RE: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Eric Wieling
Make the regulation and force of arms be as targeted as reasonable. In the case of telecommunications as targeted as reasonable means the "last mile" or, more correctly, the "local loop".I advocate stringent ongoing oversight and regulation of the local loop and very little regulation for

RE: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-24 Thread Eric Wieling
Yes, that is exactly what IPv6 expects of us. The only surprising part is by all indications the IPv6 designers did not think this would be a problem. -Original Message- From: William Herrin [mailto:b...@herrin.us] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 1:14 PM To: Joe Greco Cc: nanog@nanog.or

RE: AT&T / Verizon DNS Flush?

2014-04-16 Thread Eric Wieling
Be grateful it is only 48 hours.Verzion (not Verizon Wireless) frequently has multi-week outages affecting multiple customers in the NYC area. One of the DS3s some customer circuits ride only works when there is no usage. Once there is usage massive errors occur. This has been going on f

RE: Requirements for IPv6 Firewalls

2014-04-22 Thread Eric Wieling
It seems to me you are saying we should get rid of firewalls and rely on applications network security. This is so utterly idiotic I must be misunderstanding something.There are a few things we can count on in life, death, taxes, and application developers leaving giant security holes in th

RE: FTTH CPE landscape

2011-08-05 Thread Eric Wieling
> -Original Message- > From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:j...@baylink.com] > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 1:47 PM > To: NANOG > Subject: Re: FTTH CPE landscape > > - Original Message - > > From: "Owen DeLong" > > > > It differs from a bridge in that *it requires a chunk of routable IP

RE: Verizon Business - LTE?

2011-08-12 Thread Eric Wieling
>-Original Message- >From: Charles N Wyble [mailto:char...@knownelement.com] >Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 11:26 PM >To: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: Verizon Business - LTE? > >On 08/12/2011 10:23 PM, Ryan Finnesey wrote: >> Does anyone know if Verizon Business is using the Verizon Wirel

RE: Verizon Business - LTE?

2011-08-16 Thread Eric Wieling
As I understand it, data on a smartphone is "unlimited", but data on a non-phone device (called Broadband Access) is capped at 5GB. At one time if you went over 5GB on a "broadband access" account they simply terminated your account. This happened to me. Then a class action lawsuit happene

RE: What do you do when your Home ISP is down?

2011-08-18 Thread Eric Wieling
Obligatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/806/ -Original Message- From: Jay Nakamura [mailto:zeusda...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:06 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: What do you do when your Home ISP is down? Anyway, one time, I had a problem with a DSL line with AT&T, which h

RE: How to begin making my own ISP?

2011-09-16 Thread Eric Wieling
I think the question was far too vague. The first thing you need to start an ISP is LOTS OF MONEY. -Original Message- From: hass...@hushmail.com [mailto:hass...@hushmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 2:10 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: How to begin making my own ISP? No

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Eric Wieling
>-Original Message- >From: Peter Kristolaitis [mailto:alte...@alter3d.ca] >Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 4:53 PM >To: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if >you can. > > (Note: I don't mean to imply that all cops are power hungry

RE: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

2012-12-21 Thread Eric Wieling
The only thing I would change about RJ-45 is a longer tab (but make it optional) for when you care more about ease of removal than cable tangles. Polycom phones are hell to try and unplug the RJ-45, for example. -Original Message- From: Naslund, Steve [mailto:snasl...@medline.com] Sen

RE: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Eric Wieling
In the past the ISP simply needed a nice big ATM pipe to the ILEC for DSL service. The ILEC provided a PVC from the customer endpoint to the ISP. As understand it this is no longer the case, but only because of non-technical issues. We currently use XO, Covad, etc to connect to the customer

RE: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Eric Wieling
:mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 7:42 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2? Eric Wieling wrote: > In the past the ISP simply needed a nice big ATM pipe to the > ILEC for DSL service. The ILEC provided a PVC from the > customer

RE: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-06 Thread Eric Wieling
: Muni fiber: L1 or L2? Eric Wieling wrote: > I don't think it is that much more expensive to allow other ISPs an > ATM PVC into their network. Wrong, which is why ATM has disappeared. > ATM may not be the best technology to do this, It is not. > but the basic concept is no

RE: Interesting debugging: Specific packets cause some Intel gigabit ethernet controllers to reset

2013-02-06 Thread Eric Wieling
I have come to believe the Intel 82574L is the worst Ethernet chip in the universe.We had horrible issues with it (random bursts of dropped packets showing in ifconfig). We ended up simply putting a card based on a different chip into our systems and all our issues went away. -Original

RE: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-06 Thread Eric Wieling
Putting routers and DLAMs each CO is simply not affordable for any but the largest providers like XO.I expect Japan with its compact population centers may be different, but in the USA there are not enough people connected to any but the largest COs to make it affordable.I'm not stuck on

RE: internet in the box

2013-03-08 Thread Eric Wieling
plus overage fees 8-) -Original Message- From: Philip Lavine [mailto:source_ro...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 3:20 PM To: joel jaeggli; NANOG list Subject: Re: internet in the box so : Cradlepoint with 3 x USB Modems -> Cisco2900 with integrated WLC and 6 AP's __

RE: KVM

2013-04-24 Thread Eric Wieling
We have an Adderlink box. It sometime doesnnnt see ey up events. -Original Message- From: Derrick H. [mailto:na...@lacutt.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:02 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: KVM On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 05:36:37PM -0400, shaw

RE: Louisiana Optical Network Initiative

2013-05-02 Thread Eric Wieling
Blocking ICMP packet-too-big packets (or other ICMP which might break PMTU) on your firewall, perhaps? -Original Message- From: Thomas Cannon [mailto:tcan...@beatsmusic.com] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 5:55 PM To: John D Caffery Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Louisiana Optical Network

RE: Looking for some diversity in Alabama that does not involve ATT Fiber

2012-03-21 Thread Eric Wieling
I don't know about AT&T, but Verizon physically removes the copper connections when they install fiber into a building. Oddly, this is legal. Verizon is required to open up their copper to CLECs, but not fiber. The only option at that point is cable or wireless. -Original Message- F

RE: Looking for some diversity in Alabama that does not involve ATT Fiber

2012-03-21 Thread Eric Wieling
in Alabama that does not involve ATT Fiber - Original Message - > From: "Eric Wieling" > I don't know about AT&T, but Verizon physically removes the copper > connections when they install fiber into a building. Oddly, this is > legal. Verizon is required

RE: Verizon, FiOS, and CLEC/UNE orders (was AT&T diversity)

2012-03-21 Thread Eric Wieling
>> From: "Eric Wieling" Verizon, the copper wireline >> company, is removing service from locations EVERY TIME VZ fiber is >> installed in a building. This prevents other companies from providing >> service by leasing Verizon's copper infrastructure. If there

RE: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)

2012-03-22 Thread Eric Wieling
-Original Message- From: Keegan Holley [mailto:keegan.hol...@sungard.com] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:41 PM To: Jared Mauch Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al) 2012/3/22 Jared Mauch > > On Mar 22, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Keegan

RE: Operation Ghost Click

2012-05-02 Thread Eric Wieling
I doubt the g729 or GSM codecs used by VoIP and Cell phones can compare to a POTS line. -Original Message- From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 3:43 PM To: Jeroen van Aart Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Operation Ghost Click wow, 1990 muc

RE: Need (to acquire or sell) IPv4? Come to SpaceMarket.

2012-05-30 Thread Eric Wieling
Anyone who spams, regardless of how great their product is, does not get my business nor the business of anyone else who will listen to me. -Original Message- From: Scott Howard [mailto:sc...@doc.net.au] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:16 AM To: Timothy McGinnis Cc: nanog@nanog.org Su

Cat Humor

2012-06-04 Thread Eric Wieling
I'm not looking for help, just thought this was hilarious. "Mark called in from XO he stated a tech was on site and found out that client used a CAT 6 cable instead of a CAT 5 cable and XO doesn't have a "connecting piece" for the CAT 6 cable. he stated if client gets a wire/cable guy out there

RE: Domain changer statistics by ASN

2012-07-05 Thread Eric Wieling
A report for a day other than the 4th of July would be very helpful. -Original Message- From: Andrew Fried [mailto:andrew.fr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 5:26 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Domain changer statistics by ASN As many of you probably know, the replacement nam

RE: Domain changer statistics by ASN

2012-07-05 Thread Eric Wieling
, 2012 5:45 PM To: Eric Wieling Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Domain changer statistics by ASN We have data going back to November 8, 2011. Generating a report of over 2,000 ASNs, by day, would be too large an attachment for NANOG. I'll produce a follow up report in less than 3 hours with

RE: cost of misconfigurations

2012-08-02 Thread Eric Wieling
I do not think occasional outages cause significant loss of customers. Customers get angry easily, but once an issue is fixed, they get happy quickly. Customers have very short memories and the cost and hassle of changing services is often significant. Outages are never good, but it is better

RE: Testing 1gbps bandwidth

2012-08-14 Thread Eric Wieling
Is there a speedtest.net-like site you like? -Original Message- From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:n...@foobar.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:09 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Testing 1gbps bandwidth On 14/08/2012 15:43, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > case trying to use one of th

Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags

2012-08-20 Thread Eric Wieling
For a while we have had a customer with some lines which go down every time it rains. We put in the trouble ticket, a couple of days later Verizon says the issue is resolved...until the next time it rains. The customer sent us some pictures today of the pole outside their office. The repai

RE: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags

2012-08-20 Thread Eric Wieling
; On Aug 20, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Harry Hoffman wrote: > >> What? That's totally legit. Look! There's even bubble wrap there for >> cushioning! ;-) >> >> On 08/20/2012 03:09 PM, Eric Wieling wrote: >>> For a while we have had a customer with some line

RE: Comcast vs. Verizon for repair methodologies

2012-08-21 Thread Eric Wieling
This is an example of what is really wrong. The install tech usually does a good job (there are exceptions, of course), but then the outside plant people drop the ball. I appreciate it when a repair or install tech does whatever is needed to get the service up and running. What I don't apprec

RE: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags

2012-08-22 Thread Eric Wieling
ugust 22, 2012 11:58 AM To: Wayne E Bouchard Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Wayne E Bouchard wrote: >> > On 08/20/2012 03:09 PM, Eric Wieling wrote: >> >> http://rock.nyigc.net/verizon/

RE: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags

2012-08-22 Thread Eric Wieling
that. -Original Message- From: sme...@gmail.com [mailto:sme...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Steve Meuse Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 12:31 PM To: Eric Wieling Cc: William Herrin; Wayne E Bouchard; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Contact your Publ

RE: URGENT - ISP/Telecom

2012-09-25 Thread Eric Wieling
Heh, yesterday I received notification from Verizon that they replaced plastic bags, bubble wrap and electrical tape with a real enclosure. -Original Message- From: John Mitchell [mailto:mi...@illuminati.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 12:36 PM To: NANOG list (nanog@nanog.org) S

RE: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-27 Thread Eric Wieling
Since we all know that on the Internet "the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents", I think saying "guys" is OK. -Original Message- From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:j...@baylink.com] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:39 PM To: NANOG Subject: Re: guys != gender neut

RE: fire ants

2014-08-12 Thread Eric Wieling
I've used mothballs* in outside enclosures each spring, but I've never had a full blown nest in an enclosure.Fireants are hard to kill, but they will move their nest. * naphthalene, para-dichlorobenzene, p-dichlorobenzene, pDCB, or PDB -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-b

RE: Service provider T1/PPP question

2013-06-28 Thread Eric Wieling
-Original Message- From: Mike [mailto:mike-na...@tiedyenetworks.com] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 8:26 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Service provider T1/PPP question On 06/28/2013 12:56 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote: > > I think this post seems like a flashback. I would not consider a

RE: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-12 Thread Eric Wieling
Suspecting your spouse of cheating is much different than coming home and finding them in bed with someone. -Original Message- From: Grant Ridder [mailto:shortdudey...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:40 PM To: Rodrick Brown Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Office 365..? h

Looking for Juniper P-1GE-SFP-QPP in NYC area

2013-10-24 Thread Eric Wieling
We had a P-1GE-SFP-QPP card go out today, looking for a source in the NYC area to get it replaced ASAP. Thanks!