Re: Bird vs Quagga revisited

2012-08-28 Thread Walter Keen 
I'm fairly sure that Mikrotik software is based on linux, and supports MPLS. 

Not too sure which package they use, or if they rolled their own MPLS 
support... 




- Original Message -

From: "Seth Mattinen"  
To: nanog@nanog.org 
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 4:42:14 PM 
Subject: Re: Bird vs Quagga revisited 


What's the state of MPLS on Linux these days? 

~Seth

Re: Bird vs Quagga revisited

2012-08-28 Thread Seth Mattinen 

What's the state of MPLS on Linux these days?

~Seth

Re: Bird vs Quagga revisited

2012-08-28 Thread David Lamparter 
> > Personally I would like to see more work on all three opensource
> > implementations, i.e. BIRD, OpenBGPd and Quagga.
>
> http://opensourcerouting.org/ to the rescue?

Hi, I'm David Lamparter, employed at the OpenSourceRouting (OSR) project
to maintain Quagga.

I can tell you that the OSR's interest is in providing a stable
open-source routing platform for actual switches/routers (with either a
software or hardware forwarding plane).  Quagga and BIRD were considered
equally; Quagga's single-RIB design and existence of isisd were what
tipped the scales.

We primarily perform conformance and scale testing and fix/enhance in
those areas; also we support 3rd parties in cleaning and submitting
Quagga patches/features.

OSPF and IS-IS are stronger targets currently since they need more work
than BGP, and also Euro-IX already did much of the latter.  Merging that
is on the TODO, but it's a lot of work.  Even as a Quagga maintainer, I
must currently recommend against using mainline Quagga as a route
server.  Please use Euro-IX Quagga, and if you can/want, convince your
decisionmakers to support Chris Hall on that -- I've been told future
work on the Euro-IX Quagga branch is not certain.

There's been a BoF on RIPE64 with OSR, BIRD and Quagga involvement.
There'll be one at RIPE65 again I think.  Either way if you have
questions, feel free to ask.


-David


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ARIN Governance - Seeking Nominations for the ARIN Board, AC, and NRO NC

2012-08-28 Thread John Curran 
NANOGers -

 There are only a few days left to nominate folks for election to the
 the ARIN Board of Trustees, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC), or
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 Please see the attached message for details, and move promptly
 to nominate if you are aware of anyone who would do a good job
 serving the community in such a capacity.

Thank you!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN


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Re: Optical network simulator

2012-08-28 Thread bmanning 
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:35:57PM -0700, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
> On 08/28/12 12:12, Walter Keen wrote:
> >Free is preferred
> >
> 
> Free is always preferred... ;)

Free is too costly.  Unless you have zero-cost labor...

/bill

Re: Optical network simulator

2012-08-28 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning 

On 08/28/12 12:12, Walter Keen wrote:

Free is preferred



Free is always preferred... ;)

--
Mr. Flibble
King of the Potato People

Re: Optical network simulator

2012-08-28 Thread Walter Keen 
Free is preferred 



- Original Message -

From: "Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D."  
To: nanog@nanog.org 
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:03:39 PM 
Subject: RE: Optical network simulator 

Free or costly? There is Opnet on the costly side, unless the old free academic 
version will do this. 

-Original Message- 
From: Walter Keen [mailto:walter.k...@rainierconnect.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:38 PM 
To: nanog@nanog.org 
Subject: Optical network simulator 


Does anyone happen to know of an optical network simulator? 


I'm trying to examine the behaviour of a 3-8 node sonet ADM ring using 2-fiber 
UPSR when one interface has intermittent severely errored seconds.

RE: Optical network simulator

2012-08-28 Thread Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D. 
Free or costly? There is Opnet on the costly side, unless the old free academic 
version will do this.

-Original Message-
From: Walter Keen [mailto:walter.k...@rainierconnect.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:38 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Optical network simulator


Does anyone happen to know of an optical network simulator? 


I'm trying to examine the behaviour of a 3-8 node sonet ADM ring using 2-fiber 
UPSR when one interface has intermittent severely errored seconds.

Optical network simulator

2012-08-28 Thread Walter Keen 

Does anyone happen to know of an optical network simulator? 


I'm trying to examine the behaviour of a 3-8 node sonet ADM ring using 2-fiber 
UPSR when one interface has intermittent severely errored seconds.

Re: Bizarre (.bz) abuse report - are we alone?

2012-08-28 Thread valdis . kletnieks 
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:35:54 -0700, Jay Hennigan said:
> On 8/25/12 3:29 PM, no-re...@abuse.bz wrote:
> > We have noticed illegal activity from [redacted] aimed at one of our 
> > servers.
> > Please disable these brute force attempts, port scans and/or neighbour 
> > scanning technologies.

I haven't seen something this clue-challenged since the CIRT for one of the US
military branches sent me an e-mail about network probes.  Turned out that it
was our Listserv machine, trying to send to the IP address that was listed as
an MX for one of their subdomains, and said IP didn't have anything listening
at port 25.



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