Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Carlos Alcantar
It's a complete rabbit hole different hardware with different browsers give 
different readings, even not having your laptop plugged into power can cause a 
change in results due to dropping cpu to power save.  The only reliable 
solution we found for field techs was the exfo ex1.Still talks to the ookla 
speedtest server etc.  Obvious this is a well known issue and exfo has a 
solution.



https://www.exfo.com/en/products/field-network-testing/network-protocol-testing/ethernet-testing/ex1/





Carlos Alcantar

Race Communications / Race Team Member

Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com<mailto:car...@race.com> / 
http://www.race.com<http://www.race.com/>




From: NANOG  on behalf of Chris Gross 

Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 12:39 PM
To: Matt Erculiani
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group
Subject: RE: Proving Gig Speed

Winner winner chicken dinner. I forgot to pull "Antivirus is at fault" card 
from my deck. 250/675 with it installed, 920/920 when removed so now I get to 
pass the the issue onwards.

Thanks everyone for your replies and the responses for the adolfintel/speedtest 
github, I'll definitely look at it as a replacement for later.

-Original Message-
From: Matt Erculiani 
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 2:17 PM
To: Chris Gross 
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group 
Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed

We use Iperf3 for customers that complain about throughput, it's relatively low 
overhead compared to the Ookla HTML5 client. Same scenario as you, we have the 
tech hook up their laptop to the customer's drop and perform testing. I suspect 
your antivirus may be attempting to perform real-time inspection on the http(s) 
traffic, which would crush the little laptop CPU for sure.

Message me off-list and I'll send you a private Iperf3 server IP to test with.

-Matt

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:58 PM, Chris Gross  
wrote:
> I'm curious what people here have found as a good standard for providing 
> solid speedtest results to customers. All our techs have Dell laptops of 
> various models, but we always hit 100% CPU when doing a Ookla speedtest for a 
> server we have on site. So then if you have a customer paying for 600M or 
> 1000M symmetric, they get mad and demand you prove it's full speed. At that 
> point we have to roll out different people with JDSU's to test and prove it's 
> functional where a Ookla result would substitute fine if we didn't have 
> crummy laptops possibly. Even though from what I can see on some google 
> results, we exceed the standards several providers call for.
>
> Most of these complaints come from the typical "power" internet user of 
> course that never actually uses more than 50M sustained paying for a 
> residential connection, so running a circuit test on each turn up is uncalled 
> for.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions of the requirements (CPU/RAM/etc) for a laptop 
> that can actually do symmetric gig, a rugged small inexpensive device we can 
> roll with instead to prove, or any other weird solution involving ritual 
> sacrifice that isn't too offensive to the eyes?


Re: Passive Optical Network (PON)

2017-01-22 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I think it's really depends on your use case.  If you know your TOR switches 
are doing 1-2 gigs at all times PON would be quite expensive to keep up with 
this type of usage.  If your talking distribution/access out to cameras ect it 
would work.  We run gpon across our entire access network 99% of the time it's 
fine once in awhile you'll get that one user that is killing the pon port and 
will move them to an active ethernet port.  Now when NG-PON2 starts to hit the 
market, now you're talking about something that could be used in the data 
center with it's capabilities to do 4X 10G PON bonding.  Note this is not going 
to be cheap but doable.




Carlos Alcantar

Race Communications / Race Team Member

1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010

Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com<mailto:car...@race.com> / 
http://www.race.com<http://www.race.com/>


From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Kenneth McRae 
<kenneth.mc...@me.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:44:02 AM
To: NANOG
Subject: Passive Optical Network (PON)

Greeting all,

Is anyone out there using PON in a campus or facility environment?  I am 
talking to a few vendors who are pushing PON as a replacement for edge 
switching on the campus and in some cases, ToR switch in the DC.  Opinions on 
this technology would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Kenneth


Re: Voip faxing

2016-11-03 Thread Carlos Alcantar
That link shared right there is pretty much gold when it comes to faxing / 
modems over voip.  Thats pretty much what you will get out of any discussion.  
We have successfully been able to get it to work but we also control the 
network a-z including the outside plant down to the house.  What we have 
started to notice even when we are passing the calls down into the PSTN through 
the local interconnect tandems ect people down the line are converting it down 
to voip.



Carlos Alcantar

Race Communications / Race Team Member

1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010

Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com<mailto:car...@race.com> / 
http://www.race.com<http://www.race.com/>


From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of John Osmon 
<jos...@rigozsaurus.com>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 9:27:59 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Voip faxing

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 04:52:46AM +, Carlos Alcantar wrote:
> Hey Samual,
>
>
> you might want to check out the voice ops mailing list, might be a bit more 
> relevant over there.
>
>
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

Aside from voiceops, here's decade (or more?) old web page that I point
people to when they want to deal with Fax over VoIP:
http://www.soft-switch.org/foip.html





Re: Voip faxing

2016-10-30 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Hey Samual,


you might want to check out the voice ops mailing list, might be a bit more 
relevant over there.


https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

VoiceOps Info Page - Welcome to 
puck.nether.net<https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops>
puck.nether.net
This is the VoiceOps Mailing list. This list is for discussions related to 
managing voice networks, both traditional and IP. The VOIP Operators' Group 
(VOG) charter ...







Carlos Alcantar

Race Communications / Race Team Member

1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010

Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com<mailto:car...@race.com> / 
http://www.race.com<http://www.race.com/>


From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Samual Carman 
<starwars1...@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016 9:45:52 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Voip faxing

Hello if this is not allowed please ignore and inform me that it not allowed 
however I could think of no better place for this
I would like to know why there has not been more wide support of the V.38 or 
v.17 v.34 or the old style g.711 protocols for faxing over voip
Based on my understanding it is an difficult in an IP based environment for 
faxing to work reliably however based on my understanding V.38 was suppose to 
fix that however the research I have conducted in regards to the support of 
these protocols is that there not widely implimted and besides G.711 which was 
designed for voice that proviso is somewhat implored on a wider scale
However I understand faxing is archaic but in some fields it is necessary
Thanks Sam Please excuse spelling and grammar as this was typed on my phone

Get Outlook for iOS



Re: Outdoor ADSL2+/VDSL/G.Fast NIU

2016-09-07 Thread Carlos Alcantar
The calix 844g is not an outdoor rated unit just a heads up.  Typically now 
xdsl modems have integrated router and wireless which brings them into indoor 
rated type of equipment.  I'm sure outdoor is out there but probably not 
something that's off the shelf and highly deployed.


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Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com



From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Eric Kuhnke 
<eric.kuh...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 5:40:06 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org list
Subject: Re: Outdoor ADSL2+/VDSL/G.Fast NIU

I think Calix has a fully outdoor version of their 844G VDSL2 modem. The
problem you'll run into is the cost of bringing 12VDC through a small hole
in the exterior wall (from a small indoor mounted 120VAC to 12VDC power
supply) or outdoor code compliant weatherproof 120VAC for the equipment.

And the issues that are frequently encountered by cable TV installers who
mistakenly drill through a hole through a wall for some RG6 coax and burst
somebody's water pipe or sewer pipe.

This can drive the cost per building served cost up considerably, if the
ISP needs to eat all or a portion of the cost of bringing electrical
service to the outdoor mounting location.

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Jeremy Malli <jer...@vcn.com> wrote:

> I'm hoping somebody on the list has a recommendation for an outdoor
> ADSL2+/VDSL/G.Fast NIU.  Been doing so some research into this and have
> come up empty so far.
>
>
> My thinking is that by housing the DSL CPE outside the residence in an
> enclosure we can reduce the issues with IW (since we would only need a
> small jumper from the LEC handoff to the NIU) and also gain access to the
> DSL CPE remotely for management and troubleshooting.  We would then hand
> off ethernet to the customer using existing wiring or running cat5.
>
>
> Interested in how this problem may have already been addressed in the
> provider community.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> -
>
> Jeremy Malli
>
> jer...@vcn.com
>



Re: AT/Bellsouth Fiber Gear

2016-06-28 Thread Carlos Alcantar
We had a similar situation a couple years ago we went around for weeks trying 
to find someone that could help us with the equipment.  We ended up pulling the 
power on the gear someone showed up 2 hours later.  That finally got us someone 
we could actually talk with about re locating the equipment in the building.


​
Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com



From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Morgan A. Miskell 
<morgan.misk...@caro.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 9:47:17 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: AT/Bellsouth Fiber Gear

Anyone on this list that can put me in touch with a contact in the
division within AT that manages their fiber equipment deployed in the
field?

I need to speak with someone regarding some AT gear in our data center
that is on old Bellsouth Sonet rings.. thanks!

You can contact me off list via e-mail please!

--
Morgan A. Miskell
CaroNet Data Centers
704-643-8330 x206

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Re: BGP peering strategies for smaller routers

2016-05-03 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I know this thread has been primarily about memory to hold the routing tables, 
but how well does it do with the BGP convergence time??  which could be the 
other killer with multiple full route tables.


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Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com



From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Blake Hudson <bl...@ispn.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 3:23:42 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: BGP peering strategies for smaller routers

Łukasz Bromirski wrote on 5/3/2016 4:13 PM:
>> On 03 May 2016, at 22:31, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Gustav Ulander
>> <gustav.ulan...@telecomputing.se> wrote:
>>> Yes I can confirm that we also had the issue with the asr1001s.
>>> For us the router was fine until we upgraded it. When
>>> we rebooted it after the upgrade it ran out of memory
>>> when populating 2 full feeds.
>>> When we contacted TAC they confirmed that indeed
>>> it was a memory problem and that we would need to
>>> add more memory to the box.
>> Hi Gustav,
>>
>> IMO, you should not accept that answer from the TAC. An IOS release
>> that crashes with two 600k BGP feeds in 4 gigs of RAM is badly
>> defective.
> Not necessarily.
>
> In essence, your physical memory gets halved in two after
> router boots up, then it may be further halved if you’re
> using features like SSO. So, with 4GB RAM config and with
> SSO running, you may be left with around 600-650MB free after
> boot and with IOS-XE loaded, and then all the features kick
> in. Including your BGP feeds that need around 300MB of memory
> just to store the tables, then there’s CEF RAM representation,
> and so on.
>
> Here’s a good WP w/r to memory usage & architecture on ASR 1k:
> http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/routers/asr-1000-series-aggregation-services-routers/116777-technote-product-00.html
>
> It actually contains the same recommendation given by TAC -
> with recent/current code if you want to run full tables with
> BGP, get 8GB of RAM on ASR 1k. In the 3.10-3.12S era I believe
> it was still possible to fit (without the SSO) full tables
> in RAM and be fine.
>
> As Nick just responded, it’s faster to source the RAM or modify
> the config to cut down on number of BGP prefixes rather than
> ping back and forth here discussing all the possibilities.
>

I feel like you're trying to fit some other (possible, but far fetched)
scenario from where we started. Mike, the op, said he has a 1002 which
has an RP1 configured with 4GB of RAM. First, this is not a 1001.
Second, SSO is off by default and is unlikely to be configured on an
ASR1002 (the op certainly never stated he had enabled it). I just
checked a few ASR 1k RP1s I have access to and the 3.10 IOS image has
similar memory usage to the 3.13 (the latest MD release for this
platform). On the RP1 platform, with a default only BGP feed, the
systems have ~ 1.3GB of proc mem available. With a single full IP4 BGP
feed, the free proc mem goes down to ~850MB. With two full feeds, the
proc mem goes down to ~ 800MB. RP memory goes from ~1.8GB used (default
only), ~2.7GB used (1x full), ~2.8GB used (2x full). This still leaves
over 1GB of free RP memory with two full BGP feeds. The amount of FIB is
dependent on the ESP installed by the OP; Mike hasn't yet stated what
ESP he has installed.

So yes, the 1002 can, and will continue to, work with two full BGP feeds
when fitted with an ESP10.







Re: GPON vs. GEPON

2016-01-07 Thread Carlos Alcantar
At this point if you haven't deployed any of these system, make sure you know 
the road map of your vendor for N-GPON2 that is going to be the next wave of 
deployed pon systems.



https://www.calix.com/solutions/next-generation-pon.html


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Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com



From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Baldur Norddahl 
<baldur.nordd...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 8:30 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: GPON vs. GEPON

The solution for selling 1G internet with EPON could be 10GEPON. This is
still cheaper than GPON. The idea is that the ONU has a cheap standard 1G
transmitter. Apparently you can make a 10G receiver very cheap, it is the
transmitter that is expensive. So it is 10G downstream and 1G upstream.
With the option to deliver 10G upstream per ONU. It is about reusing
standard ethernet components that are dirt cheap - you can buy ethernet SFP
modules for peanuts after all and 10G SFP+ modules are not that expensive
either.

However when we asked some vendors about this, nobody wanted to sell to us
because Europe (and USA I assume) is GPON while China is GEPON. They did
offer to sell us GPON at 10GEPON pricing instead...

Something fishy is going on. It is not about EC compliance as it is just a
matter of buying a 10GEPON card instead of GPON card to the same chassis
switch. Maybe patents?

Regards,

Baldur


On 6 January 2016 at 14:57, Colton Conor <colton.co...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you take out "bitrate, split ratio, cross vendor compatibility and
> purchase price differences" then what else would you like to compare or
> know? Those would be the major differences I would say. We only deploy GPON
> here. I would say in a system like GEPON or GPON where a port is shared
> between users more bandwidth is better, and GPON has more capacity than
> GEPON. I am not sure which region you are in, but in the USA GEPON is
> almost non-existent from the larger players. Meaning that most GEPON
> equipment won't be ANSI certified, and might not have FFC certs.
>
> Huawei used to have a couple of slides.
>
> I looked on some other list and found the following:
>
> We considered EPON, and there are some inexpensive solutions from off shore
> that are worth considering.
>
>
>
> In the end, we went for GPON for two reasons:
>
>
>
> One, you can deliver a true 1Gbps service where more than one customer on a
> PON segment can actually get 1Gbps at a time, because the GPON supports
> 2.4Gbps of total usage on the segment.
>
>
>
> Two we like our current vendor, Adtran, and we wanted to put OLT cards into
> the same chassis and manage them using the same systems. The cost premium
> versus a new vendor for EPON wasn't huge. The CPE is the bigger cost, and
> we didn't see a real cost difference between EPON ONT and GPON ONT.
>
>
>
> In the end, the price difference for GPON versus EPON wasn't great - and
> while GPON is a bit "designed by committee" and there are some valid
> criticisms there, they're academic in light of the other factors.
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:00 PM, <nanog-...@mail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > For those of you with optical last mile networks that are familiar with
> > both GPON and GEPON, would you mind sharing experiences of the
> differences
> > between GPON and GEPON, especially from an operative perspective?
> >
> > For arguments sake let's assume bitrate, split ratio, cross vendor
> > compatibility and purchase price differences aren't of major interest.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jared
> >
>


Re: Project Fi and the Great Firewall

2015-11-15 Thread Carlos Alcantar

Similar to the SS7 phone network where call signaling data is done on a totally 
different path then the actual rtp path.

​
Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com



From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Jared Geiger 
<ja...@compuwizz.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 7:08 PM
To: NANOG
Subject: Re: Project Fi and the Great Firewall

When you roam onto another cellular network other than your home network,
your data is encapsulated and sent back to your home network before going
out to the internet. This is to provide a seamless experience for the
customer.

The network it rides on is the GRX/IPX which is a a worldwide MPLS network
that the GSMA specified to make the data roaming experience work. The
GRX/IPX also can carry voice and text back to the home network. Since it is
a separate network from the Internet, the Great Firewall was bypassed.

There are several GRX/IPX providers and they all peer with each other in
key locations which usually end up being in the same major Internet peering
locations. TATA, Syniverse, SAP, Telia, and many others run an IPX/GRX
network and Equinix has IPX/GRX peering exchanges.

The wikipedia articles will start you in the right direction for more
information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPRS_roaming_exchange
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_exchange

~Jared

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Jake Mertel <
jake.mer...@ubiquityhosting.com> wrote:

> I know the service/device uses VPN if you are using "wifi assist" to
> connect to an open WAP -- it automatically tunnels the traffic so it can't
> be read by nearby snoopers. Perhaps they employ a similar technology or are
> using something like PPP to take all of the traffic back to one (or many)
> "access servers" before sending it off to the Internet. I have no
> experience whatsoever in cellular network operations, but I know many
> providers employ similar methodologies to assist in meeting their CALEA
> requirements.
>
> On Saturday, November 14, 2015, Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> wrote:
>
> > On 15 Nov 2015, at 9:00, Sean Hunter wrote:
> >
> > While in China recently, I noticed that my Project Fi phone was accessing
> >> Google.
> >>
> >
> > Accessing, or attempting to access?
> >
> > Were you using a local SIM card, or roaming w/data?  What about WiFi?
> >
> > ---
> > Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net>
> >
>
>
> --
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Jake Mertel
> Ubiquity Hosting
>
>
>
> *Web: *https://www.ubiquityhosting.com
> *Phone (direct): *1-480-478-1510
> *Mail:* 5350 East High Street, Suite 300, Phoenix, AZ 85054
>



Re: Favorite GPON Vendor?

2015-11-12 Thread Carlos Alcantar

I believe with any of these arms dealers (gpon vendors) they all have there 
goods and bads, it really comes down to what poison you feel you can deal with. 
 The one place I can speak on with calix is there consumer connect with there 
800 series ont's has pushed it to a totally different level, it's not perfect 
but it's getting there. 

​
Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com



From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Scott Helms 
<khe...@zcorum.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 4:24 PM
To: Frank Bulk (iname.com)
Cc: NANOG
Subject: RE: Favorite GPON Vendor?

Frank,

Take a look at this webinar.

https://www.webcaster4.com/Webcast/Page?companyId=116=10264
On Nov 12, 2015 7:03 PM, "Frank Bulk" <frnk...@iname.com> wrote:

> What does ADTRAN's NG-PON2 upgrade path have over Calix's?
>
> Frank
>
> -Original Message-
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 8:49 PM
> To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: Favorite GPON Vendor?
>
> We are about do deploy Calix, but after hearing about $company
> deploying Adtran and liking their chassis features and NG-PON2 upgrade
> path, we are now open to other vendors. Price IS a concern for us, but
> not THE concern.
>
> This may sound "wacky" to some, but if anybody on here is using Huawei
> GPON gear, could you contact me off list? Thanks
> (josh AT kyneticwifi.com)
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Jay Patel <cle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Who is your favorite GPON  OLT/ONU Vendor? Why?   I am looking for
> > recommendations
> >
> > I apologize in advance , if you feel my question is inappropriate for
> this
> > mailing list ( feel free to point me to right forum/mailing list).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jay.
>
>
>


Re: Dial Up Solutions

2015-10-18 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I would highly suggest staying away from any type of voip (sip/iax/h323/h248) 
solution for anything that has to do with modems unless your qos is tight from 
a to z.  It's a good way to go bald real fast lol my 2 cents.


​
Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com



From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Will Duquette 
<wi...@staff.gwi.net>
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 12:28 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Dial Up Solutions

Does anyone have any suggestions on equipment for our ISP that is still
supporting dial up customers?

At the moment we are running 3Com Total Control 1000's but are running out
of spare parts as we have failures.  Given that this gear is so old trying
to source spare parts is proving to be difficult.

We do have access to an Cisco AS5200 but are looking for maybe a SIP based
solution that could possibly run on our VM farm?  Has anyone heard of
anything like that or does it even exist?

What kind of gear are you running if you still are supporting dial up
customers?

Thanks in advance

--
Will Duquette
GWI
Network Systems Engineer
www.gwi.net


Re: Cogent BGP Woes

2015-10-15 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Sales now handled it because they bill now for having a bgp session.


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Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com



From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Justin Wilson - MTIN 
<li...@mtin.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 8:47 PM
To: NANOG
Subject: Re: Cogent BGP Woes

I am trying to turn up BGP on a circuit that ha never had it. In the past, you 
went to the support portal, filled out the questionnaire and in a day or so you 
would have you bgp info. When I did that this time I received a prompt response 
back from support saying this is now handled by sales and gave me the sales 
person to contact.

Contacted sales person almost 3 weeks ago. Had to wait until the direct draft 
credited before they could put any new orders in. On a side note, Cogent is the 
only provider I know of that does not credit electronic payments within 24-48 
hours. All of ours take 5 business days. Once thats done, e-mail the sales 
person back. No response for a few days. Call a manager and get them involved. 
2 more weeks we still don’t have BGP on this circuit. A minimum of 1 e-mail a 
day asking for status updates. Last response was “Everything was entered in the 
system”.

I guess I don’t understand why a sales order has to be entered for BGP. This 
adds an extra step, which in this case has been a major fail.


Justin Wilson
j...@mtin.net <mailto:j...@mtin.net>

---
http://www.mtin.net <http://www.mtin.net/> Owner/CEO
xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth

http://www.midwest-ix.com <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> COO/Chairman
Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric

On Oct 15, 2015, at 2:47 PM, james machado <hvgeekwt...@gmail.com 
<mailto:hvgeekwt...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Justin,

What are you trying to do? I had a similar situation as my rep got
the wrong product for BGP. I actually cleaned it up by talking to
support and I had to fill out a second BGP questionnaire but it was
resolved and turned up in a couple of days.

James

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Justin Wilson - MTIN <li...@mtin.net 
<mailto:li...@mtin.net>> wrote:
Have the rest of you been having as hard a time I am having in turning up BgP 
sessions with Cogent? They have made it a sales order nowadays instead of 
support. I filled out the questionnaire on the support site over 3 weeks ago 
and was directed to sales. I am going on 3 weeks waiting on a session to be 
turned up.

Just wondering if I am alone.


Justin Wilson
j...@mtin.net <mailto:j...@mtin.net>

---
http://www.mtin.net <http://www.mtin.net/> Owner/CEO
xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth

http://www.midwest-ix.com <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> COO/Chairman
Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric





Re: Verizon FIOS routing trouble to Facebook

2015-08-14 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Don't know if this is related but we got this maintenance notice from facebook. 
 Router is within the same region.

--​

Subject: Facebook Network Maintenance Notification AS32934
 

Hi Peers,
  
Facebook will be performing maintenance at Coresite LA1 One Wilshire in Los 
Angeles California. This will affect all peering sessions on our routers and 
you will see the peering go down intermittently. 
 
ASN: 32934
 
Start: August 13 2015,  10:00 AM  PST
End:  August  13 2015,   6:00  PM  PST
 
 
Peering details: as32934.peeringdb.com 
 
Robert Horrigan
Edge  Network Services Team

--​

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com



From: NANOG nanog-boun...@nanog.org on behalf of Matthew Black 
matthew.bl...@csulb.edu
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 9:30 PM
To: Christopher Morrow
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Verizon FIOS routing trouble to Facebook

Pinging star.c10r.facebook.com [31.13.70.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

As I said, it fails from FIOS in Long Beach CA.

On the phone with FIOS support now. The tech wants me to reset my router to 
factory defaults even after explaining I can reach everything else. I suggested 
they had an upstream routing or peering problem.



-Original Message-
From: christopher.mor...@gmail.com [mailto:christopher.mor...@gmail.com] On 
Behalf Of Christopher Morrow
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 9:18 PM
To: Matthew Black
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Verizon FIOS routing trouble to Facebook

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Matthew Black matthew.bl...@csulb.edu wrote:
 Anyone around from Verizon? Cannot reach Facebook through Verizon FIOS in 
 Long Beach, CA. No trouble on the ATT 4G LTE network.


$ p www.facebook.com
PING star.c10r.facebook.com (31.13.69.197) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from edge-star-shv-01-iad3.facebook.com (31.13.69.197):
icmp_seq=1 ttl=89 time=12.1 ms
64 bytes from edge-star-shv-01-iad3.facebook.com (31.13.69.197):
icmp_seq=2 ttl=89 time=5.64 ms

(looks like I'm talking to an east-coast fb instance)

...
 5  0.ae6.xl2.iad8.alter.net (140.222.228.57)  24.242 ms  24.707 ms *
 6  0.xe-11-0-1.gw9.iad8.alter.net (152.63.33.169)  22.515 ms 
0.xe-11-1-0.gw9.iad8.alter.net (152.63.35.117)  15.337 ms 
0.xe-10-3-0.gw9.iad8.alter.net (152.63.41.246)  10.154 ms
 7  fb-gw.customer.alter.net (204.148.11.102)  24.263 ms  11.457 ms  9.897 ms
 8  psw01a.iad3.tfbnw.net (204.15.23.162)  10.428 ms psw01b.iad3.tfbnw.net 
(204.15.23.154)  7.720 ms psw01c.iad3.tfbnw.net
(204.15.23.144)  9.050 ms
...

Re: Some Verizon FIOS subscribers in DFW blocked from tcp80/443 to regional higher-eds

2015-08-14 Thread Carlos Alcantar
don't know if it's related but someone posted on the outages list about a 
level3 fiber cut.  verizon and level3 could be in the same right of way.


​
Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com



From: NANOG nanog-boun...@nanog.org on behalf of Jeff Wilson 
jazzbot...@gmail.com
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 2:46 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Some Verizon FIOS subscribers in DFW blocked from tcp80/443 to 
regional higher-eds

Our help desk has fielded dozens of calls from Verizon FIOS subscribers in
the Dallas/Ft Worth area. Traceroutes from Verizon subscribers make it to
campus, and traceroutes from campus make it to the subscribers' IP
addresses. One subscriber can hit some of our websites, another subscriber
can hit none. The outage is inconsistent, as if some kind of deep-packet
inspection is in play.

My upstream tells me we're not the only higher-ed affected.

Any advice on how to get hold of Verizon NOC?

--

Regards,
Jeff

a.k.a. jeff (underscore) wilson (at) baylor (dot) edu
AS 30674



Re: FTTx Active-Ethernet Hardware

2015-02-10 Thread Carlos Alcantar
We run Calix GPON / AE Platform works fairly nicely but does have it¹s
cost.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com
http://www.race.com/






On 2/10/15, 1:27 PM, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote:


On 10/Feb/15 21:35, Frank Bulk wrote:
 Unless each customer has in their own L3 domain, you'll also want some
kind
 of L2 isolation between ports (and also MFF) and IP source address
 verification (so that people can't spoof addresses) for both DHPC and
static
 IP customers.  And don't forget the IPv6 equivalents.

You can get all that in a decent Active-E-based AN (as you would in a
GPON AN). But then the price starts to go up if you want this in
software as opposed to doing funky things.

Cisco's ME2600X was, for me, one of the first proper Active-E FTTH AN's
with features required in FTTH deployments (split horizon for Layer 2
customer separation, DHCP Option 82 support, per-port level trTCM
ingress and egress policing and queuing, EVC's, e.t.c.).

I understand it is now being replaced by the ASR920, which is a little
odd if you look at port density differences between the two alone.

For the GPON-centric, it is also being replaced by Cisco's ME4605 GPON AN.

Final date to buy any ME2600X's will be June 2015.

Mark.





Re: Metaswitch ax1000 as a RR

2015-02-07 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I can¹t speak for this product specifically as we do not use it, but on
metaswitch voice platforms there support is impecable.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com
http://www.race.com/






On 2/5/15, 12:41 PM, David Bass davidbass...@gmail.com wrote:

I have a client looking to implement x86 based route reflectors, and was
looking at the ax1000.  I'm wondering if anyone has implemented it yet,
and what your experience has been?

Any other alternatives would also be appreciated.  This customer does
standard L3 VPNs, and VPLS services so the software has to support that.

Thanks!






Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

2015-01-30 Thread Carlos Alcantar
+1 on Xirrus or Ruckus if you care to sleep at night. Just my 2cents


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





On 1/30/15, 8:19 AM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote:

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Manuel Marín m...@transtelco.net wrote:
 I was wondering if you can recommend or share your experience with APs
that
 you can use in locations that have 300-500 users. I friend recommended
me
 Ruckus Wireless, it would be great if you can share your experience with
 Ruckus or with a similar vendor.  My experience with ubiquity for this
type
 of requirement was not that good.

Hi Manuel,

At 300-500 users you may still be in dd-wrt territory with the lack of
smart roaming and self-healing features mitigated by a price that
makes it practical to simply deploy more access points. Dumb roaming
can be good enough when the user count per AP is low.

Aruba it is not, but I had a 150 user deployment on 5 dd-wrt APs that
was largely trouble-free.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

-- 
William Herrin  her...@dirtside.com  b...@herrin.us
Owner, Dirtside Systems . Web: http://www.dirtside.com/





Re: 1U or SS7 to SIP services in Sovereign House London

2015-01-08 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Voiceops list might be better suited for this request.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com
http://www.race.com/






On 1/8/15, 8:13 AM, Daryl G. Jurbala da...@introspect.net wrote:

I know it¹s a long shot on this list, but if you know of anyone who can
provide these services or even just a good place like NANOG for that part
of the world please contact me off list.






Re: Relative cost of ONT and UPS for FTTP

2014-12-14 Thread Carlos Alcantar

I can only speak on the building we have / are doing I don¹t know that I
would say the ont represents 1/3 of the cost.  The construction side of
things can get fairly costly getting the plant to the point where you
could just use opti taps.  I¹m not going to say this is everywhere but
with new wind loading regulations for poles and some cities trying to use
our construction as a way to pay for there streets to get fixed, yes we
have been asked to install wheel chair accessible sidewalks and re pave an
entire block when we wanted to bore 100 ft on a block that spanned 1000ft
and 4 lanes wide.  That killed that deal.  We have also had the pleasure
of working with cities and counties that work with us to get the permits
approved which has always been a nice treat.  I don¹t think there is a
formula every situation can be extremely different.  Just my 2 cents.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.comI d






On 12/14/14, 11:40 AM, Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca
wrote:

On 14-12-14 11:21, Jay Ashworth wrote:

 I didn't realize that was what you were looking for; that's about the
 numbers I got 2 years ago for a 12,000 passing 100% deployment over a
 3 sq mi city.  There was a lot of good information in those threads if
 you're contemplating doing this from scratch;

This was part of a year long process to evaluate the future of wholesale
access to last mile in Canada (independent ISPs using incumbent last
mile), and in particular whether FTTP should be included in the
regulation.

Incumbents made arguments that the drop to the home represents 1/3 of
the total FTTP investment, and I had to break that down to show that if
ISPs pay for the CPE, it represents a significant portion of investment.
(Incumbents argue that ISPs ride on their coat-tails and never share
risk/investment, as well as the standard we'll stop investing if you
force wholesale which is also used by ATT/Verizon in USA.

This hearing had enough spin to make anyone's head dizzy :-(




Re: Shipping bulk hardware via freight

2014-11-06 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I really wish we could do emoji¹s in email.  Totally fitting!

http://www.iemoji.com/view/emoji/26/people/face-with-tears-of-joy



Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com






On 11/6/14, 7:43 PM, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote:

On 11/6/2014 12:07, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
 On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 23:11:23 -0500, William Herrin said:

 Ah yes, I recall watching them decommission the old Control Data Cyber
990
 back at Georgia Tech. The mover slipped trying to get it on the
liftgate
 and the whole cabinet dropped about a foot to the ground with a nice
solid
 thud.

 I know of a case where somebody managed to drop an IBM Shark storage
 array off a forklift.

 Amazingly enough, it still kinda sorta worked after that

I no longer can recall the name of the company (his trucks were United
Fan Lines colors but he had split off or something and had a license to
use the colors)--all he (and crew) did was big computers.

In the years I dealt with him the highlights were a) the time he and
crew loaded a 1783 Drum (Several thousand pounds, I think, and
top-heavy) into a truck parked against the curb or a street that has a
moderately radical slope.  Rolling it off the lift gate they lost it and
it slammed against the down-hill wall pretty sternly.  The truck tilted
a bit into the street light pole which made the pole whip, flinging the
glass cover down on the truck.  Activity eventually stopped with the
truck leaning (and immobilized) against the pole.  I don't remember the
resolution.


b) the time they Johnson-barred an 1110 CPU into an open hole in the
raised floor.  Seems like the ripped out a lot of floor before deciding
the strategy was not working.  Seems like the used several Rol-a-lifts,
a lot of canvas strapping and Johnson Bar handles recovering it.



-- 
The unique Characteristics of System Administrators:

The fact that they are infallible; and,

The fact that they learn from their mistakes.


Quis custodiet ipsos custodes




Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-31 Thread Carlos Alcantar
+1 on this exactly what we do, keeps the calls down.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





On 10/31/14, 9:56 AM, Laszlo Hanyecz las...@heliacal.net wrote:

If you're selling to end users, under promise and over deliver.  Tell them
20Mbit but provision for 25.  That way when they run their speedtest,
they're delighted that they're getting more, instead of being disappointed
and feeling screwed.  In practice they will leave it idle most of the time
anyway.
This isn't a technical problem, it's just a matter of setting expectations
and satisfying them.  Some of the customers might be completely clueless,
but if your goal is to make them happy, then explaining protocol overhead
is
probably not the right way.

-Laszlo








Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread Carlos Alcantar
For access side (home users) we have slightly over provisioned there
circuits, to minimize the I¹m paying for 20 why am I getting 19 type of
calls.  Provision them out to 25 they get 23-24 on there speedtest
everyone is happy. 


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com
http://www.race.com/






On 10/29/14, 3:24 PM, keith tokash ktok...@hotmail.com wrote:

Hi *, sorry if this has been answered, I did look.

Is there an industry standard regarding how much bandwidth an
inter-carrier circuit should guarantee?  Specifically I'm thinking of a
sub-interface on a shared physical interface.  I've not thought much
about it but if there's a more generally-accepted guideline than, when
the customers start leaving / when you leave, I'm at least 5% ears.

Thanks,
Keith
 



Re: ISP Shaping Hardware

2014-10-20 Thread Carlos Alcantar
The platforms I¹ve seen used for large scale dpi is procera I¹ve heard
rave reviews, but also comes with the price tag.


http://www.proceranetworks.com



Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com
http://www.race.com/






On 10/19/14, 9:55 PM, Skeeve Stevens
skeeve+na...@eintellegonetworks.com wrote:

Hey all,

Just wondering what/if people are using any shaping hardware/appliances
these days, and if so, what.

I have a client which has thousands of customers on Satellite and needs to
restrict some users who are doing a lot.

So I wanted to see what the current popular equipment out there is.

...Skeeve

*Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
ske...@eintellegonetworks.com ; www.eintellegonetworks.com

Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve

facebook.com/eintellegonetworks ;  http://twitter.com/networkceoau
linkedin.com/in/skeeve

experts360: https://expert360.com/profile/d54a9

twitter.com/theispguy ; blog: www.theispguy.com


The Experts Who The Experts Call
Juniper - Cisco - Cloud - Consulting - IPv4 Brokering




Re: Equinix Sales

2014-10-03 Thread Carlos Alcantar
coresite might be a good alternative if they are in the market you are
trying to get space into.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





On 10/3/14, 7:33 AM, Daniel Corbe co...@corbe.net wrote:


Equinix Sales seem impossible to reach.  Should I just give up and go
through a sales agent or can someone from Equinix sales contact me
off-list?





Re: FTTH and DSLAM Access Vendors

2014-07-28 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I don¹t know that getting a comparison of all these vendors will do
anything for you as each one will have something that tops each other.
What I¹ve always done is put my list together of features that I need to
run my business and see where each one of the vendors sits after that.
You can typically weed out a good % by that first set of questions.  We
also will give some points to vendors we already deal with and staff is
already familiar with using, as training can be a big % of cost.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





On 7/24/14, 7:49 PM, Colton Conor colton.co...@gmail.com wrote:

I am looking for comparisons between the following FTTH GPON and VDSL2
access platforms. Has anyone recently compared the capabilities of each of
these platforms?

Alcatel-Lucent 7360 ISAM
Adtran Total Access 5000
Calix E7
Cisco ME4600
Huawei MA5600T
Zhone MXK

They all look great on paper, but there has to be some key differences
other than price. Besides the vendors listed above, is there anyone else
in
this market?




Re: CLEC and FTTP H.248/Megaco

2014-05-03 Thread Carlos Alcantar
+1 here we do the same exact thing with our ftth and ont¹s separate vlan
with h.248 gw¹s sitting on it and you just point the profile of the voice
port to the gw.  There is a reason why they are doing things this way, as
current regulation does not force them to give you access to there fiber
network.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





On 5/3/14, 6:48 AM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote:

We use H.248 in our CLEC area.  The voice service for that ONT runs on a
specified VLAN for that ONT, so if we had to share our infrastructure with
other CLECs we could do that.

Frank

-Original Message-
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Francois
Mezei
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 10:50 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: CLEC and FTTP H.248/Megaco

I need a sanity check.

An incumbent in Canada has revealed that its voice service on FTTP
deployments is based on H.248 MEGACO (Media Gateway Controller).

Are there any examples of CLEC access to such FTTP deployments ?

(for instance, an area where the copper was removed, leaving only fibre
to homes, do CLECs retain competitive access via fibre to homes, or is
it going out of business or going with pure SIP/VoIP over the regular
internet connection, instead of using the quality voice link in the
GPON with garanteed bandwidth ?

Can this protocol support the programming of one OLT/MG  connecting to
the Telco's MGC, while the OLT/MG next door connects to the CLEC's MGC ?

Or does the protocol result in MG's discovering the nearest MGC and
connecting to it (making it hard to have multiple MGCs from competing
telcos).




I have been lead to believe that most OLTs came with a SIP based ATA. It
appears that H.248 is more telco friendly and scales better. Does this
mean that H.248 is more widely deployed in FTTH ?







Re: Suggestion on Fiber tester

2013-09-26 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I would also suggest you use a ferrule cleaner every single time you touch
an end 

http://www.fiberoptics4sale.com/p/Fiber_Optic_Connector_Reel_Cleaners/SFM25
0.html


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Chuck Anderson c...@wpi.edu
Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013 10:52 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion on Fiber tester

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 02:23:37AM +, Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List
wrote:
 I am in the market for a simple fiber tester.  I have about 80 pairs
running through my complex and we are running into some possible issues
with some of the really old ones.  The pen light to confirm that it's the
right strand is going to require a little bit more insight to determine
if there is an issue with fiber in conduit or patch.
 
 I don't need something super fancy, just need something that gives a
good, bad or holy crap is that concrete you are testing on for
starters.  I am also shooting for about $150-250 tops.
 
 Any suggestions?

How about using the built-in Digital Optcis Monitoring (DOM/DDM) in
modern SFPs?  Assuming your switches/routers and SFPs support it, you
can read the received power level right from your switches/routers.
The cost might be zero if you already have capabile equipment...

Combine that with a flashlight for identifying strands, and it might
be all you need...






Re: Parsing Syslog and Acting on it, using other input too

2013-08-29 Thread Carlos Alcantar
+1 on Splunk or if you don't mind using a SAS service check out
https://papertrailapp.com/

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Kasper Adel karim.a...@gmail.com
Date: Thursday, August 29, 2013 6:03 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Parsing Syslog and Acting on it, using other input too

Hello.

I am looking for a way to do proactive monitoring of my network, what I am
specifically thinking about is receiving syslog msgs from the routers and
the backend engine would correlate certain msgs with output/data that i am
receiving through SSH/telnet sessions. What i am after is not exposed to
SNMP so i need to do it on my own.


I am sure there are many tools that can do parsing of syslog and acting
upon it but i wonder if there is something more flexible out there that I
can just re-use to do the above ? Please point me to known public or
home-grown scripts in use to achieve this.

Regards,

Sam





Re: 10gig coast to coast

2013-06-17 Thread Carlos Alcantar
It's typically that the last mile portion of the circuit is going to cost
you the most, so it's important to know those details.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: eric clark cabe...@gmail.com
Date: Monday, June 17, 2013 3:22 PM
To: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu valdis.kletni...@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: 10gig coast to coast

Fair enough

Seattle to Boston is the general route, real close.

On Monday, June 17, 2013, wrote:

 On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:51:28 -0700, eric clark said:

  I may be needing  10 gig from the West Coast to the East Coast

 Might want to be more specific.  Catalina Island, CA to Buxton, NC
 (home of Cape Hatteras High School) will probably be way different
 than downtown LA to downtown Boston.






Re: Cat-5 cables near 200 Paul, SF

2013-05-31 Thread Carlos Alcantar
gray bar on cesar chavez about 5-10 min from 200 paul.  Not sure if you
need to have an account or if you can just walk into the counter.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Tuc t...@admarketplace.com
Date: Friday, May 31, 2013 4:15 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Cat-5 cables near 200 Paul, SF

Hi,

Hate to be that guy but really need help. Anyone know a place near 200
Paul in SF with a major quantity of cat-5 cables? Like 30 8ft blue, 20 8ft
grey, 30 5ft blue. Need them today due to ex-employee's poor inventory
keeping.

Thanks, Tuc





Re: Cat-5 cables near 200 Paul, SF

2013-05-31 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I don't think they will care how you pay.  It's just the question if you
do or don't need an account.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Majdi S. Abbas m...@latt.net
Date: Friday, May 31, 2013 3:26 PM
To: Tim M Edwards t...@lifelike.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Cat-5 cables near 200 Paul, SF

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:06:50PM -0700, Tim M Edwards wrote:
 Needs to be a Corporate CC though.

Nahh, they take my personal card in Phoenix and SF all the time.

--msa






Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test

2013-04-02 Thread Carlos Alcantar
You might want to consider putting up a speedtest server internal to your
network.  I know there is a fee but well worth it I believe.  You will
still need to take the results with a grain a salt but you will have the
best results as well.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Lorell Hathcock lor...@hathcock.org
Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 12:54 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test

Thanks for the many helpful suggestions I received offline.

One thing that I was able to deduce was that one of the radios along the
path had Ethernet auto negotiate turned on.  I turned it off and the TCP
speeds went way up.  It seems that UDP was not affected by this setting
while TCP was.

Thanks again!

Lorell



-Original Message-
From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:strei...@cluebyfour.org]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 7:27 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test

On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, Lorell Hathcock wrote:

 I am having some speedtest results that are difficult to interpret.

 Some of my customers have begun complaining that they are not getting
 the proper speeds.  They are using speedtest.net and/or speakeasy.net
 to test the results.

Take the speedtest results with a grain of salt.  Once traffic leaves your
network, you no longer have (much) control over how packets flow across the
'rest of the internet'.

Did the customers report when the issue started?
Are they seeing other performance problems (latency/jitter/packet loss)?
Are you sure no internal links/routers are being saturated, even for brief
periods of time?

jms







Re: EQUINIX

2013-01-21 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I would agree here cross connects.  We pay 15x more in cross connects per
month then we do in just the space/power.  We actually pulled out of a
colo once our contract came to terms with one of the large colo providers
because of the extortion cross connect fees.  It's an issue when a cross
connect within the same room cost more then the loop going 100 miles away.
 I sometimes question if the colo providers even understand our industry.
Sadly enough it was cheaper to move all that colo into an ATT CO/Tandem
then to stay put in the colo space.  Just my 2 cents.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Chris Rogers crog...@inerail.net
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013 5:07 PM
To: PC paul4...@gmail.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: EQUINIX

Here's the list pricing we received about a year ago for 60 Hudson/111 8th
in NYC: (24 month contract)
Single cab: $800/mo + $1000 setup
20A @ 208V: $605/mo + $500 setup
XC - Coax: $225/mo + $500 setup
XC - Fiber: $325/mo + $500 setup
XC - POTS: $25/mo + $100 setup
XC - T1/E1: $225/mo + $500 setup
PAIX 1gig: $1000/mo + $2000 setup
PAIX 10gig: $2500/mo + $4000 setup

Obviously, much negotiation was in order.

As others have said, the cab, and even power, is somewhat reasonable. But
the cross connects kill the whole thing.

-Chris


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:55 AM, PC paul4...@gmail.com wrote:

 My experience has been that the monthly rack rental fee will be a
 comparative bargain to basic power and a couple in-building cross
connects,
 which will often more than double the cost.  When shopping for any
 provider, make sure you price out all the options you need in addition to
 the rack space itself.


 On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Rodrick Brown rodrick.br...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:39 AM, ML m...@kenweb.org wrote:
 
   On 1/17/2013 4:49 AM, Ryan Finnesey wrote:
  
   What's the going rate now a days for a rack within EQUINIX?
  
   Cheers
   Ryan
  
  
   I would imagine this varies greatly by market and maybe even suite
 within
   the building
 
 
  And also power/cooling requirements.
 
 
  
  
 




-- 

Regards,
Chris Rogers
CEO, Inerail
+1.302.357.3696 x2110
http://inerail.net/



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Re: Netflix transit preference?

2012-12-27 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I'M they would be more then willing to work with you on the open connect
appliance, specifically if you offered to pay for the hardware which I'M
sure would come in a lot cheaper then transport/transit over 12 months.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: randal k na...@data102.com
Date: Thursday, December 27, 2012 10:46 AM
To: Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net
Cc: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Netflix transit preference?

Hey Patrick,
Thanks for your prompt response. Yes, we are trying to determine where/how
we receive it ... not necessarily influence it, as there isn't so much we
can do there as Netflix' egress policy is theirs and theirs alone
(interestingly, nobody has communities to influence Netflix' AS2906
traffic). We cannot peer directly with Netflix as their openconnect
statement requires 2gbps minimum, and mentions elsewhere that the like 5+.
We aren't at 2gbps yet, and we are nowhere near one of their POPs -- it is
way cheaper to buy 2-3gbps of cheap transit than it is to buy 2-3gbps of
transport from Denver to LA.

As mentioned, my notes to peer...@netflix.com have gone unanswered for the
holidays (not unexpected), so I thought I'd ping the hive mind for some
info in the meantime.

Cheers,
Randal


On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore
patr...@ianai.netwrote:

 On Dec 27, 2012, at 13:19 , randal k na...@data102.com wrote:

  I work at a datacenter in southern Colorado that is the upstream
 bandwidth
  provider for several regional ISPs. We have been investigating our
  ever-growing bandwidth usage and have found that out of transits
  (Level3,Cogent,HE) that Netflix always seems to come in via Hurricane
  Electric. (We move ~1.4gbps to Netflix, and are thus not a candidate
for
  peering. And they have no POP close.)

 Your statement about peering makes no sense.  You are trying to engineer
 where their traffic comes and yet you refuse to have a direct connection
 which would give you full control?  Weird...


  I tested this by advertising a /24 across all providers, then
selectively
  removed the advertisement to certain carriers to see where the
bandwidth
  goes. In order, it appears that if there is a HE route, Netflix uses
it,
  period. If there isn't, it prefers Level3, and Cogent comes last.

 Completely unsurprising.


  Since Netflix is a big hunk of our bandwidth (and obviously makes our
  customers happy), we are included to buy some more HE. However, if
 Netflix
  decides that they want to randomly switch to, say, Cogent, we may be
 under
  a year-long bandwidth contract that isn't particularly valuable
anymore.
 
  With all of that, I am interested in finding out of any knowledge about
  Netflix transit preferences, be it inside information, anecdotal, or
  otherwise. I did email peering@ but haven't heard back, thus the public
  question.

 Why don't you ask Netflix?

 And why not ask them for kit to put on-net?  
 https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect

 --
 TTFN,
 patrick








Re: Fiber terminations -- UPC vs APC

2012-11-20 Thread Carlos Alcantar
+1 here on going all APC on the panels, note we run a gpon network so
making that choice was fairly easy for us.  You do end up having to use a
lot of sc or lc/upc - sc/apc patch cables on the colo equipment side of
things but everything out in the field is 100% sc/apc.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu
Date: Monday, November 19, 2012 2:30 PM
To: Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Fiber terminations -- UPC vs APC


On Nov 19, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Jeff Kell wrote:

 Looking for some guidance/references on the use of UPC versus APC
 terminations on fiber
 cabling.  Traditionally we have done all of our fiber plant
 targeting data usage with
 UPC connectors.  We are also looking at proposals for fiber
 distribution plant for
 video, and the possibility of using some of the existing fiber plant
 for that purpose;
 as well as any new fiber plant that gets installed for video
 potentially as data.

 The video folks are set, determined, and insistent that they need
 APC terminations.

APC is pretty much the standard for high-power video distribution, and
for very good reasons.  The return loss is much better for APC than
for UPC, for instance, and that can be very significant depending upon
the equipment being used to drive.  Much video distribution gear,
including passive splitters and EDFA's, are only available with APC
connectors.

Mating an APC to a UPC will result in an 'air-gap attenuator' being
created, and that may be a problem.  A significant problem for some
gear, in fact.

Really high-power long-haul gear may need APC as well, even for
networking stuff.

Your choice boils down to parallel plants or only APC with UPC jumpers
for non-APC equipment.  You really really don't want to have any UPC
connectors in a really high-power path that needs APC all the way; I
have actually seen some warranty statements, for some older equipment,
primarily EDFA modules, that indicate that the warranty would be
voided if any non-APC connectors were in the path anywhere.  The
reflections from a UPC end can detune some of these lasers, and can,
in theory at least, cause permanent transmitter damage that won't be
under warranty.

You could, though, provision half APC and half UPC, since the color
coding is pretty clear.  You can even use, say, all LC on your UPC
patches and all SC on you APC patches or similar, and get both with
little danger of intermating.  I think I'd personally rather just
provision all APC in the backbone fiber runs and install APC to UPC
distribution runs to your network gear.

But you'll have to train people to always plug green connectors into
green connectors, and blue into blue, and never should green and blue
mix.





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Re: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

2012-09-14 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Typically you have to file once a year with the companies to let them know
you are tax exempt.  As your company status may change.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Mark Keymer m...@viviotech.net
Date: Friday, September 14, 2012 9:53 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

I had to deal with this with an upstream once that was taxing me.
Finally got it all worked out after sending in copies of the law and
getting the CEO involved. However a year or two later I started to get
taxed again when the company was bought out. Had to resend copies of the
law (Fed and State) over to them again. I also had the full conversation
with the previous CEO so I sent that over as well as he was now a VP
under the new company.

Do to how much of a hassle I had to go through, I am guessing they still
keep charging tax on other clients that probably should not have been!

Sincerely,

Mark Keymer

On 9/14/2012 8:15 AM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote:

 All Communication Circuits are subject to Communication Taxes, as per
 Tax laws of that State.

 Having said that... if this communication circuit is carrying Internet
 Traffic, you can contact the Carrier and Ask them to provide you the
 forms so that you can
 Claim ITFA / ITNA Exemption ...(if you are not in a grandfathered
 state) Google for Internet Tax Freedom Act and review the Wikipedia
 article for more details and history.

 In regards to Dark Fiber.
 Active Circuits = i.e. circuits where signaling is provided by the
 Carrier  are considered to be Communication Circuits and are subject
 to Communication taxes, as per the State Laws.

 Dark Fiber is considered to be an asset purchase .. i.e. like leasing
 Office Space/ Automobile / or Machinery... and as such the Lease
 Payments are subject to Sales Taxes only (again, details may vary from
 State to State).

 Regards.

 Faisal Imtiaz
 Snappy Internet  Telecom
 7266 SW 48 Street
 Miami, Fl 33155
 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232
 Helpdesk: 305 663 5518 option 2 Email: supp...@snappydsl.net

 On 9/14/2012 10:29 AM, A. Pishdadi wrote:
 Hello Everyone,

 We purchase 10Gig waves for transport out of our datacenter and are
 trying
 to figure out why the taxes on the circuits are so much. We are paying
 around 60% additional in taxes and fee's on top of the cost of the
 circuit.
 Ofcourse when we were negotiating pricing , it seemed like a great price
 until we got our first bill, they forgot to mention that we would be
 paying
 such fees.
 It seems like these taxes would be for companies who would be using
 transport services for voice, but we are all data. Is there any way
 to get
 a tax exempt status? How come the same fee's do not apply to dark
 fiber? We
 are in process of getting dark fiber to replace the transport
 circuits but
 its going to take quite some time as we have a few more years on some
 of the
 contracts. The dark fiber we do have there is no taxes at all. Can
 anyone
 shed any light on this?











Re: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

2012-09-14 Thread Carlos Alcantar
499 from the fcc for federal as well as any local certs as that is state
to state.  Note once you get your 499 you are required to file with them,
and pay the taxes.  At the end of it you need to start charging your end
users tax's and filing them.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com
Date: Friday, September 14, 2012 9:07 PM
To: 'A. Pishdadi' apishd...@gmail.com, nanog@nanog.org
nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

I believe you don't need to pay FUSC charges if you're not the end-user of
the circuit.

Frank

-Original Message-
From: A. Pishdadi [mailto:apishd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 9:30 AM
To: NANOG
Subject: Transport Fee's (Taxes and random telecom fee's)

Hello Everyone,

We purchase 10Gig waves for transport out of our datacenter and are trying
to figure out why the taxes on the circuits are so much. We are paying
around 60% additional in taxes and fee's on top of the cost of the circuit.
Ofcourse when we were negotiating pricing , it seemed like a great price
until we got our first bill, they forgot to mention that we would be paying
such fees.
It seems like these taxes would be for companies who would be using
transport services for voice, but we are all data. Is there any way to get
a tax exempt status? How come the same fee's do not apply to dark fiber? We
are in process of getting dark fiber to replace the transport circuits but
its going to take quite some time as we have a few more years on some of
the
contracts. The dark fiber we do have there is no taxes at all. Can anyone
shed any light on this?






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Re: Layer2 over Layer3

2012-09-13 Thread Carlos Alcantar
+1 on the l2tpv3 but watch out for your mtu's

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / carlos(@)race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Philip Lavine source_ro...@yahoo.com
Reply-To: Philip Lavine source_ro...@yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:23 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Layer2 over Layer3

To all,
 
I am trying to extend a layer2 connection over Layer 3 so I can have
redundant Layer connectivity between my HQ and colo site. The reason I
need this is so I can give the appeareance that there is one gateway and
that both data centers can share the same Layer3 subnet (which I am
announcing via BGP to 2 different vendors).
 
I have 2 ASR's. Will EoMPLS work or is there another option?
 
Philip



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Re: trading bandwidth

2012-05-29 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Doesn't Arbinet have some sort of trading system like this currently?

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Lorell Hathcock lor...@hathcock.org
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 17:10:38 -0500
To: 'carl gough [mobsource]' c...@mobsource.com, 'Nabil Sharma'
nabilsha...@hotmail.com, nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: trading bandwidth

If you ever want a run down on how Enron did it (or didn't do it), there
are
several on this list who can tell you all about it.

-Original Message-
From: carl gough [mobsource] [mailto:c...@mobsource.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:50 PM
To: Nabil Sharma; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: trading bandwidth

Thanks Nabil,  Bandwidth Trading is not a new concept, but to make it work
effectively it will have to address a couple of prerequisites to be
successful. A network of buyers and sellers has to be created, contracted
and connected for instant pricing, inventory management and delivery of a
defined and standardised service. Not a la enron of course, they traded
derivatives.

[carl gough] founder and CEO  +61 425 266 764 mobsource .com  defined by
benefits  not by technology Skype - mobsource Follow @mobsource Facebook -
mobsource



From:  Nabil Sharma nabilsha...@hotmail.com
Date:  Tue, 29 May 2012 14:06:41 +
To:  carl gough c...@mobsource.com, nanog@nanog.org
Subject:  RE: NANOG Digest, Vol 52, Issue 67

Mr Karl:

We use number of these service to improve delivery of our content to end
users.

Which service or services do you seek info for?

Sincerely,
Nabil

 Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 22:21:39 +1000
 Subject: Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 52, Issue 67
 From: c...@mobsource.com
 To: nanog@nanog.org
 
 Does anyone have any intel on bandwidth trading in the usa?
 
 [carl gough] founder and CEO  +61 425 266 764
 
 mobsource .com  defined by benefits  not by technology Skype -
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Re: pbx recco

2012-05-15 Thread Carlos Alcantar
+1 on pbxinaflash

http://pbxinaflash.net/


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 07:00:18 -1000
To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: pbx recco

have a friend who is a penguinista and wants to run a simple soft pbx.
support of soft phones, 7960s, connect to a commercial sip gate, ...
reccos for a packaged solution.

i run a raw asterisk and would not wish it on my worst enemy.

randy






Re: [c-nsp] Possible T1 clocking problem.

2012-04-17 Thread Carlos Alcantar
You might want to put a t1 test set on the line and check and see if the
clock frequency is moving.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Andrew Koch andrew.k...@gawul.net
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:16:27 -0500
To: m...@win.net, nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Possible T1 clocking problem.

On 4/17/12 13:46 AM, Joseph Mays wrote:

 The interface on the remote end (t1 WIC port in a 2600 shows a lot more
errors, including a lot of frame errors, for the same time period.
[snip]

Are these T1 frame errors, or a higher level?  If you believe this to
be a T1 concern, you should be checking at the T1 level - show
controller T1 1/0:24 for the AS5400 and show service-module serial
x/y performance-statistics for the WIC on the 2600.  Both of these
commands will display the T1 statistics in 15min intervals.

If you see errors there, most HDSL4 smart-jacks have a serial port for
pulling stats and levels, if they are your smart-jacks to be checking.

HTH,
Andy






Re: Network Traffic Collection

2012-02-23 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Netflow / Sflow with one of the fallowing software packages

http://www.plixer.com/products/netflow-sflow/scrutinizer-netflow-sflow.php
http://www.solarwinds.com/NetFlow

http://www.arbornetworks.com/
Or the hand full of other open source options out there.



Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Maverick myeaddr...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:19:24 -0500
To: Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org
Cc: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Network Traffic Collection

I want to be able to see information like how much traffic an ip send
over a period of time, what machines it talked to etc from this
perspective it should be IP based but I would really like to know how
other people do it.

Best,
Ali

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org wrote:
 On 2012-02-23 21:11 , Maverick wrote:
 Hello,

 I am trying to collect traffic traffic from pcap file and store it in
 a database but really confused how to organize it. Should I organize
 it on connection basis/ flow basis or IP basis.

 It might be an effort to write a customized traffic analysis tool like
 wireshark with only required functionality. I would really appreciate
 if someone can give me direction on write way of organizing the data
 because right now I only see individual packets and no way of putting
 them in some order.

 Does this all not completely depend on what you actually want to do with
 it? You might want to start there instead of the other way around.

 Greets,
  Jeroen





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Re: couple of questions regarding 'lifeline' and large scale nat...

2012-02-10 Thread Carlos Alcantar
You might also want to think about it's not to far off that the gov starts
supplementing those cost of these users, with all the changes being made
in USF.  Possible why comcast has started taking on these users to get a
good head count.  Does anyone know with these low end comcast package does
the user still need to pay the $5 modem rental fee?

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Eric J Esslinger eesslin...@fpu-tn.com
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:19:24 -0600
To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: couple of questions regarding 'lifeline' and large scale nat...

We're toying with the idea of a low bitrate 'lifeline' internet on our
cable system, maybe even bundled with a certain level of cable service.

First question, if you happen to be doing something like this, what bit
rates are you providing.
Second question, though 'real' internet customers all get real IP's, what
would you think of doing something like this with 'large scale' nat
instead. Understand, we're only talking about basic internet, something
like a 256k/96k (or similar) connect, not something that would be used by
a serious user. (One thing we are looking at is some older dial up users
we still have, most of which could go onto cable just fine but don't want
to pay the price).

Also when I say large scale, I doubt I'd have more than a few thousand
customers for this. We're not a large ISP/cable company by any means.

__
Eric Esslinger
Information Services Manager - Fayetteville Public Utilities
http://www.fpu-tn.com/
(931)433-1522 ext 165

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Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-31 Thread Carlos Alcantar
+1 on only IP's on the list where our resolver dns servers for customers.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Matthew Crocker matt...@corp.crocker.com
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:56:10 -0500
To: Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net
Cc: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: US DOJ victim letter



- Original Message -
 From: Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net
 To: Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org
 Cc: nanog@nanog.org
 Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 10:54:02 AM
 Subject: Re: US DOJ victim letter
 
 On 1/27/2012 2:23 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
 
  It's definitely real, but seems like they're handling it as
  incompetently as possible. We got numerous copies to the same email
  address, the logins didn't work initially. The phone numbers given
  are
  of questionable utility. Virtually no useful information was
  provided.
  My attitude at this point is, ignore it until they provide some
  useful
  information.
 
 
 We finally got the hard copy. No customer IP listed, just our
 recursive
 resolvers, both for the customers as well as the ones that handle the
 MX
 servers.
 
 All that waiting and work for apparently nothing. I'm going to guess
 that my bind servers aren't malware infected (outside of being bind
 j/king).
 

Same here,  The hard copy came the other day with the access codes to
download the IP list.  Every IP on the list was for a resolving DNS server
on our IP space.  Total waste of time.






Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-31 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Mine is showing United States v. Vladimir Tsastsin




Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Ronald Bonica rbon...@juniper.net
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:29:52 -0500
To: Phil Dyer p...@cluestick.net, nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: US DOJ victim letter

Folks,

I received a DoJ Victim Notification letter yesterday, which was pretty
amazing considering the fact that I don't run a network.

My letter referenced United States v. Menachem Youlus. I suspect that
the letters that you guys received referenced a different case. Do I have
that right?

  Ron


 -Original Message-
 From: Phil Dyer [mailto:p...@cluestick.net]
 Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:39 PM
 To: nanog@nanog.org
 Subject: Re: US DOJ victim letter
 
 On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote:
  On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote:
 
  Bit odd, if it's a phish. Even more odd if it's actually from the
 Fed.
 
 
  It's definitely real, but seems like they're handling it as
 incompetently as
  possible.
 
 
 Yep. That sounds about right.
 
 Man, I'm feeling left out. I kinda want one now.
 
 phil





Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-27 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Today it looks like we have received the letter from the DOJ which gives
us login information, for listing of ip's within our network that where
affected with date and time stamps.  Anyone else get these yet?

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:08:56 -0600
To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: US DOJ victim letter

 From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi@nanog.org  Fri Jan 20
08:11:24 2012
 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:07:10 -0600
 From: -Hammer- bhmc...@gmail.com
 To: nanog@nanog.org
 Subject: Re: US DOJ victim letter

 On a less serious note, did anyone notice the numbers on the fbi.gov
 link? I'm pretty sure they are implying those are IP addresses.
 123.456.789 and 987.654.321. Must be the same folks that do the Nexus
 documentation for Cisco.

For illustration purposes, for a non-techincal audience, it seems (at
least somewhat) reasonable to use 'nonets' instead of octets.  After
all, 'no nets' are clearly not what DNS -should- be returning. *GRIN*

And, of course, systems using the traditional unix dotted-quad to binary
conversion logic _will_ happily convert those strings to a 32-bit int.








Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-27 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I'll admit there tokens are a bit crazy I had to enter it in about 5 times
to figure out if the characters where 1's l's I's ect.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Bryan Horstmann-Allen b...@mirrorshades.net
Reply-To: b...@mirrorshades.net
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:16:27 -0500
To: Carlos Alcantar car...@race.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: US DOJ victim letter

+--

| On 2012-01-27 18:12:16, Carlos Alcantar wrote:
| 
| Today it looks like we have received the letter from the DOJ which gives
| us login information, for listing of ip's within our network that where
| affected with date and time stamps.  Anyone else get these yet?

I have. The login doesn't work (for me). htauth pops up on fbi.gov, creds
don't
auth.

Bit odd, if it's a phish. Even more odd if it's actually from the Fed.

Cheers.
-- 
bdha
cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk.





Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-19 Thread Carlos Alcantar

+1 on these emails we have received 3 of them.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





Once upon a time, Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com said:
 I was amused to discover that to proceed on the web, I had to enter my
 last name as Representative  -- as in Dear Business Representative.
  Yep, really.

aolme too/aol

After I got yet more such generic and useless info, I lost interest.  I
tried to go back and log in again, only to get this error from clicking
Login on the main page:

   The page you have requested does not exist, or can not be accessed.
   Please log in to the application from the main login page.

The link is back to the same login page.  Hope it isn't anything
actually important, as the emails and website have been a complete
useless joke (that some contractor probably got millions for).
-- 
Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.






Re: Windows UDP packet generator software?

2011-12-31 Thread Carlos Alcantar
+1 on iperf there is also jperf gui for the people that don't like iperf
cli.

http://code.google.com/p/xjperf/


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com





-Original Message-
From: Ryan Pavely para...@nac.net
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:24:19 -0500
To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Windows UDP packet generator software?

If anyone needs a per-compiled iPerf.exe, no need for cygwin libraries,
lemme know.

It's a great tool!

   Ryan Pavely
Director Research And Development
Net Access Corporation
http://www.nac.net/


On 12/22/2011 3:20 PM, Larry Blunk wrote:
 On 12/22/2011 02:36 PM, Sean Harlow wrote:
 iperf might be able to do what you need and there are Windows builds
 available, but I'm not sure if it has a mode where it's not flooding
 the network trying to test maximum speed.  Is there a reason that
 standard ICMP pings aren't appropriate if you just want packet loss
 info?  Obviously every platform worth using has ping built in.
 --
 Sean Harlow
 s...@seanharlow.info


  In UDP mode, iperf sends at 1 Mbps by default.  You change
 the rate with the -b flag.   There's an iperf-2.0.5-cygwin
 build floating around for Windows.






Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-14 Thread Carlos Alcantar
What I'm not digging about the entire iMessage I turned off my iMessage
option and someone else here in the office was trying to send me a txt.
From the looks of it the iPhone does not let you pick between wanting to
send an iMessage or txt I could be wrong, but his phone was forcing
iMessage and of course I was not getting the messages.  Little bit of an
issue not getting those messages.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314  Fax:  +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com /
http://www.race.com






On 10/14/11 11:48 AM, Martin Millnert milln...@gmail.com wrote:

Jared,

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net
wrote:
 Rebuilding this trust can take some time.  I do expect that with the
iMessage stuff that was released yesterday (SMS/MMSoIP to email/phone#)
many more companies will shift to using that instead as the value of BBM
is decreased.

With iMessage, Apple is following the lead of multi-platform apps such
as Viber (integrated voice over ip) and whatsapp (integrated rich
texting over ip). Integrated meaning the unique name/key registered in
the system's name lookup service is your phone number, so you
automagically discover who of all your address book entries have the
application.  Turning on whatsapp on my 360 contact address book
yielded me 10% of my contact list *online* using it. :)

Not being multi-vendor/platform, I wonder if iMessage on iPhone is
going to reach similar uptake.  Being installed from start certainly
helps though, but not piggy backing on the phone numbers is a clear
strategic error in my opinion (apple IDs are obviously a long long way
from being as universal as phone numbers).

I tried out whatsapp yesterday on an old Symbian S60 Nokia (N97) and
it works great.  Only thing I regret is not trying it out sooner.

Now, if mobile devices only had ... globally unique and *reachable* IP
addresses, you could even envision sending messages/pictures/video
directly from your own device to a peer, with no need for bouncing
through overloaded centralized bottlenecks, such as is the case with
whatsapp (and certainly iMessage as well).

There's certainly a business case in there for a legacy-free,
bandwidth-optimized, IP only, LTE-network... (read: no [stupid]
tunnels)


 I also wonder what the impact of iMessage and others will be on places
like hotel networks as the devices camp out longer/more often on the
wifi, etc.  We observed the impact to a hotel of the NANOG crowd this
week (i wonder if there will be lessons learned on the part of lodgenet,
etc?)

 I know personally I've observed the attwifi ssid expanding to more
places (including hilton branded properties) in the past 6 months to
offload cellular data.

Offloading is wise, indeed.


Cheers,
Martin






Apple updates - Affect on network

2011-10-12 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Has anyone else bricked there phone doing the iOS 5 update.  I just ran
mine in the middle of the update I got a 3004 error doing some research
that error means can't connect to gs.apple.com I'm guessing that¹s there
upgrade server.  So right now I'm SOL till I can connect to the update
server.  Looking on twitter it looks like I'm not the only person that has
gotten this.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314  Fax:  +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com /
www.race.com 





On 10/12/11 1:20 PM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote:

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:10:08PM -0700, Zachary McGibbon wrote:
 With all of Apple's updates today (MacOS, iOS, Apps, etc) we saw a big
 increase on one of our links to our ISP at 1pm Eastern.
 
 Did anyone else notice significant traffic jumps on their networks?

That's an impressive jump.  Do you have some netflow data showing the
target subnets that were being hit?

Ray






Re: Apple updates - Affect on network

2011-10-12 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Ryan,

Looks to have been the gs.apple.com was over loaded after about 30
attempts and 3 hrs it finally went through.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314  Fax:  +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com /
http://www.race.com



On 10/12/11 2:25 PM, Ryan Wilkins r...@deadfrog.net wrote:

Have you previously run TinyUmbrella?  It has been known to set
gs.apple.com to a cydia server in the local hosts file which would return
an error.

Or it could be gs is overloaded or down.

Regards,
Ryan Wilkins

On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Carlos Alcantar car...@race.com wrote:

 Has anyone else bricked there phone doing the iOS 5 update.  I just ran
 mine in the middle of the update I got a 3004 error doing some research
 that error means can't connect to gs.apple.com I'm guessing that¹s there
 upgrade server.  So right now I'm SOL till I can connect to the update
 server.  Looking on twitter it looks like I'm not the only person that
has
 gotten this.
 
 Carlos Alcantar
 Race Communications / Race Team Member
 101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
 Phone: +1 415 376 3314  Fax:  +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com /
 www.race.com 
 
 
 
 
 
 On 10/12/11 1:20 PM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote:
 
 On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:10:08PM -0700, Zachary McGibbon wrote:
 With all of Apple's updates today (MacOS, iOS, Apps, etc) we saw a big
 increase on one of our links to our ISP at 1pm Eastern.
 
 Did anyone else notice significant traffic jumps on their networks?
 
 That's an impressive jump.  Do you have some netflow data showing the
 target subnets that were being hit?
 
 Ray
 
 
 
 




Re: Voice Peering?

2011-04-21 Thread Carlos Alcantar
What would be nice is a voice peering that actually act's as a traditional
tandem.

Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314  Fax:  +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com /
http://www.race.com







On 4/21/11 1:38 PM, Scott Berkman sc...@sberkman.net wrote:

Among other services, the VPF provides an ENUM infrastructure for doing
lookups using DNS for what carrier in the exchange can route calls to a
specific TN.  But yes, the underlying concept of the actual
interconnections
are similar to IP exchanges.

There are also application specific exchanges out there, especially in the
financial markets.

-Scott

-Original Message-
From: Martin Millnert [mailto:milln...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:26 PM
To: Scott Berkman
Cc: Santino Codispoti; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Voice Peering?

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Scott Berkman sc...@sberkman.net wrote:
 It's not specific for mobile, but this is one of the most well know VOIP
 exchanges:

And here I thought IP exchanges would cover the IP in VOIP.

When do we get HTTP exchanges? :)

Regards,
Martin







RE: Connectivity status for Egypt

2011-01-28 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Looks like you can still make phone calls into Egypt.  So it's not totally 
lights out...


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member 
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314  Fax:  +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com / 
www.race.com



-Original Message-
From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgs...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:46 PM
To: Joel Jaeggli
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote:

 On 1/27/11 10:49 PM, Roy wrote:
 Moral of the story: Separate facts from assumptions and guesses.  I 
 did some Google searches and that region has had large scale 
 disruptions in the past.  Several cables follow the same path to the 
 Suez canal and were hit.

 my links through the region are all fine, but they don't jump off the 
 cable in egypt just pass through.

 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_d
 isr
 uption


To my knowledge, no one has reported any cable problems in Norther Africa
- -- and news of those problems generally travels very fast.  :-)

Also, if there *was* a cable problem on one of the paths through the vicinity, 
it affect more than just Egypt:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Cable_map18.svg

I don't think it takes a leap of imagination to understand what has happened 
here.

- - ferg

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--
Fergie, a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/





comcast enterprise/carrier services

2010-04-27 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Looking for a sales contact for Comcast enterprise/carrier services for
there Ethernet product thanks.

 

 

Carlos Alcantar

Race Telecommunications, Inc.

101 Haskins Way

South San Francisco, CA 94080

P: 650.649.3550 x143

F: 650.649.3551

E: carlos (at) race.com

 

 



RE: Anyone seeing any issues in LA area with XO?

2010-03-02 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I have 3 t1's that went down in the santa monica area at 1:47pm pst all
off he same hub ds3.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Telecommunications, Inc.
101 Haskins Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080
P: 650.649.3550 x143
F: 650.649.3551
E: car...@race.com



-Original Message-
From: Raj Singh [mailto:raj.si...@demandmedia.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 2:25 PM
To: NANOG
Subject: Anyone seeing any issues in LA area with XO?

We just lost all our Santa Monica links with XO. Anyone else seeing
this?


Thanks,
Raj Singh   |Director Network Engineering
_
Demand Media | eNom, Inc.
Direct: 425.974.4679
15801 NE 24th St.
Bellevue, WA 98008
raj.si...@demandmedia.commailto:raj.si...@demandmedia.com





Level3 voice rep

2010-01-05 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Does anyone have a level3 tdm voice rep ?  that they don't mind sharing
thanks in advance.

 

 

Carlos Alcantar

Race Telecommunications, Inc.

101 Haskins Way

South San Francisco, CA 94080

P: 650.649.3550 x143

F: 650.649.3551

E: car...@race.com

 

 

 

 



RE: dark fiber and sfp distance limitations

2010-01-02 Thread Carlos Alcantar
In my experience in leasing dark fiber strands over long distance the
providers usually give the option for regen colo space.  And in some
cases they wanted to know full specs of the equipment you are going to
be using so there is no questions if it will work or not.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Telecommunications, Inc.
101 Haskins Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080
P: 650.649.3550 x143
F: 650.649.3551
E: car...@race.com



-Original Message-
From: Mike [mailto:mike-na...@tiedyenetworks.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 2:53 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: dark fiber and sfp distance limitations

I am looking at the possibility of leasing a ~70 mile run of fiber. I 
don't have access to any mid point section for regeneration purposes, 
and so I am wondering what the chances that a 120km rated SFP would be 
able to light the path and provide stable connectivity. There are a lot 
of unknowns including # of splices, condition of the cable, or the 
actual dispersion index or other properties (until we actually get 
closer to leasing it). Its spare telco fibers in the same cable binder 
they are using interoffice transport, but there are regen huts along the

way so it works for them but may not for us, and 'finding out' is 
potentially expensive. How would someone experienced go about 
determining the feasibillity of this concept and what options might 
there be? Replies online or off would be appreciated.

Thanks.






earthlink sorbs

2009-11-23 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Did earthlink just get put on sorbs over the weekend?  We have gotten 4
tickets in today about users not getting email from earthlink/mindspring
users and looking thru the logs they are getting blocked for being
listed on sorbs.

 

 

Carlos Alcantar

Race Telecommunications, Inc.

101 Haskins Way

South San Francisco, CA 94080

 

 



RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Carlos Alcantar
The dropping of internet is done on purpose to preserve the battery for
the pots when ac power is lost.  This is an actual setting in just about
all manufacturers of ftth equipment.  You'll probably have a hard time
to get them to change the profile on the equipment tho but it is
possible.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Telecommunications, Inc.
101 Haskins Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080
P: 650.649.3550
F: 650.649.3551




-Original Message-
From: William Herrin [mailto:herrin-na...@dirtside.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 11:00 AM
To: Jack Bates
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jack Batesjba...@brightok.net wrote:
 I've yet to hear an ILEC suggest that they not
 have batteries in the NID to support the voice in power outages.

The battery in my FTTH NID is completely useless. It maintains the
voice side of the NID but drops the Internet side. Only, I cancelled
the POTS service years ago and use a Vonage phone. So now I need a
second UPS for the already-battery-backed NID or I lose phone service.
Brilliant design that.

IIRC, when my FTTH was installed, I was told: here's the battery. It's
now your problem. When this light goes red, call the number here to
BUY a new one.

Folks handle batteries for their flashlights and emergency radios and
cars and cordless phones. I fail to understand why asking the customer
to handle one more battery would stymie them.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



-- 
William D. Herrin  her...@dirtside.com  b...@herrin.us
3005 Crane Dr. .. Web: http://bill.herrin.us/
Falls Church, VA 22042-3004





RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-27 Thread Carlos Alcantar
That's why I believe all the major lecs are refusing to submit for funds
due to all the red tape that comes with that money.  Eg.
(Nondiscrimination and interconnection obligation) they are really
pushing network openness something I don't think the lecs want to do
with their fiber plant.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Telecommunications, Inc.
101 Haskins Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080
P: 650.649.3550 x143
F: 650.649.3551



-Original Message-
From: JC Dill [mailto:jcdill.li...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:51 PM
To: NANOG list
Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

Leo Bicknell wrote:
 What Telecom companies have done is confused infrastructure and
 equipment.  It would be stupid to plan on making a profit on your
 GSR over 30 years, after 10 it will be functionally obsolete.  When
 it comes to equipment the idea of 1-3 year ROI's makes sense.
 However, when it comes to fiber or copper in the ground or on a
 pole it has a 20, 30, 40, or even 50 year life span.  To require
 those assets to have a 1-3 year ROI is absurd.

What happens if we have improvements in data transmission systems such 
that whatever we put in now is obsolete in 15 years?

What happens if we put in billions of dollars of fiber, only to have 
fiber (and copper) obsolete as we roll out faster and faster wireless 
solutions?

IMHO the biggest obstacle to defining broadband is figuring out how to 
describe how it is used in a way that prevents an ILEC from installing 
it so that only the ILEC can use it.  If the customer doesn't have at 
least 3 broadband choices, there's no real choice, and pricing will be 
artificially high and service options will be stagnant and few.  Look at

what happened to long distance rates and telephone services once Ma Bell

was broken up and businesses started competing for customers.  I 
remember when we paid more than $35 a month for long distance fees alone

(and about that much more for our basic service, including phone 
rental) when I was a teenager in the 1970s.  Without competition, with

inflation, that same long distance bill would easily be over $100/month 
today.  Yest today, more than 30 years later you can get a cell phone 
with unlimited minutes, unlimited domestic long distance, for $35/month 
(e.g Metro PCS).

Let's not make this mistake again and let the ILECs use TARP funds to 
build broadband to the curb/home that only they get to use to provide 
internet services to the customers.

jc






RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I think the big push to get the fcc to define broadband is highly based
on the rus/ntia setting definitions of what broadband is.  If any anyone
has been fallowing the rus/ntia they are the one handing out all the
stimulus infrastructure grant loan money.  So there are a lot of
political reasons to make the definition of broadband a bit slower than
one would think.  I guess it doesn't hurt that the larger lec's with the
older infrastructure are shelling out the money to lobby to make sure
the definition stays as low as can be.  They don't want to see the gov
funding there competition.  Just my 2 cents.

-carlos 

-Original Message-
From: Ted Fischer [mailto:t...@fred.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:50 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband



Paul Timmins wrote:
 Fred Baker wrote:

 On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Luke Marrott wrote:

 What are your thoughts on what the definition of Broadband should be

 going
 forward? I would assume this will be the standard definition for a 
 number of
 years to come.


 Historically, narrowband was circuit switched (ISDN etc) and
broadband 
 was packet switched. Narrowband was therefore tied to the digital 
 signaling hierarchy and was in some way a multiple of 64 KBPS. As the

 term was used then, broadband delivery options of course included 
 virtual circuits bearing packets, like Frame Relay and ATM.
 of or relating to or being a communications network in which the 
 bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals
(as 
 for voice or data or video)
 
 That's my humble opinion. Let them use a new term, like High Speed 
 Internet.
 
 
Seconded





RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I believe a lot of people are thinking the same way that fiber to the home is 
broadband.  Looking at some poll results from a calix webinar it looks like 
most people submitting for stimulus money are going down that path of fiber to 
the home as gpon and active Ethernet seem to be the front runners.  If anyone 
cares to look at the poll

http://www.calix.com/bbs/


bottom right.

-carlos

-Original Message-
From: jim deleskie [mailto:deles...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 10:57 AM
To: Fred Baker
Cc: Carlos Alcantar; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

I agree we should all be telling the FCC that broadband is fiber to
the home.  If we spend all kinds of $$ to build a 1.5M/s connection to
homes, it's outdated before we even finish.



On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Fred Bakerf...@cisco.com wrote:
 If it's about stimulus money, I'm in favor of saying that broadband implies
 fiber to the home. That would provide all sorts of stimuli to the economy -
 infrastructure, equipment sales, jobs digging ditches, and so on. I could
 pretty quickly argue myself into suggesting special favors for deployment of
 DNSSEC, multicast, and IPv6. As in, use the stimulus money to propel a leap
 forward, not just waste it.

 On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Carlos Alcantar wrote:

 I think the big push to get the fcc to define broadband is highly based
 on the rus/ntia setting definitions of what broadband is.  If any anyone
 has been fallowing the rus/ntia they are the one handing out all the
 stimulus infrastructure grant loan money.  So there are a lot of
 political reasons to make the definition of broadband a bit slower than
 one would think.  I guess it doesn't hurt that the larger lec's with the
 older infrastructure are shelling out the money to lobby to make sure
 the definition stays as low as can be.  They don't want to see the gov
 funding there competition.  Just my 2 cents.

 -carlos

 -Original Message-
 From: Ted Fischer [mailto:t...@fred.net]
 Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:50 AM
 To: nanog@nanog.org
 Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband



 Paul Timmins wrote:

 Fred Baker wrote:

 On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Luke Marrott wrote:

 What are your thoughts on what the definition of Broadband should be

 going
 forward? I would assume this will be the standard definition for a
 number of
 years to come.


 Historically, narrowband was circuit switched (ISDN etc) and

 broadband

 was packet switched. Narrowband was therefore tied to the digital
 signaling hierarchy and was in some way a multiple of 64 KBPS. As the

 term was used then, broadband delivery options of course included
 virtual circuits bearing packets, like Frame Relay and ATM.

 of or relating to or being a communications network in which the
 bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals

 (as

 for voice or data or video)

 That's my humble opinion. Let them use a new term, like High Speed
 Internet.


 Seconded










MRLG

2009-08-26 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Anyone seem to have the src code to Multi-Router Looking Glass version
5.4.1 Beta (the perl version)  seem like the original site that has the
src is down.

 

-carlos



RE: MRLG

2009-08-26 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Thanks guys I got it...

-carlos

-Original Message-
From: Carlos Alcantar [mailto:car...@race.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 6:49 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: MRLG

Anyone seem to have the src code to Multi-Router Looking Glass version
5.4.1 Beta (the perl version)  seem like the original site that has the
src is down.

 

-carlos





RE: OT: Voice Operators' Group forming

2009-07-30 Thread Carlos Alcantar
How's the startup of the list looking?

-Original Message-
From: Chris Meidinger [mailto:cmeidin...@sendmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:42 PM
To: Jason LeBlanc
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: OT: Voice Operators' Group forming

On 29.07.2009, at 22:52, Jason LeBlanc wrote:

 Brandon Butterworth wrote:
 NAVOG  works for me.


 I'd prefer Voice Operators' Group Online Network

 brandon


 *claps*

Imagine the poetry you have to listen to when _those_ guys put you on  
hold...





RE: OT: Voice Operators' Group forming

2009-07-28 Thread Carlos Alcantar
So has someone created the google group yet?

-Original Message-
From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:t...@americafree.tv] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:23 PM
To: Brandon Butterworth
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: OT: Voice Operators' Group forming

Dear Brandon;

Are you planning to favor this new group with any poetry readings ?

Regards
Marshall

On Jul 28, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Brandon Butterworth wrote:

 NAVOG  works for me.

 I'd prefer Voice Operators' Group Online Network

 brandon








RE: ATT and having two BGP peers

2009-07-10 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Att is hard to deal with I ran into a situation not long ago where I
needed to get a t1 cross connect from one cage to another within a
building.  They consider floor 3 a CO and floor 7 a different CO.  both
floors share the same wiring frame room like on the 5th floor.  Well
they wouldn't allow me to order a cross connect between the 2 floors
without having actual cage space on the specific floor even tho they are
in the same wiring frame room.  On top of that if I wanted to be on the
other floor I would have to come in via the outside entrance and do meet
point fibers out in the st.  btw this is on the telco side what a
nightmare...

-carlos  

-Original Message-
From: Alex H. Ryu [mailto:r.hyuns...@ieee.org] 
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 11:19 AM
To: Antonio Querubin
Cc: na...@merit.edu
Subject: Re: ATT and having two BGP peers


If it is the way ATT have designed their product, there may be no other
way around.

From ATT's viewpoint, it will add more complexity to troubleshoot.

If you pay extra, ATT may have some solution for you.


Alex


Antonio Querubin wrote:
 On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Jay Nakamura wrote:

 We are getting an Ethernet DIA circuit from ATT but they insist that
 they can't BGP peer with 2 routers on our side. The WAN circuit can
 only have /30 they say. Has anyone been able to successfully talk
 them in to bending their rule? If so, how?

 Sounds odd. They do IPv6 tunnels using 2 tunnels/routers. The /30
 reason is even more odd for an ethernet circuit.

 Antonio Querubin
 whois: AQ7-ARIN









sprint wholesale

2009-06-23 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Anyone on the list from sprint wholesale side please contact me trying
to get a sales rep all the numbers listed on the website go to a busy
signal.  Or if anyone has a rep please send me over there info off line
thanks.

 

-carlos



RE: problems with cisco 7200 and PA-T3

2009-05-28 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Adam you could be tx the errors so your interface won't see them.  On
the other side of the circuit are they seeing errors on the rx.

-carlos

-Original Message-
From: Adam Goodman [mailto:a...@wispring.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:44 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: problems with cisco 7200 and PA-T3

Just installed a cisco 7204vxr with a DS3 interface. we are not getting
more
than 5Mbits.

show interface is not reporting any errors. the provider tech put a
piece
test equipment on the circuit and sees errors.

Does anyone else use a cisco 7200 with a DS3 interface that we might be
able
to speak with?

Please hit me off list

Thank you,
Adam
801.971.1856




RE: DSX cross-connect solution

2009-05-04 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Digital cross connect is the way to go if you have the budget to do
that.  Turin now force 10 make a good dacs and or the cisco 15454 with a
ds3-12xm card can do it as well.

-carlos

-Original Message-
From: Chatfield, Terry [mailto:terry.chatfi...@neustar.biz] 
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 2:37 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: DSX cross-connect solution


Alternatively, one could use a digital cross-connect.


Terry


-Original Message-
From: Ricky Beam [mailto:jfb...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 5:23 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: DSX cross-connect solution

On Mon, 04 May 2009 16:05:30 -0400, Wallace Keith  
kwall...@pcconnection.com wrote:
 I would stick with wire wrap, 66 blocks make an inferior connection.

True, but a 66 block will work.  Usually.  And is easily re-punched.

 If someone cannot deal with wire wrapping, they are not living in a
 telecom world.

Really.  Seriously, who cannot do wire wrap?  It takes, literally, 5  
minutes to learn to do it.  And that's with a screw driver wirewrap  
tool. With one of these  
[http://www.datacomtools.com/catalog/Wire-Wrap-tools/jonard-wire-wrap-gu
n.htm],  
it takes about 10s, and you get a consistent, near perfect wrap every  
time. (yes, it's a bit pricey, but very worth the cost even if you only

use it once to wire a single panel.)

--Ricky

PS: That's just the gun; it'll need a tip/sleeve.  I recommend a
complete  
kit.  
[http://www.datacomtools.com/catalog/Wire-Wrap-tools/wire-wrap-kits.htm]






RE: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-11 Thread Carlos Alcantar
I know as far as att/sbc/pacbell a lot of the time they run the ring
within the same conduit to at least have hardware protection on the
circuit I'm sure it's the same with other providers.

-carlos

-Original Message-
From: Roy [mailto:r.engehau...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 6:02 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Fiber cut in SF area

Sean Donelan wrote:
 
 Uh, not exactly.  There was diversity in this case, but there was also
 N+1 breaks.  Outside of a few counties in the Bay Area, the rest of
 the country's telecommunication system was unaffected.  So in that
 sense the system worked as designed.
 

About eight or ten years ago I went to PacBell (or whatever it was
called at the time) and requested that two large facilities get a sonet
ring between them.  I was told I couldn't have it because they were both
fed through a single set of conduits and one backhoe could cut both
sides of the ring.  It wouldn't be diverse so they wouldn't provison it
unless I paid for the digging of new paths.

So much for their theory of diverse.  Sounds like the rules are
different for them.

There are one thing to also point out.  That train track next to the
manholes in South San Jose is the major line between the Bay Area and
Southern CA.  There are at least three or four fiber paths for different
companies buried along those tracks.  There are also connections from
Gilroy to the Hollister/San Juan Bautista area and thence to Salinas.  

It would have been very simple for the telcos to provision a backup path
southward.







RE: Outside plant protection, fiber cuts, interwebz down oh noes!

2009-04-10 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Your right about having the right tools whats a manhole hook cost $50

-carlos

-Original Message-
From: Daryl G. Jurbala [mailto:da...@introspect.net] 
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 10:37 AM
To: Charles Wyble
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Outside plant protection, fiber cuts, interwebz down oh
noes!


On Apr 9, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Charles Wyble wrote:


 3) From what I understand it's not trivial to raise a manhole cover.  
 Most likely can't be done by one person. Can they be locked? Or were  
 the carriers simply relying on obscurity/barrier to entry?


Your understanding is incorrect.  I'm an average sized guy and I can  
pull a manhole cover with one hand on the right tool.  It might take 2  
hands if it hasn't been opened recently and has lots of pebbles and  
dirt jammed in around it.  It's like everything else: if you know how  
to do it, and you have the right tool, it's simple.

And, yes, you can get lockable manhole covers.  They aren't cheap.   
McGuard make a popular one.

(Yes, yes...why would I possibly know any of this.I'm a fire  
marshal in a small town as a part time gig, so I have to deal with  
this kind of thing on a reasonably regular basis)

Daryl





RE: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-09 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Seeing the same thing have an oc48 down from abovenet out of 200 paul

-carlos

-Original Message-
From: Aaron Hughes [mailto:aar...@bind.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 9:13 AM
To: Stefan Molnar
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: Fiber cut in SF area

200 Paul Ave is seeing several carriers down.  I am also in Santa Cruz
and cannot make or receive long distance calls on my land lines.
Unconfirmed reports of Caltrain cut.

Cheers,

Aaron

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 03:37:14PM +, Stefan Molnar wrote:
 
 VZ in the South Bay (San Jose) is out.   As per news reports I watched
at 6am PDT.
 
 
 --Original Message--
 From: Craig Holland
 To: NANOG
 Subject: Fiber cut in SF area
 Sent: Apr 9, 2009 8:14 AM
 
 Just dropping a note that there is a fiber cut in the SF area (I have
a
 metro line down).  AboveNet is reporting issues and I've heard
unconfirmed
 reports that ATT and VZW are affected as well.
 
 Rgs,
 craig
 
 
 
 
 
 

-- 

Aaron Hughes 
aar...@bind.com
(703) 244-0427
Key fingerprint = AD 67 37 60 7D 73 C5 B7 33 18 3F 36 C3 1C C6 B8
http://www.bind.com/





RE: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-09 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Looks like our circuit out of 200 paul from abovenet is back up.

-Original Message-
From: David Edwards [mailto:da...@reliablehosting.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:06 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Fiber cut in SF area

At 12:55 PM 4/9/2009, you wrote:
 From the news coverage it appears to be in the general area of
http://cow.org/r/?545c

-r

Interesting.  The report I got from a vendor was that it is Above.net 
with a fiber cut in Redwood City which is affecting a circuit of mine 
between 200 Paul in SF and PAIX in Palo Alto, which is a ways from 
south San Jose.

David 




level3 out of san francisco

2009-03-07 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Anyone else having level3 issues out of san Francisco ?

 

-carlos



RE: Clueful T-Mobile contact on the Circuit switched side?

2009-03-05 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Do telco admins usally hang out on here?  I know the telco side is an
animal in it's self.

-carlos

-Original Message-
From: Aaron D. Osgood [mailto:aosg...@streamline-solutions.net] 
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 6:11 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Clueful T-Mobile contact on the Circuit switched side?

Please accept my apologies for the waste of space - Will someone from
T-Mobile please contact me off list? It seems there is a 10k block of
NPA-NXX #'s not in your table.

 

All other rectification contact attempts have failed

 

Thanks!

 

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RE: Yahoo postmaster?

2009-03-03 Thread Carlos Alcantar
take a look a couple days back entire thread on yahoo mail might give
some good info.

-carlos

-Original Message-
From: Chris Adams [mailto:cmad...@hiwaay.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:00 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Yahoo postmaster?

Can a Yahoo postmaster ping me off list?  I've got a couple of servers
that appear to be mis-categorized.
-- 
Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.





RE: Yahoo and their mail filters..

2009-02-25 Thread Carlos Alcantar
We ran into this issue where we where tagging emails with ***SPAM*** and
forwarding them on which got us blocked everyone once in a while pretty
annoying.

Carlos

-Original Message-
From: Chuck Schick [mailto:cha...@warp8.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:18 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Yahoo and their mail filters..

We found this issue to be associated usually with users forwarding email
to
a Yahoo account.  If spam slips by our spam filters and gets forwarded
where
the enduser reports it as spam not realizing the impact on their
actions.

In the last couple of years we have been not allowing people to forward
their accounts to yahoo, aol, hotmail, etc.  Too much of a headache.

Chuck 





RE: Yahoo and their mail filters..

2009-02-24 Thread Carlos Alcantar
i ran into the same issue pulled my hair out for a little bit.  Make
sure you have domain keys / dkim and spf implemented on your mail
servers and domains.  Once I did that all was smooth sailing.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Technologies, Inc.
101 Haskins Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080
P: 650.246.8900
F: 650.246.8901
E: carlos ['at'] race.com




-Original Message-
From: Joe Abley [mailto:jab...@hopcount.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 6:41 PM
To: Micheal Patterson
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..


On 24 Feb 2009, at 21:27, Micheal Patterson wrote:

 This may be old news, but I've not been in the list for quite some  
 time. At any rate, is anyone else having issues with Yahoo  
 blocking / deferring legitimate emails?

Yes. Everybody else.


Joe





issues with msn

2009-02-18 Thread Carlos Alcantar
Hey guys any of you guys seeing some issues getting to msn on the west
coast here?  I seem to be having issues via level3 abovenet and Comcast.

 

-carlos