Re: Leap second tonight

2009-03-16 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Dec 31, 2008, at 15:28, Kevin Oberman wrote: We use CDMA clocks and last leap second it took weeks for all of the cell sites to adjust the last one. As a result, I have set all of our clocks for manual leap second and set them to adjust tonight at midnight (UTC).I'll take a look in about

RE: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?

2009-03-16 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
It was my understanding that (most) cable modems are L2 devices -- how it is that they have a buffer, other than what the network processor needs to switch it? Frank -Original Message- From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bickn...@ufp.org] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:10 AM To: nanog@nanog.org S

Re: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?

2009-03-16 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, On 2009-3-16, at 7:09, Leo Bicknell wrote: My wish is for the vendors to step up. I would love to be able to configure my router/cable modem/dsl box with "queue-size 50ms" and have it compute, for the current link speed, 50ms of buffer. if the vendors got active and deployed better queuei

Re: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?

2009-03-16 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:09:35AM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: > The result is that if the vendor targeted 100ms of buffer you now > have 400ms of buffer, and really bad lag. Well, this is one of the reasons why I hate the fact that we're effectively stuck in a 1500 MTU world. My customers are vast

Re: Pro-actively publishing IRR data

2009-03-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Joe Provo wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:14:08PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > [snip] >> Are there any potential dangers of publishing our information before we >> use it that I may be overlooking? > > In case you are worried about folks who filter, recall that the IRR > uniqueeness is base

Re: Seeking Connectivity in IRAQ

2009-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
Robert, Check out Wataniya and Zain, the two are the regional wireless providers and in my experience, at least in Kuwait, they offer aircard service. The catch is that you have to have a local ID card (this was the rule in Kuwait, not sure of Iraq). You can get around this by buying the service f

AT&T Wireless Data Contact

2009-03-16 Thread James Ribar
Hi, Our half or dozen or so iPhone users are experiencing issues with accessing our corporate website and email services. I spoke to AT&T's support who after a few minutes told me it wasn't an ATT problem and forwarded me to Apple who said it was an issue with the website and were unable

Re: Pro-actively publishing IRR data

2009-03-16 Thread Joe Provo
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:14:08PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: [snip] > Are there any potential dangers of publishing our information before we > use it that I may be overlooking? In case you are worried about folks who filter, recall that the IRR uniqueeness is based upon the Prefix/length, ori

Seeking Connectivity in IRAQ

2009-03-16 Thread Robert D. Scott
A unit within the University has need to get reliable network connectivity to Iraq, more specifically Baghdad. I was wondering if any nanogers have any recommendations and/or contacts with providers in the area. Wired or Wireless. Off-list is fine. TIA Robert D. Scott rob...@ufl.e

Re: BGP nexthop-self vs. EIGRP redistribution

2009-03-16 Thread Jack Bates
p...@mindfury.net wrote: ...which is better? Neither (both) is better, depending on the scenario. This is especially true when mixing in MPLS and other features. My question is, which is the correct method of implementing this? Should we be redistributing static and connected routes on ou

Re: BGP nexthop-self vs. EIGRP redistribution

2009-03-16 Thread Mark Tinka
On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:33:30 am Pete Templin wrote: > Any NANOGers running an MPLS network and choosing instead > to redistribute the relevant connected routes from the > peering edge into their network (either via IGP or BGP), > thereby allowing label switching all the way to the PE > (and t

Re: BGP nexthop-self vs. EIGRP redistribution

2009-03-16 Thread Pete Templin
Mark Tinka wrote: On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:20:08 am p...@mindfury.net wrote: My question is, which is the correct method of implementing this? Should we be redistributing static and connected routes on our borders into IGP, and not using next-hop-self? Or should we not redistribute and us

Re: BGP nexthop-self vs. EIGRP redistribution

2009-03-16 Thread Mark Tinka
On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:20:08 am p...@mindfury.net wrote: > My question is, which is the correct method of > implementing this? Should we be redistributing static > and connected routes on our borders into IGP, and not > using next-hop-self? Or should we not redistribute and > use next-hop-

BGP nexthop-self vs. EIGRP redistribution

2009-03-16 Thread phil
...which is better? We recently ran into what looks like an implementation flaw in our network design. After moving two GbE connections with Savvis (same edge device on both ends) into EBGP-multihop, we were encountering problems with iBGP churn. The network design is two buildings in the same A

Pro-actively publishing IRR data

2009-03-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
I'm still working on trying to get my primary provider to BGP peer with us, but in the meantime, I'd like to pro-actively publish our objects and route policy to the IRR. My primary provider is currently advertising our IPv4 routes for us from their AS. Are there any potential dangers of publishi

Re: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?

2009-03-16 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:15:37AM +0100, Marian ??urkovi?? wrote: > This however doesn't seem to be of any concern for TCP maintainers of #2, > who claim that receiver is not supposed to anyhow assist in congestion > control. Instead, they advise everyone to use advanced queu

Re: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?

2009-03-16 Thread David Andersen
Briefly? They're correct - the rx advertised window has nothing to do with congestion control and everything to do with flow control. The problem you've described *is* a problem, but not because of its effects on congestion control -- the problem it causes is one we call a lack of agility:

Re: Netflow on SUP720-3BXL

2009-03-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
This is, believe it or not, a feature of the device you are using. On Sun, March 15, 2009 01:55, Andy Bierlair wrote: > I’m trying to run netflow on one of our Cisco core routers (SUP720 3BXL), > but I think I am hitting some limitations because of this: > %EARL_NETFLOW-SP-4-TCAM_THRLD: Netflow T

Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?

2009-03-16 Thread Marian Ďurkovič
Hi all, TCP window autotuning is part of several OSs today. However, the actual implementations behind this buzzword differ significantly and might impose negative side-effects to our networks - which I'd like to discuss here. There seem to be two basic approaches which differ in the main princ