Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-02 Thread N. Max Pierson
I don't usually chime in on the list, but since this seems to be another hot item, i'll pitch in my $0.005 (since the $$ has been going up these days). IIRC the entire reason we have asymmetry to begin with is because it was created to resolve an issue with older ADSL hardware. I believe the reaso

Charter Communications Contact

2014-10-11 Thread N. Max Pierson
Can someone from Charter Communications engineering/support hit me up off list please? Sorry for the noise. Regards, Max

Re: google troubles?

2013-07-10 Thread N. Max Pierson
Traceroutes worked fine for me during the outage. Seems to have been something at L4-L7. -- max On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Grant Ridder wrote: > Does anyone have traceroutes showing where the issues are? > > -Grant > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:45 AM, John York >wrote: > > > We saw the sa

Re: looking glass for Level 3

2012-12-28 Thread N. Max Pierson
Same here. http://lg.level3.net has been down for over a week for me. I know someone in operations I can open a ticket with. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Cameron Daniel wrote: > I've had issues getting to it for a week or so. Their NOC was unresponsive > when queried. > > > On 2012-12-28 8:23

Re: ouch..

2011-09-14 Thread N. Max Pierson
M, Always Learning wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 08:33 -0500, N. Max Pierson wrote: > > > Either way, it's pathetic. If someone is going to slander in the > > fashion the site has done, they should at least put a contact form > > somewhere for some feedback :) > &

Re: ouch..

2011-09-14 Thread N. Max Pierson
Check out the White Papar referenced http://www.overpromisesunderdelivers.net/pdfs/Why_Cisco_Not_Juniper.pdf It has Cisco's usual White Paper format and their copyright stamped on the bottom which is also dates "9/11". If it's not Cisco or one of it's affiliates, I would expect them to be co

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-12 Thread Max Pierson
>When BellSouth switched their DSL from PVC-per-customer to PPPoE I remember having to compress the config due to static pvc config on many of 7204/6 kit, the switch made it much more intuitive to manage. -- m On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Barry Shein

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-11 Thread Max Pierson
>Also, the telcos generally made getting a BRI difficult to impossible. >An early string of Dilbert cartoons covered Dilbert's attempts to get >ISDN at his house, and IIRC they were based on Scott Adams' real-life >attempts (and this was either when or shortly after he worked for the >phone company

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-10 Thread Max Pierson
> 2) Last mile is expensive to install and hard to justify for people. This is because of a long history of universal service and subsidization/regulation. Not only that, it makes it even worse when you hear firsthand accounts of "yea, this customer's DSL is screwed because at&t was too cheap to

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-21 Thread Max Pierson
oe Loiacono wrote: > > Max Pierson wrote on 02/21/2011 04:15:46 PM: > > > > Unfortunately, I'm not savvy with Java at all, so the really cool viz > API's > > wont work for me (there's just something about Java ... I simply can't > get > > into it an

Re: BGP Failover Question

2011-02-21 Thread Max Pierson
>Save yourself the headache and find a new provider that knows how to handle BGP I've had this happen with providers that do know how to handle BGP. Just because you peer with 3356, 701, etc, doesn't mean operators can't make a mistake. I've even seen this happen due to some wierd BGP behavior cau

Re: BGP Failover Question

2011-02-21 Thread Max Pierson
I would simply monitor PPS on those links and set a threshold which will kick off an alert at least. If your scripting savvy, other tools such as IP SLA and EEM on Cisco could be used to automate the failover. Juniper also has a similar scripting tool that can probably do the same. I've had this ha

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-21 Thread Max Pierson
ifferent manors. I won't be injecting the volume of inserts aggregate onto one plot over time. I haven't gone that mad yet :) For measurements such as that, averaging will be used for such trends. Good talking to you again, Max On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-20 Thread Max Pierson
ready in mySQL). This isn't really network or server related metrics i'm trying to plot. Regards, Max On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Rene Skjoldmose wrote: > On 2011-02-18 22:03, Max Pierson wrote: > >> Nothing at all :)My problem is with rrdtool. It doesn't scale

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Max Pierson
rl/PHP foo will do nicely. M On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: > On 02/18/2011 05:32 PM, Marco F. Delaurenti wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:13:54PM -0600, Max Pierson wrote: >> >>> Hi List, >>> >>> Anyone out there using somet

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Max Pierson
iving a few of the mentioned tools. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Max Pierson wrote: > > hacks of course :). So really what i'm looking for is something along the >> lines of GNUplot. Has anyone used it before and would like to share

Graph Utils (Open-Source)

2011-02-18 Thread Max Pierson
Hi List, Anyone out there using something other than rrdtool for creating graphs?? I have a project that will need a trend taken, and unfortunately rrdtool doesn't fit the bill. All of the scripting, data collection, database archival, etc will be custom written or is already done (with some hacks

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Max Pierson
ated. I just don't happen to agree with some of it. M >Let's put it in perspective... If we give a /48 to every end site, then, we have >enough addresses for 281,474,976,710,656 end sites. I get your point about sustainable growth. I even agree with it. What you're referring

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Max Pierson
agree, although I do think there will be some foot-dragging, I just don't think it will take 11 years. If anyone at that point is still speaking only v4, IMO they'll only be speaking to "127.0.0.1". M On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2011,

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Max Pierson
of us want to see v4 stick around anyway. Max On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Max Pierson wrote: > > Great reply's on and off-list so far. > > To hit on a few points ... > > Owen, thank you for catching my termino

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Max Pierson
to dual-stack a v4 table and a v6 table. They both will grow over time, and until the powers that be "pull the plug" on re-issuing returned v4 space (which I completely disagree with), it'll continue that way. That's just my opinion though :) Once again, thanks for all on and o

Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Max Pierson
Hi List, Sorry to bring up yet ANOTHER v6 question/topic, but this seems to be one that I cannot get a solid answer on (and probably won't and in the event that I do, it will probably change down the road anyways), but here goes. >From the provider perspective, what is the prefix-length that most

Re: Dual Homed BGP for failover

2011-01-18 Thread Max Pierson
Me <3's "commit confirmed" ... maybe someone from Cisco should be watching :) On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jack Carrozzo wrote: > Yep, the great thing about IOS without 'commit confirmed' is when you > remove > a bgp filter, it runs out of memory, reboots, brings up peers, runs out of > memo

Re: Dual Homed BGP for failover

2011-01-18 Thread Max Pierson
You really limit yourself when you just take a default from a provider. If you take 2 default's (one from each provider) for whatever reason, once you change the local pref on one of them, it's all your traffic outbound or none. I always request a full table + default, so you can filter to best su