Flexible OTN / fractional 100GbE

2019-05-28 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
ork capacity is available. Is that something feasible at a decent price ? I've read that Broadcom' StrataDNX (Qumran / Jericho) chips have OTN support in addition to ethernet now, is there some vendor who leverages this, preferably with OCP gear ? Thanks ! -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Flexible OTN / fractional 100GbE

2019-05-28 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
We're not really working on the optical side of things, it's really just about replacing Ethernet wherever it's relevant. Regionnal to long-haul P2P links for that matter. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Flexible OTN / fractional 100GbE

2019-05-29 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
ces, with OSC and every muxponded ODU as sub-interfaces, and a new type of bridge to patch them to other ODUs or map them to ethernet service ports… Every sub-if having SNMP OIDs for load, FEC reporting and latency measurement. I hope it's a bit more clear now ? Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Flexible OTN / fractional 100GbE

2019-05-29 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
, running Cumulus Linux (or equivalent) with OTN+MEF extensions (also SRv6 to build a terastream-like network) on broadcom-based OCP switches would be far more efficient and versatile. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Flexible OTN / fractional 100GbE

2019-05-30 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
could bridge the gap, allowing for a more efficient use of optical bandwidth. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Flexible OTN / fractional 100GbE

2019-05-31 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
twork to fit functional needs or is technology still a barrier to efficient use-cases ? As an optimist, I chose the former, and love to engage in such debates with my peers, as long as I can avoid backward-thinking "We've always done it that way" assertions. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Flexible OTN / fractional 100GbE

2019-05-31 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
of the largest networks are already working on it, but it's "classified material" for now. I may as well postpone my deployment waiting for their R&D to be contributed to the OCP project, but I'd rather contribute instead. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

AWS 40/100G wholesale Express-Route ?

2019-06-24 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
ld we deal with that ? Is there an "off-market" offering for higher speed interconnects ? Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Circulator and LR4/ER4 (was Re: Tunable QSFP Optics)

2018-06-26 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
com/products/33364.html Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Linux BNG

2018-07-14 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
e we have to maintain. But I cleraly won't stand for an alternative to traditionnal offerings just yet : it's too critical, and it's a PITA to build from scratch and scale. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: AS205869, AS57166: Featured Hijacker of the Month, July, 2018

2018-07-25 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Hi Ronald, >From your initial list, I can still see some prefixes with the NLnog ring : http://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix_detail/lg01/ipv4?q=206.41.128.0 http://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix_detail/lg01/ipv4?q=52.128.192.0 http://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix_bgpmap/lg01/ipv4?q=206.222.128.0 Also http://lg.

Re: Best practices on logical separation of abuse@ vs dmca@ role inboxes

2018-08-06 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Hi Jack, Le 05/08/2018 à 21:51, na...@jack.fr.eu.org a écrit : > By "appropriate place", you mean "the trash bin" ? Nope, that would eat-up storage and IOs. The proper destination is /dev/null, unless they provide you with the required informations to send a bill. Be

Re: Best practices on logical separation of abuse@ vs dmca@ role inboxes

2018-08-06 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
one to another. If you have any right to give them a finger, please, on behalf of our community, give it to them. If not, please work harder on denouncing those indecent contracts. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution

2018-08-22 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
4) and are rarely polarization neutral, meaning a DP-QPSK coherent optic cannot be used. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

GGSN/PGW to LNS recommendations

2018-10-23 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
pointer or references ? Thanks ! -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
'd host their gear or provide VMs for them to announce on the local route-servers ? If not, what could be a reasonable technical arrangement ? Thanks ! -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
e issues to any content provider, not just for local ISPs. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
enarii should be on a research roadmap by SpaceX' standards, right ? ;-) Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
is supposedly sending pre-loaded servers, and I think that - in this location - it's gonna mean a lot already. The quastion is : how would the servers peer with local ISPs. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
d a way to make it work and as to meet extra requirements upon redundancy. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: route: 0.0.0.0/32 in LEVEL3 IRR

2024-02-08 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: EdgeRouter Infinity as medium-sized "IXP Peering Router"?

2017-07-07 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
*flow at line rate I wouldn't load one to 80g, but at 10-20G, it creates no bottleneck. The entire packet-pipeline is in software. IPFIX is not sampled, it's 1:1 only AFAIK. It's also lacking some features, meaning you'd need to filter through pmacct to add BGP informations. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: 100G - Whitebox

2017-08-21 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
ming as well as a complex VPLS fabric. This design is operating consistently on the Toulouse Internet Exchange since 2015 using Pica8's gear. So maybe a CLI and feature-full NOS will better suit your needs, but for an IXP, the programmatic approach has demonstrated to be working just fine. Bes

Re: Filter on IXP

2014-02-28 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
OpenFlow messages to push such filters to member ports ? Would there be any smat way to do that on non-OpenFlow enabled dataplanes (C6k...) ? Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Filter NTP traffic by packet size?

2014-02-28 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
bugs. I'd rather consider implementing ACLs on member ports to filter-out illegitimate prefixes (cannot do OpenFlow on cheap L2 switches :( ) rather than making BCP38 compliance mandatory. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Filter on IXP

2014-02-28 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Le 28/02/2014 17:00, Jay Ashworth a écrit : >> From: "Jérôme Nicolle" >> Instead, IXPs _could_ enforce BCP38 too. Mapping the route-server's >> received routes to ingress _and_ egress ACLs on IXP ports would mitigate >> the role of BCP38 offenders within me

Re: Filter on IXP

2014-02-28 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Hi Randy, Le 28/02/2014 17:15, Randy Bush a écrit : > clearly you have not been reading this list for very long Well... Busted. All things considered, there surelly has been more stupid proposals. -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Filter on IXP

2014-02-28 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
if a member provides transit, he will add its customer prefixes to RaDB / RIPEdb with appropriate route objects and the ACL will be updated accordingly. Shouldn't break there. -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report

2014-04-30 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
twork (no presence on public IXPs, poor transits...), renumbering critical services (DNS, MX, extranets) to one of their /24s and de-aggregating it could be a smart move. - -- Jérôme Nicolle -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbi

Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report

2014-04-30 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
op. Just because you have a reason does not make it OK. > And even when it is a good idea, most people implement it so poorly > as to cause unneeded harm. Alright, let's implement new policies at a RIR, IXPs and T1s levels to forbid anyone from de-agregation without no-exports. Culprits would fall under a three-strike policy before definitive de-peering and public humiliation. Who's with me ? :) -- Jérôme Nicolle

Graphical representation of a v6 address space usage

2011-06-20 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
surface. Did anyone see such a tool ? Thanks ! -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Address Assignment Question

2011-06-20 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
has been cathed doing nasty things AND didn't comply to abuse@ requests. But most RBL managers are shitheads anyway, so help them evade, that'll be one more proof of spamhaus &co. uselessness and negative impact on the Internet's best practices. -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Address Assignment Question

2011-06-20 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
to consider SMTP administration seriously rather than using default settings from the package maintainer... -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Address Assignment Question

2011-06-20 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
hose who performs thorough checks _before_ putting a legitimaite mail server in a blacklist, then i'd enjoy benchmarking it on a test domain. Just let me doubt it'll be of any good regarding how efficients is a properly managed mail server with just a few tech tricks. -- Jérôme Nicolle 06 19 31 27 14

Re: Address Assignment Question

2011-06-20 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
he use of RBLs and still provide a goode quality of service. It probably won't scale to comcast' or AOL' MXs but it's way better than relying on an external authority for your corporate or personnal mailserver. -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Address Assignment Question

2011-06-20 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
ing about amateurs using RBLs as a pre-processing hard filter. Using it with a scoring system isn't bad IMHO, depends on the weight you set to these rules. -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Address Assignment Question

2011-06-20 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
ard time reading "hey, my critical services are dependant of an external, centralized entity with no transparency and that's good for the Internet" without compulsive expressions including F. words. -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: [pfSense Support] Strange TCP connection behavior 2.0 RC2 (+3)

2011-06-28 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
. > I have tried the freebsd net mailinglist, but im hoping you lot can help me! > > Cheers in advance > Will > > - End forwarded message - > -- > Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org > __________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A  7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > > -- Jérôme Nicolle 06 19 31 27 14

Re: Strange static route

2011-09-25 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
s) helps avoiding these risks and yet lets you roughly balance load to several gateways. -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
r networks and how can this issue be regulated (either by common sense or law). Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM

2013-04-28 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
to take a stand and vote policies to reclaim address space from networks who are still not deploying IPv6 as those obviously don't want to be a part of the Internet anymore. -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: 80 km BiDi XFPs

2013-04-28 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
r such lenghts, you may need a chromatic dispersion compensator. [1] http://www.thorlabs.de/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=373 -- Jérôme Nicolle 06 19 31 27 14

Re: IX in France

2012-03-15 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
a commercial service from Orange / France Telecom (wich is selling AS3215 transit and peering there). -- Jérôme Nicolle 06 19 31 27 14

Re: shared address space... a reality!

2012-03-15 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Le 15/03/12 07:59, Randy Bush a écrit : > and i have configured two home LANs to use it So wrong... -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Flexible BGP liist?

2012-03-16 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
ts). If you just want to get a BGP feed for studies and statistics, with no forwarding involved, I guess I'd be willing to participate (AS197422). But an eBGP multihop session is enough, no need for a tunnel there. > And willing to allocate you space for same? Isn't any RIR memeber list

Reachability issue 193.56.43.0/24AS25186 from AS701

2012-04-02 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
is on AS1660 and the route breaks within AS701. Could anyone confirm the reachability for this prefix from the US ? Anyone at Verizon to check and fix if necessary ? Thanks ! -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Reachability issue 193.56.43.0/24AS25186 from AS701

2012-04-02 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Le 02/04/2012 20:03, Schiller, Heather A a écrit : > > Sent response offlist. Thanks a lot for your answers, got a few hints to nail it ;) -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: strat-1 gps

2012-07-11 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
This device does it all :) several models and options are available, ranging from $3k to $8k AFAIK. -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space

2012-07-14 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
outside of GUA, ULA our LLA scopes to avoid bug-hunting on poorly implemented IPv6 stacks. -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: large BCP38 compliance testing

2014-10-02 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
best practice, and could be considered a requirement enforced by transit providers. Or shouldn't it ? Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle

A case against vendor-locking optical modules

2014-11-17 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
x27;t read specs and SNMP, you shouldn't even try networking) ? Did you ever experience a shift in a vendor's position regarding the use of compatible modules ? Thanks ! -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: A case against vendor-locking optical modules

2014-11-17 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
uld be reached. Salesmen on the other hand have their own interest in both selling OEM modules to the corporate market, and unlocked equipments to the SP/telco market, to whom they won't sell anything otherwise. Is it unrealistic to hope for enough salesmen pressure on the corporate ladder to make such moronic attitude be reversed in the short term ? Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: A case against vendor-locking optical modules

2014-11-17 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Le 17/11/2014 21:09, ryanL a écrit : > kinda wish they had a similar undocumented command. Well, there is a command, and you can automate it's application. See https://gist.github.com/agh/932bbd1f74d312573925 . Can't tell if DOM is supported on 3rd party. -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: A case against vendor-locking optical modules

2014-11-17 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
ed manufacturers. It's probably fine in a pure DC environment with few locations and only one SFP+ type, but it's rapidly a total mess when you have to manage 40 channels for 3 module types over dozens of locations AND the added manufacturer specific pain-in-the-ass. -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: AW: AW: AW: /27 the new /24

2015-10-09 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
d network just yet, mostly for the lack of enough personnal confidence and experience with them, but havin endured nights of debugging with poor quality code in recent major player's routers, I doubt they're as misfits as you suggest. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Mikrotik in the DFZ (Was Re: AW: AW: /27 the new /24)

2015-10-09 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
vertheless, if you want do get deeper and have enough motivation to get past the technical difficulties, I'd gladly try to help into bringing an alternative OS to these box. Best regards, - -- Jérôme Nicolle -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2 Comment: GP

Re: Favorite GPON Vendor?

2015-11-10 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
t past 5+ chassis) On the financial aspects, well, it's surprisingly cheap as soon as you have to scale past the chinese pizabox OLTs. Over 9 trees out of a single PoP, you're definitely more effective with such devices. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: Inferring the location points of traffic exchange between two networks

2016-01-15 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
uters isn't a reliable metric (still a usefull indicator, YMMV) Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Equipment Supporting 2.5gbps and 5gbps

2016-01-28 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Le 28/01/2016 01:51, Baldur Norddahl a écrit : > Will we also get 2.5 Gbps fiber optics? SFP modules should support it? Why wouldn't you go straight to 10G ? -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Low density Juniper (or alternative) Edge

2016-02-02 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Gbps circuits per PoP. Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Low density Juniper (or alternative) Edge

2016-02-02 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
PE router, because ALU's FANT-F card lacks EoMPLS/ATOM/VPLS/E-VPN capabilities. I only use QinQ on its 4*10Gbps uplink ports. Any 80Gbps capable PE router would be fine, though. I choose the Mikrotik CRR1072 for its price and density. -- Jérôme Nicolle

About inetnum "ownership"

2016-02-22 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
ility over a shared and common immaterial resource, between community members. I'm wondering how did we made "Temporary and conditionnal liabality transfer" a synonym of "perpetual and inconditional usufruct transfer". May you please enlight me ? Thanks ! -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Leak or legit ? 11/8

2015-08-01 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
e. What do you think happened here ? Best regards, -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: /25's prefixes announced into global routing table?

2013-06-24 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
y run a real network with less than 30k route entries in your CAM... -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14

Re: /25's prefixes announced into global routing table?

2013-06-24 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
s you could actually multi-home a /32 now... - -- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHIsfsACgkQbt+nwQamihvQ8gCdFBEmNiK6XJvLy770bFG/nPa0 IwYAn3cWI4rul5eNvW2t944vOgk

Re: /25's prefixes announced into global routing table?

2013-07-01 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
ion policies and general behavior ? -- Jérôme Nicolle 06 19 31 27 14

Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day

2011-06-05 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
idth and infrastructure waste... -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day

2011-06-05 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
address from the correct pool when > they connect to the network.  This really isn't rocket science. Well, you can't open port25 on Orange's ADSL service ;) -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Why no IPv6-only day (Was: Protocol-41 is not the only tunneling protocol)

2011-06-06 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
bandwidth usage stats, unless eyeballs networks starts to make a major move towards IPv6 effective deployments. But honestly, while working mostly for eyballs networks, I can assure you even the largest ain't close to ready for such a move ;) -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Why no IPv6-only day (Was: Protocol-41 is not the only tunneling protocol)

2011-06-06 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
ers grew. Over the years to come, we'll still see some regions with a growing number of individual accesses while the well-connected regions will see their BW consumption grow even larger with new services. Isn't it what FTTH deployments all around the world are all about ? -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: Why don't ISPs peer with everyone?

2011-06-06 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
your peer's customer is one basic rule of peering agreements between tier-2 and 1 networks. It's a shame financial pragmatism makes the Internet less "meshy", and thus more fragile... -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: UN declares Internet access a "human right"

2011-06-06 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
ech and wider use of the Internet as a mean to let the people self-organize in a political process, thus avoiding violent revolutions What do you think is best ? -- Jérôme Nicolle

Re: automated router config back up

2011-06-06 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
http://redmine.nocproject.org/projects/noc/wiki 2011/6/7 Jon Heise : > Aside from rancid, what methods do people have for doing automated backups > and diffing of router configs ? > > - Jon Heise > -- Jérôme Nicolle 06 19 31 27 14

Re: Why don't ISPs peer with everyone?

2011-06-07 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
t certain traffic requirements for the > same reason. That's certainly a valid approach for direct (private) peering, it's not applicable to IXPs offering route servers. -- Jérôme Nicolle

Be aware of SLAAC adresses

2011-06-08 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
n IPv6 adresses ;) -- Jérôme Nicolle