ISP inbound failover without BGP

2014-03-03 Thread Eric A Louie
This may sound like dumb question, but... I'm used to asking those. Here's the scenario Another ISP, say AT&T, is the primary ISP for a customer. Customer has publicly accessible servers in their office, using the AT&T address space. I am the customer's secondary ISP. Now, if AT&T link fails,

Re: ISP inbound failover without BGP

2014-03-03 Thread Eric A Louie
That's a good point Ray - thank you. > > From: Ray >To: Matthew Crocker ; Eric A Louie > >Cc: NANOG >Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 6:31 PM >Subject: RE: ISP inbound failover without BGP > > > > >Depending on their bu

Re: ISP inbound failover without BGP

2014-03-03 Thread Eric A Louie
er - "How come AT&T is down, and we're not getting inbound traffic to our servers?", and I discover L3 or CenturyLink isn't accepting my advertisement for some weird reason, but they won't fess up to it for a few frustrating hours) >____

Re: Kit to split a 19" closet?

2014-04-12 Thread Eric A Louie
Divided into vertical sections, it requires a new set of hinges and doors and lock slots front and rear, as well as solid shelves between the sections.  Think about it for a moment, or go visit your nearest colocation center and ask to see a 1/2 or 1/3 rack.  I actually have a 1/3 rack at one of

MPLS product offering questions

2014-07-10 Thread Eric A Louie
My company is investigating offering MPLS service in a very limited regional area. We're interested in any input in the following: Pricing strategy Order form Operational considerations Service level agreements If you have something to offer, on or off-list responses are invited. thanks Eric

IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP

2012-12-13 Thread Eric A Louie
I'm looking for IPAM solutions for a small regional wireless ISP. There are 4 Tier 2 personnel and 2 NOC technicians who would be using the tool, and a small staff of engineers. They have regionalized IP addresses so blocks are local, but there are subnets that are global. don't care if it's

Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP

2012-12-13 Thread Eric A Louie
g/ is the one I used. I've looked at IPPLan but have not installed it yet. Does anyone with direct experience with it care to share their view? Much appreciated, Eric From: Aftab Siddiqui To: Eric A Louie Cc: NANOG Operators' Group Sent: Thu

Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP

2012-12-13 Thread Eric A Louie
ut there who want to comment? Much appreciated, Eric From: Nick Hilliard To: Aftab Siddiqui Cc: Eric A Louie ; NANOG Operators' Group Sent: Thu, December 13, 2012 2:25:10 AM Subject: Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP On 13/12/2012 10

Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP

2012-12-13 Thread Eric A Louie
upports v4 and v6. It's available on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/subnetsmngr/?source=directory Jeremy Malli Mammoth Networks On 12/12/2012 6:22 PM, Eric A Louie wrote: > I'm looking for IPAM solutions for a small regional wireless ISP. There are 4 > Tier 2 perso

Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP

2012-12-13 Thread Eric A Louie
It looks like it's hosted only - true? That's neither a good or bad - but the MRC could be a concern. Much appreciated, Eric From: Mike Walter To: Eric A Louie ; "nanog@nanog.org" Sent: Thu, December 13, 2012 12:25:44 PM Sub

Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP

2013-01-23 Thread Eric A Louie
Only if you install it for me, Pierre! :-) (I'm not a sysadmin, I just play one on the Internet) Software prerequisite Netmagis needs the following software:(not the usual yada yada yada, to quote Google) Much appreciated, Eric From: Pierre DAVID To: NA

Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP

2013-01-23 Thread Eric A Louie
Thanks James. We just activated a demo with 6Connect last week. We'll see how it goes. Much appreciated, Eric From: James Wininger To: Eric A Louie Cc: "" Sent: Mon, December 17, 2012 8:56:53 AM Subject: Re: IP Address Management IPAM sof

Colo recommendations

2013-04-16 Thread Eric A Louie
I'm investigating colocation space in the following cities Irvine, CA San Francisco, CA Las Vegas, NV Phoenix, AZ Does anyone have recommendations for (or against) any specific colo? I'll need 1/3 rack, 16 amp power (or 8 amp 220V), fiber cross to 1GB ISP upstream (haven't chosen the ISP yet,

Recommendations, Colo Reno, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Las Vegas

2014-09-02 Thread Eric A Louie
Does anyone have recommendations for Colocation space in any of those 4 cities? thanks Eric

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-28 Thread Eric A Louie
how is that really much different than "reachability"?  If I look at my present Netflow results, it's actually a pretty amusing mix - lots of Netflix traffic (bear in mind we're a business ISP, not residential), Google (probably YouTube in there, I haven't dissected it thoroughly), Amazon, Yahoo

Re: minimum IPv6 announcement size

2013-09-30 Thread Eric A Louie
"...and leave my BN alone, please - go play with the AGS" > > From: "valdis.kletni...@vt.edu" >To: Ben >Cc: nanog@nanog.org >Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 7:40 AM >Subject: Re: minimum IPv6 announcement size > > >On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:05:01 +0100, Ben sa

Re: Phoenix - Single Mode SFP GBIC

2013-10-07 Thread Eric A Louie
try calling the local datacenters and see if one of them will "loan" you one for a day or two. > > From: Chris Cariffe >To: NANOG >Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:19 PM >Subject: Phoenix - Single Mode SFP GBIC > > >Any chance someone can help me out with

Re: Need offlist contact for relay.globetrotter.net

2013-10-10 Thread Eric A Louie
Have you tried the (possible stale) info from ARIN? http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/DS538-ARIN.html > > From: Alain Hebert >To: 'NANOG list' >Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 9:06 AM >Subject: Need offlist contact for relay.globetrotter.net > > >    Well, >

Re: Network configuration archiving

2013-10-24 Thread Eric A Louie
I know you said open source, but we're using Solarwinds Cattools with very good results.  We also have Rancid running in the background. > > From: Job Snijders >To: nanog@nanog.org >Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 2:25 PM >Subject: Network configuration arch

BGP neighbor/configuration testing

2013-11-20 Thread Eric A Louie
Scenario: a regional ISP preparing to cutover to a new upstream BGP provider at one of my POPs.  Want minimal or no network disruption, and want to ensure everything is ready to go prior to the cutover.  I'm planning to use the following order of operations: 1. Establish IP connectivity to the n

Re: BGP neighbor/configuration testing

2013-11-25 Thread Eric A Louie
h tcp brief all" and "sh tcp" - we are not getting the TCP connection to stay up. Has anyone seen this series of messages on a Cisco/Juniper BGP session?  Any resolution? >________ > From: Joe Abley >To: Eric A Louie >Cc: "nanog@

Re: BGP neighbor/configuration testing

2013-11-25 Thread Eric A Louie
/05/lucy-you-got-some-splainin-to-do.html >____ > From: Daniel Rohan >To: Eric A Louie >Cc: Joe Abley ; "nanog@nanog.org" >Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:55 AM >Subject: Re: BGP neighbor/configuration testing > > >

Re: BGP neighbor/configuration testing

2013-11-25 Thread Eric A Louie
ovember 25, 2013 11:10 AM >Subject: Re: BGP neighbor/configuration testing > > >Authentication failure might mean (without knowing for sure which on >Cisco): > >- mismatch AS numbers >- mismatch neighbor IP addresses >- multihop/TTL issues >- MTU issues > >On

Re: BGP neighbor/configuration testing

2013-11-25 Thread Eric A Louie
mit for >the session.  One side will get stuck in Idle state which may cause >the other side to send the same "authentication failure" notification. > >On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 03:07:28PM -0800, Eric A Louie wrote: >> All Cisco/Cisco, I don't have a Juniper here to test with &

Re: BGP neighbor/configuration testing

2013-11-26 Thread Eric A Louie
doing 2 more times next month. >____ > From: Eric A Louie >To: "nanog@nanog.org" >Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 5:21 PM >Subject: Re: BGP neighbor/configuration testing > > >No logged error with mismatched neighbor IP address - neither router had an

Re: Anyone competent within AT&T Uverse?

2013-12-03 Thread Eric A Louie
Ask to be escalated to Tier 2.  If they can't help, ask for another escalation.  Show them traceroutes if you can (maybe from your phone or from one of us) from other networks so they can see where it's dying. > > From: Phil Karn >To: NANOG >Sent: Tuesday,

Re: BGP from Juniper to Cisco ASR

2013-12-18 Thread Eric A Louie
When I had that problem, it was because the max-prefixes on the Juniper router was being triggered.   If I remember correctly.  It's a strange return message for the wrong issue. > > From: Philip Lavine >To: NANOG list >Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 7:

Re: BGP from Juniper to Cisco ASR

2013-12-18 Thread Eric A Louie
When I had that problem, it was because the max-prefixes on the Juniper router was being triggered.   If I remember correctly.  It's a strange return message for the wrong issue. > > From: Philip Lavine >To: NANOG list >Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 7:

best practice for advertising peering fabric routes

2014-01-14 Thread Eric A Louie
I have a connection to a peering fabric and I'm not distributing the peering fabric routes into my network. I see three options 1. redistribute into my igp (OSPF) 2. configure ibgp and route them within that infrastructure.  All the default routes go out through the POPs so iBGP would see packe

Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes

2014-01-14 Thread Eric A Louie
;t" do this. > >-- >TTFN, >patrick > > >On Jan 14, 2014, at 21:22 , Christopher Morrow wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Cb B wrote: >>> On Jan 14, 2014 6:01 PM, "Eric A Louie" wrote: >>>> >>>> I have a conn

Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes

2014-01-14 Thread Eric A Louie
c prefixes coming from the other fabric members. > > From: Eric A Louie >To: Patrick W. Gilmore ; NANOG list >Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 10:22 PM >Subject: Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes > > >Thank you - I wi

Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes

2014-01-14 Thread Eric A Louie
et the BGP tables working correctly with a full mesh of the 5 routers, so it looks like time to try it again, this time with a route reflector.  > > From: Christopher Morrow >To: Eric A Louie >Cc: Patrick W. Gilmore ; NANOG list >Sent: Tuesda

Dark fiber providers, Southern California

2014-01-20 Thread Eric A Louie
Who would I start talking to if I wanted to lease "dark fiber" from point to point? I'm located in San Diego and am interested in leasing fiber from major datacenters in SD and LA I found Freedom Telecommunications (http://freedomtelecommunications.com) - doubtless there are others I can and

What services does Microsoft AS8075 provide when peering at IXPs?

2016-04-03 Thread Eric A Louie via NANOG
I had this question posed by a marketing type in my office.  Does anyone know the answer? Is it microsoft.com, msdn, outllook365, msn.com, outlook.com, azure, windows updates, xbox?  what else is possibly covered or omitted in their peering service?  I suppose we have a customer who is an Azure

Re: What services does Microsoft AS8075 provide when peering at IXPs?

2016-04-03 Thread Eric A Louie via NANOG
access. On Sunday, April 3, 2016 4:04 PM, "valdis.kletni...@vt.edu" wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2016 18:02:56 -, Eric A Louie via NANOG said: > I suppose we have a customer who is an Azure customer that wants to know if > their Azure traffic will stay in our networ