Re: New home builders without wires

2024-12-05 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/5/24 20:48, j...@joelesler.net wrote: If I ever build the next house, I’ll ensure that Ethernet is installed just as extensively as electric wiring. It's a no-brainer. My house was built in the early 90's, so no Ethernet at that time. I ran Ethernet to every room, some of it using

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Tom Beecher
Real life example of an optimizer issue I helped a friend sort out many years ago. Prefix 1 : 10.0.0.0/16, Communities A B C Prefix 2 : 10.0.0.0/20, Communities B D E Optimizer created /23s inside the /20. What communities do you think it applied to the new routes? - A B C - B D E - Random assor

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Ryan Hamel
Bill, While that sounds plausible on paper, keep in mind it will also include IX route servers and MPLS route reflectors. Noction can append communities to its announcements, meaning one can very easily set NO_EXPORT (65535:65281) and/or a community applicable to the AS. The latter going back

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 2:34 PM Ryan Hamel wrote: > This same thing also applies to operators of route optimizers. They > are responsible for writing the correct import/export policies for their > network, just like the carriers for writing sane policies for customer > circuits Hi Ryan, Is there

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Ryan Hamel
Tom, What does "these devices don't follow standard BGP behaviors" have to do with adding a NO_EXPORT or specific community on the import policy when a route is accepted, and being belt & suspenders with matching those communities to drop those routes on export to carriers/IX/PNI sessions? Rya

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Tom Beecher
> > They are responsible for writing the correct import/export policies for > their network, just like the carriers for writing sane policies for > customer circuits Nobody is asserting that operators are still not responsible for doing this. Stop it. What I think some of you guys fail to under

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Mike Hammett
True, I didn't even think of all of the upstreams of those networks being responsible for accepting bad routes. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Ryan Hamel" To: "Warren

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Ryan Hamel
Warren, * "Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people" may be a factually true statement - but if there were no guns, there would be less people being shot… While that is also a factually true statement, you are also painting broad strokes over those who are responsible with those w

Re: New home builders without wires

2024-12-05 Thread Josh Luthman
NEC wouldn't apply to telecommunications/low voltage. You may think yellow is common because of single mode fiber. Gray is far more common in the field in/on buildings. OSP is usually orange, because orange is the color for telecommunications/phone/internet. Gas plants use yellow markers/tracer

Re: New home builders without wires

2024-12-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 8:15 PM William Herrin wrote: > As others have noted: conduit is smarter. Communication cable > standards remain in a state of flux much more rapid than the lifetime > of a house and the little blue one-inch conduits are not exceptionally > expensive. And electricians (and

Re: WSJ: Dozens of Countries Hit in Chinese Telecom Hacking Campaign, Top U.S. Official Says

2024-12-05 Thread Joe Klein
I was wrong. Here is a list: https://firewalltimes.com/att-data-breaches/ https://firewalltimes.com/verizon-data-breaches/ https://firewalltimes.com/google-data-breach-timeline/ Over the past 25 years, security researchers worldwide have consistently identified new SS7 vulnerabilities (thank you A

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Warren Kumari
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 3:41 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: > *shrugs* Incorrectly assigning the blame doesn't really help anyone. > Sure, but the fact remains that there is blame to be assigned. It doesn't really matter to the affected network if the fault lies with the box itself, or the operator o

Re: WSJ: Dozens of Countries Hit in Chinese Telecom Hacking Campaign, Top U.S. Official Says

2024-12-05 Thread Joe Klein
Here is the public Breach Report for T-Mobile. https://firewalltimes.com/t-mobile-data-breaches/ Unable to find AT&T, Verizon or several other companies on the list. Joe Klein "inveniet viam, aut faciet" --- Seneca's Hercules Furens (Act II, Scene 1) "*I skate to where the puck is going to be, no

Re: WSJ: Dozens of Countries Hit in Chinese Telecom Hacking Campaign, Top U.S. Official Says

2024-12-05 Thread Ryan Wilkins via NANOG
There’s been a question about T-Mobile being part of this or not.  I have no specific knowledge, but just count the number of times they’ve been hacked in the past (that we know of) and draw your conclusion that they’re part of this.Ryan WilkinsOn Dec 5, 2024, at 3:38 PM, Joe Klein wrote:I suspec

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Mike Hammett
*shrugs* Incorrectly assigning the blame doesn't really help anyone. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Tom Beecher" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "Rich Compton" , nanog@nanog.o

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Tom Beecher
> > I think most of the hatred towards them is unwarranted, This is essentially saying "I've never had a problem , so I don't think it's a big deal." On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 3:19 PM Mike Hammett wrote: > Eh, different people have different opinions. > > I think most of the hatred towards them i

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Niels Bakker
* na...@ics-il.net (Mike Hammett) [Thu 05 Dec 2024, 21:32 CET]: Not by the box, but by the operator of the box. We've been over this numerous times around the time when that Honest Networker page in my email was created. Noction ship their boxes with insanely dangerous defaults that are bound

Re: WSJ: Dozens of Countries Hit in Chinese Telecom Hacking Campaign, Top U.S. Official Says

2024-12-05 Thread Joe Klein
I suspect that a gag order has been issued for the other companies, and a cybersecurity incident response team has already been hired and is in place. Joe Klein "inveniet viam, aut faciet" --- Seneca's Hercules Furens (Act II, Scene 1) "*I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it h

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Mike Hammett
Not by the box, but by the operator of the box. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Niels Bakker" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2024 2:27:23 PM Subject:

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Jason Bothe via NANOG
Yes, yes, yes and yes J~ > On Dec 5, 2024, at 12:10 PM, Compton, Rich wrote: > > “I strongly recommend to turn off those BGP optimizers, glue the ports shut, > burn the hardware, and salt the grounds on which the BGP optimizer sales > people walked.” > > -Job Snijders > > https://mailman

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Niels Bakker
* na...@ics-il.net (Mike Hammett) [Thu 05 Dec 2024, 21:18 CET]: Eh, different people have different opinions. I think most of the hatred towards them is unwarranted, You speak like a person whose prefixes were never hijacked and blackholed by one of those things. https://honestnetworker.net

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 8:13 AM Drew Weaver wrote: > The big pain point for this technology at the time was that it could only > optimize > the top N egress routes due to how many probes it could send out and how > many results it could process. Hi Drew, It was and remains a data problem, not a

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Mike Hammett
Eh, different people have different opinions. I think most of the hatred towards them is unwarranted, - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Rich Compton" To: "Mike Hammett"

Re: New home builders without wires

2024-12-05 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 10:48 AM wrote: > If I ever build the next house, I’ll ensure that Ethernet is installed just > as extensively as electric wiring. Hi Joel, As others have noted: conduit is smarter. Communication cable standards remain in a state of flux much more rapid than the lifetime

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Compton, Rich via NANOG
“I strongly recommend to turn off those BGP optimizers, glue the ports shut, burn the hardware, and salt the grounds on which the BGP optimizer sales people walked.” -Job Snijders https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2017-August/092131.html From: NANOG on behalf of Mike Hammett Date:

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Mike Hammett
IIRC, the widespread outages are the result of exporting things that shouldn't be exported. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Jason Bothe via NANOG" To: "Drew Weaver" C

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Mike Hammett
I don't know that you need to spread BGP best path analysis onto a GPU, but conducting the testing that those boxes do to the entire Internet instead of just top X destinations would be quite parallel. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX

Re: New home builders without wires

2024-12-05 Thread joel
If I ever build the next house, I’ll ensure that Ethernet is installed just as extensively as electric wiring. > On Dec 5, 2024, at 10:23, Tom Deligiannis wrote: > > NDI or similar? I don't follow. Cable TV, Cable Internet and sat TV aren't > distributed (to homes) using NDI, they use coax. >

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Rubens Kuhl
Actually, some kind of content addressable memory looks more promising for increasing update throughput than GPUs. Rubens On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 1:13 PM Drew Weaver wrote: > > So back in the.. hell I don’t know like… early 2010s there was a push for > ‘route optimization’ from products like Ro

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Pedro Prado
I'd imagine the GPUs would be used to help the control plane only, to bulk-process several prefix updates? *Pedro Martins Prado* pedro.pr...@gmail.com / +353 83 036 1875 (FaceTime & WhatsApp) On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 17:58, wrote: > This is part of why the old systems that were mentioned only opt

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread sronan
This is part of why the old systems that were mentioned only optimized the top n routes based on traffic flow (or other configurable  metric), because the cost vs. benefit falls off greatly.ShaneOn Dec 5, 2024, at 12:52 PM, Andrey Slastenov wrote:+nanogGreetings, DrewWe don't use GPUs, but we hav

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Andrey Slastenov
+nanog Greetings, Drew We don't use GPUs, but we have worked on a similar project focused on traffic optimization. I would say that the ping issue is one of the top pain points, even more significant than route recalculation. The more routes you try to monitor and optimize, the more significant

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Tom Beecher
It's not even that. GPU's are very good at parallelized vector computations. They are very very good at THAT, but ONLY that. This is no different conceptually than router ASICs. They are designed to do ONE thing very well, BGP bestpath selection is a completely different computational process. O

Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Jason Bothe via NANOG
WIth merchant silicon getting faster and stronger everyday, and capacity and transit in a freewill, I’m not sure what GPU optimization would buy you, not to mention the ROI. The Internet routing table is not showing substantial signs of growth and in some cases has experienced a plateau. Also, t

Route optimization using GPUs?

2024-12-05 Thread Drew Weaver
So back in the.. hell I don't know like... early 2010s there was a push for 'route optimization' from products like RouteScience and the Avaya CNA and more recently whatever Noction is doing. The big pain point for this technology at the time was that it could only optimize the top N egress rou

Re: New home builders without wires

2024-12-05 Thread Tom Deligiannis
NDI or similar? I don't follow. Cable TV, Cable Internet and sat TV aren't distributed (to homes) using NDI, they use coax. On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 1:37 AM Joly MacFie wrote: > > > How else would you distribute cable and sat tv? > NDI or similar > > > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 1:15 PM Tom Deligian

Re: WSJ: Dozens of Countries Hit in Chinese Telecom Hacking Campaign, Top U.S. Official Says

2024-12-05 Thread Jason Iannone
CNN mentioned Lumen. T-Mo? On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 5:22 PM J. Hellenthal via NANOG wrote: > Failing to find a list of providers that were hit. Anyone know more ? I > don't see them mentioned. > Verizon & AT&T I know of. > > -- > J. Hellenthal > > The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only