MPLScon

2006-03-29 Thread Irwin Lazar
Title: MPLScon Nanog list members – if you are interested in attending MPLScon in NYC in May, please contact me for a discount code. Irwin -- Irwin Lazar, Conference Director, MPLScon http://www.mplscon.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MPLScon 2006 Call for Presentations

2005-10-06 Thread Irwin Lazar
regarding speaking at the event. Irwin -- Irwin Lazar, Conference Director, MPLScon http://www.mplscon.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 703-742-9659 AIM/iChat/Skype/Gizmo: imlazar

RE: Tidbit from DirectNIC

2005-09-02 Thread Irwin Lazar
Per http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475927/posts the firefighters are taking sniper fire and have barracaded themselves inside the building. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Greb Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 5:16 PM To:

Re: Internet impact of Apple Tiger

2005-04-29 Thread Irwin Lazar
Yes, but the difference is that Firefox doesn't come with a pre-populated set of news feeds. Irwin > From: Martin Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:10:16 +0100 > To: Irwin Lazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Subject: Re: Internet

Internet impact of Apple Tiger

2005-04-29 Thread Irwin Lazar
Some food for thought: -- http://www.gigaom.com/2005/04/28/rss-tiger-safari-and-the-bandwidth-bottlene ck/ RSS, Tiger Safari and the Bandwidth Bottleneck In less than 48 hours many of us will be installing Tiger OS-X and with it a brand new Safari browser that can read and display RSS feeds in

Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-13 Thread Irwin Lazar
During the first outage this week I used Bluetooth DUN via my Treo to dial-up from home and check Comcast's customer support web page. There was a note on the "network health" page stating that Internet access was down for all cable modem subscribers. Uh no, it wasn't down - just their DNS was d

FW: [IP] a briefing at the National Academies

2005-03-24 Thread Irwin Lazar
FYI: -- Forwarded Message From: "Brownstein, Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:05:58 -0500 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: can you assist in announcing this To interested IP'ers The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies invites you to

FW: [MPLS-OPS]: Toolbox for Traffic Engineering freely available

2005-02-24 Thread Irwin Lazar
Thought I'd pass this along in case anyone is interested: -- Forwarded Message > From: Skivee Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:22:13 +0100 (CET) > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [MPLS-OPS]: Toolbox for Traffic Engineering freely available > Resent-From: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Break-In At SAIC Risks ID Theft

2005-02-14 Thread Irwin Lazar
You can always use http://www.bugmenot.com/ as well. irwin > From: Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:22:21 -0500 (EST) > To: Jim Popovitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Subject: Re: Break-In At SAIC Risks ID Theft > > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Jim Popovitch wrote: >

RE: Any news about Diego Garcia?

2004-12-28 Thread Irwin Lazar
Unaffected - see: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1309255/posts -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gregory Hicks Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 10:59 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Any news about Diego Garcia?

Re: (newbie) BGP For Dummies?

2004-12-12 Thread Irwin Lazar
Try: http://www.itprc.com/routing.htm Look under the "BGP" sub-heading for links to a lot of info. Irwin > From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:35:34 -0600 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: (newbie) BGP For Dummies? > > >

Re: How to Blocking VoIP ( H.323) ?

2004-11-11 Thread Irwin Lazar
The following resources may be helpful for H.323: IP Ports and Protocols used by H.323 Devices http://www.teamsolutions.co.uk/tsfirewall.html The Problems and Pitfalls of Getting H.323 Safely Through Firewalls http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~rakerman/articles/ig-h323_firewalls.html SIP uses TCP port

Re: Status of FCAPS model? Useful? Obsolete?

2004-11-10 Thread Irwin Lazar
We see a lot of interest among enterprises in ITIL for IT service management, which I'm guessing would overlap the FCAPS framework. Is anyone investing it for the SP side? (what's ITIL? - http://www.ogc.gov.uk/index.asp?id=2261) Irwin > From: Christian Kuhtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue,

RE: MPLS experiences?

2004-10-27 Thread Irwin Lazar
Folks, if anyone is interested in presenting a case study of their MPLS experiences, or participating in a panel discussion on shared experiences at next year's MPLScon, please contact me off-line. MPLScon is May 16-19, 2005 in NYC. Thanks, Irwin -Original Message- From: Greg Albrecht

MPLScon Call For Presentations

2004-09-28 Thread Irwin Lazar
The ³Call for Presentations² for MPLScon 2005 is now available on the web at: http://www.mplscon.com/speaker/submit_pres.html MPLScon 2005 will be held on May 16-19 at the Marriott Financial Center in New York City. Please let me know if you have any questions. Submissions are due November 19

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: Oct. NANOG - hotel? At the two month marker now.

2004-08-23 Thread Irwin Lazar
One other word of advice, hotel space in this area has been pretty hard to come by in recent months, book early or you may find that the closest available room is in Maryland or at a resort like Landsdowne. Also, there are lots of low-cost hotels on Route 28 north of the airport and Route 7 east

RE: Cisco Systems to Purchase Procket Networks...

2004-06-17 Thread Irwin Lazar
FYI: Cnet just published an interview with him this morning entitled "routing's rock star" see: http://news.com.com/Routing%27s+rock+star/2008-1035_3-5236759.html?tag=nl -Original Message- From: John Curran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:00 PM To: Wayne E. Bou

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Irwin Lazar
>> I'm leaving off "news" publications like Light Reading and Network World. >> Any thoughts? Have NANOG powerpoint presentations made these sorts of >> journals obsolete? :) > > My favorite journal is the NANOG slide presentations. They are > nice abstracts of someone's work, much better than th

RE: Fed. Govt and IEEE ban contributions to/from Cuba, Libya, Iran, Syria

2003-10-30 Thread Irwin Lazar
Thought it might be useful to pass on a copy of a letter from the IEEE President that was published in the last issue of "Spectrum" - On Serving Members In Embargoed Countries In January of 2002, the IEEE took action to fulfill the U.S. Treasury Department trade regulations administ

RE: Sobig.f surprise attack today

2003-08-22 Thread Irwin Lazar
FYI: At 1500 GMT, Mikko Hypponen, director of anti-virus research at F-Secure, told New Scientist that 18 of the 20 internet addresses his company had identified in the virus had been blocked. "But if even one machi

RE: North America not interested in IP V6

2003-07-31 Thread Irwin Lazar
> -Original Message- > From: Michel Py [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:16 PM > To: Jeroen Massar > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: North America not interested in IP V6 > > > Jeroen Massar wrote: > > It has a timeline (slides 47-50) showing the US falling

Patching for Cisco vulnerability

2003-07-18 Thread Irwin Lazar
Just out of curiosity, are folks just applying the Cisco patch or do you go through some sort of testing/validation process to ensure that the patch doesn't cause any other problems? Given typical change management procedures how long is taking you to get clearance to apply the patch? I'm try

RE: IPv6

2003-06-15 Thread Irwin Lazar
> IPv6's major implementation problem is going to be apathy. > After all, > things are working fine at the moment, and who cares that > some day there > might be a big ip address crunch? > > Nick > FYI: http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2221821 June 13, 2003 Pentagon Commits to IPv6

IPv6 Services/Products

2003-06-13 Thread Irwin Lazar
Thanks to all who responded, below is what I've compiled so far (vendors/service providers): Hurricane Electric - http://www.he.net/ Maxis (IPv6 for 3G) - www.maxis.com Equinix (IPv6 exchange for Hurricane & Japan Telecom) - www.equinix.com BTExact (http://www.uk6x.com) NEC (IPv6 video content d

IPv6

2003-06-12 Thread Irwin Lazar
Excuse the off-topic question, but does anyone know if there is some sort of list anywhere of service providers who are running IPv6 in a production capacity, either to tunnel IPv4 or to offer native IPv6 services?  I'm not looking for test or research networks but rather a list of IPv6 netw

RE: ENUM/E.164 books

2003-02-23 Thread Irwin Lazar
I've put some ENUM resources on http://www.itprc.com/tcp_ip.htm Irwin -Original Message- From: Pete Kruckenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ENUM/E.164 books Anyone have recommendations on good books (or similar

RE: IPv6 Peering Request

2003-02-16 Thread Irwin Lazar
I have a collection of links to info about IPv6 at: www.itprc.com/tcp_ip.htm http://www.ipv6forum.org/ is probably the best starting place. irwin > -Original Message- > From: Scott Granados [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 4:38 PM > To: Mike Leber; Nicolas D

RE: IPv6 subnet calculators?

2003-02-12 Thread Irwin Lazar
Try: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sipcalc/?topic_id=150 > -Original Message- > From: Jeffrey Wheat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 5:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: IPv6 subnet calculators? > > > > I am trying to find an IPv6 subnet calculato

Risk of Internet collapse grows

2002-11-26 Thread Irwin Lazar
Thought this might be worth passing on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2514651.stm   There is a recent book out called "Linked: The New Science of Networks" which details the potential for causing widespread Internet damage by targeting a few hubs instead of random or widespread attac

RE: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

2002-10-07 Thread Irwin Lazar
-Original Message- From: Scott Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:56 AM To: Stephane Bortzmeyer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:49:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > O

research request

2002-09-05 Thread Irwin Lazar
ntact me off-list. Thanks, Irwin ------ Irwin Lazar Practice Manager, Burton Group www.burtongroup.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 703-742-9659 Cell: 703-402-4119 "DrivingNetworkEvolution"

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 collabor

RE: How do I log on while in flight?

2002-06-27 Thread Irwin Lazar
see: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41177,00.html there are several reasons why cell phones aren't allowed to be used on planes, the above citation provides explanations. Irwin -Original Message- From: Leigh Anne Chisholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2

MPLScon

2002-06-27 Thread Irwin Lazar
ed in talking about their operational experiences with MPLS, and are local to the Denver area (or can travel there), please contact me off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I'm currently recruiting for panel discussions related to MPLS VPN security, OAM, and MPLS vs. ATM.   Thanks, Irwin   --- I

D.C. area based ISP's unite

2002-06-18 Thread Irwin Lazar
FYI: o ISPs Form DC-based Organization To Battle Large Telecom Firms Washington, DC -- About 200 Internet service providers (ISPs) from around the country have formed a new organization based in Washington DC that will battle against what they call "monopolistic local telephone companies" regard

RE: IS-IS information

2002-04-26 Thread Irwin Lazar
see www.itprc.com/routing.htm for links to Cisco IS-IS configuration guides, protocol overviews, and other material. irwin -Original Message- From: Greg Pendergrass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 4:00 PM To: 'Nanog@Merit. Edu' Subject: IS-IS information Wha

ILEC Map

2002-03-11 Thread Irwin Lazar
Folks, Is there a web site out there that provides a map of the united states showing each ILEC and the states within their region (Bellsouth, SBC, Qwest, & Verizon)? Thanks in advance, Irwin