Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5 May 2008, at 21:49, Nathan Ward wrote: > On 6/05/2008, at 1:21 PM, Joe Abley wrote: > >> On 5 May 2008, at 20:50, Nathan Ward wrote: >> >>> Perhaps what would make more sense here is Foundry (F5, etc.) >>> building >>> an anycast feature - anycast prefixes are withdrawn when a cluster >>> re

Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

2008-05-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, May 06, 2008, Nathan Ward wrote: > Maybe you just start calling "10Mbps" "10Mbps, assuming a 500b average > packet size." > > Anyway, nice idea in theory - putting more real world limitations in > to sold product limitations - but I don't see it working out with > marketing people,

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Nathan Ward
On 6/05/2008, at 1:21 PM, Joe Abley wrote: > On 5 May 2008, at 20:50, Nathan Ward wrote: > >> Perhaps what would make more sense here is Foundry (F5, etc.) >> building >> an anycast feature - anycast prefixes are withdrawn when a cluster >> relying on that anycast prefix goes below a threshold.

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 6 May 2008 13:24:35 +1200 Nathan Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/05/2008, at 1:19 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > > "Steve"? I assume you meant "Paul" > > No, Steve Gibbard referred to not having control of routers, Paul > referred to customers. > Ah. As has often been

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Nathan Ward
On 6/05/2008, at 1:19 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > "Steve"? I assume you meant "Paul" No, Steve Gibbard referred to not having control of routers, Paul referred to customers. -- Nathan Ward ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mail

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5 May 2008, at 20:50, Nathan Ward wrote: > Perhaps what would make more sense here is Foundry (F5, etc.) building > an anycast feature - anycast prefixes are withdrawn when a cluster > relying on that anycast prefix goes below a threshold. I'm not sure exactly what feature is required, here.

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Roland Dobbins
On May 6, 2008, at 2:52 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > delay, because nanog meetings only happen N times per year, so > an idea may have to wait months before it's widely circulated. > congestion, > because nanog meetings are of fixed duration and there is, and has > to be, > competition for the sl

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Nathan Ward
On 6/05/2008, at 4:07 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > i dearly do > wish that something like a "service advertisement protocol" existed, > that > did what OSPF ECMP did, without a router operator effectively giving > every > customer the ability to inject other customer routes, or default > routes.

Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

2008-05-05 Thread Nathan Ward
On 6/05/2008, at 8:02 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > Of course not. Like I said, as an average end-user with 10 Mbps you > get to send a maximum of 2500 packets per second. That's plenty to do > VoIP, set up TCP sessions or do IM. You just don't get to send the > full 10 Mbps at this size. Hmm

Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

2008-05-05 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Iljitsch van Beijnum) [Mon 05 May 2008, 10:09 CEST]: > PS. Am I the only one who is annoyed by the reduction in usable > subject space by the superfluous [NANOG]? No, and I'm just as annoyed by the (non-McQ) footer with superfluous information attached to each mail. On 5 m

Re: [NANOG] Strange network behaviour

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas K. Rand
> Did your inbound path change as a result? Yes, I was trying to re-balance our inbound traffic a bit better. The route-map change resulted in about 30% of our traffic coming in via our other provider. The change was made around 16:00 (CDT) last Friday, about 72 hours before this problem was broug

Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

2008-05-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5 mei 2008, at 21:56, Mike Fedyk wrote: >> So if you have a 10 Mbps connection you don't get to >> send 14000 64-byte packets per second, but a maximum of 2500 >> packets per >> second. So with 64-byte packets you only get to use 1.25 Mbps. > You have just cut out the VoIP industry, TCP setu

Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

2008-05-05 Thread Mike Fedyk
> -Original Message- > From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > think of is DoS attacks. But that can be solved by only allowing end- > users to send an average packet size of 500 (or 250, or whatever) > bytes. So if you have a 10 Mbps connection you don't get to > send 1

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Steven M. Bellovin") writes: > > > If not, what should the criteria be for an "official" note of the paper? > > > > Perhaps it's an oversimplification, but can't those who wish to publish > > such information simply deliver their papers at a NANOG meeting (after > > acceptance

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Vixie
> ... > A web site like arxiv is good for some stuff. But -- should there be a > link from nanog.org to operational content? Should nanog.org have > its own archive? Should there be a peer review process? If not, what > should the criteria be for an "official" note of the paper? > >

Re: [NANOG] Strange network behaviour

2008-05-05 Thread Deepak Jain
Did your inbound path change as a result? Sounds like a path asymmetry issue might be involved. Douglas K. Rand wrote: > In the popular tradition of replying to my own post ... > > It seems that this problem started right around the time I changed our > BGP configuration. I did: > > config ter

Re: [NANOG] Strange network behaviour

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas K. Rand
In the popular tradition of replying to my own post ... It seems that this problem started right around the time I changed our BGP configuration. I did: config term route-map att_out permit set as-path prepend 19317 19317 exit clear ip bgp 12.87.125.249 out This change was to increase our p

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 6 May 2008 01:19:36 +0700 Roland Dobbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 6, 2008, at 12:59 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > > If not, what should the criteria be for an "official" note of the > > paper? > > > Perhaps it's an oversimplification, but can't those who wish to >

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Roland Dobbins
On May 6, 2008, at 12:59 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > If not, what should the criteria be for an "official" note of the > paper? Perhaps it's an oversimplification, but can't those who wish to publish such information simply deliver their papers at a NANOG meeting (after acceptance by

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-05-05, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also, in OSPF, ECMP is not optional, even though most BSD-based software > routers don't implement it yet (since multipath routing is very new.) Some readers might be interested to know the exception to "most" here; the OpenBSD kernel has supp

[NANOG] Strange network behaviour

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas K. Rand
We had a very strange problem today. Two of our hosts could not reach a server, but only those two hosts. All of our other hosts could reach those servers fine. (OK, I didn't try ALL of our IPs, but the half dozen I did try worked fine.) I checked all of our firewalls and routers, and everywhere

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On 05 May 2008 16:07:03 + Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big > > help in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago. > > and now for something completely different -- where in the interpipes > could a document

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On May 5, 2008, at 1:16 PM, David Andersen wrote: > On May 5, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: >> >>> But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big >>> help >>> in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago. >> >> and now for something completely different -- where

[NANOG] Was Burma off the air due to the Cyclone ?

2008-05-05 Thread Marshall Eubanks
After a request, I can confirm that Burma / Myanmar dropped off the BGP tables here over the weekend : bgp.sum.May_2_00:07:00_EDT_2008: AS 9988 MPT- AP | 3 hops | as path 174 2914 9988 bgp.sum.May_2_00:07:00_EDT_2008: AS 18399 BAGAN-TRANSIT- AS

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibbard) writes: > > > > ... if each anycast cluster is really several servers, each using OSPF > > > ECMP, then you can lose a server and still have that cluster advertising > > > the route upstrea

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread David Andersen
On May 5, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > >> But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big >> help >> in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago. > > and now for something completely different -- where in the > interpipes could > a document like that have be

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , On Mon, 5 May 2008, Paul Vixie wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibbard) writes: ...snip... >> But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big help >> in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago. > > and now for something completely different -- wher

Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

2008-05-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5 mei 2008, at 17:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Obviously there is a lot to be gained at that end, but that doesn't >> mean we should ignore power use in the network. One thing that could >> help here is to increase the average packet size. Whenever I've >> looked, this has always hovered aro

[NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibbard) writes: > > ... if each anycast cluster is really several servers, each using OSPF > > ECMP, then you can lose a server and still have that cluster advertising > > the route upstream, and only when you lose all servers in a cluster will > > that route be withdrawn

Re: [NANOG] Did Youtube not pay their domain bill?

2008-05-05 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Sun, 4 May 2008, Paul Vixie wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibbard) writes: >> The right solution is to design the anycast servers to be as sure as >> possible that the route will go away when you want it gone, but to have >> multiple non-interdependent anycast clouds in the NS records for e

Re: [NANOG] fair warning: less than 1000 days left to IPv4 exhaustion

2008-05-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2 mei 2008, at 20:51, Mike Leber wrote: > Since nobody mentioned it yet, there are now less than 1000 days > projected > until IPv4 exhaustion: > http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/ Unfortunately that won't load for me over IPv6, path MTU black hole... > ps. 1000 days assumes no rush, specu

[NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

2008-05-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5 mei 2008, at 0:57, Adrian Chadd wrote: > I'd seriously be looking at making current -software- run more > efficiently > before counting ipv6-related power savings. Good luck with that. Obviously there is a lot to be gained at that end, but that doesn't mean we should ignore power use in