Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Andre Oppermann
A few time already I've wished for a fully standardized and vendor interoperable way of doing a true point to point ethernet link. It would work just like an old leased line or synchronous serial interface and completely do away with ARP, MAC addresses and all that stuff. Obviously no switches

Re: CADR

2009-07-08 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: You mean someone wants the code? I'll be happy to put it back up if folks are interested. Thanks for putting the web pages back up. Is it possibl to publish the code too? Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch d...@dotat.at

Re: Level 3

2009-07-08 Thread Jason LeBlanc
To boot almost all the original Telcove crew we had are gone. They're losing the better people through attrition as they're frustrated at not being able to help their customers. I also have a feeling Level3 makes changes during business hours that are not announced. I have no proof but I

RE: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread David Barak
Do you think this is useful? Maybe vendors will hear me/us. -- Andre We also need functional remote loop testing, of the remote hands guy plugs in a loopback plug or I send remote-triggered loop type. David Barak Need Geek Rock? Try The Franchise:

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Andre Oppermannnanog-l...@nrg4u.com wrote: Do you think this is useful? Andre, Some thoughts on this: 1. What's the point of increasing the max MTU from 9000 to 9012? If we want a higher MTU, why not just ask for one in the next standard? 2. Why do we need to

RE: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Scott Berkman
There are lots of great little cable testers that can loop an Ethernet link or even blink the switchport (this one is copper only): http://www.jdsu.com/products/communications-test-measurement/products/a-z-pr oduct-list/lanscaper.html The remote-triggered is harder, but there are a number of

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, William Herrin wrote: 1. What's the point of increasing the max MTU from 9000 to 9012? If we want a higher MTU, why not just ask for one in the next standard? To me the only reason for this would be to lessen overhead on small packets. Also, afaik standard payload MTU is

RE: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Frank Bulk
Visit the Accedian website to learn about Ethernet demarcation and related standards. They market me heavily (and it apparently works). Frank -Original Message- From: David Barak [mailto:thegame...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:47 AM To: 'Andre Oppermann';

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 8, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, William Herrin wrote: 1. What's the point of increasing the max MTU from 9000 to 9012? If we want a higher MTU, why not just ask for one in the next standard? From what I have been told, IEEE 802 refuses to make

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread sthaug
1. What's the point of increasing the max MTU from 9000 to 9012? If we want a higher MTU, why not just ask for one in the next standard? To me the only reason for this would be to lessen overhead on small packets. Also, afaik standard payload MTU is 1500 for ethernet, anything else is

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Stephen Kratzer
My first thought was that there's really no use ripping the guts out of a protocol whose core mechanisms are aimed at dealing with the complexities of operating on a shared medium only to use it in an environment in which none of those complexities exist. But, if interfaces would be made to

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Marshall Eubankst...@americafree.tv wrote: On Jul 8, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, William Herrin wrote: 1. What's the point of increasing the max MTU from 9000 to 9012? If we want a higher MTU, why not just ask for one in

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread sthaug
My understanding is that 9000 is a standard for GigE and up but for compatibility with earlier ethernets it's not the default. Your understanding is wrong. The only IEEE standard is 1500 bytes. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no

Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

2009-07-08 Thread Shon Elliott
Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to most of the people I've talked to. -S

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:07 AM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: My understanding is that 9000 is a standard for GigE and up but for compatibility with earlier ethernets it's not the default. Your understanding is wrong. The only IEEE standard is 1500 bytes. Steinar, I 'spose I could have consulted

Seeking people who experienced BGP policy violations

2009-07-08 Thread Pierre Francois
Hi, I would like to trigger feedback from you (people running BGP) on http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-francois-limited-scope-specifics-00 This draft documents a threat to the respect of BGP policies of an AS. These can be violated due to the injection of more specific routes whose

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, William Herrin wrote: At the cost of low-volume production run hardware which is A. much more expensive (because of the low volume), B. restricted to a few supported routers and C. less thoroughly tested. I don't see how you come out ahead in that calculation. The only

Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

2009-07-08 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Shon Elliott wrote: Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to most of the people I've talked to. -S Don't know about backbones, but this

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread William Allen Simpson
Speaking from a personal interest, has the Point-to-Point Protocol stopped being useful? After all, PPP over Sonet/SDH was specifically designed for just this case. Once upon a time, it worked well for intra-site connections, as originally specified in RFC1619: PPP encapsulation over high

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread sthaug
Speaking from a personal interest, has the Point-to-Point Protocol stopped being useful? After all, PPP over Sonet/SDH was specifically designed for just this case. Absolutely, and it still works great for that purpose. However, given a provider backbone with Ethernet being the underlying

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Joe Greco
More importantly one can specify the just the outgoing interface again instead of the next hop: ip route 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 g0/1 Do you think this is useful? Maybe vendors will hear me/us. No. What makes Ethernet useful and successful is that, unlike most other network/interconnection

Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

2009-07-08 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 8-Jul-09, at 11:08 AM, Shon Elliott wrote: Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to most of the people I've talked to. Not sure if this qualifies as backbone, per se

Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

2009-07-08 Thread Jack Bates
Shon Elliott wrote: Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to most of the people I've talked to. We are far from a global backbone, though the eyeballs transiting through us

RE: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

2009-07-08 Thread Eric Kujawski
Speaking from a provider's view, this is what we saw/heard during the event. Total concurrent streams (across the board not just us): 781,000 Traffic wise, we peaked at close to 45G over our daily average across all locations during the MJ event. This was all live streaming traffic for one of

Re: [SPAM-HEADER] - Re: Point to Point Ethernet - Email has different SMTP TO: and MIME TO: fields in the email addresses

2009-07-08 Thread sthaug
The reality is that is an SDH/SONET backbone underlying most of these Ethernet networks. That may be so (however, numbers for the national provider I work for do not tend to bear this out). But does it matter? People presumably use Ethernet because it is inexpensive, easily available, well

Re: Level 3

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Wyble
So. where is all this talent going? NTT? ATT? Verizon? Dare I say it cogent? :) Also has anyone filed complaints with the FTC or DOJ? Jason LeBlanc wrote: To boot almost all the original Telcove crew we had are gone. They're losing the better people through attrition as they're

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 08.07.2009 18:04, Joe Greco wrote: More importantly one can specify the just the outgoing interface again instead of the next hop: ip route 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 g0/1 Do you think this is useful? Maybe vendors will hear me/us. No. What makes Ethernet useful and successful is that,

Bandcon

2009-07-08 Thread Kretchmer, Sam
Anyone on here care to comment on Bandcon transit services? Anyone even using them? They are offering me an incredible deal on transit, and I was wondering what their reputation is. thanks

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:01:20 -0400, Andre Oppermann nanog-l...@nrg4u.com wrote: ... completely do away with ARP, MAC addresses and all that stuff. Removing all that stuff means it's no longer ethernet. Do you think this is useful? Maybe vendors will hear me/us. No. I do not. Ethernet is

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Ricky Beam wrote: Ethernet is not a point-to-point technology. It is a multi-point (broadcast, bus, etc.) technology with DECADES of optimization and adoption. No one has gotten IEEE to adopt a larger frame size, and you want to drop *fundamental* elements of ethernet?!?

Re: Bandcon

2009-07-08 Thread Andrew Matthews
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Kretchmer, Sams...@playboy.com wrote: Anyone on here care to comment on Bandcon transit services? Anyone even using them? They are offering me an incredible deal on transit, and I was wondering what their reputation is. I've used Bandcon in the past, and we are

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:

Re: Bandcon

2009-07-08 Thread Robin Rodriguez
On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Kretchmer, Sam wrote: Anyone on here care to comment on Bandcon transit services? Anyone even using them? They are offering me an incredible deal on transit, and I was wondering what their reputation is. thanks I don't have any usage experience, but would be

Re: Bandcon

2009-07-08 Thread Jason Dearborn
Their support sucks really really bad. I had a level 3 outtage and it took 10 calls to finally get them to do something. Things might have improved by now, but no promises. If you are getting a large amount of bandwidth ask for direct access to the carriers noc. That how we do it. They may

GoDaddy issues this morning?

2009-07-08 Thread Sean
Anyone know what was the deal with GoDaddy this morning? I sporadically could not resolve a domain I own this morning. Checked the authoritative and it was fine... then noticed that it was completely not working from some ISPs but OK from others, etc. Went to GoDaddy's site and finally saw a

Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

2009-07-08 Thread Justin Shore
Shon Elliott wrote: Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to most of the people I've talked to. 99.99% of my userbase is in the rural Midwest. Needless to say I saw no

Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

2009-07-08 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Eric Kujawski wrote: Speaking from a provider's view, this is what we saw/heard during the event. Total concurrent streams (across the board not just us): 781,000 Traffic wise, we peaked at close to 45G over our daily average across all locations during the

Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

2009-07-08 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 8, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Eric Kujawski wrote: Speaking from a provider's view, this is what we saw/heard during the event. Total concurrent streams (across the board not just us): 781,000 Traffic wise, we peaked at close to 45G

Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

2009-07-08 Thread Jeff Kell
Nothing like inauguration, but then we're on summer semester schedule and sparsely populated :-) There was a noticeable spike in OUTBOUND traffic and connections, mostly that ill-behaved Octoshape (udp/8247), used by CNN and maybe others. Jeff

Re: GoDaddy issues this morning?

2009-07-08 Thread Peter Beckman
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Sean wrote: Anyone know what was the deal with GoDaddy this morning? I sporadically could not resolve a domain I own this morning. Checked the authoritative and it was fine... then noticed that it was completely not working from some ISPs but OK from others, etc. Went to

RE: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
The fundamental disconnect here is that a bunch of Layer 3 guys are trying to define Layer 2. History shows us that Layer 2 winds up being IEEE, and Layer 3 IETF. ITU-T and others write long standards that wind up not being so, due to too many options, while spending lots of money and keeping

RE: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

2009-07-08 Thread Frank Bulk
Ditto here. Did not see any increase. Frank -Original Message- From: Justin Shore [mailto:jus...@justinshore.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:39 PM To: Shon Elliott Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday Shon Elliott wrote: Does anyone have any data on

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread Randy Bush
History shows us that Layer 2 winds up being IEEE, and Layer 3 IETF. mpls