WTR: 1-2RU @ Equinix Ashburn

Hi, I’m wondering if anyone is looking to subsidize their Equinix Ashburn colo costs by way of carving out 1-2 RU to a friendly for a low density networking application. If so, I’d love to hear from you! Thanks in advance!

Calling Crown Castle Fibre sales

Can someone from Crown Castle Fibre sales ping me? I haven’t heard back after submitting on your contact form. Thanks.

Re: Calling Crown Castle Fibre sales

Thanks for all the replies. I’m in contact with them now, thanks to the support here. > On Apr 9, 2020, at 11:01 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > > Can someone from Crown Castle Fibre sales ping me? I haven’t heard back > after submitting on your contact form. > > Thanks.

Optical routes from MI-OH regionals

Hi, Looking for someone who might have routes (lit or dark) from Detroit, MI to Columbus, OH preferably using a straight’ish shot from Toledo to Columbus. Most routes I’ve seen from the larger providers tend to run Toledo - Lima - Columbus or Toledo - Cleveland - Columbus, so I’m hoping a smal

Re: Free Program to take netflow

I loved using ElastiFlow, but we didn’t quite work out in the end. Here’s my $0.02 - - ElastiFlow setup is easy-ish. - ELK setup is easy-ish. - Scaling ELK is not easy unless you know what you’re doing. If you’ve got enough flows that you need to scale ELK, you’re probably also using multiple

Re: Flexible OTN / fractional 100GbE

> On May 28, 2019, at 6:41 AM, Jérôme Nicolle wrote: > > Hi NaNOG ! > > I'm looking for a muxponder that would take OTU4s on the network side > and provide 10/40/100GbE on the client side, with some kind of > oversubscription, as to provide a "fractional 100GbE" e.g. starting with > 30-60Gbps

BGP person from Bell Canada/AS577

Hello, I’m looking to make contact with someone at Bell Canada/AS577 who is able to perform BGP prefix filtering facing their on-prem Akamai caches. Normal sales rep and NOC channels are not producing any meaningful results so far. Thanks in advance!

Real-world MPLS P/LSR experience on BCM T3 (X5/X7) vs T2+

Hey all, In the role of an MPLS P/LSR, I’m curious if there have been any gotchas (or fixes) revealed with BCM T3 vs. T2+. I remember reading somewhere some years ago that there were oddities on the T2+ that I’d like to believe have been addressed on T3, but does anyone have any real-world exp

Re: sfps from fs dot com

We have maybe 1:50 DOA, but they’re so cheap, we just throw them out because it’s not worth the RMA. That said, I can’t remember the last time we’ve had any of these fail in the field, or have had any issues with variablity in TX/RX power. We have tens of thousands of these in the field, from

Re: sfps from fs dot com

> On Sep 20, 2019, at 8:54 AM, Bryan Holloway wrote: > > In my travels we see a high failure rate -- higher than I'd like to see --, > but $boss likes the price, and, as Jason pointed out below, for the price, it > can be a "successful" business model. > For someone who doesn't want to deal

Re: SFP oraganizers / storage recommendations

I’m wondering if the barcodes on the SFPs would let you simplify things a bit more vs. updating a spreadsheet. IE: Some sort of barcode scanner app for your phone that could automagically add/remove from some sort of document or database? > On Oct 30, 2019, at 9:53 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: >

Re: SFP oraganizers / storage recommendations

om is the serial, so you'd need to receive them in or enter > them with PN and SN. > > > > Ns > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jason Lixfeld > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2

Perspectives about customer M/A/C in triple play environments

Hello, I think it’s fair to say that most broadband/FTTx customers don’t have to think very much or need to have a very high degree of understanding if they want to move their wired Internet device from one room or another in their house. Maybe to keep things simple, let’s assume that we’re t

Re: Network traffic simulator

I’m in the process of building a box using MoonGen [1] and a supported Intel 82599 6 port SFP+ NIC [2] that is coming in at just under US$3800 all-in. Supposed to be able to drive at least the entire card at line rate for that price and have enough CPU and memory slots free to fill the box up w

Recommendations for used satellite decoder resellers

Hello, I’m wondering if anyone can refer me to a company they’ve used in the past who may have (access to) used satellite decoder equipment. I’m in the market for some used Sencore kit. Thanks in advance!

Any ISPs using AS852 for IP Transit?

If there are any ISPs who use TELUS/AS852 for IP Transit over BGP, I’d be interested in hearing from you. I’d like to compare notes to see if you are also paying $250 for each BGP prefix filter updated request, or if we’re the only ones… Thanks in advance!

Re: Any ISPs using AS852 for IP Transit?

> support filtering by IRRdb and are merely trying to encourage the practice? > > > /Steve > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > If there are any ISPs who use TELUS/AS852 for IP Transit over BGP, I’d be > interested in hearing from you. > > I’d

Re: Any ISPs using AS852 for IP Transit?

So, to be blunt, I would cast this as their charging you NRC for manual work > because of their failure to automate this. > > -- > Hugo Slabbert | email, xmpp/jabber: h...@slabnet.com > pgp key: B178313E | also on Signal > > On Thu 2016-Sep-15 15:09:33 -0400, Jason

Customers announcing communities to SP of SP

Hi, Consider the following scenario: - Customer A is a customer of SP A - SP A is a customer of SP B - SP B has a traffic engineering community implementation With regards to using BGP communities for TE: - Does SP A write their own community implementation that maps to (some portion of) the

Re: MPLS in the campus Network?

Hi, > On Oct 20, 2016, at 9:43 AM, steven brock wrote: > > Compared to MPLS, a L2 solution with 100 Gb/s interfaces between > core switches and a 10G connection for each buildings looks so much > cheaper. But we worry about future trouble using Trill, SPB, or other > technologies, not only the "

Re: MPLS in the campus Network?

> On Oct 20, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > On 20/Oct/16 17:12, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > >> >> It’s only more expensive the more big vendor products you use. Sometimes >> you need to (i.e.: Boxes with big RIB/FIBs for DFZ, or deep buffers

Re: What NMS do you use and why?

(resending with really, really the correct from:) Here’s a snapshot of what tends to work for me, along with my $0.02 of thoughts: - Observium handles polling, graphing and alerting for SNMP exposed objects on network devices, - I feel that a visual representation of the physical network topolog

Re: Towards an RPKI-rich Internet (and the appropriate allocation of responsibility in the event an RIR RPKI CA outage)

> On Oct 1, 2018, at 4:36 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > On 1/Oct/18 10:26, John Curran wrote: > >> Indeed… Hence the question of liability during a RIR CA outage, should the >> liability for misconfigured ISPs (those handful of ISPs who do not properly >> fall back to using state NotFound routes

Re: Not announcing (to the greater internet) loopbacks/PTP/infra - how ?

> On Oct 4, 2018, at 3:07 PM, Brandon Applegate wrote: > > Thanks in advance for insights on this. If you’re MPLS enabled, one implementation could see place the loop/infra/p2p in the global table and customer/internet traffic inside a VRF.

NAT on a Trident/Qumran(/or other?) equipped whitebox?

Has anyone played around with this? Curious if the BCM (or whatever other chip) can do this, and if not, if any of the box vendors have tried to find a way to get these things to do a bunch of NAT - say some flavour of NAT, line-rate @ 10G. If so, anyone know of a NOS that has support for it?

Re: NAT on a Trident/Qumran(/or other?) equipped whitebox?

> it was a specific selling point that they were pushing ... > > Edward Dore > Freethought Internet > > On 09/10/2018, 16:38, "NANOG on behalf of Jason Lixfeld" > wrote: > >Has anyone played around with this? Curious if the BCM (or whatever other &

Peering management software

Hello all, I’m researching various peering management software options, commercial or otherwise, geared towards network operators. Wondering if folks might be able to help add to my list - https://github.com/loopodoopo/pms https://www.6connect.com/peering-manager/ https://github.com/respawner/

350 E Cermak

Hey all, Looking for some clue on how things work, and who’s who for colo at 350 E Cermak. Looking at possibly putting a rack in somewhere there for a Peering/Transit/PNI POP. Is there a list somewhere of colo facilities in that building? Also, how does it work there in terms if inter-colo,

Re: A few GPON questions...

> On Dec 11, 2018, at 11:32 AM, Ben Cannon wrote: > > Rip it out and run 9/125 SMF fiber home runs. Use BiDi SFPs to re-use your > existing (likely SMF thankfully) cable plant. My opinion. There’s only so much space in conduits, risers and ducts. At some point, scale would press this up a

Re: Non-profit IX vs. neutral for-profit IX

New rates for 2019 just posted yesterday! Get yer ports while they’re hot! > On Dec 21, 2018, at 9:14 AM, Clayton Zekelman wrote: > > > TorIX is a great example of a not for profit IX that is very successful. > > https://www.torix.ca/ > > A very dedicated team of peo

Waves between Buffalo and Manhattan

Hello, Does anyone have knowledge of carriers who are able to deliver 10G or 100G waves between Buffalo and Manhattan that *do not* touch Albany? I know Zayo is one. I’m waiting to hear back from CenturyLink. I’ve reviewed networkatlas.org , to see if anything pops u

Re: Waves between Buffalo and Manhattan

e are other small players > in this region. > > Mehmet > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 9:49 AM Jason Lixfeld <mailto:jason%2bna...@lixfeld.ca>> wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have knowledge of carriers who are able to deliver 10G or 100G > waves between Buffalo

Re: Amazon Peering

We circled back with them yesterday on a request we made in late November where at the time they said they wouldn’t be turned up until 2019 due to holiday network change freeze. They responded within about 4 hours, thanked us for our patience and understanding and said we should expect them to

Calling LinkedIn, Amazon and Akamai @ DE-CIX NY

Hi, In late October 2018, DE-CIX announced that they would be renumbering their IPv4 address block in New York between 01-28-19 and 01-30-19. This was followed by numerous reminders in months, weeks and even days leading up to the renumbering activity. The renumbering activity has come and gon

Re: BGP topological vs centralized route reflector

Hi Adam, > On Feb 19, 2019, at 10:28 AM, > wrote: > > -Type-1 RDs will help you simulate full-mesh. By “Type-1 RD”, are you referring to a unique RD per PE?

Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

I could be making this up, but my understanding is that the Broadcom SDK is not free, and without the SDK, hardware interaction is limited. At one time ONL was a free ONIE NOS but sans SDK. https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux

Allstream/Zayo in the house?

Having an issue where you’re caching announcements for my AS via a peering session that was turned down hours ago causing * * *, and my Saturday to suck :) Emails out to NOC/Peering contacts on peeringdb haven’t had a response yet. Hoping someone here can poke and/or prod. Thanks in advance.

Re: Allstream/Zayo in the house?

Thanks for all the private responses. Contact made, and the issue has been resolved. Thank you all. > On Oct 21, 2017, at 10:00 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > > Having an issue where you’re caching announcements for my AS via a peering > session that was turned down hours ago causin

What's the point of prepend communities?

Hi, Of all the ISPs that I am familiar with that have a BGP community structure usable by their peering partners and/or downstream customers, among other things, they allow the customer to signal the ISP to prepend their own AS to the as-path of a particular prefix announcement. What functiona

Re: What's the point of prepend communities?

Hi Bill, > On Oct 26, 2017, at 2:37 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > BGP routing is based on "distance". Distance in BGP is primarily calculated > as the number of ASNs in the AS Path. Prepends make a path more distance, > encouraging routers to choose a different path if one is available. I und

Re: What's the point of prepend communities?

> On Oct 26, 2017, at 2:55 PM, Job Snijders wrote: > > If Network B offers some kind of “Prepend to Network C” BGP community, > network A will be able to utilize all of network B except the pieces that > perform less well. (This is ofcourse assuming that Network C picks some > alternative pat

Any Telus (AS852) BGP customers in the house?

Hello! As a fellow AS852 BGP customer, I’m looking to chat with other AS852 BGP customers on the topic of modifications to the prefix filters attached to your BGP session(s). Specifically, understanding the procedure Telus wants you to follow to request any changes, how long it takes the reque

How are you configuring BFD timers?

Hey, For those running BFD on your land-based point-to-point links, I’m interested in hearing about what factors you consider when deciding how to configure your timers and multiplier. On paper, BFD between two devices over a local or metro dark fibre or wave seems pretty trivial: Assuming yo

Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?

A few years ago I did some testing and found that the time between the transceiver detecting LOS and the routing protocol (ISIS in this case) being informed that the link was down (triggering the recalculation) took longer than it took BFD to signal ISIS to recalculate. > On Mar 21, 2018, at 12

Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?

the preferred link, counting how many packets were lost and doing some math, correlating with various logs debugs on the boxes. > On Mar 21, 2018, at 1:34 PM, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr > wrote: > > Which platform ? What context ? > > Best regards. > > > >&g

Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?

you’re using, or the quality/reliability of the underlying circuit you’re trying to protect? Something else? Also, interesting to read about why some folks don’t care much about BFD at all. > On Mar 21, 2018, at 9:10 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > > Hey, > > For those running B

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

On 2010-10-20, at 11:24 AM, Eric Merkel wrote: > Any suggestions, success or horror stories are appreciated. ;) I've been going through pretty much the same exercise looking for a decent PE for almost two years. Our requirements were for a PE device that had between 12-24 ports (in a perfect w

Re: Good MPLS/VPLS book?

While on a MPLS related TAC case recently, I was speaking to an engineer who helped vet portions of Cisco Press' MPLS Fundamentals (http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587051974). He said it's one of the best he's come across, but there may perhaps be some bias there ;) Not

Cogeco in the house?

If someone from Cogeco could ping me, I'd like to have a chat about something odd and intermittent: It works: BlackBox:~ jlixfeld$ mtr -c 1 -rw 162.243.142.155 Start: Fri Feb 7 18:46:06 2014 HOST: BlackBox.localLoss% Drop Rcv Snt Last Best Avg 1.|-- 192

Who uses ARIN's IRR?

I don't need to use it much, but when I do, it's an ever-increasing royal pain in the ass. My current plight revolves around not being able to get full dumps of objects. Certain mandatory fields in objects are 'filtered' and/or replaced with dummy data. This poses a problem because one can no

Re: Who uses ARIN's IRR?

On Mar 7, 2014, at 12:01 PM, Koch, Andrew wrote: > You will notice right at the top of the output there is a hint on getting an > unfiltered object. Try using the -B flag on your query to get around this. Indeed, however that doesn't help with the dummy objects that also make it impossible t

Anyone from AS577 and AS852 in the house?

Bell and Telus, if you're listening - I need to inquire about BGP community support on your respective networks that cannot be addressed by info published in RADB, by our assigned AM, SE, your NOC or any support documentation on your respective websites on the subject. Please hit me up off-list

Re: Best practice for BGP session/ full routes for customer

1. You already know that multihop is very ugly. If it's for a one-off, it's probably fine. But building a product around multi-hop wouldn't be my first choice. 2. Most of the router/switch vendors that can support a full table are pretty expensive, per port. Your best bet here might be to

Community troubleshooting étiquette/BCP (was: L3 Issues)

On 2011-08-01, at 1:48 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: > Things seem to be moving again. I happen to have an L3 link out of NYC, but unfortunately I don't have a list of on-net L3 prefixes in any of the reportedly affected regions, so I'm unable to provide any data from my vantage point up here. I'm sure

Re: Verizon Issues? East Coast US

On 2011-08-03, at 3:50 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 8/3/2011 3:31 PM, James Smallacombe wrote: >> >> >> However, I AM seeing problems right now as described below...anybody >> aware of any Verizon issues? > > I was told by TATA one of their core routers in NY is not reachable. So > perhaps some

FTTH CPE landscape

This isn't necessarily operational content, so I apologize in advance for the noise and thus encourage off-list replies (and/or flames). I figure the NANOG demographic might be able to point me in the right direction seeing as how far reaching into the industry the readership is. I'm doing rese

Re: FTTH CPE landscape

Nope, Ethernet. -- Sent from my mobile device. On 2011-08-04, at 6:10 PM, "Frank Bulk" wrote: > Are you looking for an xPON ONT? > > Frank > > -Original Message----- > From: Jason Lixfeld [mailto:ja...@lixfeld.ca] > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 201

Re: events

On 2011-09-30, at 2:13 PM, Brandon Kim wrote: > I've been happy with my basic ManageEngine's syslog, but I may be looking at > Solarwinds too... I've just installed the Splunk eval myself, but I'm curious about your ManageEngine experiences. I don't have any interest in using ManageEngine as

Re: Recommendation for customer monitoring network tool/portal for a large ISP

We've just deployed Intermapper to do all of our device polling, link status and topology mapping. Works very well and looks real pretty. For graphing, we use cacti with the Discovery and Autom8 plugins. For SNMP trap parsing, we use SNMPTT. We're currently evaluating Splunk to eat the SNMP tr

Validation of FCS

Hi all, I'm trying to confirm (or debunk) my current understanding of FCS errors. An FCS error is a layer 2 error. In Ethernet spake, the 4 bytes of FCS data within each Ethernet frame is validated by a CRC check, which is done by the device receiving said frame. If the CRC check fails, an

Re: Validation of FCS

On 2012-12-19, at 10:02 AM, Saku Ytti wrote: > On (2012-12-19 09:53 -0500), Jason Lixfeld wrote: > >> Perhaps in simpler terms, a CRC error is a localized thing and would >> never be forwarded from one device to another. > > It would be forwarded in cut-through switc

Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

I got notification of their maintenance window, albeit with < 24 hours notice. Notice came in at 11:00GMT-5 yesterday, maintenance was scheduled for 00:00GMT-5 this morning. That said, the notice said that the maintenance was in Phoenix but I got a notice about my IPT circuit at 60 Hudson whic

AT&T AM Director for New York

To any AT&T sales folks listening, my account manager has not been very good at following up on multiple requests to quote increases in my IP transit commits. If any account manager directors or other tiers who these AMs might report to could contact me, I'd love to give you their name so you c

Re: Intermapper vs NetBrain vs some other for NMS

I'd also be very interested in what's out there. I have similar grievances with InterMapper, but at this point, it sucks far less than anything else I've tried. I just poked around NetBrain's site and am immediately deterred by it's reliance on a Windows backend, so that's out for me. I did u

Re: Network mapping software

On 2013-03-12, at 3:16 PM, Garrett Skjelstad wrote: > I have seen NetBrain mentioned a few times here on this mailing list. Does > anyone have any experience with it, and could they tell me some of the pros > & cons that they had of their installations? > > Any limitations or pain points? Feel

NYC sales contacts for AS209 and AS2914

The contacts I have seem to all bounce. If anyone from NTT or CenturyLink is lurking who can quote on wholesale IPT out of 60 Hudson, please ping me. Thanks.

Re: BCP38 tester?

On 2013-03-31, at 10:48 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Is there a program which users can run on an end-site workstation which > would test whether they are being some link which is doing BCP38, or some > related type of source-address ingress filtering? > > I'm hoping for something that could be do

Re: BCP38 tester?

poof a packet > to save their lives. Maybe it's useful for the people who have no idea that their computers are infected by bots that spoof packets. > On Mar 31, 2013 6:37 PM, "Jason Lixfeld" wrote: > > On 2013-03-31, at 10:48 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > >

AS1239 & AS701 IP Transit sales folks

If there are any IP Transit sales folks[1] listening form Sprint or Verizon, please drop me a line off-list. Thanks. [1] No resellers, please.

Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?

On 2011-12-12, at 4:22 PM, Simon Lockhart wrote: > I guess most (i.e. those > which aren't Akamai) are more concerned with making money than with delivering > a good service to the end user. Really? I always thought that higher profits and buying transit were mutually exclusive relative to hi

Re: Network Traffic Collection

Splunk is an amazing tool and did an awesome thing and introduced a free license in 4.3. I'm using it at two sites now and I'm loving it! On 2012-02-23, at 3:34 PM, Mike Lyon wrote: > Random thought, anyone ever used Splunk for this kind of thing? > > -mike > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb

AS209/CenturyLink NOC email?

Anyone from AS209/CentryLink around to troubleshoot some routing weirdness? If not, anyone have a NOC email address for them? Google-fu and RADB searches came up empty. Thanks in advance.

Rate shaping in Active E FTTx networks

Hi all, I'm trying to gauge what operators are doing to handle per-subscriber Internet access PIR bandwidth in Active E FTTx networks. I presume operators would want to limit the each subscriber to a certain PIR, but within that limit, do things like perform preferential treatment of interac

Procera Networks contact

If anyone has a contact at Procera Networks who can answer some technical questions about their product, could you please pass it along? The suggested methods at www. have so far gone unanswered. Thanks in advance.

AM dust filters

Hi, I'm interested in knowing what sorts of material folks use to make after-market dust filters for their various devices which wouldn't normally have any. This seems to almost be a necessity when these kinds of devices are deployed in environments that are overly dusty and dirty (it should a

Re: AM dust filters

eally way too > fast. :) Unfortunately a cabinet isn't possible due to a variety of issues. > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in knowing what sorts of material folks use to make > after-market dust filters for

Re: AM dust filters

On Aug 12, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 08/12/2014 11:19 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm interested in knowing what sorts of material folks use to make >> after-market dust filters for their various devices which wouldn't normally

Multi-port RFC2544/EtherSAM loopback appliance

Group, I'm looking for options and opinions on a cost effective, multi-port (6'ish port SFP/SFP+) RFC2544/EtherSAM rack appliance that can act as the remote/loopback for our field installers' portable RFC2544/EtherSAM enabled Exfo test sets. I came across XenaNetworks XenaCompact which looks l

Re: 10Gb iPerf kit?

I gotta wonder. How reliable is iPerf over something like RFC2544 or Y.1564? Especially at those speeds? I just picked up a couple of Accedian’s RFC2544/Y.1564 boxes to use as loopbacks to our field Exfos. We’ll probably wind up buying a few more Accedian boxes for the field where we don’t n

Private ASNs in the wild

I just fat fingered a regex that was intented to show how many private ASNs we’re using on our network for various things. The results of the fat fingers showed that there are an astronomical number of private ASNs in the wild. I checked the CIDR report, and those ASNs are shown there in a spe

Is there a case for storm control and/or unknown traffic flood control in 'protected' bridge-domain?

Greetings, Conceptually, a layer 2 port that is configured for either port protect mode (a’la Cisco 2950 vintage), UNI port-type (a’la Cisco ME3400 vintage) or EVC + split-horizon (a’la ME3600 vintage) should negate any requirement for features such as storm control or unknown traffic flood con

Segment Routing for L2VPN?

Hello! I've been doing some reading recently on Segment Routing. By all accounts, it seems that the (only?) implementation for SR supports L3VPN. Am I dumb and just missing the L2VPN bits, or is L3VPN simply the extent of the first generation? Sent from my iPhone

Re: configuration sanity check

Either of these might come in handy.. https://www.nanog.org/meetings/abstract?id=2673 https://www.nanog.org/meetings/abstract?id=2678 > On Oct 29, 2015, at 4:16 AM, marcel.durega...@yahoo.fr wrote: > > Hi Nanogers, > > Any recommendation about a software which check the live config of > cisco/

BCM SOC based IPTV STBs

Howdy, What are folks using for BCM SOC (7424 gen, or newer) based IPTV STBs?[1] I’m looking for something pretty simple - HDMI, S/PDIF (optical and 1/8” digital coax) and an Ethernet port is all I’m really interested in. No RCA audio, component video or Wifi. Nice and simple. If GreenPeak

Duplex negotiation over 100Base fibre

Hello, My understanding is that for 1G and 10G optical networks, there is no concept of half-duplex mode, but I’m unclear about half duplex in the 100M optical world. Specifically, if I connect two 100Base-LX (or BX) transceivers together, is there a requirement for the controller(s on either

Google served from non-google IPs?

So today, I saw this: BlackBox:~ jlixfeld$ host google.ca 8.8.8.8 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: google.ca has address 206.126.112.166 google.ca has address 206.126.112.177 google.ca has address 206.126.112.172 google.ca has address 206.126.112.187 google.ca has a

802.11 based WISP hardware

Hi all, I’m looking to gather some public opinion, links and pointers around the current landscape of WISP hardware vendors. I’m familiar with Cisco, Ruckus, AdTran, Motorola and Aruba (HP) but I’m wondering who else is out there that folks have used with success. My main areas of interest ar

Ixia or Spirent around?

I tried the contact form on their respective websites a couple of weeks back, but have not heard back. If anyone from there is lurking about or if anyone has a sales contact that covers Toronto and could send me off-list, I'd be grateful. Thank you! Sent from my iPhone

Re: Peering and Network Cost

> On Apr 19, 2015, at 6:09 AM, William Waites wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 11:23:53 +0200, Baldur Norddahl > said: > >> So why is IX peering so expensive? > >> But the only service is running an old layer 2 switch. > >> The 40 dix particants should donate 1000 USD once and get a new >> l

Infinera sales contact?

Might someone have an Infinera sales contact handy for Canada? Information submitted via their web form doesn’t seem to be getting much attention. Thanks!

In-rack DC distribution

Mornin’, I’ve been looking for the holy grail of in-rack A/B DC distribution, unfortunately without much success so far. In a perfect world, I’d have the equivalent of what we know and love about 0U vertical AC distribution rails (i.e.: APC), except with A/B feeds - lots of outlets, takes up n

Mac compatible SFP+/XFP programmer

Does anyone know where I might find a SFP+/XFP programmer with a Mac compatible programmer application? Thanks!

Ciena 6200 clue?

So I've got a bunch of Ciena 6200 kit in, with some of their professional services folks onsite, helping with the initial setup. I know nothing of this kit, other than from what I'm being told, it's pretty bleeding edge, so much so that not even many people at Ciena know how to use it. The SE

Re: Ciena 6200 clue?

otion of how the thing really worked so he didn't really have any answers. On 2013-07-02, at 7:30 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > So I've got a bunch of Ciena 6200 kit in, with some of their professional > services folks onsite, helping with the initial setup. I know nothing of &

Recommendations for dynamic imix traffic generators

Hi folks, I'm trying to put together a test bench to soak some CPE equipment with an imix of eyeball traffic. I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations on open-source platforms that might be able to accomplish this. I'd like to simulate traffic conditions that various tiers of Internet u

Re: Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian Network Sovereignty

That notwithstanding, it's stupid to send traffic to/from one of the large $your_region/country incumbents via $not_your_region/country. It's just not good Internet. You make enough money already. Be a good netizen. It pays more in the long run and that's all you're really after for your sha

Re: bgp traceroute tool?

It would be slick if someone could patch mtr to do this too. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 30, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Rene Wilhelm wrote: > > >> On 11/30/13 1:18 AM, Lee Clark wrote: >> The traceroute variant included with CentOS 6.4 & Mint 13 has an -A > > flag which does ASN lookups. ntraceroute

Re: BRAS

What's so interesting about a guy asking for info on a Broadband Remote Access Server for DSL aggregation? On Dec 11, 2013, at 1:11 AM, Nick Cameo wrote: > Sir whatever that is an acronym for, you have my undivided. > > This is going to make for an interesting thread in about 6 hours. >

Example RFI for colo provider selection

I'm researching a list of some colocation providers I have here to find the most suitable one to provide services for a project I'm working on. My thought is to send out an informal RFI, which I believe is something others may have done too. If anyone is able to share, I'd be interested in hav

Re: Looking for Fiber Plant Management software

I've got a client who uses AutoCAD. They use it exclusively and have a pretty big fibre network for someone who's not an ILEC, so I guess it works fairly well. On 2010-08-27, at 11:39 AM, Jeff Saxe wrote: > Good morning, NANOGers. My colleague at work wonders if anyone has > suggestions for s

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