Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Randy Bush
somehow, a serious case of testosterone poisoning combined with insane goal drift has hit a number of the large european exchanges. instead of the goal being how well they serve their local communities, they have gone wild with sleazy means of having traffic contests, doing really sick attempts at

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Hallgren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 17/09/2013 20:15, Patrick W. Gilmore a écrit : > On Sep 17, 2013, at 12:11 , Martin T wrote: > >> Thanks for all the replies! >> >> >> Nick, >> >> counting traffic on inter-switch links is kind of cheating, isn't it? >> I mean if "input bytes" and

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Hallgren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 17/09/2013 20:15, Patrick W. Gilmore a écrit : Hi, Good reading, to get an idea: https://www1.ethz.ch/csg/people/dimitroc/papers/p95pam.pdf Section 3, mainly. Cheers, mh -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Com

Re: rr.com contact please

2013-09-17 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Matthew Petach wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Christopher Morrow > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Nathan Anderson wrote: >> > On Sep 16, 2013, at 19:07, "Matthew Petach" >> > wrote: >> > >> >> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:25 AM, wrote:

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Niels Bakker
In a message written on Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 07:11:23PM +0300, Martin T wrote: counting traffic on inter-switch links is kind of cheating, isn't it? I mean if "input bytes" and "output bytes" on all the ports facing the IX members are already counted, then counting traffic on links between the

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 07:11:23PM +0300, Martin T wrote: > counting traffic on inter-switch links is kind of cheating, isn't it? > I mean if "input bytes" and "output bytes" on all the ports facing the > IX members are already counted, then counting traffic on links between >

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
On 9/17/2013 2:51 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 07:11:23PM +0300, Martin T wrote: counting traffic on inter-switch links is kind of cheating, isn't it? I mean if "input bytes" and "output bytes" on all the ports facing the IX members are already counted, th

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Tom Taylor
On 17/09/2013 2:15 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Sep 17, 2013, at 12:11 , Martin T wrote: Thanks for all the replies! Nick, counting traffic on inter-switch links is kind of cheating, isn't it? I mean if "input bytes" and "output bytes" on all the ports facing the IX members are already

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 17, 2013, at 12:11 , Martin T wrote: > Thanks for all the replies! > > > Nick, > > counting traffic on inter-switch links is kind of cheating, isn't it? > I mean if "input bytes" and "output bytes" on all the ports facing the > IX members are already counted, then counting traffic on li

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 17, 2013, at 11:04 , Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 17/09/2013 14:43, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >> And yes, DE-CIX is more than well aware everyone thinks this is .. uh .. >> let's just call it "silly" for now, although most would use far more >> disparaging words. Which is probably why no seri

Re: rr.com contact please

2013-09-17 Thread Matthew Petach
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Nathan Anderson wrote: > > On Sep 16, 2013, at 19:07, "Matthew Petach" > wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:25 AM, wrote: > >> > >>> Can someone from rr.com please contact me. Your abuse desk

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Martin T
Thanks for all the replies! Nick, counting traffic on inter-switch links is kind of cheating, isn't it? I mean if "input bytes" and "output bytes" on all the ports facing the IX members are already counted, then counting traffic on links between the switches in fabric will count some of the traf

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 17/09/2013 14:43, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > And yes, DE-CIX is more than well aware everyone thinks this is .. uh .. > let's just call it "silly" for now, although most would use far more > disparaging words. Which is probably why no serious IXP does it. It's not silly - it's just not what ev

common checks performed when passing on an IPv4 PA allocation from one end-customer to another

2013-09-17 Thread Martin T
Hi, when one end-customer has been using for example /24 IPv4 allocation for a while and returns this(for example changes an ISP) to LIR, then are there some good practices before handing out this same /24 to a new customer? I guess LIR should: 1) remove all the DNS PTR records, classless of clas

Re: Bandwidth for a weekend @ Gaylord National Harbor, DC metro area

2013-09-17 Thread shawn wilson
I'm not sure of te topology around there, but you can get these 2.4Ghz dishes for *cheap* (I got one at a hamfest for $20 - spent as much on the rp-sma converter cost almost as much). If someone (or a colo) is near there, you might convince them to put up the same thing and work with that. I think

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 17, 2013, at 07:02 , Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 17/09/2013 11:52, Martin T wrote: >> Is there a common method to count this traffic on a switch-fabric? >> Just read all the switch interface "packets input" counters with an >> interval to get the aggregated input traffic and read all the swi

Re: Bandwidth for a weekend @ Gaylord National Harbor, DC metro area

2013-09-17 Thread Dustin Jurman
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Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 17/09/2013 11:52, Martin T wrote: > Is there a common method to count this traffic on a switch-fabric? > Just read all the switch interface "packets input" counters with an > interval to get the aggregated input traffic and read all the switch > interfaces "packets output" counters to get the ag

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Martin T wrote: Is there a common method to count this traffic on a switch-fabric? Just read all the switch interface "packets input" counters with an interval to get the aggregated input traffic and read all the switch interfaces "packets output" counters to get the aggre

common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-17 Thread Martin T
Hi, many Internet exchange points post publicly available graphs which describe aggregated traffic volumes on IX. For example: Netnod: http://www.netnod.se/ix-stats/sums/ AMS-IX: https://www.ams-ix.net/technical/statistics LINX: https://www.linx.net/pubtools/trafficstats.html Is there a common