When I last spoke to them, it sounded like they were using a bunch of LAG
groups based on ip address because they _really_ wanted to know how many ip
addresses we had and what kind of traffic we would be expecting (eyeball
networks, big data transport, etc).
-Original Message-
From: "
That brings back memoriesI had a similar experience. First month on the
job, large Sun raid array storing ~ 5k of mailboxes dies in the middle of the
afternoon. So, I start troubleshooting and determine it's most likely a bad
disk. The CEO walked into the server room right about the time
Agreed. Don't fix what isn't broken.
-Original Message-
From: "Mark Tinka"
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2021 4:33pm
To: "Randy Bush" , "Rod Beck"
Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group"
Subject: Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?
On 3/20/21
The Accedian boxes are nice, as long as you remember they're not switches or
routers. We've used them for specific use cases, but have to remember that
there's things you just can't do on them. Though things may have changed on
them since we used them.
-Original Message-
From: a
From the ISP side, I can tell you that when a customer signs up for service and
you offer them a couple of choices of wireless routers, they almost always pick
the cheapest one.
If you give them a reasonable / good router when you hook-up their service,
some will still put their old 15-year
2.4 gbps down, 1.2 up. So yes, you could
-Original Message-
From: aar...@gvtc.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:18pm
To: "'Mark Tinka'" , nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: New minimum speed for US broadband connections
Yeah I thought gpon was 2.4 ghz down and 1.2 ghz up... so you could o
There's also Rackspace. They have e-mail and web hosting, etc.
-Original Message-
From: "Ryan Finnesey via NANOG"
Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2021 10:56pm
To: "Steve Saner" , "nanog@nanog.org"
Subject: RE: Email and Web Hosting
If the client base wants to stick with basic IMAP/POP3 em
Is there anyone on the list that's from an ISP that's participating in the ACAM
or ACAM II programs? If so, I'd like to ask a couple of questions (off-list)
specifically about the speed testing requirements.
Thanks
Shawn
And here I actually went to their website (not Cogent -- they still call me all
the time as well) to see what they sell.
-Original Message-
From: "Kaiser, Erich"
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:50pm
To: "NANOG list"
Subject: Re: [EXT] Shining a light on ambulance chasers - Nocti
That's a tough one. In the telco space, the common sizes are 19" and 23". 19"
for gear, 23" for fiber patch panels, etc. There are also some 25" floating
around (Nortel, I'm looking at you).
Unfortunately, 19" gear fits in 19" racks. It fits in 23" sometimes -- if the
manufacture makes b
This brings up an interesting question -- what is "good DDoS protection" on an
ISP scale? Apart from having enough bandwidth to weather the attack and having
upstream providers attempt to filter it for you/
-Original Message-
From: "Bottiger"
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 5:30pm
T
Innomedia is decent as well, but again it all depends on loop lengths.
Might want to look at more of a carrier system. Something like a Calix E7, E5
or C7 line. You could probably pick up a C7 chassis on the used market and
fill it up with ADSL or VDSL cards that will push dial-tone at least
We _always_ have at least one spare, or something that could be (relatively)
easily pressed into service as one.
Even in the Midwest, we've had times where 'guaranteed next day replacement' is
more like 2nd or third day due to weather conditions, the carrier routing it
weird, or just plain t
I completely agree. One of the people I used to do interviews with would look
through the resume, etc. and then say something like "this all looks good. Tell
me about something you've done". And we'd move on to talk about projects and
how they tackled it, etc.
We didn't give tests, just qu
We once moved a 3u server 30 miles between data centers this way. Plug
redundant psu into a ups and 2 people carried it out and put them in a vehicle.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 1, 2020, at 11:58 PM, Christopher Morrow
> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 11:53 PM Alain Hebert wrote:
This one is always a bit tricky.
For example, if you have an apartment building with say 8 apartments, the
provider can install a larger MDU in a centralized location and potentially
utilized existing internal cabling in the building to get to each apartment
that would like service. It's a
Why about thinks like the Cisco 4500 switch series that are almost as long as a
1u server. But yet only has mounts for a relay type rack.
As far as boot times, try a Asr920. Wait 15 minutes and decide if it’s time to
power cycle again or wait 5 more minutes
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> On Sep 25,
we received it as well
-Original Message-
From: "Matt Hoppes"
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 8:21am
To: "North American Network Operators' Group"
Subject: Anyone else getting the 'spam' bomb threat?
I've now heard from several operators - our selves included - about
getting an e-ma
In $dayjob I work for a telco that deploys fiber to the home. If we are
providing voice services over fiber a battery backup is installed (we maintain)
that powers the customer's phone in the event of a power outage. It does not
power their router, etc. 99% of the customers do not install a
o preserve battery for the
phone portion. Though that behavior can be changed in software.
-Original Message-
From: "Michael Thomas"
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 2:48pm
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: home router battery backup
On 1/12/22 10:54 AM, Shawn L via NANOG
Meraki MX series?
I don't like the way they do their licensing (your license runs out, the box is
a paper-weight) but they do really well at establishing site-to-site VPNs in
some pretty challenging scenarios. Dynamic IPs and NATs don't really cause
them a problem. Some CGNats do (AT&T I'm
Wondering if there are any engineers from HE (Hurricane Electric) on the list
that could help with a strange traffic issue through your network
If so, please contact me off-list
Thanks
Shawn
ailto:supp...@he.net ) is usually fairly responsive.
Owen
On Mar 22, 2022, at 05:54, Shawn L via NANOG <[ nanog@nanog.org ](
mailto:nanog@nanog.org )> wrote:
Wondering if there are any engineers from HE (Hurricane Electric) on the list
that could help with a strange traffic issue throu
I'd still go with telect-style blocks. Wire-wrap on the front and amphenol on
the back/bottom depending you application. Way less space than 66 or 110.
-Original Message-
From: "Dave Phelps"
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2022 4:27pm
To: "Mike Hammett"
Cc: "NANOG"
Subject: Re: Copper T
With the current shortages and lead times, I almost feel like I did back in the
beginning of my career ---
Then it was "what can we do with what we can afford" now it's more like "What
can we do with what we have (or can actually get)"?
Shawn
-Original Message-
From: "Adam Thompso
I think they call me around once a week right now. Even after I've told them
we're not interested. Every once in a while they switch the numbers they're
calling from, just to keep things interesting.
Shawn
-Original Message-
From: "Dennis Burgess"
Sent: Friday, August 5, 2022 4:20
Those are Twin Gig Converter Modules. They went in the 3560 series (and
probably others). You could either insert a 10 gig module, or the converter
module and get 2 1-gig sfp slots.
-Original Message-
From: "Matt Erculiani"
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 11:26am
To: "Mel Beckman"
All i can say is good luck. We see the 'trash-bag mod' on a lot of AT&T aerial
boots and PEDs, as well as Charter/Spectrum/TWC gear. A lot of times, they
don't even get that. Unless you know how to get in contact with a local tech,
they will most likely not respond until the customer complai
You should be able to setup a VPLS between 3 (or more) devices. Something like
this --
Example: VFI on a PE Device
The following example shows a virtual forwarding instance (VFI) configuration:
Device(config)# l2 vfi vfi110 manual
Device(config-vfi)# vpn id 110
Device(config-vfi)# neighbor 172
We know the feeling well. Try porting from them…..
> On May 2, 2023, at 4:41 PM, Daniel Marks via NANOG wrote:
>
> My issue was just trying to convince Spectrum to look into the problem in
> the first place, I brought the Atlas probe receipts because it’s such a
> helpful tool, but wasn’t ab
I have one who calls me bi-weekly even though we have declined to purchase
service from them at this time. I'd be happy to provide contact details
off-line.
-Original Message-
From: "Jon Sands"
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2019 9:30am
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Cogent sales re
Same -- we had an Akamai cache for 15+ years. Then we were notified that it
was done and were sent boxes to pack our stuff up and send it back.
-Original Message-
From: "Jared Mauch"
Sent: Saturday, December 7, 2019 2:05pm
To: "Seth Mattinen"
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Elepha
That's a tough one. 48 port dslams with internal splitters are easy. When
you're looking for more density you're almost always looking at external
splitter shelves. Could also look at the calix c7 platform -- tons around on
the used market -- but then again, no splitters.
-Original Me
Actellis also makes some ethernet over dry pair gear. The only issue is that
they require repeaters like a T1 (different spacing though). I'm guessing if
you're doing T1 at that distance you already have repeater housings in the
field at least.
-Original Message-
From: "Alfie Pa
Speaking of GPS-enabled NTP appliances, etc. wondering what hardware people are
using for this.
thanks
-Original Message-
From: "Raymond Burkholder"
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2018 12:01pm
To: "Matthew Huff" , "l...@satchell.net" ,
"nanog@nanog.org"
Subject: Re: CenturyLink
O
Might want to look for old Zhone ip bitstorm dslams. There should be a bunch
on the used market. They do all of the ATM conversions internally so you just
need to feed them with ethernet.
-Original Message-
From: "Nick Edwards"
Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 9:36am
To: "Brandon Mart
s and DSL modems could be maintained by a
local admin through the pfSense web interface with no need to touch the DSLAMs
or anything CLI.
--Blake
Shawn L via NANOG wrote on 1/4/2019 8:59 AM:
Might want to look for old Zhone ip bitstorm dslams. There should be a bunch
on the used market
I personally own a .us domain name -- while it's a personal domain and doesn't
do a lot of traffic, it's still a legitimate domain.
-Original Message-
From: "goemon--- via NANOG"
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2023 4:30pm
To: "NANOG list"
Subject: .US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shor
Is anyone else seeing a lot of 'strange' IPSEC traffic? We started seeing logs
of IPSEC with invalid spi on Friday. We're seeing it on pretty much all of our
PE routers, none of which are setup to do anything VPN related. Most are just
routing local customer traffic.
decaps: rec'd IPSEC pa
I believe RAD makes a device similar to the Accedian. There's also the Metro
Nid line from Accedian, but while they do a lot, they're pretty spendy.
Shawn
-Original Message-
From: "Tim Burke"
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2023 12:38am
To: "Ross Tajvar"
Cc: "North American Network O
JDSU make some nice ones that we use to qualify cell tower back haul. Not
cheap though
-Original Message-
From: "Jeremy Austin"
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 11:29am
To: "James Breeden" , "n...@flhsi.com" ,
"nanog@nanog.org"
Subject: Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment
JW, have you mov
At $dayjob we use both Comtrend and Zyxel modems. Both have a 1-port modem
that can be deployed in bridged mode. They both seem to work well with Calix
gear. We've found the Zyxel modems tend to work a little better at longer loop
lengths. But, for us at least, it's very easy to get custom f
Sorry -- this got lost in the shuffle.
We were specifically comparing Comtrend AR5381u vs Zyxel 660HN being fed with
either Calix ADSL 2+ or Paradyne/Zhone Bitstorm ADSL2+. All use the broadcom
chipset but seem to interop slightly differently. From our limited testing we
determined that fo
Honestly, most carriers I've talked to are fed up as well, and just want to
find a way to make it stop. As some one said, it's exactly like BCP38 --- the
carriers that care keep their clients from spoofing caller id, etc. The ones
that don't make everyone else look bad.
-Original Messag
+1 to contacting your local public service commission. _No_ provider wants
them to pass along a complaint. When that happens, things get fixed quickly.
-Original Message-
From: "Josh Luthman"
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2024 10:36am
To: "John Neiberger"
Cc: "NANOG list"
Subject: R
That seems about right -- $70k per mile for main-line in a relatively rural
area is what we're looking at right now. Depends on a lot of things
(directional boring vs direct plow, etc).
-Original Message-
From: "Justin Streiner"
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2024 4:45pm
To:
Cc: nanog@
It has been an interesting discussion. Always willing to see what others are
doing in this space and evaluate it to what we're doing / thinking about going
forward.
We were just quoted 250k+ for a Cisco ASR9902 with one route processor card
(list. not our price). There can be 2 rps, but the
Good luck -- last time we did a public service complaint (admittedly it's been
a while) due to porting / voice issues we were told that they're severity
under-staffed and most days don't have enough staff to follow normal business
procedures. I have no idea if things are the same on the non-vo
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