Re: meeting network

2011-10-11 Thread Randy Bush
The hotel IT department is the guy who runs the as400 that gets reservations from corprate, and runs the POS terminals. the room-net is by-in-large run by a third party such as lodgenet. here at the lovely and reasonably priced loews, the dhcp disaster in the rooms killed the front desk

Re: meeting network

2011-10-11 Thread JC Dill
On 10/10/11 3:41 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: Holding the last 10% of the meeting room payment seems like a good start for any venue. It's worthless. It's like being single-homed on a line with an SLA that refunds some small percent of your service provider fee for extended outages - fat lot of good

Re: meeting network

2011-10-11 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 10, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Joel jaeggli wrote: On 10/10/11 07:00 , Owen DeLong wrote: It would be wise for NANOG to approach future venues and specifically discuss these things with the hotel IT departments in question ahead of time so that they have some remote chance of being

Re: meeting network

2011-10-11 Thread John Curran
On Oct 11, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Oct 10, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Joel jaeggli wrote: On 10/10/11 07:00 , Owen DeLong wrote: It would be wise for NANOG to approach future venues and specifically discuss these things with the hotel IT departments in question ahead of time so that

Re: meeting network

2011-10-11 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 11/10/2011 14:12, John Curran wrote: is far better today then in the past, as there have been many conferences over the years where step 1 was pulling the coax or fiber through the hotel to establish their first-ever network infrastructure... :-) There is nothing more dispiriting than

Re: meeting network

2011-10-11 Thread Dorn Hetzel
Maybe instead of upgrading the network of cities, we could convince Google to practice by upgrading the networks of a variety of hotels in locations that NANOG might find appealing :) On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 11/10/2011 14:12, John Curran wrote:

Re: meeting network

2011-10-11 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:48, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 11/10/2011 14:12, John Curran wrote: is far better today then in the past, as there have been many conferences over the years where step 1 was pulling the coax or fiber through the hotel to establish

RE: meeting network

2011-10-11 Thread Frank Bulk
. Frank -Original Message- From: JC Dill [mailto:jcdill.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:26 AM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: meeting network On 10/10/11 3:41 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: Holding the last 10% of the meeting room payment seems like a good start for any venue. It's

Re: meeting network

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org said: There is nothing more dispiriting than yeah sure, you can pull in that fibre cable, but only on condition that you remove it immediately after the [conference|meeting|whatever] is over. We already have the Internet. I would say the

Re: meeting network

2011-10-11 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
. But as others have indicated, the market may be too small for free-market principles to be fully effective. Frank -Original Message- From: JC Dill [mailto:jcdill.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 1:36 PM Cc: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: meeting

Re: meeting network

2011-10-11 Thread Randy Bush
The hotel will never refund at that level. ietf maastricht gave 100% refunds never say never

meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Randy Bush
perhaps as an educational exercise in network troubleshooting whoever is operating the meeting network could explain what the frack is wrong with the meeting network, how it is being debugged, and what they have learned about the cause of the suckage. randy

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 10/10/2011 13:28, Randy Bush wrote: perhaps as an educational exercise in network troubleshooting whoever is operating the meeting network could explain what the frack is wrong with the meeting network, how it is being debugged, and what they have learned about the cause of the suckage

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Oct 10, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: if it's wifi that's causing the trouble, the usual causes are: Don't forget RFI and various forms of spoofing used for MITM. ; --- Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net //

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Oct 10, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: if it's wifi that's causing the trouble, the usual causes are: is the complaint the hotel ROOM wireless? or the meeting-room? I noticed the nanog-a-secure bounce me 2x,

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Randy Bush
if it's wifi that's causing the trouble, the usual causes are: is the complaint the hotel ROOM wireless? or the meeting-room? meeting net, a-secure and a. really bad during the night, but still bouncing up until 08:30 when i turned laptop off to participate in breakfast. and conjecturbation

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Richard Barnes
: On 10/10/2011 13:28, Randy Bush wrote: perhaps as an educational exercise in network troubleshooting whoever is operating the meeting network could explain what the frack is wrong with the meeting network, how it is being debugged, and what they have learned about the cause of the suckage

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Jared Mauch
On Oct 10, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 10/10/2011 13:28, Randy Bush wrote: perhaps as an educational exercise in network troubleshooting whoever is operating the meeting network could explain what the frack is wrong with the meeting network, how it is being debugged, and what

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 10/10/2011 14:50, Christopher Morrow wrote: hotel registration machines were all broken :( The hotel's network people (in NYC) are supposedly 'on a fix', who knows... (is expanding the nat subnet THAT hard?) Sigh, if only there were people somewhere near the hotel who knew how to configure

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 10, 2011, at 6:50 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Oct 10, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: if it's wifi that's causing the trouble, the usual causes are: is the complaint the hotel ROOM wireless? or

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Randy Carpenter
On the hotel network, I have also seen some issues beyond getting an address. I can usually trace just fine, but applications, specifically web is extremely slow, or non responsive. The hotel appears to be shoving all traffic through a squid proxy, which does not appear to be big enough to

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Randy Bush
, ... have seen this time and time again o the hotel does not manage the network, so you have two comms hops to anyone who can do anything. and anyway, they are not going to provision more bandwidth but the problems of which i spoke were the meeting network. which we do supposedly

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Sinatra
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Randy Bush wrote: if it's wifi that's causing the trouble, the usual causes are: is the complaint the hotel ROOM wireless? or the meeting-room? meeting net, a-secure and a. really bad during the night, but still bouncing up until 08:30 when i turned laptop off to

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Randy Bush
Conjecturbation: They're using an old proteon router and someone is exhausting its arp and ndp caches. i wanna picture!

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Richard Barnes
VPN traffic was also slow / bursty. So I guess there's some capacity issues as well as layer 7 cruft. On Oct 10, 2011 10:20 AM, Randy Carpenter rcar...@network1.net wrote: On the hotel network, I have also seen some issues beyond getting an address. I can usually trace just fine, but

RE: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread George, Wes
o no hotel believe that we'll actually be significantly high use. they simply can not conceive of it. ietf, apricot, ... have seen this time and time again WEG] this is a problem that is quite solvable via the careful application of real data from past events I assume most of these

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:44:12 EDT, Randy Bush said: o no hotel believe that we'll actually be significantly high use. they simply can not conceive of it. ietf, apricot, ... have seen this time and time again To be fair, that's not a hotel-only problem. We've seen that problem

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Matt Ryanczak
On 10/10/11 10:20 AM, Randy Carpenter wrote: I would think that the contract with the hotel for the conference would include the specific requirements for the network. Is that not the case? My experiences planning and operating ARIN meeting networks taught me that it is difficult if not

RE: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Frank Bulk
Subject: Re: meeting network I would think that the contract with the hotel for the conference would include the specific requirements for the network. Is that not the case? underlying problems o no hotel believe that we'll actually be significantly high use. they simply can

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Jared Mauch
if not met. Frank -Original Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 9:44 AM To: Randy Carpenter Cc: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: meeting network I would think that the contract with the hotel for the conference would

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Randy Carpenter
-Original Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 9:44 AM To: Randy Carpenter Cc: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: meeting network I would think that the contract with the hotel for the conference would include

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Randy Carpenter rcar...@network1.net wrote: I have been at other conference that have triple or more participants, and it has never been anything close to the issues we are having at this hotel. Slightly slower performance is expected. Completely not working

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Owen DeLong
SLAs that result in a smaller bill if not met. Frank -Original Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 9:44 AM To: Randy Carpenter Cc: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: meeting network I would think that the contract

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread JC Dill
On 10/10/11 7:00 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: It would be wise for NANOG to approach future venues and specifically discuss these things with the hotel IT departments in question ahead of time so that they have some remote chance of being prepared. I tried this approach many years ago, for a

RE: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Menerick, John
, October 10, 2011 11:36 AM Cc: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: meeting network On 10/10/11 7:00 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: It would be wise for NANOG to approach future venues and specifically discuss these things with the hotel IT departments in question ahead of time so

RE: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Frank Bulk
, October 10, 2011 1:36 PM Cc: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: meeting network On 10/10/11 7:00 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: It would be wise for NANOG to approach future venues and specifically discuss these things with the hotel IT departments in question ahead of time so that they have

RE: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Alex Rubenstein
Years ago, on my own, when I used to attend, I used to call the venue about a month in advance and explain to them what was about to happen. Sort of a warning, per say. I explained, in detail, who NANOG was comprised of (I often would use the term operators of the internet). I explained even if

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com As to the hotel room wifi... apparently when you have 490 rooms in the hotel (full) and only provision your internal NAT space as a /23 ... things work 'fine' most days. When a networking conference comes to visit

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Owen DeLong o...@delong.com It would be wise for NANOG to approach future venues and specifically discuss these things with the hotel IT departments in question ahead of time so that they have some remote chance of being prepared. It is nearly never the

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Owen DeLong
American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: meeting network On 10/10/11 7:00 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: It would be wise for NANOG to approach future venues and specifically discuss these things with the hotel IT departments in question ahead of time so that they have some remote chance of being

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: I don't think it is. I think that you can negotiate and I will point out that the hotel here has wanted our business enough that they have now scrambled to make life significantly better. You can also bet I'll be demanding

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 10/10/11 21:25 , Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: I don't think it is. I think that you can negotiate and I will point out that the hotel here has wanted our business enough that they have now scrambled to make life

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 10/10/11 07:00 , Owen DeLong wrote: It would be wise for NANOG to approach future venues and specifically discuss these things with the hotel IT departments in question ahead of time so that they have some remote chance of being prepared. The hotel IT department is the guy who runs the