Ren Nowlin's Saturday Expedition

2002-06-07 Thread David Diaz
Anyone driving over to the docks from the Sheraton hotel tomorrow AM? Willing to split a cab otherwise. -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: Survey: Peering Staffing Levels

2002-06-12 Thread David Diaz
lutely no experience or data to base my assumptions on, >so don't slap me too hard. > >Andy > > >Andy Dills 301-682-9972 >Xecunet, LLCwww.xecu.net >xxxxxx

RE: OT - Importance of Content

2002-07-11 Thread David Diaz
siness model >> and greatly >> skew your traffic ratios to hopefully reach a critical mass. I >> would think >> at some point you would have so much content that people would >> start to come >> to you for peering or to purchase access to get to that c

RE: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread David Diaz
gt;neighborhood". > >-- >"Just say No" to Spam Kai >Schlichting >New York, Palo Alto, You name it Sophisticated Technical >Peon >Kai's SpamShield is FREE! >http://www.SpamShield.org >| >| | >LeasedLines-FrameRelay-IPLs-ISDN-PPP-Cisco-Consulting-VoiceFax-Data-Muxe >s >WorldWideWebAnything-Intranets-NetAdmin-UnixAdmin-Security-ReallyHardMat >h -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: OC-768 availability?

2002-07-29 Thread David Diaz
Not a problem, available at Disneyland, visit the gift shop while u r there for those OC768 card for the cisco 2621. While u are there if u could pick me up one those DAVE license plates, I'd appreciate it! Sorry all I couldnt resist ;-) At 16:10 -0700 7/29/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >H

Re: MAE ATM

2002-07-31 Thread David Diaz
I almost forgot about those netedge boxes, seems the one we had in DC was about as reliable as a microwave with tin foil in it. I cant remember how many times it or a card had been replaced. Is anyone out there still using them? I do have fond memories of fddi, about the only truly stable c

Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?

2002-08-11 Thread David Diaz
s than 0.001% of the time? you >want to have the complexity as your most likely source of (false positive) >error? > >> As far as I understand, this "complexity" just got added with Neighbor >> Discovery on IPv6. > >if so, then, you misunderstand. >-- >Paul Vixie -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: your mail

2002-08-20 Thread David Diaz
more neutral than a normal abovenet/exodus/att/qwest/ibm/uunet >hosting center would be, and that makes them the only game in that town. > >i recommend that you work hard at helping them fix whatever it is they're >doing wrong. think of your work in that regard as a public s

Re: Cogent service

2002-09-20 Thread David Diaz
n I suggest reading the >debt covenants in their SEC filings. On one hand I doubt they'll be able >to live up to them by Q2 2003, but then Cisco is their main investor so >the consequences may not be that bad if they fail to meet them. > >-Ralph -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: Cogent service

2002-09-20 Thread David Diaz
g. Is the consensus that it's mostly a customer service issue, where latency isnt affected but customer perception is? Or is it a real latency issue as more routers take a few CPU cycles to make a routing decision. Dave At 9:54 -0700 9/20/02, William B. Norton wrote: >At 10:31 AM 9/20/2002

RE: Cogent service

2002-09-20 Thread David Diaz
upon, this >information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient >is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the >sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. > > >=

Re: Cogent service

2002-09-20 Thread David Diaz
om a hardware standpoint, it speeds up the process significantly. Think of a factory with a cleaver machine, it knows exactly where to chop the pieces because there is a rhythm. It takes no "figuring out." By chopping up everything into set sizes you dont need to "search" for headers or different parts of the packet. It's always at a "set" byte number. Well Ive done a poor job of explaining it, but it does speed things up. > >Pete -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

2002-09-23 Thread David Diaz
;t say without a sniffer, but I'd bet that most NANOG participants are >doing the same: SSH or IPsec VPN's back to home (wherever that is). >Anyone who >isn't is begging to be hacked, WEP or not. Anyone interested in hacking NANOG >attendees' networks is likely a NANOG attendee himself. Caveat attendor. > >S -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: Equinix to join role of chapter 11's?

2002-10-02 Thread David Diaz
- >> ... >> I just got word of this last night. >> >> Here's the publication and the story for any who are interested: >> >> >>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/30/BU117189.DTL&type=business >> >> I certainly hope this doesn't happen. -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"

2002-11-08 Thread David Diaz
ut where in the world should "J" move? i have been pushing bejing for a few years. except it would be nice to have built some operational understanding and trust with those folk first, perhaps by asking them to secondary arpa for a while. randy -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email]

PAIX

2002-11-13 Thread David Diaz
6 may be all we need. -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: South Florida Network Operators Group

2002-11-13 Thread David Diaz
sushi dinner.  Every wed in a different restaurant. At 16:26 -0500 11/13/02, Dale Levesque wrote: Does anyone in here now of a South Florida Network Operators Group, or something similar, and if not, would they be interested in starting one.   Dale Levesque -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread David Diaz
ita ~ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 + (GMT) From: A Trap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambo

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread David Diaz
eem to be equally mundane (but exciting at the same time). Pete. On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:22:09 -0500 David Diaz wrote: > 2) There is a lack of a killer app requiring peering every 100 sq Km. I recommend some quality time with journals cove

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread David Diaz
At 18:31 + 11/14/02, E.B. Dreger wrote: DD> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:22:09 -0500 DD> From: David Diaz DD> 1) Long haul circuits are dirt cheap. Meaning distance DD> peering becomes more attractive. L3 also has an MPLS product DD> so you pay by the meg. I am surprised a g

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread David Diaz
calling son etc etc So we can think of these "peering centers" as replacements for the 5-10 COs in most average cities. Otherwise what apps require such dense peering. At 14:44 -0800 11/14/02, Vadim Antonov wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote: 2) There is a lack of a

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread David Diaz
At 1:20 +0200 11/15/02, Rafi Sadowsky wrote: ## On 2002-11-14 14:44 -0800 Vadim Antonov typed: VA> VA> VA> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote: VA> VA> > 2) There is a lack of a killer app requiring peering every 100 sq Km. VA> VA> Peering every 100 sq km is absolutely

Re: PAIX

2002-11-15 Thread David Diaz
ill in the ISPs name) IP backbone quality, at Cogent's pricing of less then $30meg... great... At 9:55 -0500 11/15/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:36:54 -0500 David Diaz wrote: People seem to prefer cost of quality at this time. Good Fast Cheap Honey, part of ou

Re: PAIX

2002-11-15 Thread David Diaz
arguing that no one wants to use them. Of course no one wants to use them ‹ they know they won't work! >>> David Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/14/02 05:52PM >>> Voice of reason... The only possible reason I can think of is if these data networks replace the present voice

Re: PAIX

2002-11-18 Thread David Diaz
I agree with everything said Stephen except the part about the medical industry. There are a couple of very large companies doing views over an IP backbone down here. Radiology is very big on networking. They send your films or videos over the network to where the Radiologist is. For examp

Re: PAIX/industry specific exchange pts

2002-11-18 Thread David Diaz
public internet? What are the bandwidth demands? Not a good reason for extensive local peering, but a very interesting application. - Dan On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake "David Diaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I agree with everything said Stephen except the

Re: PAIX

2002-11-18 Thread David Diaz
33 is busy, hung or dead....20915-1433 -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: PAIX

2002-11-18 Thread David Diaz
add up quickly. I once read that the most people wil tolerate on a regular basis is around 150-180 ms. I think that is much too high for regular use -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: PAIX

2002-11-18 Thread David Diaz
Actually the way it seems to work is head over to the local server, and the radiologist goes through several patients at a time, taking not of any notations the techie made on the film. I do not think most are emergencies or code blues, just someone coming in with a pain etc. 5min probably w

Re: PAIX

2002-11-18 Thread David Diaz
/02, just me wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote: In the real world however, yes, off several dsl links Im seeing those levels to various sites, I think it's more a factor of congested peering links or traffic aggregation at a hub. People arent spending the money to upgrade

Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows

2002-11-27 Thread David Diaz
;s concerns.   Irwin -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.net [Peering Site under development] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows

2002-11-27 Thread David Diaz
does seem that most hostile groups out there are more interested in something more gory then saying "ha we have denied the infidels their spam this week..." At 13:28 + 11/27/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote: I think this is old news. There wa

Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows

2002-11-27 Thread David Diaz
; less so for rural areas. Why should this shock anyone? Imminent death of the 'net is *not predicted ;-) Eliot -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.net [Peering Site under development] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows

2002-11-28 Thread David Diaz
of conclusions. And therein lies the problem! Plenty of room for theorising tho! Steve -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.net [Peering Site under development] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: Spanning tree melt down ?

2002-11-29 Thread David Diaz
I would be more likely to say that, then he need be a physician with management skills. I think Dan made this point already in his post. I have tremendous respect for physicians having grown up in that field. But they tend to be so smart that they get themselves in trouble, or have trouble k

Re:

2002-12-18 Thread David Diaz
I have to disagree with you. I dont think most of their customers are adult content or the likes looking for cheap transit. I think there model was to attract business users that wouldnt use the full pipe. They can burst but arent expected to saturate the pipe 24x7. It's not a bad model, bu

Re: Cogent

2002-12-18 Thread David Diaz
Well I believe some are doing consulting. And expensive is relative. I think their multimillion investment with worth more then a couple of guys salaries. Different peers want to see different things. Some want balanced traffic, certain traffic levels, number of locations etc etc. Many of t

RE: AOL & Cogent

2002-12-21 Thread David Diaz
m the larger, more stable company AOL... Might not be common peering sense, but damn good business sense Further, if L3/Cogent are settlement-free and both parties are interested in growing the size of their peering connections, wouldn't it make better sense -- David Diaz [EMA

Re: AOL & Cogent

2002-12-29 Thread David Diaz
174_3356_ excluding AOL' ASN(s) at one peering location and keep saturating its Level3 peering connectivity at other locations. Any thoughts? -Basil -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.net [Peering Site under development] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: AOL & Cogent

2002-12-29 Thread David Diaz
transit contracts are rightpriced, and we reach some kind of equilibrium between the value and cost of traffic, then some kind of technological argument about peering might hold some sway. -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.net [Peering Site under development] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: DC power versus AC power

2002-12-29 Thread David Diaz
...[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead20915-1433 -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.net [Peering Site under development] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: AOL & Cogent

2002-12-30 Thread David Diaz
yone does that it's good for ISP's in general? It seems to me you want to have your cake and eat it too. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org Content-Type: application/pgp-sig

Re: US-Asia Peering

2003-01-03 Thread David Diaz
- jsb -- Jeff Barrows, President Firefly Networks http://FireflyNetworks.net +1 703 287 4221 Voice +1 703 288 4003 Facsimile An Advanced Internet Engineering & Professional Services Organization -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.net [Peering Site under development] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

MSN Messenger

2003-01-06 Thread David Diaz
know of a maint page they have? Thought this also might be helpful to any ISPs with a large amount of users. David -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.net [Peering Site under development] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: DWDM interconnects

2003-01-06 Thread David Diaz
etwork interconnection? Many vendors proclaim interoperability, but does that work in the real world? Pete. -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.net [Peering Site under development] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Re: DWDM interconnects

2003-01-06 Thread David Diaz
Actually I forgot to mention. Since we have different frequencies for the lasers, you and your peer would have to agree ahead of time and stock that particular frequency or "color." IT's a major stocking nightmare especially for spares. The real explosion may occur as tunable lasers drop in

RE: DWDM interconnects

2003-01-06 Thread David Diaz
ly but I really thing we need to start hypothesizing about where we see this scaling. David At 21:17 -0700 1/6/03, brett watson wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Diaz Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: DWDM interconnects

2003-01-06 Thread David Diaz
iption of the switched network. We havent seen that at this layer yet. Very scary if not managed correctly. David At 1:08 -0500 1/7/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 23:57:29 EST, David Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: At this point it's pretty clear that unless y

Re: hotmail problem

2003-01-09 Thread David Diaz
Im finding it reachable at the moment. But MSN messenger just started having problems again. 18:29. Let's see if it disappears quickly this time. They may be cutting something over. David At 14:22 -0800 1/9/03, Matt Thoene wrote: On Thursday, January 9, 2003 @ 2:11:02 PM [-0700], Oscar Vald

Re: Puerto Rico Peering Point, or existence thereof.

2003-01-10 Thread David Diaz
Actually I know there was something of an IX starting down there about 1999. I believe it was in the small cellular companies facility. One of the guys from Netrail, Nathan Estes, went down to help them out for a week. The name escapes me but perhaps he could post it here if he recalls the

Re: uunet

2003-01-18 Thread David Diaz
twork and hit uunet. -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.net [Peering Site under development] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

mSQL Attack/Peering/OBGP/Optical exchange

2003-01-26 Thread David Diaz
kbone sizes are the constricting factor, not peering circuits or optical VPN circuits at the optical IX. Any feedback, devil's advocate position, voodoo or "other" is welcome. Dave -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.net [Peering Sit

Re: mSQL Attack/Peering/OBGP/Optical exchange

2003-01-30 Thread David Diaz
Would some of these technologies have exacerbated the problems we saw. Trying to get better feedback on the future issues, so far some of the offline comments and perspectives have been helpful and inciteful as well as yours... Dave At 20:12 + 1/30/03, Vijay Gill wrote: David Diaz <[EM

Re: mSQL Attack/Peering/OBGP/Optical exchange

2003-01-30 Thread David Diaz
At 6:54 + 1/31/03, Vijay Gill wrote: David Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: was to "pay" for what you used when you used it. The biggest technical factor was "how the heck do you bill it." Actually I'd think the biggest technical factor would be the t

Re: mSQL Attack/Peering/OBGP/Optical exchange

2003-02-04 Thread David Diaz
to pay for the network even when it isn't being used. Basically you have three billing principles, pay per usage, pay for the service, a mix of the two. With all the models you still need to distribute the cost over bandwidth and in worst case this will end up being higher per transfer

Fwd: A warning from Register.com, Inc.

2003-02-21 Thread David Diaz
ugh our Website (http://www.register.com) or by calling: Within the U.S. and Canada: (800) 899-9723 Outside the U.S. and Canada: +1 (902) 742-1466 Sincerely, Richard D. Forman President and CEO Register.com, Inc. -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.ne

Re: Weird email messages with "re:movie" and "re:application" inthe subject line..

2003-06-25 Thread David Diaz
Yep coming to my nanog email addy. My email box has started receiving a bunch of emails recently (earlier this evening) with a 80k zip attachment called "your_details.zip" and either "re:movie" and "re:application" from a whole bunch of other address I have never heard of.. New spam technique or s

Virus emails from nanog mail list

2003-08-19 Thread David Diaz
addresses, and they are attaching viruses. The IP address (which may or may not be accurate) appears to be [195.157.87.253]. Has anyone else noticed this recently? Dave -- David Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Pager] www.smoton.net Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons

Fwd: Re: Virus emails from nanog mail list

2003-08-19 Thread David Diaz
Forwarding this for Mark, he deserved some credit for verifying the IP but did not want his other addy harvested. It's like you need a wing man now for posting to mail lists! Cougar Subject: Re: Virus emails from nanog mail list From: "Mark J. Scheller" To: David Diaz &l

Re: Sea sponge builds a better glass fiber

2003-08-21 Thread David Diaz
Yea I saw that yesterday. Wasnt sure that was nanog material. But the most interesting fact left out on this summery was the ability to "dope" the fiber with elements like sodium. It seems the little creatures can do things naturally that was havent a clue how to do in the lab. Also they se

Re: Rules and Regs for a LEC's and Non LEC's

2003-08-25 Thread David Diaz
Yep, if memory serves Bellsouth had 23. 1 for each one of the 22 latas and the 23rd was the dereg'ed ASN that would come after LD relief. Makes it hard to even talk about peering with other companies. Image when they ask for your ASN and you tell them u dont know offhand, u have to email the

Re: Tier-1 without their own backbone?

2003-08-27 Thread David Diaz
I guess it depends on your traffic type and destination. Level 3 has a lot of connectivity to content providers such as yahoo and microsoft. As Joel P pointed out they have been a reliable backbone with a lot of capacity. They also have knowledgeable peering people although they lean towards

London Power outage

2003-08-28 Thread David Diaz
Can anyone in London provide details on the outage... are any colos on generator? dave

Re: Important changes to the .org tld today.

2003-09-05 Thread David Diaz
Rodney, Thanks for the announcement. I now have something to forward when people wonder why a domain update can take 24hrs. For those of us not on 50 lists a one time post to nanog like this is a big help. Dave At 6:03 -0700 9/5/03, Rodney Joffe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ha

Net Neutrality

2006-04-06 Thread David Diaz
The list is extremely quiet on Net Neutrality. I cannot find a single post. I thought this would be a good debate topic. The usual gov regulation vs free market argument along side the RBOC vs Everyone else topic. David

Re: Net Neutrality

2006-04-06 Thread David Diaz
voip service will be affected. I see that as an operational issue. Whether all packets should be treated equally. On 4/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:18:24 EDT, David Diaz said: > > The list is extremely quiet on Net Neutrality. I canno

Re: Power outages in Florida

2008-02-26 Thread David Diaz
Being that Miami is my home town. I found it interesting today that in areas affected by the black out services like verizon EVDO lost their backbone connections. The towers were up with signal but no one could get to the IP gateway. Driving a few miles to a lit area provided connectivity. This is

Nanog 43/CBX -- Hotel codes etc

2008-04-04 Thread David Diaz
dnesday June 4th 7 - 11pm - R.S.V.P to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - All NANOG Attendees are invited Telx Customer Business Exchange "CBX" Thursday June 5th 9am - 3pm Visit http://cbx.telx.com to register *It is FREE to attend - All NANOG Attendees are invited > David Diaz telx +