Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Leo Bicknell" > After looking at many models I think Australia might be on to > something. The model is that a quasi-government monopoly provides > the last mile physical wire, but is unable to sell services on it. > Basically they only provide UNE's. Then, a

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "JC Dill" > On 19/12/10 8:31 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > Look up pictures of New York City in the early days of electricty. > > There were streets where you couldn't hardly see the sky because of > > all > > the wires on the poles. > > > Can you provide a link

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-23 Thread Andrew Koch
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:03, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "JC Dill" > >> On 19/12/10 8:31 PM, Chris Adams wrote: >> > Look up pictures of New York City in the early days of electricty. >> > There were streets where you couldn't hardly see the sky because of >> > a

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-23 Thread Andrew Koch
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:14, Andrew Koch wrote: > Those look more like power lines, with a substation in the background. Helps to read the whole thing; you were talking about power lines. I missed a few messages when this took a turn off from last mile communications access. Anyway, found on

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Robert Bonomi" > "Overbuild" is practical *ONLY* where: (a) the population density is > high,lowering 'per customer' costs, and (b) service 'penetration' is high > enough that the active subscriber base (as distinct from 'potential' > subscribers) sufficient

Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

2010-12-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
I was poking around to see what the current received wisdom was as to average install cost per building for suburban municipal home-run fiber, and ran across this article, which discusses the topic, and itemizes several large such deployments that "failed" or had to be sold private. I'd be inter

Re: TCP congestion control and large router buffers

2010-12-23 Thread Carsten Bormann
Some more historical pointers: If you want to look at the early history of the latency discussion, look at Stuart Cheshire's famous rant "It's the Latency, Stupid" (http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html). Then look at Matt Mathis's 1997 TCP equation (and the 1998 Padhye-Firoiu

Router only speaks IGP in BGP network

2010-12-23 Thread Tarig Yassin
Dear all In my network, I have a router in a middle only speaks OSPF. is there any solution (without redistribute BGP into OSPF) for this kind of problem? thanks -- Tarig Y. Adam CTO - SUIN www.suin.edu.sd

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-23 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 12/23/10 9:19 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > And that's just another argument in favor of muni fiber -- since it's > municipal, > it will by definition serve every address, and since it's monopoly, it will > enable competition by making it practical for competitors to start up, since > they'll have

Re: .gov DNSSEC operational message

2010-12-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Matt Larson" > The new KSK will not be published in an authenticated manner outside > DNS (e.g., on an SSL-protected web page). Rather, the intended > mechanism for trusting the new KSK is via the signed root zone: DS > records corresponding to the new KSK ar

RE: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

2010-12-23 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> I'd be interested to see what comments nanogers have on this piece. I'm not > well enough read to critically evaluate the guy's assertions. I'm not familiar with a GPON system that provides gigabit to every subscriber under 'high congestion'.I do know of FTTN systems that can provide a lot

RE: Router only speaks IGP in BGP network

2010-12-23 Thread Tarig Yassin
Hi Andre That actually what I had done.. I thought it might be another solution many thanks -- Tarig Y. Adam SUIN Network Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:41:12 -0500 Subject: Re: Router only speaks IGP in BGP network From: anf...@gmail.com To: tariq198...@hotmail.com how about sending only a d

RE: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

2010-12-23 Thread George Bonser
> > A 75% upsell rate to triple play packages seems ludicrous. I can't > think of any industry that sees an upsell rate of 75% - can you (hell, > I sold running shoes in high school, and the -target- upsell rate on > shoestrings/socks/whatever-else was 15%). > > Nathan Well, I won't get rid of

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-23 Thread John Osmon
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:17:46AM -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote: [...] > The fact that I can get a wavelength to county dump in Eugene OR the > composting facility in Palo Alto doesn't really do anything for the > residential access market. Why not? You have to start with connectivity *somewhere*.

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "John Osmon" > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:17:46AM -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > [...] > > The fact that I can get a wavelength to county dump in Eugene OR the > > composting facility in Palo Alto doesn't really do anything for the > > residential access market.

Re: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

2010-12-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Nathan Eisenberg" > I got a chuckle out of this: > "Provo County’s iProvo was hoping for 10,000 subscribers by July 2006 > with the assumption that 75% of those customers would subscribe to > lucrative triple play services, but the reality was 10,000 customer

Re: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

2010-12-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
There is a large difference between muni-fiber that attempts to compete for some of the best customers (e.g. the following the tranditional overbuild method) and muni-fiber who's goal is universal service of fiber to the home. Basically it is the difference between a small entity (the town) going

Re: Router only speaks IGP in BGP network

2010-12-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 09:18:57PM +0300, Tarig Yassin wrote: > In my network, I have a router in a middle only speaks OSPF. > is there any solution (without redistribute BGP into OSPF) for this kind of > problem? Sounds like the textbook case of how folks use MPLS. --

Re: Router only speaks IGP in BGP network

2010-12-23 Thread Wouter Prins
Hello Tarig, Setup a gre tunnel between the two bgp speakers and do ibgp over the gre tunnel? (not clean but it works) or mpls.. If you implement the other solution mentioned you're creating routing loops. On 23 December 2010 19:18, Tarig Yassin wrote: > > Dear all > > In my network, I have a ro

RE: Router only speaks IGP in BGP network

2010-12-23 Thread Brian Johnson
You could use a GRE tunnel to get traffic from one edge BGP outer to the other edge BGP router. Then run BGP over this link. - Brian J. >-Original Message- >From: Tarig Yassin [mailto:tariq198...@hotmail.com] >Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 12:19 PM >To: nanog; af...@afnog.org >Subj

Good MPLS/VPLS book?

2010-12-23 Thread Michael Helmeste
Does anyone have a favorite book or resource discussing MPLS and all associated Lego blocks (e.g. LDP, TE, VPLS, martini, mBGP et. al.)? I understand the basics of what MPLS is and how you create a circuit from A to B but I'm afraid it still escapes me when trying to figure out how someone

Re: Good MPLS/VPLS book?

2010-12-23 Thread Jason Lixfeld
While on a MPLS related TAC case recently, I was speaking to an engineer who helped vet portions of Cisco Press' MPLS Fundamentals (http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587051974). He said it's one of the best he's come across, but there may perhaps be some bias there ;) Not

RE: Good MPLS/VPLS book?

2010-12-23 Thread Stefan Fouant
IMO the best book on the market is 'MPLS-Enabled Applications' by Ina Minei, Julian Lucek. It has the best coverage all the things you mentioned plus VPLS, P2MP LSP, draft-rosen and NG-VPN multicast architectures and the explanations are clear and concise. I wrote a review of this book a while ba

.gov registrar problem

2010-12-23 Thread Andy Harrison
In case anyone else notices spotty problems resolving .gov names, I just sent the following message to regist...@dotgov.gov: I started investigating a dns issue after we received a few customer complaints regarding intermittent problems resolving hostnames under noaa.gov.  After some in-dept

Re: Router only speaks IGP in BGP network

2010-12-23 Thread Randy Bush
> In my network, I have a router in a middle only speaks OSPF. > is there any solution (without redistribute BGP into OSPF) for this > kind of problem? uh, what exactly is the problem? i.e. what do you want to accomplish? and do NOT redistribute bgp into ospf. randy

Throttle traffic for a single local IP on a Linux router?

2010-12-23 Thread johnc
Hi, I know this might not be 100% on-topic and might be better suited for a Linux-distro mailinglist, but I hope to get more diverse methods from you networking experts. Basically, I have a small residential connection, 5 Mbit down, 0.5 Mbit up. A user on my local network, who we will call 19

Re: .gov registrar problem

2010-12-23 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Andy Harrison writes: > In case anyone else notices spotty problems resolving .gov names, I > just sent the following message to regist...@dotgov.gov: > > > > I started investigating a dns issue after we received a few customer > complaints regarding intermittent problems reso

Sprint data network contact?

2010-12-23 Thread Stephen Lau
I'm trying to find a contact for someone who might know something about the proxies running on Sprint's data network. Basically our Android app uses a local http server to serve content to the Android media player, i.e. listening via 127.0.0.1. Unfortunately, a system update that Sprint pushe

Re: Good MPLS/VPLS book?

2010-12-23 Thread Dan Snyder
On Dec 23, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Michael Helmeste wrote: > Does anyone have a favorite book or resource discussing MPLS and all > associated Lego blocks (e.g. LDP, TE, VPLS, martini, mBGP et. al.)? > > I understand the basics of what MPLS is and how you create a circuit from > A to B but I'm af

Anyone have a contact for CANTV.NET

2010-12-23 Thread TR Shaw
Anyone have a contact for CANTV.NET without using CANTV.NET mailserver which is hosed, at least for abuse, support, and ipadmin which all fail? TIA, Tom

RE: Good MPLS/VPLS book?

2010-12-23 Thread Brandon Kim
Looks like a good book to add to my bookshelf. Cisco's MPLS fundamentals is also a good book although I'm only halfway through it > From: sfou...@shortestpathfirst.net > To: mhelm...@uvic.ca; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: Good MPLS/VPLS book? > Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:06:03 -0500 >

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/21/10 2:18 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: > There are 4,035 routes in the global IPv6 routing table. This is what one > provider passed on to me for routes (/48 or larger prefixes), extracted from > public route-view servers. > AT&T AS7018: 2,851 (70.7%) > Cogent AS174: 2,864 (71.0%) >

Re: Good MPLS/VPLS book?

2010-12-23 Thread Michael Helmeste
Thanks for the suggestions, all! Looks like I have some reading to do. On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:49:46 -0500 Dan Snyder wrote: > > > On Dec 23, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Michael Helmeste wrote: > > > Does anyone have a favorite book or resource discussing MPLS and all > > associated Lego blocks (e.g.

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-23 Thread Scott Taylor
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 20:37, Seth Mattinen wrote: > On 12/21/10 2:18 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: >> There are 4,035 routes in the global IPv6 routing table.  This is what one >> provider passed on to me for routes (/48 or larger prefixes), extracted from >> public route-view servers. >>       AT&T AS7

Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

2010-12-23 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 12/23/10 6:02 PM, Scott Taylor wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 20:37, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> On 12/21/10 2:18 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: >>> There are 4,035 routes in the global IPv6 routing table. This is what one >>> provider passed on to me for routes (/48 or larger prefixes), extracted from >

Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise

2010-12-23 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 12/13/10 8:32 AM, Jack Bates wrote: > On 12/13/2010 10:20 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> WOL is unfortunately terribly deficient in that the spec. never >> envisioned the possibility >> of a need for wake on WAN. >> >> Bottom line, it's a non-routeable layer 2 protocol. Your choices boil >> down to t

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-23 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
Uhm, D-CATV is not IP just quite yet. Sometimes I wish that's the case, but it's still very much RF. There are several vendors that sell GPON solutions that support RF over fiber, and there's always IP TV. Frank -Original Message- From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:j...@baylink.com] Sent: