RE: ratios

2002-05-09 Thread Steve Meuse
At 01:05 PM 5/9/2002 -0400, Daniel Golding wrote: >I guess the best thing you can do is not take peering matters personally, >and to remember that peering decisions are business decisions, and they by >personalizing them, it creates unnecessary animosity. > >- Daniel Golding Oh come now Dan, t

Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light?

2005-08-22 Thread Steve Meuse
On 8/21/05, Peter Dambier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have had a look into one of my microwave books. I have seen in coaxcables the speed of lite drop to 90% or 80% depending on the insulator,the dielectric. I believe this is referred to as "velocity factor". -Steve -- -Steve

Re: PRIX - Puerto RIco Internet Exchange

2005-09-27 Thread Steve Meuse
No, I think we all need the comic relief, I say leave it :) -SteveOn 9/27/05, John Neiberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We , a small group of researchers , have started a Project called Prix [> http://prix.uprr.pr ] which has the intentions of creating a large table for> those who would like to

Re: the future of the net

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Meuse
On 11/16/05, Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:42:41PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8673Hrmmm... The future of the net? You mean, will crazy people continue to post crazy rants about things they clearly don't fully understa

Re: E1 - RJ45 pinout with ethernet crossover cable

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Meuse
> > Not that I know of, but I've never attempted what you > describe. Putting the baluns in the loop will destroy the > framing i.e. it's going to try and convert b8zs/ami to 802.x. A Balun (BALanced to UNbalanced) is simply an impledence matching mechanism. Crossover is still required. --

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Steve Meuse
On 4/13/05, John Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you for that information. I can leave 41/8 in my router bogon list > and hopefully eliminate the Nigerian 419 problem somewhat. Personally, I believe we should give them the chance to fail before we cut them off from the rest of the w

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Steve Meuse
On 4/13/05, Richard Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The largest part (>90%) does originate in Nigeria. The remainder comes > from countries adjacent to Nigeria such as Togo, Senegal, etc (~6%) or > from the Netherlands (~4%) So we should spank the rest of the *continent* for one countries i

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Steve Meuse
On 4/15/05, Philip Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to get a handle on how common this practice is. > No one that I have asked seems to know any provider that does this, > and a search of a few FAQs plus about an hour of Googling hasn't > turned up anything definite (but maybe

RE: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Steve Meuse
At 04:10 PM 8/19/2002 -0400, Andy Dills wrote: >Interesting. So then, how did that happen? > >as-block:AS1 - AS1876 >descr: ARIN ASN block >remarks: These AS numbers are further assigned by ARIN >remarks: to ARIN members and end-users in the ARIN region >admin-c: ARIN1-RIP

Re: Honest Cogent opinions without rhetoric.

2006-03-08 Thread Steve Meuse
On 3/8/06, Daniel Senie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 08:57 AM 3/8/2006, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:>On Mar 8, 2006, at 1:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:>>It's not just cities, it's entire countries.  Try being on a DSL line >in France and getting to a Cogent web server in France.How is this differen

Re: link between Sprint and Level3 Networks is down in Chicago

2006-11-09 Thread Steve Meuse
It's not uncommon at all to have a single interconnect between providers in a geographical area. Multiple interconnects within a region tended to be more for load balancing, not redundancy. There have been certain providers that, historically, could or would not support anything larger than an OC48

Re: Route Reflector architecture and how to get small customer blocks in to BGP?

2007-01-28 Thread Steve Meuse
On 1/28/07, Danny McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: o If you're going to use redistribution - or not - ensure that all external advertisement policies require explicit match of advertise communities and default is to deny I'll second that recommendation. I learned early in life that this

Re: FCC on wifi at hotel

2007-02-28 Thread Steve Meuse
It's about revenue recovery. If you provide your own free wifi, they are losing potential business. It's usually part of the negotiation with the Hotel. -Steve On 2/28/07, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: me again. So wifi at pycon 07 was 'better than 06' witch I hear was a complete

Re: FCC on wifi at hotel

2007-02-28 Thread Steve Meuse
On 2/28/07, Jared Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-157A1.pdf I do suggest reading this. They can not legally bar you from using the devices. They can charge you outrageous fees to get to/from the MMR or telco demarc and

Re: TCP and WAN issue

2007-03-27 Thread Steve Meuse
On 3/27/07, Lincoln Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: even on "default settings" on a modern TCP stack, getting close to path-line-rate on a 80msec RTT WAN @ DS3 speeds with a single TCP stream should not be that difficult. the Windows TCP stack as of Windows XP SP2 has some fairly decent defaul

Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Meuse
On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For that matter, what releases of Windows support setting a 9K MTU? That's probably the *real* uptake limiter. Most, if not all. I have an XP box that has a GigE with 9k MTU. -- -Steve