MD5 BGP performance on a VXR?

2004-06-11 Thread Ben Buxton
Has anyone done any concrete testing on how well a 7206VXR with an NPE-300 can handle BGP MD5? The box in question has about 25 sessions and is pushing 150Mbps, with a 75% cpu load. I'm curious to know if it's the MD5 taking all the CPU. Thanks, Ben

Re: CWDM or DWDM passive add/drop muxes

2004-07-29 Thread Ben Buxton
have GBIC/SFP based optics. Just make sure you have a supplier who can deliver fibre patches with 'MU' type connectors - they're as rare as hens teeth and needed to plug into the MUX. -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person

Re: COnfiguration Suggestion - Etherchannel

2004-07-29 Thread Ben Buxton
itch to perform flow based etherchannel load balancing, WITHOUT the switch actually routing (ie performing purely swithcing functions)?? -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person

RE: Lawful Interception in the world...

2003-02-12 Thread Ben Buxton
> I'm trying to collect some informations on Lawfull > Interception over the > world... > Does any country in the world require such things ? It's a legal requirement for all ISPs in the Netherlands. If the government wants to snoop on someone, they have to issue a special warrant type, and the

RE: Router crash unplugs 1m Swedish Internet users

2003-06-23 Thread Ben Buxton
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Jim Deleskie wrote: > > > One router and it takes there entire network off-line... > Maybe someone needs > > a Intro to Networks 101 class. > > Well, if the memory errors corrupts the forwarding table > placed on the > line cards or something similar, and still keeps it

RE: Working vulnerability? (Cisco exploit)

2003-07-18 Thread Ben Buxton
It's released and it works - I have verified it in a lab here. BB > -Original Message- > From: Ken Yeo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 3:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Working vulnerability? (Cisco exploit) > > > > Is this true: > > http://www.ewee

RE: Working vulnerability? (Cisco exploit)

2003-07-18 Thread Ben Buxton
the queue slots). More of an annoyance really - most of the outages as a result are going to be from people upgrading boxes, not victims of attack. BB > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Ben Buxton wrote: > > &

RE: rfc1918 ignorant

2003-07-23 Thread Ben Buxton
Uhhh...PMTU-d can break as routers will send back icmp cant-frag packets from those link addresses and rpf, filtering, etc will bring tcp connections to a standstill. Don't filter rfc1918? umm good luck convincing the rest of the net to eliminiate their filters. The basic premise of building pub

RE: North America not interested in IP V6

2003-07-30 Thread Ben Buxton
> From: Nipper, Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:00 AM, Peter Galbavy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Regardless of the content of the above, let me say that > with the exception > > of "the academic community" (including those in commercial > orgs) no one i

RE: North America not interested in IP V6

2003-07-31 Thread Ben Buxton
> -Original Message- > From: Jeroen Massar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ronald van der Pol wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:30:25 -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > > > > > I'd be more interested in seeing how many customer connections > > > > are using IPV6. > > > > > > This q

RE: North America not interested in IP V6

2003-07-31 Thread Ben Buxton
> From: Cougar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Ben Buxton wrote: > > > And further to this...will it be required (or wise at all) > to register > > individual /48 delegations when it becomes commonplace to > allocate them > > to st

Optical media converters?

2003-11-24 Thread Ben Buxton
Hi, Does anyone have any experience with optical media convertors and using them directly with router interfaces? I have found one such supplier what makes exactly the thing: http://www.mrv.com/product/MRV-FD-SFPMC/ I'm curious as to whether anyone has any experience with these or knows of anyon