Re: 31 bit ptp link addressing?

2002-04-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Just (mostly) out of personal curiousity - is anyone here running any > PtP links using 31 bit prefixes rather than the /30's we're all happy > with? > > If you go "huh?" take a look at rfc3021 - "Using 31-Bit Prefixes on > IPv4 Poin

RE: references on non-central authority network protocols

2002-04-13 Thread Bruce Williams
Uh, let's see - you submask k_public to route, hmm... either you have 32 bit encription or you have IP1024... IP1024 - THAT would solve address space limits, but imagine the BGP prefix updates... Bruce Williams "Two is not equal to three, even for large values of two" > -Original Message

Re: references on non-central authority network protocols

2002-04-13 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > > Thus spake "Patrick Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I am looking for any and all research (and perhaps your > > comments), references, etc. regarding replacements for the > > TCP/IP protocol that do not require centralized authority > > structures (

Re: references on non-central authority network protocols

2002-04-13 Thread E.B. Dreger
> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 18:37:42 -0500 > From: Stephen Sprunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please explain how you think any protocol could support > non-trivial numbers of users without some arbiter to prevent > address collisions. > > There are several alternatives to TCP being researched, but > the

Re: references on non-central authority network protocols

2002-04-13 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Patrick Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am looking for any and all research (and perhaps your > comments), references, etc. regarding replacements for the > TCP/IP protocol that do not require centralized authority > structures (central authority to assign network numbers). Please ex

Re: Sprint problems?

2002-04-13 Thread German Martinez
David, The traffic levels that we exchange with Sprint have been really stable for the last couples months all over the country. No routing/traffic issues that we noticed today. Thanks, German On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, David M. Ramsey wrote: > > Did anyone else out there have routing and/or BGP is

Sprint problems?

2002-04-13 Thread David M. Ramsey
Did anyone else out there have routing and/or BGP issues with AS1239 this afternoon (Saturday 13-April, ~11:30 EST - ~15:00 EST) ?? Sprint is one of our upstreams, and for about 3 hours today some remote users were unable to reach us via our Sprint connection. We heard complaints from Road Runn

Re: genuity - any good?

2002-04-13 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:53:38PM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > Genuity - first class provider, I would recommend them > > What transit provider doesnt use prefixes? Do you think they're mad > enough to accept anything you send them? > > And yes, they update the filter within minutes of you

Re: limiting # of prefixes from a BGP peer (Was: Re: genuity - anygood?)

2002-04-13 Thread German Martinez
> > For Cisco IOS just add this under the "router bgp" section > Here is the way that you use to do the same in JunOS. http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos51/swconfig51-routing/html/bgp-summary33.html They introduced a cool feature (idle-timeout). "If you include the idle-timeout

Re: references on non-central authority network protocols

2002-04-13 Thread Eric Gauthier
> I am looking for any and all research (and perhaps your comments), > references, etc. regarding replacements for the TCP/IP protocol that do > not require centralized authority structures (central authority to assign > network numbers). > Any links, comments, etc., appreciated. Well, I don't

limiting # of prefixes from a BGP peer (Was: Re: genuity - any good?)

2002-04-13 Thread Rafi Sadowsky
## On 2002-04-12 17:27 -0700 Mark Kent typed: MK> MK> To address Sean's point about mistakes turning one /16 into a zillion MK> entries, is there any way to allow only some specified maximum number MK> of routes from a bgp neighbor? I know that I'ld be happy if my MK> upstreams gave me a buffe

Re: genuity - any good?

2002-04-13 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 05:23:04PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > One common need for advertising small routes within large blocks > is dealing with dos attacks. If you have, say, 4 100Mbps circuits, and > 1.2.3.4 is being DOSed, you can advertise nothing but 1.2.3.4/32 on one > of the c

Re: packet reordering at exchange points

2002-04-13 Thread Peter Galbavy
> Gotta go with the old head scratch on that one... > > Imagine the packet zipping down a wire. It hits a router. It slows > down. Why? Because (until very recently) wire-speed != processing > speed != backplane speed... This is called 'blocking'. The packet > has to wait somewhere while the pr