Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-02 Thread Eric Germann
Colleagues, I'm looking for a recommendation on a smallish 10G Ethernet switch for a small virtualization/SAN implementation (4-5 hosts, 2 SAN boxes) over iSCSI with some legacy boxes on GigE. Preferably - 8-16 10G ports - several GigE ports for legacy GigE hosts or cross connect to a legacy

RE: Need photographs of IT/Telecom gear/rooms

2011-10-27 Thread Eric Germann
There are some fairly interesting photos of the Verizon CO that took a hit on 9/11 at http://www.slideshare.net/datacenters/verizon-contingency-planning-for-coop I recall far back in my memory some posts on this from a decade ago that pointed to some websites that had more photos. Was kind of

TwTelecom engineer offlist

2011-11-10 Thread Eric Germann
Anyone with twtelecom who can contact me off list about a possible congestion issue at one of your handoffs? Thanks EKG

RE: IP Transit with netflow report?

2012-02-13 Thread Eric Germann
+1 Use it, love it. Opened eyes on how much social media traffic (amongst other things) goes on on a daily basis. EKG -Original Message- From: George Bonser [mailto:gbon...@seven.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 5:31 AM To: ali baba; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: IP Transit with

RE: GRX looking glass

2012-03-14 Thread Eric Germann
While we're talking Looking Glasses, any pointers to best practices or pointers for securing a public looking glass, besides the obvious such as don't accept announcements originated from the LG. In a greenfield environment, is Zebra the choice? EKG -Original Message- From: Jared

Question about Martians on Vyatta

2012-06-28 Thread Eric Germann
All, I'm trying to understand why a Vyatta 6.4 collection of routers is carping about the following as martian routes: 113.107.174.14 27.73.1.159 94.248.215.60 95.26.105.161 They don't look like they fall in the traditional martian space.I also wondered if they were addresses without a

RE: Question about Martians on Vyatta

2012-06-28 Thread Eric Germann
, June 28, 2012 11:45 AM To: Eric Germann Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Question about Martians on Vyatta On Jun 28, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Eric Germann egerm...@limanews.com wrote: All, I'm trying to understand why a Vyatta 6.4 collection of routers is carping about the following as martian

BGP visibility for /24 End User Allocation

2011-09-23 Thread Eric Germann
Long time on-again-off-again lurker. Looking to multihome in the most efficient mode. Our two upstreams are AS11530 (Embarq) and AS10796 (Time Warner). Diverse routed fiber from each at 10Mbps. Our traffic profile is highly asymmetric as a consumer of bandwidth (12-15Mbps average inbound

Seeking VPS providers for low volume network probe

2014-10-29 Thread Eric Germann
Greetings, I'm looking for recommendations on a reliable VPS Provider(s) who can provide 1. Centos 6 2. IPv4 and IPv6 (preferably) physically in the regions of African Continent, Eastern Europe/Russia, Middle East, South America and Canada. I've already deployed some globally with Vultr

Wisdom of using 100.64/10 (RFC6598) space in an Amazon VPC deployment

2015-02-23 Thread Eric Germann
Currently engaged on a project where they’re building out a VPC infrastructure for hosted applications. Users access apps in the VPC, not the other direction. The issue I'm trying to get around is the customers who need to connect have multiple overlapping RFC1918 space (including overlapping

Re: Wisdom of using 100.64/10 (RFC6598) space in an Amazon VPC deployment

2015-02-23 Thread Eric Germann
at 10:02:44AM -0500 Quoting Eric Germann (ekgerm...@cctec.com mailto:ekgerm...@cctec.com): Currently engaged on a project where they’re building out a VPC infrastructure for hosted applications. snip Thoughts and thanks in advance. using the wasted /10 for this is pretty much equal

OSS Netflow that can use EngineID

2017-02-23 Thread Eric Germann
Colleagues, Before I go down a source code path, I wanted to get your input. I have some Linux routers I’ve built that use lots of GRE tunnels. I use ipt-netflow to export flow traffic to a collector. The issue is it seems to randomly pick an interface address and export from that. If we

Questions re: VPN protocols globally

2016-10-05 Thread Eric Germann
I’ve been charged with building a global VPN as an overlay on top of a certain 3 letter company who also sells lots of stuff. We’re looking at US East US West US Central (eventually) Brazil Singapore Frankfurt Ireland Sydney Maybe Canada Maybe India (outsourcesrs) In the planning stages now

Re: Questions re: VPN protocols globally

2016-10-05 Thread Eric Germann
IPSec and corporate. Customers will connect to their respective regional sites separately. Any ITAR concerns there? > On Oct 5, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:15 PM, Eric Germann

Re: Questions re: VPN protocols globally

2016-10-05 Thread Eric Germann
e as of June 27, > 2016 > > https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-asia-pacific-mumbai-region/ > > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Eric Germann wrote: > >> I’ve been charged with building a global VPN as an overlay on top of a >> certain 3 letter company who also sells lot

Linux router guru sought for hairpulling issue

2016-10-19 Thread Eric Germann
Colleagues, I know we’re all usually running big gear, but I’ve been tasked with building some appliances to run in the cloud as VM’s. Looking for someone who has built on Centos 7 using IPSec and GRE tunnels. Having an issue with GRE tunnels and trace route. That’s pulling my hair out. If

Re: Linux router guru sought for hairpulling issue

2016-10-19 Thread Eric Germann
ame). Great community EKG > On Oct 19, 2016, at 8:27 AM, Eric Germann <ekgerm...@semperen.com> wrote: > > Colleagues, > > I know we’re all usually running big gear, but I’ve been tasked with building > some appliances to run in the cloud as VM’s. > > Looking

Anyone from American Express mail operations here?

2016-11-22 Thread Eric Germann
Pardon the interruption Please contact me off list. EKG smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Looking for some Quagga experience to discuss 32 bit ASN + community issue with

2016-12-02 Thread Eric Germann
6 at 09:00:57AM +, Nick Hilliard wrote: >> Eric Germann wrote: >>> Basically trying to advertise 4 byte ASN’s + communities, and then >>> pick them off elsewhere in a private network. Can’t get the config >>> right for the route map to import them on the

Looking for some Quagga experience to discuss 32 bit ASN + community issue with

2016-12-01 Thread Eric Germann
Good evening, I’m looking for someone who’s familiar with Quagga and is using 32 bit ASN’s. Trying to do some work with communities with it and having no success. If you have some experience and would like to chat, email me off list or reply on-list if the demand is there. Basically trying

BCP for securing IPv6 Linux end node in AWS

2017-05-14 Thread Eric Germann
Good morning all, I’m looking for some guidance on best practices to secure IPv6 on Linux end nodes parked in AWS. Boxes will be running various services (DNS for starters) and I’m looking to secure mainly ICMP at this point. Service filtering is fairly cut and dried. I’ve reviewed some of

Re: BCP for securing IPv6 Linux end node in AWS

2017-05-14 Thread Eric Germann
, so dump them. Thoughts? EKG > On May 14, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Alarig Le Lay <ala...@swordarmor.fr> wrote: > > On dim. 14 mai 09:29:45 2017, Eric Germann wrote: >> Good morning all, >> >> I’m looking for some guidance on best practices to secure IPv6 on

Gmail security contact off list

2018-06-19 Thread Eric Germann
Can someone from Gmail security contact me off list. Pardon the interruption EKG

Akamai contact

2018-07-16 Thread Eric Germann
Now that I’ve learned Delta is an airline, runs hotels, and makes faucets, amongst other things, if there is an Akamai [Company that deploys CDN’s and other things] contact who could contact me off list re: continuing to troubleshoot a Delta Airlines [amongst other sites] issue that would be

Anyone from Delta on list?

2018-07-13 Thread Eric Germann
If so, can you contact me off list, please and thank you? EKG smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

dark fiber connection between 111 E 8th and Coresite NYC1 or NYC2

2020-10-30 Thread Eric Germann
Looking for a recommendation of a provider who can give us a dark fiber cross connect or an L2 connection between the two in the subject for an AWS Direct Connect out of Coresite Thanks Eric

DNSSEC Best Practices

2021-04-27 Thread Eric Germann via NANOG
Does anyone have a pointer to a good resource for current best practices for deployment of DNSSEC, preferably newer than RFC6781? What algorithms do you typically sign with (RSASHA256, ECDSAP256SHA256, both, something other)? Feel free to little r me off list if you wish — Eric Germann

Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch

2021-09-01 Thread Eric Germann via NANOG
> On Aug 31, 2021, at 2:33 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: > > > > ... > 15kW is 1.5kVA in a simple radiant electric heat application. (it’s a simple > resistive load with no power factor weirdness). Whether you could do this > with 4-8kVA depends on what else you’re trying to run. > > >

Fwd: [CA Geeks] Vijay Gill

2022-08-03 Thread Eric Germann via NANOG
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Herb L via CAGeeks > Subject: [CA Geeks] Vijay Gill > Date: August 2, 2022 at 20:47:13 EDT > To: CA Geeks > Reply-To: Herb L > > All, > I was told that Vijay passed on from a heart attack while at work. I am > deeply saddened by the news and wish to