Re: Traffic Flow Analyzer

For my needs, Akvorado used substantially less resources and was ultimately easier to use than ElastiFlow, but yes there was a learning curve to getting Akvorado going/configured initially. I chose to deploy Akvorado using their docker deployment method. Regards, Graham

Re: Friday Thanks

Sorry, NTT, I didn't mean to leave you out, you were great too - Thanks. From: NANOG on behalf of Graham Johnston via NANOG Sent: Friday, August 11, 2023 10:53 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Friday Thanks I've been busy over the last few days

Friday Thanks

s are moving in the right direction. The experience right now is better than it was several years ago. Thank you ARIN for the improvements and the dedication to work with us on making further improvements. Have a good weekend, Graham

RE: Akvorado Resource Requirements

Thanks, Vincent, I appreciate the feedback. Regards, Graham   -Original Message- From: Vincent Bernat Sent: Friday, March 24, 2023 2:35 PM To: Graham Johnston ; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Akvorado Resource Requirements On 2023-03-24 15:01, Graham Johnston via NANOG wrote: >

Akvorado Resource Requirements

For anyone running Akvorado, can you please comment on resource requirements. I'm most concerned with CPU and memory, with the assumption that resources are somewhat linear to flow rate, but also curious about disk usage secondarily. Thanks, Graham

Experiences with commercial NOS vendors in white box space

of fast LSR P-routers? The Edge-Cor guide also identifies Exaware and Capgemini, both of whom I know little about. Are there viable SP focused NOS vendors that I haven't touched on? Thanks in advance for any reply, be it on-list or off-list. Regards, Graham

Re: Random Early Detect and streaming video

Sorry, everyone, my initial reply was only to Saku so I'm replying again for visibility to the list. On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 at 02:57, Saku Ytti wrote: > Hey, > > > On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 at 21:58, Graham Johnston > wrote: > > > > I've been involved in service prov

Random Early Detect and streaming video

I've been involved in service provider networks, small retail ISPs, for 20+ years now. Largely though, we've never needed complex QoS, as at $OLD_DAY_JOB, we had been consistently positioned to avoid regular link congestion by having sufficient capacity. In the few instances when we've had link con

EVPN-VXLAN Service Types

n't spelled out in the documentation? Answers to these questions and anything else you have to offer is appreciated. Thanks in advance, Graham

RE: Quantifying the customer support and impact of cgnat for residential ipv4

>We have 10,000+ customers and by default everyone is behind CGNAT. Around 25 >customers have asked for a dedicated public IP >address and we usually just give them one free of charge. For our case, very >low percentage actually request one. > Travis Out of curiosity, based on your experience

Re: 100G, input errors and/or transceiver issues

nector and transceiver interface cleanliness is our first likely point of investigation. Thanks to all who responded. On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 12:58, Jared Mauch wrote: > > > > On Jul 19, 2021, at 1:50 PM, Saku Ytti wrote: > > > > On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 20:19, Graham Johnst

Re: 100G, input errors and/or transceiver issues

e been a while since our transport was a literal wavelength as compared to being muxed into a 100G+ wavelength. On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 12:01, Saku Ytti wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 19:47, Graham Johnston > wrote: > > Hey Graham, > > > How commonly do other operators exp

100G, input errors and/or transceiver issues

transceiver out? Either for errors or another reason. - Do we collectively expect this to improve as 100G becomes more common and production volumes increase in the future? Thanks, Graham

BGP Graceful Restart

really problematic if things go wrong, and thus he was discouraging the use of it. Is there consensus as to whether graceful-restart has any place in a service provider network? Thanks, Graham

MIB Browser Recommendation

are moving some servers to Ubuntu now with the change to CentOS/RHEL, and we are curious what others are using for a SNMP/MIB browser. An FOSS choice would be on top on our list as it is just easy to install from the repo, but I'll take any recommendation that people have. Thanks, Graham

RE: cloud automation BGP

Does anyone have a quick answer as to what public data sources are used? I tried looking at the main github page for the project but I either missed it or it isn't there. Graham -Original Message- From: Randy Bush have folk looked at https://github.com/nttgin/BGPalerter randy

Re: Colo in Africa

On 16/07/2019 16:08, Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote: > My bad. They announced that Oct 2018 so I figured they'd be close to it > now. Yeah turns out it's mid 2020 :-( > > https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-south-africa/ > Azure does have regions in operation in South Afric

RE: Advertisement of Equinix Chicago IX Subnet

Thank you Nick. Graham Johnston Manager, Network Services Westman Communications Group 1906 Park Avenue | Brandon, MB | R7B 0R9 204-717-2829 |     johnst...@westmancom.com         -Original Message- From: Nick Hilliard Sent: March 27, 2019 4:50 PM To: Graham Johnston Cc: nanog

Advertisement of Equinix Chicago IX Subnet

normal. What am I doing that isn’t best practices that would have prevented this? Thanks, graham RIPE Info 1 RRCs see 1 peers announcing 208.115.136.0/23 originated by AS32703<https://stat.ripe.net/AS32703> * ▼RRC00 in Amsterdam, Netherlands sees 1 ASN orginating 208.115.136.0/23.A

IRR Cleanliness

n question. Part of me is okay with this, but given that I've never seen this behavior from any other provider on the three reasonably large exchanges that we participate on I am curious what the community thinks about this. Is this uncommon but acceptable in the eyes of community? Thanks, Graham

DAZN CDN

Anyone from DAZN here, or anyone know what CDN is used for their content? I'm specifically curious about NFL Sunday Ticket content in case it makes a difference. Thanks, Graham

Datacenter powering

part of a co-location type environment. Total power draw in my situation is ~100kW. graham

Zabbix IT Services feature set

e configuration we are doing incorrectly? Thanks, Graham

RE: Templating/automating configuration

Job, Would you be able to provide any further insight into your Don’t #5 – “Don’t agree to change management. Managers are rarely engineers and should not be making technical decisions. (nor should sales)“. Thanks, Graham From: Job Snijders [mailto:j...@ntt.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 4

Templating/automating configuration

okay doing the heaving lifting in defining everything, I'm just looking for the tool that stitches it together and hopefully makes things a little less error prone for those who aren't as adept. Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@wes

BCP38/84 and DDoS ACLs

t providing any examples. Given that it is also 13 years old I thought there might be fresher information out there. Thanks, graham

Static IP allocation schemes for end users (commercial)

of the schemes above would require the customer to undergo addressing changes in the event that we move their node between CMTSs in the future. Can anyone else share what they are doing or otherwise identify if there is a best practice in this area? Thanks, Graham

RE: Regulatory Recovery Surcharge for Canadian corporations

We don't explicitly pay a charge like this for the transit bandwidth we purchase in Toronto from an international carrier, and I doubt that it is built into the cost without any mention of it. I've never heard of such a thing. Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communicat

Favorite Speed Test Systems

* Sourceforge.net/speedtest * Dslreports.com/speedtest Are there others? What is your preferred one and why? Thanks, Graham

Brocade MLXe Selective FIB Population

Does anybody have information on how to selective populate the IPv4 FIB on a Brocade MLXe? Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com<mailto:johnst...@westmancom.com> P think green; don't print this email.

Traffic engineering and peering for CDNs

operate at a different scale than I can comprehend? I'm hoping the community can shed some light on this for me as I'm trying to avoid grilling the operators that are working with me as I don't expect those front line individuals to necessarily have a full view of the factors at

AS 714/6185 IX Peering

Is there anyone from AS 714/6185 that can reach out to me, AS 19016, to try and get traffic from your network to come to me via your Equinix IX connection instead of a transit connections. Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com

Re: remote serial console (IP to Serial)

uccessfully in a couple of places as a serial console. For a few extra bucks you can get a http://routerboard.com/RB450 which you can also use to connect up a few ethernet management ports, handle some dynamic routing/failover or even build a full OOB network. -- Graham Beneke

RE: Cable Operator List

DSG=Docsis Set-Top Gateway. It is a more modern implementation of the command and control communications path that tradition video set-top boxes used. Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com<mailto:johnst...@westmancom.com> P

RE: Cable Operator List

y there is Pico Digital, Vecima, Sumavision, as well as others. Many of the C-DOCSIS CMTSs seem either only support, or are more often meant to support layer 2 operations where the routing happens upstream from the CMTS. Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.

RE: Cable Operator List

Those that are SCTE members have access to the SCTE mailing list. Like the comments about the CableTV list, it is often focused on plant/transport/RF more than Docsis but there are good DOCSIS knowledgeable people on the list too that answer questions. Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman

IPv6 Implementation and CPE Behavior

and I am really concerned about these kind of issues as these devices basically won't be seen at the edge of the customer's network. If you have something else that you think is noteworthy, I'm all ears. Thanks, Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group

RE: Anyone having issues with Equinix IX out of Ashburn?

I think we saw an issue like this a few weeks back in Chicago. It took them longer than I would have expected to fix it, later they ultimately ended up upgrading software I think. Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com think green

SMS Gateway

effort, the product we use currently though has a simple HTTP based API specifically to send SMS. Is anybody out there using something similar that can work on 3G or 4G networks? Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com<mailto:joh

FIB Sizing

://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/plota?file=%2fvar%2fdata%2fbgp%2fas2.0%2fbgp-active.txt&descr=Active%20BGP%20entries%20%28FIB%29&ylabel=Active%20BGP%20entries%20%28FIB%29&with=step. Thanks, Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com&l

Re: Route leak in Bangladesh

IXP operator, that they know best, while there may be no evidence that they do... ;-) -- Graham Beneke

RE: SAS Drive Enclosure

I am primarily wanting something that will act like a DELL MD1200, SAS connected to a server, then run a clustered filesystem on the server(s) which will serve up NFS or iSCSI to client devices. Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com

SAS Drive Enclosure

enclosure that only works with a very small number of approved drives. I am looking to support traditional HDDs as well as SSDs. Thanks, Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com<mailto:johnst...@westmancom.com> P think green; don&#

Multiple Spanning Tree Instance 0

We are planning a migration from Rapid PVST+ to Multiple Spanning Tree to better support a mixed vendor environment. My question today is about MST Instance 0. In practice do you map any VLANs there other than VLAN 1? Thanks, Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group

Brocade MLX Feedback

them? Any gotchas? Particularly we are interested in convergence time to full FIB population. Thanks, Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com<mailto:johnst...@westmancom.com> P think green; don't print this email.

RE: Juniper MX Sizing

Shawn, It's more about FIB than RIB as I am concerned about the time it takes until MPCs have updated route information after large scale changes in routes learned via BGP. Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com think green;

Juniper MX Sizing

acceptable in this kind of role and moved up to the MX240, what RE did you elect to use? Thanks, Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com<mailto:johnst...@westmancom.com> P think green; don't print this email.

Chicago Colo and IX

#x27;m not sure what significant differences I should expect if any. Thanks, Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com<mailto:johnst...@westmancom.com> P think green; don't print this email.

Re: Net Neutrality...

understand that more than one person lives in a house. "Spying on us"? Presumably he means Internet of Things, and Snowden et. al. Graham. -- “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” George Orwell, 1984

Re: Net Neutrality...

x27;t intended for debate, especially when its so off topic. Graham. -- “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” George Orwell, 1984

Re: Net Neutrality...

all off topic I guess. Regards, Graham -- “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” George Orwell, 1984

Re: OSPF Costs Formula that include delay.

ons when the nominal latency is too small to accurately determine and assumes 1 ms per 100 km. I then pick the largest of the above 3 metrics as my OSPF cost. -- Graham Beneke

Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?

he hometown of my transit provider. I also know of many people who use VPNs to intentionally goelocate themselves somewhere other than their real location in order to get around certain content filtering. -- Graham Beneke

Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network

Netflix HD pay for their bandwidth. Broken SSH connections would annoy me though. Graham.

Re: IPv6 Netowrk Device Numbering BP

low for the most consecutive zeros. Many UIs I've used display IPv6 address strings in very un-useful ways as they approach the allowable length of 39 characters. Many require you to resize your viewing window/column/etc to see the full address and some simply truncate the string and refuse to show you the host ID portion. -- Graham Beneke

Re: In need of C6500 in Orlando later today

Vology got us what we needed. Kudos to all who helped!! Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint! - Reply message - From: "Graham Wooden (Personal)" Date: Sat, Aug 25, 2012 1:58 pm Subject: In need of C6500 in Orlando later today To: "Positively Optimistic" C

Re: In need of C6500 in Orlando later today

500 in Orlando later today To: "Graham Wooden (Personal)" Cc:

Re: In need of C6500 in Orlando later today

From: "Graham Wooden (Personal)" Date: Sat, Aug 25, 2012 9:47 am Subject: In need of C6500 in Orlando later today To: Our grey market vendor miss-shipped a Cisco 6506 chassis that was needed today. Very slim chance that it will make it to me this afternoon. Anyone in the Orlando area with

In need of C6500 in Orlando later today

Our grey market vendor miss-shipped a Cisco 6506 chassis that was needed today. Very slim chance that it will make it to me this afternoon. Anyone in the Orlando area with a spare C6506/9 chassis that they'll be looking to sell? Need Fan1 and (2) 1300w power supplies. I brought the Sups with me

Re: Testing 1gbps bandwidth

me. I was trying to quantify these limitations the other day and my Google-fu was lacking. Can anyone point me at some resources showing default TCP windows for the various OSes/platforms, which of them do auto scaling and what the upper bounds are for scaled windows. -- Graham Beneke

Re: Hearing Syria internet cut

c: > Subject: Re: Hearing Syria internet cut > > > .-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at 12-07-19 10:00 PM George > Bonser wrote: >> Can anyone confirm? > > Yes confirmed, about 90% of the Syrian prefixes disappeared from the BGP > tables between 13:32

Re: Any advantage of announcing IPv6/64s Or purely misconfiguration?

l their /64s into it. -- Graham Beneke

Re: Collecting flows at an IXP

On 26/06/2012 07:45, Graham Beneke wrote: Which FOSS flow collectors do an decent/adequate job at crunching about 10Gbps worth of flows and presenting it in a useful way? Just to clarify - there are 3 switch fabrics involved here. One from vendor C, one from vendor J and a third new fabric

Collecting flows at an IXP

worth of flows and presenting it in a useful way? Thanks -- Graham Beneke

Re: facebook ipv6 is down?

completely different patterns of outages. -- Graham Beneke

Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India

On 10/03/2012 14:54, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Mar 10, 2012, at 7:02 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: there are four gtlds Aren't there actually seven? According to ICANN[1] there are "roughly two dozen gTLDs" [1] http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about -- Graham Beneke

Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India

fixes was available at JINX (although I've never actually confirmed that). I've gone through every permutation of mtr [-4|-6] [a-m].gtld-servers.net. again just to be sure. I'm reaching nothing on this continent. -- Graham Beneke

Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India

ting APNIC to find out how to get an anycast instance installed at you local internet exchange point. -- Graham Beneke

Re: facebook lost their A-record for www.facebook.com?

. Starting from 04:00 UTC there were some latency spikes and then from 06:15 UTC thru 07:55 UTC the site was unreachable. www.v6.facebook.com had no issues though ;) -- Graham Beneke

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

On 27/02/2012 18:11, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Is anyone seeing this ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17179544 Along with: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/44263-triple-whammy-hits-eassy.html The east is struggling with outages. -- Graham Beneke

Re: Customer Notification System.

On 22/02/2012 01:00, David wrote: PHPList? We've been using PHPlist for a while but have also been searching for something that can do a 'network noticeboard' type of thing. Haven't really come up with anything useful yet. -- Graham Beneke

Re: Anyone from Kraus Electronic/CableTV lurking?

ng part of my nets come back to life. -graham

Anyone from Kraus Electronic/CableTV lurking?

I tried to reach Kraus Electronic / Cable TV through various means. Anyone know how to reach their NOC? They¹re announcing 12.198.32.0/20 (they only been swiped a /22), which is getting into my 12.198.40.0/22 assignment. On hold with AT&T, of course. -graham

CenturyLink - DNS admin needed

through our support channels (we¹re a TDM based customer), but that isn¹t proving to be getting us anywhere... Thank you, -graham

Re: Speed Test Results

about poor performance. As soon as you mention things like bandwidth delay product the eyes glaze over. Heavy use of lossy WISP access network providers doesn't help. -- Graham Beneke

[OT] Domain Name broker

ugh a broker service that helps identifing potential buyers? Replies off list are welcomed. Thanks, -graham

Folks colo'd at COCOFLMA

than AT&T. Thanks! -graham

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

onfigure it and run it... -- Graham Beneke

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

on the requirements). And if the user redials then the block follows them. After deploying that our abuse desk went quiet ;-) -- Graham Beneke

Re: Can this bgp work?

Deric, just make sure you allow your AS to come back in through the other routers - in case there is an internal route break or if one of these /20's is out in never-never land ... On 10/22/11 9:22 PM, "Randy" wrote: > ...sure it will work...you can advertise any-which-way you want! > What *ex

Re: [routing-wg] The Cidr Report

rhaps a "biggest climbers & fallers" list would also have more relevance for the regular report. The "Top 30" list doesn't seem to change very often... ;-) -- Graham Beneke

[OT] Overture's Ethernet over bonded Copper products

HI operators, Been looking at Overture¹s ŒEthernet over Copper¹ product line; any you folks have any real world experience with them? Would love to hear off-line the good, bad, ugly stories ­ if you are willing to share. Much appreciated. -graham

BGP Communities for H.E. and Deltacom?

side). I was hoping that they would be listed on the One Step¹s bgp community listing. Any links to such documents for both HE and Deltacom would be great and would be much appreciated. Thank you, -graham

[Semi-OT] - SIP/PRI Voice Origination & LNP for Jackson, MO

PRI there at our remote POP in Jackson. To start, we're looking to LNP about 300 to 400 numbers and have about 50 concurrent calls. This will be ramping up ... I would appreciate any and all replies off-list please. Thanks! -graham

Re: Looking for an opinion on Colo Solutions/Orlando colocation

Thank you Eric. -graham On 8/21/11 10:49 PM, "Eric C. Miller" wrote: > I've worked with Colo Solutions twice in the past, very pleased. > > "Knuckles" has to be one of the nicest NOC engineers that I've run across, > hopefully he hasn't found

Re: *** SPAM DETECTED (mx01) *** Re: Looking for an opinion on Colo Solutions/Orlando colocation

Thanks Tom, I will you keep in you mind if/when Melbourne gets into the picture. Right now it's Orlando proper. -graham On 8/21/11 1:34 PM, "TR Shaw" wrote: > > On Aug 21, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Graham Wooden wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> Our next POP de

Looking for an opinion on Colo Solutions/Orlando colocation

oking for real-world experiences/comments from folks that have had or currently is colocating hear there. Thanks, -graham

Re: Exploiting a non-facilities CLEC relationship

On 8/15/11 10:14 PM, "Jon Lewis" wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Graham Wooden wrote: > >> To clarify ... We have a new customer who is just that ... A non-facilities >> based CLEC. They don't want to resell AT&T's network anymore as they want to >&

Exploiting a non-facilities CLEC relationship

as possible if it means wicked cheap loops! Thanks, -graham

Re: AT&T -> Qwest ... Localpref issue?

I should also note that Centurylink has been less than cooperative on even thinking about changing my routes to a pref of 70 on our behalf (they don't accept communities). I think time to get the account rep involved ... On 8/7/11 8:30 AM, "Graham Wooden" wrote: > Thanks Pa

Re: AT&T -> Qwest ... Localpref issue?

and situational circumstances > permit it, it may not be a bad idea to take on-net customer routes for > performance reasons. > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Graham Wooden wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Anyone else noticed a localpref change on Qwest network in regard

AT&T -> Qwest ... Localpref issue?

But not anymore... Any insight would be great. I haven¹t reached out to AT&T or Qwest yet. Curious if this is a bigger change than just me. Thanks, -graham

Re: IPv6 day fun is beginning!

that my Youtube content was coming over v6, I used the opportunity to load test my infrastructure. ;-) -- Graham Beneke

How is IPv6 deployment going in the APNIC region?

Only 0.3 of a /8 left[1] before the rationing policy kicks in. I hope everyone is ready :-) [1] http://www.apnic.net/community/ipv4-exhaustion/graphical-information -- Graham Beneke

Re: Regional AS model

wo to keep the asymmetrical routing down (the private L2 isn't as fast as my transits). Good luck with your deployment! -graham

Re: My upstream ISP does support IPv6

their network folks certainly know their IPv6. jump.net.uk : dual-stack IPv6 and IPv4 at a VPS hosted by a customer of theirs in in Telehouse North (London, England). Works well; no hassle. Graham (https://cernio.com/)

Re: Collos in Memphis, TN and Louisville, KY?

Thanks Blake and Brian. WorldSpice has come up as a potential location in Memphis; can you forward me off-list your contact¹s info? Much appreciated. -graham On 1/31/11 9:00 PM, "Blake Dunlap" wrote: > If you're looking in Memphis, I would at least try WorldSpice, it i

Collos in Memphis, TN and Louisville, KY?

Hi folks, Can anyone recommend any collo's in both Memphis TN and Louisville, KY? Preferably in their respective downtown areas? Thanks mucho, -graham

Re: Ipv6 for the content provider

migration to dual stack has been fairly painless for me. -- Graham Beneke

Re: National Squirrel Appreciation Day

I guess this then 'would not be' in the spirit of the holiday ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5-d3rZZ-_M -graham On 1/22/11 8:30 AM, "Jay Ashworth" wrote: > The holiday is today, according to holidayinsights.com > > http://www.holidayinsi

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