Re: Arista filesystem rewinding back 3 years

2025-02-19 Thread James Bensley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Tuesday, February 18th, 2025 at 21:16, Drew Weaver wrote: > ...I’ve run into quite a strange situation where what shows up in flash: > isn’t the same as what is actually in /mnt/flash on an Arista switch. > > I found out that this was an issu

Re: Noisy prefixes in BGP

2025-02-09 Thread James Bensley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Romain, I have been looking at prefixes with large numbers of updates for a few years now. As Geoff pointed out, this is a long running problem and it’s not one that is going to (ever?) go away. I have auto-generated daily reports of general p

Re: 400G forwarding - how does it work?

2022-07-27 Thread James Bensley
On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 at 21:39, Lawrence Wobker wrote: > So if this pipeline can do 1.25 billion PPS and I want to be able to forward > 10BPPS, I can build a chip that has 8 of these pipelines and get my > performance target that way. I could also build a "pipeline" that processes > multiple pac

Re: 400G forwarding - how does it work?

2022-07-27 Thread James Bensley
On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 15:11, Masataka Ohta wrote: > > James Bensley wrote: > > > The BCM16K documentation suggests that it uses TCAM for exact > > matching (e.g.,for ACLs) in something called the "Database Array" > > (with 2M 40b entries?), and SRAM for LP

Re: 400G forwarding - how does it work?

2022-07-25 Thread James Bensley
Hi Lawrence, thanks for your response. On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 at 15:34, Lawrence Wobker wrote: > This is the parallelism part. I can take multiple instances of these > memory/logic pipelines, and run them in parallel to increase the throughput. ... > I work on/with a chip that can forwarding about

Re: 400G forwarding - how does it work?

2022-07-25 Thread James Bensley
Thanks for the responses Chris, Saku… On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 at 15:17, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, James Bensley said: > > The obvious answer is that it's not magic and my understanding is > > fundamentally flawed, so please enlighten me. > > So I

400G forwarding - how does it work?

2022-07-25 Thread James Bensley
Hi All, I've been trying to understand how forwarding at 400G is possible, specifically in this example, in relation to the Broadcom J2 chips, but I don't the mystery is anything specific to them... According to the Broadcom Jericho2 BCM88690 data sheet it provides 4.8Tbps of traffic processing a

Re: Validating multi-path in production?

2021-11-14 Thread James Bensley
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 at 16:54, Adam Thompson wrote: > The best I've come up with so far is to have two test systems (typically > VMs) that use adjacent IP addresses and adjacent MAC addresses, and test > both inbound and outbound to/from those, blindly trusting/hoping that > hashing algorithms wil

Announcing UKNOF46

2020-12-23 Thread James Bensley
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce UKNOF46, taking place online, on 19th January followed by an online social event. The meeting website is live and both the Call for Presentations and Registrations are now open. [ REGISTRATION ] There are a limited number of Free Registration spaces

Re: SRv6

2020-09-21 Thread James Bensley
On 19 September 2020 03:23:15 BST, Randy Bush wrote: >> Information can be in plaintext and private > >Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -- franklin > >i know you truely believe the tunnel k00laid. the security >community does not. Hi Randy, I'm not sure what you're saying h

Re: SRv6

2020-09-18 Thread James Bensley
On 16 September 2020 22:38:38 CEST, Randy Bush wrote: >> Privacy != encryption. > >cleartext == privacy * 0 > >cleartext * complexity == privacy * 0 False. Cleartext and privacy are two different things which are not mutually exclusive. Information can be in plaintext and private, it can also

Re: SRm6 (was:SRv6)

2020-09-17 Thread James Bensley
On 17 September 2020 11:05:24 CEST, Saku Ytti wrote: >On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 11:03, James Bensley >wrote: > >> MPLSoUDP lacks transport engineering features like explicit paths, >FRR LFA and FRR rLFA, assuming only a single IP header is used for the >transport abstrac

Re: SRm6 (was:SRv6)

2020-09-17 Thread James Bensley
On 16 September 2020 23:51:03 CEST, Robert Raszuk wrote: >Hi Ron, > >> If you want an IPv6 underlay for a network offering VPN services > >And what's wrong again with MPLS over UDP to accomplish the very same >with >simplicity ? > >MPLS - just a demux label to a VRF/CE >UDP with IPv6 header pl

Re: SRv6

2020-09-16 Thread James Bensley
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 19:14, Randy Bush wrote: > > > I'm still learning, but, It does seem interesting that the IP layer > > (v6) can now support vpn's without mpls. > > as the packet payload is nekkid cleartext, where is the P in vpn? Define "privacy". In the kind of VPN I think you're suggesti

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-07-01 Thread James Bensley
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 22:07, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > On 30/Jun/20 20:37, James Bensley wrote: > > > Mark, does someone have a gun to your head? Are you in trouble? Blink > > 63 times for yes, 64 times for no ;) > > You're pretty late to this party, ma

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-30 Thread James Bensley
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 23:19, Mark Tinka wrote: > Yes, we all love less state, I won't argue that. But it's the same question > that is being asked less and less with each passing year - what scales better > in 2020, OSPF or IS-IS. That is becoming less relevant as control planes keep > getting

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-30 Thread James Bensley
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 18:08, Mark Tinka wrote: > > Hi all. > > When the whole SR concept was being first dreamed up, I was mildly excited > about it. But then real life happened and global deployment (be it basic > SR-MPLS or SRv6) is what it is, and I became less excited. This was back in > 2

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-30 Thread James Bensley
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 22:09, wrote: > > > From: NANOG On Behalf Of Mark Tinka > > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 6:07 PM > > > > > > I've heard a lot about "network programmability", e.t.c., > First of all the "SR = network programmability" is BS, SR = MPLS, any > programmability we've had for

Re: End to End testing

2019-12-13 Thread James Bensley
On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 14:55, Fawcett, Nick via NANOG wrote: > > Anyone have any suggestions on devices that I can put at two points in the > network to test packet loss, latency, jitter etc. I was thinking of maybe > engineering my own using a couple of pi’s, but the downfall is they don’t >

Re: FRR as Route-Reflector & Scaling stats

2019-11-07 Thread James Bensley
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 14:36, Rakesh M wrote: > > > Hi Nanog, > > > We want to Deploy and use FRR for Route reflection on a Dell Edge. Any one > has expereience with it and can give insight into number of routes and scale > that you used FRR to do Route Reflection There is possibly no better pla

Re: UK, NL, & Asia LTE Providers for Opengear Console Servers

2019-08-02 Thread James Bensley
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 02:36, Ryan Gelobter wrote: > > Anyone have recommendations for providers who I can use for LTE on Opengear > console servers in the UK, Netherlands, and Singapore? 1 provider for all 3 > countries would be great but I'll take what I can get. Oddly when talking to > Openge

Re: few big monolithic PEs vs many small PEs

2019-06-27 Thread James Bensley
On 27 June 2019 16:26:03 BST, Mark Tinka wrote: > > >On 27/Jun/19 10:58, James Bensley wrote: > >> Hi Adam, >> >> Over the years I have been bitten multiple times by having fewer big >> routers with either far too many services/customers connected to them

Re: few big monolithic PEs vs many small PEs

2019-06-27 Thread James Bensley
On 27 June 2019 16:31:27 BST, Mark Tinka wrote: > > >On 27/Jun/19 14:48, James Bensley wrote: > >> That to me is a simple scenario, and it can be mapped with a >> dependency tree. But in my experience, and maybe it's just me, things >> are usually a lot more co

Re: few big monolithic PEs vs many small PEs

2019-06-27 Thread James Bensley
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 12:46, wrote: > > > From: James Bensley > > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 9:56 AM > > > > One experience I have made is that when there is an outage on a large PE, > > even when it still has spare capacity, is that the business impact c

Re: few big monolithic PEs vs many small PEs

2019-06-27 Thread James Bensley
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 21:23, wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Recently I ran into a peculiar situation where we had to cap couple of PE > even though merely a half of the rather big chassis was populated with > cards, reason being that the central RE/RP was not able to cope with the > combined number of

Re: modeling residential subscriber bandwidth demand

2019-04-04 Thread James Bensley
On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 17:57, Tom Ammon wrote: > > How do people model and try to project residential subscriber bandwidth > demands into the future? Do you base it primarily on historical data? Are > there more sophisticated approaches that you use to figure out how much > backbone bandwidth yo

Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

2019-03-13 Thread James Bensley
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 16:09, Colton Conor wrote: > Right now, the cost of the whitebox plus a paid network operating system > seems to equal the same cost as a discounted Juniper, Cisco, or Arista. I am > not seeing the savings on paper. I'm not going to defend the prices of Cisco/Juniper/et al

Re: Cisco ASR's with RSP440 engines...

2019-02-19 Thread James Bensley
On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 15:29, Tom Hill wrote: > > On 18/02/2019 21:50, John Von Essen wrote: Hi John, > > If anyone on here has experience with the ASR series running the > > RSP440-SE or -TR, please contact me off-list. I'm trying to better > > understand real world performance when it comes to

Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]

2019-02-18 Thread James Bensley
On 18 February 2019 06:58:21 GMT, Viruthagiri Thirumavalavan wrote: >Just gone through all your replies. > >Literally everyone attacking me here. Could you tell me why? Because I >have >been rude to John Levine, right? So you all think you have the right to >give me "mob justice". But as an in

Re: [Community bleaching on edge] RTBH no_export

2019-02-10 Thread James Bensley
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 13:55, wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > This “RTBH no_export” thread made me wonder what is the latest view on BGP > community bleaching at the edge (in/out). > > Anyone filtering extended RT communities inbound on NOSes that accept > extended communities by default? Yeah about

Re: Your opinion on network analysis in the presence of uncertain events

2019-01-17 Thread James Bensley
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 19:01, Vanbever Laurent wrote: > > Hi NANOG, > > Networks evolve in uncertain environments. Links and devices randomly fail; > external BGP announcements unpredictably appear/disappear leading to > unforeseen traffic shifts; traffic demands vary, etc. Reasoning about netwo

Re: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform

2019-01-17 Thread James Bensley
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 16:54, Colton Conor wrote: > > As an internet service provider with many small business and residential > customers, our most common tech support calls are speed related. Customers > complaining on slow speeds, slowdowns, etc. > > We have a SNMP and ping monitoring platfor

Re: JunOS Fusion Provider Edge

2018-12-19 Thread James Bensley
Hi Mehmet, This has been discussed on the Juniper-NSP list several times, here's a couple of examples: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/juniper-nsp/2018-November/036673.html https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/juniper-nsp/2018-April/035397.html https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/juniper-nsp/2016-Ju

Re: IGP protocol

2018-11-15 Thread James Bensley
.. >ons. 14. nov. 2018 14.55 skrev James Bensley : > >> Several networks I've seen place >management >> in a VRF / L3 VPN, which means that by the time you have remote >> management access, everything else is already working, it's like the >> last thing to come up when there's been a problem Cheers, James.

Re: IGP protocol

2018-11-14 Thread James Bensley
On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 12:09, Saku Ytti wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 12:37, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > Main reasons: > > - Doesn't run over IP. > > Why is this upside? I've seen on two platforms (7600, MX) ISIS punted > on routers running ISIS without interface having ISIS. With no > abili

Re: NAT on a Trident/Qumran(/or other?) equipped whitebox?

2018-10-16 Thread James Bensley
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 10:07, wrote: > > Interesting, but isn’t stateful tracking once again just swapping, but in > this case port 123 in port 32123 out? > > So none of the chips you named below support swapping parts of L4 header and > that part is actually done with SW assistance please? > >

Re: Console Servers

2018-09-19 Thread James Bensley
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 at 09:50, Saku Ytti wrote: > I think WAN indeed is very market situational, and if you need to > support world, it is beneficial to have solution which supports many > WAN options, without needing external boxes and external power bricks. > We try to do just ethernet, but even

Re: Console Servers

2018-09-19 Thread James Bensley
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 15:26, Saku Ytti wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 16:39, Alan Hannan wrote: > > > Long ago I used Cisco 2511/2611 and was fairly happy. A little later I > > used portmaster and was less so. Recently I've been using Opengear and > > they work fairly well but the price i

Re: Console Servers

2018-09-19 Thread James Bensley
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 14:38, Alan Hannan wrote: > > I'd like your input on suggestions for an alternate serial port manager. > > Long ago I used Cisco 2511/2611 and was fairly happy. A little later I used > portmaster and was less so. Recently I've been using Opengear and they work > fairly w

Re: Console Servers

2018-09-19 Thread James Bensley
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 15:26, Saku Ytti wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 16:39, Alan Hannan wrote: > > > Long ago I used Cisco 2511/2611 and was fairly happy. A little later I > > used portmaster and was less so. Recently I've been using Opengear and > > they work fairly well but the price i

Re: Service provider story about tracking down TCP RSTs

2018-09-02 Thread James Bensley
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 at 21:06, Garrett Skjelstad wrote: > > I would love this as a blog post to link folks that are not nanog members. > > -Garrett Hi Garrett, It is available via the NANOG list archives: https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2018-September/096871.html I've shared this story

Re: Multicast traffic % in enterprise network ?

2018-08-10 Thread James Bensley
On 10 August 2018 at 08:44, Jethro R Binks wrote: > > In terms of other Internet use, the BBC recently published this white > paper on the R&D efforts with HTTP Server Push/QUIC, part of which > describes an "experimental IP multicast profile of HTTP over QUIC". > > https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publ

Re: Multicast traffic % in enterprise network ?

2018-08-09 Thread James Bensley
On 9 August 2018 at 13:57, Saku Ytti wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 at 15:27, James Bensley wrote: > >> A recent customer uses multicast to have the same packet arrive at >> multiple destinations at the same time for resilience (their own >> internal systems, not IPTV or

Re: Multicast traffic % in enterprise network ?

2018-08-09 Thread James Bensley
On 8 August 2018 at 19:49, Mankamana Mishra (mankamis) via NANOG wrote: > Hi Every one, > Recently we had good discussion over multicast uses in public internet. From > discussion, it was pointed out uses of multicast is more with in enterprise. > Wanted to understand how much % multicast traff

Re: using expect to log into devices

2018-07-21 Thread James Bensley
Do you need to write this yourself, I've used this expect script too many times such that I should be ashamed...It "just works": https://sourceforge.net/projects/cosi-nms/files/ciscocmd/ Cheers, James.

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread James Bensley
> From: "James Bensley" > Also I recommend you test to a server on you network near to your > peering & transit edge. This way users can test up to the point where > you would have over the "The Internet" and have no further control. > Testing to a serv

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread James Bensley
On 17 July 2018 at 17:18, Mike Hammett wrote: > I don't think you understand the gravity of the in-home interference issue. > Unfortunately, neither does the IEEE. > > It doesn't need to be in lock-step, but if a significant number of homes have > issues getting over 100 megabit wirelessly, I'm

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread James Bensley
On 17 July 2018 at 12:50, Mark Tinka wrote: > But to answer your questions - for some customers, we insist on JDSU > testing for large capacities, but only if it's worth the effort. > > Mark. Hi Mark, Our field engineers have 1G testers, but even at 1G they are costly (in 2018!), so none have 10

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread James Bensley
On 17 July 2018 at 09:54, Saku Ytti wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 10:53, James Bensley wrote: > >> Virtually any modern day laptop with a 1G NIC will saturate a 1G link >> using UDP traffic in iPerf with ease. I crummy i3 netbook with 1G NIC >> can do it on one core/th

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-17 Thread James Bensley
On 16 July 2018 at 18:58, Chris Gross wrote: Hi Chris, > I'm curious what people here have found as a good standard for providing > solid speedtest results to customers. All our techs have Dell laptops of > various models, but we always hit 100% CPU when doing a Ookla speedtest for a > server

Re: Linux BNG

2018-07-15 Thread James Bensley
Hi Baldur, These guys made a PPPoE client for VPP - you could probably extend that into a PPP server: https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/message/9181 https://github.com/raydonetworks/vpp-pppoeclient Although, I would agree that deploying PPP now is a bit of a step backwards and IPoE is the way to be

Re: What are people using for IPAM these days?

2018-06-13 Thread James Bensley
On 13 June 2018 at 13:54, Paul Ebersman wrote: > IPAM? Meh. > > Why bother? So true - when customers want their IP details why should I, the person they are paying to track this information, spend time looking-up the info they reqeust?! I normally set them up with a login to the core and tell the

Re: Segment Routing

2018-05-22 Thread James Bensley
On 22 May 2018 at 09:14, Mark Tinka wrote: > I'm more curious about use-cases for folk considering SR, than SR itself. > > 4 years on, and I still can't find a reason to replace my LDP network > with SR. > > Your use-case makes sense, as it sounds like Cisco deliberately left LDP > out of your box

Re: Route Reflector Client Design Question

2018-05-04 Thread James Bensley
On 4 May 2018 at 07:01, Erik Sundberg wrote: > 1. Can I enable iBGP between the PE's in a full mesh to allow traffic between > the PE's without going to the core's. Or does this break the Route Reflector > model? If I have understood your design correctly then don't use next-hop-self on the RR'

Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?

2018-03-22 Thread James Bensley
On 22 March 2018 at 09:59, Saku Ytti wrote: > Ethernet handles unidirectional failure natively through autonego asserting > RFI. I was thinking about this as I wrote that post. I've not had a chance to test this across our various devices types, I will have to try and find the time to test which

Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?

2018-03-22 Thread James Bensley
On 21 March 2018 at 13:10, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > Hey, > > For those running BFD on your land-based point-to-point links, I’m interested > in hearing about what factors you consider when deciding how to configure > your timers and multiplier. > > On paper, BFD between two devices over a local or

Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?

2018-03-22 Thread James Bensley
On 21 March 2018 at 16:37, Luke Guillory wrote: > He's asking because if it was dark the interface would go down when the link > was lost and the router would pull routes. But PA to FL would lead me to > believe it'll be a wave from some type of DWDM gear which brings us to BFD. Could it not al

Re: improving signal to noise ratio from centralized network syslogs

2018-02-05 Thread James Bensley
On 5 February 2018 at 18:57, wrote: > On Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:49:42 -0800, "Scott Weeks" said: >> I have no knowledge of syslog-ng. Does it do the >> real time scrolling like I mention? > > Use 'tail -f' or similar. The only problem is that with BASH based solutions is that they are slow. They d

Re: Spectre/Meltdown impact on network devices

2018-01-08 Thread James Bensley
On 7 January 2018 at 19:02, Jean | ddostest.me via NANOG wrote: > Hello, > > I'm curious to hear the impact on network devices of this new hardware > flaws that everybody talk about. Yes, the Meltdown/Spectre flaws. > > I know that some Arista devices seem to use AMD chips and some say that > they

Re: DSL Operators Mailing List?

2018-01-08 Thread James Bensley
On 7 January 2018 at 17:10, Mike Hammett wrote: > Is there a good mailing list for DSL operators? A cursory search really only > came up with DSL Reports, which is far from what I'm looking for. Hi Mike, I only know of the https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-bba list. It is Cisco spe

Re: Bandwidth distribution per ip

2017-12-21 Thread James Bensley
On 20 December 2017 at 15:52, Saku Ytti wrote: > On 20 December 2017 at 16:55, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > >> And for me, it sounds like faulty aggregation + shaping setup, for example, >> i heard once if i do policing on some models of Cisco switch, on an >> aggregated interface, if it has 4 i

Re: DevOps workflow for networking

2017-08-22 Thread James Bensley
On 10 August 2017 at 01:52, Kasper Adel wrote: > We are pretty new to those new-age network orchestrators and automation, > > I am curious to ask what everyone is the community is doing? sorry for such > a long and broad question. > > What is your workflow? What tools are your teams using? What is

Re: Virtual or Remote Peering

2017-08-22 Thread James Bensley
On 15 August 2017 at 15:52, Rod Beck wrote: > How well does this service work? I understand it usually involves > point-to-multipoint Switched Ethernet with VLANs and resold IX ports. Sounds > like a service for ISP that would like to peer, but have relatively small > volumes for peering purpos

Re: Creating a Circuit ID Format

2017-08-22 Thread James Bensley
On 21 August 2017 at 21:26, Colton Conor wrote: > We are building a new fiber network, and need help creating a circuit ID > format to for new fiber circuits. Is there a guide or standard for fiber > circuit formats? Does the circuit ID change when say a customer upgrades > for 100Mbps to 1Gbps po

Re: (Network Orchestrators evaluation) : tail-f vs Anuta vs UBIqube vs OpenDaylight

2017-08-15 Thread James Bensley
On 10 August 2017 at 02:01, Kasper Adel wrote: > Hi, Hi Kim, > This is not a vendor bashing thread. > > We are a group of networking engineers less experience with software) in > the middle of the process of procuring a network automation/orchestration > controller, if that is even a good defin

Re: Long AS Path

2017-06-25 Thread James Bensley
On 24 June 2017 at 13:10, Mel Beckman wrote: > James, > > By "experienced by someone else" I mean someone who is not one of your > customers. > > The better strategy, I think, is to not filter long paths unless you have a > reason to see their creating a problem. Otherwise you're just operating

Re: Long AS Path

2017-06-24 Thread James Bensley
On 23 Jun 2017 17:03, "Mel Beckman" wrote: James, The question is whether you would actually hear of any problems. Chances are that the problem would be experienced by somebody else, who has no idea that your filtering was causing it. -mel beckman Hi Mel, For us this the answer is almost de

Re: Long AS Path

2017-06-23 Thread James Bensley
On 21 Jun 2017 17:51, "Mel Beckman" wrote: Steinar, What reason is there to filter them? The main reason I know of is this: On 22 Jun 2017 17:17, "Steve Lalonde" wrote: Mel, There was a Cisco bug many years ago that caused lots of issues. Since then we have limited max-as to 50 and it has

Re: PCIe adapters supporting long distance 10GB fiber?

2017-06-21 Thread James Bensley
On 20 June 2017 at 17:10, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > On 2017-06-20 18:59, Hunter Fuller wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:29 AM Chris Adams wrote: >> >>> For Linux at least, the standard driver includes a load-time option to >>> disable vendor check. Just add "options ixgbe allow_unsupp

Re: Templating/automating configuration

2017-06-07 Thread James Bensley
On 7 June 2017 at 19:52, Brian Knight wrote: > The import process to the database runs directly on our rancid server, > reading the downloaded configs out of the appropriate directory within > rancid. Most of our gear is Cisco, so the ciscoconfparse module for Python > helps a lot with organizi

Re: Templating/automating configuration

2017-06-07 Thread James Bensley
On 7 June 2017 at 00:43, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 6 juin 2017 14:30 +0100, Oliver Elliott : > >> I echo Ansible. I'm using it with NAPALM and jinja2 templates to push and >> verify config on switches. > > Why not using the builtin ability of ansible for most vendors? (genuine > question) > >

Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-06-02 Thread James Bensley
On 30 May 2017 at 16:41, James Harrison wrote: > On 30/05/17 16:22, Nick Olsen wrote: >> Looking to test up to 1Gb/s at various packet sizes, Measure Packet loss, >> Jitter..etc. Primarily Copper, But if it had some form of optical port, I >> wouldn't complain. Outputting a report that we can pro

Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-05-31 Thread James Bensley
On 31 May 2017 at 11:56, Saku Ytti wrote: > Cool. Seems you're using AF_PACKET, which makes it actually unique. > iperf/netperf etc use UDP or TCP socket, so UDP performance is just > abysmal, you can't saturate 1GE link with any reliability. So > measuring for example packet loss is not possible

Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-05-31 Thread James Bensley
On 30 May 2017 at 16:22, Nick Olsen wrote: > Greetings all, > > Looking for a good test set. Primary use will be testing L2 circuits > (It'll technically be VPLS, But the test set will just see L2). Being able > to test routed L3 would also be useful. Most of the sets I've seen are two > sided,

Re: Linux container (Docker) or linux VM RFC2544/EtherSAM appliance

2017-05-25 Thread James Bensley
I think you can do this with either of Pktgen[1] or Moongen[2] which both use DPDK. Cheers, James. [1] http://dpdk.org/download [2] https://github.com/emmericp/MoonGen

Re: BGP Route Reflector - Route Server, Router, etc

2017-03-20 Thread James Bensley
On 20 March 2017 at 11:03, Greg Hankins wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:35:24PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: >>On 14/Jan/17 00:39, Brandon Ewing wrote: >>> Work is being done to allow RRs to compute metrics from the client's >>> position in the IGP: See >>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-i

Re: RNP Santa Catarina Point of Presence (PoP-SC)

2017-03-09 Thread James Bensley
On 9 March 2017 at 08:24, James Bensley wrote: > Hi All, > > Anyone from RNP on-list that can reach out to me off-list, minor > technical problem in your network. > > Thanks, > James. Thanks all, contact has been made off-list! Cheers, James.

RNP Santa Catarina Point of Presence (PoP-SC)

2017-03-09 Thread James Bensley
Hi All, Anyone from RNP on-list that can reach out to me off-list, minor technical problem in your network. Thanks, James.

Re: BGP Route Reflector - Route Server, Router, etc

2017-01-13 Thread James Bensley
On 13 January 2017 at 04:02, Hugo Slabbert wrote: > > On Thu 2017-Jan-12 22:59:21 +, James Bensley > wrote: > >> On 12 January 2017 at 20:32, Justin Krejci wrote: >>> >>> . I have not found many resources discussing using a non-router box as a

Re: BGP Route Reflector - Route Server, Router, etc

2017-01-12 Thread James Bensley
On 12 January 2017 at 20:32, Justin Krejci wrote: > . I have not found many resources discussing using a non-router box as a > route reflector (ie a device not necessarily in the forwarding path of the > through traffic). I am thinking things like OpenBGPd and BIRD could make a > good route ref

Re: BRAS/BNG Suggestion

2016-12-02 Thread James Bensley
On 2 December 2016 at 10:37, t...@pelican.org wrote: > On Friday, 2 December, 2016 05:55, "Mark Tinka" > said: > > > Redback used to be popular - I believe they got picked up by Ericsson. > > I'd steer clear at a small scale like 20k subscribers. In my experience, > Ericsson as an organisation

Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why?

2016-11-10 Thread James Bensley
On 10 November 2016 at 05:59, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 9/Nov/16 19:12, Michael Bullut wrote: > >> Greetings Team, >> >> While I haven't worked with IS-IS before but the only disadvantage I've >> encountered with OSPF is that it is resource intensive on the router it is >> running on which is why

Re: Large BGP Communities beacon in the wild

2016-10-27 Thread James Bensley
On 27 October 2016 at 16:47, Owen DeLong wrote: > I don’t mind the move to 32, but I hope the vendors are getting appropriately > smacked for squatting and that those attributes are not allowed to be > misappropriated by the vendors. > > We have a standards process for a reason and vendors simpl

Re: Host.us DDOS attack -and- related conversations

2016-08-03 Thread James Bensley
On 3 August 2016 at 15:16, Alain Hebert wrote: > PS: > > I will like to take this time to underline the lack of > participation from a vast majority of ISPs into BCP38 and the like. We > need to keep educating them at every occasion we have. > > For those that actually impleme

Re: IX in Iran by TIC

2016-07-13 Thread James Bensley
On 12 July 2016 at 14:36, Bevan Slattery wrote: > EXAMPLE 1. > There maybe for example an enterprise that is looking for a service > provider in a facility (XYZ in NY for example) but that provider actually > "peers" their transit routers at the ABC facility down the street. Because > the provid

Re: IX in Iran by TIC

2016-07-13 Thread James Bensley
On 12 July 2016 at 14:36, Bevan Slattery wrote: > EXAMPLE 1. > There maybe for example an enterprise that is looking for a service > provider in a facility (XYZ in NY for example) but that provider actually > "peers" their transit routers at the ABC facility down the street. Because > the provid

Re: IX in Iran by TIC

2016-07-12 Thread James Bensley
On 12 July 2016 at 13:46, Bevan Slattery wrote: > Great work. Might be worthwhile to also look at throwing your fabric/IX on > Cloud Scene www.cloudscene.com . Provides visibility for people looking > for DC's, providers and fabrics that just aren't limited to IX locations or > peers. > > Cheers

Re: Real world power consumption of a 7604-S or 7606-S

2016-06-28 Thread James Bensley
On 28 June 2016 at 01:26, Tom Hill wrote: > On 28/06/16 00:26, Eric Kuhnke wrote: >> Example: >> 7604S chassis with dual 2700W DC power - chassis and fans use how much >> power? >> 2 x RSP720-3CXL at 310W each >> WS-X6704 with DFC4 - ???W each > > Way too much, is the simple answer. > > I did have

Re: Network traffic simulator

2016-05-24 Thread James Bensley
On 24 May 2016 at 13:17, Mitchell Lewis wrote: > Hi,I am looking to validate the performance specs of a core router. I am > looking for a network traffic simulator which can simulate 40 gbps of > traffic. I am looking for a simulator with sfp+ ports. > I am interested in any input as to brands t

Re: Question on peering strategies

2016-05-23 Thread James Bensley
>> On 22 May 2016, at 07:33, Max Tulyev wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I wonder why a "VLAN exchange" does not exists. Or I do not know any? >> >> In my understanding it should be a switch, and people connected can >> easily order a private VLAN between each other (or to private group) >> through some

Re: Network Weathermap

2016-04-28 Thread James Bensley
On 28 April 2016 at 20:33, Peter Phaal wrote: > Many drawing tools support SVG as a file export format. Exporting or > converting the map to SVG format allows the map attributes (link > colors, widths, etc) to be modulated using JavaScript embedded in the > web page. > > As an example, the followi

Re: Network Weathermap

2016-04-28 Thread James Bensley
On 28 April 2016 at 19:41, Ishmael Rufus wrote: > You could probably build the converter in PHP and make it a plugin of > weathermap. > > You kids and your Python :) I would prefer it to be PHP actually, people keep moaning at me for using PHP, which I am much more fluent in. However if it were i

Re: Network Weathermap

2016-04-28 Thread James Bensley
Hi all, I know its been a while since I posted this thread, I've been swamped. Finally I'm getting time to look back at this. I think I had 0 on-list replies and about 10 off-list private replies, so clearly others are having the same problem but not speaking openly about it. There were two main

Re: NTT communications horrible routing, unresponsive NOC

2016-03-24 Thread James Bensley
On 23 March 2016 at 23:39, Paras Jha wrote: > At a loss as to what to do now, since their NOC isn't receptive. Anyone > have someone I can contact off-list to get this issue resolved? It's > especially frustrating because the problem absolutely cannot be resolved on > our end, even with a no-expor

Re: AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS

2016-03-02 Thread James Bensley
On 1 March 2016 at 20:41, Michael O'Connor wrote: > Jay, > > VPC is supported over IPsec if your public path is sufficient into the AWS > cloud. ^ This. I work for a DirectConnect provider, albeit in the UK though. We have fibre links to a AWS edge routers and we have multiple customers seperate

SunGard On List?

2016-02-24 Thread James Bensley
Hi All, Any SunGard on list? Having a path issue from multiple ISPs in the UK. Cheers, James.

Re: IX ARP Timeout

2016-01-28 Thread James Bensley
How often does your peering router change IP address? For the majority of people I would expect the answer to be almost nevery/very rarely. James.

Re: interconnection costs

2015-12-31 Thread James Bensley
On 23 Dec 2015 20:06, "Reza Motamedi" wrote: > > All the costs of HW, SW, personnel, administration, and perhaps transmission between colos (including remote peering, being waved to another location, tethering) would be the same, right? Usually yes but with transit you are paying for global conne

Re: interconnection costs

2015-12-23 Thread James Bensley
through the "Peering Playbook", but I think its more about > providing a case "settlement free" peering. Dude, how are you going to weigh up the costs and benefits of peering if you don't include the "costs". I refer you back to the same documented I referred y

Re: interconnection costs

2015-12-22 Thread James Bensley
On 22 December 2015 at 16:44, Reza Motamedi wrote: > I think there is no single answer as different businesses may have > different pricing models. I hope the discussion can help me understand the > whole ecosystem a little bit better. Hi Reza, I have a list of example items that need to be cos

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