Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Meuse
On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For that matter, what releases of Windows support setting a 9K MTU? That's probably the *real* uptake limiter. Most, if not all. I have an XP box that has a GigE with 9k MTU. -- -Steve

Re: progrma topics for the future.

2007-03-13 Thread Steve Meuse
Joel Jaeggli expunged ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The program committee (I am a member, but not representing) had some discussion in Toronto on the subject of recruiting tutorials containing entry level material. Philip's bgp tutorials have always been well received but most tutorial material we

Re: FCC on wifi at hotel

2007-02-28 Thread Steve Meuse
It's about revenue recovery. If you provide your own free wifi, they are losing potential business. It's usually part of the negotiation with the Hotel. -Steve On 2/28/07, Carl Karsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: me again. So wifi at pycon 07 was 'better than 06' witch I hear was a complete

Re: FCC on wifi at hotel

2007-02-28 Thread Steve Meuse
On 2/28/07, Jared Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-157A1.pdf I do suggest reading this. They can not legally bar you from using the devices. They can charge you outrageous fees to get to/from the MMR or telco demarc and

Re: Route Reflector architecture and how to get small customer blocks in to BGP?

2007-01-28 Thread Steve Meuse
On 1/28/07, Danny McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o If you're going to use redistribution - or not - ensure that all external advertisement policies require explicit match of advertise communities and default is to deny I'll second that recommendation. I learned early in life that this

Re: the future of the net

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Meuse
On 11/16/05, Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:42:41PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8673Hrmmm... The future of the net? You mean, will crazy people continue to post crazy rants about things they clearly don't fully understand?

Re: PRIX - Puerto RIco Internet Exchange

2005-09-27 Thread Steve Meuse
No, I think we all need the comic relief, I say leave it :) -SteveOn 9/27/05, John Neiberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We , a small group of researchers , have started a Project called Prix [ http://prix.uprr.pr ] which has the intentions of creating a large table for those who would like to sit

Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light?

2005-08-22 Thread Steve Meuse
On 8/21/05, Peter Dambier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had a look into one of my microwave books. I have seen in coaxcables the speed of lite drop to 90% or 80% depending on the insulator,the dielectric. I believe this is referred to as velocity factor. -Steve -- -Steve

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Steve Meuse
On 4/15/05, Philip Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get a handle on how common this practice is. No one that I have asked seems to know any provider that does this, and a search of a few FAQs plus about an hour of Googling hasn't turned up anything definite (but maybe I am

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Steve Meuse
On 4/13/05, John Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for that information. I can leave 41/8 in my router bogon list and hopefully eliminate the Nigerian 419 problem somewhat. Personally, I believe we should give them the chance to fail before we cut them off from the rest of the

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Steve Meuse
On 4/13/05, Richard Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The largest part (90%) does originate in Nigeria. The remainder comes from countries adjacent to Nigeria such as Togo, Senegal, etc (~6%) or from the Netherlands (~4%) So we should spank the rest of the *continent* for one countries issues?

Re: E1 - RJ45 pinout with ethernet crossover cable

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Meuse
Not that I know of, but I've never attempted what you describe. Putting the baluns in the loop will destroy the framing i.e. it's going to try and convert b8zs/ami to 802.x. A Balun (BALanced to UNbalanced) is simply an impledence matching mechanism. Crossover is still required. --

RE: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Steve Meuse
At 04:10 PM 8/19/2002 -0400, Andy Dills wrote: Interesting. So then, how did that happen? as-block:AS1 - AS1876 descr: ARIN ASN block remarks: These AS numbers are further assigned by ARIN remarks: to ARIN members and end-users in the ARIN region admin-c: ARIN1-RIPE

RE: ratios

2002-05-09 Thread Steve Meuse
At 01:05 PM 5/9/2002 -0400, Daniel Golding wrote: I guess the best thing you can do is not take peering matters personally, and to remember that peering decisions are business decisions, and they by personalizing them, it creates unnecessary animosity. - Daniel Golding Oh come now Dan, that