Re: Bell Canada outage?

2012-08-08 Thread Steve Dalberg
CPU's were pegged for a customer of mine in California. tracked it down to 2 events that went down at that time with a large message volume. 1) Peering between GLBX and Level3 dopped somewhere, causing many prefixes to shift away from L3 paths. 2) Some IPv6 prefixes were aggressively bouncing f

Re: NPE-G2 vs. Sup720-3BXL

2009-05-18 Thread Steve Dalberg
2009/5/18 Adam Armstrong : > David Storandt wrote: >> >> We're stuck in an engineering pickle, so some experience from this >> crew would be useful in tie-breaking... >> >> We operate a business-grade FTTx ISP with ~75 customers and 800Mbps of >> Internet traffic, currently using 6509/Sup2s for cor

Re: Checking bogon status of new address space

2009-05-08 Thread Steve Dalberg
Having recently received some de-bogon'ed addressing in or about this March, I can tell you that the one problem I had was people that had not updated their Bind Bogon filters ( http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secure-bind-template.html) and so were not responding to requests from our address space,

RE: OSPF with Multiple ABR & ASBR

2008-11-14 Thread Steve Dalberg
OSPF (on cisco anyway) will balance 6 paths automatically assuming you haven't messed with bandwidth or cost settings, and the paths have the same iftype. If not, setting the bandwidth equally will also do the trick. (I don't like messing with cost directly, just me) I would also point out that

RE: GBIC compatibility and pricing (was Managed, cheap, DC power switches)

2008-07-17 Thread Steve Dalberg
This reason is twofold, one is Resellers were just buying whatever cheap gbics they could and bundling them with Procurve switches (I'm sure this happens to other vendors too). Thus most of the profitable parts of switch sales were being eroded by the resellers. The other is that Procurve offers

RE: Cable Colors

2008-06-17 Thread Steve Dalberg
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:03:32AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> I would like to know ANYONE who has a policy strict enough, and > >> enforces it so as to have even an almost perfect cabling > >> infrastructure...is there such a thing? > >