"Is TDM going the way of dial-up?"

2010-03-26 Thread Rick Ernst
I've noticed over the last 3 years or so that TDM, specifically T-1, access and transport has been in a steady decline. Customers are moving to FTTH and cable, or going WiMAX and Metro-Ethernet. Ethernet seems to have taken an even bigger bite out of DS-3. The bigger pipes seem to favor ethernet

Re: IPv6, multihoming, and customer allocations

2010-03-16 Thread Rick Ernst
/48 down to /54. Any feel for what the "standard" (widely deployed) IPv6 prefix filter size will be? Thanks, On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Rick Ernst wrote: > > A couple of different incantations searching the archive didn't enlighten > me, and I find it hard to be

IPv6, multihoming, and customer allocations

2010-03-13 Thread Rick Ernst
A couple of different incantations searching the archive didn't enlighten me, and I find it hard to believe this hasn't been discussed. Apologies and a request for pointers if I'm rehashing an old question. As a small/regional ISP, we got our /32 assigned and it's time to start moving forward (cu

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-11 Thread Rick Ernst
Right. Some providers allow you to BGP community trigger RTBH. There was a separate mention of D/DoS-mitigation-providers using DNS and BGP tunneling. Rick On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Stefan Fouant < sfou...@shortestpathfirst.net> wrote: > > -Original Message- &g

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-11 Thread Rick Ernst
I thought I had mentioned outsourcing earlier, but I don't see it in the thread... The two mechanisms I've seen for outsources D/DoS are DNS manipulation, or essentially remote BGP peering with an tunnel back to the local presence. Even if we are purely hosting, DNS manipulation doesn't do anythi

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-05 Thread Rick Ernst
thing goes wrong, I want my own, local, big-red button." Rick On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Martin Hannigan wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Rick Ernst wrote: > >> Looking for D/DoS mitigation solutions. I've seen Arbor Networks >> mentioned >&

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Ernst
st an extension of RTBH; a scrubber destination rather than Null0) is an understandable state. Rick On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Stefan Fouant wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Rick Ernst [mailto:na...@shreddedmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Ernst
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Rick Ernst wrote: > > > > > A solution preferably that integrates with NetFlow and RTBH. An in-line > solution obviously requires an appliance, or at least special/additional >

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Ernst
Not necessarily an appliance, per se. But a "solution". :) A solution preferably that integrates with NetFlow and RTBH. An in-line solution obviously requires an appliance, or at least special/additional hardware. A software-only solution that sucks in NetFlow data and can speak BGP to inject /3

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Ernst
Several responses already, and Arbor has poked their head up. I'm going to start there and keep the other suggestions at-hand. Thanks, On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Rick Ernst wrote: > > Looking for D/DoS mitigation solutions. I've seen Arbor Networks mentioned > sev

D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Ernst
Looking for D/DoS mitigation solutions. I've seen Arbor Networks mentioned several times but they haven't been responsive to literature requests (hint, if anybody from Arbor is looking...). Our current upstream is 3x GigE from 3 different providers, each landing on their own BGP endpoint feeding

Re: Consistent asymetric latency on monitoring?

2009-10-22 Thread Rick Ernst
Lots of good info, and a nice mind-dump that gives me a whole host of other things that need to be looked at... Umm. "thanks" :) On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Perry Lorier wrote: > Rick Ernst wrote: > >> Resent, since I responded from the wrong address: >> ---

Re: Consistent asymetric latency on monitoring?

2009-10-21 Thread Rick Ernst
onstant drift may be better than both devices trying to walk/correct the time. Thanks for the input! On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Rick Ernst wrote: > Resent, since I responded from the wrong address: > --- > The basic operation of IP SLA is as surmised; payload with timestamps >

Consistent asymetric latency on monitoring?

2009-10-21 Thread Rick Ernst
Although the implementation is Cisco-specific, this feels more appropriate for NANOG. We've started rolling out a state-wide monitoring system based on Cisco's "IP SLA" feature set. Out of 5 sites deployed so far (different locations, different providers), we are consistently seeing one-way laten

Multi-POP design check/help question

2009-09-20 Thread Rick Ernst
Cross-posted from cisco-nsp. We are a (mostly) Cisco shop, but I'm looking more for BCP and overall design, not provisioning specifics. - My Cisco bookshelf isn't helping me much with this... We currently have a single POP with border/core/aggregation topology. Upstreams each come in on th

Re: Need help with performance troubleshooting

2009-07-28 Thread Rick Ernst
have my support staff start pushing back harder with the problem almost certainly being outside our network and more specifically isolated to a geographic location and/or set of network destinations. Rick On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Rick Ernst wrote: > > Starting about a week a

Need help with performance troubleshooting

2009-07-28 Thread Rick Ernst
Starting about a week ago, I've had sporadic reports of "slow uploads" (hundreds of kbs, has been 10s of mbs) born out by multiple speed test sites and application results and also duplicated internally. Downloads are > 50Mbs as expected (OC-3 and GigE uplinks to ATT/UUNET/Level3/Sprint/Qwest, etc

Re: Public/testing 4to6 gateway?

2009-07-14 Thread Rick Ernst
Pedantry is not necessarily a bad thing, especially when the student doesn't know the right questions to ask. :) 6in4 is what I was looking for. Thanks, On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Nathan Ward wrote: > On 14/07/2009, at 4:23 AM, Rick Ernst wrote: > > Either they don&

Re: Public/testing 4to6 gateway?

2009-07-13 Thread Rick Ernst
Multiple responses of tunnelbroker.net. Couldn't have been any easier to setup and get going. Thanks! On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Chad Burnham wrote: > Rick, > > I use this one: > > http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ > > Free! > > Chad > > -----Or

Public/testing 4to6 gateway?

2009-07-13 Thread Rick Ernst
Either they don't exist, or my Google-fu is particularly bad this morning. I'm trying to get my toes wet with IPv6. I've established an internal 6to4/4to6 tunnel. I'd also like to have a testbed for access to public v6 sites. I'm also trying to find some clue at my upstreams, but figured I'd as

Re: Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-26 Thread Rick Ernst
Thanks to multiple private/public responses. I was able to get an iperf test and also a close mirror for a DVD iso. Time to put live traffic on it and see what happens. On Wed, March 25, 2009 11:05, Rick Ernst wrote: > > Resent from my subscribed address. Hopefully this isn'

RE: Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-25 Thread Rick Ernst
s are only as good as the hosts they're hosted on and > the path by which you reach them. > > I use iperf on each end of a link that I'm turning up. I put Linux hosts > at both endpoints, but I believe iperf comes in a windows flavor too. > > -b > __

Re: Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-25 Thread Rick Ernst
can try: > > http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools#ndt > > -Azher > > Rick Ernst wrote: >> Resent from my subscribed address. Hopefully this isn't a dupe to >> anybody. >> --- >> >> >> I'm work

Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-25 Thread Rick Ernst
Resent from my subscribed address. Hopefully this isn't a dupe to anybody. --- I'm working on turning up our first GigE connection (400mbs CIR) and the various online speedtests I'm aware of choke after about 100Mbs or so. Does anybody know of testing sites t

Re: UDP DoS mitigation?

2008-12-12 Thread Rick Ernst
Thanks, Rick On Fri, December 12, 2008 10:15, Rick Ernst wrote: > > We've had an increasing rate of DoS attacks that spew tens-of-thousands of > small UDP packets to a destination on our network. We are getting roughly > 2x our entire normal pps across all providers through one in

UDP DoS mitigation?

2008-12-12 Thread Rick Ernst
We've had an increasing rate of DoS attacks that spew tens-of-thousands of small UDP packets to a destination on our network. We are getting roughly 2x our entire normal pps across all providers through one interface, or about 4x normal through the individual interface. The Cisco 7206VXR/NPE-G1

Re: BGP, ebgp-multihop and multiple peers

2008-08-27 Thread Rick Ernst
If you keep a separate peering/loopback-IP for each peer, you can move individual peering sessions to other devices if needed. On Wed, August 27, 2008 05:39, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >> The advantage of a separate loopback address is that if you ever have >> any trou