RE: Software for circuit documentation

2016-04-18 Thread Paul Stewart
It's now called "Ericsson Adaptive Inventory" if I'm not mistaken... Paul -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Chris Garrett Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 11:50 AM To: Manuel Marín Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Software for circuit documentation Granite

Re: Any ISPs using AS852 for IP Transit?

2016-10-03 Thread Paul Stewart
To confirm AS852 and AS577 don’t charge $dayjob for prefix changes …. they both do them manually though which is a pain :( > On Sep 15, 2016, at 4:09 PM, Theodore Baschak wrote: > > I don't think this is standard across the board with Telus. > > I've also heard (rumours?) of a similar $250 pr

Re: Bell Canada contact - need help with DNS issue

2016-11-22 Thread Paul Stewart
Try dnsad...@bell.ca ? I haven’t used that address in quite some time but someone did respond to it some time ago Paul > On Nov 19, 2016, at 11:13 AM, Rich Lafferty wrote: > > > Hi, > > Does anyone have a NOC or DNS administrator contact at Bell Canada? Their > T

Re: TekSavvy (Canada) contact

2018-08-29 Thread Paul Stewart
Thnx all - already reached out  Paul  Get Outlook for iOS On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 6:05 PM -0400, "Mike Hammett" wrote: "Paul Stewart&q

Re: TekSavvy (Canada) contact

2018-08-30 Thread Paul Stewart
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" Subject: Re: TekSavvy (Canada) contact Thnx all - already reached out Paul Get Outlook for iOS On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 6:05 PM -0400, "Mike Hammett" wrote: "Paul Stewart" He's on AFMUG too. - Mike Hammett Inte

Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge

2018-12-02 Thread Paul Stewart
Yeah similar experience here …. But we’ve had that fee for a number of years applied. Hibernia as well has been charging us for it since long ago …. ACI – yup going downhill in a hurry ;( From: NANOG on behalf of Clayton Zekelman Date: Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 5:30 PM To: Matt Harris Cc:

Re: IP Dslams

2018-12-31 Thread Paul Stewart
+1 for Adtran TA5000 .. we use them, my former employer uses them with great success. There’s also the Calix series of gear that is quite good too … From: NANOG on behalf of Erik Sundberg Date: Monday, December 31, 2018 at 2:31 PM To: Nick Edwards Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: RE: IP Dsl

Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

2017-08-16 Thread Paul Stewart
Never really heard a lot about it …. We never lost connectivity to Halifax from Montreal via Hibernia - interesting topic though as we have a backup path that I’m looking to replace :) Paul > On Aug 15, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Rod Beck wrote: > > Did we ever get any resolution on why this was suc

Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

2017-08-16 Thread Paul Stewart
It wasn’t an issue getting transatlantic - it was an issue within a relatively small region in Eastern Canada talking to the rest of the world for certain carriers. There were several smaller carriers/providers not affected - just happens the local incumbent telco and one of their larger compet

Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

2017-08-24 Thread Paul Stewart
t; There is some high level of dependence on some equipment in Quebec and/or > westward which should not be there. > > A double fault like that should not knock out all local service for 4 out of > 10 provinces. I would expect that an architectural review is under way. > > >

Re: IOS new versions and network load

2017-09-17 Thread Paul Stewart
Apple does use CDN’s and does peer quite a bit as well.. What I have seen is our peering with Apple goes to a certain level of bandwidth and then spills over to CDN’s that we are either peered with or have on-net caches. From our network perspective it’s simply a matter of ensuring there is en

Re: IOS new versions and network load

2017-09-18 Thread Paul Stewart
Curious as mentioned if anyone doing this on scale? I kind of doubt it but love to hear otherwise. My assumption is this is more Enterprise focused than ISP Paul Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 18, 2017, at 8:48 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > > We've been looking into the caching server bit latel

RE: Level3 filter updates

2010-10-05 Thread Paul Stewart
Normally it's done every night (overnight)... that's been our experience... Paul -Original Message- From: Florin Veres [mailto:flo...@futurefreedom.ro] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:42 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Level3 filter updates Hey guys, Anyone knows how often does Lev

RE: Why is your company treating IPv6 turn ups as a sales matter?

2010-11-18 Thread Paul Stewart
We treat it as a technical request - a MAC of sorts. The only time we would treat it as a sales matter is when the customer requires technical assistance with their configuration or network design (different matter). Paul -Original Message- From: William Herrin [mailto:b...@herrin.us]

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Paul Stewart
Pardon my ignorance here but what does Comcast do for the NANOG community? I know they attend many conferences and share their experiences with a lot of us which is very much appreciated... Just asking ;) -Original Message- From: Backdoor Parrot [mailto:backdoorpar...@hotmail.com] Sent:

RE: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

2011-01-10 Thread Paul Stewart
Cisco shop here that is avidly converting to Juniper. Paul -Original Message- From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon@brandontek.com] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:32 AM To: nanog group Subject: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you? Hello gents: I wanted to put this out there fo

PPPOE vs DHCP

2011-01-25 Thread Paul Stewart
Hey folks... I'm meeting with a customer tomorrow (service provider, rural telco) and we're pitching they move to a PPPOE platform most likely. But to be fair, I'm looking to draw up a comparison so they are "well informed" of the pros/cons. Has anyone done this? I came up with the follow

RE: PPPOE vs DHCP

2011-01-26 Thread Paul Stewart
I just wanted to say thank you for a TONNE of feedback I received on this topic. This has been of great help in filling in some items I missed in my quick list. Will try to respond offlist to several of you that responded - got over 100 replies offline with some interesting ideas. I definitely l

RE: PPPOE vs DHCP

2011-01-26 Thread Paul Stewart
Thank you for the response... I should have made this a bit clearer - option 82 is an option on their DSLAM's today and is supposed to work "not bad". But this customer may also be looking at other services such as wireless in the future which does not support option 82 - they want a unified deli

RE: PPPOE vs DHCP

2011-01-26 Thread Paul Stewart
> PPPOE Cons > > -- > > > > Requires PPPOE termination router (Juniper ERX for example) > You're putting Juniper ERXs at customer houses? Really? I'd expect to see DSL/Cable drops which will utilize cheap end CPE (most of which don't support IPv6 hardly at all). No, we're not putting E

Customer Support Ticketing

2014-03-19 Thread Paul Stewart
Hey folks…. We need a new customer ticketing system and I’m looking for input. I am still working on a scope document on everything we want to do with the new system. The most common problem I run across is that a system is either built for enterprise internal IT helpdesk or it is built like a C

World Cup Streaming

2014-06-08 Thread Paul Stewart
Hey folks One part of capacity planning that is always challenging at times with various providers I have worked with is determining the traffic levels required for upcoming events such as World Cup. Obviously there is speculation and it varies dependent on the provider, their geography, and size

Re: World Cup Streaming

2014-06-08 Thread Paul Stewart
. Thanks, Paul From: Rubens Kuhl Date: Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: Nanog Subject: Re: World Cup Streaming > > Sports events have their rights sold on per country basis; this leads to some > fragmentation of those numbers as network X has the rights for

Re: Listing or google map of peering exchange

2014-07-09 Thread Paul Stewart
I’ve actually been working on a site like that for a while (with Google Maps) - just never got around to putting it online. Honestly I wasn’t sure if there was an interest in it :) Paul On 2014-07-09, 2:18 PM, "Dennis Burgess" wrote: >Looking for a good listing of US/Canada peering exchange,

RE: Streaming

2011-06-13 Thread Paul Stewart
Streaming the Windows version here just fine... -Original Message- From: Joe Maimon [mailto:jmai...@ttec.com] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 11:43 AM To: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List Subject: Streaming Is it just me tearing my hair out?

RE: Streaming

2011-06-13 Thread Paul Stewart
Not the FLV stream I'm watching (http://hidef.mich.net:1234) Big black box in upper left -Original Message- From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joe...@bogus.com] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 2:19 PM To: Matt Hite Cc: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List Subject: Re: Streaming The sl

Re: MX 80 advantages and shortcomings

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Stewart
Pros - small footprint, cost, feature rich Cons - no redundancy (other than power), 1/3rd the processor power Paul On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, chavan sanjay wrote: Hi Team,   Can anyone enlighten me on the pros and cons of MX 80 platform   Thanks Sanjay C.P. --- On Tue, 7/5/11, nanog-requ...@nanog.

RE: OOB

2011-07-26 Thread Paul Stewart
We do everything in-band with strict monitoring/policies in place. Paul -Original Message- From: harbor235 [mailto:harbor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:57 AM To: NANOG list Subject: OOB I am curious what is the best practice for OOB for a core infrastructure environment.

RE: OOB

2011-07-26 Thread Paul Stewart
the radar constantly. Maybe it's "once bitten, twice shy" that needs to occur for the priority to change again. -Original Message- From: christopher.mor...@gmail.com [mailto:christopher.mor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:14 AM To:

IPv6 Linux Server Support

2011-07-26 Thread Paul Stewart
Hi there. Has anyone compiled a list of pros/cons on various flavors of Linux specific to IPv6? I realize that's a really broad question.. Specific example would be that we're primarily a CentOS shop - during some testing today found out that connection tracking is broken in 5.6 version (

RE: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene

2011-08-27 Thread Paul Stewart
>MRE's? In an enclosed space? For an extended period? >Time to implement the new Marine Rule of Engagement - no audible farting. >Hopefully they've gotten rid of the "bean component" ones. The audible ones are usually the ones you need to worry about ;)

serviceproviderworld.com

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Stewart
Hey folks... I know a couple of folks behind this new site and thought it would be worthwhile for the NANOG community to be made aware of it. http://www.serviceproviderworld.com/ It's basically going to be a directory of service providers across the world - that's the plan as I understand i

RE: serviceproviderworld.com

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Stewart
Hehe... I said almost the exact same thing - oh well, give it some time and I'm sure it'll be "prettier"...;) From: brandon.j@live.com [mailto:brandon.j@live.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Kim Sent: September-02-11 9:21 AM To: p...@paulstewart.org; nanog group Subject: RE: serviceproviderwor

RE: serviceproviderworld.com

2011-09-03 Thread Paul Stewart
the layout scare you... Appreciate the feedback, Paul -Original Message- From: David Swafford [mailto:da...@davidswafford.com] Sent: September-03-11 7:56 AM To: Paul Stewart Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: serviceproviderworld.com Good concept, here's two points of feedback: - Given the

RE: Pricing for Comcast Connectivity

2011-09-09 Thread Paul Stewart
Yes, definitely NDA in any of our dealings... I'd say the pricing was "competitive" for sure... Paul -Original Message- From: John van Oppen [mailto:jvanop...@spectrumnet.us] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 3:02 PM To: 'Oscar Caraig'; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Pricing for Comcast Co

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Paul Stewart
Maybe they use the same security solutions as Playstation Network does... that would explain a lot suddenly. Paul -Original Message- From: andrew.wallace [mailto:andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:47 AM To: frnk...@iname.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject:

Postini Exiting ISP Business?

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Stewart
Hey there. We have been using Postini for a number of years as our anti-spam/anti-virus protection for customer email accounts. Mid last year we received a notice from Google that "In 2013, we plan to transition your Postini services to Google Apps for Business." As part of this notice

RE: Ddos mitigation service

2013-02-01 Thread Paul Stewart
Akamai (CDN) does scrubbing??? Paul -Original Message- From: Pierre Lamy [mailto:pie...@userid.org] Sent: February-01-13 9:58 AM To: matt kelly Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Ddos mitigation service The 3 major scrubbing vendors: Prolexic Verisign Akamai

RE: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test

2013-04-03 Thread Paul Stewart
We host one of the gazillion speed test sites and for networks that are close to us we find it "reasonably accurate" .. a good benchmark at least .. Even our installers in the field use it as a "reference point" YMMV obviously Paul -Original Message- From: valdis.kletni...@vt.

Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?

2011-12-16 Thread Paul Stewart
I'll take a guess they are back logged - they have been working on our traffic stats since a week before that posting made it to nanog list --- Sent via IPhone On 2011-12-16, at 9:16 AM, "Dennis Burgess" wrote: > Same here. > > --- > Den

RE: Speed Test Results

2011-12-23 Thread Paul Stewart
In my opinion they are only "somewhat reliable" if they are on your network or very close to your network -we operate one of the speedtest.net sites and for our own eyeball traffic find it to be a "reasonable indicator" of what kind of speeds the customer is getting. To put it a different way, if

Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Stewart
Hey folks. just curious what people are using for automating updates to Linux boxes? Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutions similar to that of Red Hat Network? Cheers, Paul

RE: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Stewart
Awesome! I remember someone telling me about this before and couldn't remember the name til now... Cheers, Paul -Original Message- From: Daniel Ankers [mailto:md1...@md1clv.com] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:08 PM To: Paul Stewart Subject: Re: Linux Centralized Administr

RE: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-19 Thread Paul Stewart
For us (AS11666), about 3-4% of total traffic typically Paul -Original Message- From: Paul Graydon [mailto:p...@paulgraydon.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:27 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Megaupload.com seized On 01/19/2012 12:41 PM, Ryan Gelobter wrote: > The meg

RE: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Stewart
We really like Lantronix .. use them a lot. Paul -Original Message- From: Ray Soucy [mailto:r...@maine.edu] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 11:09 AM To: NANOG Subject: Console Server Recommendation What are people using for console servers these days? We've historically used retired ro

Bid Software

2012-01-31 Thread Paul Stewart
Hi folks. I'm looking for an in-house solution for "circuit bidding". Today, when we get a request for WAN services, transport, transit etc we have folks that email out to a list of contacts and ask them for a price. I've seen some pretty neat systems in the past where vendors can send us the

RE: IPv6 monitoring...

2012-05-01 Thread Paul Stewart
We are using Solarwinds on our systems. it's one commercial system to consider. Paul -Original Message- From: Vytautas V Grigaliunas [mailto:v...@fnal.gov] Sent: May-01-12 4:31 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: IPv6 monitoring... Greetings... What are people using for IPv6 monitorin

RE: Cogent for ISP bandwidth

2012-05-16 Thread Paul Stewart
I liked Cogent when we had them years ago but due to routing instability (off the charts) and unplanned down time every single month we dropped them. they call me every 3-6 months (different person each time) and I tell them to go away Paul -Original Message- From: Tim Vollebregt

Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-17 Thread Paul Stewart
Hey folks. I'm hoping for some input from operational folks on backup solutions for servers. We are looking for a commercial backup solution with a nice reporting dashboard etc. It must support full/incremental backups on Windows and various flavors of Linux. We would also be looking for

RE: Spam from inteliquent.com subject "nanog"

2012-05-22 Thread Paul Stewart
Nothing here for what it's worth Paul -Original Message- From: Jay Hennigan [mailto:j...@west.net] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 11:01 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Spam from inteliquent.com subject "nanog" Anyone else just get this? Curious if they're scraping this list for addres

RE: Akamai infrastructure tech

2012-07-13 Thread Paul Stewart
That's unusual... we've gone through hard drive replacements many times and always gotten a detailed email from them before the hard drive arrived Paul -Original Message- From: Robert Glover [mailto:robe...@garlic.com] Sent: July-13-12 2:32 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Akamai inf

RE: cable modem firmware upgrade

2015-01-29 Thread Paul Stewart
That has been my experience as well (only from the RF side) and I would believe this was a design choice. The ISP usually wants to keep control over the firmware versions of the CM for various technical/support reasons versus having consumers mess with the firmware. Paul On Wednesday, January

RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

2015-01-29 Thread Paul Stewart
I had a bad experience with it one time at a tradeshow environment. 6 access points setup for public wifi. The radio levels were quite good in various areas of the tradeshow however traffic would keep dropping out at random intervals as soon as about 300 users were online. It wasn't my idea t

RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

2015-01-29 Thread Paul Stewart
uting Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "Paul Stewart" To: "Mike Hammett" , nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:34:46 AM Subject: RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office I had a bad experience with it one time at a

RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

2015-01-29 Thread Paul Stewart
Open – it was just for a trade show setting .. few years ago …. Thanks, Paul From: Mike Lyon [mailto:mike.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:07 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: Mike Hammett; NANOG Subject: RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office Just curious, were

RE: cable modem firmware upgrade

2015-01-30 Thread Paul Stewart
] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 6:49 AM To: Paul Stewart Cc: 'Nathan Anderson'; 'A MEKKAOUI'; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: cable modem firmware upgrade "Paul Stewart" writes: > That has been my experience as well (only from the RF side) and I would > believe

Fw: new message

2015-10-25 Thread Paul Stewart
Hey! New message, please read <http://africancichlidphotos.com/behind.php?wvwqc> Paul Stewart

SevOne Monitoring

2015-11-25 Thread Paul Stewart
Hey folks. Looking for feedback from actual customers on SevOne for network monitoring . anyone using them and willing to share thoughts online/offline? They have an appealing system for network monitoring and considering it as a replacement to Solarwinds. Cheers, Paul

RE: [NANOG] IPv4 subnets for lease?

2016-01-06 Thread Paul Stewart
Definitely there is - don't have any names handy but there were a few companies at NANOG Montreal that chased me down re: leasing IP space (and of course selling). Paul -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Javier J Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2016

RE: Citrix Sales Reps?

2016-03-23 Thread Paul Stewart
You too ? I gave up ... after calling their local offices, their toll free number, emails, phone calls, etc. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Scott Fisher Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 1:34 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Citrix Sales Reps? I

RE: Small IX IP Blocks

2015-04-05 Thread Paul Stewart
+1 I worked for a provider until recently that happened to get an IP assignment at an IXP that was transitioning from /25 to /24. It was painful chasing down peers to get them to change their netmask just so we could connect. This went on for several months dealing with the peering/network conta

RE: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread Paul Stewart
Personally I think it's pure marketing ... something I think we all know... I seen a few years back a FTTH development get completed using GPON - everything in the area got "Full Gig Internet". Speedtest while I was onsite showed about 900Mb/s download so pretty darn close (before they fully de

Re: Ciena 6200 clue?

2013-07-03 Thread Paul Stewart
On 2013-07-03 3:57 PM, "Brandon Ross" wrote: > >Everyone knows that attacks against your management interface come from >devices not on your management network. By removing the default gateway >feature, Ciena is improving the security of your network. > >It's time we created a BCOP specifying tha

Re: large scale ipsec

2013-11-01 Thread Paul Stewart
Can you give us an idea of “large scale” in your mind? Also, site to site deployments or remote access or both? Paul On 11/1/2013, 9:38 AM, "Jan Schaumann" wrote: >Hello, > >Who here on this list has deployed IPSec or other comparable lower layer >encryption in a large scale environment, or a

Re: What routers do folks use these days?

2013-11-29 Thread Paul Stewart
Juniper throughout on our side now … former Cisco shop. Overall, quite happy …. MX,M,E,EX,SRX etc… Paul On Nov 29, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Darren O'Connor wrote: > We are using Juniper MX and Brocade XMRs for our P and PE routers. > > > > Thanks > Darren > http://www.mellowd.co.uk/ccie > > >

Re: BRAS

2013-12-11 Thread Paul Stewart
We have deployed several MX480 for BRAS and had good success - definitely within the 11.4X27 release but also we have one box on 13.2 (nothing like living on the edge haha). I believe Juniper is starting to also recommend 12.3 for BRAS but would have to confirm that for sure. On MX80 we also have

Re: BRAS

2013-12-11 Thread Paul Stewart
What kind of issues? How many subs and what code? Paul On 12/11/2013, 11:14 AM, "Nilesh Kahar" wrote: >Basically I am facing issues with MX80 LNS scenario. So just to make sure >with community whether anyone is having similar problem. >Also wanted to know about any other good BRAS product wh

Re: BRAS

2013-12-12 Thread Paul Stewart
more than 40 >seconds. > >--- Original Message --- > >From: "Paul Stewart" >Sent: December 12, 2013 5:33 AM >To: "Nilesh Kahar" , nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: BRAS > >What kind of issues? How many subs and what code? > >Paul > > &

Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?

2013-12-16 Thread Paul Stewart
Back in the day (geesh I feel old just saying that), I deployed a lot of PM3’s …. Then we moved to Ascend TNT Max stuff - that was very exciting back then! :) Paul On 12/16/2013, 3:16 PM, "vinny_abe...@dell.com" wrote: >Dell - Internal Use - Confidential > >PM3's were pretty solid. PM4's, no

Re: ddos attacks

2013-12-18 Thread Paul Stewart
We use Arbor for this - works quite well…. Peakflow/TMS .. We don’t do anything announcement wise upstream but don’t see why you couldn’t via communities... I’ve looked at one cloud based solution to date and decided appliance is a better solution specific to our needs. Paul On 12/18/2013, 11:36

RE: Juniper firewalls - SSG or SRX

2010-04-19 Thread Paul Stewart
We've had GREAT success with SRX210, SRX240 and SRX650 boxes in the past 3-4 months. There has been some issues I'll admit but they were all fixed either in service releases or actual JunOS upgrades. I believe that most of the issues you hear about were in the 9.x JunOS releases or at least that

RE: Team Cymru BOGON feed over IPv6

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Stewart
We're using it...;) Please see inline... Paul 1) using the new Team Cymru BOGON lists *via BGP* Yes 2) use the new v4 list Yes 3) use the v6 list Yes 4) monitor the Cymru BGP session as diligently as they would a peer/provider session Spot check it - in the several years we've used the o

Country Level BGP Data

2010-06-28 Thread Paul Stewart
Does anyone know of BGP statistical data based on country? If I wanted to know "top 5 service providers in country XYZ based on number of BGP peers" for example, is there something that can tell me this information? I can manually run a list of AS numbers against tools like Renesys for example bu

RE: PCH.net down?

2010-07-21 Thread Paul Stewart
Loads from here (outside of Toronto, ON) - peered with them. Seemed slow to load though.. Paul -Original Message- From: Jason Lewis [mailto:jle...@packetnexus.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:45 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: PCH.net down? This says it's not just down for me. ht

RE: PCH.net down?

2010-07-21 Thread Paul Stewart
Very interesting - thanks for sharing that tip Paul -Original Message- From: christopher.mor...@gmail.com [mailto:christopher.mor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:49 AM To: Allen Bass Cc: Paul Stewart; Jason Lewis; nanog@nanog.org

RE: ISP port blocking practice

2010-09-03 Thread Paul Stewart
It's extremely effective for us (not a large provider by any means). We block outbound 25 on all dynamic IP customers - to date it's never been a problem for our customers. Customer's who have static assignments are not blocked by default. Paul -Original Message- From: John R. Levine [

Inline Traffic Management / Tracking - Usage Based Billing

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Stewart
7;m asking here for operational feedback with likes/dislikes. I can appreciate if most folks prefer to reply offline. We have trialled the Arbor solution to date but that is the only comparison we have so far. Thanks, Paul Stewart

RE: Netflow Tool

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Stewart
We've ran Scrutizer and also Netflow Auditor (also a few others) ... they are ok for "smaller" traffic levels (depending of course on sampling rates). None of them held up though to our expectations and we ended up going with Arbor Peakflow and been extremely happy ever since. I'd definitely s

RE: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

2010-09-23 Thread Paul Stewart
Over on the outages list there is a lot of discussion... I believe everyone is effected - we are peered with them in several locations and cannot reach them. Paul -Original Message- From: Ernie Rubi [mailto:erne...@cs.fiu.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 3:39 PM To: nanog@nanog.o

RE: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

2010-09-23 Thread Paul Stewart
outa...@outages.org ;) -Original Message- From: James Grace [mailto:ja...@cs.fiu.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 3:58 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: Ernie Rubi; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast? Which outages list? James On Sep 23, 2010, at 3:40 PM

RE: Config Backup / Inventory

2009-04-25 Thread Paul Stewart
We use Orion NCM here from Solarwinds - not only does it do backups etc. but also allows us to script changes, updates and IOS upgrades as well (after extensive testing of course). For example, we still have 50-60 Cisco 806 routers deployed at customer sites - takes about 20 minutes to do an IOS u

RE: NPE-G2 vs. Sup720-3BXL

2009-05-15 Thread Paul Stewart
We've never pushed a NPE-G2 to 800Mb/s before but I would think they would topple over... hopefully someone on here could confirm my statement? Moving the BGP to the 12008's would be my choice with PRP-2 processors if the budget fits we're faced with a similar upgrade next year possibly moving

RE: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Stewart
Our experience with them was at least one major (longer than an hour) outages PER MONTH and many of those times they were black holing our routes in their network which was the most damaging aspect. The outages were one thing but when our routes still somehow managed to get advertised in their net

Hurricane Electric

2009-06-17 Thread Paul Stewart
Hi folks... Looking for some feedback on using Hurricane Electric as an upstream? Thanks, Paul "The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and contains confiden

RE: Hurricane Electric

2009-06-18 Thread Paul Stewart
[mailto:bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com] Sent: June 18, 2009 3:22 AM To: Paul Stewart Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Hurricane Electric used them for years, from when they were just a local ISP till today. a good addition to your mix... great value for money. --bill On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:41:23PM -0400

RE: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-18 Thread Paul Stewart
We still do it and never get any complaints - we don't filter static IP customers but dynamic customers can either use our SMTP relays or alternate ports Paul -Original Message- From: Zhiyun Qian [mailto:zhiy...@umich.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 3:37 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Sub

RE: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-18 Thread Paul Stewart
er to use, with some out bound spam filtering? It would seem this is to be expected, as you don't want your IP ranges showing up on RBL filters. Do you force SSL connectivity like AT&T does? Paul Stewart wrote: > We still do it and never get any complaints - we don't filter sta

RE: tire 1 in Montreal

2009-06-18 Thread Paul Stewart
Level(3) has a lot of fiber in that ring route ... not sure who else covers those areas from a physical perspective Paul -Original Message- From: MKS [mailto:rekordmeis...@gmail.com] Sent: June 18, 2009 6:08 PM To: Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: tire 1 in

RE: Bandcon

2009-07-08 Thread Paul Stewart
Remember that they resell bandwidth similar to that of WBS, but just like WBS they also have their own transit networks in place now it seems never been a customer of either but have talked to them Paul -Original Message- From: Andrew Matthews [mailto:exstat...@gmail.com] Sent: W

RE: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

2009-07-08 Thread Paul Stewart
We were 30% higher than ever seen before in our network quite a jump for about an hour... Paul -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] Sent: July 8, 2009 9:11 PM To: 'Justin Shore'; Shon Elliott Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

RE: AT&T and having two BGP peers

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Stewart
That is crazy when we turn up new BGP customers, we always put a /29 in place now - for that reason and for others saves a LOT of headaches when some changes are needed down the road...;) Paul -Original Message- From: Bret Clark [mailto:bcl...@spectraaccess.com] Sent: Friday,

RE: OEMs for X2 10G LAN PHY optics

2009-07-13 Thread Paul Stewart
Yeah, just don't ask a certain female sales person there for more than a few quotes without buying... I was utterly embarrassed while dealing with NHR - never been told off by a commissioned sales person before. Requested a series of quotes on a Cisco GSR and made it very clear we already had a p

RE: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router.

2009-07-20 Thread Paul Stewart
Agreed... we migrated away from GSR to 7600 and now looking at migrating back...;) GSR was 100% rock solid for us with PRP-2 processors sup720-3bxl has been good but no comparison... -Original Message- From: Neil J. McRae [mailto:n...@domino.org] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 6:26 AM To

RE: Subnet Size for BGP peers.

2009-07-29 Thread Paul Stewart
/29's here for everyone great for troubleshooting and any future additions typically required...;) -Original Message- From: Jim Wininger [mailto:jbot...@gmail.com] Sent: July 29, 2009 4:00 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Subnet Size for BGP peers. I have a question about the subnet si

RE: Residential BW Planning

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Stewart
This may have changed a bit - but we used to use 2000 high speed = 100 meg of capacity. Based on 5000/800 ADSL or 8000/1000 cable modem profiles mainly... Paul -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:06 PM To: 'sjk'; nanog@nanog.o

RE: Network Ring

2009-09-08 Thread Paul Stewart
Since it was brought up - curious as we were recently approached by Extreme. Good/bad experiences? We're a Cisco shop and I plan to keep us that way but some "powers to be" are interested in them at this point.. Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Justin Shore [mailto:jus...@justins

RE: Wireless STM-1 link

2009-09-10 Thread Paul Stewart
I totally agree with everything that Mike has posted here... one thing I wanted to add is that a wireless link is only as good as it's engineered. We have many rock solid wireless links in use here - with proper engineering and ongoing maintenance we very rarely have issues. We do have some links

Simple Change Management Tracking

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Stewart
Hi folks... I'm just looking for some feedback ... we are looking for a *really* simple Change Management ticket system. All we want is a system that does the following: Technician opens ticket requesting a network level or server level change outlining the brief details, severity level and

RE: Simple Change Management Tracking

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Stewart
ers, Paul -Original Message- From: Duane Waddle [mailto:duane.wad...@gmail.com] Sent: October 26, 2009 7:08 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Simple Change Management Tracking On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Paul Stewart wrote: > Hi folks... > > > > I'm just lookin

RE: Simple Change Management Tracking

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Stewart
Thanks - it's been a little while since we ran RT .. I believe we were using the actual packages at the time (but could be mistaken). -Original Message- From: Phil Regnauld [mailto:regna...@nsrc.org] Sent: October 26, 2009 7:22 AM To: Paul Stewart Cc: Duane Waddle; nanog@nano

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