Re: OC-768 availability?

2002-07-30 Thread blitz
I heard that as well, as well as holographic processing...can't remember who however, but Lucent (or whoever they are this week) or Nortel (presently circling the drain) come to mind.. At 19:53 7/29/02 -0700, you wrote: >Wasn't one of the major switch companies working on a system of bubbles.

Re: OC-768 availability?

2002-07-30 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
--On Monday, July 29, 2002 21:32:02 -0400 blitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seriously, I don't see OC768 coming online en masse until they get the > kinks worked out of optical switching. The transit times are so short > thru the innards, in the order of picoseconds, that electronics is way >

redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread Pedro R Marques
Brad writes: >I'm probably demonstrating my ignorance here (and my stupidity in > stepping into a long-standing highly charged argument), but I'm > completely missing something. For reasons of redundancy & > reliability, even if you were to buy bandwidth in only one location, >

Re: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread David Schwartz
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 03:23:24 -0700, Pedro R Marques wrote: >All of those are much more frequent than the failure of an entire ISP (a >transit provider). It is expected, i believe, of a competent ISP to >provide redudancy both within a POP and intra-POP links/equipment and >its connections to up

RE: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread John Ferriby
> You cannot as easily be held hostage. I have consulted for > a few ISPs and > have my share of war stories. > > Here's a (true!) example. One day, a certain head of a > fairly large ISP > decided that he wouldn't route traffic to or from IPs he had > assigned that > didn't reverse re

RE: verio arrogance

2002-07-30 Thread Daniel Golding
(SNIP) > > Currently, RIR's will issue an AS and will allow the issuance > of a /24 to a > > multihomed enterprise, simply on the basis of being multihomed. > From this > > point of view, it's easy to make the case that the proper "RIR-approved" > > boundary for prefix filtering should be at the

Identifying DoS sources quickly (was: Bogon list or Dshield.org type list)

2002-07-30 Thread michael . dillon
>As far as tracking DoS, I've read some good papers on the subject and it >always boils down to tracking MAC addresses and going interface by >interface to the source, demanding inter-ISP cooperation, and finally >legal assistance. This has been tried during a few severe instances with >poor resu

Re: Identifying DoS sources quickly (was: Bogon list or Dshield.orgtype list)

2002-07-30 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That's the obvious solution to the problem if the problem is how to track > down the source(s) of a DoS attack. However, in any DoS attack, there is > always a victim and one or more devices sendingattack traffic to the > victim. The owners of the a

Re: Identifying DoS sources quickly (was: Bogon list or Dshield.org type list)

2002-07-30 Thread Nipper, Arnold
Hank Nussbacher wrote: > > So, to restate the problem, how do we identify some of the sources of a > > DoS attack quickly, maybe even while the attack is still in progress? > > Not a complete solution but a start: > IP Source Tracker: > http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/io

Re: Identifying DoS sources quickly (was: Bogon list or Dshield.org type list)

2002-07-30 Thread Randy Bush
>> Not a complete solution but a start: >> IP Source Tracker: > http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/120newft/120 > limit/120s/120s21/ipst.htm >> Available as of 12.0(22)S for 7500 and 12000 series Cisco routers. ah yes. the new enterprise image. :-(

Re: Identifying DoS sources quickly (was: Bogon list or Dshield.orgtype list)

2002-07-30 Thread Ralph Doncaster
> How many ISPs would identify the user of an IP address for the purposes of > sending a "cease and desist" letter when contacted by a lawyer? Despite 9/11, privacy still counts for something. It's rather dangerous to give out private user information without a court order. If one of our sus

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-30 Thread bdragon
> I think you may have misread my comment. ARIN ALLOWS the issuance of /24s to > multihomed enterprises. The recent policy decision was made to allow > upstreams to do this sort of allocation, without having to receive any other > justification, other than multihomed status. This could seem to be

custom dialup kits

2002-07-30 Thread Miguel Mata-Cardona
who make these kits nowaday? Had some contacts, but most of them are gone. URL or contact email will be very appreciated. -- Miguel Mata-Cardona Intercom El Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OC-768 availability?

2002-07-30 Thread Dr. Mosh
I believe Junpier does have a OC-768 interface under testing if I'm not mistaken... Signal received 0. Kurt Erik Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > --On Monday, July 29, 2002 21:32:02 -0400 blitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Seriously, I don't see OC768 coming online en masse

RE: OC-768 availability?

2002-07-30 Thread Rowland, Alan D
Compton, CA, US and Sealand would be the giveaways. Best regards, _ Alan Rowland Who lives just south of Compton -Original Message- From: Scott Weeks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 4:31 PM To: Williams, Ken Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAI

RE: custom dialup kits

2002-07-30 Thread Rowland, Alan D
Not sure what you're looking for here. Phone jack converters? Available at many airport gift shops and a Google search results in http://kropla.com/sources.htm Best regards, _ Alan Rowland -Original Message- From: Miguel Mata-Cardona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread Phil Rosenthal
I have in the past single-homed to Level(3) and Verio, each in their own facility in NC. In that time, both carriers had about 1 solid hour a month of solid downtime (some months were worse, some were better). Some of the outages were on the order of 8 solid hours (verio) or 4 hours (level3). We

RE: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread Derek Samford
I couldn't possibly agree more. In fact, my approach has been to create a mesh between different Colo centers, and keep it at about 3 Transit carriers. Because of the different methods of interconnection, I haven't ever had a long-term outage. Also, I've been able to filter any issues that are be

RE: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread Manolo Hernandez
Yes their is a reason to some /24s advertised to the world. If this a class on BGP they would tell you that was a nono, but since this is the real world it happens and is sometimes required. It is required when you need to give a customer T-1 access at a location seperate from yours and has a sep

RE: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread Derek Samford
That is even worse than what we have been talking about. You should be running a P2P T1 back to yourself, and distributing the access from a POP, or have the carrier you're reselling the T1 for allocate a /24. There is no reason to run BGP for a single /24 whatsoever, it should be announced in Ca

Re: OC-768 availability?

2002-07-30 Thread blitz
I believe many are working on it, but I haven't seen/heard of much progress since I learned of this, some 4 years ago now.. Add to that the bandwidth glut with all the DWDM and I guess they've got breathing room... At 09:34 7/30/02 -0700, you wrote: >I believe Junpier does have a OC-768 inter

Re: custom dialup kits

2002-07-30 Thread Andy Dills
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Miguel Mata-Cardona wrote: > > who make these kits nowaday? Had some contacts, but most of them > are gone. URL or contact email will be very appreciated. www.rockstar.com is the current industry favorite... Andy Andy D

Re: OC-768 availability?

2002-07-30 Thread Scott Granados
And my question is that a real oc768 or a Sears oc768. Like Cisco, sure its a gig E port but oh wait, you wanted to use it for more than 200 mb/s? On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, blitz wrote: > > I believe many are working on it, but I haven't seen/heard of much progress > since I learned of this,

Re: OC-768 availability?

2002-07-30 Thread David Charlap
I think an OC-192 network using 56K modems in the core would be a pretty obvious giveaway as well. -- David Rowland, Alan D wrote: > Compton, CA, US and Sealand would be the giveaways. > > Scott Weeks wrote: >> >> No, he's not for real. It's a satire in the likes of Bandy Rush and such. >>

RE: OC-768 availability?

2002-07-30 Thread Deepak Jain
FYI, the technology seems like it might be available at the component level (dated 3/2002) http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020313S0015 http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020430/sftu082_1.html (april 2002?) http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/pcat/15808.htm (7/13/2002) Deepak Jain AiNET > ---

Re: routing table size

2002-07-30 Thread Tim Thorne
"Mark Radabaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Obviously you can't keep leaving big 'reserved' holes in your >allocations to downstreams for potential growth. I've seen RIPE allocate /20s under the proviso that the customer use the first /23 now and apply to use the rest of the space as they grow

Re: OC-768 availability?

2002-07-30 Thread Scott Granados
Not necessarily. Don't forget that exchangecolo is in Hunters Point:) so its not totally unusual for people to put their networks in the hood. :) On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, David Charlap wrote: > > I think an OC-192 network using 56K modems in the core would be a pretty > obvious giveaway as we

Re: OC-768 availability?

2002-07-30 Thread Peter E. Fry
David Charlap wrote: > > I think an OC-192 network using 56K modems in the core would be a pretty > obvious giveaway as well. Yes! Sheesh. Nobody uses K56Flex any more. Peter E. Fry

Re: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:23 AM -0700 2002/07/30, Pedro R Marques wrote: > It is my impression, from reading this list and tidbits of gossip, > that the most common causes of failure are: > - link failure > - equipment failure (routers mostly), both software and hardware > - configuration errors Most l

RE: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:23 PM -0400 2002/07/30, Derek Samford wrote: > At the same time, I've been able to maintain aggregation of all > of my routes, and maintain true stability in my network. There is > absolutely no excuse to fill up the routing tables with nonsense. Seeing as I don't under

Re: Identifying DoS sources quickly (was: Bogon list or Dshield.orgtype list)

2002-07-30 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The owners of the attacking devices are accessories to the crime > although I'm sure they could plead ignorance and avoid any liability. But > what if they could not plead ignorance? What if we could identify some of > the attacking devices, and w

Re: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread Patrick Evans
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, David Schwartz wrote: > One more just for kicks. Client had a 100Mbps circuit from their sole > provider (100Mbps to colocated router, DS3 from this router to their > premises). The circuit had been in place for several years and the contract > had long since expired. One da

MAE ATM

2002-07-30 Thread nanog
Out of curiousity, when were MAE East/West ATM established? -- Omachonu Ogali [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.informationwave.net

Re: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread Jim Shankland
Patrick Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My first project, if network availability were a key issue, within any > organisation would be to a) obtain [an AS number] and b) make use of > it. Heh. How many bits in an AS number, again? Jim Shankland

Re: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread Patrick Evans
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Jim Shankland wrote: > Patrick Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My first project, if network availability were a key issue, within any > > organisation would be to a) obtain [an AS number] and b) make use of > > it. > > Heh. How many bits in an AS number, again? > *g

Re: MAE ATM

2002-07-30 Thread bmanning
May 1998 > > Out of curiousity, when were MAE East/West ATM established? > -- > Omachonu Ogali > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.informationwave.net >

Re: MAE ATM

2002-07-30 Thread Jeff Barrows
limited trials began in very early 1998, and it was formally available to customers in mid 1998. - jsb On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Out of curiousity, when were MAE East/West ATM established? > -- Jeff Barrows, President Firefly Networks http://FireflyNetworks.net +

Re: MAE ATM

2002-07-30 Thread Scott Granados
How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi? Scott On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > May 1998 > > > > > > Out of curiousity, when were MAE East/West ATM established? > > -- > > Omachonu Ogali > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.informationwave.net > > >

Re: MAE ATM

2002-07-30 Thread Bill Woodcock
> How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi? The MAE, later MAE-East, began as FOIRL, which was 10mbps Ethernet over fiber. Later it was upgraded to a shared FDDI ring with Ethernet attached segments; later still, a mix of switched FDDI and switched 100Base-T and GigE. The FDDI por

Re: MAE ATM

2002-07-30 Thread Mark Kent
>> How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi? fddi, some remote with netedge boxes at either end of an atm link. There were some 10baseT connections too, there was at least one low end Catalyst switch dedicated to plain ethernet. Here is a big hint: http://www.nanog.org/2.95.NANOG.note

Re: MAE ATM

2002-07-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Mark Kent wrote: > http://www.nanog.org/2.95.NANOG.notes/mae-west.html "Milo believes that some day there will be a working B-ISDN infrastructure. When that happens, there will no longer be a need for interconnection points like MAE-WEST." Or maybe not... Charles > -mar

Re: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]

2002-07-30 Thread Pedro R Marques
Pedro Roque Marques wrote: >--- Start of forwarded message --- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Evans) >To: Jim Shankland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Newsgroups: jnx.ext.nanog >Subject: Re: redundancy [was: something about arrogance] >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Da

Re: Identifying DoS sources quickly (was: Bogon list or Dshield.orgtype list)

2002-07-30 Thread Rafi Sadowsky
## On 2002-07-30 08:23 -0700 Randy Bush typed: RB> RB> >> Not a complete solution but a start: RB> >> IP Source Tracker: RB> > http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/120newft/120 RB> > limit/120s/120s21/ipst.htm RB> >> Available as of 12.0(22)S for 7500 and 12000 series