Re: Comcast looking glass router

2025-01-13 Thread Warren Kumari
… and it's back. Just to confirm, it is indeed user 'rviewsxr' with no password. $ ssh ssh://rview...@route-server.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net -o KexAlgorithms=diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 -m hmac-sha1 *

Re: Comcast looking glass router

2025-01-09 Thread Warren Kumari
Quick update: I just spoke with someone at Comcast, and they let me know they have identified a problem with the authentication and are working to resolve it. W On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 1:11 PM, Warren Kumari wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 10:41 AM, Christopher Morrow com> wrote: > >> On Thu

Re: Comcast looking glass router

2025-01-09 Thread Warren Kumari
On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 10:41 AM, Christopher Morrow < morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM Warren Kumari wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 3:35 PM, Paulo J Amaral wrote: > > Hi, hoping someone here from Comcast can help me. I need to be able to > login Comcast Looki

Re: Comcast looking glass router

2025-01-09 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM Warren Kumari wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 3:35 PM, Paulo J Amaral wrote: >> >> Hi, hoping someone here from Comcast can help me. I need to be able to login >> Comcast Looking Glass router in NY to check on some route advertising but >> the username

Re: Comcast looking glass router

2025-01-09 Thread Warren Kumari
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 3:35 PM, Paulo J Amaral wrote: > Hi, hoping someone here from Comcast can help me. I need to be able to > login Comcast Looking Glass router in NY to check on some route advertising > but the username and password that was previously working for the LG no > longer seems t

Re: Comcast looking glass router

2025-01-08 Thread TJ Trout
BGP.tools super LG any help? They probably have a lot of feeder sessions sitting behind Comcast which could accomplish the mission? On Wed, Jan 8, 2025, 12:42 PM Paulo J Amaral via NANOG wrote: > Hi, hoping someone here from Comcast can help me. I need to be able to > login Comcast Looking Glass

Re: comcast v4 in pnw

2024-06-02 Thread Randy Bush
kinda summary: comcast and cogent/sprint very helpful. likely cause a misconfig in cogent norcal when trying to route around a power outage in seattle. fwiw, HE and IIJ IPv6 transit (tyvm) in seattle allowed us to keep working through the outage. randy

Re: comcast v4 in pnw

2024-05-31 Thread Livingood, Jason via NANOG
John is no longer at the company - but Tony (cc'd) may be able to assist off-list. On 5/31/24, 14:58, "NANOG on behalf of Randy Bush" mailto:cable.comcast@nanog.org> on behalf of ra...@psg.com > wrote: a bunch of us comcast soho folk, and monitoring gear, are seeing

Re: Comcast contact sought

2023-09-25 Thread TJ Trout
It's a fraud tactic as far as I'm concerned, they markup internet only into the hundreds of dollars a month, but if you bundle with security edge it's very affordable, except after 12-36 months now it is even more expensive than if you had just let them screw you initially. On Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 6

Re: Comcast contact sought

2023-09-25 Thread Livingood, Jason via NANOG
> I have been trying to assist someone with a business connection that runs a > server farm. Recently the business cable modem started to short-stop port 53 > for UDP and TCP. Apparently, a transparent DNS proxy somehow got activated > and all outbound traffic to any IPv4 or IPv6 address is in

Re: Comcast contact sought

2023-09-24 Thread Evan Moyer
I've been down this road many times before. You need to find your local account manager/sales rep and ask them to remove the coding from the account. This may result in losing the bundle price, so pair it with a different service like Comcast Connection Pro or something like that. Should keep it fr

Re: Comcast contact sought

2023-09-24 Thread Aaron de Bruyn via NANOG
We get around the brain-damage by having our router grab all DNS requests and convert them to DoT or DoH using dnsdist. That probably won't work if you're hosting a DNS server on your cable connection though. Call the normal support number and have them disable the "Security Edge" service. The

RE: Comcast Business Account Website Broken

2023-06-14 Thread Greg Dickinson
Have you tried incognito mode? Sometimes some Extensions will mess with the request-header and break some web sites (I'm looking at you, Cisco Licensing). FYI I'm able to access the site but don't have a login to test further. Greg Dickinson, CCNA Network Engineer   -Original Message

Re: Comcast Business Account Website Broken

2023-06-14 Thread Aaron de Bruyn via NANOG
Someone else here gave me a pointer when I was running into this on the USPS site. Clear your cookies for that site. (In Chrome/Edge, go to the site, open up the dev tools, go to the "Application" tab, find cookies, delete them all). Something probably went a little nuts with the site and ended

Re: Comcast circuit guru lurking?

2022-12-14 Thread TJ Trout
if it's an EPL they default to 2000 mtu max, if you want jumbo frames they must be requested with your sales person On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 10:39 AM Bryan Holloway wrote: > Looking for some help or direction with MTU issues on a recently > installed point-to-point circuit. > > Attempts to rectif

Re: Comcast Rolling Outages

2022-06-16 Thread Mike Hammett
idwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Glenn Kelley" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2022 9:46:00 AM Subject: Re: Comcast Rolling Outages Mike - There are a

Re: Comcast Rolling Outages

2022-06-16 Thread Glenn Kelley
Mike - There are a lot of rolling power outages. Thus the reason for the overheating most likely as gear, while on battery backup, generally lacks the cooling capacity. Horizon, Comcast, Wow/Breezeway apparently are doing the same across the Columbus Marketing in Ohio as well. *Glenn S. Kelley,

Re: Comcast Rolling Outages

2022-06-15 Thread Mike Hammett
: "Jay Hennigan" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 4:20:40 PM Subject: Re: Comcast Rolling Outages On 6/15/22 14:03, Mike Hammett wrote: > I recently saw this on Facebook: > > BREAKING: Some Xfinity/Comcast users are getting a message in the > Chic

Re: Comcast Rolling Outages

2022-06-15 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 6/15/22 14:03, Mike Hammett wrote: I recently saw this on Facebook: BREAKING: Some Xfinity/Comcast users are getting a message in the Chicago and Springfield, Illinois markets that they are shutting down Internet service until 11:15 PM this evening due to overheating equipment... Update

Re: Comcast Network Peer Survey on DSCP/ECN for L4S

2022-06-13 Thread Jared Mauch
This seems to be missing some of the reasons/why things are remarked, perhaps it would be wise to bring some of the people interested in this to the various vendor-specific lists or such? For example, for some hardware types, enabling any sort of rate shaping at all will rewrite the DSCP values

Re: Comcast Network Peer Survey on DSCP/ECN for L4S

2022-06-10 Thread Dave Taht
I would argue that question 9 needs an option of "Both". Secondly, two additional good questions to ask would be: are the ECN values presently being treated as RFC3168? Are the ECN values being modified by any AQM implementations (WRED, FQ_CODEL, etc) on any switch or router in transit?

Re: Comcast/Florida

2022-04-26 Thread J. Hellenthal via NANOG
Good find Jeff ! -- J. Hellenthal The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. > On Apr 26, 2022, at 08:25, JeffP wrote: > > Joe- > > Another wayward backhoe strikes again.. > > https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/ne

Re: Comcast/Florida

2022-04-26 Thread JeffP
Joe- Another wayward backhoe strikes again.. https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/04/25/comcast-outage-no-internet-florida/7446019001/ On 4/25/22 15:34, Joe Carroll wrote: Comcast in Florida -- JeffP

Re: Comcast? Layer2 / ELAN

2021-10-29 Thread TJ Trout
I would request an on-site rfc test that should clear things up quickly On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 11:17 AM Joe Carroll wrote: > Greetings Fellow Nanog'ers > > Are there any Comcast engineers in the group that could help to sort out a > 10GB layer2 ELAN issue in Florida? > > We are short of cancell

Re: Comcast? Layer2 / ELAN

2021-10-29 Thread Livingood, Jason via NANOG
I’ll reply off-list in a sec From: NANOG on behalf of Joe Carroll Date: Friday, October 29, 2021 at 14:16 To: nanog list Subject: Comcast? Layer2 / ELAN Greetings Fellow Nanog'ers Are there any Comcast engineers in the group that could help to sort out a 10GB layer2 ELAN issue in Florida?

Re: Comcast Customer Owned Modem Firmware : WAS : Xfi Advances Security (comcast)

2021-09-17 Thread Livingood, Jason via NANOG
> Does Comcast actually allow customers who own their own modems full > management of the modem firmware? As far as I have been aware since my time > at Adelphia 20-odd years ago, that has never been allowed by provider; all > users of a given model had the same firmware enforced, customer owned

Re: Comcast Customer Owned Modem Firmware : WAS : Xfi Advances Security (comcast)

2021-09-16 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 9/16/21 08:13, Tom Beecher wrote: Does Comcast actually allow customers who own their own modems full management of the modem firmware? As far as I have been aware since my time at Adelphia 20-odd years ago, that has never been allowed by provider; all users of a given model had the same fi

Re: Comcast RPKI origin validation

2021-05-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/20/21 20:34, Tony Tauber wrote: Last week we at Comcast reached some substantial milestones in our RPKI rollout (validation on inter-provider sessions, ROAs for our address-space). Jason Livingood and I collaborated on a blog post, FWIW. https://corporate.comcast.com/stories/improved

RE: Comcast mail contact

2021-05-05 Thread Brotman, Alex via NANOG
Nathanael, You can reach out to me privately if you'd like. Typically those are related to DNS being unable to resolve an MX/A/ for your 5321 Mail From domain, but I can take a better look to be sure. -- Alex Brotman Sr. Engineer, Anti-Abuse & Messaging Policy Comcast > -Original Mess

Re: Comcast mail contact

2021-05-05 Thread Mike Hammett
https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Nathanael Cariaga" To: "NANOG" Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 1:17:46 PM Subject: Comcast mail c

Re: Comcast Business packet loss in LA

2021-04-08 Thread David Funderburk
We are finding the routes through Atlanta that use 50.248.116.42 are having ussies. Not sure if the problems are related. --- Regards, David Funderburk GlobalVision 864-569-0703 For Technical Support, please email gv-supp...@globalvision.net GlobalVision is a communications company that provide

Re: Comcast Burp in Mass/Boston Area

2021-02-24 Thread Jason Kuehl
Comcast's Outage id number OE118864040 On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:42 PM Jason Kuehl wrote: > From Comcast's own charts. Looks like something did happen over their > ethernet internet and private ethernet. > > [image: image.png] > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:37 PM Neil Hanlon wrote: > >> Yeah

Re: Comcast Burp in Mass/Boston Area

2021-02-24 Thread Jason Kuehl
>From Comcast's own charts. Looks like something did happen over their ethernet internet and private ethernet. [image: image.png] On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:37 PM Neil Hanlon wrote: > Yeah, had several test nodes transiting to me fail via Comcast it seems. > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 23:31 Jason

Re: Comcast Burp in Mass/Boston Area

2021-02-24 Thread Neil Hanlon
Yeah, had several test nodes transiting to me fail via Comcast it seems. On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 23:31 Jason Kuehl wrote: > Anyone else with Comcast have a small outage? About 5-7 minutes? > > -- > Sincerely, > > Jason W Kuehl > Cell 920-419-8983 > jason.w.ku...@gmail.com >

Re: Comcast routine maintenance.

2021-02-05 Thread Livingood, Jason via NANOG
Please accept our apologies for the wording of that notice. I looked at the ticket and it is emergency unplanned physical network repair. I appreciate your patience as a customer and am happy to provide further info or assistance if you’d like (just ping me off-list). Jason From: NANOG on be

RE: Comcast/Xfinity blocking my domain

2020-09-07 Thread Brotman, Alex via NANOG
If you send me a message off-list, I’ll see if I can get it routed to the proper team. Thanks -- Alex Brotman Sr. Engineer, Anti-Abuse & Messaging Policy Comcast From: NANOG On Behalf Of Octolus Development via NANOG Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 5:24 PM To: Mikael Abrahamsson via NANOG Su

Re: Comcast DNS Assistance?

2020-07-06 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 09:30:27AM -0400, Dave Dechellis wrote a message of 15 lines which said: > Last night we made some changes to our DNS-SEC environment at Tufts > University and all changes seem to have propagated - but we're having > issues resolving against Comcast's DNS servers. RIPE

Re: Comcast DNS Assistance?

2020-07-06 Thread Brian
I as well seem to be having issues resolving DNS on comcast. On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 8:57 AM Dave Dechellis wrote: > Hello, > > Last night we made some changes to our DNS-SEC environment at Tufts > University and all changes seem to have propagated - but we're having > issues resolving against Co

Re: Comcast - Significant v4 vs v6 throughput differences, almost stateful.

2020-04-23 Thread Matthew Petach
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:45 PM Sabri Berisha wrote: > - On Apr 23, 2020, at 8:06 AM, Nick Zurku > wrote: > > We’re having serious throughput issues with our AS20326 pushing packets to > Comcast over v4. Our transfers are either the full line-speed of the > Comcast customer modem, or they’r

Re: Comcast - Significant v4 vs v6 throughput differences, almost stateful.

2020-04-23 Thread Sabri Berisha
- On Apr 23, 2020, at 8:06 AM, Nick Zurku wrote: > We’re having serious throughput issues with our AS20326 pushing packets to > Comcast over v4. Our transfers are either the full line-speed of the Comcast > customer modem, or they’re seemingly capped at 200-300KB/s. This behavior > appears t

Re: Comcast - Significant v4 vs v6 throughput differences, almost stateful.

2020-04-23 Thread Nick Zurku
We started getting the wave of complaints over the last two weeks or so. Perhaps up to a month ago was when the initial few issues that were reported but were chalked up to being “an issues out on the internet.” Did your issues in CT start on a certain date? -- Nick Zurku Systems Engineer TeraSw

Re: Comcast - Significant v4 vs v6 throughput differences, almost stateful.

2020-04-23 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:06 AM Nick Zurku wrote: > We’re having serious throughput issues with our AS20326 pushing packets to > Comcast over v4. Our transfers are either the full line-speed of the Comcast > customer modem, or they’re seemingly capped at 200-300KB/s. This behavior > appears to

Re: Comcast - Significant v4 vs v6 throughput differences, almost stateful.

2020-04-23 Thread Ca By
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:27 AM Dovid Bender wrote: > We have customers in CT with the same issues. When did this start? > Seems to have started 5 years ago when we ran out of ipv4 and all comers needed to embrace ipv4 life-support mechanisms https://www.arin.net/vault/announcements/2015/201509

Re: Comcast - Significant v4 vs v6 throughput differences, almost stateful.

2020-04-23 Thread Dovid Bender
We have customers in CT with the same issues. When did this start? On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 11:07 AM Nick Zurku wrote: > Hello all, > > I would appreciate if someone from Comcast could contact me about this. > > We’re having serious throughput issues with our AS20326 pushing packets to > Comcast

Re: Comcast NOC - Bad IPv6 Routing

2020-02-16 Thread Robert Webb
IPv4 looks like I would expect traversing Charlottesville, VA then to Ashburn, VA. This is what I am used to seeing. Tracing route to 73.214.xxx.xxx over a maximum of 30 hops: 1<1 ms<1 ms<1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 7 ms11 ms 9 ms 96.120.80.37 3 7 ms 9 ms 7 ms

Re: Comcast NOC - Bad IPv6 Routing

2020-02-15 Thread Ross Tajvar
Interesting - does a v4 traceroute follow the same path? I.e. Richmond CRAN -> ibone Atlanta -> ibone Ashburn -> Pitt CRAN Not having detailed knowledge of Comcast's network, I'd expect the Richmond CRAN has a link to the ibone in Ashburn since it's fairly close (though there may be a closer ibone

Re: Comcast & NTT packet loss today

2019-12-04 Thread Ben Cannon
I’ll Just pop in here to echo Randy’s comments - we have great experiences with NTT across the board and they did reach out and resolve the issue. -Ben > On Dec 4, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > >  >> >>> just to say that they are awesome >> so, uh, you don't recommend them to your co

Re: Comcast & NTT packet loss today

2019-12-04 Thread Randy Bush
>> just to say that they are awesome > so, uh, you don't recommend them to your competitors then? no way. my competitors should buy from comcast, he, ...

Re: Comcast & NTT packet loss today

2019-12-04 Thread Nick Hilliard
Randy Bush wrote on 04/12/2019 21:05: just to say that they are awesome so, uh, you don't recommend them to your competitors then? Nick

Re: Comcast & NTT packet loss today

2019-12-04 Thread Randy Bush
> This may be a good moment to mention that the excellent people at the > NTT NOC are always available at n...@ntt.net, or the phone numbers > listed in PeeringDB. :-) just to say that they are awesome

Re: Comcast & NTT packet loss today

2019-12-03 Thread Job Snijders
Hi all, We are following up off-list! This may be a good moment to mention that the excellent people at the NTT NOC are always available at n...@ntt.net, or the phone numbers listed in PeeringDB. :-) Kind regards, Job On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 23:19 Ben Cannon wrote: > We’re trying to figure ou

Re: Comcast iNET Contact

2019-11-27 Thread Steve Meuse
In my local municipality (as part of a contract renegotiation) we swapped support of the coaxial iNet in favor of dark fiber between specific buildings, that we would be in charge of lighting ourselves. -Steve On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:15 AM Brandon Price wrote: > Are you sure it’s even iNet

RE: Comcast iNET Contact

2019-11-27 Thread Brandon Price
Are you sure it's even iNet anymore? Here in NW Oregon they converted all of us governments over to standard commercial ENS circuits. The iNet doesn't exist any longer here. Brandon From: NANOG On Behalf Of Stephen M Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 11:29 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Comca

Re: Comcast iNET Contact

2019-11-27 Thread Steve Meuse
Contact the licensing authority for your municipality. There is typically a government liaison position that *might* be able to help. If it's fiber, you have a slightly better chance of it actually being documented, but only slightly :) -Steve On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 2:29 PM Stephen M wrote:

Re: Comcast iNET Contact

2019-11-27 Thread Josh Luthman
Based on my experience, you can't get it. My account rep can not get it. I have to provide an address/location at which point they will see if it's nearby or not. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 10:34 AM Ste

Re: Comcast outage refunds during PG&E shutdowns and wildfires

2019-11-03 Thread Owen DeLong
The amount is also further limited by the amount of time one must spend wading through the phone tree and sitting on hold in order to get to someone who can actually issue the credit. Owen > On Nov 3, 2019, at 22:31 , Sean Donelan wrote: > > > Comcast's spokespeople aren't saying it explici

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-16 Thread Brandon Martin
On 10/16/19 4:04 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: After some poking around, I found this gizmo. It says that it can use between 1-8 pairs to power it from the co. If there was already a home run to the co (which is almost certainly true in my case), it seems like that would be a cheaper option? Then y

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-16 Thread Jeff Shultz
We use 12 and 48 port VDSLAM's similar to that at some of our remote locations, and we do generally line power those. But before those came on the market we were putting out remote cabinets that could support up to 144 subscribers fed off the same sort of cards you would find in the CO. I don't k

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-16 Thread Michael Thomas
After some poking around, I found this gizmo. It says that it can use between 1-8 pairs to power it from the co. If there was already a home run to the co (which is almost certainly true in my case), it seems like that would be a cheaper option? Then you just have one diesel generator at the co

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-16 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/16/19 12:09 PM, Jeff Shultz wrote: Interesting! And so primitive! So they go to all of the expense of laying fiber, but not power too? Note: small local telco experience speaking below: Telco's tend to have experience with fiber, but probably not the construction and transmission of t

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-16 Thread Jeff Shultz
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 4:26 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > > > On 10/14/19 4:16 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote: > >> Of course this is a lot of conjecture on my part... be glad to be > >> clued in by folks in know. > > > > An old news story, but telco's usually

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-15 Thread Brandon Martin
On 10/15/19 11:28 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote: Except I’m not talking about CPE. I agree that’s the customer’s job. I was confused based on Masataka's focus on CPE power. I’m talking about keeping the nodes up and running. Yep. -- Brandon Martin

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/14/19 5:58 PM, Brandon Martin wrote: On 10/14/19 8:26 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: So when we were working on this 20 years ago at Cisco, there was a tremendous amount of effort to deal with the issue of e911 and generally battery backup. I'm really surprised to hear that though we went t

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/14/19 6:11 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote: deal with the CPE, that the cable plant was the actual problem. The cable companies should, imo, be held to the same standard as the telcos. Maybe even moreso these days since IP has taken over everything. Th

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-15 Thread Matt Hoppes
Except I’m not talking about CPE. I agree that’s the customer’s job. I’m talking about keeping the nodes up and running. > On Oct 15, 2019, at 7:50 AM, Brandon Martin wrote: > >> On 10/15/2019 09:42, Matt Hoppes wrote: >> I disagree with the statement that providers should not be required to

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-15 Thread Brandon Martin
On 10/15/2019 09:42, Matt Hoppes wrote: I disagree with the statement that providers should not be required to backup their networks while I don't think it should be an FCC requirement, I do believe the providers have an obligation to do that. That's one of the reasons we generally opt for

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-15 Thread Matt Hoppes
I disagree with the statement that providers should not be required to backup their networks while I don't think it should be an FCC requirement, I do believe the providers have an obligation to do that. That's one of the reasons we generally opt for larger node sizes. Yes, it does cut

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-14 Thread Masataka Ohta
Sean Donelan wrote: Given that providers can't supply power to mobile phones, that sending power over fiber is extremely eye unsafe and that most CPEs are routers which themselves are useless without end systems, it is reasonable that providers are not required to supply power to home. But, Th

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-14 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote: deal with the CPE, that the cable plant was the actual problem. The cable companies should, imo, be held to the same standard as the telcos. Maybe even moreso these days since IP has taken over everything. The need for reliable e911 hasn't gone away ju

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-14 Thread Brandon Martin
On 10/14/19 8:26 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: So when we were working on this 20 years ago at Cisco, there was a tremendous amount of effort to deal with the issue of e911 and generally battery backup. I'm really surprised to hear that though we went through a lot of effort to deal with the CPE, t

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-14 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/14/19 4:39 PM, Brandon Martin wrote: All the conventional telcos are far more focused on keeping voice service alive since they get raked over the coals by the FCC if it drops due to lack of 911.  That includes wireless if they are both a wireline and wireless operator.  Interestingl

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-14 Thread Lyle
All true telco equipment is powered by batteries. Commerical power or generators just recharge the batteries. No switch over when commerical power is lost. Except when the generators(where equiped) switch over to recharge the batteries. Comcast and telcos do not put batteries in all remote

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-14 Thread Brandon Martin
On 10/14/19 6:38 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: So it turns out that our local telco/isp does keep dsl running via the same mechanism as they keep pots power backed up (i'm guessing it's a diesel generator at the co, but am not sure). It seems that a lot of the pedestals terminating the local loop

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-14 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/14/19 4:16 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote: Of course this is a lot of conjecture on my part... be glad to be clued in by folks in know. An old news story, but telco's usually have backup batteries in their outside plant, cell towers, etc.  During pow

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-14 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote: Of course this is a lot of conjecture on my part... be glad to be clued in by folks in know. An old news story, but telco's usually have backup batteries in their outside plant, cell towers, etc. During power outages, they shuttle small generators b

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-14 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/14/19 3:06 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: That is not why people are surprised.  When the house doesn't have power, and doesn't have home generator or UPS, (most) people are less surprised their DSL or Cable modem and VOIP doesn't work anymore. The reasons I saw people angry on twitter was

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-14 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Ted Hatfield wrote: First of all DSL is not pots. [] DSL is a data service that runs on the subscriber loop at the same time as the voice service. This service is not required to be battery backed and will invariably stop working when power is cut at the customer e

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-14 Thread Ted Hatfield
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote: On 10/11/19 4:31 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: The FCC asked a half-dozen carriers about their network resilience plans last month.  Comcast was not one of the service providers askedd about their plans. The FCC should have looked clo

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-12 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >On 10/11/19 9:43 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: >How distributed is the power on a typical HFC system in practice? I'm >sure I'm missing some of them, but having walked out most of a small-ish >(~2000 residences) city recently for a FTTx deployment, I think I only >saw 2-3 power

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-12 Thread Jared Mauch
> On Oct 11, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Matt Hoppes > wrote: > > And this is why the distributed nature of small node’s is detrimental in an > extended power outage. > > There is no practical way to back them up with power for an extended period > of time. This is why I’m concerned about a future

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-12 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote: So I knew that telcos are required to battery backup pots, but are isp's too? I have a dinky little provider who also provides pots, but i have never been clear whether dsl stays up too in a blackout. Of course generalizing all service providers isn't

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-11 Thread Tom Beecher
It's very difficult to properly build a resilient infrastructure when those shareholders must get their value! On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 7:33 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > The FCC asked a half-dozen carriers about their network resilience plans > last month. Comcast was not one of the service provider

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-11 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Sean Donelan said: > It turns out, Comcast's outside plant was woefully unprepared to > handle long, i.e. 24 hour, power outages. And even when power is > restored to people's homes, Comcast service is often still down. When I had Comcast in Huntsville, AL, there appeared to be

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-11 Thread Brandon Martin
On 10/11/19 9:43 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: And this is why the distributed nature of small node’s is detrimental in an extended power outage. There is no practical way to back them up with power for an extended period of time. How distributed is the power on a typical HFC system in practice? I

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-11 Thread Matt Hoppes
And this is why the distributed nature of small node’s is detrimental in an extended power outage. There is no practical way to back them up with power for an extended period of time. > On Oct 11, 2019, at 8:44 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > Why you don't have Comcast service during a power o

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-11 Thread Sean Donelan
Why you don't have Comcast service during a power outage: Throughout the state, Comcast equipment was knocked offline by PG&E’s power shutdown, Hammel said. The cable company was “only using generators in very discrete and specific cases where there’s a demonstrated need,” such as a request

Re: Comcast outages continue even in areas with PG&E power restored

2019-10-11 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/11/19 4:31 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: The FCC asked a half-dozen carriers about their network resilience plans last month.  Comcast was not one of the service providers askedd about their plans. The FCC should have looked closer at Comcast in California. While it was expected many people

Re: Comcast route server not reflecting their reality

2019-09-11 Thread Ross Tajvar
> > IIRC, Comcast uses "local-as 7922" path rewriting for all enterprise EDI > customers > running BGP off of regional CRANs, unless I'm mistaken. So if your > regional CRAN > is as7015 (for New England), even if your physical circuit and BGP session > land > on a local SUR in your area, you have

Re: Comcast route server not reflecting their reality

2019-09-11 Thread James Jun
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:29:58PM -0400, Ross Tajvar wrote: > > I'm curious how this works and why it's done this way. I have a friend who > has transit from AS7922 (the remote AS in his BGP sessions are all 7922), Are you sure your friend has transit from as7922? It sounds like your friend is

Re: Comcast route server not reflecting their reality

2019-09-11 Thread Ross Tajvar
> > Unlike AS2914 which purely interconnects with AS7922, it seems that AS3356 > also has direct interconnections to the various Comcast subsidiary > networks which are hidden from the DFZ through no-export communities. I'm curious how this works and why it's done this way. I have a friend who ha

Re: Comcast route server not reflecting their reality

2019-09-11 Thread Will Orton
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 04:42:10PM +, Martijn Schmidt wrote: > Hi Will, > > Unlike AS2914 which purely interconnects with AS7922, it seems that AS3356 > also has direct interconnections to the various Comcast subsidiary networks > which are hidden from the DFZ through no-export communities..

Re: Comcast route server not reflecting their reality

2019-09-10 Thread Martijn Schmidt via NANOG
Hi Will, Unlike AS2914 which purely interconnects with AS7922, it seems that AS3356 also has direct interconnections to the various Comcast subsidiary networks which are hidden from the DFZ through no-export communities.. I figured this out due to a routing leak which happened a few years ago:

Re: Comcast Contact

2019-05-16 Thread Matt Freitag
Contact made, thank you NANOG.

Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-26 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
On Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 9:31 PM Rich Kulawiec wrote: > Also, given that this is a public mailing list, lots of people who didn't > know the target existed last week could certainly know it now. > Yup, the dependency on an obscurity was inadvertently broken here. Sorry for that. Hope no one was re

Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-26 Thread Saku Ytti
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 20:17, Doug Barton wrote: > There are two mindsets that desperately need changing in the tech world: > > 1. Do not store data that you don't have a legitimate requirement to store > 2. Do not store anything even remotely sensitive in the clear #2 might be quite complex Th

Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-26 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 07:06:40PM +0300, T??ma Gavrichenkov wrote: > Also, I've seen people who use the same password (sometimes with few easily > reversible modifications) for virtually all the purposes, from the WiFi > router up to their e-mail and banking accounts. This is one of the many risk

Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-26 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 4:53 PM Stephen Satchell wrote: > > not only does someone have to 'hack' the database, > > they also need to drive up to your house and sit in your driveway to get > > free Internet. > > Sounds like you live in a single-family home, in a low-density > neighborhood.

Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-26 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:51 PM Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > This assumes that the customer has a spare CAT-5 cable and knows how to > use it. > This is assuming that no customer's device has an access to the same network, in which case you just happily reset the password or even the device as a whol

Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-25 Thread Brandon Jackson via NANOG
That is not related to the Gateway at all, nor done on the local network are missing with the local network as I was describing. That is further Upstream. Brandon Jackson On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 14:50 Mel Pilgrim wrote: > On 2019-04-23 18:32, Brandon Jackson via NANOG wrote: > > I'm not saying

Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-25 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:42:25 +0300, T�ma Gavrichenkov said: > Isn't it just better to have it always displayed, in a 40pt sized font, on > some LAN-accessible Web page, reachable without authentication by default, This assumes that the customer has a spare CAT-5 cable and knows how to use it. And

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