Internet Traffic Growth Slows

2008-09-08 Thread Hank Nussbacher
http://www.pcworld.com/article/150709/internet_growth_trends.html?tk=rss_news# -Hank

Re: [Fwd:] Nvidia NICs with duplicate mac addresses

2008-09-08 Thread Christopher LILJENSTOLPE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oh, it's the truth - trust me. There was an Interop show (back when it really was an Interoperability event) that was made quite enjoyable for the network staff by that set of NIC cards Chris On 05 Sep 2008, at 07.53, Scott Berkman

Re: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread Jean-François Mezei
Paul Francis wrote: > AS, or even dozens. So I'm curious...if we could wave a magic wand and > control the exact number of entries any AS needs to advertise, what would > folks consider to be roughly the right number of entries? Wouldn't this greatly depend on the span/breath of your network ? I

Re: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Mon, September 8, 2008 09:46, Scott Brim wrote: > Also, ASNs are not > aggregatable so we can't use them to represent a large number of > independently routed networks. Scott, I'm not sure an Autonomous System would want to be aggregated. By its nature it is capable of having arbitrary connec

RE: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread Boyd, Benjamin R
>-Original Message- >From: Paul Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 2:31 PM >To: Ricardo Oliveira; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation > > >This thread begs an interesting question: what is the right >amount of gran

RE: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread Paul Francis
This thread begs an interesting question: what is the right amount of granularity for load balance? Folks here are saying that one-entry-per-AS is too course...an AS wants to influence load on incoming links, and so it needs multiple entries. On the other hand, it is hard to imagine that we nee

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:30:49AM -0700, James Pleger wrote: > However, what you have said in this topic has not been useful or > brought anything that might be interesting to light at all. Please > come back when you have something useful or productive to say. And, again, yes he has. Absent any

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:09:09AM -0700, Scott Weeks wrote: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Scott Weeks wrote: > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Well, perhaps you can share any information with us on a legitimate client > > you have? > >

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Gadi Evron
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Matthew Petach wrote: On 9/8/08, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, InterCage - Russ wrote: Thank you Russ. That is a great step in the right direction dropping this one client. It is appreciated, although it's just one bad apple on a big tree. Howev

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread John C. A. Bambenek
"> I do not think it is appropriate for ISPs to have to prove or demonstrate the > legitimacy of their customer base" Here is the exact point of contention and the point where I think people disagree. ISPs are the **first** line of defense against malware and badware. They are the ones closest t

RE: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Gadi Evron
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Randy Epstein wrote: Obviously host lost some money now after buying a provider with a big client that was just depeered, so it is now a financial concern. Gadi. On the floor .. dying here. :) :)

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread James Pleger
When I worked at an ISP I can say that my house was very clean. Takedowns were done in hours and we had a very large customer base. I will take on the clean house topic any time... I have done hundreds if not thousands of takedowns while I have worked at hosting companies, it isn't that hard to kee

RE: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Randy Epstein
>Obviously host lost some money now after buying a provider with a big >client that was just depeered, so it is now a financial concern. > Gadi. On the floor .. dying here.

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Scott Weeks
My apologies everyone, I shouldn't have said that. I'm done. scott --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure if I looked into it more I could find some exploits related to the sites. - "Why software piracy might actually be good

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Gadi Evron
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Scott Weeks wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure if I looked into it more I could find some exploits related to the sites. - "Why software piracy might actually be good for companies." Folks should clean their own house before

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Matthew Petach
On 9/8/08, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, InterCage - Russ wrote: > Thank you Russ. That is a great step in the right direction dropping this > one client. It is appreciated, although it's just one bad apple on a big > tree. > > However, I don't want to pick on you, s

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure if I looked into it more I could find some exploits related to the sites. - "Why software piracy might actually be good for companies." Folks should clean their own house before pointing fingers at others... scott

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Gadi Evron
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Scott Weeks wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Scott Weeks wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, perhaps you can share any information with us on a legitimate client you have? -- Now why do you have to go there? J

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread James Pleger
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Scott Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, perhaps you can share any information with us on a legitimate client > you have? > -- > > > Now why do you have to go there? Just to fan the flames f

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Scott Weeks wrote: > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, perhaps you can share any information with us on a legitimate client > you have? > -- > > Now why do you have to go there? Just to fan the flames for fun

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Gadi Evron
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Scott Weeks wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, perhaps you can share any information with us on a legitimate client you have? -- Now why do you have to go there? Just to fan the flames for fun and profit? :-( I haven't seen any

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, perhaps you can share any information with us on a legitimate client you have? -- Now why do you have to go there? Just to fan the flames for fun and profit? :-( scott

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-08 Thread Gadi Evron
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, InterCage - Russ wrote: Hello Everyone, Good morning. Seeing the activity in regards to our company here at NANOG, I believe this is the most reasonable and responsible place to respond to the current issues on our network. We hope to obtain non-bias opinion's and good hone

Re: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread Ricardo Oliveira
Topological aggregation based on ASN is often too course granularity, see this paper: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rveloso/papers/giro.pdf specifically Fig4 is a good example, and sec 4C. Cheers, --Ricardo On Sep 8, 2008, at 6:20 AM, yangyang. wang wrote: Hi, everyone: For routing scalabili

Bandcon (apparently?) no longer providing service to Atrivo / Intercage

2008-09-08 Thread Gadi Evron
Update, Monday, Sept 8, 12:00 p.m. ET: Todd Braning, vice president of BandCon, just e-mailed me to say that BandCon also has stopped providing connectivity to Atrivo/Intercage. From his e-mail: "Intercage, a new customer, was connected to the BandCon Network for total of about a week. Oncewe re

Re: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread Dave Israel
If I understand you right, what you're suggesting is that, in place of a MED or a localpref, I deploy a layer 2 filter on all of my devices for every prefix I want to touch the policy for at a level more granular than AS. This does not improve the scalability of BGP, it destroys that scalability

Re: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread yangyang. wang
Thank you, Scott. TE is a key reason for using specific prefixes. I think that most TEs are deployed in intra-domain, and the inter-domain TEs applied to downstream AS multihomed to many different upstream ASes could be made thru AS number based aggregation. The TE between two ASes with many links

Re: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 8, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Scott Brim wrote: Excerpts from yangyang. wang on Mon, Sep 08, 2008 09:20:38PM +0800: Hi, everyone: For routing scalability issues, I have a question: why not deploy AS number based routing scheme? BGP is path vector protocol and the shortest paths are cal

Re: an effect of ignoring BCP38

2008-09-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:49:05 PDT, k claffy said: > > do that many networks really allow spoofing? i used > to think so, based on hearsay, but rob beverly's > http://spoofer.csail.mit.edu/summary.php suggests > things are a lot better than they used to be, arbor's > last survey echos same. are ro

Re: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread Jeroen Massar
Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:20 AM, yangyang. wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, everyone: >> >> For routing scalability issues, I have a question: why not deploy AS >> number based routing scheme? BGP is path vector protocol and the shortest >> paths are calculated

NTT/ChinaTelCom troubleshooting

2008-09-08 Thread Andrew Staples
Our connectivity from the US to ChinaTelCom has been in the toilet for 2 months. The Olympics are over, and I'm assured by my Shanghai contacts that The Great Firewall of China has been relaxed, yet the problem remains. Local loops on each end test fine to other localized ip space. Symptoms inclu

Re: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:20 AM, yangyang. wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, everyone: > > For routing scalability issues, I have a question: why not deploy AS > number based routing scheme? BGP is path vector protocol and the shortest > paths are calculated based on traversed AS numbers. T

Re: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:20 AM, yangyang. wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For routing scalability issues, I have a question: why not deploy AS > number based routing scheme? BGP is path vector protocol and the shortest > paths are calculated based on traversed AS numbers. The prefixes in the

Re: an effect of ignoring BCP38

2008-09-08 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yes, but would it work if we all did BCP38 filtering? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randy Bush) writes: > i think kc said it all well enough i'd be satisfied if bcp38 were widely enough deployed so that experiments based on ip spoofing wouldn't be scientifically valid due to sampl

Re: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread Scott Brim
Excerpts from yangyang. wang on Mon, Sep 08, 2008 09:20:38PM +0800: > Hi, everyone: > > For routing scalability issues, I have a question: why not deploy AS > number based routing scheme? BGP is path vector protocol and the shortest > paths are calculated based on traversed AS numbers. The p

Re: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread Nathan Ward
On 9/09/2008, at 1:20 AM, yangyang. wang wrote: Hi, everyone: For routing scalability issues, I have a question: why not deploy AS number based routing scheme? BGP is path vector protocol and the shortest paths are calculated based on traversed AS numbers. The prefixes in the same A

why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread yangyang. wang
Hi, everyone: For routing scalability issues, I have a question: why not deploy AS number based routing scheme? BGP is path vector protocol and the shortest paths are calculated based on traversed AS numbers. The prefixes in the same AS almost have the same AS_PATH associated, and aggregatin

Re: an effect of ignoring BCP38

2008-09-08 Thread Randy Bush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:43:41PM +1200, Randy Bush wrote: >>> http://www.caida.org/workshops/wide/0808/slides/measuring_reverse_paths.pdf >> great work on a tough problem > yes, but would it work if we all did BCP38 filtering? i think kc said it all well enough

Re: Cisco uRPF failures

2008-09-08 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2008-09-04 09:35 -0700), Jo Rhett wrote: > quickly, but that turns out not to be the case. To this day I've never > found a network operator using uRPF on Cisco gear. > (note: network operator. it's probably fine for several-hundred-meg > enterprise sites) To this day I've never met net