BGP Design question.

2011-06-22 Thread Bret Palsson
Here is my current setup in ASCII art. (Please view in a fixed width font.) Below the art I'll write out the setup. ++++ | Peer A || Peer A | <-Many carriers. Using 1 carrier +---++++---+for this scenario. |eBGP | eBGP

Re: BGP Design question.

2011-06-22 Thread Bret Palsson
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:22 PM, William Cooper wrote: > Couple of questions for clarification (inline): > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Bret Palsson wrote: > > Here is my current setup in ASCII art. (Please view in a fixed width > font.) Below the art I'

Re: BGP Design question.

2011-06-22 Thread Bret Palsson
upstream > routers for the subnets behind the firewalls. It also helps ensure > symmetrical traffic flows, which is important for stateful firewalls and can > become moderatly confusing when your firewalls start having many interfaces. > > > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:27

Re: BGP Design question.

2011-06-22 Thread Bret Palsson
hen it hits router with the longer >> path, which will redirect it to the router with the shorter path. >> >> Speaking from a Cisco/HSRP point of view, you could be more intelligent >> (re:more complicated, and complication means harder troubleshooting and >>

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network -- ENOUGH ALREADY!

2011-09-20 Thread Bret Palsson
Thank you! 112 Emails on this subject, I am sick of it. On Sep 20, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Bill P wrote: > This has deviated so far from a useful technical discussion, it isn't even > amusing anymore. > > From http://www.nanog.org/mailinglist/ > > Our pre-posting guide for messages to the NANOG e-ma

Re: Equinix

2011-11-29 Thread Bret Palsson
They have been real slow to respond to me in the past 14 days. They say it's a 24 hour turn around after calling their marketing line, I'm still waiting a call back and I've left 3 messages. I guess they don't want to lease a cab in TX… On Nov 29, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Keegan Holley wrote: > Assumi

Re: ISP access in Ogden, UT

2011-12-02 Thread Bret Palsson
Xmission if they service there. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 2, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Eric Gauthier wrote: > looking for 100 mbps access to a new office in Ogden, UT but don't > know who the decent players are who already have fiber locally so > we can avoid huge build out costs. Suggestions off lis

Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade?

2013-02-06 Thread Bret Palsson
I just received this email from level3 Summary Level 3 Communications will perform a mandatory network upgrade that will be service impacting and will impact devices in multiple locations. We are upgrading the code on portions of the global network to increase stability for the overall n

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Bret Palsson
We use SALT, written in python and setup in 10 minutes. Seriously easy! Wickedly fast! http://saltstack.org/ -Bret On Jan 12, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Nitin Mehrotra wrote: > We use puppet - http://puppetlabs.com/. > > Works good for us. > > Nitin > > - Original Message - > From: "Paul Stewa

Re: Partial Outage with TW Telecom and CenturyLink

2012-04-24 Thread Bret Palsson
Where is this outages list? On Apr 24, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Chris Gotstein wrote: > Already on outages. > > On 4/24/2012 11:28 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: >> this belongs on outages@ no? >> >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Chris Gotstein wrote: >>> CenturyLink is reporting core routing issu

Re: Partial Outage with TW Telecom and CenturyLink

2012-04-24 Thread Bret Palsson
We have a ticket open with Level3. Our customers on the the west coast using CenturyLink are not receiving traffic. -Bret On Apr 24, 2012, at 10:35 AM, david peahi wrote: > Yesterday at about 3 pm PDT DNS resolution problems were experienced > through Centurylink. Apparently their Phoenix DNS s

BGP Looking glass and monitoring

2011-02-03 Thread Bret Palsson
I'm interested to know what tools everyone uses for the following: Looking Glass server. BGP Monitoring BGP Management, ie. cost/preferred path management. Does anyone use tools to make changes to configurations? For example svn. How do you push changes? Manually, approval process, scripts? Cur

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Palsson
the time WAN outages happen, guess what also dies, the POTS! Who would have thought that when cables get cut, that the phone lines were also part of the cables? There you go, some common worries, with some answers to hopefully sooth the vexed VoIP user. Bret Palsson Sr. Network & Systems Ad

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Palsson
well (if at all) in light of a multiple-external-address NAT pool. > > You simply have to map all of your VOIP phones in such a way that they > consistently > get the same external IP every time or shit breaks badly. > > Owen > > On Feb 28, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Bret Palss

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Palsson
istently > get the same external IP every time or shit breaks badly. > > Owen > > On Feb 28, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Bret Palsson wrote: > >> Since our company is a VoIP company, I will chime in to this topic. >> >> Let's start off with the definitions so

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Palsson
Ahhh yes... ALG... Turn it off. -Bret On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > Any chance the NAT device has some god-forsaken ALG agent installed that's > trying to proxy the SIP traffic?

Re: Verizon Issues? East Coast US

2011-03-01 Thread Bret Palsson
From our experience and smoke pings on Verizon's alternet, they ALWAYS have issues. Which is why we moved away from them. -Bret On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Chris Tracy wrote: >>> Seeing some packet loss via Cogent. >>> www.internetpulse.net seems to be lighting up. >> I'm noticing it too. POP

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Bret Palsson
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Michael Thomas" > >> On 03/01/2011 05:51 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>> Let us be clear: if you're getting "digital telephone" service from a >>> cable television provider, it is *not* "VoI

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Bret Palsson
03 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Bret Palsson" > >> VoN? Didn't know there was a difference. Same protocols, same >> RTP,RTCP, Codecs, DSCP values. Am I missing something? > > Well, you try to hold a conversation with s

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Bret Palsson
a days, who have already made up their mind... it's just not worth the effort. Certainly it's not helping others on this list. -Bret Bret Palsson Sr. Network & Systems Administrator Jive Communications, Inc. www.getjive.com Sent from my iPad On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Jay Ash

Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations

2011-03-08 Thread Bret Palsson
We use both NI-CERs and NI-XMRs for less than 175k. Work with a rep. Don't go by list. The price depends on quantity and configuration. So less than 175k could mean 80k or 500k for your config. -Bret Sent from my iPhone On Mar 8, 2011, at 6:59 PM, George Bonser wrote: > > >> -Original Mes

altdb

2011-04-11 Thread Bret Palsson
I'm trying to register my maintainor object to altdb. Is there any documentation on how to do this? Here is what I sent to auto-...@altdb.net mntner: MAINT-JIVE descr: Jive Communications, Inc. admin-c:BEP7-ARIN tech-c: BEP7-ARIN upd-to:

altdb.net: password length

2011-04-11 Thread Bret Palsson
Is there a limit of 8 characters for the CRYPT-PW? -Bret

Re: altdb.net: password length

2011-04-11 Thread Bret Palsson
. > -Jonesy > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:43:06 -0600, Bret Palsson wrote: >> Is there a limit of 8 characters for the CRYPT-PW? >> >> -Bret

Re: Top-posting

2011-04-11 Thread Bret Palsson
On Apr 11, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Bryan Fields wrote: > On 4/11/2011 21:22, Richard Golodner wrote: >>Too many Outlook users. With just about any other email client it is >> very easy to bottom post. >>To those who wish to post as they want demonstrates a certain something >> about being a pro

Re: Contact for va.gov

2011-04-14 Thread Bret Palsson
Wouldn't the world be a better place if the ARIN contact information was correct and usable. It would be nice to have an easy place for these types of requests. I guess maybe this list is that place. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 14, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > Yes, two in one day.

Anyone still maintaining altdb.net?

2011-04-20 Thread Bret Palsson
I submitted my objects April 11. the mtrner object needs to be created by the db-admin. I realize this is a volunteer thing. Could I help out or could the people that are helping out look at adding my record? I need to setup some peering relationships. I'd prefer to support open communities rath

Re: Anyone still maintaining altdb.net?

2011-04-20 Thread Bret Palsson
quest to db-ad...@altdb.net On Apr 20, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:30:44AM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bret Palsson wrote: >> >>> I submitted my objects April 11. the mtrner object needs to be >>> c