Single fiber 10Gb/s X2 or Xenpak transceiver

2009-02-19 Thread Andrey Slastenov
Hi Guys. Do you ever see single fiber 10Gb/s X2 or Xenpak transceiver? (I know about SFP, but never see X2 or Xenpak before)

single fiber 10Gb/s X2 or Xenpak transceiver

2009-02-19 Thread Andrey Slastenov
Hi Guys. Do you ever see single fiber 10Gb/s X2 or Xenpak transceiver? (I know about SFP, but never see X2 or Xenpak before)

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Frank Bulk
The really scary thing is that deploying carrier-grade NAT might be cheaper to the service provider than rolling IPv6 to its residential subscribers. Frank -Original Message- From: Kevin Oberman [mailto:ober...@es.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:30 PM To: Owen DeLong Cc: 'Carl Ro

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Frank Bulk wrote: The really scary thing is that deploying carrier-grade NAT might be cheaper to the service provider than rolling IPv6 to its residential subscribers. The really scary thing is that in areas where there are only two major ISPs, both might go for CGN and t

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Frank Bulk
Most service providers aren't in the business of maintaining their customer's home network, and if you have to place an ONT/DSL modem/cable modem at the customer premise, most of that gear operates at L2 with little L3 in the way (except perhaps if you place the PPPoA/E functionality on the DSL

RE: IPv6 Confusion (back to technical conversation)

2009-02-19 Thread TJ
>>> I guess you don't use DHCP in IPv4 then. >> No, you seem to think the failure mode is the same, and it is not. >> Let's walk through this: >> 1) 400 people get on the NANOG wireless network. >> 2) Mr 31337 comes along and puts up a rogue DHCP server. >> 3) All 400 people continue working just f

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 19/02/2009 07:27, David Conrad wrote: those requirements to be. Unfortunately, that's not what we have. We have network operators in their own little world, trying to keep the network running and protocol developers in their own little world, trying to come up with cool features that will make

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread David Freedman
> > I think, for example, that Juniper is making a mistake by rolling v6 > capability into a license that also includes BGP and ISIS on some > platforms. Cisco is guilty of this as well. > > I am not necessarily advocating that v6 must be a basic feature on every > new box; but I don't think it

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Ralph Droms
Independent of this conversation, there has been some parallel interest in this problem area in the IETF. There is enough interest to suggest writing a draft defining additional options for DHCPv6 to allow "DHCPv6-only" operation. I'm writing as chair of the dhc WG to ask you, the operator

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Jack Bates
Frank Bulk wrote: Considering that the only real IPv6-ready CPE at your favorite N.A. electronics store is Apple's AirPort, it seems to me that it will be several years before the majority (50% plus 1) of our respective customer bases has IPv6-ready or dual-stack equipment. On the other hand,

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Tim Chown
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 03:05:43PM -0600, Dale W. Carder wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Nathan Ward wrote: > > > >Is there something like this already that anyone knows of? > > http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-chown-v6ops-rogue-ra-02.txt There will be an update of this prior to March's IE

real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Deric Kwok
Hi All Actually, what is the different hardware router VS linux router? Have you had experience to compare real router eg: cisco VS linux router? eg: streaming speed... tcp / udp Thank you for your information

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Ryan Harden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While you could probably build a linux router that is just as fast as a real hardware router, you're always going to run into the moving pieces part of the equation. In almost all scenarios, moving parts are more prone to failure than non-moving parts

RE: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Bruce Grobler
Not much really, besides your personal preference and the configurability of the device (will maintaining some semblance of sanity), there are some very nice custom linux based appliances out there e.g. vyatta routers, which boast 10 times throughput of Cisco (2800 series) routers, however it all c

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Colin Alston
Deric Kwok wrote: > Hi All > > Actually, what is the different hardware router VS linux router? > > Have you had experience to compare real router eg: cisco VS linux router? Archives have discussed this at extreme length. The most interesting thing I saw come out of it was this http://data.guu

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Justin Wilson - MTIN
Imagestream is a very solid and mature solution. In order to head off the Holy War I am a Cisco guy too. It just depends on your budget and situation. Justin > From: Deric Kwok > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:30:16 -0500 > To: > Subject: real hardware router VS linux router > > Hi All > > Actua

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Sandy Murphy
>I can't think of a single >> working group chair/co-chair that's ever presented at NANOG and asked >> for feedback. Were you at the last NANOG when I did everything but beg for feedback? --Sandy

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Jared Mauch
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:56:35AM -0500, Sandy Murphy wrote: > >I can't think of a single > >> working group chair/co-chair that's ever presented at NANOG and asked > >> for feedback. > > Were you at the last NANOG when I did everything but beg for feedback? Would it be insane to have an IETF b

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread mike
Well, Our operation uses linux everywhere and we have our own in house tiny embedded flavor with all the tools and things that make it suited for use in big and small boxes as many kinds of router and general packet flipping appliance. I have confidence built on long term, real world exper

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Soucy, Ray
Response inline. -Original Message- From: Carl Rosevear [mailto:carl.rosev...@demandmedia.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:59 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: IPv6 Confusion > How does IPv6 addressing work? RFC 2372 is a good starting point. With IPv6 we provide for every LAN ne

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:01:59AM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote: > > Would it be insane to have an IETF back-to-back with a NANOG? > Probably, but it would be a good idea. :) I have no idea how the IETF agenda is set, but that may be part of the trick. I suspect network opera

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Sandy Murphy
>Were you at the last NANOG when I did everything but beg for feedback? Maybe I should have been more helpful. Here's the link: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Wednesday/Murphy_light_sidr_N45.pdf --Sandy

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:19:19 -0500 Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:01:59AM -0500, Jared > Mauch wrote: > > > > Would it be insane to have an IETF back-to-back with a NANOG? > > > > Probably, but it would be a good idea. :) > > I have no idea how the IETF

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread David E. Smith
Ryan Harden wrote: While you could probably build a linux router that is just as fast as a real hardware router, you're always going to run into the moving pieces part of the equation. In almost all scenarios, moving parts are more prone to failure than non-moving parts. It's quite possible t

Network SLA

2009-02-19 Thread Saqib Ilyas
Greetings I am curious to know about any tools/techniques that a service provider uses to assess an SLA before signing it. That is to say, how does an administrator know if he/she can meet what he is promising. Is it based on experience? Are there commonly used tools for this? Thanks and best regar

RE: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Bill Blackford
In scaling upward. How would a linux router even if a kernel guru were to tweak and compile an optimized build, compare to a 7600/RSP720CXL or a Juniper PIC in ASIC? At some point packets/sec becomes a limitation I would think. -b -Original Message- From: Ryan Harden [mailto:harde...@ui

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:19:19 -0500 Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:01:59AM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote: Would it be insane to have an IETF back-to-back with a NANOG? Probably, but it would be a good

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Jack Bates
Bill Blackford wrote: In scaling upward. How would a linux router even if a kernel guru were to tweak and compile an optimized build, compare to a 7600/RSP720CXL or a Juniper PIC in ASIC? At some point packets/sec becomes a limitation I would think. It scales quite well, I'm sure, if you take

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Bill Blackford wrote: In scaling upward. How would a linux router even if a kernel guru were to tweak and compile an optimized build, compare to a 7600/ RSP720CXL or a Juniper PIC in ASIC? At some point packets/sec becomes a limitation I would think. I've aske

RE: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Ray Burkholder
> > In scaling upward. How would a linux router even if a kernel guru were > to tweak and compile an optimized build, compare to a 7600/RSP720CXL or > a Juniper PIC in ASIC? At some point packets/sec becomes a limitation I > would think. > Is anyone building linux/bsd-box add-on cards with off

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Tony Hain wrote: > Daniel Senie wrote: >> >... >> > No, the decision was to not blindly import all the excess crap from >> IPv4. If >> > anyone has a reason to have a DHCPv6 option, all they need to do is >> specify >> > it. The fact that the *nog community stopped

RE: Network SLA

2009-02-19 Thread Andreas, Rich
Availability cannot be calculated in advance. It typically is based on historical component failure information. Sound design ensures redundancy and eliminates single point of failure. As for the rest, CIR, Latency, Jitter, Loss . this can be tested prior to customer handover with any number

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Bill Blackford wrote: > >> In scaling upward. How would a linux router even if a kernel guru were >> to tweak and compile an optimized build, compare to a 7600/RSP720CXL >> or a Juniper PIC in ASIC? At some point packets/sec becomes a >> li

RE: single fiber 10Gb/s X2 or Xenpak transceiver

2009-02-19 Thread Vernon Leonard
We just got in 4 of the X2's. Vernon Leonard Tarrant County IT -Original Message- From: Andrey Slastenov [mailto:a.slaste...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:18 AM To: nanog Subject: single fiber 10Gb/s X2 or Xenpak transceiver Hi Guys. Do you ever see single fiber 1

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Christopher Morrow wrote: That is not what the decision said. The point was that the DHCP WG was not going to decide for you what was necessary or appropriate to carry forward. Rather than add baggage that nobody actually uses, there is nothing until someone says 'I need

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
this plattform can handle about 100.000pps and 400mbit 1500byte packets with freebsd http://lannerinc.com/Network_Application_Platforms/x86_Network_Appliance/1U_Network_Appliances/FW-7550 hardware: 4x pci 32bit, 33mhz intel gbit 1gb cf-card 1gb ram with this hardware even

RE: Network SLA

2009-02-19 Thread isabel dias
Maybe the best way of addressing this is knowing exactly what we need to measure- if IP traffic, services or processes. If the timescale of a process (ie: MTTR's)and/or procedure or just data and/or voice traffic from point A to B. Or just scoping the measurments as being the performance of the

Re: Network SLA

2009-02-19 Thread david raistrick
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Saqib Ilyas wrote: I am curious to know about any tools/techniques that a service provider uses to assess an SLA before signing it. That is to say, how does an administrator know if he/she can meet what he is promising. IME, the administrators don't have anything to do wit

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Tony Hain
Randy Bush wrote: > > The fact that the *nog community stopped participating in the IETF > has > > resulted in the situation where functionality is missing, because > nobody > > stood up and did the work to make it happen. > > the ops gave up on the ietf because it did no good to participate. so

RE: Single fiber 10Gb/s X2 or Xenpak transceiver

2009-02-19 Thread Holmes,David A
Haven't seen one. With the huge heat sink and serialization circuitry on the X2, what advantage would a single strand connector bring? MRV may have one if anyone does, though. -Original Message- From: Andrey Slastenov [mailto:a.slaste...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 1:06 A

RE: Network SLA

2009-02-19 Thread Holmes,David A
We use the BRIX active measurement instrumentation product to measure round-trip, jitter, and packet loss SLA conformity. -Original Message- From: Saqib Ilyas [mailto:msa...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:50 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Network SLA Greetings I am cur

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Tony Hain
David Conrad wrote: > Tony, > > On Feb 18, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Tony Hain wrote: > > The bottom line is, if you want something to be defined in a way > > that works for you, you have to participate in the definition. > > Well, yes. But there is an impedance mismatch here. No argument. > > The I

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Tony Hain
christopher.mor...@gmail.com wrote: > >... > > Yes people expect 1:1 functionality, but how many of them are > stepping up to > > how many vendors are implementing willy-nilly v4 feature requests for > their enterprise/isp customers? does it not seem reasonable to look at > each one and say: "Gosh

Re: more AS prepend antics?

2009-02-19 Thread Scott Weeks
--- nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote: From: neal rauhauser What in the world is someone doing with that many prepends? I'm trying to envision what would drive such a decision - small, regional player on one --- Playing with the internet just to see what ha

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ingo Flaschberger wrote: > > this plattform can handle about > 100.000pps and 400mbit 1500byte packets with freebsd > http://lannerinc.com/Network_Application_Platforms/x86_Network_Appliance/1U_Network_Appliances/FW-7550 > > hardware: > 4x pci 32bit, 33mhz intel gbit > 1gb cf-card > 1

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread William Warren
On 2/19/2009 9:37 AM, Ryan Harden wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While you could probably build a linux router that is just as fast as a real hardware router, you're always going to run into the moving pieces part of the equation. In almost all scenarios, moving parts are

do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali
Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects (and pay) RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be verified with a whois. Thanks, Zaid

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-19 Thread Rodney Dunn
We are working on a document for Cisco.com but in the interim here is the bug that will fix the issue of a Cisco IOS device sending an incorrectly formatted BGP update when as a result of prepending it goes over 255 AS hops. Note: The Title and Release-note on bug toolkit may be a bit different as

Re: Network SLA

2009-02-19 Thread Stefan
Saqib Ilyas wrote: Greetings I am curious to know about any tools/techniques that a service provider uses to assess an SLA before signing it. That is to say, how does an administrator know if he/she can meet what he is promising. Is it based on experience? Are there commonly used tools for this?

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Zaid Ali wrote: Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects (and pay) RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be verified with a whois. If your objects are all maintained via another routing registry (ARIN's, altdb, etc.) and you don

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Bill Nash
You know you're off track when.. What operational relevance does this conversation, or the similiar ones that came before it, have? Are there a bunch in production contributing to the degradation of the best route between me and this video of cute kittens I'm trying to watch? Did something

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:30:16 EST, Deric Kwok said: > Hi All > > Actually, what is the different hardware router VS linux router? I'm continually amazed by the number of people who manage to conflate two entirely different issues here. There's *TWO* axes here: | PC-class hardware

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Randy Bush
>> this is a slight exaggeration. it took me less than five years to get >> rid of NLAs, TLAs, ... wooo wooo! > Those were put in at the insistence of the ops / routing >> community complete and utter bs! randy

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Darren Bolding
Is there a good source to explain the whole RADB "system", and tools/processes people use to maintain routing policies/filters based on it? I'd like to both review and make sure my current understanding is accurate, and have a doc to send people to. Thanks for any pointers! --D On Thu, Feb 19, 2

lots of prepends

2009-02-19 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
Today 85.119.176.0/21 was announced by AS20912 with 177 prepends. I noticed 20912 modulo 256 is 176. AS47868 modulo 256 is 252 which matches this mondays prepend-incident. So, what router OS will put 20912 into a byte and thus end up with 176 in something like "set as-path prepend last-as "

RE: lots of prepends

2009-02-19 Thread Paul Stewart
Just seen that here too: Feb 19 16:20:35: %BGP-6-ASPATH: Long AS path 8001 8928 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20912 20

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2009-02-19 Thread kb3ien+nanog
protect users from victimisation by the likes of this : http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic204619.html For years (decades?) I've been DNS hijacking to criple worm ridden machines associating with my wifi nodes etc. That only deals with a few threats. I'd like to feel confident in us

Re: lots of prepends

2009-02-19 Thread Seth Mattinen
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > Today 85.119.176.0/21 was announced by AS20912 with 177 prepends. I > noticed 20912 modulo 256 is 176. AS47868 modulo 256 is 252 which matches > this mondays prepend-incident. > > So, what router OS will put 20912 into a byte and thus end up with 176 > in something l

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Randy Bush
>> I can't think of a single working group chair/co-chair that's >> ever presented at NANOG and asked for feedback. > Were you at the last NANOG when I did everything but beg for feedback? no i was not but leo's post was simple flatulence randy

RE: lots of prepends

2009-02-19 Thread Paul Stewart
The only ill effect is if set it too low we tested it a bit at 20-30 AS path length range figuring we shouldn't see *much* and it was staggering over time. The unfortunate thing more related to your question is that we found some AS's that were prepending 40-50 times to ALL their upstreams

RE: Network diagram software

2009-02-19 Thread (nanog) Brian Battle
Graphviz will do this. (www.graphviz.org) The basic (dot) syntax for what you describe below is: digraph G { R1 -> VLAN100; R2 -> R1; SW1 -> VLAN100; SW2 -> R2; H1 -> SW1; H2 -> SW1; H3 -> SW2; H4 -> SW2; } It'll output a GIF flowc

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Bruce Robertson
Is the ARIN registry free, then? Jon Lewis wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Zaid Ali wrote: Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects (and pay) RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be verified with a whois. If your objects are all maintained via another

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali
It's not entirely free since you have to pay an AS maintenance fee and if you are assigned a netblock directly then you pay maintenance on that also. I would rather maintain everything in one place rather than paying an extra $495 to RADB if my BGP peers can source it from ARIN. Zaid - Ori

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Bruce Robertson
But I pay for all that already, so it seems that using ARIN is a no-brainer. Zaid Ali wrote: It's not entirely free since you have to pay an AS maintenance fee and if you are assigned a netblock directly then you pay maintenance on that also. I would rather maintain everything in one place rather

Re: Single fiber 10Gb/s X2 or Xenpak transceiver

2009-02-19 Thread Jean
2009/2/19, Andrey Slastenov : > Hi Guys. > > Do you ever see single fiber 10Gb/s X2 or Xenpak transceiver? (I know about > SFP, but never see X2 or Xenpak before) > -- Envoyé avec mon mobile Jean

Re: lots of prepends

2009-02-19 Thread Tomas Caslavsky
Hi all, I am writing on behalf of AS8928. We have changed our BGP policy against AS 20912 to allow maximum of 20 AS prepends. Our NOC will communicate this issue to customer and when I will have some news why this happened I will update NANOG list. Best Regards Tomas Caslavsky +-

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali
Yes but I wanted to get a feel from the community and I get a notification message from RADB to pay up I wanted to get a feel from providers. I am happy to take my question off the list :) Zaid - Original Message - From: "Bruce Robertson" To: "Zaid Ali" Cc: "NANOG list" Sent: Thursda

Re: lots of prepends

2009-02-19 Thread Randy Bush
> The only ill effect is if set it too low we tested it a bit > at 20-30 AS path length range figuring we shouldn't see *much* > and it was staggering over time. The unfortunate thing more > related to your question is that we found some AS's that were > prepending 40-50 times to ALL their ups

Appropriate list for Linux routers (was: real hardware router VS linux router)

2009-02-19 Thread Brian Keefer
On Feb 19, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Bill Nash wrote: Having carped, I'm obligated to offer a solution: The technical discussion is certainly interesting to a small subset of NANOG participants, I'm sure (I do find it interesting, I promise), but I'm thinking this conversation is better elsewhere,

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Heather Schiller
No. Use of a routing registry is not required.. ARIN's, RADB's or otherwise. You might want to check out this presentation: http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog44/abstracts.php?pt=ODg4Jm5hbm9nNDQ=&nm=nanog44 This is an entirely different statement from "Your globally unique IP's should to be al

Re: Appropriate list for Linux routers (was: real hardware router VS linux router)

2009-02-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009, Brian Keefer wrote: > If anyone would like to drop me a line off-list to point me in the > right direction, I'd be very grateful. So far the most useful > information I've found on the topic has been via this list. > > PS I'm talking specifically about Linux. The FreeB

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Randy Bush
> No. Use of a routing registry is not required. ^ always some wise upstreams require it. and it is a good idea to be in the irr. and there are free/open irr servers. randy

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ryan Harden wrote: > While you could probably build a linux router that is just as fast as a > real hardware router, you're always going to run into the moving pieces > part of the equation. Not if you boot directly from USB key into memory with no disk drive. Steve

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali
Most of all my providers use a route registry and if they don't I would question it. I am all for a route registry but can we adopt one or one of X registries which I think is what is happening. For my ease of management I would like to use one and also pay (and budget) for one since its the sam

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread mike
Steve Bertrand wrote: Ryan Harden wrote: While you could probably build a linux router that is just as fast as a real hardware router, you're always going to run into the moving pieces part of the equation. Not if you boot directly from USB key into memory with no disk drive. Steve

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 2/19/09, mike wrote: > > > > Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> Ryan Harden wrote: >> >> >>> While you could probably build a linux router that is just as fast as a >>> real hardware router, you're always going to run into the moving pieces >>> part of the equation. >>> >>> >> >> Not if you boot direct

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Leo Vegoda
On 19/02/2009 12:09, "Zaid Ali" wrote: > Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects (and pay) > RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be verified with a > whois. If you are happy using a RR which appears to only rely on a MAIL-FROM auth scheme then the AR

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Joe Greco
> Ryan Harden wrote: > > While you could probably build a linux router that is just as fast as a > > real hardware router, you're always going to run into the moving pieces > > part of the equation. > > Not if you boot directly from USB key into memory with no disk drive. You probably don't want

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Frank Bulk
I probably tied CPE to NAT together in my mindif I peel NAT out from what these CPE are doing, perhaps a PPPoE/A environment is the only place a L3 CPE will be needed with IPv6 anymore. FTTH, BWA, RFC 1483/RBE, and cable modems can bridge at L2 and each customer host can each have their own

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Bob Snyder
Frank Bulk wrote: Considering that the only real IPv6-ready CPE at your favorite N.A. electronics store is Apple's AirPort, it seems to me that it will be several years before the majority (50% plus 1) of our respective customer bases has IPv6-ready or dual-stack equipment. Actually, out of

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Frank Bulk wrote: I probably tied CPE to NAT together in my mindif I peel NAT out from what these CPE are doing, perhaps a PPPoE/A environment is the only place a L3 CPE will be needed with IPv6 anymore. FTTH, BWA, RFC 1483/RBE, and cable modems can bridge at L2 and e

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-19 Thread Randy Bush
> Do you really want to keep state for hundreds of end user devices in > your equipment? > > In my mind, IPv6 more than ever requires the customer to have their > own L3 device (which you delegate a /56 to with DHCPv6-PD). > > Imagine the size of your TCAM needed with antispoofing ACLs and > adja