Question for service providers regarding tenant use of public IPv4 on your infrastructure

2014-04-28 Thread Cliff Bowles
(accidentally sent this to nanog-request earlier, sorry if there is a double post) We are an enterprise and we do not yet have a sophisticated service-provider model yet for billing, capacity-management, or infrastructure consumption. We have a few vBlocks that we consume internally for IT/busi

BGP AS question

2011-10-27 Thread Cliff Bowles
Greetings. We have a few facilities within a 30 mile radius, and each has an ISP link. We use P2P links at the edge to make certain traffic sourcing from one facility, and destined to the Public IPs at another, stay on the "dirty" links rather than punting out to the ISP. All sites use the same

Need recommendations for high-feature, high-density L3 Switch

2015-02-09 Thread Cliff Bowles
We have some aging infrastructure and need to start budgeting next-gen. * The network has several small routers as individual edges to peers, WAN, SIP services. * It has a couple 6509s as Internet edge (full tables, 2 carriers, no transit, simple policies) * It has som

RE: NANOG Digest, Vol 65, Issue 74

2013-06-19 Thread Cliff Bowles
As stated, every vendor has its merits. If you really put some time into developing a list of requirements and then structure a bakeoff that tests those, you will learn a lot. Some things to think about: * don't let JUNOS or any other CLI deter you. You just need to factor in training and hirin

RE: NANOG Digest, Vol 66, Issue 60

2013-07-24 Thread Cliff Bowles
+1 on the Cyclades (Avocent). We have about 8 of them spread across 3 data centers. We've used them for roughly 4-5 years. Won't say they are intuitive to set up, but once they are, they work well. Don't think I've seen one go down, but then again, they aren't subject to much change. Cost was pr

Dynamic routing through firewall

2013-11-20 Thread Cliff Bowles
Request for feedback... We have a need for an external partner to dynamically advertise their network to us in two separate data centers. The hitch is that, touching external partners, our edge routers for B2B partners reside in DMZs. Now, to ensure failover from one data center to another when

IPv6 /48 advertisements

2013-12-18 Thread Cliff Bowles
I accidentally sent this to nanog-request yesterday. I could use some feedback from anyone that can help, please. Question: will carriers accept IPv6 advertisements smaller than /48? Our org was approved a /36 based on number of locations. The bulk of those IPs will be in the data centers. As w

RE: IPv6 /48 advertisements

2013-12-18 Thread Cliff Bowles
I had a feeling... thanks for the feedback. CWB From: Blake Dunlap [mailto:iki...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:32 AM To: Edward Dore Cc: Cliff Bowles; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 /48 advertisements Regardless of the carriers, you'll find most ASs on the internet