Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list

2013-01-11 Thread Walter Keen
I work for a rural Telecom in northwest US. Typically when I hear statements like that, it's that the tech built (strung aerially, trenched through ground, or through buried conduit) from a pedestal or other copper splice point to the customer premise. I would only expect this to go to the

Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list

2013-01-11 Thread Walter Keen
with having (battery/generator) there to sustain 8 hours of operation, and I doubt they would tell you details of their power systems. - Original Message - From: Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com To: Walter Keen walter.k...@rainierconnect.net, William Herrin b...@herrin.us Cc: NANOG

Re: Fiber only in DataCenters?

2012-12-17 Thread Walter Keen
Many of the colocation datacenters or carrier hotel datacenters we are in only have copper facilities for tdm based circuits such as DS1 and DS3. The distance in many of these are simply too great for a copper ethernet connection. ( 100m ) Some smaller ones prefer copper, where distance is

Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.

2012-12-14 Thread Walter Keen
If I had to guess, I would guess that renumbering is likely required to get it into a more portable address assignment from a multi-homing perspective. Look at the whois information below If I were hosting a root server or something similar, I would certainly want it segregated enough that I

Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP

2012-12-13 Thread Walter Keen
We've been using ipplan, although it seems the racktables demo site does support ipv6. It looks interesting because it could help us in other ways. Still kind of stuck on ipplan until I find a better solution that understands multiple routing tables since I have many mpls vpn's with

Re: Fiber terminations -- UPC vs APC

2012-11-19 Thread Walter Keen
Where I work we maintain a mix of Telecom, Data, and CATV networking. APC is REQUIRED per many manufacturers for video. It reduces reflections of the signal which in the video world can cause quite a few headaches and has the potential to have severe impact on video quality. Also, if you're

Re: Cost of fiber run between neighbouring office buildings

2012-10-06 Thread Walter Keen
Where I work for a local telecommunications provider, we will not run any fiber smaller than 24 strand, and these days that is a drop into a building. When talking about single mode fiber, the cost per foot difference in 2, 8, or even 24 strand is typically a matter of less than $1 per foot.

Re: Redundant Routes, BGP with MPLS provider

2012-08-31 Thread Walter Keen
Assuming the MPLS provider is a single company, and uses BGP at all sites to talk to your routers, I would simply set the MED (in cisco terms) to reflect what you desire. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094934.shtml This assumes however that the

Optical network simulator

2012-08-28 Thread Walter Keen
Does anyone happen to know of an optical network simulator? I'm trying to examine the behaviour of a 3-8 node sonet ADM ring using 2-fiber UPSR when one interface has intermittent severely errored seconds.

Re: Optical network simulator

2012-08-28 Thread Walter Keen
will do this. -Original Message- From: Walter Keen [mailto:walter.k...@rainierconnect.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:38 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Optical network simulator Does anyone happen to know of an optical network simulator? I'm trying to examine the behaviour

Re: Bird vs Quagga revisited

2012-08-28 Thread Walter Keen
I'm fairly sure that Mikrotik software is based on linux, and supports MPLS. Not too sure which package they use, or if they rolled their own MPLS support... - Original Message - From: Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 4:42:14 PM

SNMP monitoring of routing tables

2012-03-13 Thread Walter Keen
, nexthop, etc) is available via snmp on the ip-route mib I believe, and needs to stay fairly generic, or equipment-agnostic. Does anyone know of an existing project to do this before I start trying to make one? Walter Keen

Re: Anyone used Adtran NetVanta 1544?

2011-09-21 Thread Walter Keen
I've used Adtran ethernet switches. I wouldn't call them feature-rich, but they do seem to work. If possible test thouroughly before putting in production. I've seen some layer 3 issues with them that they quickly fixed in subsequent firmware releases. I was not stress testing them with

Re: Comcast Bussiness Class and GRE Tunnels

2011-07-27 Thread Walter Keen
the operating temperature range being so wide lets us put them in places we couldn't (supportably) put a cisco or juniper low-end (or high end) box, since we have some remotes where we need to go down to -10C or so. Walter Keen Network Engineer Rainier Connect (P) 360-832-4024 (C) 253-302-0194 On 07/27

Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-20 Thread Walter Keen
, it might be safe to consider a ramdisk for leases. Obvoiusly breaks RFC2131, but... Walter Keen Network Engineer Rainier Connect (P) 360-832-4024 (C) 253-302-0194 On 07/20/2011 03:28 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Nick Coltonncol...@allophone.net wrote: We were seeing

Myspace contact needed

2011-07-12 Thread Walter Keen
Sorry about the lack of details. I'm looking for a Myspace contact, We're an ISP (AS20394) and all of our users are getting a 302 redirect to google after contacting a myspace server. If there is an appropriate contact on this list, or someone who can forward this to such a contact, it would

Re: Myspace contact needed

2011-07-12 Thread Walter Keen
before blocking, or assume a /16 Walter Keen Network Engineer Rainier Connect (P) 360-832-4024 (C) 253-302-0194 On 07/12/2011 08:50 AM, TProphet wrote: I use a VPN from Beijing, where I reside. It's pretty common for myspace to blacklist any IP addresses that they believe belong to crawlers

Facebook contact?

2011-07-11 Thread Walter Keen
If anyone from Facebook is here, Please contact me. Thanks -- Walter Keen Network Engineer Rainier Connect (P) 360-832-4024 (C) 253-302-0194

Myspace. Was:Re: Facebook contact?

2011-07-11 Thread Walter Keen
My apologies all, I meant to say myspace contact Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless -Original message- From: Walter Keen walter.k...@rainierconnect.net To: NANOG list nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tue, Jul 12, 2011 00:29:19 GMT+00:00 Subject: Facebook contact? If anyone from Facebook

Re: PPPoE vs. Bridged ADSL

2009-10-28 Thread Walter Keen
lead to plug-and-play simplicity, which means they don't have to call you, and you don't have to answer their calls. Everyone wins. :) David Smith MVN.net -- Walter Keen Network Technician Rainier Connect (o) 360-832-4024 (c) 253-302-0194

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-16 Thread Walter Keen
cases, lack of mathematical preparation and inclination on the part of students. Scarier: I was teaching graduate students. - Dan -- Walter Keen Network Technician Rainier Connect (o) 360-832-4024 (c) 253-302-0194

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Walter Keen
and drop the Internet circuitry is exactly the opposite of correct. Where instead of preserving access to emergency responders, it is intentionally designed to cut that access. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Walter Keen Network Technician Rainier Connect (o) 360-832-4024 (c) 253-302-0194 References 1