RE: GSM modem test point with data and SMS support

2010-05-19 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Thanks for your response and three I received off-list. Multi-tech confirmed that none of their models can do SMS and EDGE at the same time. They have to be out of PPP mode to send and receive SMS. Frank -Original Message- From: Adam Kennedy [mailto:adamkenn...@omnicity.net] Sent:

RE: Geolocation contact for Bing/Microsoft?

2010-06-29 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
This might help you: http://www.bing.com/community/forums/p/653511/9573859.aspx Frank -Original Message- From: Schiller, Heather A (HeatherSkanks) [mailto:heather.schil...@verizonbusiness.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 11:47 AM To: NANOG list Subject: Geolocation contact for

RE: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course

2010-07-22 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Keep selling them the NAT router, just don't tell them that it applies only to IPv4 only and not to IPv6. 99.9% of consumers don't know about NAT, they just want to plug it in and be connected. That's why having a stateful firewall as standard element of an IPv6-capable router specification

Looking for suggestions for an internet content filtering appliance

2010-08-23 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
We offer an optional internet content filtering service to our residential and business customers using M86's appliance (http://www.m86security.com/products/web_security/m86-web-filtering-reportin g-suite.asp). I've been in conversation with them since Q1 regards IPv6 support, but the update I

RE: Looking for suggestions for an internet content filtering appliance

2010-08-23 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Looking for suggestions for an internet content filtering appliance On 2010-08-23 20:52, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote: We offer an optional internet content filtering service to our residential and business customers using M86's appliance (http://www.m86security.com

RE: IPv6 Routing table will be bloated?

2010-10-30 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
A combo WISP and pre-DOCSIS cable system we bought four years ago in a relatively rural area had exactly such a setup with Sprint and UUNet/Verizon/MCI. They had just one T-1 with each provider and a very simple BGP configuration. I just checked, and see that their ASN has been reused. Frank

RE: Network management software with high detailed traffic report

2010-11-22 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Well, on the RSP720, the show interface byte counters are definitely not every second, though I can't say it's been as long as 9 seconds. I typically look at them while making changes and they definitely stand still for a few seconds. Frank -Original Message- From: Brandon Ross

RE: SONET and MAC address

2010-12-08 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Fuji 4500 gear, depending on the card, software release, and configuration, can support or not support tagged traffic, which might also be distinguishing aspect that your vendor may not be aware of. Let me know if you need a bit more details, and I can ask our consultant who works with these

RE: cablevision?

2010-12-12 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Yes: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25190780-Optonline-outage-12-12-2010 Frank -Original Message- From: Ben C. [mailto:bc-l...@beztech.net] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 7:55 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: cablevision? Hi all, Does anybody know anything about a large cablevision

RE: Amazon.co.uk, and most of Amazon Europe, appears to be down.

2010-12-12 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
This is not Amazon per se, but if you look at http://status.aws.amazon.com/, and choose the Europe tabm, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Ireland), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Ireland), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Ireland) are having performance issues. Frank -Original Message-

RE: Spamhaus under DDOS from AnonOps (Wikileaks.info)

2010-12-19 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
The wikileaks.info press release points to Google's Safe Browsing page for wikileaks.info (http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=wikileaks.info), which comes up clean. While I tend to trust Steve and Spamhaus because of their built up reputation, it would be helpful if some concrete

RE: Spamhaus under DDOS from AnonOps (Wikileaks.info)

2010-12-19 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not for nothing, but Spamhaus wasn't the only organization to warn about Heihachi: http://blog.trendmicro.com/wikileaks-in-a-dangerous-internet-neighborhood/ FYI, - - ferg On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Frank Bulk - iName.com frnk...@iname.com wrote

RE: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-21 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Looks like AS13722 (Default Route, Inc), is advertising both 2607:ff08:cafe::/48 and 2607:ff08::/32. Frank -Original Message- From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:m...@sentex.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 6:19 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons On 12/21/2010

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-23 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Uhm, D-CATV is not IP just quite yet. Sometimes I wish that's the case, but it's still very much RF. There are several vendors that sell GPON solutions that support RF over fiber, and there's always IP TV. Frank -Original Message- From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:j...@baylink.com] Sent:

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-24 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
That's not my understanding. Frank -Original Message- From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:j...@baylink.com] Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 10:25 AM To: NANOG Subject: Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style - Original Message - From: Frank Bulk - iName.com frnk...@iname.com

RE: Hotel Internet?

2010-12-25 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Ethostream seems to have a good market share. That's what three hotels in our area are using for control. Frank -Original Message- From: Ryan Finnesey [mailto:ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com] Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2010 1:36 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Hotel Internet?

RE: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

2010-12-26 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
-Original Message- From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 9:11 PM To: Jared Mauch Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion On Dec 26, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: You are likely already at the mercy of some

RE: regions.com down??

2012-12-26 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
Looks like an operational issue: Frank -Original Message- From: William Herrin [mailto:b...@herrin.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 10:04 PM To: g...@1337.io Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: regions.com down?? On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:50 PM, mailto:g...@1337.io

RE: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-01 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
What's missing in this dialogue is the video component of an offering. Many customers like a triple (or quad) play because the price points are reasonable comparable to getting unbundled pricing from more than one provider, and they have just throat to choke and bill to pay. But few IP TV

RE: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-01 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
4:38 PM To: Frank Bulk (iname.com) Cc: Jay Ashworth; NANOG Subject: Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard? Management has asked us why we can't do RF overlay on our AE system. :) We've had to explain a few times why that would be too expensive even if it were

RE: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-01 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
Fletcher: Many rural LECs are homerunning their fiber back to the CO, such that the optical splitters are only in the CO. It gives them one management point, the highest possible efficiency (you can maximize any every splitter and therefore PON) and a pathway to ActiveE. Frank -Original

RE: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network

2013-02-25 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
There's only 83.5 MHz to work with at 2.4 GHz, while in most countries you have at least two hundred MHz in the 5 GHz range (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-NII). So if you choose to have 40 MHz channels for increased throughput, you can have many more (non-overlapping ones) at 5 GHz than 2.4 GHz,

RE: Question on Ipv6 address

2013-03-26 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
My understanding is that because IPv6 has a minimum MTU of 1280 and dial-up maxes out at 576, that special measures must be taken for IPv6 to work over a dial-up connection. Please correct me if someone has this working out of the box. Frank -Original Message- From: Mark Jeremy

RE: BCP38 tester?

2013-04-01 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
The good news is that source address spoofing does seem to fail with most CPE's NAT. At the end of the day, just turn on uRPF and/or use ACLs. It's amazing how much destination 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 our ACLs also block. Frank -Original Message- From: Jay Ashworth

RE: It's the end of the world as we know it -- REM

2013-04-25 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
CGN works for eyeball networks, but not for hosting. From the remarks at this week's ARIN meeting, that's where ARIN has seen an uptick in requests. So those who sell virtual machines, IPv4 addresses are critical if they want make their offering viable in the near-term. Frank -Original

RE: Issues accessing hulu.com from new(ish) US range

2009-07-15 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
A few others I would check: - Akamai (you can contact them via their web page, but there are also people on this listserv that can check, too) - Google (if their search pages comes up in American English, you're good to go, otherwise there's info in their help that will let you fill out a form) -

RE: Data Center testing

2009-08-25 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
There's more to data integrity in a data center (well, anything powered, that is) than network configurations. There's the loading of individual power outlets, UPS loading, UPS battery replacement cycles, loading of circuits, backup lighting, etc. And the only way to know if something is really

RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-27 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
As one of the workshops discussed, does the definition of underserved and unserved include the clause for a reasonable price? If the price is unreasonable, do you think its government money well-spent to subsidize bringing a competitor to a market that couldn't make it before? Or are there

RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-27 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Estimates to bring FTTH to all of America is in the $100 to $300B range. So yes, the $7.2B is a drop in the bucket. Frank -Original Message- From: Sean Donelan [mailto:s...@donelan.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:53 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the

RE: PPPoE vs. Bridged ADSL

2009-10-29 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Others commented on things I already had in mind only the username/password thing of PPPoE. We use the same username/pw on the modem as the customer users for their e-mail, so a password change necessitates a truck roll (I know, I know, TR-069). We started with PPPoE for our FTTH, because we

RE: PPPoE vs. Bridged ADSL

2009-10-30 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
For telco-delivered IPTV, the multicast channel, bi-directional control channel, and video are transmitted on different VP/VC. For VDSL2, I'm guessing it would be a different VLAN. Frank -Original Message- From: Jack Bates [mailto:jba...@brightok.net] Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009

RE: PPPoE vs. Bridged ADSL

2009-10-31 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
assigned to the PPP device. Frank -Original Message- From: Sean Donelan [mailto:s...@donelan.com] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 3:14 PM To: NANOG list Subject: RE: PPPoE vs. Bridged ADSL On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote: Others commented on things I already had in mind only

RE: Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers

2012-05-23 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Here's a screenshot from 15 months ago: http://www.fix6.net/archives/2011/02/21/ipv6-live-on-verizons-lte-network/ Frank -Original Message- From: Randy Carpenter [mailto:rcar...@network1.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:07 PM To: PC Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Current IPv6 state

RE: What to do when your ISP off-shores tech support

2008-12-25 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
I don't think there would be a concern about off-shore support if we couldn't tell it was off-shore. That term has all derogatory bias of describing of persons with foreign accents who are difficult to understand and provide support for consumer-oriented products but have the most rudimentary

Looking for verification that Google and Akamai have the geo-ip for 96.31.0.0/20 set correctly

2009-01-02 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
We were assigned a new block from ARIN two weeks ago and are getting several reports from end users that the Spanish and German versions of Google's search page are coming up. IP2Location and Maxmind are mostly correct, but there appears to be no way for me to verify that Google and Akamai have

RE: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-09 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Comtrend DSL modem use iptables in their code. I discovered this while trying to understood why small-MTU FTP breaks when issuing the PORT command. Frank -Original Message- From: Ricky Beam [mailto:jfb...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 4:01 PM To: Owen DeLong Cc:

RE: World famous cabling disasters?

2009-02-12 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
I generally find datacom closets looking a lot worse than telecom closets. Frank -Original Message- From: Jamie Bowden [mailto:ja...@photon.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:27 AM To: Steve Church; NANOG list Subject: RE: World famous cabling disasters? The main telephone room

RE: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?

2009-03-16 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
It was my understanding that (most) cable modems are L2 devices -- how it is that they have a buffer, other than what the network processor needs to switch it? Frank -Original Message- From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bickn...@ufp.org] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:10 AM To: nanog@nanog.org

RE: Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
I believe there is an ITU standard for testing that could be looked at, but if you went with the same test gear that SPs use to test their circuits, I think you would be safe. Hence my mention of JDSU, but I could also add Agilent (more engineering focused), Anritsu, EXFO, Fluke (more enterprise

RE: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

2009-04-21 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
There's a big difference between signing that the books are right (it matters!) and filling out paperwork for ARIN. The first is one of his primary duties as an officer of the company, the second won't even make his secretary's to do list. It appears that ARIN wants to raise the IP addressing

RE: wifi hotspot software needed

2009-12-21 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
I've been impressed with what I've seen from SolutionInc (http://www.solutioninc.com/). They're the only multi-site product I would feel comfortable pursuing at this time. Most others require managing each site or AP separately, which is not my idea of scalable. Frank -Original

RE: ITU G.992.5 Annex M - ADSL2+M Questions

2010-01-04 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
We offer it, but practically speaking we haven't gotten much higher than 1.5 Mbps on the upstream. Frank -Original Message- From: Luke Marrott [mailto:luke.marr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 4:03 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: ITU G.992.5 Annex M - ADSL2+M Questions

RE: dark fiber and sfp distance limitations

2010-01-04 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
and to add, OTDR at several wavelengths, just in case you want to do xWDM in the future. Frank -Original Message- From: ML [mailto:m...@kenweb.org] Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 6:24 PM To: Mike Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: dark fiber and sfp distance limitations On 1/1/2010

RE: Bonded SDSL (was RE: ITU G.992.5 Annex M - ADSL2+M Questions)

2010-01-05 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
(was RE: ITU G.992.5 Annex M - ADSL2+M Questions) Frank Bulk - iName.com frnk...@iname.com wrote: We offer it, but practically speaking we haven't gotten much higher than 1.5 Mbps on the upstream. Sorry that I'm coming into this thread late (I have just subscribed), but since I see people

Calix listserv starting up -- delete if you're not interested

2010-03-09 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Considering that there are likely more than a handful of Calix customers in this list, I'd like to advertise a new listserv to talk about all things Calix, namely calix-nsp. If you're interested, you can sign up here: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/calix-nsp Regards, Frank

RE: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
I reached out to the inside sales of Linksys just as recently as last week, and they wrote me back: We did a little further research to see how we were currently roadmapping RFC3633 and it looks like we have no current router models that will be coming out over the next

RE: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
I checked the documentation for two models (Linux model and highest-end non-Linux model), and there's no mention of IPv6. Frank -Original Message- From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:n...@foobar.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:16 PM To: Joel Jaeggli Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: New Linksys

RE: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Linksys CPE, IPv6 ? It's not in the wrt610n docs either yet the code was unambiguously in the box, complete with 6to4 that your couldn't shut off. On 03/31/2010 01:26 PM, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote: I checked the documentation for two models (Linux model and highest-end non-Linux model

RE: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-19 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Don't forget the home gateway aspect -- it's a huge gaping hole in the IPv6 deployment strategy for ISPs. And don't talk to me about Apple's Airport Extreme. ISPs want (once the volume of IETF IPv6-related drafts has settled down) for every router at Wal-mart to include IPv6 support. If they

RE: Emulating ADSL bandwidth shaping

2010-05-04 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
We're an ISP that has four access technologies. Both cable and DSL modem link times are affected by configured rate and sync rate, respectively. My home CM is at 15/1 Mbps and one-way latency is 4 to 5 msec. My home DSL modem is at 15/1 Mbps (with interleaving) and has a one-way latency of 15

RE: Geoip lookup

2013-05-26 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
Here's a few more resources: http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/ http://www.nirsoft.net/countryip/ Frank -Original Message- From: shawn wilson [mailto:ag4ve...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:27 PM To: i...@cymru.com Cc: North American Network Operators Group Subject: Re: Geoip

RE: IP allocations / bogon - verification

2013-08-03 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
It's listed as being on a BOGON at HE, too: http://bgp.he.net/net/66.185.0.0/20 Not sure who HE uses to make that designation. Frank -Original Message- From: Kenny Kant [mailto:akennyk...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 12:07 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: IP allocations /

RE: MACsec SFP

2014-06-24 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
DIP switches? Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Saku Ytti Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 3:21 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: MACsec SFP On (2014-06-24 09:59 +0200), Pieter Hulshoff wrote: Hi Pieter, I've seen this request from

RE: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
A third option is to use a transparent caching box, so it caches what's seen. At $20/Mbps I suspect all the popular vendors would find three year or less ROI. Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Todd Lyons Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 12:17