Re: TFTP over anycast

2024-02-23 Thread Bill Woodcock
The system Ask is describing is the traditional method of using anycast to geographically load-balance long-lived flows. The first time I did that was with FTP servers in Berkeley and Santa Cruz, in 1989. I did a bigger system, also load balancing FTP servers for Oracle, their public-facing d

Re: TFTP over anycast

2024-02-23 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
> On Feb 23, 2024, at 20:32, William Herrin wrote: > >> The relay server `dhcplb` could, maybe, help in that scenario >> (dhcplb runs on the anycast IP, the “real” DHCP servers on >> unicast IPs behind dhcplb). > > Although they used the word "anycast", they're just load balancing. The idea i

Re: TFTP over anycast

2024-02-23 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 6:34 PM Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > The relay server `dhcplb` could, maybe, help in that scenario > (dhcplb runs on the anycast IP, the “real” DHCP servers on > unicast IPs behind dhcplb). Although they used the word "anycast", they're just load balancing. Devices behind a l

Re: TFTP over anycast

2024-02-23 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
> On Feb 22, 2024, at 12:52, Thomas Mieslinger wrote: > > It becomes tricky for DHCP if a location has the same cost to more than > one anycast Node. For this case we have setup a DHCP nodes in two > datacenters using different local-preferences to simulate a failover > active/passive setup. Th

Re: Network chatter generator

2024-02-23 Thread Saku Ytti
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 19:42, Brandon Martin wrote: > Before I go to the trouble of making one myself, does anybody happen to > know of a pre-canned program to generate realistic and scalable amounts > of broadcast/broad-multicast network background "chatter" seen on > typical consumer and busine

Weekly Global IPv4 Routing Table Report

2024-02-23 Thread Routing Table Analysis Role Account
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Global IPv4 Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. The posting is sent to APOPS, NANOG, AfNOG, SANOG, PacNOG, SAFNOG UKNOF, TZNOG, MENOG, BJNOG, SDNOG, CMNOG, LACNOG and the RIPE Routing WG. Daily listings are sent to bg

Re: Network chatter generator

2024-02-23 Thread Raymond Burkholder
scapy? On 2024-02-23 10:33, Brandon Martin wrote: Before I go to the trouble of making one myself, does anybody happen to know of a pre-canned program to generate realistic and scalable amounts of broadcast/broad-multicast network background "chatter" seen on typical consumer and business netw

Network chatter generator

2024-02-23 Thread Brandon Martin
Before I go to the trouble of making one myself, does anybody happen to know of a pre-canned program to generate realistic and scalable amounts of broadcast/broad-multicast network background "chatter" seen on typical consumer and business networks? This would be things like lots of ARP traffi

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Re: Any info on AT&T Wireless Outage?

2024-02-23 Thread Chris K
Could it be someone fat fingered in preparation of this? "Starting in March, FirstNet will be the first and only wireless network to provide America’s first responders with always-on priority and preemption across 5G, expanding to include all AT&T 5G commercial spectrum. " https://www.firstnet.

RE: TFTP over anycast

2024-02-23 Thread Adam Thompson
Others have addressed some of the issues, but one easy win for DHCP (which is otherwise a PITA to make redundany in *any* way) is to (a) not block ICMP anywhere, including on the client devices, and (b) have the DHCP ping before assignment. That’s not always on by default, and it’ll eliminate ~