OT: Sign of the Coming Apocalypse

2011-06-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
(that's next winter, right?) I've just seen a TV ad for Duke Nukem Forever, in a Hulu airing of The Daily Show. Cheers, -- jr 'Finally??' a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RF

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 15 jun 2011, at 7:33, Owen DeLong wrote: > Bottom line, I expect it's easier to get cooperation from OS vendors and BIOS > vendors to make changes > because experience has shown that they are more willing to do so than > vertical software vendors. > As such, yes, I'd like to see some harmles

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:16:10 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: >> The point of /64 is to support automatic configuration and incredibly sparse >> host addressing. >> It is not intended to create stupidly large broadcast domains. > > Several IETF (and NA

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:44:22 -0400, Iljitsch van Beijnum > wrote: >> BTW, does this broken software run over IPv6, anyway? > > Poorly designed network plus poorly designed software... I don't know which > chicken came first, and it doesn't matt

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 15 jun 2011, at 0:05, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> Yes, the right solution would be to at least separate the VLANs and clean up >> this >> mess. However, due to software packages that need to talk to each other over >> common local broadc

RE: So... is it time to do IPv6 day monthy yet?

2011-06-14 Thread Ryan Finnesey
I think this would be helpful. Cheers Ryan -Original Message- From: Ryan Pavely [mailto:para...@nac.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 11:08 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: So... is it time to do IPv6 day monthy yet? I was thinking the same thing. Good call :) Ryan Pavely

RE: Thank you Microsoft (and others)

2011-06-14 Thread Ryan Finnesey
Hi Chris Does Azure support IPv6 at this time? Cheers Ryan -Original Message- From: Christopher Palmer [mailto:christopher.pal...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 2:20 PM To: Murphy, Jay, DOH; Jared Mauch; Shahid Shafi Cc: NANOG list Subject: RE: Thank you Microsoft (and othe

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Jun 13, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jun 12, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >> On 12 jun 2011, at 15:45, Leo Bicknell wrote: >> Like I said before, that would pollute the network with many multicasts which can seriously degrade wifi performance. >

RE: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Dave Edelman
> > BTW, does this broken software run over IPv6, anyway? > > Poorly designed network plus poorly designed software... I don't know which > chicken came first, and it doesn't matter. > > IPv6 is totally different barnyard. Build the v6 network properly -- one > gateway (one router, vrrp, whateve

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Brett Watson
On Jun 10, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > I see no reason that additional DHCPv6 options would have to fragment the > installed > base or perpetuate the lack of agreed upon DHCPv6 behavior. In fact, I think > that > adding these options could allow for a set of rules that would be accep

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:44:22 -0400, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: BTW, does this broken software run over IPv6, anyway? Poorly designed network plus poorly designed software... I don't know which chicken came first, and it doesn't matter. IPv6 is totally different barnyard. Build the v6 ne

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:16:10 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: The point of /64 is to support automatic configuration and incredibly sparse host addressing. It is not intended to create stupidly large broadcast domains. Several IETF (and NANOG) discussions say otherwise. While current hardware do

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Seth Mos wrote: > > Op 14 jun 2011, om 19:04 heeft Ray Soucy het volgende geschreven: > >> My guess is within the next year we'll see something pop up that does this. > > Ehm, It's already here, you searched google right? > > I finished it 4 months ago. And a numb

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Scott Helms wrote: > >> Yes... The key word there is perception. The question is whether it makes >> more sense to put effort into correcting mis-perceptions or to put the effort >> into providing workarounds which provide a sub-par networking experience >> to the en

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 15 jun 2011, at 0:05, Owen DeLong wrote: > Yes, the right solution would be to at least separate the VLANs and clean up > this > mess. However, due to software packages that need to talk to each other over > common local broadcast across that boundary, this isn't possible in this > particular

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:00:22 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: >> You would need an AWFUL lot of hosts for this to add up to a few 100pps (or >> even 10pps) of multicast traffic. > > You're missing the point... most WAPs are horrible with multicast. It

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:02:18 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: >> That was kind of my point. You are unlikely to encounter such a large L2 >> domain outside of an exchange point. > > I've seen such large networks in private industry (and governements, n

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Ben Jencks wrote: > On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> Then use RA and move on. However, please understand that yours >> is not the only environment and that there are real-world scenarios >> where having the router-guys dictate the host configurat

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: >> On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> What is needed is: >> >> - Native RA Guard in switches >> - Native DHCPv6 Snooping in switches >> - Native RA Guard in WAPs >> - Native DHCPv6 Snoo

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: > I think that's a market problem rather than a routing problem. In the > long term, If we had separation of L2 and L3 service providers there > would be very, very few who need L3 redundancy; and that amount would > be fine using BGP. > ROFLMAO...

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Helms
Yes... The key word there is perception. The question is whether it makes more sense to put effort into correcting mis-perceptions or to put the effort into providing workarounds which provide a sub-par networking experience to the end user. IMNSHO, it is better to put effort into education. I'

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: > It's a security and operational issue. > > The perception is that it's easier to monitor, manage, and filter one > address per host instead of 3. For most in the enterprise world it's > a non-starter to have that setup; even if that perception is

Re: AUS?

2011-06-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Jay Ashworth" > http://www.outages.org/index.php/Network_ops_group_websites And silly me, I didn't *check the link* before posting that. Fixed now. Sorry for the noise. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Seth Mos
Op 14 jun 2011, om 19:04 heeft Ray Soucy het volgende geschreven: > My guess is within the next year we'll see something pop up that does this. Ehm, It's already here, you searched google right? I finished it 4 months ago. And a number of commercial platforms already support it. Although Owen

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 05:01:24PM -0400, Ben Jencks wrote: > > Lastly, there's a hidden bit here many people haven't dealt with > > yet in lab networks. In IPv4 critical environments it's typical > > to use HSRP or VRRP to provide a single gateway across two routers. > > The

Routing study - take 2

2011-06-14 Thread Vytautas Valancius
Hi NANOG, >From June 20th to July 20th Georgia Tech will conduct an Internet routing study using AS-PATH poisoning. We will insert AS numbers into one of our announcements to route around some networks. The study will *only* affect the the Georgia Tech prefix 184.164.224.0/21. The prefix serves *

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Ben Jencks
On Jun 14, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 02:00:35PM -0400, Ben Jencks > wrote: >> This has always confused me. What aspect of host configuration is the router >> providing that's so problematic? The prefix, which has to match on the >> rou

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Matt Addison
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:41, Ray Soucy wrote: > > The energy in this thread should be focused on switch vendors to > actually implement L2 security features for IPv6, which is usually an > easy upgrade; rather than calling for all host implementations of IPv6 > to work differently; which will ta

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:00:22 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: You would need an AWFUL lot of hosts for this to add up to a few 100pps (or even 10pps) of multicast traffic. You're missing the point... most WAPs are horrible with multicast. It doesn't matter if it's v4 or v6, at L2, multicast is mu

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 02:00:35PM -0400, Ben Jencks wrote: > This has always confused me. What aspect of host configuration is the router > providing that's so problematic? The prefix, which has to match on the router > and host in order for anything to work anyway? The indi

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:02:18 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: That was kind of my point. You are unlikely to encounter such a large L2 domain outside of an exchange point. I've seen such large networks in private industry (and governements, not just the US) several times. And IPv6 has been design

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Jun 14, 2011, at 10:38 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:04:11 EDT, Ray Soucy said: > >> A better solution; and the one I think that will be adopted in the >> long term as soon as vendors come into the fold, is to swap out >> RFC1918 with ULA addressing, and swap out

Re: IPv6 - a noobs prespective

2011-06-14 Thread James Harr
Really -- just go play with it. I started by setting up a tunnelbroker.net account at home. A majority of the packet slapping functionality of routers work just fine. It's when you get into things like applications, load balancing, NAT64/DNS64 where things start to get a little buggy. And you'll n

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Ray Soucy
> On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > What is needed is: > >- Native RA Guard in switches >- Native DHCPv6 Snooping in switches >- Native RA Guard in WAPs >- Native DHCPv6 Snooping in WAPs >- Additional options to D

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Ben Jencks
On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > Then use RA and move on. However, please understand that yours > is not the only environment and that there are real-world scenarios > where having the router-guys dictate the host configuration is considered > unacceptable at best. This has alway

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Ray Soucy
I think that's a market problem rather than a routing problem. In the long term, If we had separation of L2 and L3 service providers there would be very, very few who need L3 redundancy; and that amount would be fine using BGP. Metro Ethernet services are making it a bit easier to accomplish this

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 10:28 AM, William Herrin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Ray Soucy wrote: >> I think in the long term telling everyone to jump into the BGP table >> is not sustainable; and not operationally consistent with the majority >> of SMB networks. >> >> A better solution;

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Ray Soucy
It's a security and operational issue. The perception is that it's easier to monitor, manage, and filter one address per host instead of 3. For most in the enterprise world it's a non-starter to have that setup; even if that perception is a false one. Not sure I have the energy to re-hash the ti

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
Actually, a vastly inferior solution, but, it does have the attraction of being able to continue to ignore the need for scalable routing for several more years. In reality, we need to solve the scalable routing problem at some point and having everyone jump into the IPv6 BGP world for multihoming

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: > The energy in this thread should be focused on switch vendors to > actually implement L2 security features for IPv6, which is usually an > easy upgrade; rather than calling for all host implementations of IPv6 > to work differently; which will take

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Randy Carpenter
> Why do people insist on creating solutions where each host has > exactly one IPv6 > address, instead of letting each host have *three* (in this case) - a > ULA and > two provider-prefixed addresses? > How does the upstream router control which address/path the client host use to route? -Rand

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Randy Carpenter
> Hi Ray, > > There's a nuance here you've missed. > > There are two main reasons for ULA inside the network: > > 1. Address stability (simplifies network management) > 2. Source obfuscation (improves the depth of the security plan) > > Option 1: Obfuscation desired. > > ULA inside. NAT/PAT a

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:04:11 EDT, Ray Soucy said: > A better solution; and the one I think that will be adopted in the > long term as soon as vendors come into the fold, is to swap out > RFC1918 with ULA addressing, and swap out PAT with NPT; then use > policy routing to handle load balancing and

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 14/06/2011 17:02, Owen DeLong wrote: >> That was kind of my point. You are unlikely to encounter such a large L2 >> domain outside of an >> exchange point. > > Indeed so. Apart from large enterprise LANs. And campus LANs. And badly > de

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Ray Soucy
I try to avoid the Obfuscation argument when I can. I've seen people try to be smart by telling Law Enforcement that they don't keep logs and can't point to which host was a problem behind a NAT box, only to see Law Enforcement take all the PCs instead of the one in question. So it's always made

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Ray Soucy wrote: > I think in the long term telling everyone to jump into the BGP table > is not sustainable; and not operationally consistent with the majority > of SMB networks. > > A better solution; and the one I think that will be adopted in the > long term as

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Ray Soucy
Today you're probably correct. If you want to have more than one provider reliably you pretty much need to be doing BGP; or have some sort of primary-backup setup to fail over from one to the other; or give each host a global address from each provider (really not desirable in the majority of netw

Re: IPv6 - a noobs prespective

2011-06-14 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:00:27 -0800, Robert Lusby wrote: I am however *terrified* of making that move. There is so many new phrases, words, things to think about etc You fears will significantly lower after you set up a separate lab and play with it. With something as simple as a switch you c

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Ray Soucy
The energy in this thread should be focused on switch vendors to actually implement L2 security features for IPv6, which is usually an easy upgrade; rather than calling for all host implementations of IPv6 to work differently; which will take a decade to implement and be a band-aid at best; not a g

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 14/06/2011 17:02, Owen DeLong wrote: That was kind of my point. You are unlikely to encounter such a large L2 domain outside of an exchange point. Indeed so. Apart from large enterprise LANs. And campus LANs. And badly designed large service provider LANs. And other types of large L2 d

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 14/06/2011 16:12, Ray Soucy wrote: The point was you shouldn't base protocol design around the possibility that someone might tell it to do something you don't want it to do; otherwise you'll end up with a one-size-fits-all protocol that has zero flexibility (and might not even be functional a

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:48 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> ND would be a far more frequent occurrence than DHCP requests. > > Of course, it was only partly related to the discussion, most likely the > network which has problem with multicast would bre

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Ray Soucy
Wow, I don't recall making it personal? I have broken networks before by connecting miss-configured devices, by the way, and I was a moron for doing so. I don't base my network design decisions around preventing people with full access to configure the network breaking it; but rather restrict the

Re: AUS?

2011-06-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Santino Codispoti" > Is there a nanogish group that covers AUS? As it happens, we have a page *just* for this list at outages.org... and Oz is, as you might expect, the first item on the list: http://www.outages.org/index.php/Network_ops_group_websites

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 14 jun 2011, at 10:20, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On the AMSIX peering LAN there is more than 100pps of ND traffic (at least > there was when we checked). Since they do not do IPv6 multicast intelligent > handling (MLD snooping I guess) certain highend (legacy) router platforms run > into t

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Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:20:07AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On the AMSIX peering LAN there is more than 100pps of ND traffic (at least > there was when we checked). Since they do not do IPv6 multicast > intelligent handling (MLD snooping I guess) certain highend (l

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Owen DeLong wrote: ND would be a far more frequent occurrence than DHCP requests. Of course, it was only partly related to the discussion, most likely the network which has problem with multicast would break first because of ND, not because of DHCPv6 requests. Also, I

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:20 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> You would need an AWFUL lot of hosts for this to add up to a few 100pps (or >> even 10pps) of multicast traffic. > > On the AMSIX peering LAN there is more than 100pps of ND traffic (at least

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:28 PM, William Herrin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> The vastly better option is to obtain a prefix and ASN from ARIN and merely >> trade BGP with your >> upstream providers. > > My "(cheap) cable modem for general browsing" provider would

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Owen DeLong wrote: You would need an AWFUL lot of hosts for this to add up to a few 100pps (or even 10pps) of multicast traffic. On the AMSIX peering LAN there is more than 100pps of ND traffic (at least there was when we checked). Since they do not do IPv6 multicast int

Re: AUS?

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Weeks
--- santino.codisp...@gmail.com wrote: From: Santino Codispoti Is there a nanogish group that covers AUS? -- First hit on a search engine: "australia network operator group". www.ausnog.net scott

AUS?

2011-06-14 Thread Santino Codispoti
Is there a nanogish group that covers AUS?

Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

2011-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 13, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:45:01 -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: >> In a message written on Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 01:04:41PM +0200, Iljitsch van >> Beijnum wrote: >>> Like I said before, that would pollute the network with many multicasts >>> which can s