Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 17:42 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: > Could the comment actually have been about pay telephones, which were > once common in cities? > Good point Bill, which, if so, would place the comment at or about the start of the cellfone introduction. @Jim, maybe it's more a telco/2600

Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:30:52AM +, gordon b slater wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 17:42 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: > > Could the comment actually have been about pay telephones, which were > > once common in cities? > > > > Good point Bill, which, if so, would place the comment at or about

Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002

On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 03:35 -0500, Jim Mercer wrote: > "The telephone, for those of you who have forgotten, was a commonly used > communications technology in the days before electronic mail. > They're still easy to find in most large cities." -- Nathaniel Borenstein Oh, the irony. A quote from M

Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002

> "The telephone, for those of you who have forgotten, was a commonly used > communications technology in the days before electronic mail. > They're still easy to find in most large cities." -- Nathaniel Borenstein > > i'm guessing this is before the mobile phone explosion. Good old one. It's fun

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Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:01:50 CST, Jorge Amodio said: > Ohh yeah, now we can send sort of a telegram with multiple fonts and > colors almost from anywhere... At least it doesn't do BLINK ;) pgpAPxTQSvjnu.pgp Description: PGP signature

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Idiotic Newstar Networking Equipment Sales Droid

Did anyone here get spam from this idiot? It appears someone is harvesting email addresses from nanog. If you do get any contact from this company PLEASE do not do business with them and tell them you don't buy from spammers. The bottom line is the only thing idiots like this understand an

Re: Idiotic Newstar Networking Equipment Sales Droid

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:10:22 -0800 "Scott Weeks" wrote: > > > Did anyone here get spam from this idiot? It appears someone is > harvesting email addresses from nanog. > > If you do get any contact from this company PLEASE do not do business > with them and tell them you don't buy from spamme

Re: Katrina response, private and public -- call/fax/email specific congress-critters (please)

Folks, I'm trying to keep the competent engineer count at the Boutilliers NAP from decrementing to zero in the very proximal future. One of several problems being worked by several groups of people. Specifically, I want to get the paperwork done so that Dominique Theodore Guerrier, wife of R

Re: Idiotic Newstar Networking Equipment Sales Droid

Once upon a time, Scott Weeks said: > Did anyone here get spam from this idiot? It appears someone is harvesting > email addresses from nanog. I've been added to several used-equipment sales droids lists after posting here; I just procmail them straigt to the spam folder. I've also been recen

RE: Idiotic Newstar Networking Equipment Sales Droid

These guys don't get it. IF they call and pester me they miss out on a lot of sales. Richey -Original Message- From: Chris Adams [mailto:cmad...@hiwaay.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:47 PM To: na...@merit.edu Subject: Re: Idiotic Newstar Networking Equipment Sales Droid On

Re: Katrina response, private and public

> > "Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC), the service provider that runs > the Bahamas Domestic Submarine Network (BDSNi) submarine cable system > linking to Haiti, reported that service has been disrupted as a result of > the earthquake that struck the Port-au-Prince area." - The Teleco Fac

Re: Katrina response, private and public

On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Max Larson Henry wrote: >> >> "Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC), the service provider that runs >> the Bahamas Domestic Submarine Network (BDSNi) submarine cable system >> linking to Haiti, reported that service has been disrupted as a result of >> the earthq

RE: Idiotic Newstar Networking Equipment Sales Droid

If they see all of us saying we won't buy from them when they do idiotic things like spamming nanog folks (I can't think of too many groups it world be worse to spam... ;-) they will realize that doing this will not only not generate sales, it will actually prevent future sales from occurring

Re: Idiotic Newstar Networking Equipment Sales Droid

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:43:27AM -0800, Scott Weeks wrote: > If they see all of us saying we won't buy from them when they do idiotic > things like spamming nanog folks (I can't think of too many groups it world > be worse to spam... ;-) they will realize that doing this will not only not > g

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Re: Idiotic Newstar Networking Equipment Sales Droid

Scott Weeks wrote: If they see all of us saying we won't buy from them when they do idiotic things like spamming nanog folks (I can't think of too many groups it world be worse to spam... ;-) they will realize that doing this will not only not generate sales, it will actually prevent future s

10Gbps Traffic Test Systems

I am in the market for 10Gbps traffic testers. Here are some of the things I'd like to have: 1) Mixed packet sizes 2) Ramp TCP sessions up/down quickly 3) Many source and destination IPs 4) Ability to ramp traffic up and down 5) Simulate targeted SYN floods 6) 10,000+ packets per second We'll us

Re: 10Gbps Traffic Test Systems

I have used Ixia, Spirent AX/4000, Spirent Testcenter and Spirent Smartbits for 1-10GE testing, they've all been able to do the things you ask for - they are quite basic features and any 10GE "router tester" unit will do what you want. In addition, you should demand much higher than 10Kpps, you

Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002

Hello Valdis , On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:01:50 CST, Jorge Amodio said: Ohh yeah, now we can send sort of a telegram with multiple fonts and colors almost from anywhere... At least it doesn't do BLINK ;) Are we really sure of

RE: 10Gbps Traffic Test Systems

> -Original Message- > From: Brad Fleming [mailto:bdflem...@kanren.net] > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 5:05 PM > > I am in the market for 10Gbps traffic testers. > > Here are some of the things I'd like to have: > 1) Mixed packet sizes > 2) Ramp TCP sessions up/down quickly > 3) Many

Re: Katrina response, private and public

On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: > Re your plan to potentially run a cable from SD to PaP. Interesting. Looks > like 300nm to me. I think you're going to need op amp and power. The idea was to do a festoon cable instead, landing at coastal towns along the way, and using Ether

Re: 10Gbps Traffic Test Systems

Rent a EXFO TGE packet blazer On 1/20/10, Stefan Fouant wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Brad Fleming [mailto:bdflem...@kanren.net] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 5:05 PM >> >> I am in the market for 10Gbps traffic testers. >> >> Here are some of the things I'd like to have: >>

Enhancing automation with network growth

Hi all, I'm reaching the point where adding in a new piece of infrastructure hardware, connecting up a new cable, and/or assigning address space to a client is nearly 50% documentation and 50% technical. One thing that would take a major load off would be if my MRTG system could simply update its

RE: Enhancing automation with network growth

> > I'm reaching the point where adding in a new piece of infrastructure > hardware, connecting up a new cable, and/or assigning address > space to a > client is nearly 50% documentation and 50% technical. > A common problem :) > One thing that would take a major load off would be if my MRTG sy

Re: Enhancing automation with network growth

Once upon a time, Steve Bertrand said: > One thing that would take a major load off would be if my MRTG system > could simply update its config/index files for itself, instead of me > having to do it on each and every port change. Is MRTG a requirement, or just some type of statistical monitorin

Re: 10Gbps Traffic Test Systems

I have done QoS testing using Endace DAG cards - they can do capture as well as traffic generation. See http://www.endace.com/dag-8.1sx.html Jonathon This email and attachments: are confidential; may be protected by privilege and copyright; if received in error may not be used, copied, or kept

Re: Enhancing automation with network growth

This should help with part of what you're doing - snmpstat and cisco config repository. http://snmpstat.sourceforge.net/ On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > One thing that would take a major load off would be if my MRTG system > could simply update its config/index files fo

Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:01:50 -0600 Jorge Amodio wrote: > > "The telephone, for those of you who have forgotten, was a commonly used > > communications technology in the days before electronic mail. > > They're still easy to find in most large cities." -- Nathaniel Borenstein > > > > i'm guessing

Re: Enhancing automation with network growth

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:54:50PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm reaching the point where adding in a new piece of infrastructure > hardware, connecting up a new cable, and/or assigning address space to > a client is nearly 50% documentation and 50% technical. > > One thing that

Re: Enhancing automation with network growth

On 20/01/10 21:54 -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: Can anyone offer up ideas on how you manage any automation in this regard for their infrastructure gear traffic graphs? (Commercial options welcome, off-list, but we're as small as our budget is). Unless something else is out there that I've missed,

Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002

> It's funny how we circle around with technology, folks are dumping > their phone land lines and adopting wireless/mobile that required a > substantial technology leap and investment and now we are using the > mobile phone to "text" an incompressible dialect worse than the early > teletype/telex d