Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Anton Kapela
(inline) On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 4:44 PM Michael Thomas wrote: the ability to route messages between each satellite. Would conventional >> routing protocols be up to such a challenge? > > If conventional is taken to mean "stock" link-state stuff, then probably no (speculating). > Or would it h

Re: anyone running GPS clocks in Southeastern Georgia?

2011-01-23 Thread Anton Kapela
> What about Modular DOCSIS 3.0 deployments with external timing sources > between the QAM and CMTS A CMTS DS payload is formatted as an MPEG TS (it even has PIDs; however, no PCR). This in turn establishes cadence for associated downstream devices (eg. they sync to whatever is within allowable to

Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-04 Thread Anton Kapela
+1 -Tk On Sep 4, 2011, at 12:23 PM, "Neil J. McRae" wrote: > maybe volunteers from the nanog community should contact you? > > On 4 Sep 2011, at 16:45, "Jennifer Rexford" wrote: > >> Neil, >> >> The group is being assembled right now, so we don't have a list as of yet. >> >> -- Jen >> >> >> Se

nanog53 network status

2011-10-10 Thread Anton Kapela
Attendees, At present, we're aware of several issues affecting access to the NANOG attendee network -- in short, they include: -Apparent 'lumping' of iDevices, picking 11b/g channels of "1" and "6" (while channel 11 AP's sid idly by); adjusting additional AP's power and channel configuration to p

Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.

2011-11-24 Thread Anton Kapela
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Tyler Haske wrote: > I'm looking for a mentor who can help me focus my career so eventually I > wind up working at one of the Tier I ISPs as a senior tech. I want to > handle the big pipes that hold everyone's data. Replying on-list, as I think a route for this d

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-15 Thread Anton Kapela
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > ICMP is bad, and should be completely blocked for "security". I can't tell if this reply is to say "this ought to be done" or if "this is often done, and should not be." Clarify? -tk

The Tubes

2012-05-31 Thread Anton Kapela
All, Andrew Blum was interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air this week -- and gets a lot right about the Tubes we built. FYI, because your boss will be asking you about it: http://m.npr.org/story/153701673?url=/2012/05/31/153701673/the-internet-a-series-of-tubes-and-then-some -Tk

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Re: DSL "aggregation".... NO

2010-04-18 Thread Anton Kapela
On Apr 15, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Jack Carrozzo wrote: > You can balance over DSL by putting different L2TPv3 tunnels over each > physical device and agg it at someplace with real connections and > such. It's possible to do it with GRE or OpenVPN too, but much less > classy. As Jack points out, "aggr

Re: Securing the BGP or controlling it?

2010-05-10 Thread Anton Kapela
On May 9, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Franck Martin wrote: > http://skunkpost.com/news.sp?newsId=2327 "Just how fragile is the internet?" Rhetoric, much? Interestingly, the article misses interception and other non-outage potentials due to (sub) prefix hijacking. -Tk

Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P.

2010-05-10 Thread Anton Kapela
On May 10, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Jerry Bonner wrote: > Obviously no one is making large investments in their dial platform, but are > there any other viable alternatives out there that are actually supported? The current 'still works, has features, etc' box is as5400xm, and is terming most of a f

Re: IPv4 Multicast

2010-05-21 Thread Anton Kapela
On May 21, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Jamie Sobczyk wrote: > With my VLC receiver I can see the channels via SAP, but when I join the > multicast group I don't receive anything. verify packets actually land on the receiver (tcpdump, etc) interface. verify that your host has a route for 224/4 pointing o

Re: BGP Multihoming Partial vs. Full Routes

2010-06-15 Thread Anton Kapela
On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Fred Baker wrote: > upstream, full routes are generally not as useful as one might expect. You're > at least as well off with default routes for your upstreams plus what we call > "Optimized Edge Routing", which allows you to identify (dynamically, for each > pref

(OT) recipe for Live streaming from NANOG49

2010-06-16 Thread Anton Kapela
On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:27 AM, T.J. Kniveton wrote: > I'm using a 24" iMac in full screen so the resolution is pretty decent. But I > hadn't thought about the side benefit of watching what people are doing on > their laptops, good entertainment value I suppose. Glad it looks decent for folks out

Re: MRTG in Fourier Space

2009-04-23 Thread Anton Kapela
Gents, On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Dave Plonka wrote: > > Hi Crist, > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:12:04PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: >> >> Has anyone found any value in examining network utilization >> numbers with Fourier analyses? After staring at pretty In short, yup! >> there are some

Re: MRTG in Fourier Space

2009-04-23 Thread Anton Kapela
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Anton Kapela wrote: > Indeed, there are. Interesting things emerge in frequency (or phase) > space - bits/sec, packets/sec, and ave size, etc. - all have new Forgot to mention one point - since packets/bits/etc data is more monotonic than not (math w

Re: PPP multilink help

2009-05-11 Thread Anton Kapela
Gents, On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Dan White wrote: > Andrey Gordon wrote: [snip] >> When I transfer a large file over FTP (or CIFS, or anything else), I'd >> expect it to max out either one or both T1, but instead utilization on the >> T1s is hoovering at 70% on both and sometimes MLPPP

Re: less than a /24 & BGP tricks

2009-06-30 Thread Anton Kapela
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM, neal rauhauser wrote: >   I have a network with two upstreams that land in datacenters many miles > apart. The hardware involved is Cisco 7507s with RSP4s and VIP4-80. I've got > a curious problem which I hope others here have faced. [snip] >   I can terminate this

Re: Nanog Webcast Equipment

2009-07-01 Thread Anton Kapela
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Charles Wyble wrote: > Would love to see replies and/or summary on list if possible. It's a > somewhat complex problem, and there are many solutions out there. Having > feedback on what was used and any feedback on it would be great! For the benefit of all, I'll jo

Re: Telephones for Noisy Data Centers

2009-07-01 Thread Anton Kapela
List, On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jay Hennigan wrote: [snip] > emergency phone at a data center.  It's usable by anyone.  Ever try handing > your bluetooth headset with custom earmold to the electrician working on the > UPS? > > Data centers tend to be noisy in more than just the acoustic sp

Re: Wisconsin DC

2009-07-07 Thread Anton Kapela
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jeff Rooney wrote: > Does anyone know of any decent data centers in Wisconsin, preferably > Madison or Milwaukee, that offer private caged environments or suites? There are a few colo facilities of note in the Madison area (Berbee, owned by "CDW", SupraNet, and TDS

Re: Wisconsin DC

2009-07-07 Thread Anton Kapela
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Dylan Ebner wrote: > CDW just opened a new DC outside madison or milwaukee. Operated by > burbee who they bought a few years ago. Indeed, I didn't focus on it in my previous note, but http://www.team-companies.com/, CDW/Berbee, and a few other interests pooled res

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Anton Kapela
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Do you think this is useful?  Maybe vendors will hear me/us. They sort of did a few decades back, created HDLC (5 bytes minimum) and PPP (6 bytes minimum) for P2P links. I think you're at risk of over-thinking this problem working in revers

Re: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-17 Thread Anton Kapela
Drew, > (in theory, and based upon number of peers, data): If you have a network with > these upstream connections to the Internet you should see inbound traffic > utilization in this order: > > AS   Name > - > 3356 Level3 > 7018 ATT > 3549 Global Crossing > 4323 Time Warner Telecom > 10

bits/hz/second: we're barely more efficient than the telegraph (Re: TransAtlantic 40 Gig Waves

2009-08-17 Thread Anton Kapela
I'll comment on both: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Rod Beck wrote: > Rod, do you know if the 40G waves increased the spectrum efficiency of > your fiber? On land systems they pretty much break even, i.e. you can [rod beck replies] > The enabling technology is based on advanced encoding tech

Re: Human Factors and Accident reduction/mitigation

2009-11-08 Thread Anton Kapela
Owen, > We could learn a lot about this from Aviation.  Nowhere in human history has > more research, care, training, and discipline been applied to accident > prevention, > mitigation, and analysis as in aviation.  A few examples: Others later in this thread duly noted a definite relationship of

NANOG 44 and ARIN XXII - Live from Los Angeles in HD video

2008-10-13 Thread Anton Kapela
We've got a simple HDV (1440x1088 p29.976) camera setup aimed at the speaker podium area. It only has front stage video, no presenter slides. For a more "full presentation experience" check out the Quicktime/Winmedia streams at http://nanog.org/streaming.php The following streams will carry both

Re: NANOG 44 and ARIN XXII - Live from Los Angeles in HD video

2008-10-13 Thread Anton Kapela
Oh, forgot one thing. Please don't bother playing the streams on-site. :) -Tk

Re: NANOG 44 and ARIN XXII - Live from Los Angeles in HD video

2008-10-14 Thread Anton Kapela
HD Stream is now back online. It'll be online until 5PM PST (the tutorals are not broadcast). -Tk

Re: NANOG 44 and ARIN XXII - Live from Los Angeles in HD video

2008-10-15 Thread Anton Kapela
Streams are back up for the last day of NANOG, later covering ARIN for the remainder of the week. Since it's mostly talking heads, I've lowered the bitrate of the h264 versions, and removed cpu-consuming options (i.e. no CABAC) ~27 megabit MPEG2 HD: udp://233.0.236.20:1234 (udp, mp2ts) ~2

Re: NANOG 44 and ARIN XXII - Live from Los Angeles in HD video

2008-10-15 Thread Anton Kapela
One last message... Audio-only streams are up, and will be fur the durration. Mp3 and AAC+ are available. Find them here: http://classic.shoutcast.com/directory/index.phtml?s=ARIN+XXII -Tk

Mcast mpeg2 and unicast h.264 for NANOG-45

2009-01-26 Thread Anton Kapela
List, The DR meeting is now available in HD video format at the following addresses: mcast feed: 25 mbit HDV, mpeg Transport Stream, UDP: 233.0.59.45 port 1234 unicast feeds: ~1mbit HD-Lite h.264, in mpeg TS: HTTP://208.66.134.110:8000 ~3mbit HDV h.264, in mpeg TS: HTTP://208.66.134.110:9000

Re: Mcast mpeg2 and unicast h.264 for NANOG-45

2009-01-26 Thread Anton Kapela
The source for 233.0.59.45 is kona.doit.wisc.edu and has address 128.104.23.100, hope that helps! -Tk On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Antonio Querubin wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Anton Kapela wrote: > >> mcast feed: >> >> 25 mbit HDV, mpeg Transport Stream, UDP: 233.0

Updated: New meeting hd stream servers

2009-01-26 Thread Anton Kapela
So, I underestimated the popularity of the NANOG 45 meeting. We've moved the streams to a SJC and NYC reflector pair. I'm too cheap to implement GSLB or bothering coordinating anycast, so you'll need to self-direct your choice of which POP you'll watch from. HD-lite streams: http://nanog-east.

Re: Updated: New meeting hd stream servers

2009-01-26 Thread Anton Kapela
Of course, I'd recommend everyone use the most recent vlc, 0.9.8a, before debugging more. Send me a direct email with output from "debug messages" and let me know what details show in the "stream information" gui dialog. -Tk

Re: Updated: New meeting hd stream servers

2009-01-26 Thread Anton Kapela
One short update. The "full Hd" transcoded streams will be (i.e. :9000) offline for the remainder of the NANOG meeting. The encoder system we were using to provide both the full and hf-lite streams is offline (system trouble). We've switched to a backup system, but it can only provide enough resou

NANOG meeting video RTSP source for mobile devices

2009-01-26 Thread Anton Kapela
List, Tim Jackson at Iris Transport was whipped up a stream playable on 3gpp-multimedia compatible mobile devices. It's about 150 kbits/sec, so evdo or 3g will likely been the minimum data services needed to view it. Find it here: rtsp://nanog.iristransport.net/nanog.sdp Enjoy, -Tk

Re: NANOG meeting video RTSP source for mobile devices

2009-01-27 Thread Anton Kapela
RTSP is back up, for those mobile or on a restrictive corporate network. rtsp://nanog.iristransport.net/nanog.sdp -Tk

Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-14 Thread Anton Kapela
If all else fails, you could setup a pair of static IPIP or GRE tunnels using the static provider-assigned address on your link into the non-bgp speaking provider. Then, terminate the 'far side' of the tunnel on a router collocated somewhere upstream of if the brain-dead provider. This would get yo

Re: Cisco NOS

2009-02-18 Thread Anton Kapela
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Bryant Valencia wrote: > Has anybody hired Cisco for their NOS (Network Optimization Services)? I > would like to hear about your experience (good or bad). > I'm particularly interested in their CNC box. Either this is merely exquisite acronym collision, or someon

BGP route filtering. You want it.

2008-08-11 Thread Anton Kapela
List, [Apologies in advance for operational content. I Don't mean to distract readers from the usual flamewars about rfc1918, bogon filtering, and some of our favorite posters - gadi and n3td3v.] I'd like to give a heads-up to the NANOG community regarding the talk we recently gave at DEFCON. Th

Re: BGP route filtering. You want it.

2008-08-11 Thread Anton Kapela
URL works again. I had uploaded an edited version of the talk, but forgot to rename it. It's probably good that only a few of you saw the original, as it wasn't quite the 'professional' text that I'd typically write. Permissible and desired presentation formats and language at DEFCON don't have par

Re: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other ISPs IP space by mistake

2008-08-14 Thread Anton Kapela
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:47 AM, brett watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're lacking the authority and delegation model that DNS has, I think? Depends who you ask. Some think applying the dns model to bgp (i.e. within protocol) will ultimately place too great a burden on routing hardware & a

Re: Smallest netblock that providers will accept?

2008-08-18 Thread Anton Kapela
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Kevin Blackham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your assumption is generally true with most any provider. They may > even accept something smaller, but it won't make it very far if less > than /24. It's also a good idea to announce a covering prefix in case > some peer

Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

2008-08-28 Thread Anton Kapela
I thought I'd toss in a few comments, considering it's my fault that few people are understanding this thing yet. >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> People (especially spammers) have been hijacking networks for a while I'd like to 'clear the air' her

Re: Force10 Gear - Opinions

2008-09-05 Thread Anton Kapela
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Paul Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jo Rhett wrote: >> Note the "not random" comment. People love to use the random feature of >> ixia/etc but it rarely displays >> actual performance in a production network. > > Once upon a time, vendors released products which

Re: Cisco uRPF failures

2008-09-06 Thread Anton Kapela
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's the surprising thing -- no scenario. Very basic configuration. > Enabling uRPF and then hitting it with a few gig of non-routable packets > consistently caused the sup module to stop talking on the console, and What d

Re: only WV FIBER now peering with Atrivo / Intercage

2008-09-06 Thread Anton Kapela
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or is it? Looks to not be, so I call BS on your subject line.. however, I do see: * 64.28.176.0/20 71.13.116.101 100 0 20115 19151 26769 27595 i *> 204.11.128.10510

Re: only WV FIBER now peering with Atrivo / Intercage

2008-09-06 Thread Anton Kapela
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anton's post that GX is still providing them transit is a bit curious, since > I was under the impression GX had severed all ties with Atrivo. But the > table does not lie, a path of "174 3549 27595" is clearly transi

Re: only WV FIBER now peering with Atrivo / Intercage

2008-09-07 Thread Anton Kapela
Sorry for the confusing as-paths, folks. As it happens, the AS174 update-group that my upstream was peered within stopped transporting updates sometime yesterday. A Cogent engineer was able to fix what appears to be an IOS bug shortly after I sent my note yesterday. -Tk On 9/7/08, Patrick W. Gilm

Re: high latency ds3 issue on unloaded line

2008-09-27 Thread Anton Kapela
Anyone considered this could simply be a case of a customer ds3 provisioned into a mpls ccc/l2ckt style upstream aggregate? Ie. Ppp/hdlc in mpls. It seems best to first contact Q and ask exactly how this thing is provisioned. -Tk On 9/27/08, Frank Bulk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be qu

Re: Optical fiber question

2009-12-10 Thread Anton Kapela
Wanted to add something to this and clarify/correct a few points: > Plus, while I'm sure someone in a lab has done it, you really don't run DWDM > over multimode fiber - I'd second the opinion of it's cheap enough, go for > the single mode and get the most flexibility in your options possible. In

Re: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Anton Kapela
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Stefan Fouant wrote: > I think OP meant that he only wants an integrity check of the control > traffic, not confidentiality, hence the statement that he does not want to > encrypt the control traffic. I read the OP to mean this, too. Musing on the idea for a mom

Re: Revisiting the Aviation Safety vs. Networking discussion

2009-12-25 Thread Anton Kapela
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Vadim Antonov wrote: > The ISP industry has a long way to go until it reaches the same level of > sophistication in handling problems as aviation has. It seems that there's a logical fallacy floating around somewhere (networks have parts and are complicated, airp

fix the edge (was Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC)

2010-01-21 Thread Anton Kapela
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: > I thought there was some other group that had been squatting in 1/8, > something about radio and peer to peer...but not AnoNet (at least that name > was totally unfamiliar)...but this was all I could find with a quick google. http://en.wikipedi

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-13 Thread Anton Kapela
> James Hess wrote: >> For now.. with 1gigabit residential connections,  BCP 38  OUGHT to be >> Google's answer.  If Google handles that properly,  they  _should_ >> make it mandatory that all traffic  from residential customers be >> filtered, in all cases,   in order to  only forward   packets wi

NANOG48 HD streams now active

2010-02-23 Thread Anton Kapela
Web browser embedded flash player: http://nanog.iristransport.net/nanog48/ VLC direct link: http://204.29.15.165:10001 Enjoy, -Tk

Re: Auto MDI/MDI-X + conference rooms + bored == loop

2010-03-26 Thread Anton Kapela
Hi Chuck, > Anyone have suggestions on Ethernet LAN loop-prevention? With the In general, I avoid the potential for layer2 loops to any user-accesible layer2 ports in a manner that many edge network and broadband providers may find familiar -- vlan per user, tail, port, etc. -- aggregated in

Re: Auto MDI/MDI-X + conference rooms + bored == loop

2010-03-26 Thread Anton Kapela
On Mar 26, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > If you have 2 network jacks next to each other in a conference room, > do they each get configured as a separate "user"? Indeed, most of the buildings have a 'community room' like that -- but all the deployed ports (unless ordered differentl

Re: BGP Update Report

2010-03-27 Thread Anton Kapela
So, this week, I actually read the update report. Noting the stats below (..a flap/update once per minute? please, fix your CPE router), I have but one humble request: Could the settlement-free members of the DFZ please consider re-enabling route-flap dampening towards customers? Thanks, -Tk

Re: BGP Update Report

2010-03-28 Thread Anton Kapela
Joe, > The problem is that unless one is holding customer routes in a > seperate VRF and dampen them there or take similar steps to > segment, dampening leads directly to blackholes. Even in that > case, failover within that VRF wouldn't work, as all > implementations I've seen attack the pre

Mindfulness (was Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 26, Issue 142)

2010-03-30 Thread Anton Kapela
On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: > I keep seeing these. Is there a point? (see sub:) -Tk

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Anton Kapela
On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:33 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > I did not mean to initiate a thread that turns into a joke. I'm quite > serious. I guess I'm curious to get an understanding from others who > work in a small environment that have no choice but to 'classify' > themselves. Unless we're talkin

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Anton Kapela
On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: > "The title, Engineer, and its derivatives should be reserved for those > individuals whose education and experience qualify them to practice in > a manner that protects public safety. Strict use of the title serves ...fortunately for us (and CC

Re: Posting from freebie E-mail Accounts

2010-03-30 Thread Anton Kapela
On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Andrew D Kirch wrote: > Is there anyone here who is legitimate using a freebie webmail account? I'm implicitly legit; further, gmail auto-threads all of the run-on posts automatically (much unlike mail.app, outlook 2k8, etc). What's the beef? -Tk

Re: SLA for voice and video over IP/MPLS

2011-02-27 Thread Anton Kapela
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Diogo Montagner wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for industry standard parameters to base the SLA of one > network regarding to voice, video and data application. One won't find many, but a common rule of thumb is most apps will be 'fine' with networks that provid

Re: SLA for voice and video over IP/MPLS

2011-02-28 Thread Anton Kapela
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:23 PM, William Herrin wrote: > Who uses BER to measure packet switched networks? I do, some 'packet' test gear can, bitstream oriented software often will, etc. > Is it even possible > to measure a bit error rate on a multihop network where a corrupted > packet will ei

Re: Switch with 10 Gig and GRE support in hardware.

2011-02-28 Thread Anton Kapela
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Matt Newsom wrote: [snip] > I can't seem to find anyone that has small 1-2U solution that can do the > full shake and bake. [snip] If you don't need "all ports, all-line-rate, all the time" ... you could rig it with two rack units. I'd dirty it up with somethi