Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:45:55 -0700, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Måns Nilsson" 04:05:41PM + Quoting Dylan Bouterse (dy...@corp.power1.com): > I'm not sure if this is obvious for this list or not, but with your > WiFi nodes, a good practice for that kind of de

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Big Temporary Networks Date: Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 05:45:55PM -0400 Quoting Jay Ashworth (j...@baylink.com): > - Original Message - > > At all possible cost, avoid login or encryption for the wireless. > > Yes, and no. Just keep in mind that every action you make the visit

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Big Temporary Networks Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:20:33AM -0700 Quoting Octavio Alvarez (alvar...@alvarezp.ods.org): > I'd have expected someone to have QoS mentioned already, mainly to put > FTP and P2P traffic on the least important queues and don't hog up the > net. As long a

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
To all folks running NOC's at events like CCC/Assembly/DEFCON/etc: hats off, and enjoy the fun ;) On 2012-09-14 09:34 , Måns Nilsson wrote: [..] > A couple hours will get the user over a lunch break if not overnight, > which means that long TCP sessions survive on Proper Computers (that > don't te

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Brandon Ross
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Jay Ashworth wrote: Get lots of IP addresses. A /16 probably still can be borrowed for this kind of event. I know RIPE had rules and addresses for this kind of use a couple years ago, at least. Indeed? I did not see that coming. Hell, perhaps Interop could be talked into

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Brandon Ross wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Jay Ashworth wrote: Get lots of IP addresses. A /16 probably still can be borrowed for this kind of event. I know RIPE had rules and addresses for this kind of use a couple years ago, at least. Indeed? I did not see that coming.

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 13/09/2012 21:32, Måns Nilsson wrote: > Get lots of IP addresses. A /16 probably still can be borrowed for this > kind of event. I know RIPE had rules and addresses for this kind of use > a couple years ago, at least. yes, you can get a bunch of IP addresses from the ripe ncc if you only need t

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Nat Morris
On 14 September 2012 11:16, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 13/09/2012 21:32, Måns Nilsson wrote: >> Get lots of IP addresses. A /16 probably still can be borrowed for this >> kind of event. I know RIPE had rules and addresses for this kind of use >> a couple years ago, at least. > > yes, you can get a

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 14/09/2012 11:50, Nat Morris wrote: > The RIPE hostmaster would only allocate us address space 7 days before > the event started, needed longer than this to begin building out the > network which span multiple data centres. Especially with time, access > and change freeze constraints due to the

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Nat Morris
On 14 September 2012 11:54, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 14/09/2012 11:50, Nat Morris wrote: >> The RIPE hostmaster would only allocate us address space 7 days before >> the event started, needed longer than this to begin building out the >> network which span multiple data centres. Especially with t

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Tore Anderson
* Nick Hilliard > They've allocated a /14 for this purpose, so this would be well more > than enough to cope with most large conferences. It's actually a /13 (151.216.0.0/13). -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Tore Anderson wrote: It's actually a /13 (151.216.0.0/13). It used to be in another place (I don't remember exactly, this was 5-8 years ago). Nice that they have a /13 nowadays anyway, I'd imagine there are more temporary events nowadays. I've used it a couple of times

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 14/09/2012 12:11, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > I've used it a couple of times and then a week was sufficient (start > rigging on monday, everything done by thursday morning where 5000 people > show up with their computers (this was mainly 10/100 ports, people brought > their own cables), teardown

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Nick Hilliard wrote: Also, 1 week is not suitable for debogonisation. Could you please elaborate on this aspect? Who would be treating this space as a bogon, and why? -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Paul Thornton
On 14/09/2012 12:19, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 14/09/2012 12:11, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: I've used it a couple of times and then a week was sufficient (start rigging on monday, everything done by thursday morning where 5000 people show up with their computers (this was mainly 10/100 ports, peopl

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Masataka Ohta
Måns Nilsson wrote: And get v6. Do not NAT. When all those people want to do social networking to the same furry BBS while also frequenting three social app sites simultaneously you are going to get Issues if you NAT. So don't. Don't? Considering that, ten years ago, some computers were stil

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Big Temporary Networks Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:22:01PM +0900 Quoting Masataka Ohta (mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp): > Måns Nilsson wrote: > > >And get v6. > > > >Do not NAT. When all those people want to do social networking to the same > >furry BBS while also frequenting th

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Sean Lazar" > WLAN in large conferences certainly is a challenge. You basically want > to get as many people on 5GHz as possible due to more available > channels. 2.4GHz becomes quite noisy. And here you raise an interesting question: do dual band wifi clien

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Måns Nilsson" > 05:45:55PM -0400 Quoting Jay Ashworth (j...@baylink.com): > > - Original Message - > > > At all possible cost, avoid login or encryption for the wireless. > > > > Yes, and no. > > > > Just keep in mind that every action you make the

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Måns Nilsson" > 12:20:33AM -0700 Quoting Octavio Alvarez (alvar...@alvarezp.ods.org): > > > I'd have expected someone to have QoS mentioned already, mainly to put > > FTP and P2P traffic on the least important queues and don't hog up the > > net. > > As lon

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jay Ashworth said: > Well, we'll be on the *sending* end of the Hugo's, but... ;-) You might want to talk to whoever did this year's WorldCon networking. I'm a Dragon*Con volunteer, and I know there was a some type of direct connection between Chicago (WorldCon) and Atlanta (Dra

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Chris Adams" > Once upon a time, Jay Ashworth said: > > Well, we'll be on the *sending* end of the Hugo's, but... ;-) > > You might want to talk to whoever did this year's WorldCon networking. > I'm a Dragon*Con volunteer, and I know there was a some type o

Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

2012-09-14 Thread A. Pishdadi
Hello Everyone, We purchase 10Gig waves for transport out of our datacenter and are trying to figure out why the taxes on the circuits are so much. We are paying around 60% additional in taxes and fee's on top of the cost of the circuit. Ofcourse when we were negotiating pricing , it seemed like a

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jay Ashworth said: > My understanding was that Dragon *took its main feed* for the Hugos via > Ustream, and the entire room got left standing; no? I don't know; I wasn't in there, and I didn't find out about the Ustream cut until I was home. I would think I would have heard if

RIPE in final /8 of IPv4

2012-09-14 Thread Martin Millnert
Hi list, in the interest of really running down also the final /8 of RIPE, which was entered today, let me point out that the cost to setup a new LIR is a meager application + application fee (2000 EUR) + ~1500 EUR or so for the first year. You can obviously transfer the resource as long as the r

Re: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

2012-09-14 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
All Communication Circuits are subject to Communication Taxes, as per Tax laws of that State. Having said that... if this communication circuit is carrying Internet Traffic, you can contact the Carrier and Ask them to provide you the forms so that you can Claim "ITFA / ITNA Exemption" ...(if

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Chris Adams" > Subject: Re: Big Temporary Networks > Once upon a time, Jay Ashworth said: > > My understanding was that Dragon *took its main feed* for the Hugos > > via Ustream, and the entire room got left standing; no? > > I don't know; I wasn't in there

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Matthew Barr" > and as I was working the Hugo's: > > On Sep 14, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > - Original Message - > >> From: "Chris Adams" > > > > I know some of that went on, yes, and certainly if I'm more formally > > involved, I'll

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jay Ashworth said: > Noted. How big is that crew for Dragon; you were, what, 30k attendees? The estimate I heard was 52,000-55,000 paid attendees this year (plus another 3,000+ for volunteers, guests+spouse/agent/etc., press, etc.). Our Techops staff was around 240-250 this yea

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:53:01AM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Yes, and I'm told by my best friend who did attend (I didn't make it > this year) that the hotel wired/wifi was essentially unusable, every > time he tried. Hence my interest in the issue. I find more and more h

RIPE NCC now allocating IPv4 address space from the last /8 netblock

2012-09-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/europe-officially-runs-out-of-ipv4-addresses/ Europe officially runs out of IPv4 addresses RIPE NCC now allocating IPv4 address space from the last /8 netblock by Iljitsch van Beijnum - Sep 14, 2012 3:20 pm UTC Earlier today, the RIPE NCC

Re: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Keymer
I had to deal with this with an upstream once that was taxing me. Finally got it all worked out after sending in copies of the law and getting the CEO involved. However a year or two later I started to get taxed again when the company was bought out. Had to resend copies of the law (Fed and St

Weekly Routing Table Report

2012-09-14 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
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Re: Layer2 over Layer3

2012-09-14 Thread Justin Wilson
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Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Leo Bicknell" > I find more and more hotel networks are essentially unusable for > parts of the day, conference or no. Of course, bring in any geek > contingent with multiple devices and heavy usage patterns and the > problems get worse. > > What I find most

Re: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

2012-09-14 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Typically you have to file once a year with the companies to let them know you are tax exempt. As your company status may change. Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com

The Cidr Report

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BGP Update Report

2012-09-14 Thread cidr-report
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RE: Layer2 over Layer3

2012-09-14 Thread Paul Vinciguerra
Philip, Here is the best reference I know of to address your issue. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps708/white_paper_c11_493718.html#wp9000281 From: Philip Lavine [mailto:source_ro...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 6:06 PM To: David Swafford; Paul Vinci

Re: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

2012-09-14 Thread A. Pishdadi
How do we get tax-exempt status though, with ""ITFA / ITNA Exemption" like faisel said? On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Carlos Alcantar wrote: > Typically you have to file once a year with the companies to let them know > you are tax exempt. As your company status may change. > > Carlos Alcant

Re: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

2012-09-14 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
There is no 'Certification' required for it.. All it requires is a 'declaration' 1st Step Contact the Tax Dept. of your Carrier and ask them for the ITFA/ITNA exemption form. You might get a hard time from the Front line.. but get to a Supervisor... once you have the form, all you need t

RE: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

2012-09-14 Thread Frank Bulk
I believe you don't need to pay FUSC charges if you're not the end-user of the circuit. Frank -Original Message- From: A. Pishdadi [mailto:apishd...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 9:30 AM To: NANOG Subject: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's) Hello Everyone, W

Re: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

2012-09-14 Thread Carlos Alcantar
499 from the fcc for federal as well as any local certs as that is state to state. Note once you get your 499 you are required to file with them, and pay the taxes. At the end of it you need to start charging your end users tax's and filing them. Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team M