Re: 10Gb iPerf kit?

2014-12-06 Thread Pete Mundy
On 11/11/2014, at 1:35 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > I have not tried doing that myself, but the only thing that would even be > possible that I know of is thunderbolt. > A new MacBook Pro and one of these maybe: > http://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpresssel_10gbeadapter.html Or one of the

Re: vendor-locking optical modules (Question re: IBM G8124E)

2014-12-06 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
Hello, Since we are on the topic of vendor locked optics. Does anyone know if the IBM G8124 TOR Switches have a hidden menu option to over-ride the vendor lock optics ? We are seeing something interesting... we have a couple of these in production networks, apparently one switch will

Re: ARIN's RPKI Relying agreement

2014-12-06 Thread John Curran
On Dec 6, 2014, at 3:27 AM, Alex Band wrote: > > If ARIN (or another other RIR) went offline or signed broken data, all signed > prefixes that previously has the RPKI status "Valid", would fall back to the > state "Unknown", as if they were never signed in the first place. The state > would NO

Re: A case against vendor-locking optical modules

2014-12-06 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 11:51:56AM +0200, Saku Ytti wrote: > a) one particular optic had slow i2c, vendor polled it more aggressively than > it could respond. Vendor polling code didn't handle errors reading from i2c, > but instead crashed whole linecard control-plane. > Vendor claimed it's not bug

Re: 10Gb iPerf kit?

2014-12-06 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2014-11-10 16:26 -0800), Daniel Rohan wrote: > We're looking for a semi-portable solution to validate 10Gb customer > circuits and hitting walls surrounding PCI lanes and the amount of data > laptops can push via their busses. We'd prefer to not have techs lugging > around server equipment for

Re: A case against vendor-locking optical modules

2014-12-06 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2014-11-17 19:11 +0100), Jérôme Nicolle wrote: > What are other arguments against vendor lock-in ? Is there any argument > FOR such locks (please spare me the support issues, if you can't read > specs and SNMP, you shouldn't even try networking) ? > > Did you ever experience a shift in a vend

Re: ARIN's RPKI Relying agreement

2014-12-06 Thread Alex Band
> On 5 Dec 2014, at 18:00, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > On 05/12/2014 11:47, Randy Bush wrote: and the difference is? >>> rpki might work at scale. >> >> ohhh noo! > > So if e.g. ARIN went offline or signed some broken > data which caused Joe's Basement ISP in Lawyerville to go offlin