Re: BGP Load Sharing

2004-09-17 Thread Matthew Crocker
Chris, Take a look at Cisco OER http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns471/ networking_solutions_package.html or Route Science http://www.routescience.com/technology/index.html. You could also continue doing what you are doing, The 12k supports BGP, Netflow, SNMP and some custom scripts

Tornados in Ashburn

2004-09-17 Thread John Starta
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29911-2004Sep17.html

BGP Load Sharing

2004-09-17 Thread Chris Strandt
I am hoping to learn from the great pool of experience on this list. We currently have 2 OC3 connections going to 2 seperate providers. We are using netflow statistics to balance our traffic flows (which outgoing is our major concern). Flow tools, snmp output, some custom scripts, and some bgp

Equipment Shelter with Backup Generator

2004-09-17 Thread Adi Linden
I am looking for ideas/suppliers for placing network equipment and satellite earth station equipment in remote locations. There are no suitable facilities to colocate but single phase power is available. Any ideas where to find a secure steel clad building, that fits a couple of rack, has environm

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-17 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Nothing good exists (I tried all opensource I could find). We are developing (improving) our scripts, and I hope to make it the same quality as CCR or snmpstat and post on the sourceforge, but now it is just set of scripts - on one server, and MySQL database + set of scripts - on another, without

NYSE

2004-09-17 Thread Philip Lavine
Does anyone have experience in setting up a direct connection with NYSE, specifically SIAC or SFTI? __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Re: AS22534 Leaking, anybody alive their?

2004-09-17 Thread Majdi Abbas
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:25:05AM -0500, Matt Levine wrote: > All attemps to reach them are have failed. Am I the only person that finds this ironic? # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-09-16 19:10 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. OrgName:Prof

RE: Multi-link Frame Relay OR Load Balancing

2004-09-17 Thread Mike Walter
I am using MLFR with MCI currently. I have a Cisco 7204 VXR and it works like a champ. I have had times where one T1 circuit was down and I had no problems besides seeing the bandwidth utilization change. When it came up everything went back to normal. I am looking into an Ethernet Handoff due

Weekly Routing Table Report

2004-09-17 Thread Routing Table Analysis
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. Daily listings are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 18 Sep, 2004

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-17 Thread Alexei Roudnev
There is another problem with TRAPS: - when I code monitoring, I always need 2 messages: - CRITICAL - REPAIRED (We have a few scripts making monitoring, and it always started with sending CRITICAL message only, and ended in sending both messages - it iis impossible to work without having info

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-17 Thread Irwin Lazar
>> I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network management, >> such as Nagios or Big Brother. We are currently using WhatsUp Gold, >> and would like to move to something more flexible (and not running >> on a Windows platform). Something that has email/paging >> capabilities, and can proc

RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-17 Thread Michael Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > -Original Message- > From: Alexei Roudnev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 12:53 AM > To: Michael Smith; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools > > I always tried to avoid any de

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-17 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Syslog is a text protocol, so system developer can always write any message. SNMPTRAP is '1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8 'something happen blablabla' type of messages. They are the same in other properties, I do agree - that;s why we detect everything we can by 'polling'. There are many tools, converting one t

My Worm is Bigger Than Yours

2004-09-17 Thread J. Oquendo
To give others further information on this sdbot.worm (continuing from my previous post http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg01241.html) here are the main characteristics I've found on almost all variants I've come across. Obviously it seems to be a polymorphic form of worm meaning its cha

Re: AS22534 Leaking, anybody alive their?

2004-09-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:25:05AM -0500, Matt Levine wrote: > > All attemps to reach them are have failed. > > Ticket open with MFN to request that maybe put a prefix-list on this > customer..or maybe even max-prefixes.. > > Seems they're leaking their level3 transit routes to mfn: > > eg: >

AS22534 Leaking, anybody alive their?

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Levine
All attemps to reach them are have failed. Ticket open with MFN to request that maybe put a prefix-list on this customer..or maybe even max-prefixes.. Seems they're leaking their level3 transit routes to mfn: eg: prefix: 64.12.0.0/16 (AOL) 6461 22534 3356 1668 8176 I MFN in turn seems to be leak

RE: Multi-link Frame Relay OR Load Balancing

2004-09-17 Thread Peering
Depending on your area, DS3 isn't necessarily cheaper than 8 T1s. I know in some markets, I have to buy 16 T1s from Bell before it matches their DS3 cost. It just depends on the tariffs. I've never used MLF before, just MLPPP, but in my experience, MLPPP works for my customers better than load-

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-17 Thread Jeremy Kister
On Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:48 PM, Tom Claydon wrote: > I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network management, such as > Nagios or Big Brother. We are currently using WhatsUp Gold, and would Argus: The World's Most Advanced Monitoring System: http://argus.tcp4me.com/ Jeremy Kister

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-17 Thread Christian Kuhtz
What makes syslog so much more reliable in your opinion? There's no ability to find lost messages or have guaranteed delivery. At least not on 514/udp. If you can toss a trap, you can toss a syslog message. That is, unless I've lost my mind this morning and need to go get more coffee. On 9/17

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Chris Allermann wrote: Just curious, what kind of commercial/opensource software do you use for syslog analysis and alerting? http://www.l0t3k.net/tools/Loganalysis/lire-1.4.tar.gz http://www.sawmill.net/features.html

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-17 Thread Chris Allermann
Just curious, what kind of commercial/opensource software do you use for syslog analysis and alerting? I also run syslog-ng and have some filters written to ignore some of the more mundane syslog messages. Also have swatch half implemented and semi working, but I'm looking for a cleaner, and mor

sprint.net Email problems?

2004-09-17 Thread Daniel Roesen
Hi, depending on the IP address space from where I'm trying to reach the two MX for @sprint.net, I'm getting either: - no TCP connection at all (Connection refused) - a TCP session, but not even a SMTP greeting banner - a SMTP session, but as response to RCPT TO a 550 Access denied For the thir

The Cidr Report

2004-09-17 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Sep 17 21:44:13 2004 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of an AS4637 (Reach) router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org/as4637 for a current version of this report. Recent Table Hist

RE: Multi-link Frame Relay OR Load Balancing

2004-09-17 Thread Rump Bryant
3 quick notes-- Neither MLFR/FRF.16 (MCI's implementation) nor the corresponding CPE require external DSUs. The service may utilize internal DSUs (whether on Cisco CPE or Tasman) just as a tiered/fractional DS3 would. ATM-IMA could be considered wasteful of bandwidth as you would have to live w

Building a network and system management open source tool

2004-09-17 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
Since several folks showed interest in this, I have posted the slides for the design talk at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nexb -- Cheers Philippe philippe ombredanne | nexB - Open IT Asset Management 1 650 799 0949 | pombredanne at nexb.com http://www.nexb.com

Re: Network Configuration Management Practices

2004-09-17 Thread Alexei Roudnev
It I have frequent changes, I always automate them so that: - operator enter data into the database; - operator click 'UPDATE' - operator review proposed update and click APPLY - tier-3 receive change report and review it. We did such thing (analyzing configs, creating schemas and posting it all

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-17 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I always tried to avoid any deal with SNMP TRAPS as most unreliable and unconvenient way of alerting (unfortunately, it can not be avoided totally). We use 'syslog' (syslog-ng + home written syslog analyzers + copmmercial soft, sometimes) when possible. - Original Message - From: "Mich

Re: Network Configuration Management Practices

2004-09-17 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I posted our software (doing this) onto http://snmpstat.sf.net (named as CCR - Cisco Configuration Repository). It is 100% WEB configured and supports IOS, CatOS, PIX and some old VPN devices (they all have different commands to save config). - Original Message - From: "Joe Shen" <[EMA