If I wanted someone to do this, I'd probably look at a security vendor
instead of a general purpose consulting firm.
Some examples off the top of my head might include IBM's ISS and
SecureWorks.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Ken Gilmour [mailto:ken.gilm...@gmail.com]
Sent:
I really wouldn't use the word legacy to describe SONET and OC-3's.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Mike [mailto:mike-na...@tiedyenetworks.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 4:11 PM
To: Alan Bryant
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Mikrotik OC-3 Connection
Alan Bryant wrote:
I'm
I'd probably start here:
http://puck.nether.net/netops/nocs.cgi?level
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Popov Max [mailto:popovu...@meta.ua]
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 5:21 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Level3 - have they alive abuse team?
Hello!
I am an owner of the small
I'd recommend ZenOSS.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Jack Bates [mailto:jba...@brightok.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:47 AM
To: jacob miller
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Monitoring Tools
jacob miller wrote:
Phil,
Am looking for availability reports,bandwidth
We are now using NAI for this. Free (really, not just a trial for some
small number of devices), and you can very easily write plug-ins for new
types of systems.
http://inventory.alterpoint.com/
http://docs.inventory.alterpoint.com/doku.php?id=doc:content_guide
-Scott
The last time I looked, my main issue with Zabbix was that it required (or
greatly preferred) their proprietary agent on every host. This may have
changed.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Nathan Eisenberg [mailto:nat...@atlasnetworks.us]
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:53 PM
Agreed. And it REALLY isn't that complicated. Go spend some time with
CORBA or TL-1 and then re-evaluate the learning curve.
SNMP is really very straight forward as a protocol. If a specific vendor's
MIB is difficult to understand or use, that is an entirely different matter.
-Scott
Are you looking only at Open Source tools? If not you are missing all of
the most widely deployed tools out there (including):
HP Open View
Cisco Works
IBM Tivoli/NetCool
Smarts (now EMC Ionix)
Also a few other open tools:
ZenOSS
Zabbix
You will also need to look at separate security
If you want something scalable and commercial (read: with support) check out
these guys, I have been using it for a while and it has tons of features and
very flexible reporting (including exports to PDF, CSV, etc):
http://www.netflowauditor.com/
They have a free version as well with limits.
We order these all of the time ( as a CLEC) for EoC connections or DSL on our
equipment. The correct terminology is usually 2-wire or 4-wire copper loops.
There will be specific NC/NCI codes depending on the iLEC region you are in and
LEC you are working with.
Within these loops, you will
Unless I am missing something, Level3 is just the transit provider. Level 3
(via one of their acquisition a few years back) does have a very popular CDN
product, but even if they are the source from an IP perspective, they still
do not own the content, that is still primarily the networks and
Don't know the FlashWave gear well, but in the Cisco ONS/Cerent world GigE
ports can be configured in different modes, some of which do in fact learn
MAC addresses. Others emulate a single layer-2 link and as the vendor
stated, would not look at the MAC address at all.
-Scott
Juniper M20.
-Original Message-
From: Justin Wilson [mailto:li...@mtin.net]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:00 AM
To: Chris; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: How are you aggregating WAN customers these days?
Cisco ASR 1000. For T3 you can get a 4 port card. Seems to perform
well.
Is anyone on the list that knows about the Coffer MAC address vendor
database (http://www.coffer.com/mac_find/)?
I have used this resource for years and I am now getting a permission error
(403 Forbidden) when I try to go to any page on that site.
Otherwise, anyone have recommendations for
We have one site using this type of OpeGear setup, but we use an LTE MiFi
with wireless to the OpenGear's WAN, but also use a USB port on the open
gear to keep the MiFi powered.
-Original Message-
From: Asaf Rapoport [mailto:arapop...@telepacific.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Not sure if there is a legal precedent for this, but logically the
difference is that there are no robots that I know of that can automatically
receive and parse postal mail, then re-address and forward it. For a human
to forward a letter takes a conscious manual action, even if they choose not
Might also want to take a look at stuff from Cablesys:
http://www.cablesys.com/p/2277/fiber-patch-panel-lc-quad-ceramic
http://www.cablesys.com/p/2300/enclosure-1-rms-slide-3-panel
Only requirement from below missing is they don't usually have doors. I'm
not sure much in a 1U panel does these
Hey careful, Pigeons have won this fight before:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8248056.stm
-Original Message-
From: George Herbert [mailto:george.herb...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 10:37 PM
To: Jeff Kell
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: RFC 1149
Packets, shmackets. I'm just upset that
Try SmokePing (which includes SmokeTrace now):
http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
You could also just use a cronjob and output the results to a flat file or
database if you prefer something home grown.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Dylan Ebner [mailto:dylan.eb...@crlmed.com]
All,
If there is anyone good with Ciena Online Metro systems that would be
willing to do some contract work around Atlanta, please contact me off list.
Thanks!
-Scott
There are lots of great little cable testers that can loop an Ethernet
link or even blink the switchport (this one is copper only):
http://www.jdsu.com/products/communications-test-measurement/products/a-z-pr
oduct-list/lanscaper.html
The remote-triggered is harder, but there are a number of
We have 2 12k's on our borders and both are running IOS GS code, but are
rock solid.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Jim Wininger [mailto:jwinin...@indianafiber.net]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 4:20 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Cisco 12000 series routers and IOS XR.
Is
We're almost there, expect a list posting here in the next couple of days
with the details.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Carlos Alcantar [mailto:car...@race.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:57 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: OT: Voice Operators' Group forming
How's
If I had to guess..
Postfix
Sendmail
Exim
ComminigatePro
Beyond those you'd probably see a lot of the free webmail carriers (Gmail,
yahoo, and hotmail/live all use custom MTA's) as well as IPSwitch's iMail
and the Windows Server/IIS SMTP service.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From:
Take a look at http://www.voiceops.org/
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Richey [mailto:myli...@battleop.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 8:28 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: OT: CLEC Mailing List
I am looking for a CLEC related mailing list. I looked through the archives
Many people consider these (carrier email to SMS gateways) too unreliable as
there are no SLAs from the carriers, and sometimes experience long delays in
message delivery, or just flat out dropped messages. If this is what you
are depending on for outage notification that's a big risk.
Some
Another for this list is http://msgme.com/.
Setting up your own short codes is an expensive and long process, so you are
usually best starting off with a shared code from one of these companies and
you can migrate down the line if the revenue/volume is there to make it
worthwhile.
-Scott
options.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: wher...@gmail.com [mailto:wher...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of William
Herrin
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:29 PM
To: Scott Berkman
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: SMS
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Scott Berkman sc...@sberkman.net wrote
NetFlow Auditor. The free stuff tends to choke as you add a lot of flow
traffic. It's not free, but if you want support this is a great option.
http://netflowauditor.com/
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Michael J McCafferty [mailto:m...@m5computersecurity.com]
Sent: Monday,
Haven't had my hands on the 4610W yet, but I've been using (and have been a
big fan of) Edgemarcs for some time. It does what it says and well, I love
the support guys, and their price point is much better than most of the
competitors.
Some of my favorite features do come from the fact that they
I also suggest reading the Wikipedia page on Cogent.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Jay Moran [mailto:jay+na...@tp.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:12 AM
To: a...@baklawasecrets.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Transit from Cogent - thoughts?
Adel,
Perhaps the
I actually have seen where you have to hard set to speed 1000 to get this
type of link up, even Cisco to Cisco.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Michael K. Smith - Adhost [mailto:mksm...@adhost.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:25 AM
To: Michael Ruiz; nanog@nanog.org
Also reminds me of the Level 3 DNS servers in the 4.2.2.[1-8++] range.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Jonathan Lassoff [mailto:j...@thejof.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 1:51 PM
To: nanog
Subject: Re: news from Google
Excerpts from Charles Wyble's message of Thu Dec 03
I've been working with them (it's really the Hatteras Networks products)
since before the acquisition. I don't have much to compare to in terms of
experience with the competing products, but I can tell you we've been very
happy with the equipment, and I've heard lots of horror stories from Zhone
Two I know and have used are Alertra and SiteRecon.
-Original Message-
From: Express Web Systems [mailto:mailingli...@expresswebsystems.com]
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 10:19 PM
To: 'Derrick H.'; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: recommendations for external montioring services?
You
The MIT article is good read, thanks for sharing that.
One thing to watch out for is if the last mile provider is the one hosting
the speedtest site, that's another variable removed from the equation. In
some cases that is a good thing, in others it's not, depending on what you
are trying to
For the regular Brother labels, my trick is to fold down the corner a
little, that usually makes it easier to peel. You can also cut the
whitespace off the end and that sometimes helps.
Sorry if this was a double post, but I don't think I saw either of these
suggestions in the thread already.
There are also these, work with anything with a USB port:
http://www.blackbox.com/Store/Detail.aspx/USB-Laptop-Console-Crash-Cart-Adap
ter/KVT100A
You could mate this with a cheap used Netbook too.
-Original Message-
From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jle...@lewis.org]
Sent: Monday, February 20,
Someone else to check is USCarrier (http://www.uscarrier.com/), they are a
smaller regional fiber transit provider I've had great experiences with in
the past. They only have a few POPs in Alabama though.
Good luck,
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: -Hammer-
I use Launchy (a keystroke launcher similar to GnomeDo, Quicksilver, etc)
and it's Runner plugin with some bat scripts that reference the builtin
whois DOS/CLI command to create my own.
So for example, to look up an IP at ARIN I just hit my hotkey (Atl-Space)
and type arin tab IP enter. My bat
+1 here. Some would say if you are of a certain size, you almost NEED to
have a Cogent connection amongst others for when they have their spats.
If you are missing the history here, check out this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogent_Communications#Peering
-Scott
-Original
Add Seagate's Evault to your list:
http://www.evault.com/
Has the support for BMR, Windows (including agents for Exchange and MSSQL),
Linux, encryption, vault replication, VADP, etc.
They also have a partner program for service providers (my employer happens
to be one).
I've personally used
I wanted to add that I've had some recent experience with Asigra (and
specifically pitting it against Evault), and they are currently a little
behind in VADP and other VMWare related feature sets, and their Linux
distribution support is very limited (basically no support for anything but
RedHat).
I really doubt Sprint's purpose here is to hurt the Internet or to harm
Cogent either in terms of costs or reputation.
Here are my views on the topic:
Every time Cogent gets de-peered (at least 5 times now since
2003), this discussion comes up again and it seems that some people forget
I'd recommend ZenOSS (http://www.zenoss.com) based on your low cost
requirement and my own experiences.
What Linux distro you use and rather you need to pay for support depends
on your level of *nix experience and comfort. Most Linux based software
packages like ZenOSS or Groundwork will also
, drop, and roll?
-Original Message-
From: Aaron Imbrock [mailto:aimbr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 1:12 AM
To: NANOG@nanog.org
Subject:
Stop
Packets can have a max size as well based on the path MTU, such as 1500
bytes in an Ethernet (10/100) link. I think there are a lot of other
variables here such as are you billed per data unit, bandwidth and control
factors on the links, and what type of data is being sent.
If your data can
Check out Packeteer. I used to work somewhere about that size and this
was the product we used:
http://www.bluecoat.com/products/packetshaper/
Open source you can do a custom setup with IPTables and iproute2, but it
will take some work to get the same kind of features and management
interface.
Having the 2 sessions take different paths is fine as long as they both
always work as well as each other. If one has more latency or jitter than
the other you are likely to run into noticeable echo or other quality
issues. What's more important, however, is that each RTP session
traverses only
Is it just me or is the test page below down now?
Or maybe some poisoned the NS record for dns-oarc.net and sent it to
nowhere to stop testing! (J/K since I can get to the rest of the page
fine).
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Ken A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday,
We've also been seeing some weird (hard to track down) issues all day
with Level 3 in both Tampa and Atlanta, especially from our NMS systems
monitoring systems all over the place.
My contact at Level 3 didn't know of anything going on and couldn't really
find anything. Anyone else have a Level
This reminds me of a story I was told a while back that there was a batch
of 3com NIC's that all went out with the same MAC from the factory. I
never found out if that was a rumor/urban legend or the truth. Anyone
know firsthand or have an article about that?
-Scott
-Original
Anycast?
http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog29/abstracts.php?pt=NjcxJm5hbm9nMjk=nm=n
anog29
Might need to know a little more about the layout here for a better answer.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: rodrick brown [mailto:rodrick.br...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009
They'll need to be soon to keep up with others in their space (not that they
generally compete directly thanks to franchise laws), although I'm not sure
how the data side of things is handled for MVNO's, normally they don't have
any network of their own:
I was about to suggest IPPlan, but it is lacking the V6 support. Here is
one I found doing some searching, but I haven't used it myself:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/haci/
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Pavel Dimow [mailto:paveldi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 02,
Might be better off going to Philly, its only about an hour and a half away,
and you'll likely have better connectivity options. Most of the big data
centers in NJ are well within the 50 mile requirement (Bergen County,
Hoboken, Newark, Jersey City).
-Scott
-Original Message-
Cross-country Fibers very often follow existing utility rights of way. So even
in a wide open desert, the places the fibers go are the busy spots.
Sometimes its train tracks, sometimes its gas pipelines, sometimes its
electric, sometimes it’s a road, but very rarely is fiber like that on its
So have other people noticed that the Ookla/Speedtest.net/Speakeasy
Bandwidth test often comes up VERY short on upload bandwidth results for
anything other than residential-grade asymmetrical services?
We often get complaints from customers saying I'm not getting the upload
bandwidth I'm paying
If you like open source routing platforms but want support and (possibly) a
HW appliance (you can also just use their software), you may also want to
take a look at Vyatta (http://www.vyatta.com/). They make a I haven't
personally worked with the gear yet but I've heard some good things.
I just show them this:
http://warriorsofthe.net/
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:larryshel...@cox.net]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:46 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Books for the NOC guys...
On 4/2/2010 08:39, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
On
2 things.
1: http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/issues.php (See the section on
inaccurate results over 20Mbps and that the test is meant for residential
broadband services)
2: Speakeasy is a commerical ISP for both residential and business users.
That means it is in their best interest to
I think the only one under support may be the Cisco AS series (AS5800 only
now?):
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/univgate/ps509/
The other platform I knew besides the TNT was the Nortel CVX but it is EOL
also.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Jerry Bonner
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?
out there, especially in the
financial markets.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Martin Millnert [mailto:milln...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:26 PM
To: Scott Berkman
Cc: Santino Codispoti; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Voice Peering?
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Have you tried looking for a Verizon routing or translations contact in the
LERG? This is the official way.
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Tom Pipes [mailto:tom.pi...@t6mail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:43 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Carrier Contact
I ended
Saku nailed it. Learn the networking basics and underlying concepts
(OSI!), everything else is an application that runs on that, and can
be picked up pretty easily if you understand what it depends on.
Wireshark (or your favorite capture tool) is your friend.
That said, I feel knowing some of
We were seeing issues here as well, we have BGP to Level 3 down until they
stabilize. We were seeing a number of sites as unreachable, but ping tests
from the Level3 IP address on that interface were working. Looks like
perhaps they stopped advertising our addresses or were advertising them
I did finally see a Level 3 network event posted about this in their portal.
Actually they list two separate ones:
A routing issue failure between Dallas, TX and Los Angeles, CA is impacting
IP services. Impacted for: 1 hour 29 minutes
A loss of connectivity to servers in Dallas, TX,
I'd also suggest looking at NetFlow Auditor:
http://www.netflowauditor.com/
I think it will do all of those except AS path analysis.
Another good option might also be the InterNAP FCP, which does all of that
PLUS optimizes routing based on the data (can also be deployed in a preview
mode):
Not sure exactly what you are looking for, but how about:
http://localcallingguide.com/ (Free/open copy of certain LERG tables,
should list all providers in a given RC/LATA/NPA-NXX)
or
http://www.telcodata.us/
Hope that helps,
-Scott
-Original Message-
From: Stefan
Comcast having saturated links to other providers is a common and
frequently discussed issue. Here is one previous NANOG thread on the topic:
http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2010-December/029251.html
And a related article:
Unfortunately these build-outs are primarily in subscriber facing
bandwidth and number of headend locations (to add more customers to the
network). These peering point/transit connection issues have been going
on for a long time, evidenced by Level 3 coming out with this post.
Comcast is
:
There is no gaming on measurements and disputes are isolated and temporary with
issues not unique over the history of the internet. I think all the same
rhetorical quotes continue to be reused
- Kevin
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