Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux

2011-08-23 Thread Glen Turner
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 13:45 +, na...@rhemasound.org wrote: > While I have found some information on a project called linux-mpls I am > having a hard time finding any solid VRF framework for Linux. The Linux kernel as shipped by Linus supports multiple routing tables and allows you to forward

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: At the time I wondered if anything near the IX's in that area might be impacted, Although any Internet Exchange Facility can have bad luck (i.e. remember the Ashburn data center damaged by a hurricane/tornado in 2004), most of the major IX's in the US ar

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Lamar Owen
about_pari/pari-photos/archived-photos/miscellaneous/august-23-2011-richmond-earthquake/ch1-virginia-quake-20110823-1.jpg/view Live data is at: http://www.pari.edu/telescopes/geoscience/seismic-readings/readings/ Film at 11 (and 10; local TV station came by and interviewed). We're 300+ mi

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > A 5.8 (or 5.9, I've seen conflicting numbers) Hi Owen, http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/se082311a.html#details Originally reported as 5.8. Briefly upped to 5.9. Now back to 5.8. > really isn't likely to do all > tha

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/23/2011 02:48 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: A 5.8 (or 5.9, I've seen conflicting numbers) really isn't likely to do all that much damage, even on the East Coast. In California, anyone who has lived here for more than 10 years probably doesn't even feel anything less than a 5, and, it takes a solid

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Owen DeLong
A 5.8 (or 5.9, I've seen conflicting numbers) really isn't likely to do all that much damage, even on the East Coast. In California, anyone who has lived here for more than 10 years probably doesn't even feel anything less than a 5, and, it takes a solid 6 to really get anyone's attention out here.

RE: Route Optimization Software / Appliance

2011-08-23 Thread Drew Weaver
The more flows you throw at it the more RAM/CPU it uses until eventually it can't handle anymore. You can keep raising your sampling rate if you want but at some point the CNA 336 is just too old/slow. As I said if the kernel supported more RAM it would still be a viable platform. I think Avaya

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Jared Scott
Tmobile is back up in Ashburn, VA On Aug 23, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Nitin Mehrotra wrote: T-Mobile is completely out in Bethesda, MD. No voice or data signal whatsoever. - Original Message - From: "Jared Geiger" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:58:42 PM Subjec

RE: Route Optimization Software / Appliance

2011-08-23 Thread Holmes,David A
I used Pathcontrol with great success, moving bandwidth from one provider to another at a very granular level. It beat the Netflow/CAIDA tools manual approach hands down. I don't understand the performance issue, though, and this is not the first time performance has been raised as an issue. Som

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Nitin Mehrotra
T-Mobile is completely out in Bethesda, MD. No voice or data signal whatsoever. - Original Message - From: "Jared Geiger" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:58:42 PM Subject: Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011 On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Mike Gatti wrote: > 5.9

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Roy
On 8/23/2011 12:43 PM, PC wrote: Based on a sampling of thousands of cable modems, dsl, and cellular sites in the DC area: With a 10 second keepalive/30 second holdtime, I only saw, maybe, 2-3 sites disappear per thousand based on an endpoint in Ashburn, VA. I do see some delay cellular side, b

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread PC
Based on a sampling of thousands of cable modems, dsl, and cellular sites in the DC area: With a 10 second keepalive/30 second holdtime, I only saw, maybe, 2-3 sites disappear per thousand based on an endpoint in Ashburn, VA. I do see some delay cellular side, but it looks to be solely congestion

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Chris
A friend about 80 miles near the epicenter says phones are down but Comcast Internet, by way of some miracle, is up

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Jared Geiger
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Mike Gatti wrote: > 5.9 Epicenter in Virginia: > > > http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usc0005ild.php#summary > > Seeing slow internet access out of ASHBURN, VA data centers. Verizon and > Global Crossing. Carriers circuits probably overwhe

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Mike Gatti
5.9 Epicenter in Virginia: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usc0005ild.php#summary Seeing slow internet access out of ASHBURN, VA data centers. Verizon and Global Crossing. Carriers circuits probably overwhelmed with voice/data. I do not have any info on outages or dama

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Alex Rubenstein
I don't know that is true. I believe voice network was overwhelmed. Wireless data and sms had no issue or interruption whatsoever. Sent via Blackberry while presumably driving with one hand - Original Message - From: chris To: Sule, Mohammed Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tue Aug 23 14:3

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 23, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Sule, Mohammed wrote: > Have anyone seen or feel any effect of this on their network? Yes. Users going to twitter, IRC, Facebook, Google+, etc., are WAY WAY WAY up. Ditto news sources. Oh, and of course, XKCD. :) -- TTFN, patrick

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread chris
We had some cell tower issues here in NJ. chris On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Sule, Mohammed wrote: > Have anyone seen or feel any effect of this on their network? > > > - > Visit www.nyc.gov/hhc > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information in this E-Mai

East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Sule, Mohammed
Have anyone seen or feel any effect of this on their network? - Visit www.nyc.gov/hhc CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information in this E-Mail may be confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s). If you are not the i

Re: Route Optimization Software / Appliance

2011-08-23 Thread Gregor Visconty
I used the PathControl for years (~2003-2007) and it rocked. We used it for both performance and cost, preferring cheaper links as long as the performance was comparable. It was super stable, I think we had one or two problems with it the entire time it was installed. The only drawback was it wa

RE: Route Optimization Software / Appliance

2011-08-23 Thread Drew Weaver
Honestly someone should just convince Avaya to opensource and/or sell the Route Science product. It's only real flaws (even today) are the performance of the hardware it was built on and the lack of IPv6 support. Give it an x64 kernel that supports 32GB of RAM and you could probably still be u

Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux

2011-08-23 Thread Mike Jones
On 23 August 2011 14:45, wrote: > While I have found some information on a project called linux-mpls I am > having a hard time finding any solid VRF framework for Linux.  I have a > monitoring system that needs check devices that sit in overlapping private ip > space, and I was wondering if th

Re: Route Optimization Software / Appliance

2011-08-23 Thread David Israel
This is basically Arbinet's "Optimized" product; it uses actual measurements for loss, round trip time, and jitter to choose routes. Right now, it is just sold as a service, going through the providers they sell access to; I don't know if you could purchase/license the software for your own

Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux

2011-08-23 Thread Dan White
On 23/08/11 13:45 +, na...@rhemasound.org wrote: While I have found some information on a project called linux-mpls I am having a hard time finding any solid VRF framework for Linux. I have a monitoring system that needs check devices that sit in overlapping private ip space, and I was wonde

Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux

2011-08-23 Thread Sergey V . Lobanov
Hello, I implemented it via dot1q vlans+iproute2+iptables. Description can be found at http://forum.nag.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=57082&st=0&p=501082&#entry501082 . Please use the Google translator to translate from Russian to English. 23.08.2011, 17:45, na...@rhemasound.org: > While I have

RE: VRF/MPLS on Linux

2011-08-23 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> Jared, > Thank you for your reply. The one issue I have is how can I label > traffic to match a given table (i.e. ping VRF or snmp VRF). I don't > see any way this can be done with normal BSD sockets, finding a way to > get my application to 'color' the traffic has been a little evasive. >

RE: Route Optimization Software / Appliance

2011-08-23 Thread Drew Weaver
It's also probably helpful to use SNMP to verify that the data you're getting from netflow is at least somewhat accurate and that the routing changes are actually effective in getting the desired results. thanks, -Drew -Original Message- From: Nathan Stratton [mailto:nat...@robotics.ne

Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux

2011-08-23 Thread Brian Raaen
Jared, Thank you for your reply. The one issue I have is how can I label traffic to match a given table (i.e. ping VRF or snmp VRF). I don't see any way this can be done with normal BSD sockets, finding a way to get my application to 'color' the traffic has been a little evasive. The deve

Re: Route Optimization Software / Appliance

2011-08-23 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Babak Pasdar wrote: Hello Group, I was wondering if anyone could share their experience with any route optimization approaches, methodologies or platforms, either open source or commercial (Internap FCP), that can actively adjust BGP parameters based on latency and numbe

[NANOG-announce] NANOG Program Committee still reviewing submissions

2011-08-23 Thread David Meyer
NANOG'ers, On Thursday, September 1st, the NANOG Program Committee will meet to review submissions for NANOG 53. In an effort to get a topic list out to the community as early as possible, we do need to have all abstracts and slide submissions in as soon as possible. A quick review of the PC tool

Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux

2011-08-23 Thread Denys Fedoryshchenko
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:50:30 -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:45 AM, na...@rhemasound.org wrote: While I have found some information on a project called linux-mpls I am having a hard time finding any solid VRF framework for Linux. I have a monitoring system that needs check dev

Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux

2011-08-23 Thread Jared Mauch
On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:45 AM, na...@rhemasound.org wrote: > While I have found some information on a project called linux-mpls I am > having a hard time finding any solid VRF framework for Linux. I have a > monitoring system that needs check devices that sit in overlapping private ip > space,

VRF/MPLS on Linux

2011-08-23 Thread nanog
While I have found some information on a project called linux-mpls I am having a hard time finding any solid VRF framework for Linux. I have a monitoring system that needs check devices that sit in overlapping private ip space, and I was wondering if there is anyway I could use some kind or VRF