Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-07 Thread Jason LeBlanc
One app I like a lot is Ping Plotter, but it only runs on Windows, so it isn't good for remote monitoring. We do use it for some things, however. I like the detailed traceroute / latency visualization it has. It also has a hard time with a lot (100+) nodes being monitored. SmokePing

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-07 Thread Jason LeBlanc
My bad, you might be able to do it with PingPlotter using remote proxies that are linux. I can see using the Vixie personal colo list to find cheap vm offerings in various locations. Other option, a few could get together and share some resources to get the proxies distributed.

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-07 Thread Jason LeBlanc
I did look at it, it still lacks a few things, but it does cover most. It would be nice if you added some screenshots or demo pages as to what the reporting looks like. I had to dig around and find a paper on the slammer worm to see what the output looks like. Jeroen Massar wrote: Jason

Re: IPv6 network boundaries vs. IPv4

2007-08-27 Thread Jason LeBlanc
OT: He probably meant MOP and LAT are not routable, man that brings back memories. Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:56:29 -0600 From: John Osmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is anyone out there setting up routing boundaries differently for IPv4 and IPv6? I'm

Re: Market for diversity

2007-08-26 Thread Jason LeBlanc
I agree with this, and many people take the Ts Cs, MSA, etc the vendor anyway. We have a standing habit of reading over our new contracts with our attorney on a con call, we always edit them, send them back to the vendor and negotiate on any changes. Its amazing how much you can get

Re: Network Inventory Tool

2007-08-16 Thread Jason LeBlanc
I would second this. We're evaling it right now, takes a little getting used to but the capabilities are pretty impressive. There is a pretty steep cost to play initially. Once the first chunk of existing devices are licensed adding more isn't as painful, at least thats how I'm selling it

Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?

2007-07-26 Thread Jason LeBlanc
I do. Hurricane Wilma, blew the roof off our building, water pouring in pooling under the floor and onto the PDUs and UPS (800amps of 480v). We wanted to save the data on the servers, had to hit the EPO to enter the room (anyone have an idea of how far that much power would arc?). It was

Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-01-25 Thread Jason LeBlanc
This is where dbms' designed for data warehouses might come into play, something like SybaseIQ. It is adapted for long term storage and retrieval. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do you define your schema? how long does it take to insert/index/whatnot the data? This is a much bigger

Re: Cable Tying with Waxed Twine

2007-01-25 Thread Jason LeBlanc
I can't imagine using wax twine, I love my velcro. Randy Epstein wrote: Hey Marty :) snip and digg it: http://www.digg.com/mods/The_lost_art_of_cable-lacing... Corrected URL: http://www.digg.com/mods/The_lost_art_of_cable-lacing...?cshow=194773 -M Randy

Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-01-24 Thread Jason LeBlanc
is better than MRTG, but the config/db/portal are still lacking. Jon Lewis wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Jason LeBlanc wrote: Anyone thats seen MRTG (simple, static) on a large network realizes that decoupling the graphing from the polling is necessary. The disk i/o is brutal. Cacti has

Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-24 Thread Jason LeBlanc
I hear you on the double, triple nat nightmare, I'm there myself. I'm working on rolling out VRFs to solve that problem, still testing. The nat complexities and bugs (nat translations losing their mind and killing connectivity for important apps) are just too much for some of our

Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-01-22 Thread Jason LeBlanc
Anyone thats seen MRTG (simple, static) on a large network realizes that decoupling the graphing from the polling is necessary. The disk i/o is brutal. Cacti has a slick interface, but also doesn't scale all that well for large networks. I prefer RTG, though I haven't seen a nice

Re: Anything going on in Atlanta, GA?

2007-01-11 Thread Jason LeBlanc
I'm on 6 and experienced no issues, they are also on 5 which is where the problem may have had more impact, as that is the old PAIX space where more telco stuff goes on. Randy Epstein wrote: Bill, Switch and Data was reporting power issues at 56 Marietta earlier. Don't know if it was

Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????

2003-11-24 Thread Jason LeBlanc
I tend to encourage people to use PestPatrol for the malware on windoze boxes. Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Jeff Shultz writes on 11/24/2003 1:46 PM: Firewalls at least tend to be a bit more hands off... and I'd like to hear more about the snake oil parts. Doesn't the 1/2wall that XP ships

Re: Extreme BlackDiamond

2003-10-13 Thread Jason LeBlanc
75xx/GSR, dCEF? 75xx/GSR are L3 switches then. ;) Not to add flame-bait, but.. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121cgcr/switch_c/xcprt2/xcdcef.htm Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand how you can

Re: Extreme BlackDiamond

2003-10-13 Thread Jason LeBlanc
bgp scanner cpu usage == number of neighbors * number of routes in table lots of neighbors would cause this, for longer periods. If running SUP1A/MSFC this could be worse than with MSFC2 (slightly more CPU power), and much worse than SUP2 I'm guessing. Tom (UnitedLayer) wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct