Re: Network inventory and configuration tracking tools

2002-08-09 Thread Streiner, Justin
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Sean Donelan wrote: How about an operations oriented question. What is the current preferences amoung network operators for network inventory and configuration management tools? Not so much status monitoring (up, down) but other stuff network operator wants to know like

Re: PSINet/Cogent Latency

2002-07-23 Thread Streiner, Justin
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Alex Rubenstein wrote: Yes, it's horrid. I've been peering with PSI for going on three years, and it's never been as bad as it is now. I took advantage of their free peering offer back in the day, and ended up peering with them for about 18 months (06/1999 - 01/2001).

Re: AS number inconsistencies

2002-07-08 Thread Streiner, Justin
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Marwan Fayed wrote: I am a CS PhD student trying to track ASes (for reasons I'm happy to discuss offline). There is a grave inconsistency I have come across and can't explain. Simply, there seems to be many AS numbers in the non-private range that come into use at some

Re: What's wrong with provisioning tools?

2002-06-13 Thread Streiner, Justin
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Stephen Griffin wrote: In the referenced message, David Daley said: snip 4) There isn't anything to track non sanctioned changes to the network (i.e.: hacker induced re-configurations) I would be really surprised if anything other than mom-and-pop shops didn't have

Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product

2002-05-15 Thread Streiner, Justin
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Pete Kruckenberg wrote: Have any large networks gathered statistics on how much traffic DDoS/DoS/DRDoS attacks consume on an average day? The attacks I have been able to detect represent around 10-15% of my traffic on an on-going basis. I'm curious about the business

Re: CPE/OC12 Question

2002-05-15 Thread Streiner, Justin
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Sonya Blake wrote: What kind of OC12 CPE devices (routers) are people using out there? Initially for Internet connectivity, but probably would need to do advance features, i.e. BGP, etc. Are you referring to an OC12c that you're using as a single 622 Mb/s pipe, or an

Re: news-peering

2002-05-01 Thread Streiner, Justin
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: } I'm trolling for newspeers, if there is anyone out there still using } NNTP.. http://www.usenet-se.net/peering/ A useless list based on my experience (zero responses to requests to twelve different sites). Some of the information on

Re: UUNET instability?

2002-04-25 Thread Streiner, Justin
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Sean Donelan wrote: That's unusual. A train derailment usually effects more than one provider, and normally does not cause network-wide BGP resets. I'd heard something about IS-IS instability, and it doesn't surprise me. On big networks, IGP stability is

Re: Internet Exchange Questions

2002-03-19 Thread Streiner, Justin
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Andy Dills wrote: This industry is so far in the shitter...so many of the big names, including players from the early days, are in chapter 11 or about to be. I'm honestly surprised that I haven't had someone try to offer me a 'genuine steal' on 20-year IRUs in awhile ;-)