Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

2015-06-06 Thread tvest
You are such an optimist ;-) Sometimes those who can remember the past get to repeat it anyway. TV On June 6, 2015 6:53:20 AM EDT, Dorian Kim wrote: >"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” > >

Re: AWS Elastic IP architecture

2015-05-31 Thread tvest
Point of clarification: AWS customer IP subnets can overlap, but customer VPCs that encompass overlapping subnets cannot peer with each other. In other words, the standard arguments in favor of address uniqueness still apply. TV On May 31, 2015 7:23:37 AM EDT, Andras Toth wrote: >Congratulati

Re: Comcast IPv6 Trials

2010-01-28 Thread tvest
On Jan 28, 2010, at 9:07 AM, TJ wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: tv...@eyeconomics.com [mailto:tv...@eyeconomics.com] >> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 08:12 >> To: Richard Barnes >> Cc: NANOG >> Subject: Re: Comcast IPv6 Trials > > > >> But then that begs the question of why lo

Re: Comcast IPv6 Trials

2010-01-28 Thread tvest
On Jan 28, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Richard Barnes wrote: > What I've heard is that the driver is IPv4 exhaustion: Comcast is > starting to have enough subscribers that it can't address them all out > of 10/8 -- ~millions of subscribers, each with >1 IP address (e.g., > for user data / control of the ca

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread tvest
On Jan 16, 2010, at 12:15 AM, Fred Baker wrote: On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Bruce Williams wrote: Can you prove you are not Chinese and my computer is not hacked? Fred is your real name, isn't it? You are Fred, aren't you? You. Says so on my business card... 看的也不見! TV

Re: ip-precedence for management traffic

2009-12-29 Thread tvest
On Dec 29, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Randy Bush wrote: None of us knows precisely what we're going to absolutely require, or merely want/prefer, tomorrow or the next day, much less a year or two from now. Unless, of course, we choose to optimize (constrain) functionality so tightly around what we w

Re: ip-precedence for management traffic

2009-12-29 Thread tvest
On Dec 29, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Dan White wrote: On 29/12/09 12:20 -0500, Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) wrote: Better than the typical "block outbound 25" filtering we do now. In fact, in a perfect world ISPs would offer residential customers "reduced experience" versions of castration that decr

Re: Chinese bgp metering story

2009-12-18 Thread tvest
Nobody here remembers ICAIS? This is actually an old story/ambition, which started elsewhere, and not long after the the 1997-1998 "rebalancing" of ITU-mediated switched telecom settlements. Two nuggets from the history books pasted in below. Of course, just because it's not new doesn't mea

Re: Comcast outage in central NJ

2009-12-03 Thread tvest
There was a total outage for 6+ hours in at least one Richmond VA neighborhood yesterday, ending around 6:00PM. Cable STB software had clearly been updated when everything came back up, but I have no idea whether the two events were related. TV On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Jeffrey Negro wrote

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-22 Thread tvest
On Oct 22, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Alexander Harrowell wrote: On Thursday 22 October 2009 12:38:11 Chris Edwards wrote: On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Alex Balashov wrote: | Understood. I guess the angle I was going more for was: Is this | actually practical to do in a country with almost as many Internet

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-22 Thread tvest
On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:38 AM, Chris Edwards wrote: On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Alex Balashov wrote: | Understood. I guess the angle I was going more for was: Is this actually | practical to do in a country with almost as many Internet users as the US has | people? | | I had always assumed that

Fwd: [IP] [warning: layer 8/9] "Strange bedfellows, " aka a joint statement from Verizon Wireless and Google

2009-10-22 Thread tvest
Interesting, curious... but meaningful? To my mind Google's language seems to be focused on wireline issues, which I guess are probably quite a bit easier for Verizon Wireless to accommodate. Conversely, VW's emphasis on continuing self-regulation of wireless access would seem to be of seco

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-21 Thread tvest
Very interesting rundown of current infrastructure option -- thanks! On Oct 21, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Benjamin Billon wrote: Hi, if you're talking about Mainland China in general (not Hong Kong specifically), indeed IPSEC VPN may not provide desired level of service. During the time I spent t

Re: Datacenter recommendations - China and Latin America

2009-09-09 Thread tvest
On Sep 9, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Benjamin Billon wrote: From a cost, operational, and routing perspective, the same would be true if you got a CT link in Los Angeles or San Francisco. I can't be sure (didn't try myself, sorry) but I think CT links are more filtered from outside PRC (HK being in

Re: Datacenter recommendations - China and Latin America

2009-09-08 Thread tvest
On Sep 8, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Benjamin Billon wrote: You could get a China Telecom link in HK as well as many others: sit astride the Great Firewall! From a cost, operational, and routing perspective, the same would be true if you got a CT link in Los Angeles or San Francisco. Since CT and

Re: Datacenter recommendations - China and Latin America [SUMMARY]

2009-09-08 Thread tvest
For those who have a real need for both hosting within the Chinese autonomous routing domain *and* good, English-friendly remote hands support, I would also recommend considering the Silk Road Technologies data center in Hangzhou: http://www.srt.com.cn/en/ TV On Sep 8, 2009, at 3:57 PM, M

Re: Datacenter recommendations - China and Latin America

2009-09-08 Thread tvest
On Sep 8, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: Shane Ronan wrote: I'd recommend Equinix which has a site in Hong Kong which I would recommend over mainland China. http://www.equinix.com/locations/map/asiapacific/hongkong/ What is the Great Firewall relationship between Hong Kong and th

Re: Redundant AS's

2009-03-17 Thread tvest
On Mar 17, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Simon Brilus wrote: Out of interest, is there a report that details the number of unused older AS's in the Internet and what is being done to recover them to recycle, as we approach the 53k mark and the 32 bit numbering scheme, it strikes me that we probably h

Re: routing around Sprint's depeering damage

2008-11-02 Thread tvest
Repent repent, for the end is near. People like to say that the Internet interprets (censorship, monopolies, clue deficits, et al.) as congestion, and routes around -- but they got the causality exactly backwards. The Internet is an epiphenomenon of the possibility of bypass, which enables