Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-06 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Nathan Ward wrote: > This stuff about customers and things sounds too hard. > > Steve, have you actually had to do anycast without having control of > the routing hop in front of your service providing hosts, or is this > getting unnecessarily complicated? I'd imagine that the

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5 May 2008, at 21:49, Nathan Ward wrote: > On 6/05/2008, at 1:21 PM, Joe Abley wrote: > >> On 5 May 2008, at 20:50, Nathan Ward wrote: >> >>> Perhaps what would make more sense here is Foundry (F5, etc.) >>> building >>> an anycast feature - anycast prefixes are withdrawn when a cluster >>> re

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Nathan Ward
On 6/05/2008, at 1:21 PM, Joe Abley wrote: > On 5 May 2008, at 20:50, Nathan Ward wrote: > >> Perhaps what would make more sense here is Foundry (F5, etc.) >> building >> an anycast feature - anycast prefixes are withdrawn when a cluster >> relying on that anycast prefix goes below a threshold.

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 6 May 2008 13:24:35 +1200 Nathan Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/05/2008, at 1:19 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > > "Steve"? I assume you meant "Paul" > > No, Steve Gibbard referred to not having control of routers, Paul > referred to customers. > Ah. As has often been

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Nathan Ward
On 6/05/2008, at 1:19 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > "Steve"? I assume you meant "Paul" No, Steve Gibbard referred to not having control of routers, Paul referred to customers. -- Nathan Ward ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mail

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5 May 2008, at 20:50, Nathan Ward wrote: > Perhaps what would make more sense here is Foundry (F5, etc.) building > an anycast feature - anycast prefixes are withdrawn when a cluster > relying on that anycast prefix goes below a threshold. I'm not sure exactly what feature is required, here.

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Roland Dobbins
On May 6, 2008, at 2:52 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > delay, because nanog meetings only happen N times per year, so > an idea may have to wait months before it's widely circulated. > congestion, > because nanog meetings are of fixed duration and there is, and has > to be, > competition for the sl

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Nathan Ward
On 6/05/2008, at 4:07 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > i dearly do > wish that something like a "service advertisement protocol" existed, > that > did what OSPF ECMP did, without a router operator effectively giving > every > customer the ability to inject other customer routes, or default > routes.

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Steven M. Bellovin") writes: > > > If not, what should the criteria be for an "official" note of the paper? > > > > Perhaps it's an oversimplification, but can't those who wish to publish > > such information simply deliver their papers at a NANOG meeting (after > > acceptance

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Vixie
> ... > A web site like arxiv is good for some stuff. But -- should there be a > link from nanog.org to operational content? Should nanog.org have > its own archive? Should there be a peer review process? If not, what > should the criteria be for an "official" note of the paper? > >

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 6 May 2008 01:19:36 +0700 Roland Dobbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 6, 2008, at 12:59 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > > If not, what should the criteria be for an "official" note of the > > paper? > > > Perhaps it's an oversimplification, but can't those who wish to >

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Roland Dobbins
On May 6, 2008, at 12:59 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > If not, what should the criteria be for an "official" note of the > paper? Perhaps it's an oversimplification, but can't those who wish to publish such information simply deliver their papers at a NANOG meeting (after acceptance by

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-05-05, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also, in OSPF, ECMP is not optional, even though most BSD-based software > routers don't implement it yet (since multipath routing is very new.) Some readers might be interested to know the exception to "most" here; the OpenBSD kernel has supp

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On 05 May 2008 16:07:03 + Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big > > help in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago. > > and now for something completely different -- where in the interpipes > could a document

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On May 5, 2008, at 1:16 PM, David Andersen wrote: > On May 5, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: >> >>> But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big >>> help >>> in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago. >> >> and now for something completely different -- where

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibbard) writes: > > > > ... if each anycast cluster is really several servers, each using OSPF > > > ECMP, then you can lose a server and still have that cluster advertising > > > the route upstrea

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread David Andersen
On May 5, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > >> But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big >> help >> in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago. > > and now for something completely different -- where in the > interpipes could > a document like that have be

Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , On Mon, 5 May 2008, Paul Vixie wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibbard) writes: ...snip... >> But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big help >> in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago. > > and now for something completely different -- wher

[NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gibbard) writes: > > ... if each anycast cluster is really several servers, each using OSPF > > ECMP, then you can lose a server and still have that cluster advertising > > the route upstream, and only when you lose all servers in a cluster will > > that route be withdrawn