Re: Sigh. 16 years ago today.

2014-10-15 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 10/15/2014 23:42, Rodney Joffe wrote: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt I posted this to Facebook a while ago: From NANOG Subject: Sigh. 16 years ago today. https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt [Ed. note: The man being remembered was important, and in ways, still is. But I mention i

Re: Sigh. 16 years ago today.

2014-10-15 Thread Randy Bush
why i dread october: jon, abha, itojun

Sigh. 16 years ago today.

2014-10-15 Thread Rodney Joffe
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew Jones
This all becomes even more complicated when some traffic isn't counted (Eg. "free facebook") on a given service which generally then necessitates the need for some level of flow-based accounting, even if it's just collecting flows for the free traffic to subtract from the port counters. I can s

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-15 Thread Michael Loftis
IPDR under DOCSIS and generally RADIUS or TACACS(+) for DSL. Unclear personally about fiber/FiOS deployments (never been near enough to know) Flow (sflow, nflow, ipfix, etc) generally doesn't scale and is woefully inaccurate. On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, Colton Conor wrote: > I see in past n

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-15 Thread Joe Hamelin
> > > On 10/15/14, 1:38 PM, "Colton Conor" wrote: > > >So based on the response I have received so far it seems cable was a > >complicated example with service flows involved. > Don't forget that between your port on your DSL/Cable modem and the actual port they may be monitoring there could be t

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-15 Thread Livingood, Jason
There are lots of ways to do it. Cable uses IPDR, which is baked into DOCSIS standards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol_Detail_Record On 10/15/14, 1:38 PM, "Colton Conor" wrote: >So based on the response I have received so far it seems cable was a >complicated example with serv

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-15 Thread Livingood, Jason
You may want to start learning more at http://www.netforecast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/NFR5116_Comcast_Meter_Accuracy_Report.pdf. This report is written by Netforecast – the same firm interviewed by GigaOm in the story link you provided. Their first audit was in 2009: http://www.netforec

Re: UPDATE: Anyone shed light on Verizon blocking pop3 offnetwork?

2014-10-15 Thread Jack Bates
Okay. This appears to be Network based filters. We cannot connect from networks in 104/8, 158/8, or 107/8. We are able to connect using the provider IP Address on the border routers. We also had an upstream test from 199/8 and they were successful. I've already sent emails to the whois contac

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-15 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Colton Conor wrote: > So based on the response I have received so far it seems cable was a > complicated example with service flows involved. What if we are talking > about something simpler like keeping track of how much data flows in and > out of a port on a swi

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-15 Thread Colton Conor
So based on the response I have received so far it seems cable was a complicated example with service flows involved. What if we are talking about something simpler like keeping track of how much data flows in and out of a port on a switch in a given month? I know you can use SNMP, but I believe th

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-15 Thread nanog
Folks, use sflow with rrdtool! Quite awesome & handy On 15/10/2014 20:14, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:06:56 -0500, Colton Conor said: > >> on a cisco switch vs a DSL port on a DSLAM for example? I would think these >> access switches would have some sort of stat you c

Re: Anyone shed light on Verizon blocking pop3 offnetwork?

2014-10-15 Thread Jack Bates
I have 5 telephone companies that cannot reach it. :( jack On 10/15/2014 1:22 PM, Spencer Gaw wrote: No issues here coming from Level 3, CenturyLink, Mammoth, or Comcast. Able to telnet to pop.verizon.net on 995 and smtp.verizon.net on 465. Regards, SG On 10/15/2014 11:55 AM, Jack Bates wro

Re: Anyone shed light on Verizon blocking pop3 offnetwork?

2014-10-15 Thread Spencer Gaw
No issues here coming from Level 3, CenturyLink, Mammoth, or Comcast. Able to telnet to pop.verizon.net on 995 and smtp.verizon.net on 465. Regards, SG On 10/15/2014 11:55 AM, Jack Bates wrote: I have a customer that left Verizon FIOS when he moved but kept his email address. About a month ag

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-15 Thread Jared Mauch
> On Oct 15, 2014, at 2:14 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:06:56 -0500, Colton Conor said: > >> on a cisco switch vs a DSL port on a DSLAM for example? I would think these >> access switches would have some sort of stat you can count similar to a >> utility meter re

Re: Anyone shed light on Verizon blocking pop3 offnetwork?

2014-10-15 Thread Mark E. Jeftovic
Good luck. Let me know if you find anybody with a clue over there. Last week we took over ZoneEdit (DNS Provider + mail forwarding) and they started blocking the new ZoneEdit mail forwarders within a couple hours of go-live - almost certainly it's some statistical based block because of the sudde

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:06:56 -0500, Colton Conor said: > on a cisco switch vs a DSL port on a DSLAM for example? I would think these > access switches would have some sort of stat you can count similar to a > utility meter reader on a house. See what it was at last month, see what is > is at this

Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-15 Thread Colton Conor
I see in past news articles that cable companies are inaccurately calculating customers data usage for their online GB of usage per month. My question is how do you properly determine how much traffic in bytes a port passes per month? Is it different if we are talking about an ethernet port on a ci

Anyone shed light on Verizon blocking pop3 offnetwork?

2014-10-15 Thread Jack Bates
I have a customer that left Verizon FIOS when he moved but kept his email address. About a month ago, he says his pop3 quit connecting. I've tested the ports he's using and notice they aren't responding. He's tried helpdesk and they sent him to the abuse whitelist. He tried the abuse@, which of

Re: Multi-port RFC2544/EtherSAM loopback appliance

2014-10-15 Thread Chad Lamb
We have been using the VeEX UX400 platform. It has a portable and rack-mount version, we have the portable so I can't comment on the rack-mount variant. We found the price/feature set to be better than several other vendors that we evaluated. We've had the equipment for several months now an

Re: Netalyzr Android: call for volunteers

2014-10-15 Thread Aslam Testing
Is there any plan of making the netalyzer open source , and if it is already open source please provide the link so we could use it Thanks -Aslam On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Is spiffy... but any chance that you could add testing for intermediate > carrier BCP 38 com