Re: End to End testing

2019-12-12 Thread Ben Bartsch
+1 for Accedian If you're looking for more of a homemade solution, I've used the perfSONAR software suite on some cheap-ish servers running CentOS for 10gig testing. It's highly configurable. I had it set up to do scheduled tests so we could see how the network behaved over time. The results

Re: Suggestion for Layer 3, all SFP+ switches

2018-04-19 Thread Ben Bartsch
I've been testing IPInfusion OcNOS running on Dell Z9100 and S4048. I've run a couple of test cases using MPLS LDP signaled port based and VLAN based VPWS (pseudowire / e-line / xconnect / Juniper CCC) and VPLS (e-lan) over an OSPFv2 IGP. It's working well between Dell/IPI to Dell/IPI boxes. We

Re: validating reachability via an ISP

2018-04-05 Thread Ben Bartsch
+1 for Route Explorer On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:49 AM, Andy Davidson wrote: > > > > > > On 29/03/2018, 00:22, Andy Litzinger > wrote: > > > >> The root cause is that the our prefix is not being adequately > >> re-distributed globally by the

Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?

2018-03-22 Thread Ben Bartsch
No sure if this link has been provided yet, but this is how I learned BFD - https://supportforums.cisco.com/t5/service-providers-documents/bfd-support-on-cisco-asr9000/ta-p/3153191 My only experience with BFD has been with short paths using grey optics and interstate DWDM spans. I found 3x50ms

Re: Juniper MX - Routed pseudowire using LDP - VPWS or VPLS

2018-03-22 Thread Ben Bartsch
this has more to do with the behavior of IRB in general on Juniper as I don't see any of the IRB MAC addresses present in the table, even for IRBs not used on the VPLS circuit. It's entirely possible I'm using the wrong commands. :) -ben On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 4:27 PM, Ben Bartsch <uwca

Re: Juniper MX - Routed pseudowire using LDP - VPWS or VPLS

2018-03-19 Thread Ben Bartsch
xe2 262148 2/Up 7 LDP Active On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Ben Bartsch <uwcable...@gmail.com> wrote: > Absolutely! I'm running a eBGP session over this ATM. We are going to > try to backhaul our customers through a Dell whitebox running IPI OcNOS

Re: Juniper MX - Routed pseudowire using LDP - VPWS or VPLS

2018-03-19 Thread Ben Bartsch
n(s)? I've stiched a L2 PW using > lt-interfaces. > > Thanks. > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 11:51:36AM -0500, Ben Bartsch wrote: > > I want to thank everyone who contacted me on and off list on this > request. > > I now have two methods to land a layer 3 endpoint on a laye

Re: Juniper MX - Routed pseudowire using LDP - VPWS or VPLS

2018-03-19 Thread Ben Bartsch
at a future NANOG meeting. Thanks again! -ben On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 9:25 AM, Ben Bartsch <uwcable...@gmail.com> wrote: > When we had Cisco ASR 920/903 and ASR9k, I could attach a layer 2 > pseudowire endpoint on that device to a layer 3 BDI/BVI. I'm trying to do > the same thing on a

Juniper MX - Routed pseudowire using LDP - VPWS or VPLS

2018-03-17 Thread Ben Bartsch
When we had Cisco ASR 920/903 and ASR9k, I could attach a layer 2 pseudowire endpoint on that device to a layer 3 BDI/BVI. I'm trying to do the same thing on a Juniper MX 480/960 and it does not appear to be supported (for LDP at least - MP-BGP might be supported). We could do either VPWS or

Anybody with experience with MT IS-IS on multi-vendor integration - JunOS MX to Dell OS9 Z9100

2018-02-16 Thread Ben Bartsch
We are a small transit provider with a Juniper backbone running multi-topology IS-IS in a single area with a very small number of JunOS devices (less than 15 devices). We are attempting to integrate some 100 Gbps top of rack Dell (Force10) switches to do some backhaul in our metro areas. The end

Re: BGP AS# migration from IOS to IOS-XR

2017-08-31 Thread Ben Bartsch
Get in touch with your Cisco SE or partner. Cisco SE's have access to a conversion tool that takes in an IOS config and spits out an XR config. It's usually about 80-95% correct. It even shows you sections that are not in use and can be removed. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Nick Hilliard

Cellular enabled console server

2017-02-24 Thread Ben Bartsch
NANOG - Are any of you running a console server to access your network equipment via a serial connection at a remote site? If so, what are you using and how much do you like it? I have a project where I need to stand up over 100 remote sites and would like a backdoor to the console just to be

Re: mrtg alternative

2016-03-23 Thread Ben Bartsch
Consultant here... We used StatSeeker at a large state government WAN (my last gig before turning consultant) and I personally loved it for graphs and to point customers to (you can easily set up user accounts where they can log in via a web portal and they can see the graphs you assign them). I

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Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-18 Thread Ben Bartsch
We are seeing Akamai traffic up about 100-300% since noon CDT. Seeing similar increased from our participants - colleges and universities mainly. AS32440 -ben On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou ach...@forthnetgroup.gr wrote: We also noticed an interesting spike (+

Cymru Bogon AS path change

2013-09-16 Thread Ben Bartsch
Did anyone else notice that the path changed from 65332 to 65332 65331 earlier today? We certainly did when we starting advertising all the bogons to our ISP peers. Probably should have had an inbound AS path filter on that cymru peering...

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

2013-08-22 Thread Ben Bartsch
perfSONAR-PS project - http://www.perfsonar.net/ On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Tomasz Rola rto...@ceti.pl wrote: On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Michael Shuler wrote: On 08/22/2013 12:06 PM, Stefan wrote: I've been toying with Live distros (CD, then USB) for many years, in support of

BGP Route Recorder suggestions

2013-05-02 Thread Ben Bartsch
Hi all: I am curious what you RENs out there are using for BGP (and IGP) route recording. We did a demo of Packet Design's Route Explorer. While I loved the functionality and ease of use, we simply can not afford it. I am attracted to iBGPlay since we use the BGPlayer at routeviews all the

Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread Ben Bartsch
We lost our peering with them in Baton Rouge (Houston) but not in Jackson MS (Atlanta). It was less than 10 minutes. No advanced notification. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:06 AM, 2asx1y...@sneakemail.com wrote: I acknowledge sliding past the maintenance window, and we're seeing similar bumps,

BGP / ISIS route recorder advice

2013-01-30 Thread Ben Bartsch
Greetings: I work for a REN and we are looking for advice on a route recorder. We have been working with Packet Design and I absolutely love their product RouteExplorer (well, everything except the price tag). I was wondering if anyone out there in NANOG land had any suggestions or

Re: looking glass for Level 3

2013-01-15 Thread Ben Bartsch
http://lg.level3.net/ is online from Baton Rouge, LA. Any official word from Level3? -bb On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Siegel, David dave.sie...@level3.comwrote: Hi Folks, The site is offline as a result of some security issues that were discovered. As soon as we've got it patched we'll

Re: AS 1668 BGP contact - possible prefix hijacking

2012-11-07 Thread Ben Bartsch
AS 13703 were suspect AS 13703 for isolating the issue and fixing it NANOG is a great community and I hope to see y'all in NOLA next year. -Ben AS 32440 On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Ben Bartsch uwcable...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: Is there anyone here who can help us with a possible prefix hijacking

Re: Indonesian ISP Moratel announces Google's prefixes

2012-11-07 Thread Ben Bartsch
http://bgplay.routeviews.org/bgplay/ gives a good idea of what happened On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Eric Osterweil eosterw...@verisign.comwrote: As for the, ``what is a leak'' question, a few of us just put a draft together to describe it, in the IETF:

AS 1668 BGP contact - possible prefix hijacking

2012-11-06 Thread Ben Bartsch
Hi: Is there anyone here who can help us with a possible prefix hijacking situation through ATDN? Please contact me off list if you (or you know somebody) that can help us. I've tried the ATDN NOC and Vikas, but they have been no help whatsoever. The hijacked prefix appears to be sent to AS

Re: 100.100.0.0/24

2012-10-05 Thread Ben Bartsch
use this: http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/Bogons/bgp.html On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: On Oct 5, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:29 AM, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: by all accounts this has

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-27 Thread Ben Bartsch
y'all youse ye do not use 'gals'.i've been told that is offensive here in the south (i'm a yankee transplant) On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Kevin Carmical kev...@uca.edu wrote: So say we all. Kevin Carmical Network Support UCA BBA 107 501-450-3107 deles...@gmail.com 9/27/2012

TWTC BGP IPv6 /40 prefix

2012-09-21 Thread Ben Bartsch
I am trying to add a /40 prefix to be accepted by a couple of TWTC circuits we have in Louisiana (Shreveport and Baton Rouge). My only options available are /32, /48, /56, /64 in the web portal. Is there somebody from TWTC that could contact me off list? Thanks. -bb

Re: MTU mismatch on one link

2012-08-31 Thread Ben Bartsch
mturoute.exe works great http://www.elifulkerson.com/projects/mturoute.php On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Andrew K. wrote: Besides routing protocol convergence is there any service issues with running mismatched

Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags

2012-08-22 Thread Ben Bartsch
Temporary Fix + It Works = Permanent Fix On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Pedersen, Sean sean.peder...@usairways.com wrote: What's the bubble-wrap for? Protection in case of bird collision? Looks like they borrowed from Qwest's repair manual. We have a lot of pedestals around the city that

Juniper advertises ::/0 Cisco hears ::/3

2012-05-11 Thread Ben Bartsch
This one is very strange... Has anyone seen this behavior with BGP IPv6 between Juniper (owned by Level 3, advertising routes correctly, sending default ::/0) and Cisco (6509 running 12.2.58.SXI6 advipservices, receiving all routes fine except default, hearing ::/3)? I worked with Level 3 and

Re: Network diagram app that shows realtime link utilizatin

2012-05-01 Thread Ben Bartsch
on intermapper, simply right click the link, select 'status window' and you will get all kinds of nice info. be sure to use the bandwidth command on the interface if you are not using the default 10/100/1000/10gig. also, the links turn yellow and orange as the line becomes more saturated (and