Telephones for Noisy Data Centers

2009-06-18 Thread Rick
http://www.davidclark.com/ regards Rick Try noice-canceling aviation headsets (GA or helicopter models have truly amazing noise suppression). High-end models come with cellphone interface. I don't think cellphones will work in many data centers, but I think rigging interface from a norma

Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

2016-06-30 Thread Rick Astley
I have to agree with Dan in that even if you disagreed with the talk you have to agree that it probably spawned relevant discussion and reflection (both on and off list). I would hate to see a move to ideas and discussions that are chosen simply for offending the fewest people. Another sort of simi

Re: Spiffy Netflow tools?

2018-03-20 Thread Rick Coloccia
kibana/ES infront of any collector * Solarwinds something something * Different vendor toolkits -- hugge -- Rick Coloccia, Jr. Network Manager State University of NY College at Geneseo 1 College Circle, 119 South Hall Geneseo, NY 14454 V: 585-245-5577 F: 585-245-5579

What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-26 Thread Rick Astley
Without the actual proposal being published for review its hard to know the specifics but it appears that it prohibits blocking and last mile tinkering of traffic (#1). What this means to me is ISP's can't block access to a specific website like alibaba and demand ransom from subscribers to access

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-26 Thread Rick Astley
>How is this *not* Comcast's problem? If my users are requesting more traffic than I banked on, how is it not my responsibility to ensure I have capacity to handle that? I have gear; you have gear. I upgrade or add ports on my side; you upgrade or add ports on your side. Am I missing something?

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-27 Thread Rick Astley
e links. > Releases around the deal seemed to indicate that the peering was happening > at IXs (haven't checked this thoroughly), so at that point it would seem > reasonable for each party to handle their own capacity to the peering > points and call it even. No? > > -- &

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread Rick Astley
10:04 AM, Nick B wrote: > The current scandal is not about peering, it is last mile ISP double > dipping. > Nick > On Apr 27, 2014 2:05 AM, "Rick Astley" wrote: > >> Without the actual proposal being published for review its hard to know >> the >> specific

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-27 Thread Rick Astley
>Isn't this all predicated that our crappy last mile providers continue with their crappy last mile If you think prices for residential broadband are bad now if you passed a law that says all content providers big and small must have settlement free access to the Internet paid for by residential s

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread Rick Astley
>Double-billing Rick. It's just that simple. Paid peering means you're >deliberately billing two customers for the same byte I think this statement is a little short sighted if not a bit naive. What both parties are sold is a pipe that carries data. A subscriber has one, Netfl

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-27 Thread Rick Astley
;Because you need to reach our customers, and we're the only path to them, > so we have leverage." > *blank stare* > "So you're willing to give your customers crappy service because your > customers don't have alternate options and you think we need this more than

Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report

2014-04-30 Thread Rick Astley
Security is a layered approach though. I can't recall any server or service that runs in listening state (and reachable from public address space) that hasn't had some type of remotely exploitable vulnerability. It's hard to lean on operating systems and software companies to default services to of

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP Network Neutrality (was: Wow its been quiet here...

2014-05-10 Thread Rick Astley
That was an interesting read but it's not the whole story. Skip to the TL;DR if you'd like but I'll attempt to explain what happened. What he isn't saying is the roles of the companies involved have changed over the last 10 years. Mostly gone are the days that content providers and access networks

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP Network Neutrality (was: Wow its been quiet here...

2014-05-16 Thread Rick Astley
numbers and I think people have been pretty clear in their objection to metered billing. Metered billing would also probably hurt content providers more than paid peering would so it's the worst option all around. I read complaints about the way things are handled all the time and complaini

Errant Advertisement - 128.1/16

2011-08-04 Thread Rick Altmann
.190 Thanks, Rick

Re: Errant Advertisement - 128.1/16

2011-08-08 Thread Rick Altmann
This issue has been cleared up. Thanks to everyone for their help. -Rick On Aug 4, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Rick Altmann wrote: > Is there anyone from AT&T on the list that could help with a likely > misconfiguration? I have not received any response yet to my complaint (see > below)

Re: Time Warner Cable YouTube throttling

2013-03-06 Thread Rick Coloccia
I'd like to help, too, I'm from a TWC business class site with 650 Mbps bandwidth and still regularly poor performance with YouTube. -Rick Sent from my iPhone 4S On Mar 6, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Randy Car

Re: Time Warner outage?

2014-08-27 Thread Rick Coloccia
My whole campus (~1 users) is down... Since roughly 6am. TWC is our upstream. -- Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 27, 2014, at 6:28 AM, Rob Barbeau wrote: > > David, > > I have a branch office in Syracuse,NY that appears to be down at the moment > that uses a time warner business connection

Re: Time Warner outage?

2014-08-27 Thread Rick Coloccia
ed out. > 8 *** Request timed out. > 9 *** Request timed out. > > -Original Message- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Rick Coloccia > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 6:43 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org &g

Re: BCOP appeals numbering scheme -- feedback requested

2015-03-13 Thread Rick Casarez
I like the idea of an index better than the proposed numbering scheme. --- Cheers, Rick Experiences not things. On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > On Mar 12, 2015, at 12:01 , Yardiel D. Fuentes > wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: Mechanics of CALEA taps

2013-06-11 Thread Rick Robino
t;caveat lector". Comments submitted here have nothing to do with my employer, however, and are provided only as a help to those that really don't know that they can and ought to be fully involved and aware of any "taps". -- Rick Robino signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Public/testing 4to6 gateway?

2009-07-13 Thread Rick Ernst
Either they don't exist, or my Google-fu is particularly bad this morning. I'm trying to get my toes wet with IPv6. I've established an internal 6to4/4to6 tunnel. I'd also like to have a testbed for access to public v6 sites. I'm also trying to find some clue at my upstreams, but figured I'd as

Re: Public/testing 4to6 gateway?

2009-07-13 Thread Rick Ernst
Multiple responses of tunnelbroker.net. Couldn't have been any easier to setup and get going. Thanks! On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Chad Burnham wrote: > Rick, > > I use this one: > > http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ > > Free! > > Chad > > -Or

Re: Public/testing 4to6 gateway?

2009-07-14 Thread Rick Ernst
Pedantry is not necessarily a bad thing, especially when the student doesn't know the right questions to ask. :) 6in4 is what I was looking for. Thanks, On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Nathan Ward wrote: > On 14/07/2009, at 4:23 AM, Rick Ernst wrote: > > Either they don&

Need help with performance troubleshooting

2009-07-28 Thread Rick Ernst
et some external visibility from "the other direction"; can I get results against our speedtest server ( http://speedtest.easystreet.com) along with traceroute results and geographic origin of the test? Note that traceroute won't make it all the way through due to some RFC addressing and firewall rules. Thanks, Rick

Re: Need help with performance troubleshooting

2009-07-28 Thread Rick Ernst
have my support staff start pushing back harder with the problem almost certainly being outside our network and more specifically isolated to a geographic location and/or set of network destinations. Rick On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Rick Ernst wrote: > > Starting about a week a

Multi-POP design check/help question

2009-09-20 Thread Rick Ernst
Cross-posted from cisco-nsp. We are a (mostly) Cisco shop, but I'm looking more for BCP and overall design, not provisioning specifics. - My Cisco bookshelf isn't helping me much with this... We currently have a single POP with border/core/aggregation topology. Upstreams each come in on th

Consistent asymetric latency on monitoring?

2009-10-21 Thread Rick Ernst
Although the implementation is Cisco-specific, this feels more appropriate for NANOG. We've started rolling out a state-wide monitoring system based on Cisco's "IP SLA" feature set. Out of 5 sites deployed so far (different locations, different providers), we are consistently seeing one-way laten

Re: Consistent asymetric latency on monitoring?

2009-10-21 Thread Rick Ernst
onstant drift may be better than both devices trying to walk/correct the time. Thanks for the input! On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Rick Ernst wrote: > Resent, since I responded from the wrong address: > --- > The basic operation of IP SLA is as surmised; payload with timestamps >

Re: Consistent asymetric latency on monitoring?

2009-10-22 Thread Rick Ernst
Lots of good info, and a nice mind-dump that gives me a whole host of other things that need to be looked at... Umm. "thanks" :) On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Perry Lorier wrote: > Rick Ernst wrote: > >> Resent, since I responded from the wrong address: >> ---

UDP DoS mitigation?

2008-12-12 Thread Rick Ernst
entirely of Cisco gear). Our current aggregate (all providers, in- plus out-bound) bandwidth is ~500Mbs, but projected growth is 1Gbs within the year. Thanks, Rick

Re: UDP DoS mitigation?

2008-12-12 Thread Rick Ernst
l help in mitigation, although I'd be concerned that "Hey, can somebody block traffic {from} or {to}?" would be an interesting experiment in a socially-engineered DoS. Finally, there were some suggestions "S/RTBH". RTBH I get, but my Google-fu is weak on S/RTBH. Details?

Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-25 Thread Rick Ernst
f testing sites that can handle higher bandwidth, or have an ftp host or similar to test against? I'm connected to Level3, backhauled to Seattle, WA. Thanks, Rick

Re: Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-25 Thread Rick Ernst
Azher, Thanks for the link. I don't currently have a Linux box I can stick on the network, but I'm trying to get one built. I'm also working with somebody in Seattle for file transfer testing. Thanks, Rick On Wed, March 25, 2009 12:10, Azher Mughal wrote: > You

RE: Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-25 Thread Rick Ernst
Yup. I use iperf for point-to-point testing, but this is an access connection which is why I'm looking more for some kind of test host on Level3 in Seattle rather than a "speed test" site per se. Rick On Wed, March 25, 2009 12:35, Bill Blackford wrote: > Rick. The speedtest

Re: Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-26 Thread Rick Ernst
Thanks to multiple private/public responses. I was able to get an iperf test and also a close mirror for a DVD iso. Time to put live traffic on it and see what happens. On Wed, March 25, 2009 11:05, Rick Ernst wrote: > > Resent from my subscribed address. Hopefully this isn'

Re: BGP, ebgp-multihop and multiple peers

2008-08-27 Thread Rick Ernst
If you keep a separate peering/loopback-IP for each peer, you can move individual peering sessions to other devices if needed. On Wed, August 27, 2008 05:39, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >> The advantage of a separate loopback address is that if you ever have >> any trou

D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Ernst
and work additional mitigation with upstreams if needed. I could probably add some automation to my NetFlow/RTBH setup, but I still need to worry about false-positives. I'd rather somebody else do the hard work of finding the various edge-cases. Thanks, Rick

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Ernst
Several responses already, and Arbor has poked their head up. I'm going to start there and keep the other suggestions at-hand. Thanks, On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Rick Ernst wrote: > > Looking for D/DoS mitigation solutions. I've seen Arbor Networks mentioned > sev

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Ernst
I'm looking at taking the first whack at immediate mitigation at the border/edge (upstream) via uRPF and RTBH. Additional mitigation would be via manual or automatic RTBH or security/abuse@ involvement with upstreams. Thanks, Rick On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: &

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Ernst
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Rick Ernst wrote: > > > > > A solution preferably that integrates with NetFlow and RTBH. An in-line > solution obviously requires an appliance, or at least special/additional >

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Ernst
st an extension of RTBH; a scrubber destination rather than Null0) is an understandable state. Rick On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Stefan Fouant wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Rick Ernst [mailto:na...@shreddedmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-05 Thread Rick Ernst
thing goes wrong, I want my own, local, big-red button." Rick On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Martin Hannigan wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Rick Ernst wrote: > >> Looking for D/DoS mitigation solutions. I've seen Arbor Networks >> mentioned >&

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-11 Thread Rick Ernst
in case of trouble. Am I missing something, overly paranoid, or are there other mechanisms for outsourced protection? Rick On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Stefan Fouant < sfou...@shortestpathfirst.net> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Christopher Morrow [mailt

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-11 Thread Rick Ernst
Right. Some providers allow you to BGP community trigger RTBH. There was a separate mention of D/DoS-mitigation-providers using DNS and BGP tunneling. Rick On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Stefan Fouant < sfou...@shortestpathfirst.net> wrote: > > -Original Message- &g

Re: [Pauldotcom] Skiddy Interview

2010-02-02 Thread Rick Tait
might understand what a real penetration expert is and be so scared as to. just. stop. *facepalm* -- Rick Tait e: ri...@stickam.com t: 213-915-UNIX Charles de Gaulle<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html> - "The better I get to know men, the more

IPv6, multihoming, and customer allocations

2010-03-13 Thread Rick Ernst
A couple of different incantations searching the archive didn't enlighten me, and I find it hard to believe this hasn't been discussed. Apologies and a request for pointers if I'm rehashing an old question. As a small/regional ISP, we got our /32 assigned and it's time to start moving forward (cu

Re: IPv6, multihoming, and customer allocations

2010-03-16 Thread Rick Ernst
/48 down to /54. Any feel for what the "standard" (widely deployed) IPv6 prefix filter size will be? Thanks, On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Rick Ernst wrote: > > A couple of different incantations searching the archive didn't enlighten > me, and I find it hard to be

"Is TDM going the way of dial-up?"

2010-03-26 Thread Rick Ernst
I've noticed over the last 3 years or so that TDM, specifically T-1, access and transport has been in a steady decline. Customers are moving to FTTH and cable, or going WiMAX and Metro-Ethernet. Ethernet seems to have taken an even bigger bite out of DS-3. The bigger pipes seem to favor ethernet

Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company

2011-05-19 Thread Rick Astley
I think most the points made here are valid about why it isn't an easy problem to solve with multicast. Lets say for instance they had a multicast stream that sent the most popular content (which to Randy's point may not cover much) and 48 hours of that stream was cached locally on the CPE. What is