Re: CIDR string replacement

2020-10-02 Thread Jon Meek
This is what I have done using R: https://github.com/meekj/netblockr I still use similar tools in Perl with Net::Netmask Jon On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 11:50 AM Royce Williams wrote: > The recent thread on CIDR aggregation cleanup scripts reminds me that I'm > looking for a similarly efficient

Re: CIDR cleanup

2020-10-01 Thread Jon Meek
The Perl Net::Netmask module is also worth checking out. It may not be better at aggregation but it does have other functions that could be helpful. I use the shortest match address lookup functions of Net::Netmask very heavily and have reproduced them in a R / C++ package. Jon On Thu, Oct 1,

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Jon Meek
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 2:00 PM Chris Gross wrote: > I'm curious what people here have found as a good standard for providing > solid speedtest results to customers. All our techs have Dell laptops of > various models, but we always hit 100% CPU when doing a Ookla speedtest for > a server we

Re: ticketmaster.com 403 Forbidden

2017-02-06 Thread Jon Meek
Another way to get on their block list is to have a lot of users behind a single NAT or proxy IP address. In my experience they blocked single IPs. The first time it was easy to explain that there were 30,000 users behind the single address and get the block cleared. After that it became more

Re: NIST NTP servers

2016-05-11 Thread Jon Meek
A note on using a Raspberry Pi as a NTP server. In my limited home lab testing the RPi server had enough instability that Internet time sources were always preferred by my workstation after ntpd had been running for a while. Presumably this was due to the RPi's clock frequency drifting. At some

Re: [Q] What is your favorite Network Tools Live CD / USB, which you could have running in remote offices?

2013-08-22 Thread Jon Meek
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Stefan netfort...@gmail.com wrote: I've been toying with Live distros (CD, then USB) for many years, in support of security toolsets, to which I kept adding my own stuff, or customizing existing components. I am now trying to build a network toolset

Re: [Q] What is your favorite Network Tools Live CD / USB, which you could have running in remote offices?

2013-08-22 Thread Jon Meek
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Christopher X. Candreva ch...@westnet.comwrote: On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Stefan wrote: a completely different purpose: I would like to put it in the hands of all remote offices we have on our network, and use it to have local systems boot out of it, and help

Re: Old Annex question

2011-02-13 Thread Jon Meek
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 13/02/2011 15:30, Joe Hamelin wrote: day. I remember days spent hunting down ring-no-answers in a 400 POTS line hunt group. It was much easier to detect those by looking for strange port connectivity patterns in

Re: Jumbo frame Question

2010-11-26 Thread Jon Meek
I have the opposite problem. I use iperf to test WAN and VPN throughput and packet loss, but find that the sending Linux system starts out with the expected MTU / MSS but then ramps up the packet size to way beyond 1500. The result is that network equipment must fragment the packets. On higher

Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System

2010-10-02 Thread Jon Meek
One of the ways that I have tormented WAN vendors over the years is with a plot of RTT vs. great circle distance between the end points of a circuit. Most RTTs usually sit at some constant offset above that Physics limit straight line. Circuits taking a less than ideal have their RTT far above the

Re: capirca : Google Network Filtering Management

2010-04-09 Thread Jon Meek
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:09 PM, William Duck na...@qualitymail.com wrote:   http://code.google.com/p/capirca/   Developed internally at Google, this system is designed to utilize   common definitions of networks

Re: NTP clock source

2010-03-25 Thread Jon Meek
I use both EndRun Technologies and the Garmin 18x LVC + old PC solution. I am currently seeing 8+ satellites out a North facing window almost all of the time with the Garmin. The window method may not work if the window is coated with a metallic layer (common in newer buildings). Also, be careful

Re: ethernet to serial converters with ACLs

2010-03-10 Thread Jon Meek
Avocent / Cyclades boxes have ACL capability (they run Linux) and can be used with EV-DO/GSM modems. They may not be the lowest cost solution, but there is a central management system and a wide range of serial interface units from single port to at least 32 ports. Jon Full disclosure: I was a

Re: Ubiquti NanobridgeM

2010-03-04 Thread Jon Meek
There is a wealth of information in Ubiquti's forums: http://ubnt.com/forum/ Jon On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Todd Mueller t...@velocitytelephone.com wrote: Anyone have any real-world experience with Ubiquti's MIMO PTP equipment? We're looking to shoot data at distances of a few hundred

Re: Speed Testing and Throughput testing

2009-11-02 Thread Jon Meek
I use iperf with packet capture on both sides, then analyze the packet capture for per-second throughput and re-transmits. I usually do 10 TCP streams for 30 seconds. Note that on GigE with significant RTTs (5-15 ms) some TCP tuning is needed to deal with the bandwidth delay product. It is also

Re: Traceroute management

2009-06-09 Thread Jon Meek
mon ( http://mon.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page ) comes with traceroute.monitor It keeps a state file of current routes and logs only changes. You can specify equivalent hops, hops to ignore, StopAt addresses, and UnexpectedHops. Since it is part of mon, it is easy to alert on a route

Re: Sprint Leap Second

2009-01-04 Thread Jon Meek
A visual comparison of my Sprint phone and xclock with second hand on a synchronized workstation suggests that they have not yet implemented the leap second. Our single CDMA NTP clock did handle the leap second at the correct moment. However, that CDMA clock is West of Philadelphia and I am in

Re: Leap second tonight

2008-12-31 Thread Jon Meek
My Solaris 10 boxes are all happy (and did not reboot). I monitor NTP on a number of devices, including one router. The router was off by one second for a while, but is OK after an hour. Everything else was fine immediately. In 2005, our CDMA clock got the leap second between 15:08 and 15:38 EST

Re: Stress Testing LAN/WAN

2008-12-04 Thread Jon Meek
We use iperf running off of a bootable Linux CD with a 2.4 Kernel and can push 960 to 980 Mbps with no drops or errors on any pair of PCs with Gig interfaces we have tried so far. We usually 10 TCP streams, or tune the TCP stack and use a single stream. We also capture the traffic on both sides,

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-31 Thread Jon Meek
I have had the same problem and solved it with a rare (even then) 100BT Only hub. I still have at least one stashed away. For years though, I have been using bonding on Linux to combine multiple tap streams. We also use hardware aggregators for the higher volume applications. Jon On Thu, Jul