Re: DWDM hardware recommendations

2010-05-23 Thread Matthew Walster
On 22 May 2010 16:52, ML wrote: > Does anyone have a recommendation that might fit these requirements? I've used the MRV Lambdadrivers for a ring using DWDM, 16 channel MUX/DEMUX, with one channel using an 8-in-1 10G TDM device (tunable). No complaints here apart from the need to use MU connecto

Re: DWDM hardware recommendations

2010-05-23 Thread Raphael Maunier
Hello, We moved from MRV to Ekinops (http://www.ekinops.net/). Mrv was really stable ( no issue for the last 3 years), but they are slow in innovation. The new cards just came out. For a simple and cheap solution, I will benchmark, Mrv, Ekinops and BTI. The most innovative and with easy R&D acc

Re: DWDM hardware recommendations

2010-05-23 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 23 May 2010, at 09:31, Matthew Walster wrote: No complaints here apart from the need to use MU connectors. MU gives slightly lower attenuation than other types of physical connector (i.e. non spliced). It's a minor pain if you don't have an easy source of MU patch cables, but there are

Re: Useful TCL script?

2010-05-23 Thread Christopher Gatlin
That is a stellar TCL script! I generally use netflow to glean information regarding average packet size. show ip cache-flow will provide it via the CLI, or a netflow collector will graph it statistically over time. Chris On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Thomas Magill wrote: > I had to come

Re: Useful TCL script?

2010-05-23 Thread James Hess
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Christopher Gatlin wrote: > That is a stellar TCL script! > I generally use netflow to glean information regarding average packet size. Seems like a good script to me. My only criticism would be pretty hard to do anything about... you're averaging an average ov

RE: Useful TCL script?

2010-05-23 Thread Thomas Magill
It was more of a quick and dirty project and a reason for me to learn some TCL. I wasn't aware of any way to get the value from snmp or any cli command so I pulled the info I did have (show int) and worked with that. As I try to improve my TCL skills, I will probably work on this. In fact, I have

RE: Mikrotik BGP Question

2010-05-23 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Lorell, We will implement OSPF. so what arguments speak against 2 bgp upstreams? Kind regards, Ingo Flaschberger

Re: Mikrotik BGP Question

2010-05-23 Thread joel jaeggli
On 2010-05-23 18:55, Ingo Flaschberger wrote: Dear Lorell, We will implement OSPF. so what arguments speak against 2 bgp upstreams? It's not an either or proposition... ospf carries your internal routes, ibgp carries you external routes between internal routers. you can carry default arou

RE: Mikrotik BGP Question

2010-05-23 Thread George Bonser
> -Original Message- > From: joel jaeggli [mailto:joe...@bogus.com] > Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 10:27 PM > To: Ingo Flaschberger > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Mikrotik BGP Question > > On 2010-05-23 18:55, Ingo Flaschberger wrote: > > Dear Lorell, > > > >> We will implement OSPF.