Re: AW: Recommended 1Gb SFP for ~115km?

2010-08-10 Thread Will Hargrave
On 4 Aug 2010, at 17:58, Thomas Weible wrote: Cisco did a quite good job on implementing the DDM characteristics of the optics. So why not to take a 32dB or even 41dB power budget SFP and make it workable in the switch / router. Works like charm in some setups and you see straight the

Re: 12 years ago today...

2010-10-18 Thread Will Hargrave
On 16/10/10 10:02, Warren Bailey wrote: While we are on the subject of the godfathers of the Internet, when is a documentary coming out that tells the story? There was a really long documentary done on the BBS, surely someone (myself included) would find it interesting. I can recommend Where

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Will Hargrave
On 20/10/10 17:47, Brielle Bruns wrote: Not to stir an already boiling over pot and all, but is there any kind of report or documentation on releasing of space from countries other then the North American region? Really it's mainly US govt agencies, defence contractors, etc from the dawn of

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-07 Thread Will Hargrave
for a concise description. :-) -- Will Hargrave Technical Director LONAP Ltd

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-07 Thread Will Hargrave
On 7 Nov 2010, at 08:24, George Bonser wrote: It will happen on its own as more and more networks configure internally for larger frames and as more people migrate out of academia where 9000 is the norm these days into industry. I used to run a large academic network; there was a vanishingly

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Will Hargrave
On 29 Nov 2012, at 20:53, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: The assertion being made here, that it's somehow illegal (or immoral, or scary) for there to be not-completely-traceable internet access in the US, is absurd. The real issue here is *not* the legality of the act of

Re: Trouble with the rtsp vlc feed?

2009-10-19 Thread Will Hargrave
Joe Maimon wrote: Anyone else having trouble with that? Not had any luck on either the unicast or multicast RTSP feeds. Flash works fine, though.

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-15 Thread Will Hargrave
On 13 Sep 2012, at 17:32, Tim Franklin t...@pelican.org wrote: You'll need a beefy NAT box. Linux with Xeon CPU and 4GB RAM minimum. Or not. The CCC presentation is showing *real* Internet for everyone, unless I'm very much mistaken… Absolutely. NAT is too fragile/expensive/non-performant

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Will Hargrave
HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote: as for peering agreements, just implement an open peering policy (doesn't nessesarily have to take place over an ix, also applies to pieces of ethernet running from your network to others). those basically are contracts that force

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Will Hargrave
Paul Stewart wrote: We have multiple transit providers today and are already present on a couple of smaller peering exchanges with an open peering policy... our experience with them has been very positive. As an IX operator I'm glad to hear it :-) The redundancy perspective is that you now

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-03 Thread Will Hargrave
David Schwartz wrote: The ratio argument is nonsense. If your customers want to receive mostly, and receiving is expensive, they should pay you more to cover your higher costs in receiving traffic. If my customers mostly want to send, and sending is cheap, then I should pay less, since I want

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-19 Thread Will Hargrave
On 19 Sep 2013, at 12:32, Niels Bakker niels=na...@bakker.net wrote: I know you're a busy man so the tl;dr is that by encouraging local peering more networks will start to peer, and by partnering with one or more local carriers those new networks as well as established players in those

Re: Small IX IP Blocks

2015-04-05 Thread Will Hargrave
On 5 Apr 2015, at 04:29, Paul Stewart p...@paulstewart.org wrote: I worked for a provider until recently that happened to get an IP assignment at an IXP that was transitioning from /25 to /24. It was painful chasing down peers to get them to change their netmask just so we could connect.

Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

2016-06-17 Thread Will Hargrave
On 17 Jun 2016, at 1:15, Daniel Golding wrote: You said that LONAP's distributed strategy "kept datacenters honest" to use your exact quote. That implied some sort of benefit for members in acting as some sort of counterweight to (rapacious?) data center providers. I rely primarily on

Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

2016-06-16 Thread Will Hargrave
On 15 Jun 2016, at 19:23, Sander Steffann wrote: So here we are now... Where do we want to go? I think IXPs have indeed become too much like ISPs, providing more services but also increasing complexity and cost. I prefer simple, scalable and cheap solutions! I want to go to an IXP being a

Re: [Nanog-futures] Stenographers for Future NANOGs?

2010-10-06 Thread Will Hargrave
On 06/10/10 15:42, Randy Whitney wrote: As I am reading through Matt's notes since I cannot attend NANOG in person this time, I'm pondering whether it may make sense in the future for NewNOG to set aside budget to employ stenographers to cover at least the plenary of the conference. Matt has