Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?

2004-01-27 Thread Alexei Roudnev
It's a benefit. I do not want to support 100 different vendors with 100 different sets of bugs, 100 different methods to save / restore configurations, 100 different ways for authentication, etc etc... Today, it is a benefit. > > > > 3550 runs IOS. > > > > this is a benefit, especially in a swit

Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?

2004-01-27 Thread Alexei Roudnev
So what? Is is a sugnificant drawback? I do not think so. Both ISL and 802.1q require special interface cards (with extended frame size), and I do not see any reason, why 26 bytes vs 4 bytes makes big difference. /May be, the only pro for 802.1q tagging is it's possible implementation on the old

RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today

2004-01-27 Thread Timo Janhunen
This lovely little worm will start beating on the door at www.sco.com come Feb 1/04. Interesting huh? At 09:01 PM 26/01/2004 -0500, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote: The worm is being talked about on news.com and all the major virus vendors already have advisories on their websites. The worm in my case mas

Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?

2004-01-27 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Sorry; of course, I meant _change MTU_. > > > Both the ISL _and_ the Dotq headers are stripped off at the trunk > interface so they _both_ change the packet size but neither alters the > payload. > > > Scott C. McGrath > > On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today

2004-01-27 Thread David Luyer
> This lovely little worm will start beating on the door at www.sco.com come > Feb 1/04. Interesting huh? Wonder if we should all be proactive to prevent the DoS attack, and drop the A records for www.sco.com now? Just in case any customers' clocks are set forward ;-) This virus, so far, has be

RE: Cisco 7600

2004-01-27 Thread David Luyer
Christopher Wolff wrote: > Several weeks ago there was a lively debate on Nanog regarding cisco > performance, if I recall correctly, one party indicated that they upgraded > from a 7206 NPE400 to a GSR and only saw a 30% improvement in CPU > utilization. That's a lot of bling bling for 30%... E

Kourou (French Guiana) seacable problem since last week, France telecom

2004-01-27 Thread juan.bontje
Hi Anyone aware of an sea cable problem between kourou (French Guiana) and Europe? (France?), since 21jan04 Unfortunate don't have more sufficient information besides this. TIA JC

Re: Outbound Route Optimization

2004-01-27 Thread Michael . Dillon
>I am going to have to call bullshit on the MPLS fast reroute thing >there Wayne. The canonical counterexample is Sprint. To be sure, Sprint and Ebone have shown that it is possible to run a very high quality (low jitter) pure IP network, but... >Excellent engineering and ops folks top the list

RE: Kourou (French Guiana) seacable problem since last week, France telecom

2004-01-27 Thread juan.bontje
Eric thanks for links information wasn't up to date as they're saying it's an satelitelink who's down, 'owned' (?) by france telecom JC -Original Message- From: Eric Kuhnke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 11:07 AM To: Bontje,JC,Juan,IVYF41 C Subject: Re: Kour

Re: Outbound Route Optimization

2004-01-27 Thread Michael . Dillon
>What is broken for one provider and fixed at another may very well break >something else that was working before at the first provider, yes? Besides >the difficulties of assigning a true metric to the overall reachability of >a /8 or any aggregate for that matter ("ok we decreased rtt by 20ms t

Re: Outbound Route Optimization

2004-01-27 Thread Mike Lloyd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You hit the nail on the head. Fundametally, any route optimization technique that tries to treat an aggregate of the network as a blob which can be measured will suffer the same type of problems as an IP over ATM network. Observationally, IP over ATM has interesting laten

Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?

2004-01-27 Thread haesu
welcome to 2004. ISL is a thing of the past. let us move on. ./end_flamebait.sh -J (who realized Cisco no longer supports ISL on 2950 and some other newer box) On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:09:07PM -0800, Alexei Roudnev wrote: > > So what? Is is a sugnificant drawback? I do not th

Re: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today

2004-01-27 Thread Scott Weeks
: They rate of it is quite surprising. By the description, the trick / : method of infection does not seem all that different than past worms : viri. Makes me wonder how many people in a room would reach into their : purse/pocket on hearing, "Wallet inspector" Every single person that still

Re: Kourou (French Guiana) seacable problem since last week, France telecom

2004-01-27 Thread Scott Weeks
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Anyone aware of an sea cable problem between kourou (French Guiana) and : Europe? (France?), since 21jan04 Unfortunate don't have more sufficient : information besides this. Did you ask on FRNOG? http://www.frnog.org scott

who tripped over the power cord at l3?

2004-01-27 Thread John Kinsella
Seems like Level3 in SFO(at least) just went poof for a minute or two...

Not only do /24's run amuk...

2004-01-27 Thread Anton L. Kapela
...They seem to come & go as they please! Inspired by RAS's prior posts regarding /16's that were hastly de-agged, I took some time this weekend to answer a few questions which came up; how many updates do I hear about a specific prefix, and does the length have any relationship? Well, several h

nanog@merit.edu

2004-01-27 Thread Jay Hennigan
I have an AT&T T-1 taking errors. Their trouble reporting number dumps me into the IVR from hell. It even has machines calling me back at intervals with status. The status says "A test was run..." No hint as to the results of the test. One of the choices is to say or hit "2" if you need furth