Re: CWDM equipment (current favorites)

2006-10-31 Thread Mike Hughes
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Deepak Jain wrote: Since then, I have actually touched some of the MRV product line personally and found it (and their customer support)... less than ideal. (not comparing to anyone else, and no one is really ideal). We're lucky enough that they have a helpful/clueful

Re: Practical Common Practice for Collocation Access

2006-10-24 Thread Mike Hughes
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Sean Donelan wrote: Is it enough of a problem, network operators would be interested in publishing some Practical Common Practices (I hesitate to call it a BCP) collocation facilities could follow for some common access control scenarios? Tenent access, pre-screened

Re: Collocation Access

2006-10-24 Thread Mike Hughes
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Roland Perry wrote: Sounds to me like NSTAC ought to be worried about a scheme to accredit co-lo operator security staff, as well as the visiting telco engineers. Certainly in the UK, the co-lo security staff employed at Telehouse Europe are properly accredited and

Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement

2006-10-16 Thread Mike Hughes
John Levine wrote: In addition to all of the offered AC services others have mentioned, some planes have power outlets for vacuum cleaners, typically behind a small panel next to a door. ISTR, these AC sockets are airplane flavour 115VAC @ 400Hz. No. it's 60 Hz. See this picture of one of

Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement

2006-10-15 Thread Mike Hughes
Scott W Brim wrote: Excerpts from Owen DeLong on Sun, Oct 15, 2006 08:14:48AM -0700: This may be a nit, but, you will _NEVER_ see AC power at any In addition to all of the offered AC services others have mentioned, some planes have power outlets for vacuum cleaners, typically behind a small

Re: Peering VLANs and MAC addresses

2005-11-09 Thread Mike Hughes
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Robert Kiessling wrote: Which rule would you suggest for the IXP? The naive connect only routers wouldn't do of course in nowaday's world of hybrids. I've been following this with interest: * How do you differentiate between a switch/router and a router? A lot of

Re: Peering VLANs and MAC addresses

2005-11-09 Thread Mike Hughes
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Randy Bush wrote: thanks! this approaches reassuring. why does it tolerate 100 macs? at first blush, i would think three or four would be a bad enough sign. It's a balance to avoid unduly penalising a genuine mistake, or being too severe against some poor guy with a

Re: Peering VLANs and MAC addresses

2005-11-09 Thread Mike Hughes
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Alexander Koch wrote: I know the changes the LINX has implemented, and I am curious... and this might affect other folk as well. What is better - the LINX approach (blocking the port, trying again in x minutes when too many MACs were seen) or the Equinix approach (we

Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry

2005-09-17 Thread Mike Hughes
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Matt Bazan wrote: I don't know about you, but how many times have you wanted to know the price of hardware vendor a, vendor b and vendor c's product offering only to find out that you have to contact one of their sales reps, give them all your contact company info (I'm

Re: Very funny: While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies

2005-09-07 Thread Mike Hughes
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Perhaps someone in authority can track and kill, er, ban this luser? The challenge with this is doing a traceback of the requesting IP that requested the article to be sent. Best practice would be to include the requesting IP (i.e. the one which

Re: Gigabit Media Converter

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Hughes
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Vincent J. Bono wrote: Anyone out ther ever see or hear tell of a device that will let you run two GBICs back to back wthout an associated switch and all the trimmings? Application is to convert a CWDM GBIC signal to a Multimode one. Vinny, Would something like this

NANOG 27 - IXP Panel

2003-01-08 Thread Mike Hughes
couldn't make it last year! NANOG participants, feel free to think up some questions for the exchanges which you can ask on the day! If you wish to ask a question anonymously, you can direct it either through myself or through the NANOG Chair. Look forward to seeing you in Phoenix! Mike -- Mike

Re: AMS-IX problems

2002-10-23 Thread Mike Hughes
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: It's very interesting to see the traffic stats at http://www.ams-ix.net/hugegraph.html Usually, incoming and outgoing traffic is the same. But during this problem, much more traffic went out than came in. Curious, as the exchange sources