Re: Value of linux net.ipv6.route.max_size

2024-03-14 Thread Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG
Willy Manga writes: > Hi, > > I recently noticed an issue with some routers complaining with that message: > > "kernel: Route cache is full: consider increasing sysctl > net.ipv6.route.max_size." > > These routers are running FRR on Debian 12 , kernel 6.1.0-17-amd64. They > are receiving full r

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-06 Thread Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG
Grant Taylor via NANOG writes: > On 9/6/21 5:04 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG wrote: >> Well, I come from a software background, so in my world the whole >> thing is held together by duct tape and string anyway ;) > > Don't forget bailing wire. Heh, true, a

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-06 Thread Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG
Grant Taylor via NANOG writes: > Hi Toke, > > On 9/5/21 3:07 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG wrote: >> Well, that's what I used to do back when I didn't have native v6 and >> ran into this issue: block v6 at the DNS level. I.e., simply filter >> out a

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-05 Thread Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG
Grant Taylor via NANOG writes: > Hi, > > Does anyone have any recommendation for a viable IPv6 tunnel broker / > provider in the U.S.A. /other/ /than/ Hurricane Electric? > > I reluctantly just disabled IPv6 on my home network, provided by > Hurricane Electric, because multiple services my wife

Re: best current practice: buffers

2020-12-19 Thread Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG
Baldur Norddahl writes: > Hello > > What is the best current practice for buffer size? For customer facing > ports, core network ports and transit links? > > We have a buffer problem, discovered by a customer that moved their servers > to a cloud service some distance away. That resulted in a dra

RE: Linux router network cards

2020-10-30 Thread Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG
micah anderson writes: > Thanks for the reply. > > Philip Loenneker writes: >> Take a look at the Mellanox ConnectX 5 series of cards. They handle >> DPDK, PVRDMA (basically SR-IOV that allows live migration between >> hosts), and can even process packets within the NIC for some > > From what I

Re: ECN

2019-11-14 Thread Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG
Owen DeLong writes: > Like it or not (and I really don’t), the majority of modern CDNs are > using TCP over Anycast. > > It’s ugly and it’s prone to problems like this. It’s nice to see a > customer with know-how actually publicizing and digging into the > problem. Thanks. I do plan to write thi

Re: ECN

2019-11-14 Thread Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG
Baldur Norddahl writes: > I am testing disabling our use of ECMP as it is not strictly necessary > and we are moving to a new platform anyway. Waiting for feedback from > the customer to hear if this fixes the issue. Which I can confirm that it does. Thank you for the speedy resolution! :) -Tok

Re: ECN

2019-11-13 Thread Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG
On 13 November 2019 17:20:18 CET, Matt Corallo wrote: >This sounds like a bug on Cloudflare’s end (cause trying to do anycast >TCP is... out of spec to say the least), not a bug in ECN/ECMP. Even without anycast, an ECMP shouldn't hash on the ECN bits. Doing so will split the flow over multip

Re: ECN

2019-11-13 Thread Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG
> Hello > > I have a customer that believes my network has a ECN problem. We do > not, we just move packets. But how do I prove it? > > Is there a tool that checks for ECN trouble? Ideally something I could > run on the NLNOG Ring network. > > I believe it likely that it is the destination that