Re: SNMP syslocation field for GPS coordinates, and use with automation tools

2016-12-12 Thread Peter Beckman
Since we all live on standards, I can suggest RFC7946, GeoJSON (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946) for all of your location specification needs: { "type" : "Point", "coordinates" : [ -121.556359, 39.5137752

Re: SNMP syslocation field for GPS coordinates, and use with automation tools

2016-12-12 Thread Eric Kuhnke
This is an excellent suggestion and I'll do more research into use of the geojson format from this RFC. Looks very similar to data that can be fed through a small perl or python script to batch output google earth KML format files, to give people a quick and easy GUI overview of an area. My thought

Build an anycast network on a shoestring

2016-12-12 Thread Franck Martin via NANOG
This is quite a nice write up by a colleague of mine: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/build-your-own-anycast-network-9-steps-samir-jafferali

Re: Build an anycast network on a shoestring

2016-12-12 Thread chris
 @natmorris did something similar 18 months to 2 years or so ago too   video below from uknof 30 .. https://youtu.be/itEtjsauwFQ Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2 Original message From: Franck Martin via NANOG Date: 12/12/2016 18:39 (GMT+00:00) To: NANOG Subject: Build an any

Re: Build an anycast network on a shoestring

2016-12-12 Thread Theodore Baschak
Wow thanks for sharing both of these. Anycast can be "black magic" sometimes, and the more that is known about it by operators the better. I'm somewhat surprised that ECMP I've done a little poor-mans anycasting within a network by simply using OSPF and some /32's. Had IPv4 space not been at such

Re: Build an anycast network on a shoestring

2016-12-12 Thread Bill Woodcock
> On Dec 12, 2016, at 1:59 PM, Theodore Baschak wrote: > > Wow thanks for sharing both of these. Anycast can be "black magic" > sometimes, and the more that is known about it by operators the better. Honestly, it’s not that difficult… Here are a few papers from quite a while ago, when some

Re: Build an anycast network on a shoestring

2016-12-12 Thread Hugo Slabbert
If you're doing ECMP w/i the DC, PMTUD does come to mind, though: https://blog.cloudflare.com/path-mtu-discovery-in-practice/ -- Hugo Slabbert | email, xmpp/jabber: h...@slabnet.com pgp key: B178313E | also on Signal On Mon 2016-Dec-12 15:59:29 -0600, Theodore Baschak wrote: Wow tha