Possible Comcast Packet Loss Between Atlanta and Chandler, Az

2018-10-03 Thread david peahi
I suspect random packet loss between an Xfinity (Comcast) cable modem user in Atlanta, and our Chandler, Az data center. Traceroute between the Atlanta user and Chandler shows Comcast/TW backbone handing off to Abovenet/Zayo, finally to Internap for local loop connection. Can anyone verify this?

Cox in Omaha blackhole routing to Level 3

2017-08-21 Thread david peahi
Can someone from Cox reply to me offline regarding a Cox routing issue in Omaha? Both ends of connection are on Cox network, but a traceroute shows packets being routed into Level 3 at 4.35.186.61 24 msec 24 msec 24 msec, and blackholed in Level 3 network. David Holmes

ATT-Level 3 Peering

2017-02-05 Thread david peahi
We're seeing frequent dropped packets between ATT and Level 3 in Atlanta with traffic sourced from an ATT user destined for Microsoft Office 365, making Office 365 apps unusable during critical business hours. Anyone else have this problem with ATT?

Internet Slow in Marina Del Rey, California

2015-07-02 Thread david peahi
Sluggish Internet via TWC and Sprint 3G/4G in Marina Del Rey area. Any outages reported? Regards, David

liveaction qos configurator

2013-09-24 Thread david peahi
Any comments on live action Cisco qos configurator would be appreciated Regards David

Re: 48V DC Terminal server recommendations

2013-07-24 Thread david peahi
We have used the Avocent console/power terminal servers for several years. Although the browser interface is cluttered, and the use of Java sometimes poses connectivity challengesm Avocent is a useful console server for all types of devices, and has the ability to remotely power-cycle AC and DC

Re: recommended outdoor enclosures

2013-06-17 Thread david peahi
I have had success with the opposite approach using equipment rated from -40 C to +85 C (+185 F), no fans, sealed NEMA4 or NEMA12 Hoffman enclosures, cooling by equipment heat sinks. Ethernet switches and optics rated -40 C to +85 C This configuration has worked with the same equipment for at

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-13 Thread david peahi
Apologies for making what could be construed as an off topic, political comment, but doesn't everyone in the USA know by now that the PRC represents a dagger aimed at the economic and national security of America? A military invasion in slow motion as it were? David On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at

Re: huawei (ZTE too)

2013-06-13 Thread david peahi
Last I heard NANOG stands for North American Network Operators Group. Anti-American comments are not welcome here.. David On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Jeroen Massar jer...@massar.ch wrote: On 2013-06-13 13:01, david peahi wrote: Apologies for making what could be construed as an off

Micro Trenching for Fiber Optic Deployment

2013-02-11 Thread david peahi
Does anyone have experience in running fiber optic cable with micro-trenching techniques in areas where there is no existing asphalt or concrete roadway, just packed earth and rock? Environmental limitations do not allow for constructing an aerial power pole alignment, or underground ductbank. The

Re: Metro Ethernet, VPLS clarifications

2013-02-05 Thread david peahi
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) develops standards for Metro Ethernet, which are generally implemented by telcos/cablecos. See the following link: http://metroethernetforum.org/ The 2 biggest problems I have found with telco/cableco MEF services are: 1. In network configurations where all sites

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-02 Thread david peahi
Perhaps I missed a reference to receiver sensitivity in this thread. Since the receiver optical-electric components are binary in nature, received optical dB only has to be equal to or greater than the receiver's sensitivity. Low or high dB received light produces the same quality at the receiver.

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-02 Thread david peahi
Technically, any of the architectures espoused by some of the commentators on this thread will work, and would at least be an order of magnitude better than what is available in the local loop today. One of the commentators, however, did underscore the biggest challenge by far to national

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-01-30 Thread david peahi
The Australian NBN plan evolved because, when the Australian government put out the original RFP, the incumbent telcos wanted anti-competitive commitments in exchange for their build-out efforts (sound familiar here in the USA?). The Australian government deemed the original telco RFP replies as

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-28 Thread david peahi
My experience with one of the big 2 telcos in the USA is unbelievable even now looking back a few months: 1. at my key network monitoring site telco Northern Telecom (before NT changed their name to Nortel) SONET equipment circa 1995 kept failing, taking legacy circuits down hard. 2. Escalating

Problem with email to Hawaiilink.net email

2013-01-15 Thread david peahi
Does anyone know of any problems in Hawaii with email or DNS problems? Sending from gmail.com and pacbell.net domains, I get: host mail.hawaiilink.net[24.43.223.114] said: 553 5.1.8 emailaddr...@pacbell.net ... Domain of sender address emailaddr...@pacbell.net does not exist (in reply to

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread david peahi
Many years ago the standard books on application network programming were based on C language. Books such as Adventures in UNIX Network Programming, and Professor Comer's Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol 3 detailed how to write C programs using BSD sockets where binding to a socket brought the

Fwd: MPLS acceptable latency?

2012-11-15 Thread david peahi
-- Forwarded message -- From: david peahi davidpe...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM Subject: Re: MPLS acceptable latency? To: Mikeal Clark mikeal.cl...@gmail.com Assuming no configuration errors, this underscores the need to negotiate SLAs, and serious SLA

Re: Dark fiber usage info request - know-how pointers and experience sharing

2012-11-02 Thread david peahi
In the USA the Federal School Lunch program has built out a parallel fiber network equal to or superior to telco fiber in many urban locations, under the E-Rate program. TheE-Rate backbone fiber is leased typically on a 10-20 year IRU basis. Sunesys is a provider of dark fiber, and their web site

Cisco 6509 SUP32 SNMP Meltdown With CatOS

2012-11-02 Thread david peahi
Anyone have experience with Cisco 6509E/SUP32 crashing under heavy SNMP polling load, causing high cpu utilization and 6509 lockup, requiring 6509 reboot? CatOS is deployed. Is the behavior any different with 6509 IOS? David

Re: Ethernet OAM BCPs Please are there any yet???

2012-09-27 Thread david peahi
I have used BRIX active measurement for IP for many years, but here is a link that describes BRIX in conjunction with ADVA for Ethernet probes. There is an article in IEEE Communications Magazine circa 2004-2005 by ATT researchers describing their roll your own active measurement system,

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread david peahi
Those who argue that IPv4 addresses must be reclaimed seem to have forgotten that even for small organizations, converting IPv4 address space to RFC1918 addresses, or IPv6, is a huge task given the fixed IP addresses of many devices (printers, copy machines, etc.), and even worse, the many key

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-10 Thread david peahi
In my neck of the woods, critical locations often exist in the middle of nowhere, resulting in underserved facilities, where best effort networks such as metro Ethernet cannot be trusted to remain available 24x7x365. Many times, during prime business hours, I will see a telco metro Ethernet

Re: Cisco 7200 PCI Limitations

2012-08-06 Thread david peahi
The 7200 architecture dates from the late 1990s, and is basically modeled on a PCI-bus UNIX workstation from that era. The 7200 is usable today as a WAN aggregation router for T1 access, and nothing else. Using it as a GiGE transit router will place a non-deterministic node in the network, unable

Re: Cisco Smartnet for 6509E Line Cards

2012-06-20 Thread david peahi
sense. Curtis -Original Message- From: david peahi [mailto:davidpe...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 12:02 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Cisco Smartnet for 6509E Line Cards Can anyone comment on Cisco 6509E Smartnet chassis coverage? In the past, chassis has always meant

Cisco Smartnet for 6509E Line Cards

2012-06-19 Thread david peahi
Can anyone comment on Cisco 6509E Smartnet chassis coverage? In the past, chassis has always meant, not just the passive chassis itself, but all of the components including supervisor cards, line cards, power supplies, fan trays, etc. Now it appears that Cisco is requiring Smartnet coverage on

Re: best practives multi-homed BGP 2 physical locations

2012-06-14 Thread david peahi
I'm fortunate to have a /16, and advertise 2 /18s from the primary, and 4 /17s from the backup collo, /16 from both with AS Prepend on backup /16, and depend on BGP longest prefix route selection to create symmetric Internet routing back to my locations. I run IBGP between geographically diverse

Re: Verizon 1xRTT/EVDO for OOB

2012-05-04 Thread david peahi
We use 1X/EVDO for telemetry polling, but find that the latency is very high with VZW to Verizon wired networks located in east Texas, so if your network is on the west coast, every packet traverses the US continent twice even though the endpoints may be less than 100 miles (or even 1 mile) apart.

Re: Partial Outage with TW Telecom and CenturyLink

2012-04-24 Thread david peahi
Yesterday at about 3 pm PDT DNS resolution problems were experienced through Centurylink. Apparently their Phoenix DNS servers were unreachable for some time. These types of incidents never happened with Qwest. Anyone else report a service degradation since Centurylink took over? On Tue, Apr 24,

Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)

2012-03-26 Thread david peahi
I have discovered that the Federal School Lunch E-Rate program has built out an entirely parallel fiber optic infrastructure in the USA, bypassing telco fiber in many urban areas such as Los Angeles/Southern California. There are now companies that exist solely to construct E-Rate fiber. Sunesys

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread david peahi
What is the SLA for FIOS? I believe that FIOS uses either PON or GPON technology where a single data wavelength is split up to 32 times resulting in a shared pipe back to the CO. Does Verizon offer any SLA at all for FIOS? On the other hand Verizon Wireless offers BGP peering for business

Re: MEF-CECP training

2012-03-09 Thread david peahi
I also would be interested in any information. It looks like MEF recognizes 4 training companies: http://metroethernetforum.org/page_loader.php?p_id=1577 One company offers just 1 class then an exam for certification. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Andy Susag asu...@ifncom.net wrote: Hi All,

Fwd: VLAN Troubles

2012-03-06 Thread david peahi
-- Forwarded message -- From: david peahi davidpe...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:47 AM Subject: Re: VLAN Troubles To: Alan Bryant a...@alanbryant.com Why don't you replace the Dell switches with Cisco 3560s, and that way you are working with a single implementation