Re: Facebook Geo Routing Issues

2016-11-16 Thread Mike Hammett
I'm in Chicago and I saw mine going to Miami as well (per rDNS). Haven't looked into it at all. I did see a video where they said they occasionally purposely give people less than ideal facilities to test connectivity. Maybe that process buggered up? - Mike Hammett Intelligent

Re: Port 2323/tcp

2016-11-16 Thread Mike Hammett
Probably best to go with A) what we could do in the best of situations and B) what the rest will do. Some of us are last mile networks and *DO* care. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message

Re: Dyn DDoS this AM?

2016-10-25 Thread Mike Hammett
for strict facing customer and loose elsewhere. They haven't implemented it yet, but they accepted the request. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Alexander Lyamin" <l.

Re: Spitballing IoT Security

2016-10-24 Thread Mike Hammett
Oh, yeah, list e-mail usually just gets skimmed through. No time for reading in detail or links. ;-) Sorry. :-\ - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Hugo Slabber

Re: Spitballing IoT Security

2016-10-24 Thread Mike Hammett
There's a buffer overrun in some software, so let's just remove all passwords (and keys), since they can get in anyway. Just pointing out flawed logic. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-23 Thread Mike Hammett
A support call to an end-user serving ISP takes how long to ROI? That wouldn't make sense. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedc.

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-22 Thread Mike Hammett
Thanks for the link. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Ray Van Dolson" <rvandol...@esri.com> To: "Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net> Cc:

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-22 Thread Mike Hammett
Until Dyn says or someone says Dyn said, everything is assumed. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Peter Baldridge" <petebaldri...@gmail.com> To: &quo

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-22 Thread Mike Hammett
It's also generally counter to them being available outside of that network. (web and proprietary interfaces needed, SSH and telnet not). That's also not much I can do as a network operator. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-22 Thread Mike Hammett
the public Internet. = That's the direction I was heading. How can I as a network operator seek out and eliminate the sources of these attacks? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-22 Thread Mike Hammett
) to distinguish normal Dyn traffic from DDoS Dyn traffic. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Brandon Butterworth" <bran...@rd.bbc.co.uk> To: na...@ics-i

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-22 Thread Mike Hammett
"their" Whose addresses are known and who are they known to? I certainly don't know the addresses of anyone involved. Some work can produce Dyn allocations, I suppose. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midw

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-22 Thread Mike Hammett
"taken all necessary steps to insure that none of the numerous specific types of CCVT thingies that Krebs and others identified" Serious question... how? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-21 Thread Mike Hammett
and there was no credible evidence of collateral damage. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Laszlo Hanyecz" <las...@heliacal.net> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Fr

Re: Dyn DDoS this AM?

2016-10-21 Thread Mike Hammett
Are there sites that can test your BCP38\84 compliance? I'm okay, but interested in what I can share to raise awareness. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Patr

Re: Coherent CWDM 40G QSFP

2016-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
Apparently I just remembered the big transport platforms using coherent 40G and 100G and assumed there was a cheap variant, but there isn't. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Tim D

Re: 18 years ago today - rfc 2468

2016-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
"or you haven't read enough RFCs" so for those of us that aren't masochists ;-) I did get my summary last year at NANOG, though. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "

Coherent CWDM 40G QSFP

2016-10-18 Thread Mike Hammett
Does anyone make a coherent CWDM 40G QSFP? I thought so, but the first couple places I checked, I struck out at. This would be for a passive mux\MROADM. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP

Re: Two BGP peering sessions on single Comcast Fiber Connection?

2016-10-17 Thread Mike Hammett
It really seems like it's a grave oversight to *NOT* support multiple BGP sessions. I drop to two routers for that same reason, I can do maintenance on one, while the other carries traffic. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http

Re: nexus N3K-C3064PQ vs juniper ex4500 in order to protect against ddos

2016-10-01 Thread Mike Hammett
I like putting a switch in front so then I can run two routers behind and get a /29 from the upstream. I can then do router maintenance, upgrades, etc. without taking the circuit down. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http

Re: nexus N3K-C3064PQ vs juniper ex4500 in order to protect against ddos

2016-10-01 Thread Mike Hammett
many of you adopt that strategy, though. I still want my source of cheap EOL hardware. :-) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Matt Freitag" <mlfre...@mtu.edu>

Re: BCP38 adoption "incentives"?

2016-09-28 Thread Mike Hammett
IPv6? Is that common in CMTSes or just in certain ones? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Wesley George" <wesgeo...@puck.nether.net> To: "Mike Hamme

Re: BCP38 adoption "incentives"?

2016-09-27 Thread Mike Hammett
you can with what you can. FWIW, I believe most American ISPs *DO* manage their end-user routers. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Andrew White" &

Re: BCP38 adoption "incentives"?

2016-09-27 Thread Mike Hammett
It would be incredibly low impact to have the residential CPE block any source address not assigned by the ISP. Done. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Stephen Sat

Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey

2016-09-27 Thread Mike Hammett
We can't teach other network operators the value of IPv6. Good luck teaching a consumer anything other than cat videos (and now recipes - unrelated to the former). - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com

Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey

2016-09-27 Thread Mike Hammett
ugh surely someone took it) either way. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Brielle Bruns" <br...@2mbit.com> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, September 27

Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey

2016-09-27 Thread Mike Hammett
You must not support end users. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Mark Andrews" <ma...@isc.org> To: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobb...@arbor.ne

Re: Request for comment -- BCP38

2016-09-26 Thread Mike Hammett
, deny. Allow whatever is in the IRRDB entry. $250 for manual changes. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Hugo Slabbert" <h...@slabnet.com> To: "Mike Hamme

Re: Request for comment -- BCP38

2016-09-26 Thread Mike Hammett
Are you talking BGP level customers or individual small businesses' broadband service? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "John Levine" <jo...@iecc.com> To:

Re: Request for comment -- BCP38

2016-09-26 Thread Mike Hammett
The only asymmetric routing broken is when the source isn't in public Internet route-able space. That just leaves those multi-ISP WAN routers that NAT it. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original

Re: One Year On: IPv4 Exhaust

2016-09-25 Thread Mike Hammett
ARIN exhausted their last /8 about a year ago. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Paul Thornton" <p...@prt.org> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sunday, Septembe

Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey

2016-09-25 Thread Mike Hammett
You don't need complete adoption to reduce the attacks. If ASes representing 25% of the current spoofed traffic implemented BCP38, then guess what, there's 25% less of an attack. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest

Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey

2016-09-25 Thread Mike Hammett
is the attack than it is now with hundreds or thousands of them? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Ca By" <cb.li...@gmail.com> To: "Jay Farrell&quo

Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey

2016-09-23 Thread Mike Hammett
I believe the article says they were being hosted for free. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Grant Ridder" <shortdudey...@gmail.com> To: nanog@nanog.o

Re: CDN Overload?

2016-09-22 Thread Mike Hammett
Thanks. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: Martin Hannigan <hanni...@gmail.com> To: Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thu, 22 Sep 2

Re: CDN Overload?

2016-09-22 Thread Mike Hammett
HammettIntelligent Computing SolutionsMidwest Internet ExchangeThe Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: Bruce Curtis <bruce.cur...@ndsu.edu> To: Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> Cc: Martin Hannigan <hanni...@gmail.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thu, 22 Sep

Re: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-22 Thread Mike Hammett
If you told them they would have fewer NAT issues if they supported IPv6, they'd start to care. ;-) They know enough to hate NAT. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Alexander Ma

Re: CDN Overload?

2016-09-21 Thread Mike Hammett
. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Martin Hannigan" <hanni...@gmail.com> To: "Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>

Re: CDN Overload?

2016-09-21 Thread Mike Hammett
more platforms. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net> To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 9:08:

Re: CDN Overload?

2016-09-21 Thread Mike Hammett
, vanilla TCP stack. That may not be the case, especially if doing something like Fast TCP. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Baldur Norddahl" <baldur.nordd...@gmail.com> To:

Re: CDN Overload?

2016-09-21 Thread Mike Hammett
https://goo.gl/forms/LvgFRsMdNdI8E9HF3 I have made this into a Google Form to make it easier to track compared to randomly formatted responses on multiple mailing lists, Facebook Groups, etc. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers

Re: CDN Overload?

2016-09-21 Thread Mike Hammett
Likewise, why was it never an issue before and why does it only affect certain types of traffic from certain CDNs? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Baldur Norddahl" <

Re: CDN Overload?

2016-09-20 Thread Mike Hammett
of CDNs sending more traffic than the customer can handle and ignores TCP convention to slow down. Trying to investigate this thoroughly so we can get the CDN to fix their system. Multiple CDNs have been shown to do this. = - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest

Re: CDN Overload?

2016-09-20 Thread Mike Hammett
What do most broadband platforms do for rate limiting? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Matthew Walster" <matt...@walster.org> To: "George Skorup" <geo...

Re: CDN Overload?

2016-09-19 Thread Mike Hammett
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/08/is_win_10_ignoring_sysadmins_qos_settings/ This explains the recent situations (well, not really an explanation, but a bit more information from other people). Not so much for the ones going back a year or two. - Mike Hammett Intelligent

CDN Overload?

2016-09-19 Thread Mike Hammett
everyone's day and I'm certain that there are at least a couple people at each CDN that aren't that way. ;-) Lots of rambling, sure. What do I need to have these guys collect as evidence of a problem and who should they send it to? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions

Re: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-18 Thread Mike Hammett
People love to hate incumbent telcos because of their arrogance (and frankly it's deserved), but people forget that big content can be just as arrogant and just as deserving of hatred. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP

Re: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-16 Thread Mike Hammett
A network that doesn't support IPv6, yet discriminates against CGNAT? That seems like a promising future. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Simon Lockhart" <si...@slimey.or

Re: Arista unqualified SFP

2016-08-18 Thread Mike Hammett
https://sourceforge.net/p/e1000/mailman/message/28698959/ That or similar doesn't work for that model? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Denys Fedoryshchenko" <de..

Re: Arista unqualified SFP

2016-08-18 Thread Mike Hammett
Intel does allow DAC of any vendor (assuming they properly identify as DACs. You can also disable Intel's check in the Linux drivers. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Mikael Abraha

Re: Zayo Extortion

2016-08-15 Thread Mike Hammett
Try more facts and less emotion. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "HonorFirst Name Ethics via NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, August 13,

Re: Host.us DDOS attack -and- related conversations

2016-08-03 Thread Mike Hammett
As discussed a few months ago (maybe Christmas time?), Comcast is actively suspending accounts involved in DNS amplification. Certainly on a network like theirs, it's an internal issue as well. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http

Re: Host.us DDOS attack -and- related conversations

2016-08-03 Thread Mike Hammett
Stopping one vector that makes up the largest of DDoSes certainly isn't a bad thing. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "James Bensley" <jwbens...@gmail.co

Re: Host.us DDOS attack -and- related conversations

2016-08-03 Thread Mike Hammett
they were the only ones left. Do many last mile providers implement BCP38 at their CE? Seems like it's better to stop it at the CE than the PE. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message -

ExtremeWare

2016-08-01 Thread Mike Hammett
Can those that ran switches with ExtremeWare on them remember that far back? I've got a Summit 400t-48 and I can't seem figure out how to get DDM information from the SFP. Did they have that ability? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX

Re: akamai abnormal spike

2016-07-18 Thread Mike Hammett
Several of my WISP colleagues have noticed this behavior (CDN sending way more traffic than the customer's pipe can handle) from (I believe) multiple CDNs. Not sure if it is intention on behalf of the CDN or an error, but it has been on-going for several months if not years. - Mike

Re: Experience on Wanguard for 'anti' DDOS solutions

2016-07-06 Thread Mike Hammett
s out of memory quickly" How much memory are we talking here? Reasonable to mitigate that downside by just stuffing more RAM in the box? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message -

Re: IPv6 deployment excuses

2016-07-05 Thread Mike Hammett
Are you saying that functional game consoles aren't your problem? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Masataka Ohta" <mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> To: &

Re: IPv6 deployment excuses

2016-07-02 Thread Mike Hammett
Security that is too strict will be disabled and be far less effective than proper security measures. Security zealots are often blind to that. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com

Re: IPv4 Legacy assignment frustration

2016-07-01 Thread Mike Hammett
<3 name and shame. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Tom Smyth" <tom.sm...@wirelessconnect.eu> To: "Ray Soucy" <r...

Brocade Fabric Help

2016-06-30 Thread Mike Hammett
Config DB)(Trunk Primary) I saw that means, "The DCM Configuration DB is different on both the ends of ISL," but I have no idea how to resolve that. VDX-6720s running 4.1.3b. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exch

Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh

2016-06-19 Thread Mike Hammett
Before 100G, you'd need ten cross connects to move 100G. Now you'd need only one. That's a big drop in revenue. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Br

Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh

2016-06-19 Thread Mike Hammett
). For those of you that operate in many markets, do you see any parallels where one operator has (or had) a hold on the market (Chicago Equinix and Miami Terremark for instance) compared to more diversified markets like NYC (due to a variety of IXes) or Seattle (due to SIX)? - Mike Hammett

Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

2016-06-17 Thread Mike Hammett
I think the popularity of the donation-based IX largely a violent reaction to the over-priced major IX operators in the US. People didn't like what was happening, so went to the polar opposite. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet

Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

2016-06-17 Thread Mike Hammett
I think a similar point was made at NANOG. A distributed IX will let the market dictate that. Places that are better for people to operate in will see a rise in customers and places that aren't won't. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest

Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

2016-06-16 Thread Mike Hammett
I think that's a very limited mindset. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Zbyněk Pospíchal" <zby...@dialtelecom.cz> To: nanog@nanog.org

Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

2016-06-15 Thread Mike Hammett
. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Seth Mattinen" <se...@rollernet.us> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 2:14:21 PM Subject: Re: N

Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

2016-06-15 Thread Mike Hammett
es produce. I also think that the individual merits of an organization or business model is pretty astray from the OP's original point (correct or not) about using the NANOG presentation platform for thinly veiled personal agenda. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http

Re: Equinix IX Port Moves

2016-06-10 Thread Mike Hammett
The second option. Well, there is the first under process too, but the second is the priority at the moment. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Christopher M

Equinix IX Port Moves

2016-06-10 Thread Mike Hammett
Who has moved an Equinix IX port? We're told that it's a full cancellation, re-order, re IPs, re-peering, etc. Can anyone lend any input either way on that? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-07 Thread Mike Hammett
telecom events. You don't go to the web site support chat to get them to make a change to how they handle IPv6 on their end. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From

Re: Monitoring system recommendation

2016-06-07 Thread Mike Hammett
I'm not at that scale, but I've seen some fairly impressive performance searching through a friend's NetXMS system with a couple years of verbose syslog and monitoring to go through. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange

Re: Traffic engineering and peering for CDNs

2016-06-06 Thread Mike Hammett
Some rely on performance testing to the client's DNS resolver and if they're not using on-net ones, they'll be directed to use a different CDN node. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-03 Thread Mike Hammett
It might be a few years yet before the new channels have that much power. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Steve Naslund" <snasl...@medline.com> To: nanog

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-03 Thread Mike Hammett
As bad as some are in the telecom industry, they don't hold a candle to those in the content industry. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Steve Naslund&qu

Re: IPv6 is better than ipv4

2016-06-02 Thread Mike Hammett
ay this list replies to the individual and not the list... and doesn't have a bracketed name in the subject.) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Christopher Morrow" <mo

Re: IPv6 is better than ipv4

2016-06-02 Thread Mike Hammett
Yes. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> To: "Daniel Corbe" <dco...@hammerfiber.com> Cc: nanog

Re: Global/distributed IXP operators?

2016-05-29 Thread Mike Hammett
Could you define what you mean by a distributed\global IXP? There are plenty of IXPs, but there aren't really global IXPs, those just become networks. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com

Re: FlowSpec Support

2016-05-28 Thread Mike Hammett
on the Baker's Dozen? Wide-spread POPs on six continents? Showing up on 50 IXPs? 1k IPv4 adjacencies? A medium sized network that does FlowSpec could be vastly more useful to you than a large network that doesn't. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest

FlowSpec Support

2016-05-28 Thread Mike Hammett
BGP FlowSpec information from customers and acting upon it? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com

Re: B5-Lite

2016-05-17 Thread Mike Hammett
apart, alignment might be off. What are your CCQ, AMC and AMQ numbers? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Jared Mauch" <ja...@puck.nether.ne

Re: B5-Lite

2016-05-17 Thread Mike Hammett
due to interference. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Hal Ponton" <h...@buzcom.net> To: "Matt Hoppes" <mattli...@riverva

Re: Mobile providers in the US for backup access

2016-04-20 Thread Mike Hammett
*shrugs* Seems to work here, though if Ting uses T-Mo and Sprint, I suppose Ting's more likely to have a good signal. I don't expect much support on a $6 mobile wireless service. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http

Re: Mobile providers in the US for backup access

2016-04-20 Thread Mike Hammett
I'd look at FreedomPOP's Netgear 341U. $20 - $50 NRC, single digit MRC for low usage. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Dovid Bender

Re: 10G-capable customer router recommendations?

2016-04-16 Thread Mike Hammett
If you were on FB, the TBW page would be a great venue. ;-) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Josh Reynolds" <j...@kyneticwifi.com> To

Re: 10G-capable customer router recommendations?

2016-04-15 Thread Mike Hammett
CCRs do firewalling and NAT just great. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Chris Knipe" <sav...@savage.za.org> To: "Josh Reynolds&q

Re: 10G-capable customer router recommendations?

2016-04-15 Thread Mike Hammett
I'm glad you're in Missouri and not in my area. :-) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Josh Reynolds" <j...@kyneticwifi.com> To: "Mik

Re: 10G-capable customer router recommendations?

2016-04-15 Thread Mike Hammett
Conversely, the UI is Mikrotik's big draw. :-) Being or not being like CIsco has zero bearing on me. Assuming the commands do what they say they'll do, any platform with tab complete is fine. :-) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest

Re: 10G-capable customer router recommendations?

2016-04-15 Thread Mike Hammett
The CCRs' primary weaknesses are full tables and 1 gigabit cap per flow. Neither is likely to be an issue for this residential use case. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original

Re: Connecting rural providers: ethernet to large city or nearby transit

2016-04-13 Thread Mike Hammett
Get backhaul to somewhere useful. Do not buy from the incumbent. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca> To:

Re: Telco Systems

2016-04-12 Thread Mike Hammett
I know of a WISP in Puerto Rico that loves them. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Colton Conor" <colton.co...@gmail.com> To: "NA

Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

2016-04-11 Thread Mike Hammett
So they launch exhaustive and expensive searches of lakes instead? :-) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Steve Mikulasik" <steve.mikula

Re: Stop IPv6 Google traffic

2016-04-10 Thread Mike Hammett
That is the problem with some of these companies. They've gotten just as cocky and arrogant as the incumbent telco providers and won't actually tell you what you're doing wrong, but will punish you for doing wrong. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

Re: Stop IPv6 Google traffic

2016-04-10 Thread Mike Hammett
I think the group wants to know what problem you're trying to solve. Obviously if you block something, there will be a timeout in getting to it. What is broken that you're trying to fix by blackholing them? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

Re: Microwave link capacity

2016-04-04 Thread Mike Hammett
A lot of new gear is gigabit. The current price\performance leader is SIAE's ALFOPlus2. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Jean-Francois

Re: Microwave link capacity

2016-04-04 Thread Mike Hammett
You might be better served with the lists over at wispa.org. Not saying the people here don't have the answers, but that's what those guys do. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com

Re: What services does Microsoft AS8075 provide when peering at IXPs?

2016-04-03 Thread Mike Hammett
"your direct peering can be slow and congested, while there's actually a longer but faster path through someplace else" Possible, but unlikely for most networks. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exch

Re: Someone Please Help Me Understand

2016-04-02 Thread Mike Hammett
By performance testing, it varies, but latency is a big one. Again, doesn't seem to be your problem in your case. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "

Re: Someone Please Help Me Understand

2016-04-02 Thread Mike Hammett
any routes to 32934 from your Chicago Equinix connection? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Eric Rogers" <ecrog...@precisionds.com> To: &q

Re: Someone Please Help Me Understand

2016-04-02 Thread Mike Hammett
Are you using locally resolving DNS servers? I don't know how FB determines where your content comes from, but some CDNs test the performance to your resolving DNS server. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http

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