Starting a greenfield carrier backbone network that can scale to national and international service. What would you do?

2014-04-03 Thread charles
Hello everyone, It's been some time since I've been subscribed/replied/posted here (or on WISPA for that matter). I've been pretty busy running a non profit startup (protip: don't do that. It's really really terrible) :) I'm cofounder and CTO of the Free Networking Foundation. Our goal is to

Re: Starting a greenfield carrier backbone network that can scale to national and international service. What would you do?

2014-04-04 Thread charles
On 2014-04-04 09:08, Mark Radabaugh wrote: On 4/3/14, 4:52 PM, char...@thefnf.org wrote: Hello everyone, It's been some time since I've been subscribed/replied/posted here (or on WISPA for that matter). I've been pretty busy running a non profit startup (protip: don't do that. It's really rea

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP Network Neutrality

2014-05-14 Thread charles
On 2014-05-14 02:04, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: On 14-05-13 22:50, Daniel Staal wrote: They have the money. They have the ability to get more money. *They see no reason to spend money making customers happy.* They can make more profit without it. There is the issue of control over the mar

Re: IPAM DDI Software, Subscriber Management, CMDB and Per Customer VLANs

2014-05-14 Thread charles
On 2014-05-13 16:37, Kyle Leissner wrote: I would like recommendations on the following software/hardware elements required to run an access network. Assume you are building a greenfield network using a combination of access technologies such as DSL, GPON, AE, and WiFi. What a timely thread! W

Re: Off Topic Friday

2014-05-30 Thread charles
On 2014-05-30 16:09, Alain Hebert wrote: Well happy friday. We're planning to build a MPLS lab this summer. What's this? Operational related content on a Friday? *angrily hurls popcorn across the room*. LOL. MPLS lab sounds cool. For students? Already experienced engineers? Simulating

Re: ipmi access

2014-06-02 Thread charles
On 2014-06-02 07:19, Andrew Latham wrote: I use OpenVPN to access an Admin/sandboxed network with insecure portals, wiki, and ipmi. Same here. My entire in band management plane (DRAC (disk/cpu/temperature etc telemetry to my OpenManage/Zenoss server), OpenSSH and 80/443 for backend stuffs

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-14 Thread charles
On 2014-07-10 21:40, Randy Bush wrote: Trying to play both sides of the issue like that in the same paragraph is just...dizzying. if we filtered or otherwise prevented conjecturbation, jumping to conclusions based on misuse of tools, hyperbole, misinformation, fud, and downright lying, how woul

Starting a greenfield(ish) small (10k subs?) multihomed (two ASN) , dual stacked, wireless ISP - i can haz advice?

2014-07-23 Thread charles
e as well, but not the primary purpose of this message. :) Thanks! Charles Wyble CTO Free Network Foundation

Re: EFF gets into the CPE router software business..

2014-07-24 Thread charles
On 2014-07-24 12:04, Valdis Kletnieks wrote: So the EFF is pushing development of an open CPU router https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/building-open-wireless-router https://openwireless.org/ It's currently targeting WNDR3800's and based on the CeroWRT software (which works pretty well in my

Re: EFF gets into the CPE router software business..

2014-07-25 Thread charles
On 2014-07-25 00:06, George Herbert wrote: Any idea how well CeroWRT stands up to nation-state level intrusion efforts? Interesting question. It uses OpenWRT as a base. IPTables for the firewall. So that's a pretty big code base right there (though certainly a bit less than a comparable x86

Re: Starting a greenfield(ish) small (10k subs?) multihomed (two ASN) , dual stacked, wireless ISP - i can haz advice?

2014-07-25 Thread charles
On 2014-07-24 11:39, Josh Baird wrote: FCC licensing?  No licenses as long as you operate in unlicensed bands (ie, 900mhz/2.4ghz/5).  Yes. This is correct. Also no licensing needed for 24ghz. We are rolling out a dual uplink 24ghz AirFiber back bone in the next couple of weeks. The FNF has o

Re: EFF gets into the CPE router software business..

2014-07-25 Thread charles
On 2014-07-25 12:22, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:06:38 -0700, George Herbert said: Any idea how well CeroWRT stands up to nation-state level intrusion efforts? If they are as determined as FBI v Scarfo (the FBI pulled a black bag job to install a keystroke logger in

Re: Starting a greenfield(ish) small (10k subs?) multihomed (two ASN) , dual stacked, wireless ISP - i can haz advice?

2014-07-25 Thread charles
I highly recommend pfsense for a firewall (been using pfsense and m0n0wall for years), but do have some concerns about using it at scale for (several) thousands of users. So far it's gone fairly well for the existing subscriber base. The current service footprint is ~1k homes. I think it's r

Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins

2014-07-25 Thread charles
On 2014-07-22 18:20, Nolan Rollo wrote: I've been trying to decide for a while what makes a good home for a Network Admin... access to physical, reliable upstream routes? good selection of local taverns? What, in your opinion, makes a good location for a Network Admin and where in the US would yo

Re: Dealing with abuse complaints to non-existent contacts

2014-08-11 Thread charles
On 2014-08-10 10:19, Gabriel Marais wrote: Hi Nanog I'm curious. I have been receiving some major ssh brute-force attacks coming from random hosts in the 116.8.0.0 - 116.11.255.255 network. I have sent a complaint to the e-mail addresses obtained from a whois query on one of the IP Addresses

Re: [HFC] pooling modems in layer2

2014-08-12 Thread charles
On 2014-08-12 09:23, Toney Mareo wrote: Hello I think it's kind of an isp secret but I would be curious how do people distribute modems to pools before they would even reach the actual IP network so on layer2: http://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/papers/evaluation/docsis/Service_Distribution.jpg

Re: fire ants

2014-08-12 Thread charles
On 2014-08-12 15:06, me wrote: Ran across this paper the other day and didn't know how big a problem it was. Looks like Eduardo's post confirms it. http://www.rainbowtech.net/products/docs/c51ce4107047eb1b2dc/Ants%20in%20OSP%20Equipment.pdf.pdf Now that is fascinating. I like how they reprodu

Scaling from home broom closet to multisite "home" data center/WAN network on a budget

2014-10-14 Thread charles
Hi everybody, It's been a long time since I've kicked up a new thread here on ye ol nanog. Recently I've been putting some serious thought into home "budget" data centers. What started out as a little router/switch/virt server lab by me/myself/I in 2008, has turned into a multisite (7 points

Re: Alerting systems, Logicmonitor and/or alternatives

2015-01-28 Thread charles
What's the collective opinion here? Is anyone using them or a similar service? Are there non-cloud-based alternatives that are relatively easy to set up and manage? We've explored Zabbix, Nagios, MRTG and its various wrappers, and Intermapper. Anything else new on the horizon that has a GUI

Re: Network Segmentation Approaches

2015-05-06 Thread charles
Consider setting up a separate zone or zones (via VLAN) for devices with embedded TCP/IP stacks. I have worked in several shops using switched power units from APC, SynAccess, and TrippLite, and find that the TCP/IP stacks in those units are a bit fragile when confronted with a lot of traffic,

Re: Thousands of hosts on a gigabit LAN, maybe not

2015-05-08 Thread charles
On 2015-05-08 13:53, John Levine wrote: Some people I know (yes really) are building a system that will have several thousand little computers in some racks. How many racks? How many computers per rack unit? How many computers per rack? (How are you handling power?) How big is each computer?

RE: Thousands of hosts on a gigabit LAN, maybe not

2015-05-08 Thread charles
On 2015-05-08 18:20, Phil Bedard wrote: The real answer to this is being able to cram them into a single chassis which can multiplex the network through a backplane. Something like the HP Moonshot ARM system or the way others like Google build high density compute with integrated Ethernet switchi

Rasberry pi - high density

2015-05-08 Thread charles
So I just crunched the numbers. How many pies could I cram in a rack? Check my numbers? 48U rack budget 6513 15U (48-15) = 33U remaining for pie 6513 max of 576 copper ports Pi dimensions: 3.37 l (5 front to back) 2.21 w (6 wide) 0.83 h 25 per U (rounding down for Ethernet cable space etc) =

Re: Thousands of hosts on a gigabit LAN, maybe not

2015-05-09 Thread charles
On 2015-05-09 11:57, Baldur Norddahl wrote: The standard 48 port with 2 port uplink 1U switch is far from full depth. You put them in the back of the rack and have the small computers in the front. You might even turn the switches around, so the ports face inwards into the rack. The network cab

Re: [eX-bulk] : Re: Rasberry pi - high density

2015-05-14 Thread charles
On 2015-05-13 19:42, na...@cdl.asgaard.org wrote: Greetings, Do we really need them to be swappable at that point? The reason we swap HDD's (if we do) is because they are rotational, and mechanical things break. Right. Do we swap CPUs and memory hot? Nope. Usually just toss the whole thin

Re: Low Cost 10G Router

2015-05-19 Thread charles
On 2015-05-19 14:23, Pavel Odintsov wrote: Hello! Somebody definitely should build full feature router with DPDK/netmap/pf_ring :) Netmap yes. The rest no. Why? Because netmap supports libpcap, which means everything just works. Other solutions need porting. You are going along, someone ment

Re: Low Cost 10G Router

2015-05-20 Thread charles
On 2015-05-20 08:17, Pavel Odintsov wrote: Hello! Ray, I could suggest switch from multi physical CPU configuration to single. Like Intel Xeon E5-1650/1660/1680 or even Xeon E3 platforms. Because multi processor systems need really huge amount of knowledge for NUMA configuration and PCI-E device

Re: Measuring DNS Performance & Graphing Logs

2015-05-21 Thread charles
On 2015-05-21 06:15, Zayed Mahmud wrote: I've tried cacti but failed to get desired logs. i've also tried bind graph...but it consumes too much memory in the long run. How constrained are your servers? What is "too much memory"? What logs are you looking for? Have you tried looking at the s

Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

2015-06-11 Thread charles
As someone who is under 35, this comment strikes a chord with me. I started self-studying networking when I was 15ish, yet I had to wait until I was 26 before I could get a full time job in the industry. I even had to move out of my home country. Getting a solid start in the industry was ex

Re: Ghosts in our 6 New Ubiquity Pros - provision issues.

2015-06-19 Thread charles
On 2015-06-19 05:01, Bob Evans wrote: Ubiquiti Networks UniFi UAP-PRO Enterprise WiFi System - hard to recommend at this point. We saw people mention this brand here on the list - people like them. So what could we have set incorrectly ? They drop link and re-provision on their own at odd times

Re: Ghosts in our 6 New Ubiquity Pros - provision issues.

2015-06-19 Thread charles
On 2015-06-19 08:51, Mel Beckman wrote: Bob, I've deployed tons of Ubiquiti gear, and have seen this problem before. It always turns out to be poor quality cable installation. POE does not tolerate low quality connectors, especially in outdoor environments. There are many aspects to a quality ca

Re: Ghosts in our 6 New Ubiquity Pros - provision issues.

2015-06-19 Thread charles
On 2015-06-19 11:57, Bob Evans wrote: Thank You Charles, Been on NANOG a while - all the basic stuff we know well. Like, cables, cluster occurrences etc. Looking for the UniFi specific experience. Its not the switches, power, cables, ports show no CRC issues etc. Sure. I've seen you a

Re: Ghosts in our 6 New Ubiquity Pros - provision issues.

2015-06-19 Thread charles
These two issues alone have caused me major issues with the devices randomly being unable to get new configurations or download firmware updates. Question. Once they have connected and are "happy", do they drop off (re provision) like Bob is mentioning? I'm still not entirely sure what is m

Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-26 Thread Charles
Twitter URL is an rss feed as well. --Original Message-- From: JoeSox To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax) Sent: Apr 26, 2009 8:08 PM On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mike Lewinski wrote: > We're experimenting with Twi

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Charles
This has been a fascinating theoritcal discussion.. how do existing providers hand out space? Hurricane electric (via its tunnel service) hands out a /64 by default and a /48 is a click away. How do other providers handle it? I'm in the us and only have native v4 connectivity :( Do the vari

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Charles
Re sending... I know operational content is frowned on :) ... However in an effort to avoid this thread getting kicked to the curb... we have just seen days of the same arguments between the same posters over and over. Let's gather some data on current operational (there's that evil word aga

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Charles
Thanks for the in depth reply. There have been many v6 threads and perhaps I haven't paid enough attention or looked hard enough for the answers. :) I will send a more detailed reply tomorrow when I'm at a mail client that can do in line replies. :) Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Re: Dynamic IP log retention = 0?

2009-03-11 Thread Charles
Hope you did that scan from covad. Lol. *ducks* Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Re: Dynamic IP log retention = 0?

2009-03-13 Thread Charles
Um Aren't dsl addresses handed out over ipcp? So perhaps a bit more static then dhcp? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Bobby Mac Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:57:56 To: Subject: Re: Dynamic IP log retention = 0? Just wondering but the knowledge I have of D

Re: Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-27 Thread Charles
Owamp? --Original Message-- From: Frank Bulk - iName.com To: 'Steve Bertrand' Cc: nanog@nanog.org ReplyTo: frnk...@iname.com Subject: RE: Gigabit speed test anybody? Sent: Mar 27, 2009 3:33 PM I believe there is an ITU standard for testing that could be looked at, but if you went with th

Re: [NANOG] Introducing latency for testing?

2008-05-02 Thread charles
Netem is a very cool tool! Thanks for mentioning it. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog

Re: [NANOG] BCP Muni WiFI?

2008-05-16 Thread charles
beros/radius/VPN deployment and how we load test/scale it. i have yet to see any existing information on the back end components specifically related to muni wifi. I would imagine standard documentation/white papers related to scaling a large enterprise wifi network apply. Charles --Ori

Re: IPV6 network feeds

2008-05-27 Thread charles
What kind of existing connectivity do you have? Who provides your local loop? Verizon provides ipv6 connectivity according to their website. At&t most likely does as well. Charles Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: "Mike Linsenmayer" <

Re: Anyone know Wiltel's EWAN service

2008-09-16 Thread charles
La as in Los Angeles? Or Louisiana? There we're numerous strange issues last night in Los Angeles with T-Mobile that were caused by att loosing some oc12 circuits. That could have affected other carriers I'm sure. --Original Message-- From: ChiYoung Joung To: nanog ReplyTo: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-22 Thread charles
When did this become slashdot? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Re: Fiber Cut in CA?

2010-02-02 Thread charles
That is one long protect path. Yikes. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Re: Ticket/Asset Managment system

2010-02-12 Thread charles
Have you looked into any cmdb systems? There are some good open source ones. Opencmdb.org I think. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Re: dns interceptors

2010-02-14 Thread charles
I run openvpn on my linux box to do exactly that. Already running apache/bind/postfix/xmpp with legacy Im bridges so adding openvpn was a logical next step. #protip run it on port 443. :) makes it much easier to get around firewalls. Even with deep packet inspection, SSL traffic is expected o

Re: dns interceptors

2010-02-14 Thread charles
l its vital for folks to have a deep familiarity with openvpn and best practices etc. --Original Message-- From: Randy Bush To: Charles Wyble Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: dns interceptors Sent: Feb 14, 2010 7:10 PM > I run openvpn on my linux box to do exactly that. i am in the

Re: dns interceptors

2010-02-14 Thread charles
Yes. Easy rsa is the way to go. They are normal certs. Check the scripts if you want to roll your own openssl wrapper scripts. --Original Message-- From: Larry Brower To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: dns interceptors Sent: Feb 14, 2010 7:44 PM Randy Bush wrote: > end user to network

Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN

2010-02-20 Thread charles
Alright can someone moderate this thread and shut it down please? --Original Message-- From: Tomas L. Byrnes To: andrew.wallace To: Randy Bush Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN Sent: Feb 20, 2010 7:49 PM Right, because GCHQ doesn't/hasn't/never would do such a th

Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread charles
Does it work with IPv6? --Original Message-- From: Marshall Eubanks To: nanog@nanog.org list Subject: FCC releases Internet speed test tool Sent: Mar 12, 2010 5:43 AM This might be useful to some. Article : http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B08720100312 site : http://www.broadb

Re: CSIRT - Backbone Security : Runtime Monitoring and DynamicReconfiguration for Intrusion Detection Systems

2010-03-17 Thread charles
Mods, Can we get the spam off the list? Its getting old. --Original Message-- From: Guillaume FORTAINE To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: CSIRT - Backbone Security : Runtime Monitoring and DynamicReconfiguration for Intrusion Detection Systems Sent: Mar 17, 2010 5:14 PM Misses, Misters, Le

Re: wow, lots of akamai

2021-04-06 Thread Charles Polisher
On 4/5/21 10:23 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, Jean St-Laurent via NANOG wrote: What happened is that it would create a kind of internal DDoS and they would all timed out and give a weird error message. Something very useful like Error Code 0x8098808 Please call our support l

Re: CIDR cleanup

2020-10-01 Thread Charles Cloughly
Not Perl, though this may be useful depending on your environment: https://github.com/rus-cert/compress-cidr The examples are for IPv6, though I use it to consolidate lists of IPv4 in a variety of jobs/scripts without issue. YMMV. From: NANOG on behalf of John Von Essen

Re: BGP Route Monitoring

2022-01-06 Thread Charles Monson
This sounds like something BMP might be useful for. I haven't used it, but I would look at OpenBMP (https://github.com/SNAS/openbmp) as a starting point. I'm not familiar with what commercial offerings are out there, but I'm sure there are some. On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 7:45 AM Sandoiu Mihai wrote:

Re: Geolocation data management practices?

2022-04-21 Thread Charles Polisher
lt;https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7942> RFC 8142: GeoJSON Text Sequences <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8142> RFC 8805: A Format for Self-Published IP Geolocation Feeds <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8805> RFC 9092: Finding and Using Geofeed Dat

Re: Issues with prefix / help needed

2023-03-27 Thread Charles Monson
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 9:05 AM Kevin McCormick wrote: > > IRR Explorer is showing RPKI-Invalid. Maybe RPKI is causing the issue or > there is an issue with IRR Explorer? > > https://irrexplorer.nlnog.net/prefix/86.104.228.0/24 > > I do see RIPE and Cloudflare are showing RPKI as valid. > > https

Re: [EXT] RE: Widespread Firefox issues

2019-05-04 Thread Charles Bronson
along! >#TooBigToFail. > > >C. I may be wrong and if so, I am happy to be corrected, but I don't think that statement is entirely true. The certificate not only encrypts the connection, it also verifies that you are connecting to the server you intend to. That second component is a security measure. Charles Bronson

Re: Gmail down

2016-07-05 Thread Charles Mills
saw it down as well. came back for me in < 5 minutes. On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: > Web interface is broken, downdetector sure sees activity. This attempt is > from mobile. > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > T

USDA IT Contacts?

2016-11-11 Thread Charles Gagnon
s.com). I have NO idea who to discuss this with. I could not even find a "Contact Us" to use on their website. Regards, -- Charles Gagnon http://unixrealm.com

Re: Youtube Outage

2018-10-16 Thread Charles Mills
The reports I've seen showing it as a worldwide outage. On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:14 PM Nathan Brookfield < nathan.brookfi...@simtronic.com.au> wrote: > Australia too…. > > > > *From:* NANOG *On Behalf Of *Oliver O'Boyle > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 17, 2018 1:08 PM > *To:* marshall.euba...@gma

Re: Backward Compatibility Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block

2024-01-19 Thread Charles Polisher
ens would have been well tolerated, even welcomed, in the "C Suite" anyways. -- Charles Polisher

Re: edgecast - lots of traffic at ~3:00 a.m.

2024-01-23 Thread Charles Monson
I'm seeing an uptick from Apple's AS6185, along with the usual CDNs, all around that time. Looks like there is a new iOS update (17.3). On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 9:19 AM Aaron Gould wrote: > > Anyone else see a lot of traffic inbound from the Internet last night > (early this morning) at ~3:00 a.m.

Re: Without further comment:

2024-04-01 Thread Charles Polisher
On 4/1/24 07:14, chris wrote: ROFL. networking is a stream of zeros and one's. You are either 0 or 1 :)) Completely ignoring the real hardware layer where it's all about eye diagrams, transitioning constantly. Between voltage levels. Or I guess lumens. Or phase shifts. Pick your poison^H^H^H

Re: SRI's Dan Lynch dies

2024-04-02 Thread Charles Spurgeon
loor were often available during the show as resources to answer questions or help with issues. As a result of Dan's efforts the Interop conferences were a very valuable resource both for attendees and vendors for a number of years. -Charles -- Charles Spurgeon c.spurg...@austin.utexas.e

Re: constant FEC errors juniper mpc10e 400g

2024-04-18 Thread Charles Polisher
On 4/18/24 11:45, Aaron Gould wrote: Thanks.  What "all the ethernet control frame juju" might you be referring to?  I don't recall Ethernet, in and of itself, just sending stuff back and forth.  Does anyone know if this FEC stuff I see concurring is actually contained in Ethernet Frames? 

RE: [EXT] Fwd: Re: problems sending to prodigy.net hosted email

2018-03-20 Thread Charles Bronson
If this isn't pertinent to the list, feel free to answer privately. How did you implement the server that got rid of ARP storms? Charles Bronson -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Satchell Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 9:31

Cleveland or Columbus Colocation?

2010-11-09 Thread Charles Mills
Can anyone from these areas recommend someone? I know Expedient is in Cleveland but would like others to look at as well. Feel free to contact me off list. Chuck

Re: ALT-DB Question

2010-12-08 Thread Charles Gucker
some sort of > way I can help get it processed? I submitted one over a year ago. Still not sure who's running it these days. charles

Re: AltDB? (IRR support & direction at ARIN)

2011-01-09 Thread Charles Gucker
ice, would love to see the authentication enhanced, but otherwise I don't have any complaints.I encourage others to use the service regularly and am glad to see it getting some attention, we just need to make sure to channel the attention into enhancements and not limitations. thanks, charles

United Airlines Technical Contact

2011-01-19 Thread Nathan Charles
Does anybody have a technical contact for United Airlines? I can't seem to get in touch with any of the phone numbers or email addresses listed in whois. Regards, Nathan Charles

United Airlines Technical Contact

2011-01-19 Thread Nathan Charles
Does anybody have a technical contact for United Airlines? I can't seem to get in touch with any of the phone numbers or email addresses listed in whois. Regards, Nathan Charles

Re: Cogent <-> Verizon peering congestion

2014-02-04 Thread Charles Gucker
address this on a daily basis until resolved. Our peering folks will continue to pester Verizon's non-commercial folks by requesting settlement free peers but until enough people complain to Verizon the requests will fall on deaf ears. thanks, charles

Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report

2014-04-28 Thread Charles Gucker
percent are just whoopsies that should be re-aggregated? > And of those TE routes, how many can be suppressed by way of BGP Communities with their respective upstream providers ... charles

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Charles Gucker
and Netflix is temporary, much like what happened between Comcast and Level(3). charles

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-14 Thread Charles Gucker
> But regardless of the financial arrangements, such a connection doesn't > require an ASN or BGP. In fact, it doesn't even require a registered IP > address at either end! A simple Ethernet connection (or a leased line of any > kind, in fact; it could just as well be a virtual circuit) and a stati

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-14 Thread Charles Gucker
numbers business, let them do it as it's their business, not yours. I will not respond further and we can let this thread finally die. - charles

Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-21 Thread Charles Morris
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:17:55PM -0700, George Herbert wrote: > >> Micron has some large-cap SLC drives in the chain for >> September/October/ish timeframes. >> >> Ramdisk with rsync or rdiffbackup to spinning storage will do just fine. > > O

Re: facebook spying on us?

2011-09-29 Thread Charles Mills
Could be something related to the earlier cookie controversy that was discussed. I did dig too deeply into exactly what they were doing however. Chuck On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Glen Kent wrote: > Hi, > > I see that i have multiple TCP sessions established with facebook. > They come up e

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Charles Mills
+1 On Oct 12, 2011 11:51 AM, wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:52:02 CDT, -Hammer- said: > > What kills me is what they have told the public. The lost a "core > > switch". I don't know if they actually mean network switch or not but > > I'm pretty sure any of us that work on an enterprise environme

Re: Severe Packet loss

2011-11-05 Thread Charles Mills
Cogent had some planned maintenance during the 2-4a timeframe. Furthermore there was some sluggishness and packet loss for some of my customers that *seemed* to be centered around Ashburn, VA around 9-9:30 but cleared up before I could get a good look at it or even before where it was situated.

packet loss out of Texas on Cogent and GlobalCrossing

2011-11-14 Thread Charles Gagnon
goes over gblx or cogent. Has anyone heard of problem with these carriers out of Texas? -- Charles Gagnon charlesg at unixrealm.com

Re: packet loss out of Texas on Cogent and GlobalCrossing

2011-11-14 Thread Charles Gagnon
t; > http://www.cogentco.com/en/network/looking-glass > http://www.globalcrossing.com/network/network_looking_glass.aspx > > We are connected to both providers, so everything is looking clean for us. > > Sincerely, > > Eric Tykwinski > TrueNet, Inc. > P: 610-429-8300 >

Re: Ok; let's have the "Does DNAT contribute to Security" argument one more time...

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Morris
Against my better judgment to get in the middle of this classic discussion, two points... One, many firewalls have fail-safe capabilities, in addition to fail-secure; even if they didn't it could be trivially programmed, or configured to do so in series, and as configuration is fairly arbitrary t

Re: First real-world SCADA attack in US

2011-11-21 Thread Charles Mills
Having worked on plenty of industrial and other control systems I can safely say security on the systems is generally very poor. The vulnerabilities have existed for years but are just now getting attention. This is a problem that doesn't really need a bunch of new legislation. It's an educati

Re: Network Configuration Management

2013-03-13 Thread Charles Mills
I've used Kiwi Cattools as well as some homegrown perl and shell script stuff for versioning / audit trails. Cattools works OK and scales. Unsure of pricing structure though. I never liked Ciscoworks for doing it even though it will manage your devices that way. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:51 A

Last mile multihoming

2013-03-24 Thread Charles Wyble
remote personnel in a non bgp enabled sp). Would love to hear what you folks think. -- Charles Wyble char...@thefnf.org / 818 280 7059 CTO Free Network Foundation (www.thefnf.org)

Re: Google Public DNS Problems?

2013-05-02 Thread Charles Gucker
t node I'm using. charles On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Joe Abley wrote: > > On 2013-05-02, at 11:51, Jay Ashworth wrote: > >> But since Perry's problem is *inability to resolve names in google's >> public zones*, the *path to the ZONE servers* is the thi

Re: What hath god wrought?

2013-05-20 Thread Charles Wyble
>More on the same topic. >http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/05/ragebooter-legit-ddos-service-or-fed-backdoor/#more-19475 > >Maybe the FBI use this to commit crimes in USA using a foreign company >as proxy so nothing dirty show on the books. That way the FBI can >avoid respecting USA laws

Re: What hath god wrought?

2013-05-20 Thread Charles Wyble
y kind of retaliation. They don't need to hide. Mike Hale wrote: >"Sue them?" >Uhm...yes? That's why we have courts that we can sue federal agencies >in. > >On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Charles Wyble > wrote: >> No proxy needed. No need to hide

Re: What hath god wrought?

2013-05-20 Thread Charles Wyble
al >> lawyers salivate. >> >> I'm not trying to call you out, btw. I'm genuinely curious why the >> hosting company itself didn't file suit. You've got a US Government >> agency abusing your resources and acting in a blatantly illegal >> manner.

Re: VPC=S/MLT?

2012-01-13 Thread Charles Spurgeon
1/ps9670/C07-572829-01_Design_N5K_N2K_vPC_DG.pdf -Charles Charles E. Spurgeon / UTnet UT Austin ITS / Networking c.spurg...@its.utexas.edu / 512.475.9265

Re: VPC=S/MLT?

2012-01-14 Thread Charles Spurgeon
www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9670/C07-572832-00_VMware_ESX4_Nexus_DG.pdf -Charles Charles E. Spurgeon / UTnet UT Austin ITS / Networking c.spurg...@its.utexas.edu / 512.475.9265

Re: Question regarding anycasting in CDN setup

2012-02-01 Thread Charles Gucker
e supplied to them globally on every server. So they use unicast servers behind a DNS based geo load balancer configuration. As for DNS, every anycasted node is expected to be able to resolve any DNS request that is made. It's all a matter of disk and acceptable delay in providing the data from the "closest" disk. charles

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-15 Thread Charles Mills
Not understanding RFC1918. Actually got read the riot act by someone because I worked for an organization that used 10.0.0.0/8 and that was "their" network and "they" owned it. Chuck 2012/2/15 Masataka Ohta > Mark Andrews wrote: > > > This doesn't prove that IPv6 is not operational. All it pr

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Charles Mills
I didn't even respond. I think many of these high-pressure-aggressive-types always have an answer like that conveniently vague enough as to give them an "out". On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: > > \o/ i got one too, i'l

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Charles Mills
I've been getting voicemails from someone, leaving a first name only saying they have question that only I can answer. Dangling bait like that is a big red flag so they don't get a callback. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Justin M. Streiner < strei...@cluebyfour.org> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-17 Thread Charles Mills
Original poster who started thread said he would. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:51 AM, -Hammer- wrote: > If you do, please share it. Thank you. > > > -Hammer- > > "I was a normal American nerd" > -Jack Herer > > > > On 2/17/2012 9:36 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > >> On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:29 AM, -Hammer-

Re: Muni Fiber

2012-03-27 Thread Charles Gucker
Municipalities and Telco's were written back in the 20's and 30's.So, the "restriction" would have to be put into terms of that agreement. But in the end, it's up to the Municipality to set the guidelines (as with any local law) within the borders of their Municipality. charles

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