards
If you want a direct path then SMW3 remains the only cable for the final leg from Singapore to Perth and it's capacity is only a few hundred gigabits. There are at least 2 proposed new systems racing to get into the water between Singapore and Perth to try and address this gap in supply and

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Max Tulyev
Hello! Very good idea is to sell that and change it to softrouter based on PC/Linux/BIRD. Config can work like 6500/SUP750 will cost much less than $1k. On 04/01/15 20:01, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: We're wondering if anyone has experience with such a setup?

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread Rod Beck
Low latency routes like this would be very attractive to financial firms trading in both Europe and Asia. My hunch is that most of these circuits are linear - unprotected. And if you get damage in Siberia or Northern China repairs could be mighty slow. Roderick Beck Sales Director/Europe and

Re: Question about EX - SRX redundancy

2015-04-02 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Hi Yes, Since SRX0 connected to EX0 and SRX1 connected to EX1 (only). Thus either pair - 0 will work or pair - 1 will work. I wish if criss crossing worked then failure of one EX would have still made both SRX available. In current worst case scenario - failure of EX0 and SRX1 can cause

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Tong
As a network consumer and network provider. The traffic seen by the customer should not be censored. It should be up to the consumer to protect their services. I accept the risk and want uncensored internet access and provide such to our customers. On Apr 2, 2015 11:26 AM, Max Tulyev

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
yes, china ignores everything said beit by phone,email,chat at least if you call a us provider you can at least communicate its not a english language issue either chinatelcom,chinanet contact info might as well not be documented colin Sent from my iPhone On 2 Apr 2015, at 19:05,

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread goemon
On Thu, 2 Apr 2015, Mark Tinka wrote: Most of the spam I get comes from North America. Go figure. I'm not about to cut access to that continent off. Big difference is that north america is usually responsive to abuse notifications and sometimes has LEO who will listen. china is neither.

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Colin Johnston
it is not censorship to check traffic follows correct standards and does not deliberately constantly try to exploit. it could easily be solved if china abuse departments co-operate and acknowledge reports and fix if not then country bans are in place and will remain in place until culture

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread goemon
emails to the registered contacts bounce, for one, undeliverable. which is a bit of a change from the old chinanet auto-responder which auto-responded to every email with i cannot find that IP or that IP not by my Control. Please send the correct IP. a number of years back i did have

Re: Question about EX - SRX redundancy

2015-04-02 Thread Hugo Slabbert
I just want to confirm your setup. The criss-cross setup you were describing is different from what I described. You listed: EX0 (ae1) Two Patches to SRX0 (reth1) EX0 (ae1) One patch to SRX1 (reth1) EX1 (ae2) Two Patches to SRX1 (reth1) EX1 (ae2) One patch to SRX0 (reth1)