Re: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Petri Helenius
It would also be interesting to know which backbone/core product requires a reboot to activate OSPF configuration changes. Sounds like something one should stay away from. Pete Frank Scalzo wrote: Whoops! 2 hours to find routers w/o an IGP tsk tsk. Dear ATT IP Services Customer,

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at

2002-08-29 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:43:42 +, Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dialup users and get away with it, but that person was VERY busy. that ratio only works if the rest of the system is designed to repel the professional spammers, [[SNIP]], and instant termination even at 4AM on sunday

Re: Contact for dmisinetworks.com /

2002-08-29 Thread blitz
After literally YEARS of complaining, I think theres so one alive at bell south abuse...they're typical bell-spawn...fat, lazy, and un-responsive. At 07:13 8/29/02 +0100, you wrote: Currently seeking an abuse contact for the above domain, or the party responsible for netblock that

RE: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at

2002-08-29 Thread Jeroen Massar
Barry Shein wrote: Fair enough but let me explain why I find this unsatisfying. It's like I'm living in a neighborhood where the crime rate is rising and rising, and you're selling security grates and better locks. They even seem to keep the crooks out of the bedroom at night for a

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-29 Thread Kurtis Lindqvist
What is interesting is that people can identify a EUI-64 unicast address no matter where you are. For example, i use my laptop at work and at home (assuming I had an ipv6 connection at home). I could be identified as the same computer, without using cookies, since my base 64 address would

Re: (RADIATOR) wireless access point accounting

2002-08-29 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello again - Many thanks to all those who replied to my request regarding wireless accounting via radius. It is obviously fairly early days looking at the replies I received, with the Cisco being the only unit sending (partially) useful accounting starts and accounting stops (note that

irtf-chair@ietf.org: Internet Measurement Research Group

2002-08-29 Thread Mark Allman
Folks- A new group within the IRTF has been formed that will focus on measuring networks. It seems obvious that operators will have some valuable input into these issues and I would encourage folks to participate if they can. The announcement ( group charter) are attached. allman -- Mark

Broadening the IPv6 discussion

2002-08-29 Thread Irwin Lazar
Since we're on the topic of IPv6, I wanted to gauge the current attitude of the ops. community toward its deployment. We're seeing a lot more interest from our enterprise clients in using v6, especially as things like VoIP and PDAs consume their address pools, and NAT gets in the way of

RE: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Daniel Golding
This is impressive. It's very nice to see a carrier providing this level of technical analysis to customers after an outage. Many carriers would be embaressed or try to gloss over what has happened. Sprintlink, in the old days, was also very good about this. Customers really appreciate honesty

RE: Broadening the IPv6 discussion

2002-08-29 Thread Daniel Golding
Hmm. I'm afraid that I have to disagree with just about everything you've said :) . I haven't seen any enterprise folks demanding v6 - If VOIP and PDA's (?) use up their IP addresses, they can easily ask for more. The more you use, the more you get. There is no shortage of v4 space. China and

RE: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread NAIDOO Kesva FTLD/IAP
Has anybody mentioned the benefits of ISIS as an IGP to them. Kesva -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Golding Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:57 AM To: Frank Scalzo; Matt Levine; Mike Tancsa Cc: Wes Bachman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Broadening the IPv6 discussion

2002-08-29 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Daniel Golding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm. I'm afraid that I have to disagree with just about everything you've said :) . I haven't seen any enterprise folks demanding v6 - If VOIP and PDA's (?) use up their IP addresses, they can easily ask for more. The more you use, the more you

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at

2002-08-29 Thread Paul Vixie
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.19.html#subj7 http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.21.html#subj4 There must be a balance. Mistakes happen. How overzealous do you want ISP's to be be at shutting off spam sites or accounts? Some might consider the costs of mistakes acceptable, but are

RE: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Brian Wallingford
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, NAIDOO Kesva FTLD/IAP wrote: : :Has anybody mentioned the benefits of ISIS as an IGP to them. : Of course, ISIS is no more resilient against the deletion of igp configuration than OSPF. cheers, brian

RE: Broadening the IPv6 discussion

2002-08-29 Thread Dave Israel
Mmmm... me too post. I have to agree with Dan on this. The only people who ask me about IPv6 are people who have heard something about it from some tech magazine and want the Newest Thing. Much of its useful functionality (except the widened address space) is available in v4, and v4 is

RE: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread alex
Has anybody mentioned the benefits of ISIS as an IGP to them. Link-state protocols are evil, and when they break, they *really* break. I still do not see a compeling argument for not using BGP as your IGP. Alex

Re: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:09:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody mentioned the benefits of ISIS as an IGP to them. Link-state protocols are evil, and when they break, they *really* break. I still do not see a compeling argument for not using BGP as your IGP. Slow convergence.

Re: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Ralph Doncaster
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:09:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody mentioned the benefits of ISIS as an IGP to them. Link-state protocols are evil, and when they break, they *really* break. I still do not see a compeling argument

Re: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Chris Woodfield
That's why you configure two. :) -C looking a lot better than configuring 4 more BGP sessions. I've heard some people recommend a route-reflector, but that would mean if the route-reflector goes down you're screwed. -Ralph msg04911/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Michael Hallgren
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:09:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody mentioned the benefits of ISIS as an IGP to them. Link-state protocols are evil, and when they break, they *really* break. I still do not see a compeling argument for not using BGP as your IGP.

Re: Broadening the IPv6 discussion

2002-08-29 Thread Mike Leber
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Irwin Lazar wrote: Since we're on the topic of IPv6, I wanted to gauge the current attitude of the ops. community toward its deployment. We're seeing a lot more interest from our enterprise clients in using v6, Yes, we see this too. This is in addition to the

Re: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Robert A. Hayden
Um. Set up more than one reflector On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:09:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody mentioned the benefits of ISIS as an IGP to them. Link-state protocols are

routing architectures ( was Re: ATT NYCrouting )

2002-08-29 Thread Ralph Doncaster
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Robert A. Hayden wrote: Um. Set up more than one reflector So how many is enough? I would think 3 is a minimum to come close to the reliability/redundancy of OSPF. -Ralph

RE: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Michael Hallgren
Um. Set up more than one reflector yes... and align your setup with your physical topology(so making it useful); use other proto for mapping your infra, etc, etc,.. mh On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at

Re: routing architectures ( was Re: ATT NYCrouting )

2002-08-29 Thread Robert A. Hayden
It depends a lot on your topgraphy. For example, if you have a specific city/region aggregation center, your redundant boarder routers for that city are probably also RRs. Those boarders peer with your boarders in other cities as well as your intra-region routers. Of course, this is just one

RE: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Robert A. Hayden
Yup. I like using OSPF to set up the mesh to the loopbacks and then ibgp as the IGP. On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Michael Hallgren wrote: Um. Set up more than one reflector yes... and align your setup with your physical topology(so making it useful); use other proto for mapping your infra,

RE: routing architectures ( was Re: ATT NYCrouting )

2002-08-29 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Figure out how to do reverse route reflecting. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ralph Doncaster Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 3:46 PM To: Robert A. Hayden Cc: Peter van Dijk; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: routing architectures (

RE: routing architectures ( was Re: ATT NYCrouting )

2002-08-29 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Uhh, come to think of it, the term reverse route reflecting probably won't get you much help -- client to client route reflecting is probably an easier term to understand.. My bad. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ralph Doncaster

RE: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Derek Samford
I personally prefer using IS-IS for loopback/infrastructure routes, and I use confederations for my IBGP. If a confederation ever gets to large, I can always add a route-reflector inside the confederation. Ralph, you have never failed to amaze me with your love for WCP (Worst Current Practices.)

Re: Broadening the IPv6 discussion

2002-08-29 Thread Petri Helenius
Yes, it's an gradual trend. We are seeing and increase over time in active tunnels and in average traffic per tunnel. Two easy things to drive v6 traffic: 1) switch your NNTP feeds to ipv6 2) put names which resolve to ipv6 addresses in your MX´s Both of these have little or no operational

building a better route reflector

2002-08-29 Thread dalph
Running two routing protocols is too much of a hassle. I think I would rather use static routes, and synchronize routers using rsync, diff, and patch. Our NOC has several 286s running Xenix that could act as servers for this. This would eliminate the hassle of running OSPF, ISIS, or RIP.

Re: Broadening the IPv6 discussion

2002-08-29 Thread Kurtis Lindqvist
Two easy things to drive v6 traffic: 1) switch your NNTP feeds to ipv6 2) put names which resolve to ipv6 addresses in your MX´s Both of these have little or no operational hazard. (SMTP fails over to v4 gracefully) Driver #1 : Sell p00rn via IPv6 only. Sad but true. Content and use is

RE: Broadening the IPv6 discussion

2002-08-29 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Daniel Golding wrote: Hmm. I'm afraid that I have to disagree with just about everything you've said :) . I haven't seen any enterprise folks demanding v6 - If VOIP and PDA's (?) use up their IP addresses, they can easily ask for more. The more you use, the more you

Re: building a better route reflector

2002-08-29 Thread dalph
I hope that in five years I'll be running a Tier 1 and can look back at my posts and laugh at them. However I hope that nobody else is laughing at me in the mean time. -Dalph Wiggum Roncaster Get your free encrypted email at https://www.hushmail.com

RE: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Ralph Doncaster
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Derek Samford wrote: I personally prefer using IS-IS for loopback/infrastructure routes, and I use confederations for my IBGP. If a confederation ever gets to large, I can always add a route-reflector inside the confederation. Ralph, you have never failed to amaze me

RE: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Daniel Golding
I wish this was a joke, but I know it's not. Ralph, they are talking about running BGP as an IGP, not if they are going to run BGP at all. Most large carriers run BGP everywhere. They also run an IGP for next-hop reachability within their networks (loopbacks, interface /30s, etc). The issue was

RE: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Derek Samford
Ralph, Okay, no one ever said an IBGP mesh was bad. We were all upset by the mention of an IGP distributed into an EGP. Let's do a little math here. The formula for IBGP sessions goes as follows. n*(n-1)/2 2=1 3=3 4=6 5=10 So you've only got 4 routers? That's fine, 6 sessions is not

Re: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread William Waites
Ralph == Ralph Doncaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralph I think we're both confused now. Your example seems to Ralph have nothing to do with what I'm talking about. I'm Ralph currently using an iBGP mesh in my network, with no OSPF or Ralph IS-IS. In other

Re: Broadening the IPv6 discussion

2002-08-29 Thread Petri Helenius
Driver #1 : Sell p00rn via IPv6 only. Sad but true. Content and use is all there is. Remember that multicast never happened either. How much it would take to sponsor free content over multicast to get it deployed. Don´t know if this would be approvable for government subsidies though. Pete

RE: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Derek Samford
Dmitri, Absolutely unavoidable. I think it's called Dalph Roncaster's Law of Impropability. Derek -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dmitri Krioukov Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 5:10 PM To: Daniel Golding Cc: [EMAIL

Re: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread alex
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:09:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody mentioned the benefits of ISIS as an IGP to them. Link-state protocols are evil, and when they break, they *really* break. I still do not see a compeling

Re: Broadening the IPv6 discussion

2002-08-29 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:32:38 +0300 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember that multicast never happened either. How much it would take to sponsor free content over multicast to get it deployed. Don´t know if this would be approvable for government

Re: ATT NYC

2002-08-29 Thread Mark Kent
Every time you see one of us mention ISIS or OSPF, all it has to do with is carrying loopback/infrastructure routes. I don't think anyone has said to Ralph why the above is done. Just in case it isn't obvious: you need to make sure the next-hops are known on each router by a means other than

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working GroupProposal at smtpng.org)

2002-08-29 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:20 PM -0700 2002/08/28, David Schwartz wrote: There are a few thousand people and more computers than you can shake a stick at located at Fort Meade for just this purpose. I'm not worried about Fort Meade for something like this. Moreover, this is not widely available.

RE: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working GroupProposal at

2002-08-29 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:54 AM +0200 2002/08/29, Jeroen Massar wrote: But as long as you live that's better than letting them have their ways now is it. It's still the death of a thousand cuts. Yes, it buys us time, but we have to use that time wisely to get real socio-legal solutions. And we