RE: arista full tables recommendation

(So do the newer 7280SR3, no -K or -M needed.) -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive  Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8  (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only)  https://www.merlin.mb.ca  Chat with me on Teams  > -Original Message- > From: NA

RE: Re[2]: NANOG92 travel grants or sponsorships?

things much! -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) https://www.merlin.mb.ca<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> Chat with me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?use

NANOG92 travel grants or sponsorships?

Does anyone know if there are travel grants or sponsorships available for people who cannot afford the US$700 (~C$1k) registration fee and/or travel expenses, out-of-pocket? Asking for a friend *cough*... (Yes, I'm aware of the $100 Virtual option, it's not a good option for me.) -

Re: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable?

id<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> From: Nicolas VUILLERMET Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 7:31:31 AM To: Mel Beckman ; Adam Thompson Cc: nanog Subject: Re: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable? Hello, The minimum addressable on a LAN is a /64. So you have to provide the

RE: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable?

I may have mis-read it (I admit I didn’t read it all that carefully) but I think RFC3531 is talking about the strategy for assigning /64s out of a larger pool (a /56, say). -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977

Q: is RFC3531 still applicable?

about allocation strategies seems appropriate to me if you have 100,000 subnets, not 100. Opinions wanted, please. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) https://www.merlin.mb.ca<https

RE: TFTP over anycast

~90% of the conflicts you would otherwise encounter if the anycast node isn’t extremely stable. If you become aware of a distributed DHCP server that actually works well in this environment, that’s worth a post to the list all by itself. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services

Congestion/latency-aware routing for MPLS?

trying to help them find better solutions. Nor am I an MPLS expert, as is obvious here. Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) https://www.merlin.mb.ca<https://www.mer

Re: FastNetMon Usage in the wild

e there. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) https://www.merlin.mb.ca<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> Chat with me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?user

RE: FastNetMon Usage in the wild

make mgmt. as happy to look at it) and you need some external support bits to do the Flowspec. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [cid:image001.png@01D9FB80.2D14BDE0] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) https

RE: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

wed from the IaaS perspective, this is a bunch of DC-DC connections… but relative to the overall network, the customer-prem devices fall into the traditional “CPE” category. (Most customers either just plug in bare fiber, or they connect to an intermediate carrier’s CPE.) Adam Thompson Consult

10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

hich are nice, but our policy requires vendor support contracts, so… no-go.) Vendors? Model#s, if you happen to know any? Reply here or privately, whatever floats your boat – any pointers appreciated! Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN logo]] 100 - 135 Innovation D

Cisco Nexus VXLAN w/vlan-aware-bundle ?

Does anyone here use VXLAN on Cisco Nexus gear in the "vlan-aware-bundle" mode (RFC7432 §6.3), not the "vlan-based" mode (§6.1)? If so, could you please contact me directly to explain how you did so? Much appreciated, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Servic

RE: Standard DC rack rail distance, front to back question

ces in a 4-post rack that I’ve seen – that Dell PowerEdge server in the rack suddenly starts doing double-duty as a shelf! (Or the UPS, or the KVM, or the ethernet switch, or…) -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [cid:image002.png@01D9790D.8F568C90] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Wi

RE: Can I do this in EVPN? (Multihome to more different CEs)

e too much money and need to use some up. Cisco vPC does essentially the same thing, as does Juniper's VC. Extreme has something similar, too. STP does not get transported across the VXLAN transport, so you now avoid all the inherent problems with long-distance or multi-site STP bridgin

RE: BCP38 For BGP Customers

Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) https://www.merlin.mb.ca<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> [cid:image002.png@01D8FE60.27B812C0]Chat with me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l

RE: any dangers of filtering every /24 on full internet table to preserve FIB space ?

I can't believe that never occurred to me in all the time I was doing that, 'way back when... Thanks for pointing that out! -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB o

RE: jon postel

The book, being written by an actual credentialed historian, contains their complete sources as footnotes/endnotes. That section was overwhelming, I mostly skipped it... Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1

RE: any dangers of filtering every /24 on full internet table to preserve FIB space ?

f Geoff has produced such a survey/article, but if not he can probably type it from memory by now :-). Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) https://www.merlin.mb.ca Chat with me on Team

RE: [External] Normal ARIN registration service fees for LRSA entrants after 31 Dec 2023 (was: Fwd: [arin-announce] Availability of the Legacy Fee Cap for New LRSA Entrants Ending as of 31 December 20

the current, probably-illegitimate, users – public schools can always use a bit more cash! Absent a clean-up effort, however, with appropriate policy supporting it, we’re stuck with the status-quo. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg

Re: End of Cogent-Sprint peering wars?

1-800-FTC-HELP (Doesn't exist but should) -Adam Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> From: Lou D Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 5:49:25 PM To: Adam Thompson Cc: Dave Taht ; Jawaid Bazyar ; NANOG ; Sean Donelan Subject: Re: End of Co

RE: End of Cogent-Sprint peering wars?

Well, yes, that goes hand-in-hand with "...expects hefty charge". To me, this just says T-Mobile wants out of the POTS business at almost any cost. All those poor people stuck with Cogent now, I feel sorry for them! Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135

RE: Papers/analysis on network equipment pricing since pandemic/banning foreign competition

If you look at the NANOG archives, this was discussed just a month or so ago, somewhere in the middle of the Juniper MX204 EOL discussion, IIRC. I’ve been seeing a number of analysts with models which show a brief reprieve in 2023 then a regression (i.e. back to where we are today, or even worse

RE: Re:

I run both OpenBSD + OpenBGPd + OpenBSD/OpenBGPd’s LG, and BIRD + xddxdd/bird-lg-go<https://github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go> (on two different servers, because I value my sanity) because they do a few things differently, and neither can show me everything I want. -Adam Adam Thompson Cons

GoDaddy intermittent unreachability?

like a hashing-involved problem to me, which will be (already is) difficult to troubleshoot. (There’s my shot in the dark for today!) Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only

RE: Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

the right people in the first place... all debatable. I sure hope the above conclusion is wrong. One possible upside: it might slow down the incessant upgrade hamster-wheel we're all running on? Imagine having enough time to do your job thoroughly and properly... Yes, I know I'm

Re: Upstream bandwidth usage

Ah, I did miss that, you're right. We don't have very much GPON up where I am. -Adam Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> From: Mel Beckman Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 6:31:34 PM To: Adam Thompson Cc: Michael Thomas ; nanog@nanog.

RE: Upstream bandwidth usage

ho acknowledges he runs a very unusual SP network where rate-limiting is unheard of) Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) https://www.merlin.mb.ca Chat with me on Teams: athomp...@merl

RE: BGP Javascript Map/Visualization

Neat. Any idea who to ask questions of, regarding the incorrectness of the data? I would have assumed Job, but he's long gone from NTT, is this abandonware or maintained? Anyone know? Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3

Juniper MX204 allow oversubscription?

with oversubscription with a 400G aggregate throughput cap. Is there a way to stop the automatic “oh, I’ll disable these other ports for you so you don’t oversubscribe the box” behaviour and let all the front-panel ports be used at once? -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services

RE: 10 Do's + Don'ts for Visiting Québec + Register Now for N85!

described there. -Adam P.S. ArriveCAN is a pain to Canadians, too, I can’t just pop across the border for shopping trips whenever I want any more without planning for it in advance. Yeah, I know, first-world problems… Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovat

RE: Announcement of Experiments

re. Is it possible to run such an experiment ethically without tainting the data in advance by announcing it? I don't know. Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) https://www.merli

RE: fs.com Ethernet switches

. Broadly put: you get what you pay for! -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athomp...@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.mer

RE: Fwd: Fw: HOST IRR Retirement

x27; question: IIRC there exists, or existed at one time, a private(?) mailing list for IRR operators. I would start with r...@merit.edu, if that address still works. I can also reach out to the folks running the CANARIE IRR to see if they know, if necessary. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant

RE: More product suggestions: small/cheap IS-IS or VXLAN devices?

Probably not an option for us, but thank you – I wasn’t aware VyOS included VXLAN. Merci, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:ath

RE: Opinions on Arista for BGP?

overload the platform or do too much “weird” stuff, it should be a quick and easy deployment producing much happiness. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp

RE: DMARC ViolationAS21299 - 46.42.196.0/24 ASN prepending 255 times

Neither of my commercial upstreams currently admit to supporting communities that control it, anyway!) Frustrated at the state of the world today, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca www.merlin.mb.ca

RE: DMARC ViolationAS21299 - 46.42.196.0/24 ASN prepending 255 times

ter of the numeric threshold. And… I don’t really want to be the next Sprint(?) in BGP history just to protect myself from newbies on Mikrotiks[1], do you? -Adam [1] and others, yes, I know it’s not purely a Mikrotik issue. Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135

RE: DMARC ViolationAS21299 - 46.42.196.0/24 ASN prepending 255 times

primary route went away… at which point you may as well have not dropped it in the first place. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:ath

More product suggestions: small/cheap IS-IS or VXLAN devices?

yone. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athomp...@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/>

Proofpoint woes?

I realize this is a more networking-focused forum, but I'm wondering if anyone has contacts inside Proofpoint? They're an anti-spam service provider who has suddenly begun rejecting metric s***tons of email for (seemingly) bogus DMARC failures within the last week or so. -Adam Get Outlook for

Cloudflare human?

If anyone from Cloudflare lurks here, could you please reach out to me directly? My messages to peering@ about one specific long-standing issue (and only this issue) are going unanswered with no explanation why. Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135

RE: Simplified BGP peering solution

for this question to make sense in the first place.) Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athomp...@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.c

RE: Long hops on international paths

understand it. (I was never a customer, so that’s hearsay.) -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athomp...@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.c

Useful ping targets for end-users?

but maybe there’s a resource out there I don’t know about… -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athomp...@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.

RE: SRv6 Capable NOS and Devices

e a need for it, but I am questioning whether you do, or whether you're just being sucked in by all the latest sizzle (i.e. sales & marketing materials). (After all, that's what the sizzle is *designed* to do!) -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135

RE: BGP Route Monitoring

details. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athomp...@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/> From: NANOG On Behalf

RE: IP tracking system

s here are adopting NetBox, AFAIK. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca www.merlin.mb.ca

RE: anyone use fbtracert successfully?

apparently has lost the skills needed to Google usefully, in his decrepitude) Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [1593169877849] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athomp...@merlin.mb

anyone use fbtracert successfully?

out of the entire chain of routers, making it less than useful. Granted, that’s not a full regression test by any means, but if anyone here has ever used it successfully, could you please let me know what sort of environment you ran it in/on? Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant

Re: Validating multi-path in production?

From: James Bensley Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2021 5:29:25 AM To: Adam Thompson ; nanog Subject: Re: Validating multi-path in production? On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 at 16:54, Adam Thompson mailto:athomp...@merlin.mb.ca>> wrote: The best I've come up with so far is to have two te

Validating multi-path in production?

/or admins have screwed this up in subtle ways enough times that this knowledge exists? (My Google-fu is usually pretty good, but I'm striking out - maybe I'm using the wrong terms.) -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [1593169877849] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipe

Re: PCH Peering Survey 2021

Question: if I have a written contract with a peer that covers the link and IP service in general, but that contract does not specifically discuss BGP or peering, is that a Yes or No? Also, how should I indicate "unknown" , particularly for the Written Contract field? -Adam Ada

Re: Increase bandwidth usage in partial-mesh network?

PE/Aruba's Silverpeak line. We'll see what else comes out of the woodwork, though - if nothing else, it's a very interesting exercise! Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [1593169877849] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-

Increase bandwidth usage in partial-mesh network?

ment h/w is now possible. Has anyone come across any product or technology that can handle the multi-path-ness and the private-network-ness like a regular router, but also provides the intelligent per-flow path steering based on e.g. latency, like an SD-WAN device (and/or some firewalls

Re: [External] Re: uPRF strict more

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Re: uPRF strict more

tlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> From: Brian Johnson Sent: Friday, October 1, 2021 8:31:15 AM To: Adam Thompson Cc: Amir Herzberg ; Randy Bush ; North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: uPRF strict more For strict-mode... Comple

Re: uPRF strict more

years that uRPF is only​ useful on interfaces pointing directly at non-multi-homed customers, and actively dangerous anywhere else. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [1593169877849] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (

Re: Never push the Big Red Button (New York City subway failure)

h, in some they were. Emergency exit lamps will continue to be lit, as they have internal batteries, and are required by building/fire code. Is it (somewhat) common for an EPO switch to only disconnect commercial power and leave local redundant power live? What sort of facilities would have this?

Re: Newbie Questions: How-to monitor/control unauthorized uses of our IPs and DNS zones?

7;t work this way, most of the RIRs are always looking for participants in their policy process - I know ARIN is. Well, I don't know what's up with AfriNIC, that unfortunately seems to be a rolling dumpster fire, but I suppose they'll need new people to put the pieces all back

Re: PeerinDB refuses to register certain networks [was: Setting sensible max-prefix limits]

o. FWIW, their upstream, Bell Canada, is a very different story. And also mostly ~8msec away. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [1593169877849] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca&l

Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

for our own allocation sometimes, and there's no robust, never mind bullet-proof, technical argument why I can't do that for them (or for ourselves). OTOH robust arguments exist for why it's a good thing to do - sometimes, and temporarily. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -Adam Adam Thomps

Re: Anycast but for egress

TCP connection to each other. (In general. There will be lots of local cases where it does happen to work, by coincidence.) You'll find that even anycast nodes do not make connections outbound using their anycast address, pretty much for these reasons. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infr

Re: 1G/10G BaseT switch recommendation

While acknowledging that some people love Rucks for legitimate reasons, our experience with them can be summed up as "never again". YMMV. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [1593169877849] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-43

RE: 1G/10G BaseT switch recommendation

True. I forget carrier space often, these days. Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athomp...@mer

Re: 1G/10G BaseT switch recommendation

If you've already looked at Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, Juniper, and Arista, that's the big ones. Everything else is increasingly niche vendors. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [1593169877849] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or

Re: A survey on BGP MRAI timer values in practice

My question at this point is, what slow global convergence? When I (or any of my downstreams) adjusts a prefix, I nearly always see global propagation in well under 60 seconds. Among networks where I can check, at least. I understand it could be technically possible to see near-instantaneous gl

Re: A survey on BGP MRAI timer values in practice

and why?" It would be great if we could derive that answer from the survey results, but anecdotal replies here would also be helpful. All you larger(-than-me) network operators out there: when would I need to use out-delay? Why? What does it accomplish? Good luck in reformulating your survey

Re: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs

s to ship one common hardware platform that could run any of their 3 OSes. I don't know if they're achieved it, but generally speaking, for any EXOS box, there's two more products, one running the Nortel/Avaya OS and one IronWare (Foundry/Broadcom), both of which are fair

Re: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs

have had both MEF and MPLS, too. Beware many EX models have pretty minimalist MPLS implementations (e.g. no VPLS). Agreed on their pricing, though, which is why I don't have any 🙂. But for 4x10G the MX104 is a very nice box - if you can afford it. Lastly, have you seen https://www.mef.ne

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

that matter, have traffic graphs that work at all. :-( Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athomp...@mer

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

I did not know such a thing existed! Cool! Holy murdering your port density, though. Ouch$$$. Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca www.merlin.mb.ca

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

x27;t let you use SFP+ CWDM/DWDM transceivers. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca www.merlin.mb.ca > -Original Message- > From: Bjørn M

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

. MX480 line cards are stupid expensive compared to, well, everything else. I’m probably out-of-date on some (or much) of my knowledge, let’s see what everyone else here has to say! -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> 100

RE: IS-IS and IPv6 LLA next-hop - just Arista, or everyone?

LOLOLOL. “%VXLAN-4-IPV6_UNDERLAY_UNSUPPORTED: VXLAN encapsulation using IPv6 VTEP addresses is not supported on this platform” Guess it’s going to be a non-issue for me, at this time, since VxLAN was the main reason for this entire setup… Thanks for all the responses! -Adam Adam Thompson

Re: IS-IS and IPv6 LLA next-hop - just Arista, or everyone?

ress of that LLA on that link, and then identify the router from its MAC address. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks! -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [1593169877849] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) at

Re: IS-IS and IPv6 LLA next-hop - just Arista, or everyone?

ULAs or GUAs in order to establish IPv6 routes in IS-IS, in an IPv6 environment? That makes about as much sense to me as forcing LLAs for next-hops. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [1593169877849] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-

IS-IS and IPv6 LLA next-hop - just Arista, or everyone?

Cisco or other vendors does/do not do this (prefer LLA over GUA)? Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin

Re: Zayo or HE for IP transit

experiences, but that's what I see from where I sit. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [1593169877849] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athomp...@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin

MS Teams orig/term carrier?

ice calls in Canada? Pointers to rabbit holes welcome, if you think there’s an actual answer at the end ;-). Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-43

Re: Petition for Board of Trustees adoption consideration of ARIN-2020-2

Frankly, at this point, I'll support whatever lets me never have to hear about the subject again. -Adam (Yes, I know Outlook has filters, thank you. In fact, I think I'll go create one right now.) Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [1593169877849] 100 - 135 Innova

RE: favorite network troubleshooting tools (online)

I see NLNOG’s IRRexplorer has been mentioned, but what about the NLNOG RING<https://ring.nlnog.net/> ? There’s a publicly-reachable LG (lg.ring.nlnog.net) but you have to sign up for access to the rest. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]

Re: L2VPN/L2transport, Cumulus Linux & hardware suggestion

any experience with the QFX series as an operator or customer so can't comment. Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [1593169877849] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athomp...@merlin

Re: L2VPN/L2transport, Cumulus Linux & hardware suggestion

n Jul. 8, 2020 00:48, Saku Ytti wrote: Hey Adam, On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 00:11, Adam Thompson wrote: > Good luck with tunnelling LACP, no matter what boxes you have - LACP has (de > facto) hard jitter requirements of under 1msec, or you'll be getting TCP > resets coming out your ears du

RE: L2VPN/L2transport, Cumulus Linux & hardware suggestion

omply, too. Not 100% sure the Juniper EX does 25G, now that I think of it. Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca www.merlin.mb.ca > -Original Message- >

Re: Ensuring RPKI ROAs match your routing intent

So in the ARIN world, Krill only works with "delegated" RPKI, not "hosted" RPKI - do I understand that correctly? If so, are there any plans to allow Krill's analytics and rules to monitor ARIN Hosted RPKI ROAs? -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Ser

Re: Switch for SFP+

S.com and get them coded as Mikrotik modules at the factory - that's what we do for Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, Extreme, etc. Even the top-of-the-line Mikrotik only costs US$899. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB,

Re: xplornet contact or any experience with their satellite service?

milarly... albeit not with 600+msec latency :-/. Some of the really old asymmetric TV systems (dial-up for uplink, CATV for downlink) exhibited similar characteristics and were similarly difficult to mitigate. Good luck! Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]] 100 -

Practical guide to predicting latency effects?

? Anyone got anything at all that might help me? Thanks in advance, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athomp...@merlin.mb.ca<mail

RE: COVID-19 vs. peering wars

% of the population… negligible, really, we’re only a country of 10M after all :-/. FYI, we have 4 big ISPs because none of them cover the entire country: they all* descend from local/regional monopolies or duopolies. *Mostly, that’s an approximation. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant

RE: COVID-19 vs. peering wars

BellMTS joined MBIX, un-cached DNS resolution times could potentially drop by 15msec. That's HUGE. But the end-user experience is not their primary goal. Their primary goal is profit, as always. -Adam Thompson Founding member, MBIX (once upon a time) Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastru

RE: WIKI documentation Software?

are still just as much at home as with other products. Another plus, despite the cost, is you can host it on-site or in the cloud, depending on your needs. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, M

sflow -> aggregated aspath visualization?

you have a technique of collecting this data and using Excel to do the reporting, that would work too. (Yes, I could theoretically build this off of existing open source tools… eventually) Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]<https://www.merlin.mb.c