Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-02 Thread N. Max Pierson
I don't usually chime in on the list, but since this seems to be another hot item, i'll pitch in my $0.005 (since the $$ has been going up these days). IIRC the entire reason we have asymmetry to begin with is because it was created to resolve an issue with older ADSL hardware. I believe the

Charter Communications Contact

2014-10-11 Thread N. Max Pierson
Can someone from Charter Communications engineering/support hit me up off list please? Sorry for the noise. Regards, Max

Re: google troubles?

2013-07-10 Thread N. Max Pierson
Traceroutes worked fine for me during the outage. Seems to have been something at L4-L7. -- max On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.comwrote: Does anyone have traceroutes showing where the issues are? -Grant On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:45 AM, John York

Re: looking glass for Level 3

2012-12-28 Thread N. Max Pierson
Same here. http://lg.level3.net has been down for over a week for me. I know someone in operations I can open a ticket with. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Cameron Daniel cdan...@nurve.com.auwrote: I've had issues getting to it for a week or so. Their NOC was unresponsive when queried. On

Re: ouch..

2011-09-14 Thread N. Max Pierson
Check out the White Papar referenced http://www.overpromisesunderdelivers.net/pdfs/Why_Cisco_Not_Juniper.pdf It has Cisco's usual White Paper format and their copyright stamped on the bottom which is also dates 9/11. If it's not Cisco or one of it's affiliates, I would expect them to be

Re: ouch..

2011-09-14 Thread N. Max Pierson
.net wrote: On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 08:33 -0500, N. Max Pierson wrote: Either way, it's pathetic. If someone is going to slander in the fashion the site has done, they should at least put a contact form somewhere for some feedback :) Slander means falsehood. Cisco tells lies

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-12 Thread Max Pierson
When BellSouth switched their DSL from PVC-per-customer to PPPoE I remember having to compress the config due to static pvc config on many of 7204/6 kit, the switch made it much more intuitive to manage. -- m On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-11 Thread Max Pierson
Also, the telcos generally made getting a BRI difficult to impossible. An early string of Dilbert cartoons covered Dilbert's attempts to get ISDN at his house, and IIRC they were based on Scott Adams' real-life attempts (and this was either when or shortly after he worked for the phone company).

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-10 Thread Max Pierson
2) Last mile is expensive to install and hard to justify for people. This is because of a long history of universal service and subsidization/regulation. Not only that, it makes it even worse when you hear firsthand accounts of yea, this customer's DSL is screwed because att was too cheap to

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-21 Thread Max Pierson
:) For measurements such as that, averaging will be used for such trends. Good talking to you again, Max On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Max Pierson nmaxpier...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone out there using something other than

Re: BGP Failover Question

2011-02-21 Thread Max Pierson
I would simply monitor PPS on those links and set a threshold which will kick off an alert at least. If your scripting savvy, other tools such as IP SLA and EEM on Cisco could be used to automate the failover. Juniper also has a similar scripting tool that can probably do the same. I've had this

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-21 Thread Max Pierson
wrote: Max Pierson nmaxpier...@gmail.com wrote on 02/21/2011 04:15:46 PM: Unfortunately, I'm not savvy with Java at all, so the really cool viz API's wont work for me (there's just something about Java ... I simply can't get into it and I see alot of Java based apps that are resource

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-20 Thread Max Pierson
in mySQL). This isn't really network or server related metrics i'm trying to plot. Regards, Max On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Rene Skjoldmose rene.skjoldm...@gmail.comwrote: On 2011-02-18 22:03, Max Pierson wrote: Nothing at all :)My problem is with rrdtool. It doesn't scale for this project

Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Max Pierson
Hi List, Anyone out there using something other than rrdtool for creating graphs?? I have a project that will need a trend taken, and unfortunately rrdtool doesn't fit the bill. All of the scripting, data collection, database archival, etc will be custom written or is already done (with some

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Max Pierson
of the mentioned tools. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Max Pierson wrote: hacks of course :). So really what i'm looking for is something along the lines of GNUplot. Has anyone used it before and would like to share experiences?? Seems like

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Max Pierson
, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Max Pierson wrote: I think you may still be missing my point... There are way more /48s available than will ever get used. There are way more /32s available than will ever get used. No, I think you're missing

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Max Pierson
enough addresses for 281,474,976,710,656 end sites. I get your point about sustainable growth. I even agree with it. What you're referring to then is not On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Max Pierson wrote: V4 30 years ago

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Max Pierson
on re-issuing returned v4 space (which I completely disagree with), it'll continue that way. That's just my opinion though :) Once again, thanks for all on and off list responses! Max On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Jan 25, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Max Pierson

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Max Pierson
: On Jan 25, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Max Pierson wrote: Great reply's on and off-list so far. To hit on a few points ... Owen, thank you for catching my terminology blunder there. I understand smaller is != shorter. Complete mistake :) Glad to see most have loosened that policy, as I figured

Re: Dual Homed BGP for failover

2011-01-18 Thread Max Pierson
You really limit yourself when you just take a default from a provider. If you take 2 default's (one from each provider) for whatever reason, once you change the local pref on one of them, it's all your traffic outbound or none. I always request a full table + default, so you can filter to best

Re: Dual Homed BGP for failover

2011-01-18 Thread Max Pierson
Me 3's commit confirmed ... maybe someone from Cisco should be watching :) On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jack Carrozzo j...@crepinc.com wrote: Yep, the great thing about IOS without 'commit confirmed' is when you remove a bgp filter, it runs out of memory, reboots, brings up peers, runs