Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

2009-04-23 Thread Sharlon R. Carty
And they will never listen (TELEM). On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Curtis Maurand wrote: > > I don't understand why DSL providers don't just administratively down the > port the customer is hooked to rather than using PPPoE which costs bandwidth > and has huge management overhead when you have

Re: MRTG in Fourier Space

2009-04-23 Thread Anton Kapela
Gents, On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Dave Plonka wrote: > > Hi Crist, > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:12:04PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: >> >> Has anyone found any value in examining network utilization >> numbers with Fourier analyses? After staring at pretty In short, yup! >> there are some

Re: MRTG in Fourier Space

2009-04-23 Thread Anton Kapela
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Anton Kapela wrote: > Indeed, there are. Interesting things emerge in frequency (or phase) > space - bits/sec, packets/sec, and ave size, etc. - all have new Forgot to mention one point - since packets/bits/etc data is more monotonic than not (math wizards, plea

integrated KVMoIP and serial console terminal server

2009-04-23 Thread Joe Abley
Hi all, What is everybody's favourite combination rack-mount VGA/USB KVM-over- IP and serial console concentrator in 2009? I'm looking for something that will accommodate 8 or so 9600bps serial devices and about 12 VGA/USB devices, all reachable over IP via sane means (ssh, https, etc). Be

Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

2009-04-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Leigh Porter wrote: > > Could you have two instances of RADIUS, one for the middle-man and > ignore the accounting from that server? Well... First I'd like to thank all of those who responded off-list. To not waste everyone's time, I'd like to throw out there that this message can technically be

Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-23 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Chris Grundemann wrote: "They" is YOU. ARIN policy is created by the community - "Your voice, your community." ... If you participated in the ARIN PDP (1)... Ok, so am I the only one who missed which policy proposal this was that generated the new requirement that an officer sign off on th

Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

2009-04-23 Thread Kevin Graham
> Net-Admin: This IPv6 stuff is important, we should already be deploying >it full-tilt. > Manager:Some IPv6 testing should be reflected in next years budget. > > Director: I hear IPv6 is the future, but customers just aren't >demanding it. > VP Network: Humm, may

Re: IXP

2009-04-23 Thread Paul Vixie
"Bill Woodcock" writes: > ... Nobody's arguing against VLANs. Paul's argument was that VLANs > rendered shared subnets obsolete, and everybody else has been rebutting > that. Not saying that VLANs shouldn't be used. i think i saw several folks, not just stephen, say virtual wire was how they'd

Re: IXP

2009-04-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:48:28AM +, Paul Vixie wrote: > i think i saw several folks, not just stephen, say virtual wire was how > they'd do an IXP today if they had to start from scratch. i know that > for many here, starting from scratch isn't a reachable worldview, and

Re: IXP

2009-04-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009, Leo Bicknell wrote: > It's the technological equvilient of bringing everyone into a > conference room and then having them use their cell phones to call > each other and talk across the table. Why are you all in the same > room if you don't want a shared medium? Because you

Re: IXP

2009-04-23 Thread Jack Bates
Leo Bicknell wrote: The value of an exchange switch is the shared vlan. I could see an argument that switching is no longer necessary; but I can see no rational argument to both go through all the hassles of per-peer setup and get all the drawbacks of a shared switch. Even exchanges that took t

RE: Broadband Subscriber Management

2009-04-23 Thread Frank Bulk
I wasn't aware that LECs have the money to provide a DSLAM port per pair. =) PPPoA/E wasn't invented to prevent DSL sharing (not possible), but was the result of extending the dial-up approach of PPP with usernames and passwords to provide end-users IP connectivity. As Arie mentions in his posting

Re: MRTG in Fourier Space

2009-04-23 Thread Rubens Kuhl
As IP traffic is assumed to be self-similar, my EE origins tell me to look for parameters that could measure it from stochastic process theory. On a Google search this paper sounded interesting: http://www.sparc.uni-mb.si/OPNET/PDF/IWSSIP2007Fras.pdf (...) We estimated the Hurst parameter (H) for t

Re: IPv6 Operators List (which also covers 6to4 operation ; ) (Was: IPv4 Anycast?)

2009-04-23 Thread Shin SHIRAHATA
> Shin SHIRAHATA wrote: > >>> 192.88.99.0/24, 2002::/16, and 2001::/32 are some > >>> notable examples of heterogeneous origin AS. > >> And those prefixes (6to4 & Teredo) all come with annoying problems as > >> one never knows which relay is really being used and it is hard to debug > >> how the pa

Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

2009-04-23 Thread Jo Rhett
On Apr 21, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote: Oh, you lucky, lucky person. We've got a couple of customers at the day job that constantly come back to us for more IP addresses for bandwidth accounting purposes for their colo machine(s). Attempts at education are like talking to a part

Re: IXP

2009-04-23 Thread Arnold Nipper
On 24.04.2009 03:48 Paul Vixie wrote > "Bill Woodcock" writes: > >> ... Nobody's arguing against VLANs. Paul's argument was that VLANs >> rendered shared subnets obsolete, and everybody else has been rebutting >> that. Not saying that VLANs shouldn't be used. > > i think i saw several folks, n

Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

2009-04-23 Thread Jo Rhett
On Apr 21, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote: Then they come back with a request for IPs for SSL certificates, which is a valid technical justification. BTDT. People will find a way to do the stupid thing they want to do. Most of the stupid people don't, actually. That's the funny

Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

2009-04-23 Thread Jo Rhett
On Apr 21, 2009, at 6:50 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: FTP? Who uses FTP these days? Certainly not consumers. Even Cisco well, pretty much anyone who has large datasets to move around. that default 64k buffer in the openssl libs pretty much sucks rocks for

Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

2009-04-23 Thread Jo Rhett
On Apr 22, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Joe Greco wrote: While HTTP remains popular as a way to interact with humans, especially if you want to try to do redirects, acknowledge license agreements, etc., FTP is the file transfer protocol of choice for basic file transfer Speak for yourself. I haven't

Re: The real issue

2009-04-23 Thread Randy Bush
> Is ARIN, who won't even take back large blocks of space from people > who have long ago stopped using it and aren't paying anything for it, > prepared to start filing civil suits against people who were assigned / > 24's (and paid for them) due to inaccurate declaration? it's a real shame t

Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 22 apr 2009, at 23:39, Jack Bates wrote: What really would help is more people who are not on NANOG pushing vendors to support IPv6. Even my Juniper SE has mentioned that I'm one of 2 people he's had seriously pushing for IPv6 features. Other vendors have just blown me off all together (

Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

2009-04-23 Thread Oliver Eyre
Integration with the billing system is a big one, but remember that not everybody is in control of the DSLAM or whichever device connects to the access network and touches the end user directly. They may instead rely on a wholesale provider for that if they don't have the reach themselves. Fro

Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-23 Thread Nathan Ward
On 23/04/2009, at 8:37 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 22 apr 2009, at 23:39, Jack Bates wrote: Serious input and participation means work and money. You can participate on mailinglists without attending meetings, so in that sense it doesn't have to cost money. As an operator, it woul

Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 23 apr 2009, at 12:23, Nathan Ward wrote: Just participating in mailing lists is good for keeping up to date, but not so good for getting things changed. That's what I've found, anyway. Might not always be true. Depends on the issue. Sometimes bad ideas get traction in the IETF, it's

Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

2009-04-23 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
>> It appears that ARIN wants to raise the IP addressing space issue to >> the CxO >> level -- if it was interested in honesty, ARIN would have required a >> notarized statement by the person submitting the request. > > No. Those are two entirely different problems. > > A notary signs only that t

Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-23 Thread William Allen Simpson
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Depends on the issue. Sometimes bad ideas get traction in the IETF, it's hard to undo that. That's an understatement. Also don't expect too much from IETF participation: if doing X is going to make a vendor more money than doing Y, they're going to favor X,

Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-23 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Nathan Ward wrote: After trying to participate on mailing lists for about 2 or 3 years, it's pretty hard to get anything done without going to meetings. Just participating in mailing lists is good for keeping up to date, but not so good for getting things changed. That's

Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009, William Allen Simpson wrote: > Some wag around here re-christened it the IVTF (V stands for Vendor, not > Victory). ;-) I haven't bothered to go in years If the people with operational experience stop going, you can't blame the group for being full of vendors. Methink

Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

2009-04-23 Thread William McCall
My understanding of the PPPoA/E deal is that SPs (originally) wanted to prevent some yahoo with a DSL modem from just being able to hook in to someone's existing DSL connection and using it, so they decided to implemement PPPoA and require some sort of authentication to prevent this scenario. At l

Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-23 Thread bmanning
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:17:07PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009, William Allen Simpson wrote: > > > Some wag around here re-christened it the IVTF (V stands for Vendor, not > > Victory). ;-) I haven't bothered to go in years > > If the people with operational experience

Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-23 Thread Nathan Ward
On 24/04/2009, at 12:14 AM, Pekka Savola wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Nathan Ward wrote: After trying to participate on mailing lists for about 2 or 3 years, it's pretty hard to get anything done without going to meetings. Just participating in mailing lists is good for keeping up to date,

Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

2009-04-23 Thread Nathan Ward
On 24/04/2009, at 12:23 AM, William McCall wrote: My understanding of the PPPoA/E deal is that SPs (originally) wanted to prevent some yahoo with a DSL modem from just being able to hook in to someone's existing DSL connection and using it, so they decided to implemement PPPoA and require some

Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

2009-04-23 Thread Arie Vayner
You need also to remember that in many cases the DSL link is not provided by the actual ISP. In many cases this is a wholesale scenario which uses L2TP to forward the PPP session from the telco/DSL provider to the ISP. In many cases there would also be another L2TP hop to another sub-ISP/customer.

Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

2009-04-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Arie Vayner wrote: > You need also to remember that in many cases the DSL link is not provided by > the actual ISP. In many cases this is a wholesale scenario which uses L2TP > to forward the PPP session from the telco/DSL provider to the ISP. > In many cases there would also be another L2TP hop to

Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

2009-04-23 Thread Curtis Maurand
Good point. Oliver Eyre wrote: Integration with the billing system is a big one, but remember that not everybody is in control of the DSLAM or whichever device connects to the access network and touches the end user directly. They may instead rely on a wholesale provider for that if they don'

Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF, was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 23 apr 2009, at 14:17, Adrian Chadd wrote: Methinks its time a large cabal of network operators should represent at IETF and make their opinions heard as a collective group. That would be how change is brought about in a participative organisation, no? :) Why don't you start by simpling

Re: NAT64/NAT-PT update in IETF,was: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re"impacting revenue"]

2009-04-23 Thread Manish Karir
Would there be interest in trying to organize a day long mini-nanog with the ietf in March 2010? The regular nanog mtg is scheduled for Feb 22 2010 so this would have to be an extra meeting. and would require all sorts of help and interest from the ietf to put together. Perhaps the NANOG SC ca

Re: The real issue

2009-04-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
> it's a real shame that there is no mailing list for the endless arin > policy disease threads. Ohh, you can merge it with the one about the ICANN governance outcry nonsense, that way will be easier to filter or delete. My .02 Jorge

Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

2009-04-23 Thread Leigh Porter
Could you have two instances of RADIUS, one for the middle-man and ignore the accounting from that server? -- Leigh Steve Bertrand wrote: > Arie Vayner wrote: > >> You need also to remember that in many cases the DSL link is not provided by >> the actual ISP. In many cases this is a wholesale

RE: The real issue

2009-04-23 Thread Murphy, Jay, DOH
Word up arin-annou...@arin.net; arin-p...@arin.net Jay Murphy IP Network Specialist NM Department of Health ITSD - IP Network Operations Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502 Bus. Ph.: 505.827.2851 "We move the information that moves your world." -Original Message- From: Jorge Amodi

Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-23 Thread Chris Grundemann
Apologies for a somewhat latent response - I was attending an IPv6 Seminar (of which ARIN was a sponsor) the last two days and am just getting to nanog mail today. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 15:42, Shane Ronan wrote: > I'm not sure if anyone agrees with me, but these responses seem like a big > cop