Re: TACACS+ server recommendations?

2023-09-21 Thread Simon Leinen
Christopher Morrow writes: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 1:22 PM Jim wrote: >> >> Router operating systems still typically use only passwords with >> SSH, then those devices send the passwords over that insecure channel. I >> have yet to >> see much in terms of routers capable to Tacacs+ Authorize

Re: BGP and The zero window edge

2021-04-24 Thread Simon Leinen
Job Snijders via NANOG writes: > *RIGHT NOW* (at the moment of writing), there are a number of zombie > route visible in the IPv6 Default-Free Zone: [Reversing the order of your two examples] > Another one is > http://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix_detail/lg01/ipv6?q=2a0b:6b86:d24::/48 >

Re: Netflow collector that can forward flows to another collector based on various metrics.

2021-01-21 Thread Simon Leinen
Speaking as the maintainer of samplicator, I'm not sure it's what Drew is looking for. Samplicator just sends copies of entire UDP packets. It doesn't understand NetFlow/IPFIX or whatever else those packets might contain. If I understand correctly, drew wants to forward some of the

Re: cloud automation BGP

2020-09-29 Thread Simon Leinen
Randy Bush writes: > have folk looked at https://github.com/nttgin/BGPalerter We use it, and have it configured to send alerts to the NOC team's chat tool (Mattermost). Seems pretty nice and stable. Kudos to Massimo and NTT for making it available and for maintaining it! The one issue we see

Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades

2020-08-13 Thread Simon Leinen
m Taichi writes: > Just my curiosity. May I ask how we can measure the link capacity > loading? What does it mean by a 50%, 70%, or 90% capacity loading? > Load sampled and measured instantaneously, or averaging over a certain > period of time (granularity)? Very good question! With tongue in

BGP unnumbered examples from data center network using RFC 5549 et al. [was: Re: RFC 5549 - IPv4 Routes with IPv6 next-hop - Does it really exists?]

2020-07-30 Thread Simon Leinen
Mark Tinka writes: > On 29/Jul/20 15:51, Simon Leinen wrote: >> >> Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down >> State/PfxRcd >> sw-o(swp16)465108 953559 938348000 03w5d00h >> 688 >>

Re: RFC 5549 - IPv4 Routes with IPv6 next-hop - Does it really exists?

2020-07-29 Thread Simon Leinen
Douglas Fischer writes: > And today, I reached on https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5549 [...] > But the questions are: > There is any network that really implements RFC5549? We've been using it for more than two years in our data center networks. We use the Cumulus/FRR implementation on switches

Re: Hi-Rise Building Fiber Suggestions

2020-02-26 Thread Simon Leinen
Randy Bush writes: > since we're at this layer, should i worry about going 3m with dacs at > low speed, i.e. 10g? may need to do runs to neighbor rack. No, 3m is totally fine for passive DAC, never had any issues with those. (5m should also be fine, we just have less experience with that because

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-24 Thread Simon Leinen
Paul Nash writes: > A bit of perspective on bandwidth and feeling old. The first > non-academic connection from Africa (Usenet and Email, pre-Internet) > ran at about 9600 bps over a Telebit Trailblazer in my living room. For your amusement, this latest e-bloodbath, erm -sports update, at 48GB

Re: RIPE our of IPv4

2019-12-01 Thread Simon Leinen
Matthew Kaufman writes: > This is a great example (but just one of many) of how server software > development works: Small addition/correction to this example (which I find interesting and also sad): > Kubernetes initial release June 2014. Developed by Google engineers. [...] > Full support

Re: Fwd: wither cyclops?

2019-02-14 Thread Simon Leinen
> Did this tool die on the vine? > https://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu/ Not sure I would express it that way https://www.cs.ucla.edu/thousandeyes-a-look-inside-two-ucla-alumnis-273-million-startup/ -- Simon.

Re: CVV

2018-11-08 Thread Simon Leinen
Todd Underwood writes: > [interesting and plausible reasoning about why no chip in US] > anyway, let's talk about networks, no? This topic is obviously "a little" off-topic, but I find some contributions (like yours) relevant for understanding adoption dynamics (or not) of proposed security

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Simon Leinen
> For a horrifying moment, I misread this as Google surfacing > performance stats via a BGP stream by encoding stat_name:value as > community:value > /me goes searching for mass quantities of caffeine Because you'll be spending the night writing up that Internet-Draft? :-) -- Simon.

Talk extract: Submarine cable systems 101 for AWS partners

2016-12-10 Thread Simon Leinen
Amazon held their "re:Invent" event two weeks ago. Wasn't there, but I'm a James Hamilton fan so I started watching the recordings of his talks. In one, he talks about fiber optic cables under the oceans. Here's the start of that section: https://youtu.be/AyOAjFNPAbA?t=672 Even though this is

Re: [TECH] Pica8 & Cumulus Networks

2015-11-02 Thread Simon Leinen
Yoann THOMAS writes: > Under a Cloud project I ask myself to use equipment based on the Pica8 > or Cumulus Networks. Ah, quite different beasts. Cumulus Networks tries to really make the switch look like a Linux system with hardware-accelerated forwarding, so you can use stock programs that

Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP

2015-01-13 Thread Simon Leinen
Manuel Marín writes: Dear Nanog community [...] There are so many options that I don't know if it makes sense to start with a modular switch (usually expensive because the backplane, dual dc, dual CPU, etc) or start with a 1RU high density switch that support new protocols like Trill and that

Low-numbered ASes being hijacked? [Re: BGP Update Report]

2014-11-30 Thread Simon Leinen
cidr-report writes: BGP Update Report Interval: 20-Nov-14 -to- 27-Nov-14 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name [...] 11 - AS5 38861 0.6% 7.0 -- SYMBOLICS - Symbolics,

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Simon Leinen
Glen Kent writes: One of the earlier posts seems to suggest that if iOS updates were cached on the ISPs CDN server then the traffic would have been manageable since everybody would only contact the local sever to get the image. Is this assumption correct? Not necessarily. I think most of the

Re: Real world sflow vs netflow?

2012-07-17 Thread Simon Leinen
James Braunegg writes: In the end I did real life testing comparing each platform Great, thanks for sharing your results! (It would be nice if you could tell us a little bit about the configuration, i.e. what kind of sampling you used.) [...] That being said both netflow and sflow both under

Re: Network Storage

2012-04-16 Thread Simon Leinen
Andrew Thrift writes: If you want something from a Tier1 the new Dell R720XD's will take 24x 900GB SAS disks or 12x 2TB 3.5 cheap slow SATA disks or 12x 3TB 3.5 more expensive slightly faster SAS disks - if you take the (cheaper) 3.5-disk variant of the R720xd chassis. or 12x 3TB 3.5

Re: Apple updates - Effect on network

2011-10-15 Thread Simon Leinen
Matt Taylor writes: Would love to see some bandwidth graphs. :) Here's one from another network. attachment: akamai-week.pngGuess it was a good idea to upgrade that Akamai cluster's uplink to 10GE, even though 2*GE (or was it 4*GE) looked sufficient at the time. Remember folks, overprovisioning

Re: [routing-wg] The Cidr Report

2011-10-15 Thread Simon Leinen
Geoff Huston writes: Does anyone give a s**t about this any more? I do; I check the weekly increase every week, and check who the top offenders are. If someone from my vicinity/circles is on the list (doesn't happen frequently; more often for the BGP updates report than for CIDR), I may send

Re: facebook spying on us?

2011-10-02 Thread Simon Leinen
Data Center Knowledge posted about 20 minutes of very poorly shot video of Prineville. They're Open Compute servers in 'triplet' racks. [...] Their power supply (also open) runs across 2 legs of a 277/480 3-phase feed, which is usually what the substation supplies to your PDUs, which step it

Re: Cisco 7600 PFC3B(XL) and IPv6 packets with fragmentation header

2011-10-01 Thread Simon Leinen
which traceroute? icmp? udp? tcp? Traceroute is not a single protocol. Router processing is only dependent on noticing that TTL is expiring, and being able to return an ICMP message (including a quote of part of the original packet) to the sender. what is that limit? from a single port?

Re: Network Equipment Discussion (HP and L2/10G)

2011-05-14 Thread Simon Leinen
Deepak Jain writes: The wrinkle here is that I can't use a normal enterprise 10G switch because of the need for DWDM optics (ideally 80km style). 80km DWDM optics in SFP+ format should be available now or RSN. Search engines turn up a few purported vendors. The ones I found conform to the

Re: Top webhosters offering v6 too?

2011-02-06 Thread Simon Leinen
Tim Chown writes: Which of the big boys are doing it? Google - although there don't call themselves a web hoster, they can be used for hosting web sites using services such as Sites or App Engine. Both support IPv6, either using the opt-in mechanism or by using an alternate CNAME (ghs46 instead

Re: arin and ops fora

2011-01-08 Thread Simon Leinen
Randy Bush writes: one difference in north america from the other 'regions' is that there is a strong and very separate operator community and forum. this does not really exist in the other regions. ripe ate the eof years ago. apops is dormant aside from [...] Right. observe that the main

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-11 Thread Simon Leinen
Greg Whynott writes: i found it funny how M$ started giving away virus/security software for its OS. it can't fix the leaky roof, so it includes a roof patch kit. (and puts about 10 companies out of business at the same time) I actually like the new arrangement better, where Microsoft

ICMPv6 rate limits breaking PMTUD (and traceroute) [Re: Comcast enables 6to4 relays]

2010-09-01 Thread Simon Leinen
Jack Bates writes: 1) Your originating host may be breaking PMTU (so the packet you send is too large and doesn't make it, you never resend a smaller packet, but it works when tracerouting from the other side due to PMTU working in that direction and you are responding with the same size

Re: Restrictions on Ethernet L2 circuits?

2009-12-31 Thread Simon Leinen
Interesting questions. Here are a few thoughts from the perspective of an education/research backbone operator that used to be IP only but has also been offering L2 point-to-point circuits for a few years. Should business customers expect to be able to connect several LANs through an Ethernet

Re: Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 to TOR

2009-11-15 Thread Simon Leinen
Tore Anderson writes: * Jonathan Lassoff Are there any applications that absolutely *have* to sit on the same LAN/broadcast domain and can't be configured to use unicast or multicast IP? FCoE comes to mind. Doesn't FCoE need even more than that, i.e. lossless Ethernet with end-to-end flow

Re: MRLG

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Leinen
Thanks guys I got it... Congratulations. But how/where? -- Simon.

Re: SNMP and syslog forwarders

2009-03-04 Thread Simon Leinen
Sam Stickland writes: It's looking like running all of our traps and syslog through a couple of relay devices (and then onwards to the various NMS's) would be quite a win for us. You can try the UDP samplicator: http://www.switch.ch/network/downloads/tf-tant/samplicator/ (The name indicates

Re: DNS problems to RoadRunner - tcp vs udp

2008-06-14 Thread Simon Leinen
Jon Kibler writes: Also, other than That's what the RFCs call for, why use TCP for data exchange instead of larger UDP packets? TCP is more robust for large (Path MTU) data transfers, and less prone to spoofing. A few months ago I sent a message to SwiNOG (like NANOG only less North American

Re: [NANOG] Questions about NETCONF

2008-05-16 Thread Simon Leinen
Randy Bush writes: [in response to John Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED]:] I've personally been waiting for the data modeling to be standardized. Yes, it's great and wonderful to have a consistent method of talking to network devices, but I also want a standard data model along with it. does this