Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-10-01 Thread William Herrin
is latter version, however, is not straightforward. Bugs that escape QC are quite a bit more likely. Will Juniper stop with the simplest version of FIB compression where not much can go wrong? Not if it works and customers like it. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-09-29 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 3:26 PM Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Sep 29, 2023, at 15:14, William Herrin wrote: > > I'm less assuming it and more reading it from this SIGCOMM paper: > > https://people.csail.mit.edu/ghobadi/papers/trio_sigcomm_2022.pdf > > Fair enough, bu

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-09-29 Thread William Herrin
se CPU. Architecturally I mean. Obviously it's optimized for a different task than a GPU. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-09-29 Thread William Herrin
OMM paper: https://people.csail.mit.edu/ghobadi/papers/trio_sigcomm_2022.pdf Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-09-29 Thread William Herrin
but it's still there. Compare to a TCAM which uses a tristate ram rather than the normal two-state sram. Yes? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-09-29 Thread William Herrin
manage 1M to 2M routes in the hardware-accelerated FIB regardless of the amount of DRAM on the machine. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-09-29 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 10:29 PM Saku Ytti wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sept 2023 at 08:24, William Herrin wrote: > > Maybe. That's where my comment about CPU cache starvation comes into > > play. I haven't delved into the Juniper line cards recently so I could > > easily be wro

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-09-28 Thread William Herrin
gnitude. No free lunch I'm afraid. The exact characteristics differ, but both approaches grow rapidly in expense with the size of the forwarding information base (FIB). Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-09-28 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 9:50 PM VOLKAN SALİH wrote: > multi-homed networks could also do default routing just packet-mark incoming > interface and then route packets out via same interface.. Take that to its logical conclusion and you'll invent MPLS. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William He

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-09-28 Thread William Herrin
then. Others use an expensive kind of memory called a TCAM that's very fast but both expensive and power hungry, so generally not sized for huge numbers of tiny routes. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Seattle-area centurylink (residential fiber) on the list?

2023-09-28 Thread William Herrin
oded length 8 (=Option(s) length 4) Magic-Num 0xd9ab6924 20:16:33.313248 dc:38:e1:cd:4f:7a > 44:1e:a1:44:70:3f, ethertype PPPoE S (0x8864), length 56: PPPoE [ses 0x4e6] LCP (0xc021), length 10: LCP, Echo-Reply (0x0a), id 77, length 10 encoded length 8 (=Option(s) length 4) Magic-Num 0x24a0da14 -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: what is acceptible jitter for voip and videoconferencing?

2023-09-21 Thread William Herrin
et delay. You start to have problems with people talking over each other because when they start they can't yet hear the other person talking. "Sorry, go ahead. No, you go ahead." Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: what is acceptible jitter for voip and videoconferencing?

2023-09-19 Thread William Herrin
r in mind that jitter impacts gaming as well, and not necessarily in the same way it impacts voip and video conferencing. Voip can have the luxury of dynamically growing the jitter buffer. Gaming... often does not. Just mentioning it so you don't get blind-sided. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William

Re: So what do you think about the scuttlebutt of Musk interfering in Ukraine?

2023-09-13 Thread William Herrin
Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences?

2023-09-06 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:23 AM Mark Tinka wrote: > I recognize what happens in the real world, not in the lab or text books. What's the difference between theory and practice? In theory, there is no difference. -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences?

2023-09-04 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 7:07 AM Masataka Ohta wrote: > William Herrin wrote: > > So, I've actually studied this in real-world conditions and TCP > > behaves exactly as I described in my previous email for exactly the > > reasons I explained. > > Yes of course, whic

Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences?

2023-09-04 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 12:13 AM Masataka Ohta wrote: > William Herrin wrote: > > That sounds like normal TCP behavior over a long fat pipe. > > No, not at all. First, though you explain slow start, > it has nothing to do with long fat pipe. Long fat > pipe problem is addres

Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences?

2023-09-03 Thread William Herrin
rds, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: JunOS/FRR/Nokia et al BGP critical issue

2023-08-30 Thread William Herrin
m extreme, but there's a good reason for it. Regards, Bill Herrin p.s. you don't need to copy the Facebook tracking token (that ?fbclid= bit) when you share URLs. -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Hawaiian ILEC infrastructure and fire

2023-08-17 Thread William Herrin
e road that is more or less paved. Though I am curious about the Paniolo cable landing in Lahaina. Did it survive? HICS and HIFN land in Kihei instead, right? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe)

2023-08-06 Thread William Herrin
nternet. You're going to get time from GPS or the cellular phone network. GPS devices like the one Mel pointed out are probably cheaper and more accurate. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe)

2023-08-06 Thread William Herrin
ent to Internet NTP, not a replacement. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe)

2023-08-05 Thread William Herrin
der to serve as your network stratum 2 sources that keep the rest of your machines in sync with each other. That last point is key. You don't want your servers in sync with random Internet time sources. You want them in sync with each other. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin

Re: Cogent Abuse - Bogus Propagation of ASN 36471

2023-07-20 Thread William Herrin
show the routes you consider bogus and the other trimmed to show the routes you consider legitimate, it would likely answer Ben's questions. Routeviews has FRR instances you can log in to and fetch the text output of "show ip bgp" which are outside your network. Regards, Bill Her

Re: My first ARIN Experience but probably not the last, unfortunately..

2023-07-16 Thread William Herrin
that "waiver" is the wrong word. It's not a waiver, it's a discount. You go calling things waivers that aren't, someone's gonna miss the asterisk and get rudely surprised. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: IP range for lease

2023-07-11 Thread William Herrin
o make a difference. Otherwise it's purposeless paperwork. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Picking a RIR/obtaining an AS/ressurrecting a legacy space

2023-07-06 Thread William Herrin
nything to ARIN. And let's face it, it doesn't get much more edge case than updating a dormant pre-ARIN (legacy) address block. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Picking a RIR/obtaining an AS/ressurrecting a legacy space

2023-07-06 Thread William Herrin
u have your ducks in a row because whatever you say, you can't take it back. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Picking a RIR/obtaining an AS/ressurrecting a legacy space

2023-07-06 Thread William Herrin
he LLC as an org. Once registered, request an AS number. Show control of the IP block and the two ISP contracts as your evidence of multihoming. Pay the fee and that should be all there is to it. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Picking a RIR/obtaining an AS/ressurrecting a legacy space

2023-07-06 Thread William Herrin
are located elsewhere. The addresses are registered at ARIN. Until ARIN recognizes your friend as the registrant organization, they will remain so. At which point there's not a lot of benefit to moving them. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

2023-06-24 Thread William Herrin
ural and industrial zones don't generally have noise ordinances. When they do, the ordinances tend to be written as decibels rather than perceptual disturbance. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

2023-06-23 Thread William Herrin
genset tests. Doesn't matter so much in the middle of an industrial zone but when you do it near where people live you're going to make them angry. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net

2023-06-15 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 7:52 PM Wes Hardaker wrote: > William Herrin writes: > > At some point, somebody's going to want to do something with the old > > /24. > > You are correct that we did not state we will or will not be returning > the address block we have back

Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net

2023-06-15 Thread William Herrin
vice. The extra configuration and extra route announcement just don't have a high enough cost not to. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net

2023-06-04 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 4:57 PM Mark Andrews wrote: > > On 5 Jun 2023, at 06:19, William Herrin wrote: > > At an absolute minimum there's an impact to confidentiality since it > > causes > I don’t see a big risk here. Hi Mark, I agree. CVEs are nevertheless issued for se

Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net

2023-06-04 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 8:46 PM Matt Corallo wrote: > On 6/3/23 4:17 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > It *is* a security update. After some period of time, the folks running > > b.root-servers.net should file a CVE against implementations still > > using the deprecated IP address

Re: Are we back to the 2000's again?

2023-06-03 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 4:09 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > How can the RIAA even know? I mean, are they putting up honey pots or > something? IIRC, they went after folks sharing the files via bit torrent rather than folks who only downloaded them. -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us

Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net

2023-06-03 Thread William Herrin
ed. After some period of time, the folks running b.root-servers.net should file a CVE against implementations still using the deprecated IP address. The CVE makes it a security issue compelling vendors of any still-supported software to issue an update. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@

Re: Are we back to the 2000's again?

2023-06-03 Thread William Herrin
ox's behavior was sufficient to waive the DMCA's liability shield for Internet providers and off they went to trial. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Are we back to the 2000's again?

2023-06-03 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 2:03 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > Am I missing something? That it's old news from 2019? Cox and RIAA are in the appeals process from the 2019 verdict. -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net

2023-06-02 Thread William Herrin
." Anybody still sending queries after that gets what they get and deserves it -- as long as the time that passes until the final year is long enough that only the most reckless and incompetent users are still sending queries. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net

2023-06-01 Thread William Herrin
last of those 9 years so that anybody who is truly that far behind on their software updates gets enough of a spanking to stop sending you packets. You'll have problems repurposing the address and its subnet until folks stop sending you DNS query packets, even if you don't respond to them. Re

Seattle NANOG 88 things to see

2023-05-31 Thread William Herrin
Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: G root servers unreachable via ICMP(v6)

2023-05-16 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 1:38 PM Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 2:35 PM William Herrin wrote: > > Ping is used by some versions of traceroute which can help the > > I think you mean 'icmp' here. yes. I contend that traceroute (udp or > icmp or tcp) > TOWA

Re: G root servers unreachable via ICMP(v6)

2023-05-16 Thread William Herrin
't at the server itself. When working, it also lets the diagnostician know that the site's firewall administrator didn't ignorantly decide to block all ICMP. Which so very many ignorant firewall administrators do. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: G root servers unreachable via ICMP(v6)

2023-05-15 Thread William Herrin
t the worst idea. Restricting all ICMPv6 is disastrous. Similar to IPv4, machines running IPv6 require ICMPv6 packet-too-big messages to successfully implement path MTU discovery. Without them, many protocols do not work reliably. This includes TCP. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...

Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP?

2023-05-09 Thread William Herrin
> Adjusting a single tunable is 'onerous'? No, but it's brittle. A workaround, not a solution. Likely to break during future maintenance. "Unpredictable" as Mark put it. Nothing a routing daemon does should involve the kernel BPF. The next sysadmin won't be expecting it. Regards,

Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP?

2023-05-08 Thread William Herrin
RR versus Quagga is that for reasons I don't follow, the BGP table takes twice as much ram. That's why there's still some Quagga in my environment. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Aptum refuses to SWIP

2023-05-06 Thread William Herrin
tified. That latter bit has happened more than once. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Aptum refuses to SWIP

2023-05-05 Thread William Herrin
://www.arin.net/reference/tools/fraud_report/ https://account.arin.net/public/fraud It won't quickly fix your practical problem but it might give you some moral satisfaction. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP?

2023-05-01 Thread William Herrin
g CAIDA for access to Telescope -- that's where they collect packets on unused IP addresses. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Suggestions for those attending NANOG 88 in Seattle

2023-03-29 Thread William Herrin
to warm temperatures and light if any rain. Regards, Bill Herrin On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 12:13 PM William Herrin wrote: > > Also, beware that downtown Seattle parking spaces are super-tight. If > you rent a car, get a compact. Really. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > On Tue,

Re: Suggestions for those attending NANOG 88 in Seattle

2023-03-28 Thread William Herrin
Also, beware that downtown Seattle parking spaces are super-tight. If you rent a car, get a compact. Really. Regards, Bill Herrin On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 12:10 PM William Herrin wrote: > > Some entertainment tips for those of you who plan to attend NANOG 88 in > Seattle: > > 1.

Suggestions for those attending NANOG 88 in Seattle

2023-03-28 Thread William Herrin
Some entertainment tips for those of you who plan to attend NANOG 88 in Seattle: 1. The Connections Museum is a must-see for telecom enthusiasts (which I assume you are since you're attending a NANOG meeting). Six different phone switches (some electromechanical) and a boatload of other stuff

Re: Issues with prefix / help needed

2023-03-25 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 1:54 AM ic wrote: > Do you all have any idea what I should check / try next? A good tool for diagnosing BGP problems is: https://www.routeviews.org/routeviews/ While the problem is occurring, pick some of the collector hosts from

Re: Spamhaus flags any IP announced by our ASN as a criminal network

2023-03-20 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 7:56 AM Brandon Zhi wrote: > Well, those prefixes are not for their VPS hosting service > (which cause a lot of complaint). Just like there are many IP > addresses under the telecommunication company, the entire > ASN cannot be "blocked" just because there is a complaint >

Re: Land Mobile Radio (LMR) for Information Technology (IT) Professionals

2023-03-19 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 2:11 PM J. Hellenthal via NANOG wrote: > Is there anything beyond this that really adds any real substantial value ? I would add that mesh networks behave differently than networks where there's a well defined base station (like a wifi access point). Mesh networks tend to

Re: Spamhaus flags any IP announced by our ASN as a criminal network

2023-03-19 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 10:35 PM Brandon Zhi wrote: > We even haven't started to use, we just announced that... They marked it's a > criminal network They do that once they decide you've been broadly inattentive to abuse reports. It stops folks from shuffling IP addresses to evade filtering.

Re: Is malicious asymmetrical routing still a thing?

2023-03-09 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 5:12 PM William Herrin wrote: > It's trivial to turn a $5 VPS into a disposable VPN head-end that can > spray TCP SYN packets at a modest rate, and once the packet is on the > backbone somewhere in the world not only can't you do anything about > it, it's just

Re: Is malicious asymmetrical routing still a thing?

2023-03-09 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 4:05 PM Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: > On 3/9/23 2:19 PM, Christopher Munz-Michielin wrote: > > Not this exact scenario, but what we see a lot of in my VPS company is > > people sending spam by using our VPS' source addresses, but routing > > outbound via some kind of

Re: Is malicious asymmetrical routing still a thing?

2023-03-09 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 12:27 PM Aaron1 wrote: > Sounds like something uRPF would prevent > > Does anyone do uRPF ? lol I would hope folks are implementing uRPF on commodity broadband connections. That's one place it works great. Regards, Bill Herrin -- For hire.

Re: RFC6598 100.64/10: to bogon or not to bogon (team-cymru et all)

2023-03-08 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 4:35 AM Lukas Tribus wrote: > Perhaps I should have started this topic with a very specific example: > > - ISP A has a residential customer "Bob" in RFC6598 space > - ISP A CGNATs Bob if the destination is beyond it's own IP space > - ISP A doesn't CGNAT if the destination

Re: RFC6598 100.64/10: to bogon or not to bogon (team-cymru et all)

2023-03-07 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 3:34 PM Lukas Tribus wrote: > > A bogon prefix is a route that should never appear in the Internet > > routing table. A packet routed over the public Internet (not including > > over VPNs or other tunnels) *should never have an address in a > > bogon range.* These are

Re: RFC6598 100.64/10: to bogon or not to bogon (team-cymru et all)

2023-03-07 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 2:09 PM Lukas Tribus wrote: > At the same time folks like team-cymru are picking up this prefix for > their bogon lists with the following description [2]: > > > A packet routed over the public Internet (not including > > over VPNs or other tunnels) should never have an

Re: Yondoo provided router, has "password" as admin pw, won't let us change it

2023-02-08 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 2:36 PM Eric Kuhnke wrote: > I would hope that this router's admin "password" interface is only accessible > from the LAN side. > This is bad, yes, but not utterly catastrophic. It means that any compromised device on the LAN can access the router with whatever

Re: (IETF I-D): Implications of IPv6 Addressing on Security Operations (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-addressing-00.txt)

2023-02-06 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 7:40 PM Fernando Gont wrote: > On 7/2/23 00:05, William Herrin wrote: > > On the one hand, sophisticated attackers already scatter attacks > > between source addresses to evade protection software. > > Whereas in the IPv6 case , you normally have a

Re: (IETF I-D): Implications of IPv6 Addressing on Security Operations (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-addressing-00.txt)

2023-02-06 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 6:43 PM Fernando Gont wrote: > On 6/2/23 20:39, Owen DeLong wrote: > > After all, they’re only collecting addresses to ban at the rate they’re > > actually being used to send packets. > > Yeah, but the whole point of banning is that the banned address is > actually used by

Re: recaptcha

2023-02-06 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 5:53 PM Gary E. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 15:53:02 -0800 > William Herrin wrote: > > Has anybody else noticed that when Google Recaptcha falls over to > > presenting images, their data is of such poor quality that they've > > misclass

recaptcha

2023-02-06 Thread William Herrin
Has anybody else noticed that when Google Recaptcha falls over to presenting images, their data is of such poor quality that they've misclassified at least one image in upwards of half the presentations, rendering them unsolvable? If y'all aren't going to maintain the service to a production

Re: Conduit Lease/IRU Pricing

2023-02-05 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 1:14 PM James Jun wrote: > it is important to contact the property owner and the owner of the wayleave > (i.e. carrier owning the conduit system on private property) for > permission/license to enter, and never assume that just because > a conduit is in private property and

Re: Conduit Lease/IRU Pricing

2023-02-05 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 10:13 AM James Jun wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2023 at 11:21:09AM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: > > How have you seen empty conduits sold? Entire route only, or is a partial > > route okay? Twenty years only or less? Price compared to cost of > > construction? Ongoing

Re: Typical last mile battery runtime (protecting against power cuts)

2023-02-05 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 10:56 PM Roy wrote: > > On 2/5/23 07:02, Roy wrote: > >> My all electric house is in a rural area. The generator that came > >> with the place is a 20KW Onan, The bad news is in can't handle the > >> house. I think it is the Aux Heat on the heat pump that is the > >>

Re: Typical last mile battery runtime (protecting against power cuts)

2023-02-03 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 10:01 PM Mark Tinka wrote: > What I mean by "pre-wired" is that, perhaps, the generator is pre-setup > and wired into the house, but is not in standby mode to manage costs, > and perhaps, to be reliable since ATS's are often dodgy. > > Maybe a manual start is required.

Re: Typical last mile battery runtime (protecting against power cuts)

2023-02-03 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 9:36 PM Mark Tinka wrote: > On 2/4/23 07:29, William Herrin wrote: > > If it's just a little gasoline generator, 30 minutes is about right. > > It takes 10 minutes to decide the power isn't coming back soon and > > another 10 to drag the generator out

Re: Typical last mile battery runtime (protecting against power cuts)

2023-02-03 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 9:05 PM Mark Tinka wrote: > On 2/3/23 21:11, Sabri Berisha wrote: > > Living in an area served by PG, I've had my share of power cuts. At home > > I have a 600va UPS that protects my cable modem, RPI router, and POE switch > > which serves 2 APs. That lasts about 30

Re: Smaller than a /24 for BGP?

2023-01-29 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 11:06 PM Masataka Ohta wrote: > William Herrin wrote: > > Moreover, the DNS does guarantee > > its information to be correct until the TTL expires, making it > > unsuitable for communicating address information which may change > > sooner. &

Re: Smaller than a /24 for BGP?

2023-01-28 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 5:48 PM Masataka Ohta wrote: > The following way in my ID: > > The easiest way for applications know all the addresses of the > destination is to use DNS. With DNS reverse, followed by forward, > lookup, applications can get a list of all the addresses of the >

Re: Smaller than a /24 for BGP?

2023-01-28 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 11:24 AM William Herrin wrote: > QUIC is better, but it still leaves finding the server's new IP > address as an exercise for a process outside of the protocol. Gah, brain spat out the wrong info. Bad brain. QUIC doesn't allow the server to change its IP address

Re: Smaller than a /24 for BGP?

2023-01-28 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 10:15 AM Donald Eastlake wrote: > Use Multipath TCP > https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/mptcp/documents/ Doesn't work well. Has security problems (mismatch between reported IP addresses used and actual addresses in use) and it can't reacquire the opposing endpoint if an

Re: Smaller than a /24 for BGP?

2023-01-28 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 9:49 PM Masataka Ohta wrote: > That multihomed sites are relying on the entire Internet > for computation of the best ways to reach them is not > healthy way of multihoming. This was studied in the IRTF RRG about a decade ago. There aren't any other workable ways of

Re: Smaller than a /24 for BGP?

2023-01-24 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 11:04 AM Jon Lewis wrote: > The "other problem" is, every day more gear receiving full routes gets > closer to (or farther past) the point where the resources to hold either > the FIB or RIB just aren't there. For those using these devices, lowering > the bar and bringing

Re: Smaller than a /24 for BGP?

2023-01-24 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 10:19 AM Justin Wilson (Lists) wrote: > Have there been talks about the best practices to accept things smaller than > a /24? Hi Justin, The short version is: it could happen but it won't. There's no technical obstacle. It's purely administrative. Tens of thousands of

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 8:54 PM Tom Beecher wrote: > Yes re: Iridium. Contrary to what the Chief Huckster may say, inter-sat comms > are not some revolutionary thing that he invented. 1990s Iridium was a modified version of GSM/ATM with the packetization and routing that implies. I don't know

Re: txt.att.net outage?

2023-01-20 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 8:09 PM Dan Walters via NANOG wrote: > Know this is a longshot, any chance anyone from the txt.att.net domain might > be able to help us with what we believe is a blacklist block or possibly an > outage? > We deal with 911 cad dispatching and is affecting first

Re: A straightforward transition plan (was: Re: V6 still not supported)

2023-01-12 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 11:16 PM Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG wrote: > The comment looks outdated: Who cares now about ATM? You may have missed the sarcasm. The 1995 Addison Wesley IPng book spends pages and pages talking about potential IPv6 use in the Navy and interoperability with ATM before it

Re: Large RTT or Why doesn't my ping traffic get discarded?

2022-12-21 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 11:03 PM Saku Ytti wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 08:41, William Herrin wrote: > > Suppose you have a loose network cable between your Linux server and a > > switch. Layer 1. That RJ45 just isn't quite solid. It's mostly working > > but not quite rig

Re: Large RTT or Why doesn't my ping traffic get discarded?

2022-12-21 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 10:07 PM Saku Ytti wrote: > I don't really think > ARP/ND is good candidate like Herring suggested, because it's > cyclical, instead of exactly single event, but not impossible. Suppose you have a loose network cable between your Linux server and a switch. Layer 1. That

Re: Large RTT or Why doesn't my ping traffic get discarded?

2022-12-21 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 1:20 PM Dave Taht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 11:58 AM William Herrin wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 9:10 AM Jason Iannone > > wrote: > > > Here's a question I haven't bothered to ask until now. Can someone please > > > help m

Re: Large RTT or Why doesn't my ping traffic get discarded?

2022-12-21 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 9:10 AM Jason Iannone wrote: > Here's a question I haven't bothered to ask until now. Can someone please > help me understand why I receive a ping reply after almost 5 seconds? > > 64 bytes from 4.2.2.2: icmp_seq=398 ttl=54 time=4915.096 ms > 64 bytes from 4.2.2.2:

Re: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions

2022-12-16 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 9:05 AM ic wrote: > In my experience, threading is done by clients looking for the In-Reply-To: > header, not subject. Subject is a heuristic fallback, in case In-Reply-To is > absent. Correct, they use the In-Reply-To and References headers to thread the emails.

Re: 202212160543.AYC Re: eMail Conventions

2022-12-16 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 7:05 AM Abraham Y. Chen wrote: > As you > can see, my practice of continuously prefixing timestamps to the > "Subject" line of messages in a thread seems to conform to ThunderBird's > mechanism! Ave, Most email clients assume that a change to the subject line (other than

Re: Newbie Concern: (BGP) AS-Path Oscillation

2022-11-28 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 9:52 PM Pirawat WATANAPONGSE via NANOG wrote: > On one of our prefixes, we are detecting continuous “BGP AS-Path Changes” in > the order of 1,000 announcements per hour---practically one every 3-4 seconds. > Those paths oscillate between two of our immediate upstreams.

Re: BCP38 For BGP Customers

2022-11-10 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 10:08 AM Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: > I wonder if Feasible Path uRPF or Enhanced Feasible Path uRPF might help > the situation. However I suspect they both suffer from the FIB != RIB > problem and associated signaling. Hi Grant, That's a fairly good way to think

Re: BCP38 For BGP Customers

2022-11-08 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 9:08 PM Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: > This thread has made me wonder if there isn't a need for a 3rd type of > uRPF or comparable filtering wherein the incoming interface is a viable > route in the RIB even if it's not the best route in the FIB. Hi Grant, Two problems

Re: BCP38 For BGP Customers

2022-11-08 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 5:28 AM Douglas Fischer wrote: > Another important point to note is that you MUST NOT drop everything else > that doesn't match this Prefix-List. > But put a bandwidth and PPS control on what doesn't match the prefix-list, > and block what exceeds. > Among other reasons,

Re: BCP38 For BGP Customers

2022-11-08 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 12:29 PM Mike Hammett wrote: >> "Reverse path filtering literally says don't accept a packet from >> somewhere that isn't currently the next hop for that packet's source >> address." > > FIB or RIB? > > I knew of uRPF as available over an interface, per the routing table,

Re: BCP38 For BGP Customers

2022-11-08 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 8:40 AM Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: > Maybe it's the lack of caffeine, but would someone please remind / > enlighten me as to why uRPF is a bad idea on downstream interfaces? Hi Grant, Two words: asymmetric routing. If the downstream network is architected in such a

Re: BCP38 For BGP Customers

2022-11-07 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 12:30 PM Tony Wicks wrote: > use prefix lists to prevent your customer networks being received > anywhere but directly from your customers to prevent them using > your capacity without paying for it however. Hi Tony, Do not do this either as it will render your entire

Re: BCP38 For BGP Customers

2022-11-07 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 8:47 AM Charles Rumford via NANOG wrote: > I'm are currently working on getting BCP38 filtering in place for our BGP > customers. My current plan is to use the Juniper uRPF feature to filter out > spoofed traffic based on the routing table. The mentality would be: "If you >

Re: Newbies Question: Do I really need to sacrifice Prefix-aggregation to do BGP Load-sharing?

2022-10-20 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 5:13 AM Pirawat WATANAPONGSE via NANOG wrote: > I have considered the prepending myself, but dare not implement it yet > for the fear that BGP (Human) Community will burn me alive, witch-hunt style, > because of the following reasons: > 1. I can see from looking glass(es)

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