Re: Complain to your vendors (was Re: Did your BGP crash today?)

2010-09-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
vendors just to throw in the towel on these issues then its the service provider community to blame. In my view we have bit by bit step by step ended up in a very dark place. With our entire planet now completely reliant on Internet and Data networks its time for action. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae

Re: SmartNet Alternatives

2011-02-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
I've used NHR for a number of deployments over the past couple of years and they are a fantastic organisation to work with. I've used them for maintenance support in the US for replacement of parts - highly recommended. - Original Message - From: tbran...@gmail.com Sent: Tue, February

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 17/01/2013 14:29, Brandon Ross br...@pobox.com wrote: AND game developers who build IPv6 functionality into their products. Do you hear us, PS3 and Xbox? Oscar, make sure you are telling your favorite game developers that they need to support IPv6 if they want to avoid the NAT mess.

Re: Slashdot: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

2013-01-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 18/01/2013 17:48, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: Suppose a provider fully deploys v6, they will still need CGN so long as they have customers who want to access the v4 internet. Yes indeed, and the smart folks who thought (clearly didn't!) about how the best way to manage IPV6 and IPV4

Re: Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
quite a few EU to India cables are impacted right now 4/7 down. Sent from my iPad On 27 Mar 2013, at 18:14, Aftab Siddiqui aftab.siddi...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it's not just SMW4 outage, we've been witnessing serious issues on IMEWE for couple of weeks now and this outages just made it

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
that article is absolute rubbish. take with large pinch of salt, rockstar in hamster outfit type nonsense. $dayjob didn't lose any traffic during the period, some guys where affected because of the lottery of being on the same switch as couldfare. regards, Neil. On 27 Mar 2013, at 18:45, Jay

Re: Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
Via renesys http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-naval-forces-capture-3-scuba-divers-trying-to-sabotage-undersea-internet-cable/2013/03/27/dd2975ec-9725-11e2-a976-7eb906f9ed9b_story.html Sent from my iPhone On 27 Mar 2013, at 21:53, Neil J. McRae n...@domino.orgmailto:n

Re: So how big was it *really*?

2013-03-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 28/03/2013 13:41, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: If you look at externally observable data, something surely happened at LINX on the 23rd: https://stats.linx.net/cgi-pub/aggregate/week Yes, the polling server couldn't reach one of the networks - remember that there are two networks

Re: So how big was it *really*?

2013-03-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
Surely the question is what was the impact? If I had just installed 3 new 100G iinks the day before then its going to be a lot bigger than if I didn't haven them. In my view this was a minor blip, but very well sniper rifled at Cloudflare - they have a lot of pissed off customers looking the

RE: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router.

2009-07-20 Thread Neil J. McRae
Personally I'd avoid this platform given 6+ years of trying to make it work reliably. GSR is far better platform.

Re: Data Centers in England

2009-10-17 Thread Neil J. McRae
too far away from the square mile. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae -- Alive and Kicking. n...@domino.org

Re: Router Choice

2008-11-12 Thread Neil J. McRae
believe they plan too). The ALU-Trimetra chaps based in San Jose and in Belgium are superb to work with also. -- Neil J. McRae -- Alive and Kicking. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Router Choice

2008-11-18 Thread Neil J. McRae
Try out the GUI thing. I know people will go GUIs are for idiots! and all that. Agree, the SAM is excellent, esp the XML interface to it. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae -- Alive and Kicking. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netflow on SUP720-3BXL

2009-03-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
TCAM threshold exceeded, TCAM Utilization [99%] -- Neil J. McRae -- Alive and Kicking. n...@domino.org

Re: [NANOG] Alcatel

2008-05-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
The Alcatel 7750 is the best MPLS edge box period. It blows away the traditional competition by a country mile. The quality of the product is really superb. Imagine life is a software release when on completion of your own type approval the software does what it says on the tin? Not even minor

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
I think the effect will be limited unless Apple give alot more space away for free. there arny many iphones/pads/pods with just 5GB Neil On 3 Sep 2011, at 12:22, Skeeve Stevens ske...@eintellego.net wrote: Hey all, I've been thinking about the impact that iCloud (by Apple) will have on the

Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-04 Thread Neil J. McRae
Well said Randy - the previous paper is flawed and if the findings where true you would wonder how anyone ever created a viable online business. Neil Sent from my iPhone On 4 Sep 2011, at 11:03, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: [ http://archive.psg.com/110904.broadside.html ] Do Not

Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-04 Thread Neil J. McRae
Jen, What operators are involved? And who represents them specifically? Neil. On 04/09/2011 16:07, Jennifer Rexford j...@cs.princeton.edu wrote: As one of the co-chairs of this working group, I'd like to chime in to clarify the purpose of this group. Our goal is to assemble a group of vendors

Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-04 Thread Neil J. McRae
maybe volunteers from the nanog community should contact you? On 4 Sep 2011, at 16:45, Jennifer Rexford j...@cs.princeton.edu wrote: Neil, The group is being assembled right now, so we don't have a list as of yet. -- Jen Sent from my iPhone On Sep 4, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Neil J

Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-04 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 4 Sep 2011, at 21:17, Sharon Goldberg gol...@cs.bu.edu wrote: thanks for responding you paper is interesting, Thus, while we cannot hope to accurately model every aspect of interdomain routing, nor predict how S*BGP deployment will proceed in practice, we believe that ISP competition

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-19 Thread Neil J. McRae
Randy, On 18/09/2013 03:39, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: somehow, a serious case of testosterone poisoning combined with insane goal drift has hit a number of the large european exchanges. instead of the goal being how well they serve their local communities, they have gone wild with sleazy

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DNS admin request Microsoft / Comcast

2019-02-05 Thread Neil J. McRae
Folks, If there is a Microsoft lead DNS person here and a comcast lead DNS person here can you contact me off-list please. Cheers, Neil McRae.

Re: Calling LinkedIn, Amazon and Akamai @ DE-CIX NY

2019-02-05 Thread Neil J. McRae
+1! On 30/01/2019, 22:10, "NANOG on behalf of Ren Provo" mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of ren.pr...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Thomas, You probably should remove sessions with networks explicitly *not* participating in route servers versus displaying them on

Re: BT static routing to CPE

2020-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
Hello Tom, Can you send me details to neil.mc...@bt.com and I’ll take a look. Neil. Sent from my iPhone On 1 May 2020, at 14:49, Tom Ammon wrote:  Hi All, I've inherited a circuit that can't be replaced, on which I need to get some services working, from BT in the UK. The sales people are

Re: Passive Wave Primer

2020-11-12 Thread Neil J. McRae
+1 on this – we use it internally to manage two optical platforms (international vs local) and even that has caused some challenges! From: NANOG Date: Tuesday, 13 October 2020 at 22:03 To: Brandon Martin Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Passive Wave Primer >From the perspective of a large