Re: level3_bx4-montrealak.net consistently dropping 50% of the packets

2014-02-21 Thread Nick Cameo
Thank you all for clarifying. Really appreciate it.

level3_bx4-montrealak.net consistently dropping 50% of the packets

2014-02-20 Thread Nick Cameo
Hello Everyone, According to mtr command we are consistently seeing level3_bx4-montrealak.net dropping 30-50% of packets. Our ISP is Bell Canada. Any ideas on how to get this resolved are greatly appreciated. HOST: victoriaLoss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|--

Re: level3_bx4-montrealak.net consistently dropping 50% of the packets

2014-02-20 Thread Nick Cameo
| Since you dont see packet loss on the subsequent hops, this is likely just ICMP rate limiting on the control plane. MTR | sends quite a bit of ICMP so this is very common when using MTR. Not a possible reason for the degradation of voip from us to our service provider? Is there a more accurate

Re: level3_bx4-montrealak.net consistently dropping 50% of the packets

2014-02-20 Thread Nick Cameo
Makes even more sense when you're a CS student working on getting your PPL ;) N.

The Making of a Router

2013-12-26 Thread Nick Cameo
Hello Everyone, We are looking to put together a 2u server with a few PCIe 3 x8 (recommendations appreciated). The router will take a voip transcoding line card, and will act as an edge router for a telecom company. For things like BGP (Quagga, Zebra, all that lovely stuff!!!), static routes,

Re: The Making of a Router

2013-12-26 Thread Nick Cameo
Have you tried labbing BSD vs Linux to see which you like better? I'd probably do that before throwing it in to production. -- Great advice Thomas! I will be creating a BSD virtual machine to get a feel however, with linux I can think broad scale and forcast better. With BSD, I am concerned

Re: The Making of a Router

2013-12-26 Thread Nick Cameo
On 12/26/13, Faisal Imtiaz fai...@snappytelecom.net wrote: I am a believer of not having to re-invent the wheel... Having said that.. have you looked at 'purpose built appliances' e.g. http://www.lannerinc.com/ http://us.axiomtek.com/ If you are looking for a full router Consider

Re: The Making of a Router

2013-12-26 Thread Nick Cameo
On 12/26/13, Alessandro Ratti lor...@gmail.com wrote: if you want build by yourself I will suggest gentoo and/or freebsd with bird (http://bird.network.cz/) for routing stuff (maybe with 10G nics). Hello Alessandro, Any benchmarks of freebsd vs openbsd vs present day linux kern?

Re: The Making of a Router

2013-12-26 Thread Nick Cameo
Inline response exist, On 12/26/13, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: You can build using commodity hardware and get pretty good results. I've had really good luck with Supermicro whitebox hardware, and Intel-based network cards. The Hot Lava Systems cards have a nice selection for a decent

Re: The Making of a Router

2013-12-26 Thread Nick Cameo
One of the biggest advantages is the low cost of hardware allows you to maintain spare systems, reducing the time to service restoration in the event of failure. Dependability-wise, I feel that whitebox Linux systems are pretty much at Cisco levels these days, especially if running

Re: The Making of a Router

2013-12-26 Thread Nick Cameo
Oh my bad. I did not mean it like that at all! I am more that capable of putting it together using gentoo instead of debian (a little pedagogy goes a long way). And if he would like, he can post the ISO on his webstie alongside the different distro. This is what I was leaning too... Please don't

Re: The Making of a Router

2013-12-26 Thread Nick Cameo
Unless they deem that it's outside of scope. Or they can't get anyone to you inside of SLA[1]. Or they send someone incompetent. Or it's a problem that's never happened before. Amen! *Everything* is a nightmare to support. A DIY project just means that you're betting you're smarter than

Cisco ADSL2/VDSL2 Voip Router

2013-12-13 Thread Nick Cameo
Hello Everyone, I have a customer that is looking for a voip router. The router part is easy however, they need it to support their ADSL/VDSL connection PPoE, and all that lovely stuff. Can you gents and ladies kindly recommend something that would fit all. preferably the cisco route. If you

Re: Cisco ADSL2/VDSL2 Voip Router

2013-12-13 Thread Nick Cameo
Ooops, I should have mentioned. We do not need an ISDN gateway (FXO/FXS). The connection is purely SIP. What is important is support for ADSL/ADSL2 VDSL/VDSL2 and PPoE. Bell Canada.. N.

Re: Cisco ADSL2/VDSL2 Voip Router

2013-12-13 Thread Nick Cameo
convert to SIP, transcode, or deploy any local voice services via the router such as conference bridging. Then you'd need something in the ISR/ISRG2 line w/ PVDMs installed. Very interesting point! We would the router to do some transcoding yes, to take some load off of the servers. That being

Re: BRAS

2013-12-10 Thread Nick Cameo
Sir whatever that is an acronym for, you have my undivided. This is going to make for an interesting thread in about 6 hours.

Re: ATT UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO

2013-11-29 Thread Nick Cameo
They are all the same, ATT, Bell Canada, Cogeco.. On 11/29/13, jean-francois.tremblay...@videotron.com jean-francois.tremblay...@videotron.com wrote: De : Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se A : Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org, You can hand out /48 as easily with 6rd as you can natively. As

Re: Best band for your buck router and switch (gigabit)

2013-11-16 Thread Nick Cameo
Post Script: I just went to vyatta.com, and apparently they've been acquired by Brocade. The former content of their web site is gone, and as far as I can tell from the Brocade site (http://www.brocade.com/products/all/network-functions-virtualization/index.page) they *seem* to be calling the

Re: Best band for your buck router and switch (gigabit)

2013-11-16 Thread Nick Cameo
Your feedback is greatly appreciated. N.

Re: Best band for your buck router and switch (gigabit)

2013-11-16 Thread Nick Cameo
If anyone has one for sale that has not had it's ports beat to hell please let us know. We would be interested.

Best band for your buck router and switch (gigabit)

2013-11-15 Thread Nick Cameo
Hello Everyone, We are in the market for a used integrated service router and switch to manage our network. A 24 port gigabit switch should suffice accompanied with an industry grade router. We like buying used (still under warranty) equipment as long as there is good feedback. Which make and

Re: Best band for your buck router and switch (gigabit)

2013-11-15 Thread Nick Cameo
On 11/15/13, Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com wrote: Nick, It really depends on your deployment. If you are looking at Cisco and doing BGP, I wouldn't go with a 3800 series. Memory constraints will kill you, especially in dual stack. If I was looking for an all in one on the cisco side