Re: fiber switch for gig

2008-04-03 Thread Kevin Blackham
We run nortel 5530. They are not exactly cheap by my standards for 24 GE (10k list), but they do have 2x10G. Also they don't play nice with rstp to cisco, and I still can't figure out how to get it to show me stp port status. Both vendors in the tree think they're root. CLI is tolerable, but if

Re: AS 7018 BGP blackhole / ATT contact sought

2007-11-08 Thread Kevin Blackham
I too have received nothing but blank stares from 7018 MIS on this. Surprising considering the NANOG presentation on how to do community based bitbuckets was co-authored by someone from ATT (yeah, I know, mega company and all). Please post back to list if you get anywhere. On 11/7/07, [EMAIL

Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter

2007-09-10 Thread Kevin Blackham
lot less likely to have a bad/missing path, and you still have sufficient knobs to engineer most outbound flows. -Kevin Blackham (recently moved from provider to end network using non-XL PFC) On 9/10/07, Stephen Sprunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Kevin Loch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen

Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring

2007-09-06 Thread Kevin Blackham
I would never trust SMTP for all the reasons already mentioned. Primarily if my network is dead, I still want to get paged about it. Relying on the import policy of another organization in the hostile port 25 environment is also bad voodoo. We've used a mix of TAP and SMS for many years with

F/OSS SNMP tools (was Re: Cacti 0.8.6j Released)

2007-05-08 Thread Kevin Blackham
You only need to worry about vendor MIBs if you're trying to query/monitor something vendor-specific. Standard stuff like ifInOctets and ifDescr are included in everything. I like to either read through MIBs by hand, or load em in a MIB browser (like mbrowse or use vendor C's snmp explorer