Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

2017-09-23 Thread Sean Donelan
According to PREPA Net, the fiber subsidary of the Electric Power Authority, the power system for the Punta las MarĂ­as submarine cable station is back in service after flooding. I think Isla Verde and Punta las Marias refer to the same landing point. I don't know the status of individual

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

2017-09-23 Thread Sean Donelan
Reportedly most (All?) operational cellular carriers on Puerto Rico have activated "universal roaming" service. All working towers will accept roaming connections from any phone from any carrier (or no service provider). You may need to turn the phone off & on so it scans for a working

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

2017-09-23 Thread Javier J
T-Mobile PR on twitter just posted that two of it's submarine cables are out of service. Claro PR Wireless (this is the ILEC in PR) website can't even be reached. I am assuming this is due to power and submarine cable issues since I'm sure t-mobile and many other providers are using the same

Re: Application Layer Gateways

2017-09-23 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
What you do with the CPE "firewall" settings depends on what sort of ISP you are. Do you cater to geeks or aunts/grand mothers? Whatever you do, I would suggest that you document in a place that is easy for customers to find exactlyt what apps/protocols are open/closed with the settings you've

Re: Application Layer Gateways

2017-09-23 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 09/23/2017 07:47 AM, Ca By wrote: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 7:13 AM Colton Conor wrote: >> Just not sure why big vendors like Alcatel and Comtrend would have them >> enabled by default if they do more harm than good? > Turns out vendors focus on building and selling

Re: Application Layer Gateways

2017-09-23 Thread Ca By
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 7:13 AM Colton Conor wrote: > So you do recommend we disable them all? > Yes. A good rule of thumb is to turn off any feature you do not need. If you find customers complain, you can turn it on one by one. The reverse is not true, once the ALG

Re: Application Layer Gateways

2017-09-23 Thread Colton Conor
So you do recommend we disable them all? Just not sure why big vendors like Alcatel and Comtrend would have them enabled by default if they do more harm than good? On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Ca By wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 8:12 PM Colton Conor

Re: IPv6 migration steps for mid-scale isp

2017-09-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Fredrik Sallinen wrote: Please correct me If I'm wrong, AFAIK 464XLAT works best with mobile networks and its not suitable for fixed broadband. right? It's most widely deployed in mobile networks, yes. There is nothing that says it couldn't work anywhere else. However,

Re: IPv6 migration steps for mid-scale isp

2017-09-23 Thread Fredrik Sallinen
Please correct me If I'm wrong, AFAIK 464XLAT works best with mobile networks and its not suitable for fixed broadband. right? On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:28 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: > Fully agree, 464XLAT is the way to go. > > We have tested this in many

Re: IPv6 migration steps for mid-scale isp

2017-09-23 Thread Fredrik Sallinen
CPE's are owned by our customers but we have control over ~60% of them using TR069. On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Max Tulyev wrote: > Hello, > > for my point of view, the start question is do you control CPEs (can > re-configure and re-flash it), or users buy and own