Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

2011-08-04 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 01:14:52PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > *Really*? It bakes the endpoint MAC into the IP? Well, that's miserably > > poor architecture design. > > > > It can and it is a common default. It is not required. > > It's actually rather elegant architecture design for the goa

Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux

2011-08-24 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Brian Raaen wrote: > The only issue with this is that the Linux box is not acting as a router, but > as the egress devices.  I'm trying to figure out how to properly get my > application to 'color' the traffic.  standard BSD sockets appear to have no > concept

Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux

2011-08-24 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Jussi Peltola wrote: > Or exec your commands wrapped in route -T$TABLE exec $* FYI, on linux you can use 'ip netns exec'. The subcommand is rather new and you will only find it in the git repository. Greetings, Hannes

Re: RADB/RIR Scraper

2011-09-21 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 05:39:26AM -0700, Kate Gerry wrote: > I'm looking for a good utility that I can run locally to scrape RADB, ARIN, > other RIRs to add to my or customer prefix lists... Anybody have a good tool > for this? I currently end up visiting https://www.dan.me.uk/filtergen and > c

Re: RADB/RIR Scraper

2011-09-21 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:09:40PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > <http://www.lexa.ru/snar/bgpq/index_en.html> The url above links to the predecessor project. The code that I actually use is available here: <http://snar.spb.ru/prog/bgpq3/> Greetings, Hannes

Re: Google having issues?

2013-08-16 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:29:30PM +, win...@team-metro.net wrote: > I’m hearing reports of Google services (Search, Youtube, Mail, etc) going > down all over the place, providing extremely spotty service. Works fine for > me right now, but a lot of people seem to be having problems all over

end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-17 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
Hello! As the first IPv6 deployments for end-users are in the planning stage in Germany, I realized I have not found any BCP for handling addressing in those scenarios. IPv6 will make it a lot easier for static address deployments but I wonder weather this is in the best sense for the customers. A

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Marco Hogewoning wrote: > > On 18 aug 2010, at 01:12, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > >> prefer static addressing. But in the world of facebook and co. I >> wonder if it would be a better to let the user have the choice. A > > What does

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > For people who want to use DNS and run services, they'll most likely want a > static address/subnet that doesn't change in the first place (even though it > should be handed out via DHCPv6-PD for ease). If someone wants to be > anonymous

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > Haven't really thought about it before. > > One thing to consider is that unless the preferred and valid lifetimes > of an IPv6 prefix are set to infinity, IPv6 prefixes are always dynamic > - they'll eventually expire unless they're refreshed.

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > They help because you're concerned about privacy. You didn't qualify > that you're only concerned about privacy from geolocation services, so > I described a mechanism that would provide you as much privacy as > possible, while also being automa

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > Web portals work fine, and honestly, it's not like you need to switch > subnets, either. PPPoE/A implementations work great, as they are already > designed to utilize radius backends to quickly alter static/dynamic on a > session. For bridging s

Re: eBGP Multihop

2010-09-02 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Graham Beneke wrote: > I have been asked to investigate moving an entire network to multi-hop on > all the eBGP sessions. Basically all upstreams, downstreams and peers will > eBGP with a route reflector located in the core. This RR will be some kind > of quagga or