Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 37, Issue 121

2011-04-21 Thread Savyasachi Choudhary
I have a doubt in ISIS. While redistributing routes from other protocols, how the metric is decided? OSPF has deccribed this in RFC 2328 Section 16.4 : '4) Let X be the cost specified by the preferred routing table entry for the ASBR/forwarding address, and Y the cost

Doubt in ISIS

2011-04-21 Thread Savyasachi Choudhary
I have a doubt in ISIS. While redistributing routes from other protocols, how the metric is decided? OSPF has deccribed this in RFC 2328 Section 16.4 : '4) Let X be the cost specified by the preferred routing table entry for the ASBR/forwarding address, and Y the cost

Voice Peering?

2011-04-21 Thread Santino Codispoti
I know a few years ago some Vo/IP peering points where started. Are they still around today? I am looking for a solution to hand-off outbound voice calls to mobile operators

Re: Voice Peering?

2011-04-21 Thread Santino Codispoti
Thank you I will look into AMS-IX. I was thinking the GRX platforms where for SMS and Data only. On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Erik Bais eb...@a2b-internet.com wrote: Hi Santino,  Did you had a look at AMS-IX ? They have a grx offering for that. Regards, Erik Bais A2B Internet

Re: Voice Peering?

2011-04-21 Thread Remco Bressers
I also thought GRX peering was only data and sms. There's a SIP peering point on the NL-IX though. Look at http://www.nl-ix.net/solutions/voice-peering/ for more. Regards, Remco Bressers Signet B.V. AS28878 On 04/21/2011 10:52 AM, Santino Codispoti wrote: Thank you I will look into AMS-IX.

Re: Doubt in ISIS

2011-04-21 Thread Savyasachi Choudhary
Thank you for the response. Its very detailed, and I am yet to understand it completely. Following is the problem I am facing on Ericsson Routers. (static route) Router1-Router2

Re: Bandwidth Growth

2011-04-21 Thread Curran, David
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:36:54 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.au Subject: Re: Bandwidth growth To: Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net Cc: NANOG list nanog@nanog.org Message-ID: 20110421023654.ge13...@skywalker.creative.net.au Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: Bandwidth Growth

2011-04-21 Thread Joe Loiacono
Curran, David david.cur...@windstream.com wrote on 04/21/2011 08:52:29 AM: ... it also strikes me that on the aggregate the graphs do indeed show a significant increase around the holidays (the US ones anyway). Another bias? :-) Seems Internet participants took some time off

RE: Bandwidth Growth

2011-04-21 Thread Sameer Khosla
-Original Message- From: Curran, David [mailto:david.cur...@windstream.com] The LINX, TORIX, and SIX graphs provided earlier, for example, seem relatively flat until the Nov. timeframe at which point they seem to seek a new higher normal. Could just be my lack of sleep and my

Re: Voice Peering?

2011-04-21 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Apr 21, 2011 1:59 AM, Remco Bressers re...@signet.nl wrote: I also thought GRX peering was only data and sms. There's a SIP peering point on the NL-IX though. Grx is data only. IPX in theory does voice too but I don't think the take rate is very high. Cb Look at

VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Ben Whorwood
Dear all, Can anyone share any thoughts or experiences for VPN links running over slow Internet connections, typically 2kB/s - 3kB/s (think 33.6k modem)? We are looking into utilising OpenVPN for out-of-office workers who would be running mobile broadband in rural areas. Typical data across

RE: Voice Peering?

2011-04-21 Thread Scott Berkman
It's not specific for mobile, but this is one of the most well know VOIP exchanges: http://www.thevpf.com/ -Scott -Original Message- From: Santino Codispoti [mailto:santino.codisp...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:36 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Voice Peering?

RE: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Brandon Kim
If I had to guestimate, the performance would be horrible considering the VPN overhead in itself. You can't choose UDP or TCP, that is all based on the applications being used within the tunnel. So the apps will decide what protocols they will need to use, which will then be encapsulated by

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Phil Regnauld
Ben Whorwood (bw-ml) writes: Some initial thoughts include... * How well would the connection handle certificate (= 2048 bit key) based authentication? * Is UDP or TCP better considering the speed and possibility of packet loss (no figures to hand)? I'd go for a UDP tunnel, as

RE: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
There's not that much overhead--your certs should be ok. TCP for SQL would just make sense. I personally wouldn't want to do what you are contemplating. Here's some stuff to think about: 1. your modems will not be able to do compression. You can't easily compress random data (e.g.

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:55:32 BST, Ben Whorwood said: * How well would the connection handle certificate (= 2048 bit key) based authentication? It will hiccup for a moment (maybe a quarter or half second) for the data. The certificate exchange is the least of your problems. * Is VPN

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Fred Richards
We are looking into utilising OpenVPN for out-of-office workers who would be running mobile broadband in rural areas. Typical data across the wire would be SQL queries for custom applications and not much else. I agree with Patrick, SSH would do nicely. You could even setup a tunnel, and the

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Ben Whorwood bw...@mube.co.uk wrote: Can anyone share any thoughts or experiences for VPN links running over slow Internet connections, typically 2kB/s - 3kB/s (think 33.6k modem)? We are looking into utilising OpenVPN for out-of-office workers who would be

RE: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Brandon Kim
I vote for Patrick's idea of allowing the end user to remote into a machine where the SQL resides. This would eliminate a lot of potential issueswish I had thought of that first!!! Subject: RE: VPN over slow Internet connections Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:10:09 -0400 From:

RE: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Gary Gladney
If you haven't deployed your VPN environment yet I would seriously consider using SSL VPN instead of IPSec as your tunneling protocol. SSL VPN gives you a lot more options than IPSec. Gary -Original Message- From: Ben Whorwood [mailto:bw...@mube.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Gary Gladney glad...@stsci.edu wrote: If you haven't deployed your VPN environment yet I would seriously consider using SSL VPN instead of IPSec as your tunneling protocol.  SSL VPN gives you a lot more options than IPSec. Hi Gary, Ben was looking at OpenVPN,

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Matt Ryanczak
On 04/21/2011 01:32 PM, Brandon Kim wrote: I vote for Patrick's idea of allowing the end user to remote into a machine where the SQL resides. This would eliminate a lot of potential issueswish I had thought of that first!!! I third this idea. Using screen would be a good idea as well.

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Ben Jencks
On Apr 21, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Ben Whorwood wrote: Dear all, Can anyone share any thoughts or experiences for VPN links running over slow Internet connections, typically 2kB/s - 3kB/s (think 33.6k modem)? We are looking into utilising OpenVPN for out-of-office workers who would be

riverbed steelhead

2011-04-21 Thread harbor235
Anyone out there have experience with Riverbed Steelhead products? Do they improve TCP performance over WAN links? is it worth the price? mike

RE: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Brandon Kim
Nothing like getting into the groove, then losing your connection, waiting for the modem to dial back up and then try to figure out what you were just doing!!! Again, it goes back to what I mentioned, it could work but how will that affect your overall productivity. Is over the air 3G or 4G

RE: riverbed steelhead

2011-04-21 Thread Stefan Fouant
-Original Message- From: harbor235 [mailto:harbor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:50 PM To: NANOG list Subject: riverbed steelhead Anyone out there have experience with Riverbed Steelhead products? Do they improve TCP performance over WAN links? is it worth the

RE: riverbed steelhead

2011-04-21 Thread Stefan Fouant
-Original Message- From: Stefan Fouant [mailto:sfou...@shortestpathfirst.net] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:58 PM To: 'harbor235'; 'NANOG list' Subject: RE: riverbed steelhead I've had generally good experiences w/ Riverbed's Steelhead as well as Juniper's WX Series product.

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Jeroen van Aart
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Well, 33.6k is a Bad Idea right there. :) But if you're stuck with that for technical reasons, but need a VPN for security reasons, it won't be all *that* much worse, unless you're doing a lot of SSH or similar I would think so too. When I first moved to the

Stupid Cisco ACL question

2011-04-21 Thread up
Ok, I've done a lot of Cisco standard and extended ACLs, but I do not understand why the following does not work the way I think it should. Near the end of this extended named ACL, I have the following: permit tcp any eq 443 any permit tcp any eq 80 any deny ip any host 2.2.3.4 permit ip any

Re: Stupid Cisco ACL question

2011-04-21 Thread Dorn Hetzel
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:13 PM, u...@3.am wrote: Ok, I've done a lot of Cisco standard and extended ACLs, but I do not understand why the following does not work the way I think it should. Near the end of this extended named ACL, I have the following: permit tcp any eq 443 any Don't you

RE: riverbed steelhead

2011-04-21 Thread Stephens, Josh
I've had good experiences with the Riverbed appliances as well. Definitely a leader in my mind when compared to Cisco and Juniper although there are some new niche players that have good solutions depending on the details of your traffic and topology. One note on the Riverbeds, if you're

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread JC Dill
On 21/04/11 11:53 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: Nothing like getting into the groove, then losing your connection, waiting for the modem to dial back up and then try to figure out what you were just doing!!! Again, it goes back to what I mentioned, it could work but how will that affect your

Re: Stupid Cisco ACL question

2011-04-21 Thread Jay Ford
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, u...@3.am wrote: permit tcp any eq 443 any permit tcp any eq 80 any deny ip any host 2.2.3.4 permit ip any any This is applied to an inbound interface(s). We want anybody outside to be able to reach ports 80 and 443 of any host on our network, no matter what, then block

Re: Voice Peering?

2011-04-21 Thread Martin Millnert
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Scott Berkman sc...@sberkman.net wrote: It's not specific for mobile, but this is one of the most well know VOIP exchanges: And here I thought IP exchanges would cover the IP in VOIP. When do we get HTTP exchanges? :) Regards, Martin

RE: Stupid Cisco ACL question

2011-04-21 Thread Jeff Saxe
If this is applied inbound from the Internet, then the first two permits are permitting reply traffic from the far-end Web server's ports 80 or 443 back toward your surfing workstations or servers. You should think of those as permit - just TCP -- where the SOURCE is any IP address, but source

Re: riverbed steelhead

2011-04-21 Thread Joel Maslak
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:49 PM, harbor235 harbor...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone out there have experience with Riverbed Steelhead products? Do they improve TCP performance over WAN links? is it worth the price? I'll let others answer the specific question about Riverbed. I've heard plenty of

Re: Stupid Cisco ACL question

2011-04-21 Thread up
Thanks everyone, of course this is what I wanted. Like I said, a stupid ACL question...I'm blaming heavy medication, sorry for the noise! On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, u...@3.am wrote: permit tcp any eq 443 any permit tcp any eq 80 any deny ip any host 2.2.3.4 permit ip any any This is applied

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Wil Schultz
On Apr 21, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Well, 33.6k is a Bad Idea right there. :) But if you're stuck with that for technical reasons, but need a VPN for security reasons, it won't be all *that* much worse, unless you're doing a lot of SSH or

Re: Stupid Cisco ACL question

2011-04-21 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:13 PM, u...@3.am wrote: Ok, I've done a lot of Cisco standard and extended ACLs, but I do not understand why the following does not work the way I think it should. Near the end of this extended named ACL, I have the following:  permit tcp any eq 443 any  permit tcp

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Apr 21, 2011, at 12:55 32PM, Ben Whorwood wrote: Dear all, Can anyone share any thoughts or experiences for VPN links running over slow Internet connections, typically 2kB/s - 3kB/s (think 33.6k modem)? We are looking into utilising OpenVPN for out-of-office workers who would be

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Phil Regnauld
Steven Bellovin (smb) writes: I should note: IPsec, being datagram-based, will also work well. PPTP, which runs over TCP as far as I know, will suffer all of the ills I just outlined. PPTP uses 1723/tcp for control, but the tunneled traffic is GRE, so that would work fine as

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Apr 21, 2011, at 4:31 32PM, Phil Regnauld wrote: Steven Bellovin (smb) writes: I should note: IPsec, being datagram-based, will also work well. PPTP, which runs over TCP as far as I know, will suffer all of the ills I just outlined. PPTP uses 1723/tcp for control, but the

RE: Voice Peering?

2011-04-21 Thread Scott Berkman
Among other services, the VPF provides an ENUM infrastructure for doing lookups using DNS for what carrier in the exchange can route calls to a specific TN. But yes, the underlying concept of the actual interconnections are similar to IP exchanges. There are also application specific exchanges

Re: Voice Peering?

2011-04-21 Thread Carlos Alcantar
What would be nice is a voice peering that actually act's as a traditional tandem. Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 Fax: +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com / http://www.race.com On 4/21/11 1:38

RE: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Terry Baranski
On Apr 21, 2011, at 4:20PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: For your application or for the VPN? For the VPN, I *strongly* suggest you use UDP, or you're going to get dueling retransmissions and spend a lot of time sending many copies of the same thing. Consider: if a packet is dropped, either due to

Youtube Geolocation

2011-04-21 Thread Dan White
We're experiencing very poor quality with You Tube, and it appears we're subject to a bad entry within a geolocation database somewhere. When we attempt to view videos, the contact comes back to us from IPs like: 208.117.226.21 (traceroute's through Frankfurt) 173.194.50.47 74.125.100.29 All

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Denys Fedoryshchenko
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:55:32 +0100, Ben Whorwood wrote: IMHO it is not good idea to go to OpenVPN/IPSec/etc level at all (IP layer at least, and in case of Windows it is also ethernet headers). First of all OpenVPN for Windows/different OS sometimes become a headache and need admin privileges.

Re: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Apr 21, 2011, at 5:28 46PM, Terry Baranski wrote: On Apr 21, 2011, at 4:20PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: For your application or for the VPN? For the VPN, I *strongly* suggest you use UDP, or you're going to get dueling retransmissions and spend a lot of time sending many copies of the

Re: Youtube Geolocation

2011-04-21 Thread Carl Rosevear
I have had this same problem, followed Google's forms, etc... they never seem to fix it. Its really annoying. This is an epic fail on the part of Google in my opinion. My netblocks all show Seattle in whois... my routing is obviously here... I don't think we have an official address in the UK

RE: Youtube Geolocation

2011-04-21 Thread Mike Schoenfeld
I don't know what Google uses but any company using F5 equipment is using Quova geolocation services. You can request updates and check your circuit here: http://www.quova.com/what/request-ip-update/ The problem is that the F5 devices don't update the database files automatically, they need

Re: Youtube Geolocation

2011-04-21 Thread Carl Rosevear
Quova, Maxmind, and others all return accurate results for everything of ours I have tested. Some of the IPs in question have been properly assigned or delegated to us for several years in whois. But yeah, thanks for the input... I actually hadn't checked Quova until now. Perhaps Google rolls

Re: Youtube Geolocation

2011-04-21 Thread Dan White
On 21/04/11 15:46 -0700, Carl Rosevear wrote: Quova, Maxmind, and others all return accurate results for everything of ours I have tested. Some of the IPs in question have been properly assigned or delegated to us for several years in whois. But yeah, thanks for the input... I actually hadn't

Re: 365x24x7

2011-04-21 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Bill Stewart wrote: Rotating shifts between daytime and nighttime is a horrible thing to do to your workers, both for their health and their attention span. I Fully agree. I think it may pay off to search for people who suffer Delayed sleep phase syndrome to do night shift. They'll be happy

gmail dropping mesages

2011-04-21 Thread Bill Blackford
I've recently observed gmail dropping messages or not forwarding all messages/posts from the nanog list. This is rather annoying. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have any insight as to why? Thanks, -b -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo

Re: gmail dropping mesages

2011-04-21 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Bill Blackford bblackf...@gmail.com wrote: I've recently observed gmail dropping messages or not forwarding all messages/posts  from the nanog list. This is rather annoying. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have any insight as to why? sometimes

Re: gmail dropping mesages

2011-04-21 Thread Bill Blackford
ok, there are some in the spam folder. Hmm, didn't think to look there for the missing ones when my inbox appears to be receivng partial threads. Thanks, -b On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Bill Blackford

Re: 365x24x7

2011-04-21 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: Bill Stewart wrote: Rotating shifts between daytime and nighttime is a horrible thing to do to your workers, both for their health and their attention span. I Fully agree. I think it may pay off to search for people

Re: Youtube Geolocation

2011-04-21 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 04:36:50PM -0500, Dan White wrote: We're experiencing very poor quality with You Tube, and it appears we're subject to a bad entry within a geolocation database somewhere. When we attempt to view videos, the contact comes back to us from IPs like: 208.117.226.21

Re: Youtube Geolocation

2011-04-21 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Harry Strongburg harry.na...@harry.lu wrote: I had a similar issue, but it was mainly only over IPv6. According to someone I spoke to at Google, bumping up the MTU might help (and did help for me). I don't remember my previous MTU (I think it was 1280), but

Re: riverbed steelhead

2011-04-21 Thread Jonathan Fernatt
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:49 PM, harbor235 harbor...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone out there have experience with Riverbed Steelhead products? Do they improve TCP performance over WAN links? is it worth the price? mike I've had good experiences with both Riverbed Steelhead and Cisco WAAS

Re: 365x24x7

2011-04-21 Thread Mark Foster
On Fri, April 22, 2011 1:38 pm, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: Bill Stewart wrote: Rotating shifts between daytime and nighttime is a horrible thing to do to your workers, both for their health and their attention span. I Fully

Re: 365x24x7

2011-04-21 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 02:48:16PM +1200, Mark Foster wrote: On Fri, April 22, 2011 1:38 pm, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: Bill Stewart wrote: Rotating shifts between daytime and nighttime is a horrible thing to do to your

Re: 365x24x7

2011-04-21 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:51 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 02:48:16PM +1200, Mark Foster wrote: On Fri, April 22, 2011 1:38 pm, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: Bill Stewart wrote: Rotating

RE: Voice Peering?

2011-04-21 Thread Frank Bulk
There's also Xconnect. Frank -Original Message- From: Scott Berkman [mailto:sc...@sberkman.net] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:01 PM To: 'Santino Codispoti'; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Voice Peering? It's not specific for mobile, but this is one of the most well know VOIP

Re: Youtube Geolocation

2011-04-21 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:55:03PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: how has mtu got anything to do with packet path? PMTUD?

Re: Youtube Geolocation

2011-04-21 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Harry Strongburg harry.na...@harry.lu wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:55:03PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: how has mtu got anything to do with packet path? PMTUD? that won't change the destination based routed path, it'll cause the endpoints to lower