Re: IP Dslams

+1 for Adtran TA5000 .. we use them, my former employer uses them with great success. There’s also the Calix series of gear that is quite good too … From: NANOG on behalf of Erik Sundberg Date: Monday, December 31, 2018 at 2:31 PM To: Nick Edwards Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: RE: IP Dsl

Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge

Yeah similar experience here …. But we’ve had that fee for a number of years applied. Hibernia as well has been charging us for it since long ago …. ACI – yup going downhill in a hurry ;( From: NANOG on behalf of Clayton Zekelman Date: Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 5:30 PM To: Matt Harris Cc:

Re: TekSavvy (Canada) contact

Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" Subject: Re: TekSavvy (Canada) contact Thnx all - already reached out Paul Get Outlook for iOS On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 6:05 PM -0400, "Mike Hammett" wrote: "Paul Stewart" He's on AFMUG too. - Mike Hammett Inte

Re: TekSavvy (Canada) contact

Thnx all - already reached out  Paul  Get Outlook for iOS On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 6:05 PM -0400, "Mike Hammett" wrote: "Paul Stewart&q

Re: IOS new versions and network load

Curious as mentioned if anyone doing this on scale? I kind of doubt it but love to hear otherwise. My assumption is this is more Enterprise focused than ISP Paul Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 18, 2017, at 8:48 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > > We've been looking into the caching server bit latel

Re: IOS new versions and network load

Apple does use CDN’s and does peer quite a bit as well.. What I have seen is our peering with Apple goes to a certain level of bandwidth and then spills over to CDN’s that we are either peered with or have on-net caches. From our network perspective it’s simply a matter of ensuring there is en

Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

t; There is some high level of dependence on some equipment in Quebec and/or > westward which should not be there. > > A double fault like that should not knock out all local service for 4 out of > 10 provinces. I would expect that an architectural review is under way. > > >

Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

It wasn’t an issue getting transatlantic - it was an issue within a relatively small region in Eastern Canada talking to the rest of the world for certain carriers. There were several smaller carriers/providers not affected - just happens the local incumbent telco and one of their larger compet

Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

Never really heard a lot about it …. We never lost connectivity to Halifax from Montreal via Hibernia - interesting topic though as we have a backup path that I’m looking to replace :) Paul > On Aug 15, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Rod Beck wrote: > > Did we ever get any resolution on why this was suc

Re: Bell Canada contact - need help with DNS issue

Try dnsad...@bell.ca ? I haven’t used that address in quite some time but someone did respond to it some time ago Paul > On Nov 19, 2016, at 11:13 AM, Rich Lafferty wrote: > > > Hi, > > Does anyone have a NOC or DNS administrator contact at Bell Canada? Their > T

Re: Any ISPs using AS852 for IP Transit?

To confirm AS852 and AS577 don’t charge $dayjob for prefix changes …. they both do them manually though which is a pain :( > On Sep 15, 2016, at 4:09 PM, Theodore Baschak wrote: > > I don't think this is standard across the board with Telus. > > I've also heard (rumours?) of a similar $250 pr

RE: Software for circuit documentation

It's now called "Ericsson Adaptive Inventory" if I'm not mistaken... Paul -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Chris Garrett Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 11:50 AM To: Manuel Marín Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Software for circuit documentation Granite

RE: Citrix Sales Reps?

You too ? I gave up ... after calling their local offices, their toll free number, emails, phone calls, etc. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Scott Fisher Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 1:34 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Citrix Sales Reps? I

RE: [NANOG] IPv4 subnets for lease?

Definitely there is - don't have any names handy but there were a few companies at NANOG Montreal that chased me down re: leasing IP space (and of course selling). Paul -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Javier J Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2016

SevOne Monitoring

Hey folks. Looking for feedback from actual customers on SevOne for network monitoring . anyone using them and willing to share thoughts online/offline? They have an appealing system for network monitoring and considering it as a replacement to Solarwinds. Cheers, Paul

Fw: new message

Hey! New message, please read <http://africancichlidphotos.com/behind.php?wvwqc> Paul Stewart

RE: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

Personally I think it's pure marketing ... something I think we all know... I seen a few years back a FTTH development get completed using GPON - everything in the area got "Full Gig Internet". Speedtest while I was onsite showed about 900Mb/s download so pretty darn close (before they fully de

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--- Begin Message --- Well said Mark ... There's a certain large transit provider that this all the time and I never understood why ... Paul -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 5:32 AM To: Martin T; nanog@

RE: Small IX IP Blocks

+1 I worked for a provider until recently that happened to get an IP assignment at an IXP that was transitioning from /25 to /24. It was painful chasing down peers to get them to change their netmask just so we could connect. This went on for several months dealing with the peering/network conta

RE: cable modem firmware upgrade

] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 6:49 AM To: Paul Stewart Cc: 'Nathan Anderson'; 'A MEKKAOUI'; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: cable modem firmware upgrade "Paul Stewart" writes: > That has been my experience as well (only from the RF side) and I would > believe

RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

Open – it was just for a trade show setting .. few years ago …. Thanks, Paul From: Mike Lyon [mailto:mike.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:07 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: Mike Hammett; NANOG Subject: RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office Just curious, were

RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

uting Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "Paul Stewart" To: "Mike Hammett" , nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:34:46 AM Subject: RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office I had a bad experience with it one time at a

RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

I had a bad experience with it one time at a tradeshow environment. 6 access points setup for public wifi. The radio levels were quite good in various areas of the tradeshow however traffic would keep dropping out at random intervals as soon as about 300 users were online. It wasn't my idea t

RE: cable modem firmware upgrade

That has been my experience as well (only from the RF side) and I would believe this was a design choice. The ISP usually wants to keep control over the firmware versions of the CM for various technical/support reasons versus having consumers mess with the firmware. Paul On Wednesday, January

Re: Listing or google map of peering exchange

I’ve actually been working on a site like that for a while (with Google Maps) - just never got around to putting it online. Honestly I wasn’t sure if there was an interest in it :) Paul On 2014-07-09, 2:18 PM, "Dennis Burgess" wrote: >Looking for a good listing of US/Canada peering exchange,

Re: World Cup Streaming

. Thanks, Paul From: Rubens Kuhl Date: Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: Nanog Subject: Re: World Cup Streaming > > Sports events have their rights sold on per country basis; this leads to some > fragmentation of those numbers as network X has the rights for

World Cup Streaming

Hey folks One part of capacity planning that is always challenging at times with various providers I have worked with is determining the traffic levels required for upcoming events such as World Cup. Obviously there is speculation and it varies dependent on the provider, their geography, and size

Customer Support Ticketing

Hey folks…. We need a new customer ticketing system and I’m looking for input. I am still working on a scope document on everything we want to do with the new system. The most common problem I run across is that a system is either built for enterprise internal IT helpdesk or it is built like a C

Re: ddos attacks

We use Arbor for this - works quite well…. Peakflow/TMS .. We don’t do anything announcement wise upstream but don’t see why you couldn’t via communities... I’ve looked at one cloud based solution to date and decided appliance is a better solution specific to our needs. Paul On 12/18/2013, 11:36

Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?

Back in the day (geesh I feel old just saying that), I deployed a lot of PM3’s …. Then we moved to Ascend TNT Max stuff - that was very exciting back then! :) Paul On 12/16/2013, 3:16 PM, "vinny_abe...@dell.com" wrote: >Dell - Internal Use - Confidential > >PM3's were pretty solid. PM4's, no

Re: BRAS

more than 40 >seconds. > >--- Original Message --- > >From: "Paul Stewart" >Sent: December 12, 2013 5:33 AM >To: "Nilesh Kahar" , nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: BRAS > >What kind of issues? How many subs and what code? > >Paul > > &

Re: BRAS

What kind of issues? How many subs and what code? Paul On 12/11/2013, 11:14 AM, "Nilesh Kahar" wrote: >Basically I am facing issues with MX80 LNS scenario. So just to make sure >with community whether anyone is having similar problem. >Also wanted to know about any other good BRAS product wh

Re: BRAS

We have deployed several MX480 for BRAS and had good success - definitely within the 11.4X27 release but also we have one box on 13.2 (nothing like living on the edge haha). I believe Juniper is starting to also recommend 12.3 for BRAS but would have to confirm that for sure. On MX80 we also have

Re: What routers do folks use these days?

Juniper throughout on our side now … former Cisco shop. Overall, quite happy …. MX,M,E,EX,SRX etc… Paul On Nov 29, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Darren O'Connor wrote: > We are using Juniper MX and Brocade XMRs for our P and PE routers. > > > > Thanks > Darren > http://www.mellowd.co.uk/ccie > > >

Re: large scale ipsec

Can you give us an idea of “large scale” in your mind? Also, site to site deployments or remote access or both? Paul On 11/1/2013, 9:38 AM, "Jan Schaumann" wrote: >Hello, > >Who here on this list has deployed IPSec or other comparable lower layer >encryption in a large scale environment, or a

Re: Ciena 6200 clue?

On 2013-07-03 3:57 PM, "Brandon Ross" wrote: > >Everyone knows that attacks against your management interface come from >devices not on your management network. By removing the default gateway >feature, Ciena is improving the security of your network. > >It's time we created a BCOP specifying tha

RE: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test

We host one of the gazillion speed test sites and for networks that are close to us we find it "reasonably accurate" .. a good benchmark at least .. Even our installers in the field use it as a "reference point" YMMV obviously Paul -Original Message- From: valdis.kletni...@vt.

RE: Ddos mitigation service

Akamai (CDN) does scrubbing??? Paul -Original Message- From: Pierre Lamy [mailto:pie...@userid.org] Sent: February-01-13 9:58 AM To: matt kelly Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Ddos mitigation service The 3 major scrubbing vendors: Prolexic Verisign Akamai

Postini Exiting ISP Business?

Hey there. We have been using Postini for a number of years as our anti-spam/anti-virus protection for customer email accounts. Mid last year we received a notice from Google that "In 2013, we plan to transition your Postini services to Google Apps for Business." As part of this notice

RE: Akamai infrastructure tech

That's unusual... we've gone through hard drive replacements many times and always gotten a detailed email from them before the hard drive arrived Paul -Original Message- From: Robert Glover [mailto:robe...@garlic.com] Sent: July-13-12 2:32 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Akamai inf

RE: Spam from inteliquent.com subject "nanog"

Nothing here for what it's worth Paul -Original Message- From: Jay Hennigan [mailto:j...@west.net] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 11:01 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Spam from inteliquent.com subject "nanog" Anyone else just get this? Curious if they're scraping this list for addres

Commerical Backup Solutions

Hey folks. I'm hoping for some input from operational folks on backup solutions for servers. We are looking for a commercial backup solution with a nice reporting dashboard etc. It must support full/incremental backups on Windows and various flavors of Linux. We would also be looking for

RE: Cogent for ISP bandwidth

I liked Cogent when we had them years ago but due to routing instability (off the charts) and unplanned down time every single month we dropped them. they call me every 3-6 months (different person each time) and I tell them to go away Paul -Original Message- From: Tim Vollebregt

RE: IPv6 monitoring...

We are using Solarwinds on our systems. it's one commercial system to consider. Paul -Original Message- From: Vytautas V Grigaliunas [mailto:v...@fnal.gov] Sent: May-01-12 4:31 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: IPv6 monitoring... Greetings... What are people using for IPv6 monitorin

Bid Software

Hi folks. I'm looking for an in-house solution for "circuit bidding". Today, when we get a request for WAN services, transport, transit etc we have folks that email out to a list of contacts and ask them for a price. I've seen some pretty neat systems in the past where vendors can send us the

RE: Console Server Recommendation

We really like Lantronix .. use them a lot. Paul -Original Message- From: Ray Soucy [mailto:r...@maine.edu] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 11:09 AM To: NANOG Subject: Console Server Recommendation What are people using for console servers these days? We've historically used retired ro

RE: Megaupload.com seized

For us (AS11666), about 3-4% of total traffic typically Paul -Original Message- From: Paul Graydon [mailto:p...@paulgraydon.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:27 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Megaupload.com seized On 01/19/2012 12:41 PM, Ryan Gelobter wrote: > The meg

RE: Linux Centralized Administration

Awesome! I remember someone telling me about this before and couldn't remember the name til now... Cheers, Paul -Original Message- From: Daniel Ankers [mailto:md1...@md1clv.com] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:08 PM To: Paul Stewart Subject: Re: Linux Centralized Administr

Linux Centralized Administration

Hey folks. just curious what people are using for automating updates to Linux boxes? Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutions similar to that of Red Hat Network? Cheers, Paul

RE: Speed Test Results

In my opinion they are only "somewhat reliable" if they are on your network or very close to your network -we operate one of the speedtest.net sites and for our own eyeball traffic find it to be a "reasonable indicator" of what kind of speeds the customer is getting. To put it a different way, if

Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?

I'll take a guess they are back logged - they have been working on our traffic stats since a week before that posting made it to nanog list --- Sent via IPhone On 2011-12-16, at 9:16 AM, "Dennis Burgess" wrote: > Same here. > > --- > Den

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

Maybe they use the same security solutions as Playstation Network does... that would explain a lot suddenly. Paul -Original Message- From: andrew.wallace [mailto:andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:47 AM To: frnk...@iname.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject:

RE: Pricing for Comcast Connectivity

Yes, definitely NDA in any of our dealings... I'd say the pricing was "competitive" for sure... Paul -Original Message- From: John van Oppen [mailto:jvanop...@spectrumnet.us] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 3:02 PM To: 'Oscar Caraig'; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Pricing for Comcast Co

RE: serviceproviderworld.com

the layout scare you... Appreciate the feedback, Paul -Original Message- From: David Swafford [mailto:da...@davidswafford.com] Sent: September-03-11 7:56 AM To: Paul Stewart Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: serviceproviderworld.com Good concept, here's two points of feedback: - Given the

RE: serviceproviderworld.com

Hehe... I said almost the exact same thing - oh well, give it some time and I'm sure it'll be "prettier"...;) From: brandon.j@live.com [mailto:brandon.j@live.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Kim Sent: September-02-11 9:21 AM To: p...@paulstewart.org; nanog group Subject: RE: serviceproviderwor

serviceproviderworld.com

Hey folks... I know a couple of folks behind this new site and thought it would be worthwhile for the NANOG community to be made aware of it. http://www.serviceproviderworld.com/ It's basically going to be a directory of service providers across the world - that's the plan as I understand i

RE: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene

>MRE's? In an enclosed space? For an extended period? >Time to implement the new Marine Rule of Engagement - no audible farting. >Hopefully they've gotten rid of the "bean component" ones. The audible ones are usually the ones you need to worry about ;)

IPv6 Linux Server Support

Hi there. Has anyone compiled a list of pros/cons on various flavors of Linux specific to IPv6? I realize that's a really broad question.. Specific example would be that we're primarily a CentOS shop - during some testing today found out that connection tracking is broken in 5.6 version (

RE: OOB

the radar constantly. Maybe it's "once bitten, twice shy" that needs to occur for the priority to change again. -Original Message- From: christopher.mor...@gmail.com [mailto:christopher.mor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:14 AM To:

RE: OOB

We do everything in-band with strict monitoring/policies in place. Paul -Original Message- From: harbor235 [mailto:harbor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:57 AM To: NANOG list Subject: OOB I am curious what is the best practice for OOB for a core infrastructure environment.

Re: MX 80 advantages and shortcomings

Pros - small footprint, cost, feature rich Cons - no redundancy (other than power), 1/3rd the processor power Paul On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, chavan sanjay wrote: Hi Team,   Can anyone enlighten me on the pros and cons of MX 80 platform   Thanks Sanjay C.P. --- On Tue, 7/5/11, nanog-requ...@nanog.

RE: Streaming

Not the FLV stream I'm watching (http://hidef.mich.net:1234) Big black box in upper left -Original Message- From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joe...@bogus.com] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 2:19 PM To: Matt Hite Cc: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List Subject: Re: Streaming The sl

RE: Streaming

Streaming the Windows version here just fine... -Original Message- From: Joe Maimon [mailto:jmai...@ttec.com] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 11:43 AM To: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List Subject: Streaming Is it just me tearing my hair out?

RE: Cogent & HE

From HE we are getting 5990 prefixes Hope this helps a bit ;) -p -Original Message- From: jayha...@gmail.com [mailto:jayha...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jay Hanke Sent: June-08-11 4:47 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: Ken Chase; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Cogent & HE On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:1

RE: Cogent & HE

Or peer with HE and buy transit from Cogent (or someone on Cogent's friendly list) - this is where I think their strategy is going to go after a while with a lot of folks (if they have the option - that's the key). HE will peer with anyone I believe - Cogent has much more stringent "tier1" rules o

RE: Cogent & HE

Agree 100% - to make it simple and they can both achieve this "IPv6 Tier1 Status" why don't they just peer and then it's win/win. I know I'm oversimplifying it but nobody is winning in my opinion today. The "peeing contest" could probably be settled in a short period of time and move on. My two

RE: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

Hehe.. yeah, no thanks - I'll do it myself with our existing DDOS mitigation. ;) Paul -Original Message- From: Thomas Donnelly [mailto:tad1...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 2:57 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: ipv6 day DDoS threat? On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:42:40 -0500, Mark

RE: (OT) Firearms Was: UN declares Internet access a "human right"

Agree 110% - wish Canada had similar laws as the USA does... way too restrictive here. The folks that are legal get thrown in jail much faster than the guys who break into your house in the first place. Paul -Original Message- From: Nick Olsen [mailto:n...@flhsi.com] Sent: Monday, June

RE: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company

There was also "Planet Connect" years ago that delivered full Usenet (128K worth) along with all my Fidonet BBS updates too .. I think I just dated myself ;) We still have an old Cidera system on a rooftop that nobody has taken down yet ... Paul -Original Message- From: Jon Lewis [mailt

RE: The growth of municipal broadband networks

Highly agree with this experience being shared. We have had some dealings with municipal related fiber networks (not naming any names or giving any hints for obvious reasons) where shortly after providing the proposal to the customer, the municipal "sales vultures" went in and undercut our pricing

RE: 6453 routing leaks (January and Today)

Yes, very scary actually Human error is unavoidable - it's going to happen at times - BUT In our communities design, there has been times where we have missed a tag on an inbound customer for example. It scares the crap out of me to think that something like that simple mistake could cau

RE: ISDN BRI

Unfortunate but very true seen that many of times where a "special engineering" fee has been charged specifically to carry a circuit in a diverse manner (or even reasonably diverse). Then it breaks and the excuses start as to why it was never done as promised - then a couple of years later

RE: PPPOE vs DHCP

> PPPOE Cons > > -- > > > > Requires PPPOE termination router (Juniper ERX for example) > You're putting Juniper ERXs at customer houses? Really? I'd expect to see DSL/Cable drops which will utilize cheap end CPE (most of which don't support IPv6 hardly at all). No, we're not putting E

RE: PPPOE vs DHCP

Thank you for the response... I should have made this a bit clearer - option 82 is an option on their DSLAM's today and is supposed to work "not bad". But this customer may also be looking at other services such as wireless in the future which does not support option 82 - they want a unified deli

RE: PPPOE vs DHCP

I just wanted to say thank you for a TONNE of feedback I received on this topic. This has been of great help in filling in some items I missed in my quick list. Will try to respond offlist to several of you that responded - got over 100 replies offline with some interesting ideas. I definitely l

PPPOE vs DHCP

Hey folks... I'm meeting with a customer tomorrow (service provider, rural telco) and we're pitching they move to a PPPOE platform most likely. But to be fair, I'm looking to draw up a comparison so they are "well informed" of the pros/cons. Has anyone done this? I came up with the follow

RE: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

Cisco shop here that is avidly converting to Juniper. Paul -Original Message- From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon@brandontek.com] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:32 AM To: nanog group Subject: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you? Hello gents: I wanted to put this out there fo

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

Pardon my ignorance here but what does Comcast do for the NANOG community? I know they attend many conferences and share their experiences with a lot of us which is very much appreciated... Just asking ;) -Original Message- From: Backdoor Parrot [mailto:backdoorpar...@hotmail.com] Sent:

RE: Why is your company treating IPv6 turn ups as a sales matter?

We treat it as a technical request - a MAC of sorts. The only time we would treat it as a sales matter is when the customer requires technical assistance with their configuration or network design (different matter). Paul -Original Message- From: William Herrin [mailto:b...@herrin.us]

RE: Level3 filter updates

Normally it's done every night (overnight)... that's been our experience... Paul -Original Message- From: Florin Veres [mailto:flo...@futurefreedom.ro] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:42 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Level3 filter updates Hey guys, Anyone knows how often does Lev

RE: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

outa...@outages.org ;) -Original Message- From: James Grace [mailto:ja...@cs.fiu.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 3:58 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: Ernie Rubi; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast? Which outages list? James On Sep 23, 2010, at 3:40 PM

RE: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

Over on the outages list there is a lot of discussion... I believe everyone is effected - we are peered with them in several locations and cannot reach them. Paul -Original Message- From: Ernie Rubi [mailto:erne...@cs.fiu.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 3:39 PM To: nanog@nanog.o

RE: Netflow Tool

We've ran Scrutizer and also Netflow Auditor (also a few others) ... they are ok for "smaller" traffic levels (depending of course on sampling rates). None of them held up though to our expectations and we ended up going with Arbor Peakflow and been extremely happy ever since. I'd definitely s

Inline Traffic Management / Tracking - Usage Based Billing

7;m asking here for operational feedback with likes/dislikes. I can appreciate if most folks prefer to reply offline. We have trialled the Arbor solution to date but that is the only comparison we have so far. Thanks, Paul Stewart

RE: ISP port blocking practice

It's extremely effective for us (not a large provider by any means). We block outbound 25 on all dynamic IP customers - to date it's never been a problem for our customers. Customer's who have static assignments are not blocked by default. Paul -Original Message- From: John R. Levine [

RE: PCH.net down?

Very interesting - thanks for sharing that tip Paul -Original Message- From: christopher.mor...@gmail.com [mailto:christopher.mor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:49 AM To: Allen Bass Cc: Paul Stewart; Jason Lewis; nanog@nanog.org

RE: PCH.net down?

Loads from here (outside of Toronto, ON) - peered with them. Seemed slow to load though.. Paul -Original Message- From: Jason Lewis [mailto:jle...@packetnexus.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:45 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: PCH.net down? This says it's not just down for me. ht

Country Level BGP Data

Does anyone know of BGP statistical data based on country? If I wanted to know "top 5 service providers in country XYZ based on number of BGP peers" for example, is there something that can tell me this information? I can manually run a list of AS numbers against tools like Renesys for example bu

RE: Team Cymru BOGON feed over IPv6

We're using it...;) Please see inline... Paul 1) using the new Team Cymru BOGON lists *via BGP* Yes 2) use the new v4 list Yes 3) use the v6 list Yes 4) monitor the Cymru BGP session as diligently as they would a peer/provider session Spot check it - in the several years we've used the o

RE: Juniper firewalls - SSG or SRX

We've had GREAT success with SRX210, SRX240 and SRX650 boxes in the past 3-4 months. There has been some issues I'll admit but they were all fixed either in service releases or actual JunOS upgrades. I believe that most of the issues you hear about were in the 9.x JunOS releases or at least that

RE: Network Naming Conventions

I have yet to see a core router named "Luke" or "Bart"... ;) -Original Message- From: Joe Greco [mailto:jgr...@ns.sol.net] Sent: March-14-10 11:11 PM To: Rubens Kuhl Cc: Paul Stewart; NANOG list Subject: Re: Network Naming Conventions > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 a

RE: Network Naming Conventions

Some of the suggestions around kinda what we have today but with some changes are what'll we'll debate internally. Take care, Paul -Original Message- From: Ravi Pina [mailto:r...@cow.org] Sent: March-13-10 2:01 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Network Nam

RE: Network Naming Conventions

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who responded - game me more to think about than I thought was possible ;) Paul "The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed

Network Naming Conventions

Hi Folks... With many changes going on this year in our network, I figured it's a good time to revisit our naming conventions used in our networks. Today, we use the following example: Core1-rtr-to-ge1-1-1-vl20.nexicom.net Core box #1, rtr=router, to=location, ge1-1-1=interface, vl20=vl

RE: Wireless Ethernet bridge

We love the PTP600 platform and it works very well for our needs - as good as any path profile has shown us. Depending on the height of the tower, you can handoff via copper or via multimode fiber (someone said it doesn't do multimode, we do it all the time with their "fiber kits" from Motorola).

Security Guideance

Hi folks... We have a strange series of events going on in the past while Brief history here, looking for input from the community - especially some of the security folks on here. We provide web hosting services - one of our hosting boxes was found a while back with root kits installed, u

RE: Spamhaus...

Yes, at under 12 cents per user per *year* it's definitely worthwhile in my personal opinion... I know several providers who have taken their commercial service either because they wanted an SLA or because they were contacted by Spamhaus because of their traffic levels that price is rough and

RE: NorthStar IP Management System

Nice to hear from you... we use it every day still ;) I will admit that we are looking to move to a new system very shortly - biggest reason is IPv6 support. There are other reasons but that is the largest missing feature for us by a long shot... Hope this helps.. Paul -Original Message--

RE: Comcast IPv6 Trials

That really makes sense - on an incredibly smaller scale (and I mean MUCH smaller scale), we operate cable modem in two small communities - currently we use 3 IP addresses per subscriber. One for the cable modem itself, one for the subscriber (or more depending on their package), and one for vo

Re: DDoS mitigation recommendations

Arbor stuff comes to mind and works very well in our experiences Paul -- Paul Stewart Senior Network Administrator Nexicom Inc. http://www.nexicom.net/ - Original Message - From: Tom Sands To: nanog Sent: Tue Jan 26 07:40:35 2010 Subject: DDoS mitigation

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