Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-28 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/27/12 5:58 AM, Darius Jahandarie wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/terabit-ethernet-is-dead-for-now/ Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now I recall 40Gbit/s Ethernet being promoted heavily for similar reasons as the ones in this a

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Bjørn Mork
Scott Howard writes: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: > >> Guys seem to think that it's gender neutral. The majority of women are >> used to this, but they have indicated to me that they don't believe it to >> be very neutral. Using "guys" is not gender neutral, it's flat out i

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Tim Franklin
> Given the lack of truly neutral terms in english, I have > taken to alternative my pronouns interchangably when I write. "Folks"? I really do mean "folks" when I write "guys", but I do understand why it can come across as exclusionary, and I try to force myself into the habit of "folks". It

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Randy Bush
> "Folks"? I really do mean "folks" when I write "guys", folk is the plural and, as far as the use of gender-biased terms, as someone said well the other day, when you are in a hole, stop digging randy

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Eric Parsonage
The assumption of a 1-1 correspondence between gender and sex is old fashioned nowadays. On 28/09/2012, at 6:30 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Scott Howard writes: >> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: >> >>> Guys seem to think that it's gender neutral. The majority of women are >>>

RE: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Otis L. Surratt, Jr.
Maybe the OP for "really nasty attacks" in hindsight wishes "NANOGers" was used instead to address the list. :) Having "all walks of life" essentially all around, it really makes one careful to truly think before speaking. Sometimes we miss this with everything we have going on, but no one is p

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Joe Greco
> > Guys seem to think that it's gender neutral. The majority of women are > > used to this, but they have indicated to me that they don't believe it to > > be very neutral. Using "guys" is not gender neutral, it's flat out implying > > the other gender doesn't matter. * > > The Oxford English dic

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
Given that this thread started out as a query re. a "really nasty attack," and resulted in: 5 on-topic responses (2 of which also commented on "guys") >20 responses re. "guys" (I stopped counting) It occurs to me that maybe "morons" or "idiots" might be an appropriate gender-neutral framing. -

Re: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...)

2012-09-28 Thread bmanning
not how i read that section Owen... "...networks require interconnectivity and the private IP address numbers are ineffective, globally unique addresses may be requested and used to provide this interconnectivity." One does not have to request RFC 1918 space from ARIN (or other RIR) and th

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Aled Morris
On 27 September 2012 22:34, Lorell Hathcock wrote: > Police-clown. Yep! Here in the UK, apparently the government preferred term for policepersons is "pleb"... http://duckduckgo.com/?q=police+pleb Aled

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Brian Henson
Are we really still talking about this? On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Aled Morris wrote: > On 27 September 2012 22:34, Lorell Hathcock wrote: > > Police-clown. Yep! > > Here in the UK, apparently the government preferred term for > policepersons is "pleb"... > > http://duckduckgo.com/?q=pol

RE: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Jamie Bowden
> From: Otis L. Surratt, Jr. [mailto:o...@ocosa.com] > As Owen mentioned saying "human" seems okay and true but then again, > because it's not the norm it raises some question. (Internal thinking > process, "Oh I'm a HUMAN, well I that is true" then your > temperature gets back to normal) :)

Re: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...)

2012-09-28 Thread Owen DeLong
Bill, I am unable to make sense of your reply. The question I was answering was: "Wouldn't you say that there is a very real expectation that when you request address space through ARIN or RIPE that it would be routable?" (Which I admit at the time I interpreted to also indicate an expectation

WAY OT Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Owen DeLong" > > As a form of address. "Hey, people" is ... well, nearly abrasive. > > (Envision a waitron walking up to a mixed table of 10.) > > > > Sure, in that limited context. In such a circumstance, I believe the phrase > "ladies and gentlem[ae]n" is

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 28, 2012, at 3:29 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> "Folks"? I really do mean "folks" when I write "guys", > > > > folk is the plural > > and, as far as the use of gender-biased terms, as someone said well the > other day, when you are in a hole, stop digging > > randy According to my Dict

Re: WAY OT Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Jason Baugher
On 9/28/2012 9:18 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Owen DeLong" As a form of address. "Hey, people" is ... well, nearly abrasive. (Envision a waitron walking up to a mixed table of 10.) Sure, in that limited context. In such a circumstance, I believe the phrase "la

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:43:21 -0400, Miles Fidelman said: > Given that this thread started out as a query re. a "really nasty > attack," and resulted in: > 5 on-topic responses (2 of which also commented on "guys") > >20 responses re. "guys" (I stopped counting) > It occurs to me that maybe "morons

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:18:54 -0700, Owen DeLong said: > > On Sep 28, 2012, at 3:29 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > > >> "Folks"? I really do mean "folks" when I write "guys", > > > > > > > > folk is the plural > > > > and, as far as the use of gender-biased terms, as someone said well the > > other day,

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:43:21 -0400, Miles Fidelman said: Given that this thread started out as a query re. a "really nasty attack," and resulted in: 5 on-topic responses (2 of which also commented on "guys") >20 responses re. "guys" (I stopped counting) It occurs

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Eric Parsonage" > The assumption of a 1-1 correspondence between gender and sex is old > fashioned nowadays. Mammals have sex. *Words* (and only words) have gender. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@bayl

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." > Having "all walks of life" essentially all around, it really makes one > careful to truly think before speaking. Sometimes we miss this with > everything we have going on, but no one is perfect. > > The bottomline is, no one can reall

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Justin M. Streiner
Note: this will be my one and only contribution to this thread. While this thread has generated some very interesting and thought-provoking discussions, I still think it strays pretty far from being on-topic for NANOG. That being the case, let's all get back to operating our respective networ

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-09-28 12:15, Jay Ashworth a écrit : The assumption of a 1-1 correspondence between gender and sex is old fashioned nowadays. Mammals have sex. *Words* (and only words) have gender. There's an RFC about that! RFC 6350, section 6.2.7, about the GENDER vCard property: 6.2.7. GENDER

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Scott Noel-Hemming
On 09/28/2012 09:43 AM, Simon Perreault wrote: Le 2012-09-28 12:15, Jay Ashworth a écrit : The assumption of a 1-1 correspondence between gender and sex is old fashioned nowadays. Mammals have sex. *Words* (and only words) have gender. There's an RFC about that! RFC 6350, section 6.2.7, abo

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
Original Message - > From: "Simon Perreault" > > *Words* (and only words) have gender. > > There's an RFC about that! RFC 6350, section 6.2.7, about the GENDER > vCard property: And kudos to Simon for bring it back to a semblence of on-topic-ness. Glad to see that the authors of 6350

RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Joe Maimon
Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of what I dont know). Has anybody else seen this brain damage? Joe

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Randy Carpenter
I've seen requests for a drawing of some sort, but never specifically and exclusively visio. If they insist on visio, I would send them a LART (at high velocity) instead. -Randy - Original Message - > Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a > customer gig circu

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/28/12 11:08 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a > customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of what I > dont know). > > Has anybody else seen this brain damage? > Hand draw two squares, label them "our AS" and "your A

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Mike Lyon
And super duper bonus points is you draw pigeons carrying packets between the two blocks and stating that you are RFC 1149 compliant. -Mike On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > On 9/28/12 11:08 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to d

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Rhys Rhaven
As a person who often draws out + scans diagrams, I support this message. On 09/28/2012 01:18 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > Hand draw two squares, label them "our AS" and "your AS" with a line > between them labeled "GigE". Bonus points for pencil. > > ~Seth

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
Wow... talk about someone who doesn't want your business. Randy Carpenter wrote: I've seen requests for a drawing of some sort, but never specifically and exclusively visio. If they insist on visio, I would send them a LART (at high velocity) instead. -Randy - Original Message - Jus

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Randy Carpenter
Just make sure to name the scanned file VisioDi~1_vsd.png, and maybe they won't notice. -Randy - Original Message - > As a person who often draws out + scans diagrams, I support this > message. > > On 09/28/2012 01:18 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > > Hand draw two squares, label them "ou

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread TJ
> > As a person who often draws out + scans diagrams, I support this message. > > > Hand draw two squares, label them "our AS" and "your AS" with a line > > between them labeled "GigE". Bonus points for pencil. > Exactly - hand draw it, scan it it in and save the .JPG/.PNG in a .VSD. There, it is

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 28/09/2012 19:08, Joe Maimon wrote: > Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a customer > gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of what I dont know). > > Has anybody else seen this brain damage? I was once asked by a vendor support department for a networ

Re: need help about 40G

2012-09-28 Thread Adam Atkinson
Deric Kwok wrote: Hi all Do you have experience in 40G equipments eg: switch and NIC? I have never used 40 gig but this: http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/blackdiamond-x.aspx appears to have 192 ports of it. I have never seen or used this product so am not recommending it or attempti

Weekly Routing Table Report

2012-09-28 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. The posting is sent to APOPS, NANOG, AfNOG, AusNOG, SANOG, PacNOG, LacNOG, TRNOG, CaribNOG and the RIPE Routing Working Group. Daily listings are sent to bgp-st...@lists.ap

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:29:50 -0400, Randy Carpenter said: > Just make sure to name the scanned file VisioDi~1_vsd.png, and maybe they > won't notice. That's eeevil. ;) pgpekRqJeA2WL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Richard Porter
On Sep 28, 2012, at 12:17 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:29:50 -0400, Randy Carpenter said: >> Just make sure to name the scanned file VisioDi~1_vsd.png, and maybe they >> won't notice. > > That's eeevil. ;) echo $Vladis_Statement >> evil_indeed.vsd /r

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Jim Mercer
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:22:14AM -0700, Mike Lyon wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > > On 9/28/12 11:08 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > > Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a > > > customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread William F. Maton Sotomayor
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Joe Maimon wrote: Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of what I dont know). Has anybody else seen this brain damage? In my quaint little corner of the world, this was once fairly r

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Joe Maimon wrote: Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of what I dont know). Has anybody else seen this brain damage? I can understand wanting to diagram a complex design, so everyo

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Joe! On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Joe Maimon wrote: > Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a > customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of > what I dont know). Network diagrams are required for PCI compliance. 1.1.2 Current network diagram with

Re: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...)

2012-09-28 Thread bmanning
ah... again the distinction between routed and routable. RFC 1918 space is clearly routeable and routed. one does not need ARIN to assign such space. what i -think- the NRPM section you refered to actually touches on (but does not state outright) the concept of uniqueness. In the dim mi

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Gary E. Miller wrote: Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of what I dont know). Network diagrams are required for PCI compliance. I can understand (and fully support) the need for

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Joe Maimon
Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Joe Maimon wrote: Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of what I dont know). Has anybody else seen this brain damage? I can understand wanting to diagram

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Seth Mattinen wrote: > Hand draw two squares, label them "our AS" and "your AS" with a line > between them labeled "GigE". Bonus points for pencil. Double-bonus for crayon (why yes I do have a young child, why do you ask?). Bruce. signature.asc Description: OpenPG

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Jason Baugher
On 9/28/2012 1:08 PM, Joe Maimon wrote: Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of what I dont know). Has anybody else seen this brain damage? Joe Regardless of all the other comments here making fun of

The Cidr Report

2012-09-28 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Sep 28 21:13:05 2012 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date

BGP Update Report

2012-09-28 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 20-Sep-12 -to- 27-Sep-12 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS8402 102990 5.0% 62.8 -- CORBINA-AS OJSC "Vimpelcom" 2 - AS163729779 1.4

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jason Baugher wrote: On 9/28/2012 1:08 PM, Joe Maimon wrote: Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of what I dont know). Has anybody else seen this brain damage? Regardless of all the other comments here

RE: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Chuck Church
I agree. Perhaps the ISP goes a little above and beyond most, and will provide configuration assistance to the downstream if they have issues. Useful info they might want to see on the diagram could be your AS (duh), ASes downstream from you, are you multihomed, and with who, what prefixes and or

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Mike Lyon wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > > On 9/28/12 11:08 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > > Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a > > > customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of what I > > > dont know). > > > > >

Re: RFC becomes Visio

2012-09-28 Thread Cutler James R
On Sep 28, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > The proper approach is to ask the vendor for RFC 1149 trasport for the BGP > session, and whether it terminates in a shared cage, or if a fully private > one is required. Including an 'envionmental impact statement'. Explaining > that th

RE: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-28 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
You won't have enough addresses for Dark Matter, Neutrinos, etc. Atoms wind up using up about 63 bits (2^10^82) based on the current SWAG. The missing mass is 84% of the universe. > -Original Message- > From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:30 PM > To

RE: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-28 Thread John R. Levine
You won't have enough addresses for Dark Matter, Neutrinos, etc. Atoms wind up using up about 63 bits (2^10^82) based on the current SWAG. The missing mass is 84% of the universe. Fortunately, until we find it, it doesn't need addresses. -Original Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-28 Thread George Herbert
My customer the Dark Matter local galaxy group beg to disagree; just because you cannot see them does not mean that you cannot feel them gravitationally. Or route to them. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Sep 28, 2012, at 10:31 PM, "John R. Levine" wrote: >> You won't have enoug

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-28 Thread Jason Leschnik
To address everything in the Universe wouldn't you then get stuck in some kinda of loop of having to address the matter that is used by the addresses... i.e. to address everything in the Universe you need more matter than the Universe? *brain* pop On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 4:17 PM, George Herbert w