Re: [WISPA] Experimental Licenses? Public Service Commissions?

2014-07-25 Thread Jon Auer
So far as public service commission, that will depend on the services that you offer. In some states you may have to collect and remit fees and taxes for non-Internet services (commonly L1-L2 services). You likely don't have to ask permission to start but if you sell the wrong thing you open a big

Re: [WISPA] VoIP reselling.

2014-03-26 Thread Jon Auer
This is a matter where you really need a telecom lawyer with knowledge of your state. What we found is you really need to avoid hitting that interconnected VoIP requirement. As for how you do that, check with your lawyers. Once we crossed that it's been a chain of paperwork that seems to never

Re: [WISPA] ARIN numbers

2013-10-03 Thread Jon Auer
Pretty much the only hard and fast rule is you need to be multihomed. If you are not multihomed you don't need ARIN and should be getting the IP space from your upstream provider. On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 12:21 PM, heith petersen wi...@mncomm.com wrote: Well, I have several pops but from the

Re: [WISPA] Canopy 430 AP lockup

2013-04-12 Thread Jon Auer
We are seeing the same symptoms on FSK with 11.2. On Apr 10, 2013 3:59 PM, Sean Heskett af...@zirkel.us wrote: Just and FYI. I already submitted a ticket to cambium but we are seeing several 430 APs lock up. The APs will still pass traffic to the clients and I can ping the AP. However, I

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Rocket Titanium

2013-04-07 Thread Jon Auer
That has been true, but it seems like the cell world has been moving to 48V lately. Examples: Alvarion carrier WiMax (2.5Ghz), macro and micro uses 48V (maybe you can get it in 24V, the stuff I've seen has all been 48V) With packet optical, if you put a Cyan box in that uses 24V you need separate

Re: [WISPA] Need 10M transport in Ashburn VA

2013-03-26 Thread Jon Auer
Ashburn Equinix to Miami NAP? Isn't that like every carrier on the planet? I'd think buying just 10 meg might be a problem but other than that this should be easy. On Mar 26, 2013 8:58 AM, Gino Villarini g...@aeronetpr.com wrote: Miami NAP Sent from my Motorola Startac... On Mar 26, 2013,

Re: [WISPA] DMCA infringent notices...

2013-03-19 Thread Jon Auer
Yes. There's a whole dance around how you have to handle it to not be liable. Lots of details if you Google/Bing/Yodel DMCA Safe Harbor On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Adam Greene maill...@webjogger.net wrote: Interesting. I always thought that this was the way to guarantee that the ISP

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ERLite-3 3-port Router

2013-01-15 Thread Jon Auer
FWIW OpenBSD has L3 MPLS working with a LDP implementation and BGP. No VPLS yet but I think I saw something about starting to work on pseudowires last year. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Simon Westlake si...@powercode.com wrote: I don't know who is feature complete, or even what

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ERLite-3 3-port Router

2013-01-08 Thread Jon Auer
Streakwave is supposedly shipping orders placed back when it was announced. Mine hasn't arrived yet :-( On Jan 8, 2013 12:57 PM, Steve Barnes st...@pcswin.com wrote: That’s the new UBNT Edge Router line. I was not aware that they have actually shipped to general public yet. ** **

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik the dude

2012-11-24 Thread Jon Auer
Not a Sqlite limit. Might he a problem with their choice of filesystem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4314493/file-size-limit-for-sqlite-on-32bit-system On Nov 23, 2012 8:06 AM, Paul Hendry paul.hen...@skyline-networks.com wrote: It's not a bug as SQLite is working as per design and only

Re: [WISPA] This isn't UBNT support.

2012-10-18 Thread Jon Auer
On Oct 13, 2012, at 11:00 PM, Butch Evans but...@butchevans.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 23:43 -0400, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: I dunno about that.. While I can understand everyone wanting to have only relevant discussion on the main list... Question is, what do those who complain consider

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti Radios as routers

2012-10-13 Thread Jon Auer
You can do tag swapping and other fancy VLAN tricks in AirOS by creating VLAN subints and mapping them to each other using bridge interfaces. The Linux bridge interface behaves more like a switch than a bridge in that you can control mac aging, learning, etc so it doesn't blindly forward traffic.

Re: [WISPA] Can they really do this?

2012-09-24 Thread Jon Auer
As part of the WiFi standard a AP can tell a client to stop talking to it. Rogue AP containment systems impersonate the targeted AP and send these messages to observed clients. This kind of functionality is important in cases where you need to prevent employees from accidentally creating security

Re: [WISPA] which one is better for short links?

2012-09-23 Thread Jon Auer
What would you like them to add for monitoring and troubleshooting? On Sep 23, 2012 4:22 PM, Doug Clark d...@txox.com wrote: +1 on the fact that radio's should only be a transparent bridge. I do love all the features that some manufacturers give you to trouble shoot problems though. UBNT

Re: [WISPA] which one is better for short links?

2012-09-23 Thread Jon Auer
St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Jon Auer j...@tapodi.net wrote: What would you like them to add for monitoring and troubleshooting? On Sep 23, 2012 4:22 PM, Doug Clark d...@txox.com wrote: +1 on the fact that radio's should only be a transparent bridge. I

Re: [WISPA] Netflix to offer free caches to ISPs

2012-06-06 Thread Jon Auer
Doesn't really affect me because the bandwidth crunch is at the last mile link to the customer. That said, we do ~30Mbps of Akamai traffic over peering and every meg we don't have to pay for is nice. The trick to getting CDN stuff when you have low traffic volumes is wait for someone big (huge

Re: [WISPA] fbi letter

2012-01-26 Thread Jon Auer
Is that https://ipaccess.fbi.gov/ ? If so, capitalize the first letter of the username and password that they gave you. On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181) o...@odessaoffice.com wrote: Hi All, We just got our FBI letter on the screwed up DNS system. I can't get

[WISPA] 3.65Ghz and HAMs

2012-01-10 Thread Jon Auer
On some online forums I have been seeing people claiming to be hams saying that they can use 3.65 Ghz as it is a ham band. Now, I thought it was for something else and now is license lite. Is this a band we share with hams?

Re: [WISPA] OT: Linux Virtualization

2011-07-25 Thread Jon Auer
vRAM entitlement will raise prices a bit. On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Adam Kennedy adamkenn...@omnicity.net wrote: vSphere 5 will only be limited by physical processors, not RAM or number of cores. Not sure where you got the 16GB limitation from. vSphere (What they call ESX/ESXi now)

Re: [WISPA] Choosing core router for small - medium WISP

2011-07-06 Thread Jon Auer
Not trying to be trollish, but I would trust Vyatta's support way more than Mikrotik. The fact is Mikrotik, Imagestream, and Vyatta are all built largely on open source components. Out of the three Mikrotik appears to not participate and takes advantage of open source developments put forth

Re: [WISPA] Canopy SM automation scripts

2011-02-25 Thread Jon Auer
Generally you use SNMP to make bulk config changes. You can use CNUT to set a initial RW community string. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Cameron Crum cc...@wispmon.com wrote: I'm just curious if anyone has hacked the cgi scripts on the Canopy SM's and written a script to make changes to the

Re: [WISPA] AN-50e won't power on

2011-02-01 Thread Jon Auer
If all else fails, yank the power supply and use a different 24VDC PSU. See http://tapodi.net/~jda/an50dc/ for some ghetto hacking that I did a few years ago that might be relevant. Not that I'd recommended doing what I did. There should be a voltage regulator in there so you don't overvolt it if

Re: [WISPA] WISPA DUES -

2011-01-26 Thread Jon Auer
I was 20. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Mike Bushard Jr mikeb.li...@gmail.com wrote: I was 21. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Blake Covarrubias bl...@beamspeed.com wrote: On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: Hey we're the same age!  I was 17 in 2005! I was 19 in

Re: [WISPA] WISPA DUES - (was: new list)

2011-01-26 Thread Jon Auer
And would turn off more people than simply doubling the membership fee from $250 to $500... On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: That does add overhead... Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH

[WISPA] Nomadix AG5500

2011-01-26 Thread Jon Auer
I have a Nomadix AG5500 that seems to have corrupted firmware. Do any of you use / support Nomadix? I haven't been able to get ahold of their support. Right now I'm looking for a new firmware image that I can flash to resurrect this box. If not I guess I'll just have a pretty looking monowall

[WISPA] OT: Spam filtering

2011-01-25 Thread Jon Auer
For those of you that host email for a number of domains, what do you do for spam filtering? Right now we have a cluster of Barracuda SF-600s that are up for renewal in the next couple of months and they are raising their update/subscription prices. Between the price increase and other issues I'm

Re: [WISPA] OT: Spam filtering

2011-01-25 Thread Jon Auer
Condor.  I hear nothing but good things from customers and frontline support. Ryan -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jon Auer Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 10:31 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] OT: Spam

Re: [WISPA] has anyone tried this Billing system?

2011-01-21 Thread Jon Auer
There are a bunch of billing systems targeted at web hosts. Belsta: http://www.blesta.com/ is also out there for a similar price point. Last time I looked at them you'd need to do a bunch of coding work to get it to automatically turn your network users on and off. On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:19

Re: [WISPA] Anyone running MT RB-750, UBNT gear doing IPv6?

2011-01-16 Thread Jon Auer
It is a protocol wonk holy war :-) IPv6 is worse OSI is better Using the definition from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better Does not matter to me because I have customers that need end-to-end connectivity to China and mobile data in the US (that is going native v6 with v4 NAT) so I'm

Re: [WISPA] 11Ghz Licensing Warning Question

2011-01-15 Thread Jon Auer
I believe the license database is now available in the more friendly CSV format. See: http://data.fcc.gov/download/license-view/ and http://data.fcc.gov/download/license-view/fcc-license-view-data-csv-format.zip I'd make a page that shows what percentage is owned by who but I already have a

Re: [WISPA] Anyone running MT RB-750, UBNT gear doing IPv6?

2011-01-13 Thread Jon Auer
I'm currently using a RB-750 with a IPv6 tunnel/delegation from he.net at home. Works fine. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Greg Ihnen os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a small network with a MT RB-750 and UBNT (PS2's, NSL2's, NSLM5's, NSM5's and a BulletM2) and I'm wondering how we're

Re: [WISPA] Anyone running MT RB-750, UBNT gear doing IPv6?

2011-01-13 Thread Jon Auer
from time to time. No online backup or SCP transfers. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Greg Ihnen os10ru...@gmail.com wrote: Does that tunnel add overhead (cut down throughput)? I'm guessing it would have to. Greg On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Jon Auer wrote: I'm currently using a RB-750

Re: [WISPA] Fixed Orbit

2010-12-30 Thread Jon Auer
bgp.he.net On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any other sites similiar to fixedorbit.com to determine how well a host is peered? WISPA Wants You! Join today!

[WISPA] Peering, was Re: Free Press Floods the FCC With Net Neutrality Petitions

2010-12-19 Thread Jon Auer
Inline On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Charles N Wyble char...@knownelement.com wrote: It's not about access networks peering. That's usually not worth the effort for the reasons you outlined below. It's about peering with the content provider networks. All peering is good peering (until

Re: [WISPA] Email Accounts

2010-12-15 Thread Jon Auer
RHEL/CentOS/Fedora switched from Xen to KVM On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net wrote: Historically, RHEL\CentOS have used Xen.  I'm not sure if any other methods are working their way into current releases. OpenVZ (managed through ProxMox) is a great way to

Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] We ARE being noticed!

2010-12-14 Thread Jon Auer
Oh wow. They quoted my filing of the WISPA letter. :-) On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Rick Harnish rharn...@wispa.org wrote: 2M signatures, tons of comments at FCC ahead of net neutrality vote December 14 2010 - 12:28 pm ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News The Federal Communications

Re: [WISPA] Backend systems

2010-12-07 Thread Jon Auer
These days a cluefully run Windows system is no better or worse than a cluefully run *nix system... On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Shane MacDonald wi...@kpperformance.ca wrote: I get scared when I hear Windows and Software in the same sentence. Then when you add Server I usually run. Shane

Re: [WISPA] DSL BGP

2010-11-29 Thread Jon Auer
I can, if you are in a ATT area of the 356 LATA (Southeastern Wisconsin) On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know of a DSL provider that supports BGP on DSL?  Looking simply for a redundancy circuit.

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity PowerBridge5M @ 12miles

2010-11-10 Thread Jon Auer
We have one at 6.5 miles. Very happy with it. On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Jerry Richardson jrichard...@aircloud.com wrote: Anyone have a similar link running? Happy with it? - Jerry WISPA Wants You!

Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity PowerBridge5M @ 12miles

2010-11-10 Thread Jon Auer
? this is the caclulator results for the 12 mile link: - Jerry -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jon Auer Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 11:27 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquity

Re: [WISPA] Who's Radio is this?

2010-11-08 Thread Jon Auer
You might be able to figure it out with a map and a yardstick based on air delay... I drive around with SMs connecting up to whoever and seeing what's up but I haven't been to Indiana in a year. ;-) On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:15 PM, support supp...@nitline.com wrote: OK Who's trying to Link to my

Re: [WISPA] Who's Radio is this?

2010-11-08 Thread Jon Auer
who is on the tower but 3 different Radios is more like a CC conflict or someone trying to steal service On 11/8/2010 4:20 PM, Jon Auer wrote: You might be able to figure it out with a map and a yardstick based on air delay... I drive around with SMs connecting up to whoever and seeing

Re: [WISPA] Juniper M20

2010-11-05 Thread Jon Auer
IMO you only go with the M line if you need OC cards. MX80 would be a better fit if you are all ethernet. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net wrote: I am looking at comments or recommendations for a Juniper M20.  I was looking at a PowerRouter 2200 (or

Re: [WISPA] Netflix and Akamai

2010-10-31 Thread Jon Auer
Here is a paper that looks into how Akamai directs traffic: http://www.aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/publications/Ajsu06DBA.pdf When selecting providers, you could look at http://www.akamai.com/peering/ and http://bgp.he.net/AS20940#_peers to try to select someone that is close to Akamai. Beyond

Re: [WISPA] RB1100U Anywhere?

2010-10-30 Thread Jon Auer
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Blake Covarrubias bl...@beamspeed.com wrote: On Oct 29, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Jon Auer wrote: We prefer the RB1100 because we don't need a inverter for the switch at DC powered sites. Are you using -48VDC at these sites? What are you using to down convert

Re: [WISPA] RB1100U Anywhere?

2010-10-29 Thread Jon Auer
Any idea if this batch will last with dealers until they get the following shipment? Otherwise I'm looking at having to order a half-year's supply right away just in case. (nice thing about MT is one can afford to overbuy to absorb their supply chain issues...) On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:02 PM,

Re: [WISPA] RB1100U Anywhere?

2010-10-29 Thread Jon Auer
WRT your suggestion, +1. At the moment we are rolling cisco switches (3500XL or 2950 if we need RSTP) with one or two RB450G depending on seperation of roles. (If multiple backhauls, site gets a router for handling MPLS) We prefer the RB1100 because we don't need a inverter for the switch at DC

Re: [WISPA] Webcam

2010-10-26 Thread Jon Auer
We've been using Axis cameras with Axis camera station. It has a nice feature where the cameras only stream when they detect movement so you save a considerable amount of bandwidth. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net wrote: Most camera vendors have a DVR

Re: [WISPA] ARIN IPv4 resource request

2010-10-19 Thread Jon Auer
I asked about the cable exemption and they said it was only for cable operators and not for anyone that assigns IPs to a geographic area (tower). We were able to get more space by showing over 80% of our existing space was assigned to other entities (customers) and of that space 50% of the major

Re: [WISPA] port 5060 relaying attack?

2010-10-07 Thread Jon Auer
Sounds like a SIP DOS or possibly brute-force attack. We get them from time to time. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Kurt Fankhauser k...@wavelinc.com wrote: I never have had this happen for 6 years until I got my new fiber line installed form Time Warner. Apparently a few times a day somone

Re: [WISPA] Is Running Router OS inside USB Thumb Stick Reliable?

2010-10-02 Thread Jon Auer
I have a box that has been running off a PNY usb drive for two years. Basic logging and interface graphing is enabled. On Oct 2, 2010 10:33 AM, Gustavo Santos gustkil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We just bought a couple HP ML 350 Servers, but Mikrotik RouterOS doesnt have the Smart Array Controller

Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attack on Mikrotik Gateway

2010-10-02 Thread Jon Auer
The new web admin in 5.0 looks like a web clone of winbox. On Oct 2, 2010 11:57 AM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: It doesn't answer anything. You can't configure anything. It screws up what you have set. Hate it. I would like to see an html copy of winbox, but that's a

Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attack on Mikrotik Gateway

2010-10-01 Thread Jon Auer
Two options you may want to consider: a) automatic blacklist scripts: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Bruteforce_login_prevention b) firewalling off external access to your network management services On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.com wrote: Just had to deal

Re: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik

2010-09-18 Thread Jon Auer
Vyatta has a much better reputation for stability for things like internet border routing among the usual internet-scale suspects on nanog list etc. Mikrotik has a pretty bad rap out there for 'causing' a couple global BGP issues a year or so ago. MT isn't helping by being largely incompetent at

Re: [WISPA] Reverse Engineer BAM Authentication

2010-09-16 Thread Jon Auer
I have, for basic bandwidth and authentication control. Works if you can work with a perl library: http://code.google.com/p/jungleauth/ On Thursday, September 16, 2010, Marco Coelho coelh...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone reversed engineered the BAM SM authentication? We would like to add this as

Re: [WISPA] OT: Looking for Layer 3 Switch with BGP?

2010-09-11 Thread Jon Auer
. The ME-C6524GT-8S appears to do it all. On 09/08/2010 04:16 PM, Jon Auer wrote: Needing full BGP routes takes you out of the realm of cheap Layer 3 switches... You need to worry about TCAM (hardware route memory) in addition to RAM on Layer 3 switches and apart from decked out Cisco 6500s

Re: [WISPA] OT: Looking for Layer 3 Switch with BGP?

2010-09-11 Thread Jon Auer
to be offered. What I haven't yet worked out is whether two routers can establish a BGP peering session over a VPLS VC. On 09/11/2010 01:25 PM, Jon Auer wrote: Beware of the TCAM size on that box. IIRC it hasn't been able to take full internet routes since 2008 because of that limitation

Re: [WISPA] OT: Looking for Layer 3 Switch with BGP?

2010-09-08 Thread Jon Auer
Needing full BGP routes takes you out of the realm of cheap Layer 3 switches... You need to worry about TCAM (hardware route memory) in addition to RAM on Layer 3 switches and apart from decked out Cisco 6500s or greater you aren't going to find that. The Juniper MX80 should work. It is 2U and

Re: [WISPA] OT: Looking for Layer 3 Switch with BGP?

2010-09-08 Thread Jon Auer
some other solution, that can do what you are looking for, please share it with us, cause we have been looking too... what I am sharing above with you is what we have found so far. Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet Telecom On 9/8/2010 7:16 PM, Jon Auer wrote: Needing full BGP routes

Re: [WISPA] Slightly OT - Mapping

2010-09-08 Thread Jon Auer
I'll second this. Manifold has been amazing for us for everything from looking for geographic patterns in customers with rf problems to crunching data for our FCC477 filing. One of these days I'll learn the viewshed function and have it suggest new tower sites... On Wednesday, September 8, 2010,

Re: [WISPA] OT: Looking for Layer 3 Switch with BGP?

2010-09-08 Thread Jon Auer
What kind of PPS are you seeing on that setup? On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Glenn Kelley gl...@hostmedic.com wrote: Is this going on a stick on in a building. We have an opensource Vyatta running circles around the old Vax 7200 stuff GigE even is not an issue - but used a Dell R300 with 8GB

Re: [WISPA] OT: Looking for Layer 3 Switch with BGP?

2010-09-08 Thread Jon Auer
share it with us, cause we have been looking too... what I am sharing above with you is what we have found so far. Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet   Telecom On 9/8/2010 7:16 PM, Jon Auer wrote: Needing full BGP routes takes you out of the realm of cheap Layer 3 switches

Re: [WISPA] OT: Looking for Layer 3 Switch with BGP?

2010-09-08 Thread Jon Auer
with you is what we have found so far. Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet  Telecom On 9/8/2010 7:16 PM, Jon Auer wrote: Needing full BGP routes takes you out of the realm of cheap Layer 3 switches... You need to worry about TCAM (hardware route memory) in addition to RAM on Layer 3

Re: [WISPA] OT: Looking for Layer 3 Switch with BGP?

2010-09-08 Thread Jon Auer
Oh duh. That's line rate at 100M. The chopped packets must have been a negotiation side effect from going between 100M and Gig interfaces. I feel much better about it now, and quite stilly to have missed that. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Rubens Kuhl rube...@gmail.com wrote: Half duplex

[WISPA] FCC announces APIs for access to FCC data

2010-09-07 Thread Jon Auer
FCC announced APIs for programatic access to: a) FCC Speedtest results b) Lat/Lon to Census block lookup (must have listened to everyone griping about preparing Form 477 :-) ) c) FRN lookup d) License lookup (cool!) See: http://reboot.fcc.gov/developer

Re: [WISPA] VoIP Services with XO, L3 or Global Crossing

2010-09-03 Thread Jon Auer
Direct? What kind of commit did they require? On Sep 3, 2010 8:21 PM, Scott Carullo sc...@brevardwireless.com wrote: If any of you ar... WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Providers

2010-09-02 Thread Jon Auer
There are ATT sales reps that aren't lazy? Where? I'll take contact info :-) On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Justin Wilson li...@mtin.net wrote:    Most normal providers are more than willing to work with you as the contract nears its end.   They should have said let’s talk in a couple of

Re: [WISPA] netflix/hulu IP's

2010-08-30 Thread Jon Auer
On Aug 30, 2010 2:53 PM, Blake Covarrubias bl...@beamspeed.com wrote: I contacted Akamai a while back about this program, and yes I believe they also told me 75mbps was the magic number. -- Blake Covarrubias On Aug 30, 2010, at 12:43, Nick Olsen n...@brevardwireless.com wrote: No clue, Just

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Jon Auer
That's pretty cool. What are you using for shared storage? On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: Agreed.  We’ve run HP and Dell servers for years and have been happy, but we had no idea what we were missing once we virtualized everything. We purchased a Dell

Re: [WISPA] Backend systems

2010-08-24 Thread Jon Auer
Unfortunately that's a fact of life of enterprise software. Any sufficiently powerfully piece of software will require a lot of customization to do exactly what you want. Witness all the Oracle/PeopleSoft/SAP consultants. :-/ On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Dennis Burgess dmburg...@linktechs.net

Re: [WISPA] Backend systems

2010-08-23 Thread Jon Auer
We do that as well. Essentially you end up with Platypus as the billing/data core with a lot of value add off to the side. If you keep everything loosely coupled upgrades etc aren't a problem. So far we've always had at least one network and one customer service person that can program so when a

Re: [WISPA] CPE Monitoring Survey

2010-08-10 Thread Jon Auer
Results: http://bit.ly/9wUy4G My apologies on the delay on getting these back to everyone. Thank you to everyone that participated! On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Jon Auer j...@tapodi.net wrote: I was thinking about CPE monitoring today and wondering if/how everyone is doing it. I've got

Re: [WISPA] CPE Monitoring Survey

2010-08-10 Thread Jon Auer
. Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jon Auer Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 8:04 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] CPE Monitoring Survey Results: http

Re: [WISPA] CPE Monitoring Survey

2010-08-10 Thread Jon Auer
, cancellation and opposition, send your request to: Free Technologies Excom, s.l. - Avda. de la Industria, nº 37, 39, Of. 3 - 4 - 28108, Alcobendas (Madrid). 2010/8/10 Jon Auer j...@tapodi.net Sorry about that. I've edited the link to go to a PDF print of the results. Looks like Google

Re: [WISPA] RB1100

2010-08-10 Thread Jon Auer
You don't get the port count unless you go with a industrial appliance and those can get costly. So far I'm happy with my RB1100s apart from some issues with combinations of ports on the switch chips. On Aug 10, 2010 1:20 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: You are aware the

Re: [WISPA] Coronal Mass Ejection

2010-08-05 Thread Jon Auer
NOAA's Space Weather page has info on this and lets you subscribe to email alerts on it: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Mike m...@aweiowa.com wrote: Your three mile link is probably not being affected by CME.  The Canadians have disaster recovery plans for such

Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] Bandwidth Sources.

2010-08-05 Thread Jon Auer
We had the flip of that. We purchase IP transit (bandwidth) on GigE from the local operating company of a national cable operator. They were supposed to give us IP space with the circuit but IP allocations are handled by the national group and they refused on the grounds that they don't sell to

Re: [WISPA] DOS attack

2010-08-02 Thread Jon Auer
I see a lot of replies about what to do if *you* are the target of a DOS attack but not many about how to tell if your upstream is getting slammed. Really a DOS attack on a upstream should have symptoms of any other upstream capacity issue that you want to know about, just it will probably have a

Re: [WISPA] Off-net rebooting

2010-07-28 Thread Jon Auer
You can also get a data card with a telemetry plan from a cell carrier and plug it into a Mikrotik. The setup fee can be pretty steep but once its set up the cost isn't super high so long as you aren't pushing a lot of data. Gets you out of band access to the tower network including any network

[WISPA] CPE Monitoring Survey

2010-07-28 Thread Jon Auer
I was thinking about CPE monitoring today and wondering if/how everyone is doing it. I've got a brief (8 easy questions) survey at http://bit.ly/cpesurvey If you can spare a minute or two to fill it out I'd be very grateful. Of course, the results will be shared in aggregate. Thanks!

Re: [WISPA] IPPay

2010-07-23 Thread Jon Auer
Works great. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:38 PM, RickG rgunder...@gmail.com wrote: I need feedback on IPPay. -RickG WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] IPPay

2010-07-23 Thread Jon Auer
Platypus Any custom perl stuff that uses that Business::OnlinePayment framework (our hotspot billing system) On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: I would like to see a list of things that are ready to use IPPay out of the box. We use it with

Re: [WISPA] What if you can't get a T3?

2010-07-20 Thread Jon Auer
We used Charter fiber for PTP and Internet Access for a few years, a few years ago. It was OK. Way more outages than the SBC DS3 that we had at the time. (a few hours of planned or unplanned downtime in the middle of the night every month) Pricing was far better than SBC. We dropped them once we

Re: [WISPA] SAN recommendations for large CCTV projects?

2010-07-16 Thread Jon Auer
We use Hitachi... I've played with NexentaStor with good results. NexentaStor: http://www.nexenta.com/ NexentaStor integrated with hardware: http://www.pogolinux.com/nexenta/ Note that I haven't tried either of these in a CCTV application, just normal ISP data storage. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at

Re: [WISPA] OT, new IP addresses blackholed

2010-06-29 Thread Jon Auer
Pretty much all the lists here: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/ That includes outages, lists for users of cisco, juniper, etc in a service provider environment. Also lists for voip and iptv operators. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Steven McGehee stev...@qx.net wrote: If you guys

Re: [WISPA] MicroTik HWMPplus mesh?

2010-06-20 Thread Jon Auer
MicroTik says they have a meshing protocol, HWMPplus, that provides Layer 2 (this is critical; we're not building a Layer 3 network, and with this many hops, latency and loss are critical) dynamic meshing, essentially applying a routing protocol (smarter than bridge STPs) among nodes. Have

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-29 Thread Jon Auer
with it, i have yet to venture down that path. On 5/28/2010 8:59 PM, Jon Auer wrote: So, speaking of cache tuning, Who is ready for DNSSEC? ... WISPA Wants You... Chris Gotstein Sr Network Engineer UP Logon/Computer

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-28 Thread Jon Auer
So, speaking of cache tuning, Who is ready for DNSSEC? On May 28, 2010 11:44 AM, Justin Wilson li...@mtin.net wrote: DNS tuning is pretty straightforward. One of my guy¹s is awesome at it. If you are running BIND there are quite a bit of things you can do. We are running bind in some VM¹s

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Jon Auer
Another unbound user! high five! But... I can beat that :) Querying Unbound on Solaris 10/Sparc, across cisco sup720 router. (0.700ms pings to DNS server) ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 209.242.224.245#53(209.242.224.245) ;; WHEN: Wed May 26 13:50:31 2010 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 95 On Wed, May 26,

Re: [WISPA] Fast DNS cache

2010-05-26 Thread Jon Auer
For what its worth, Google namebench ( http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ ) showed that our caching DNS servers were faster than Google's public ones or OpenDNS. Guess our users keep the cache warm. I'd encourage everyone to run namebench and tune up their DNS servers or select the fastest ones.

Re: [WISPA] New in Box SolecTek Skyway Excel P2P for sale

2010-05-20 Thread Jon Auer
Thought the WISPA General list has its own rules... On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: No problem, no one is upset I'm sure.  It's just courteous to follow the rules of the Moto Folk. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100

Re: [WISPA] Call Tracking / Customer management software

2010-05-11 Thread Jon Auer
Just a shout out saying we use Plat and have it automatically turning people on/off as well. Right now our customer service side uses Wombat and Network Operations uses Jira for tickets but we are looking at merging both of them onto RT. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Chuck Hogg

Re: [WISPA] Mobile broadband for Law Enforcement (Small town)

2010-05-03 Thread Jon Auer
I've used Canopy 900Mhz while mobile before. It hopped between towers quickly enough that I'd only loose a few pings From what I've heard of Butch's Mikrotik setup, it sounds really nifty. IIRC he used two wifi cards. One would be the data connection and the other would look for a better

Re: [WISPA] looking for iperf test site with 1G open

2010-04-16 Thread Jon Auer
So, I have a friend that tried that once. It can be pretty hard to get decent speed with bittorrent on a stock system. Lots of different clients, all requesting different data. Plays havoc on drives. Need plenty of cache. RAID0 disk array, etc. On top of that the linux distributions didn't seem

Re: [WISPA] Imagestream (was Vyatta?)

2010-04-16 Thread Jon Auer
Right, and that's pretty easy since there aren't really 3rd party Cisco cards (counterfeit doesn't count). You can add intel NICs to older PIXs but that involves breaking warranty stickers. Gotta say Imagestream's stance on this is normal. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Scott Reed

Re: [WISPA] Ubnt vs Moto vs ... your brand

2010-04-14 Thread Jon Auer
On that note, I have a few questions. On those 40-50 802.11 subs, what kind of bandwidth are the users seeing/are you selling them? Do you count a polling MAC on a 802.11 chipset, say Ubiquiti AirMax, in with 802.11? My assumption would be that with a polling MAC on 802.11 chips you should see

Re: [WISPA] Replace MT X86 with routerboard?

2010-03-07 Thread Jon Auer
Would that be the SYS-5015A-H 1U? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101262cm_re=supermicro_atom-_-16-101-262-_-Product It has Realtek GigE onboard. Anyone have experiences with that brand of ethernet chipset under RouterOS? On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Gino Villarini

Re: [WISPA] Replace MT X86 with routerboard?

2010-03-07 Thread Jon Auer
7, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Jon Auer j...@tapodi.net wrote: Would that be the SYS-5015A-H 1U? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101262cm_re=supermicro_atom-_-16-101-262-_-Product It has Realtek GigE onboard. Anyone have experiences with that brand of ethernet chipset under

Re: [WISPA] Replace MT X86 with routerboard?

2010-03-07 Thread Jon Auer
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Jon Auer j...@tapodi.net wrote: Just saw Travis's mention of this board on the Mikrotik list. Man. lots of action on this general topic all over the place. What would you recommend for handling say, 200Mbps of VPLS and general packet bashing (iBGP+OSPF). Connection

Re: [WISPA] Networking question

2010-03-04 Thread Jon Auer
Your old provider may be trying to have the gateway for your new IPs on their router instead of routing them to your router. IE, your old setup probably looked like this: Provider router-/30-Your router-/24 for your customers. New setup would be: Provider router-/24-Your router(NAT)-different

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