Viability of GNS3 network simulation for testing features/configurations.

2019-10-16 Thread Ryland Kremeier
Hello, I'm currently in the process of setting up a near identical network to our own in GNS3 for testing purposes. Has anyone here tried this before to any success? We need to buy the Cisco IOSv image to continue with the sim so I figured I would inquire here first before diving in. All info

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG power restored

2019-10-16 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/16/19 12:09 PM, Jeff Shultz wrote: Interesting! And so primitive! So they go to all of the expense of laying fiber, but not power too? Note: small local telco experience speaking below: Telco's tend to have experience with fiber, but probably not the construction and transmission of

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG power restored

2019-10-16 Thread Michael Thomas
After some poking around, I found this gizmo. It says that it can use between 1-8 pairs to power it from the co. If there was already a home run to the co (which is almost certainly true in my case), it seems like that would be a cheaper option? Then you just have one diesel generator at the

Re: Viability of GNS3 network simulation for testing features/configurations.

2019-10-16 Thread Mike Bolitho
EVE-NG is also really good. Just an FYI, GNS3 went through a major refresh about 18 months ago or so and it's so much better now. Either way, you can't go wrong with GNS3 or EVE-NG. - Mike Bolitho On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:18 AM Aaron Gould wrote: > Oh, forgot the links… > > > >

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG power restored

2019-10-16 Thread Jeff Shultz
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 4:26 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > > > On 10/14/19 4:16 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote: > >> Of course this is a lot of conjecture on my part... be glad to be > >> clued in by folks in know. > > > > An old news story, but telco's usually

RE: Viability of GNS3 network simulation for testing features/configurations.

2019-10-16 Thread Aaron Gould
Thanks Mike for the info on GNS3…. My info is old, I’ll have to take a look at the recent GNS3 sometime soon… -Aaron From: Mike Bolitho [mailto:mikeboli...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 1:22 PM To: Aaron Gould Cc: Tom Beecher; Ryland Kremeier; nanog@nanog.org

Re: VDSL

2019-10-16 Thread Jeff Shultz
Just like any broadband deployed by a Telco gets called "DSL" these days - even if it's 1G fiber. And even by those in the industry who should know better. Annoying. But I'm confused a bit by the below - G.Fast is a twisted pair standard, last I saw - why would a cable (presumably coax) company

RE: Viability of GNS3 network simulation for testing features/configurations.

2019-10-16 Thread Aaron Gould
Oh, forgot the links… http://www.eve-ng.net/ http://www.eve-ng.net/documentation/howto-s From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Gould Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 1:14 PM To: 'Mike Bolitho'; 'Tom Beecher'; 'Ryland Kremeier' Cc: nanog@nanog.org

Provider IPv6 Deployment

2019-10-16 Thread Nicholas Warren
Can anyone share resources on deploying IPv6 in a provider network? Most all documentation I find is from the customer perspective; which is great and all, but what about setting up dhcpv6-pd, what about the relay agent, or what about an equivalent of dhcp option 82? Nich

Re: Viability of GNS3 network simulation for testing features/configurations.

2019-10-16 Thread Jean | ddostest.me via NANOG
I heard good stuff about Cisco Virl. It's like an ESX for network devices. On 2019-10-16 15:23, Jason Kuehl wrote: I use the server version of GNS and I love it.  I just need to VPN into my DC and use my client to connect to GNS. On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 2:22 PM Mike Bolitho

RE: Viability of GNS3 network simulation for testing features/configurations.

2019-10-16 Thread Aaron Gould
I’ve used GNS3 some years ago for a lot of simulation and testing. But, I’m blown away at how much more I like EVE-NG (emulated virtual environment next-gen) I use the community free version… lots of vendor OS support… of which, I’ve actually work with the following…. -XRv -

Re: Viability of GNS3 network simulation for testing features/configurations.

2019-10-16 Thread Jason Kuehl
I use the server version of GNS and I love it. I just need to VPN into my DC and use my client to connect to GNS. On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 2:22 PM Mike Bolitho wrote: > EVE-NG is also really good. Just an FYI, GNS3 went through a major refresh > about 18 months ago or so and it's so much better

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG power restored

2019-10-16 Thread Jeff Shultz
We use 12 and 48 port VDSLAM's similar to that at some of our remote locations, and we do generally line power those. But before those came on the market we were putting out remote cabinets that could support up to 144 subscribers fed off the same sort of cards you would find in the CO. I don't

Re: VDSL

2019-10-16 Thread Rod Beck
Well, the cable company here is offering 500 megs to the entire 5 story building. My guess is that this G fast standard is what is being deployed here and they loosely call it 'VDSL'. From: NANOG on behalf of Brandon Martin Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Re: VDSL

2019-10-16 Thread Brandon Martin
On 10/15/19 1:51 PM, Rod Beck wrote: These are large 19th century buildings with courtyards. I have seen lots of activity on this street - fiber being pulled from manhole and gear being installed in cable manholes. Corning on the cables. Sounds like a fiber-to-the-curb deployment with G.FAST

Re: VDSL

2019-10-16 Thread Brandon Martin
On 10/15/19 8:25 PM, Brielle wrote: Its actually got pretty heavy use in a lot of CenturyLink areas, like here in Boise.  Fiber is only now starting to become the norm, so everyone is on VDSL2 in single or bonded modes, speeds all the way up to around 50mbit down. AT U-Verse in ex-SBC

Tower locations

2019-10-16 Thread Aden Dragulescu
WISPs: >From where do you find information on various tower locations, pricing, and available connectivity? More specifically, are you consulting directly with tower companies when searching for locations or is there someone/a service who provides this information more generally? Thanks. --

Re: VDSL

2019-10-16 Thread Bjoern Franke
Am 15.10.19 um 19:51 schrieb Eric Dugas: Bell Canada still uses a lot of VDSL2 last-miles in Quebec and Ontario. Max speed is 100/10 over bonded pairs and 50/10 over a single pair over short distances. Generally served from a fiber-fed DSLAM and less than 500 meters. In Germany 250/40 is

RE: IP Geolocation

2019-10-16 Thread Ryland Kremeier
>I believe we have found 1 customer that is infected with a botnet or malware. I've dealt with plenty of botnets working as a repair technician in the past but never had one change the public IP address of the user. Not entirely sure what this would accomplish aside from making it much easier

Re: IP Geolocation

2019-10-16 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:50:17 -, Ryland Kremeier said: > >I believe we have found 1 customer that is infected with a botnet or malware. > I've dealt with plenty of botnets working as a repair technician in the past > but never had one change the public IP address of the user. Not entirely sure

Re: BGP Enabled transit in Chicago (River North) and equipment

2019-10-16 Thread NANOG Acct
I've got a Cisco 881 with the "Advanced IP features" This will do for what I'm trying to accomplish. I think I'm going to go with a BGP tunnel. No one at RCN has any clue about this - they may not even provide the server. The sales droids only know how to sell their pre-packaged plans. Does

RE: Tower locations

2019-10-16 Thread Kevin McCormick
You might find this Google Earth plugin useful for locating towers. I have used it a few times. https://www.fccinfo.com/fccinfo_google_earth.php Thank you, Kevin McCormick From: NANOG On Behalf Of Aden Dragulescu Sent: Monday, October 14, 2019 3:54 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Tower

Best components for a full mvno core network?

2019-10-16 Thread Dario Renaud
Hello, At my day job, we are considering going Full MVNO. Which means building a mobile core network. I was wondering if some of you would have feedback or advices on the solutions currently available? We would like to avoid the big providers (Ericsson & such). Ideally, something opensource,

RE: IP Geolocation

2019-10-16 Thread Travis Garrison
I believe we have found 1 customer that is infected with a botnet or malware. His public ip address during speedtest or similar actually shows a Chinese ip address. We are contacting him to try to get that resolved and then put in a request to all the geolocation databases to update their

Re: Tower locations

2019-10-16 Thread Josh Luthman
Crown, American, maybe SBA have KMLs and I turn them on when looking for a new site. FCC db is fantastic as well, that's all 200+ and some smaller ones. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 5:26 AM Aden Dragulescu

Re: Tower locations

2019-10-16 Thread TJ Trout
Most wisps put up their own towers or install on grain Mills etc, a small percent use commercial towers they pay rent on. On Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 5:25 AM Aden Dragulescu wrote: > WISPs: > > From where do you find information on various tower locations, pricing, > and available connectivity? More

Re: Its hard to believe that it has been 21 years...

2019-10-16 Thread Michael Rathbun
On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 22:52:11 -0400, Rodney Joffe wrote: >Twenty-one years ago today, Jon Postel passed away in Santa Monica, CA. > >Almost all of us get to do what we do today, because of his vision, guidance, >and leadership. He is one of many giants on whose shoulders we stand today >(some

Its hard to believe that it has been 21 years...

2019-10-16 Thread Rodney Joffe
Twenty-one years ago today, Jon Postel passed away in Santa Monica, CA. Almost all of us get to do what we do today, because of his vision, guidance, and leadership. He is one of many giants on whose shoulders we stand today (some are still active here in NANOG), but he was the compass that

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG power restored

2019-10-16 Thread Brandon Martin
On 10/16/19 4:04 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: After some poking around, I found this gizmo. It says that it can use between 1-8 pairs to power it from the co. If there was already a home run to the co (which is almost certainly true in my case), it seems like that would be a cheaper option? Then

Re: VDSL

2019-10-16 Thread Brandon Martin
On 10/16/19 2:42 PM, Jeff Shultz wrote: But I'm confused a bit by the below - G.Fast is a twisted pair standard, last I saw - why would a cable (presumably coax) company be offering it? Are they just taking over the PTT's inside wiring? G.fast has definitions for both twisted pair and coax

Re: BGP Enabled transit in Chicago (River North) and equipment

2019-10-16 Thread Ross Tajvar
If you're okay with a tunnel, you may want to check out http://bgp.services. On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 8:36 AM John Palmer wrote: > I've got a Cisco 881 with the "Advanced IP features" This will do for what > I'm > trying to accomplish. > > I think I'm going to go with a BGP tunnel. > > No one at

Re: Viability of GNS3 network simulation for testing features/configurations.

2019-10-16 Thread Tom Beecher
GNS3 can do a heck of a lot, and the price is definitely right. I have used it extensively for initial fleshing out of designs or ideas, protocol nerding, automation interaction testing, etc. There certainly other tools out there, but being able to visually draw a topology out, connect the dots,

Re: Viability of GNS3 network simulation for testing features/configurations.

2019-10-16 Thread Mike Bolitho
Totally agree with Tom here. It's going to work really well for most things. But if you're testing code for bugs you NEED to do it on the same hardware you have in your environment in an actual lab. - Mike Bolitho On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 9:56 AM Tom Beecher wrote: > GNS3 can do a heck of a

Re: Viability of GNS3 network simulation for testing features/configurations.

2019-10-16 Thread Jason Kuehl
I did this at my current company with also using VM Palo Alto. Greeting of testing out a plan to make sure its insane. The key it keeping its all up todate down to the firmware version (I know its not possible for some because virtual) The things this wont find are hardware related faults or

Re: Viability of GNS3 network simulation for testing features/configurations.

2019-10-16 Thread Yan Filyurin
This also depends on your scale. If you have lots of routers, you would end up with lots of compute to run the VM instances. If you get the compute (which is cheap comparing to actual network hardware), you would need a "cloud orchestration” tool and a a system to connections from host to

Re: Viability of GNS3 network simulation for testing features/configurations.

2019-10-16 Thread Hugo Slabbert
The alternative or complementary approach is something like batfish[1], for validation vs. emulation. -- Hugo Slabbert | email, xmpp/jabber: h...@slabnet.com pgp key: B178313E | also on Signal [1] https://www.batfish.org/ On Wed 2019-Oct-16 12:19:31 -0400, Yan Filyurin wrote: This