Re: Internet Exchange Questions

2002-03-19 Thread Andy Dills
ter...so many of the big names, including players from the early days, are in chapter 11 or about to be. It's a sad day when Qwest looks like a good company. Andy xxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecune

Qwest Transit

2002-04-02 Thread Andy Dills
and prepend our announcements such that most of the traffic flows through Qwest. I plan on trying it out regardless, but I'd like to hear from the list first. Thanks, Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC

Re: solutions to the spam problem

2002-04-03 Thread Andy Dills
e: DSB-KR > > (I heared about this via IRC so credits for discovery go somewhere else :) Mind explaining exactly what your discovery is, for those of us without mind reading abilities? Andy xxxx Andy Dills

Qwest Support

2002-04-04 Thread Andy Dills
is a BGP problem...I can't help you. Let me try to get somebody from the IP noc." So, I wait on hold for about 15 minutes, only to be given dial tone. Please tell me it isn't always THIS bad? Andy Andy

RE: Qwest Support

2002-04-04 Thread Andy Dills
en reading nanog for several years and reading/posting to inet-access since 95...I know that these lists are the LAST place to go for sympathy :) Glad I posted though, I've receieved several helpful notes on avoiding qwest's nonsense and getting somebody clued on th

Re: Qwest Support

2002-04-05 Thread Andy Dills
ut probably related to global router configs that needed to be auto-updated I'm guessing... Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net

RE: Qwest Support

2002-04-08 Thread Andy Dills
idth significantly...overall, I'm satisfied so far. It's not like I have a lot of time to give to this craziness, but if I have to choose two from "bandwidth, really inexpensive, and my time", I'd have to be spending somebody else's money to not pick the first two... Andy

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Andy Dills
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Jeffrey Meltzer wrote: > > I've gotten at least 5 messages from you on this list today... Yeah, maybe NANOG implemented WFQ... Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 X

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Andy Dills
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Andy Dills wrote: > > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Jeffrey Meltzer wrote: > > > > > > I've gotten at least 5 messages from you on this list today... > > > > Yeah, maybe NANOG implemented WF

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Andy Dills
f-topic, I'll happily > shut up wait to be told what are accpetable topics. I don't think they're off topic. But other people do. YMMV. HTH. Andy Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access

Re: Certification or College degrees?

2002-05-23 Thread Andy Dills
r the new job > except _gay can read a books and can learn to answer a questions_. I know you're not a native speaker, but that doesn't make this any less hilarious. Andy xxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301

Re: How many protocols...

2002-06-10 Thread Andy Dills
, to answer your question directly, the list of protocols that all carries support includes IP, TCP, UDP, and ICMP. Some might do IPv6, but don't count on it. So how do you get to 10 or 20? Andy xxxx Andy Dills

Re: How many protocols...

2002-06-10 Thread Andy Dills
;re either routing IP, or you're routing `wc -l /etc/services` number of services plus possibly infinite more. Andy Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net xxx

Re: How many protocols...

2002-06-10 Thread Andy Dills
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote: > > AD> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:21:59 -0400 (EDT) > AD> From: Andy Dills > > > AD> How can you forget the king of all protocols, RIP? :) > > RIP isn't an IP protocol. :-) No, but UDP is, and RIP runs on top of UDP.

Re: How many protocols...

2002-06-10 Thread Andy Dills
cted by ICANN mismanagement... Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access

Re: Survey: Peering Staffing Levels

2002-06-12 Thread Andy Dills
. :) Note: I have absolutely no experience or data to base my assumptions on, so don't slap me too hard. Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net xx

Re: Bet on with my boss

2002-06-21 Thread Andy Dills
circuits bouncing? Basically, anybody can answer whatever they want based on the lack of detail in the question. I'd love to take both sides of the bet so I can collect from both you and your boss... Andy Andy Dills

Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT

2002-07-10 Thread Andy Dills
der the importance of your words. Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access

Re: Evil PGP sigs thread must die. was Re: Stop it with putting youre-mail body in my MUA OT

2002-07-10 Thread Andy Dills
for a second unless it was signed and I verified it. Andy Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access

Re: Evil PGP sigs thread must die. was Re: Stop it with putting youre-mail body in my MUA OT

2002-07-10 Thread Andy Dills
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Jordyn A. Buchanan wrote: > On 7/10/02 3:01 PM, "Andy Dills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ah, and that's where the arrogance comment came from. You assume that the > > members of nanog care. I'm not trying to call y

Re: Evil PGP sigs thread must die. was Re: Stop it with putting youre-mail body in my MUA OT

2002-07-10 Thread Andy Dills
tically verified pgp signatures, I would be totally in favor of signing every single email. But the simple fact is that not only do most mail clients not support that, many mail clients can't even display the signed text inline! Surely a compromise is needed for now. Andy xx

Re: Evil PGP sigs thread must die. was Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT

2002-07-15 Thread Andy Dills
t level would you > choose to validate a message like this? "Not everything is black and white." Does that mean you agree with me that not everything needs to be signed? Or does that mean you agree with me in that a judgement call must be made? Andy xx

Re: Requirement to store email for 90 days.

2002-07-22 Thread Andy Dills
ced anybody knows the truth. As far as I can tell, the situations in which they can ask for your records is broadened, but that doesn't require you to keep records... I'd love for somebody to point out what I'm missing... Andy

RE: debugging packet loss

2002-07-23 Thread Andy Dills
hat's only for packets directed at its interfaces. So, I might see 5% packetloss from the router itself, but 0% packetloss for everything behind it. Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301

Re: solving problems instead of beating heads on walls [was: somethingabout arrogance]

2002-07-27 Thread Andy Dills
It's ok if you want a bandaid, just don't try to tell anybody that your bandaid is actually a solid, best-practice solution. Andy Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access

Re: solving problems instead of beating heads on walls [was: somethingabout arrogance]

2002-07-27 Thread Andy Dills
egate, and the whole issue is solved. Then, when you have the Ottawa 100m transit link up, you can announce your /20 to both transit providers all the time. Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC

Re: solving problems instead of beating heads on walls

2002-07-27 Thread Andy Dills
be only used for backup: conditional BGP announcements and a gre tunnel over the transit links in both cities. Andy Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net

Re: custom dialup kits

2002-07-30 Thread Andy Dills
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Miguel Mata-Cardona wrote: > > who make these kits nowaday? Had some contacts, but most of them > are gone. URL or contact email will be very appreciated. www.rockstar.com is the current industry favorite... Andy

Re: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Andy Dills
itely in the lower range controlled by ARIN. No idea why ARIN doesn't have a record for it...they only carry records for ASN 16779, which is Telstra-USA. Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecu

RE: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Andy Dills
IPE-NCC-NONE-MNT changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20010423 source: RIPE Is that just a general mess at the top where, in general, ARIN is in charge but not always? Or just a special situation? Andy xxxx Andy Dills

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at

2002-08-28 Thread Andy Dills
at would be quite nice... Thanks, Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access

RE: IRR listing of IANA-reserved, a question..

2002-09-04 Thread Andy Dills
hout a marketable product, and without a need for the considerable future, will IPv6 remain a barely supported protocol for too long to be implemented? Will IPv6 be surpassed by a superior protocol before it becomes neccessary to be implemented? 10 years is a long time... Andy xx

Re: casual programming and network operations

2002-09-08 Thread Andy Dills
records) perl -pi'.BAK' -e 's/MX\s*(\d*)\s*mail.oldcompany.com/MX $1 mail.newcompany.com/' * rm *.BAK Read `man perlrun`, it details some of the most useful and least used features. Andy Andy Dills

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-10 Thread Andy Dills
cal machine that will happily send their mail (with reasonable limits on number of recipients per arbitrary time period, which all of your mail servers should have anyway). Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet

Re: i think terroists are going to love ipv6

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Dills
; ask and i'll clarify. I think the only thing confusing people is why you continue to post self-serving lunacy to the list. Andy xxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net xx

Re: Using link congestion to control routing updates

2002-12-19 Thread Andy Dills
s. I can't see any reason why this wouldn't work or would be a poor idea... Andy ([EMAIL PROTECTED] HASCS guys hate me, I was a huge pain in the ass when I was an undergrad...still am, I guess) xxxx Andy Dills

RE: fast ethernet limits

2003-01-10 Thread Andy Dills
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Al Rowland wrote: > > And you are using shielded cable, correct? Nah, I'm guessing he strung bare copper seperated by cotton balls. That's what I like to use in my 27-floor 100tx runs. Andy xxx

Re: OT. - The end of inet-access

2003-01-13 Thread Andy Dills
than Susan. She doesn't care if you've been posting for 7 years, if you annoy her, you're gone unless you do what she tells you to. But I'm bitter and biased...mea culpa. Andy And

Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty

2003-01-14 Thread Andy Dills
ied. I'd be happy if every ISP had at least one competent engineer who cared about their job... Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC

Re: FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflectiveattacks?

2003-01-22 Thread Andy Dills
ouse? Do you try to hold the power company responsible for the people who use their electricity to grow weed? I assume you were beating down the doors of Congress, tyring to get rock artists to be responsible for the people who committed suicide after listening to their albums?

RE: att.net email issues?

2003-01-24 Thread Andy Dills
iguration (for those users who, like me, just don't give a damn about getting mail from people who can't take the time to configure reverse DNS.) Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-24 Thread Andy Dills
d all but 1000 routes through IAD...still trying to get somebody on the phone at their IP noc, not having much luck. Genuity seems fine at the moment... Any speculation yet? Kind of an odd coincidence of problems... Oh, just got through...fiber cut in DC? Andy xxx

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Andy Dills
twork, I guess I'm enough to have colo customers who patch their boxes... Andy xxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Di

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Andy Dills
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Andy Dills wrote: > Yet, with Genuity, I don't seem to be having difficulties reaching > anywhere. Are people still being absolutely ravaged by the worm at this > minute? I personally never saw any serious increase of traffic on my > network, I guess I'

Re: Cisco 7507, erratic behaviour

2003-02-07 Thread Andy Dills
less you're a masochist.) Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access

Re: Cisco 7507, erratic behaviour

2003-02-10 Thread Andy Dills
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Andy Dills wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Drew Weaver wrote: > > > > > Howdy, Im having a little difficulty with a 7507, when I do sh run > > it just returns a newline and doesn't show me any the running-configuration. > > My

Re: anti-spam vs network abuse

2003-02-28 Thread Andy Dills
a potentially beneficial practice due to its abuse by criminals? Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access

Re: anti-spam vs network abuse

2003-02-28 Thread Andy Dills
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Charlie Clemmer wrote: > At 03:52 PM 2/28/2003 -0500, Andy Dills wrote: > >Why is probing networks wrong? > > Depends on why you're doing the probing. If so, why outlaw the act of probing? Why not outlaw "probing for the purposes of..."? >

Re: anti-spam vs network abuse

2003-03-01 Thread Andy Dills
n, and if they do, they WILL NOT hack from where they scan. So that reactive filter rule based on the portscan doesn't help you. So, in your hypothetical, when some popular daemon develops a vulnerability (like with openssh and apache within the last year), what are YOU going to do about it bef

Re: BGP to doom us all

2003-03-01 Thread Andy Dills
with multiple routing arbiters), who should be allowed to announce which prefix. Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Di

Re: OT: level3 contact

2003-03-05 Thread Andy Dills
hat to the point of demanding a service credit Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Comme

RE: OT: level3 contact

2003-03-05 Thread Andy Dills
g able to get somebody on the phone without effort when trying to get things running the first time (but with multiple emails and calls, it's still inexcusable). However, if you're already exchanging routes with them, there's no excuse for not being able to get somebody who understan

Re: Abstract of proposed Internet Draft for Best Current Practice(please comment)

2003-03-06 Thread Andy Dills
e; the business end of cash-desperate networks are the driving force in this industry, not us. Andy xxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net xxx

Re: Abstract of proposed Internet Draft for Best Current Practice(please comment)

2003-03-07 Thread Andy Dills
his could happen > to the Internet! (with your help--go for it!) Except, nobody's health is affected by this...and the revenue impact is minimal also. Otherwise, that would have been the motivation to fix the problem long ago. Your propose to make the revenue impact much greater (through collat

Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

2003-03-07 Thread Andy Dills
re LA and Amsterdam? Neither is tropical, but they have plenty of drugs and women. Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access

RE: 69/8...this sucks

2003-03-11 Thread Andy Dills
he IRRs for being fragmented and greedy. And if that doesn't poison your inverse arp, then multiplex a private bogon server with a centralized host scanner-based DNSBL. Don't forget the trailing dot! And don't forget to invert the subnet mask! Andy xxxxx

RE: 69/8...this sucks

2003-03-11 Thread Andy Dills
this? I've been peering with Rob's bogon server for a little while, and it works great. All of my customers get routes that point the bogons to a traffic sink on my network. If they were so inclined, they could sink that traffic before leaving their network. Andy

RE: 69/8...this sucks

2003-03-11 Thread Andy Dills
ready to be a nail for the LDAP hammer and whether or not people actually understand how sBGP is proposed to work. But at the same time, I can't think of a place this stuff would be more relevant. Which is why it's good to filter...so you still be subscribed to the list AND not be annoyed.

Re: 69/8...this sucks

2003-03-11 Thread Andy Dills
that people will be forced to fix their filters. But is that the only way? And would your answer change if you were one of the first networks to be assigned space in the new range? Andy xxxx Andy Dills

Re: 69/8...this sucks

2003-03-11 Thread Andy Dills
ust have a static ACL...unless you can't afford the ACL hit, in which case filtering announcements from your peers and routing everything bogon into a traffic sink would be a great solution. We're all filtering announcements from our peers anyway, right? :) Andy

Re: 69/8...this sucks

2003-03-12 Thread Andy Dills
all bogon route filters that need to be > maintained? Sure. If the NSPs would just filter the bogon routes, nobody else would have to bother. Why is it that they don't? Andy xxxx Andy Dills

Re: 69/8...this sucks

2003-03-12 Thread Andy Dills
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Peter E. Fry wrote: > Andy Dills wrote: > > > > Sure. If the NSPs would just filter the bogon routes, nobody else would > > have to bother. Why is it that they don't? > > Filter (public, private and transit) peers or customers..

Re: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this sucks)

2003-03-12 Thread Andy Dills
y me, now and in the future. What goes around comes around, > girlfriend. Except, you know he's male, and he didn't know you were female. So, you end up looking like a petty whiner who siezed upon the ability to be offended, even when there was no cause for it. Get over it. If

route filtering in large networks

2003-03-12 Thread Andy Dills
should work, but I don't have the pragmatism that comes with running a nationwide network staffed by banana eaters. If nothing else, it seems like a worthy stopgap until the next iteration of BGP comes along to really address the trust issues. Andy xxx

Re: route filtering in large networks

2003-03-12 Thread Andy Dills
he routes they send? As long as people continue to have unfiltered peers (save for maximum-prefix), this would seem a reasonable measure of implementing the principle of being liberal with what you accept and conservative with what you send. Andy xxxx

Re: APNIC returning 223/8 to IANA

2003-03-16 Thread Andy Dills
certainly causes its share of problems. Andy xxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access

Re: Co-lo best practices on IP allocations

2003-03-18 Thread Andy Dills
t they can justify, unless they are potentially a huge revenue customer, to who you would give whatever they want (within reason). $50 per /24 at the high end, $5 per /29 at the low end. Andy xxxx Andy Dills

Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?

2003-03-21 Thread Andy Dills
ith Virtual PC, the keyspan adapter can be "shared" with the emaulated PC, and you can use SecureCRT, "the best terminal emulator ever". Andy Andy Dills

Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?

2003-03-21 Thread Andy Dills
great command line solution. .cshrc: alias console "sudo /usr/local/etc/conserver.rc start; sleep 2; \ /usr/local/bin/console -p 1025 -M 127.0.0.1 serial; sudo \ /usr/local/etc/conserver.rc stop" I didn't like zterm... Andy xxxxx

Re: Curing the BIND pain

2003-03-27 Thread Andy Dills
ser. Looming large, of course, is the fact that people would have to upgrade to get any of this "security upgrade" functionality. So we'd really be only partially solving a problem in which we won't see any benefit for years to come, which is usually enough impetus to

Re: Allegiance telecom boston colo down?

2003-03-28 Thread Andy Dills
ows that up with "Tried that, they had no idea what was wrong". Cheers to a good weekend, Andy Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access

RE: Cisco HFR

2004-05-25 Thread Andy Dills
who actually need this router, price isn't a factor. If you actually need it, there are no other options. And if money is a primary consideration, this is not the router for you. The secondary market is obviously where the value is...and I doubt these will show up on ebay. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-10 Thread Andy Dills
od. As far as I'm concerned, that guy would have a better shot at suing Microsoft then challenging his bandwidth bill. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-10 Thread Andy Dills
that in the future they will be liable for 100% of the packets coming from their port, regardless of the circumstances. Maybe we should start putting this in writing, but it hasn't really been a problem. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense and responsibility

2004-06-11 Thread Andy Dills
Which network do you run again? I'm starting to think I'm talking to a kook. Here this whole time I thought you represented cox.net. Clearly not. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Andy Dills
o cross your streams. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

RE: Can a customer take IP's with them?

2004-06-23 Thread Andy Dills
uld have to do in order to "sell" their IP space is to create a contract stating that they are doing so. Contracts are rarely as binding as people think they are. Of course, I'm no lawyer, I just hate paying them. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

RE: Can a customer take IP's with them?

2004-06-23 Thread Andy Dills
m of property rights in any numbering resources in the United States or any other country." Seems pretty clear to me. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

RE: Can a customer take IP's with them?

2004-06-23 Thread Andy Dills
not have in the first place. This is one of the easiest ways to have a contact or part of a contract rendered void. I'm no lawyer, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong ;) Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

RE: Can a customer take IP's with them?

2004-06-23 Thread Andy Dills
was the customer's express purpose of acquiring the IP space from ARIN, as their request form will inherently attest to. They were negligent to not implement a solution in that year, and since the "irreparable harm" can be completely eliminated with an inexpensive technical solution, there's no case (from where I sit). Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: 2511 line break

2004-07-26 Thread Andy Dills
ur reputation, I'd assume you were trolling. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: Precise per GB traffic calculations.

2004-08-21 Thread Andy Dills
#x27;s not a good idea to look at the counter on day 1 and on day 30 and compare them. Check it every 5 minutes and store it in a database. That way, the same system can do aggregate or 95th percentile, it's all in the report script you write. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior

2004-08-24 Thread Andy Dills
#x27;re not buying it from us (and we'll sell just about anything to just about anybody). Perhaps a product made by a company that makes the slightest effort to put out a quality product would serve you better. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-25 Thread Andy Dills
long. -- Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: SkyCache/Cidera replacement?

2004-09-20 Thread Andy Dills
> needed anymore? People still use usenet? ;) Seriously though, you'd have to be an awfully large organization for outsourced news to not be a slam dunk financially. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: why upload with adsl is faster than 100M ethernet ?

2004-10-15 Thread Andy Dills
tance)? I use rate limiting for some of my customers, and when correctly configured (you _must_ use the right burst sizes), you will get the exact rate specified, TCP or not. However, I've never had to rate-limit above 30mbps, so perhaps you have some experience that I don't. Andy

Re: why upload with adsl is faster than 100M ethernet ?

2004-10-15 Thread Andy Dills
ectly configured bursts, the saw-toothing affect did not prevent delivery of the configured throughput. This holds up with multiple concurrent transfers. The customer gets whatever bandwidth is available under their cap, and when I look at their bandwidth graphs, they have the ability to saturate their bandwidth to 100% of the configured rate. Works for me and mine. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-10-28 Thread Andy Dills
are of. But with a little work, you could probably integrate it all into nagios. After all, you can make the host names or descriptions URLs that link to bandwidth and error graphs or other tools. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator

2003-04-03 Thread Andy Dills
hances your transfer switch is going to fail? Andy xxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access

Re: NAT for an ISP

2003-06-05 Thread Andy Dills
k" > between each other, which scares the crap out of me. We are going to > wait for a couple of revisions of the IOS before looking into that > again. Why on earth would you do anything other than push NAT responsibility to the end-user CPE? So you can do the aforementiond "cool stuff"? Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: NAT for an ISP

2003-06-05 Thread Andy Dills
d you loud and clear. "My friend is a half-baked cluebie using techniques I'll term fun and later encourage my competitors to employ". :) Using a technology because it's "possible" is the single stupidest rationale, probably resulting in almost as much downtime as sheer incompetence. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: NAT for an ISP

2003-06-05 Thread Andy Dills
general principle of "easy to manage, easy to break" at work here. Implement NAT in one box, if NAT breaks, every single customer attached dies. Implement NAT in one box for each customer, and if NAT breaks, a single customer dies. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

RE: Ettiquette and rules regarding Hijacked ASN's or IP space?

2003-06-09 Thread Andy Dills
e at least purchasing transit from multiple organizations (if not truly multihomed) and could easily justify an ASN without having to specify their unique routing policy. What sorts of 'unique' routing policies justify an ASN? Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: IPv6

2003-06-12 Thread Andy Dills
he fact that they no longer have a nice dotted quad to remember. So, how does IPv6 go from the shores of Japan and the minds of geeks across America to being the primary protocol used on the net? Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: IntraLATA vs. InterLATA Ckt Reliability

2003-06-16 Thread Andy Dills
elling you what you want to hear. Few people really know how the fiber is run, and you don't have their phone number. Bottom line is that you're going to have to rely 100% on the last mile provided by your LEC. You could contract with a CLEC to take your circuit cross-LATA; it's chea

Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd)

2003-06-19 Thread Andy Dills
red (9504 deferrals) 1636 bounced 718k rejected (83%) 0 reject warnings 0 held 0 discarded (0%) Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd)

2003-06-19 Thread Andy Dills
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Jack Bates wrote: > > Andy Dills wrote: > > How do you get your mail delivery attempts to occur so linearly? :) > > > > I think something's busted with your mrtg script... > > > > Depends on which stats he wants. He's showing t

RE: IRR/RADB and BGP

2003-06-20 Thread Andy Dills
well-known issues > with some networks, especially internationally. I dunno, there are plenty of smaller ASes who have yet to be forced to register their routes. We haven't yet been forced, but I finally got motivated to submit them to altdb last night. Altdb definitely rocks. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: Network discovery and mapping

2003-06-22 Thread Andy Dills
rks and 100,000 network devices? Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---

Re: Network discovery and mapping

2003-06-22 Thread Andy Dills
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Andy Dills wrote: > > > That's quite a "medium-scale". > > > > Is there a single entity in the world that controls 1,000 networks and > > 100,000 network devices? > > WorldCo

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