Re: Command and Control Centres | COVID-19

2020-04-06 Thread Bill Blackford
balanced position and I was wondering what is > the communities position on this topic? > > > Scott > -- Bill Blackford Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Re: 100GbE beyond 40km

2021-09-24 Thread Bill Blackford
an equivalent official part. > > > The application is an ISP upgrading from Nx10G, where one of their fiber > paths is ~35km and the other is ~60km. > > > > thanks, > -Randy > -- Bill Blackford Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Re: Amazon AS16509 peering... how long to wait?

2019-04-07 Thread Bill Blackford
😳🤣 Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 7, 2019, at 17:40, Kieran Murphy wrote: > > Yeah, it takes a while. > > My peering request turned 1 year old on Friday. > There was cake. > >> On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 at 08:36, Ross Tajvar wrote: >> From what I've heard, their peering department is really behind on

Re: Two BGP peering sessions on single Comcast Fiber Connection?

2016-10-14 Thread Bill Blackford
ith a single quality router (elminiation of complexity), >> and that if you really need maximum uptime that you had better get >> a second circuit, on a diverse path, into a different router probably >> from a different carrier. >> >> > -- Bill Blackford Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

A10

2010-10-21 Thread Bill Blackford
in advance for any input -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-21 Thread Bill Blackford
visibility purposes, I'm making other choices. -b -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges. an their purple color > and that I don't really know their IOS that well. But to be fair, they have > worked just fine. > > In

Re: Cacti Bandwidth Monitoring

2010-11-29 Thread Bill Blackford
Sounds like you need to use the 64 bit templates as your data may be "rolling over". -b -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

2011-01-13 Thread Bill Blackford
Subway subs started offering toasted as an option in response to the success of Quiznos Subs. So many vendors have been chasing the "me too" feature match behind Cisco for so many years it interesting to see Cisco doing the same behind Juniper. -b -- Bill Blackford Network Engine

Re: Network Naming

2011-01-26 Thread Bill Blackford
. I have a document that describes the convention of every field of every type in order to maintain consistency. What I struggle with is trying to find a consistent naming convention for gear behind the firewall vs. on the outside that is publicly visible. -b -- Bill Blackford Network E

Re: Experience with Juniper MX-80s

2011-08-11 Thread Bill Blackford
nti-DDoS features?  I know there are scenarios it > wouldn't begin to address, but are they worth spending time to fiddle with?   > Also, is anyone taking JFlow off of them?  We're trying to figure out how > much we could sample while doing about 900Mbps.  I'm not sur

Re: On Working Remotely

2011-12-05 Thread Bill Blackford
x27;m working. > > I could see how having a "home office" with a closed door could create > this impression of "going to the office" and "coming home", but I don't > find it either desirable nor (in Manhattan) practical. > > -Jan > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

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2012-12-12 Thread Bill Blackford
> >> > > > > As a Dr. Who fan -- DELETE, DELETE, DELETE... > > > > > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine

2012-02-17 Thread Bill Blackford
                    RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates     http://baylink.pitas.com         2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA      http://photo.imageinc.us             +1 727 647 1274 > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Re: Level3 Issues

2012-05-18 Thread Bill Blackford
I see a few drops in ATLN -b On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Scott Wolfe wrote: > Anyone having BGP issues in and out of Level3 in the past 30 minutes? > > --ScottW -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Re: Juniper MX Sizing

2014-12-05 Thread Bill Blackford
If you're looking at scaling passed the mx104, I would consider the mx480 chassis. The price delta between the 240 vs. 480 bare chassis is negligible and you'll get more slots to grow into. Especially, if you have a need to do sampling or anything else that may require a service pic. On Dec 5, 2014

Re: IGP choice

2015-10-22 Thread Bill Blackford
rs to bad actors forming OSPF adjacencies with you, > you're doing something wrong.Who is running code that is so bleeding > edge that feature X might be available for IS-IS, but not OSPF? > > Chose whichever you and your operational team are most comfortable > with, and run with it. > > Regards, > Dave > -- Bill Blackford Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

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2015-10-24 Thread Bill Blackford
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2015-10-24 Thread Bill Blackford
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Re: Question about EX - SRX redundancy

2015-04-02 Thread Bill Blackford
It's my understanding that a cross chassis LAG is not supported. If there is a way, I'm not aware of it. I'm running the same set up as your working example in my locations and for now, this suits my requirements. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 2, 2015, at 07:12, Anurag Bhatia wrote: > > Hello

G/L Coding for RIR resources

2015-04-09 Thread Bill Blackford
Group. How do your respective bean counting teams code RIR resources, ASN's, Addr allocations, etc.? Software subscription? Licensing? Thank you -- Bill Blackford Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Bill Blackford
ms like everyone offers 5 9's service, 45 ms coast-to-coast, 24x7 > customer support, 100/1Gbps/10Gbps with various DIR/CIR and burst rates. > I'm shopping for new service and want to do better than choosing on > reputation. (or, is reputation also a criteria?) > > >

Re: OSPF Costs Formula that include delay.

2014-01-25 Thread Bill Blackford
+1 On Jan 24, 2014 12:41 PM, "Owen DeLong" wrote: > Some networks I have worked with took the average latency of each link and > assigned that (with some constant multiple) as the interface cost. > > Of course this all fails miserably if you are using anything like MPLS > underneath your OSPF. >

Re: Cisco ASR

2010-05-26 Thread Bill Blackford
; everything staying pretty static. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thomas Magill >>>> Network Engineer >>>> >>>> Office: (858) 909-3777 >>>> >>>> Cell: (858) 869-9685 >>>> mailto:tmag...@providecommerce.com<mailto:tmag...@providecommerce.com> >>>> >>>> >>>> provide-commerce >>>> 4840 Eastgate Mall >>>> >>>> San Diego, CA  92121 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ProFlowers<http://www.proflowers.com/>    | redENVELOPE >>>> <http://www.redenvelope.com/>    | Cherry Moon Farms >>>> <http://www.cherrymoonfarms.com/>    | Shari's Berries >>>> <http://www.berries.com/> >>>> >>> I am using a few 1002's and I am not seeing that issue. I will get you >>> the >>> IOS train later. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

TWTC

2010-06-15 Thread Bill Blackford
Anyone on the list seeing issues with Time warner on the West coast? -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP

2010-06-17 Thread Bill Blackford
HP ink cartridge marketing department is in cahoots with > their network optics counterparts :-) > > Jeff > > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP

2010-06-17 Thread Bill Blackford
n quality, and I have > rarely gotten a good answer from HP support on anything. > >> Does anyone have any HP networking experiences they can share, good or >> bad? > > To end on a positive note, HP does have a good warranty, is typically fairly > low cost and provides f

Re: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

2010-09-23 Thread Bill Blackford
yes, and Qwest is no longer experiencing issues according to IHR. -b -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Hotmail Postmaster

2009-06-17 Thread Bill Blackford
Can someone from Hotmail contact me off list? Sorry for the SPAM posting, we've tried other methods. Thanks -b -- Bill Blackford Senior Network Engineer Technology Systems Group Northwest Regional ESD my /home away from home

Re: WS-X6148A-GE-TX performance question

2009-09-10 Thread Bill Blackford
gt; <mailto:sc...@dwc-computer.com> sc...@dwc-computer.com > <http://www.dwc-it.com/> www.dwc-it.com > Sales of new and used Cisco/Juniper/F5/Foundry/Brocade/Sun/IBM/Dell/Liebert > and more ~ > > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer

Re: Power Analysis/Management Tools

2009-10-26 Thread Bill Blackford
> network/server gear. > > We're using Cacti currently, pulling the data from APCs via SNMP, and I > wanted to check if someone had come across a better method before I > reinvented the wheel. > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer

RE: Paypal DNS Problems?

2009-01-29 Thread Bill Blackford
Looks ok here. -b -Original Message- From: John Martinez [mailto:jmarti...@zero11.com] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:56 PM Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Paypal DNS Problems? B C wrote: > As the subject says really, paypal's DNS servers don't appear to be > responding for me... >

RE: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Bill Blackford
In scaling upward. How would a linux router even if a kernel guru were to tweak and compile an optimized build, compare to a 7600/RSP720CXL or a Juniper PIC in ASIC? At some point packets/sec becomes a limitation I would think. -b -Original Message- From: Ryan Harden [mailto:harde...@ui

SUP720 vs. SUP32

2009-03-11 Thread Bill Blackford
oughput in the near future. Can the 32 handle a full table? How does the MFSC2A compare to the MFSC3? V6 support? Thank you. -- Bill Blackford Senior Network Engineer my /home away from home

RE: SUP720 vs. SUP32

2009-03-11 Thread Bill Blackford
--Original Message----- From: Bill Blackford [mailto:bblackf...@nwresd.k12.or.us] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:18 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: SUP720 vs. SUP32 Anyone have any experience with SUP32? Please contact me off list. I'm trying to evaluate a lower-cost alternative to the 720

RE: Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-25 Thread Bill Blackford
Rick. The speedtests are only as good as the hosts they're hosted on and the path by which you reach them. I use iperf on each end of a link that I'm turning up. I put Linux hosts at both endpoints, but I believe iperf comes in a windows flavor too. -b F

Cisco ASR100x

2009-04-01 Thread Bill Blackford
es in the IOS XE vs. IOS. Thanks -b -- Bill Blackford

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Bill Blackford
ront of servers in the first place), load-balancers, and any other > stateful devices should be southbound of the mitigation system. > >> > >> ------- > >> Roland Dobbins // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> > >> > >>Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. > >> > >>-- H.L. Mencken > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer

Re: ASR1002

2010-01-06 Thread Bill Blackford
gt; > > On Jan 6, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Kenny Sallee wrote: > > > > > Anyone have recommendations on solid IOS XE code for ASR 1002 that's > just > > > doing: > > > > > > - BGP > > > - VRF's > > > - Many sub-interfaces and ACL's > > > > > > It shipped with 02.04.02.122-33.XND2.bin > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Kenny > > > > > > > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer

Re: Experiences with Comcast Ethernet/Transit service

2010-01-08 Thread Bill Blackford
nywhere from 30 minutes, to the last one almost 7 > hours (luckily over a weekend). > > Benefits to this, being Metro Ethernet, they do support tagged VLAN's, > so cost to entry is low in terms of equipment and setup/support. > > Our link goes between downtown Portland, OR, to across the river to > East Vancouver and Mill Plain. > > -- > Brent Jones > br...@servuhome.net > > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer

Re: CYMRU Bogon Peering

2010-02-12 Thread Bill Blackford
erce.com> > > > provide-commerce > 4840 Eastgate Mall > > San Diego, CA 92121 > > > > ProFlowers <http://www.proflowers.com/> | redENVELOPE > <http://www.redenvelope.com/> | Cherry Moon Farms > <http://www.cherrymoonfarms.com/> | Shar

Re: 10GBase-t switch

2010-03-10 Thread Bill Blackford
om cisco web site i've seen for example a 3560 model with X2 module > and CX4 port but nothing with 10Gb-T. > > Unfortunately my budget couldn't arrive to nexus or cat6500 > > Do you have some other vendor model i can check? > > Bye > Mirko > > -- Bill Bl

Re: Time Warner Transit

2011-02-08 Thread Bill Blackford
opher Wolff wrote: > Hey guys, > > What are you thinking about Time Warner transit lately?  They claim to be > fully ready to support IPv6. > > Thanks in advance, you can hit me offlist if you're not able to share your > TWTC opinion publicly. > Christopher > > --

Re: 10GBASE-T Switches

2011-02-10 Thread Bill Blackford
ack. It's either EX4500-40F-VC1-BF or EX4500-40F-VC1-FB depending on whether you want Front-to-Back or Back-to-Front airflow. -b -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations

2011-03-09 Thread Bill Blackford
s going but I can't > see how 16k or fewer IPv6 routes on a router is going to be viable a few > years from now. > > Thank you, > Chris Enger > > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

gmail dropping mesages

2011-04-21 Thread Bill Blackford
I've recently observed gmail dropping messages or not forwarding all messages/posts from the nanog list. This is rather annoying. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have any insight as to why? Thanks, -b -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my

Re: gmail dropping mesages

2011-04-21 Thread Bill Blackford
ok, there are some in the spam folder. Hmm, didn't think to look there for the missing ones when my inbox appears to be receivng partial threads. Thanks, -b On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Bill Blackford wrote: >>

Re: Current recommendations for 2 x full bgp feed

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Blackford
to the ASR gets exponential especially going up to 10G. -b -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.

Re: Pirate Bay suffering unreachable errors

2011-05-12 Thread Bill Blackford
Portland OR: 3 sjc1-pr1-xe-0-0-0-0.us.twtelecom.net (66.192.251.170) 15.584 ms 15.674 ms 15.580 ms 4 ae2-20g.cr1.sfo1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.143.162) 16.651 ms 16.810 ms 16.900 ms 5 as40475.ge-0-2-1.cr1.sfo1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.153.90) 16.837 ms 17.037 ms 16.812 ms 6 ge-0-0-1-4030.r

Re: Layer 2 Transport

2025-01-23 Thread Bill Blackford
Wave circuitsOn Jan 23, 2025, at 13:54, Jeff Behrns via NANOG wrote: Identify L2 control protocols which will require transparent tunneling end to end before making a decision on underlay tech.  Beware of multiple vendor handoffs / NNIs under the hood of any solution, but especially an "oMPLS