Re: 3rd party network monitoring

When we did get a hold of someone, they mentioned they could support simple ICMP requests. ------ Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace

Road Runner contact

Can someone from Road Runner please contact me off-list. Thanks -- -- Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Managed Hosting (210)447-4065 --

Re: Q on what IGP routing protocol to use for supplying only gateway address

y suggestion as to what IGP protocol is best for this scenario? -- ------ Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Managed Hosting (210)447-4065 --

Re: Qwest event 70 min ago?

t customer got me more information - Qwest reported a fiber cut in OK affecting much of their east<->west traffic. Of course, that's hearsay twice removed at this point, so take it with a salt lick. -- -------

Re: Open Source NMS Software

OpenNMS is ok, depending on your needs. At the level we've needed it to scale, it's failed miserably. We've also had reliability issues with it, but some are associated with it's scaling issues. Tom Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:16:28PM -0400, Gary T. Giesen wrote:

Re: Network Solutions outage?

-- Mark Twain -- ------ Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Managed Hosting (210)447-4065 --

Re: How do you (not how do I) calculate 95th percentile?

David W. Hankins wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:50:34PM -0600, Tom Sands wrote: A lot of smaller folks check the counter every 5 min and use that same value for the 95th percentile. Most of us larger folks need to check more often to prevent 32bit counters from rolling over too often

Re: How do you (not how do I) calculate 95th percentile?

s interest I'll summarize the results without identifying the source. -- ---------- Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Managed Hosting (210)447-4065 --

Re: Cisco 3550 replacement

nality(VRF-lite) BGP OSPF dot1q some sort of spanning tree Any help would be really appreciated, Jacky -- ------ Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Manag

Re: Sprint Problems?

There is a confirmed Sprint outage.. For those that care or have tried calling Sprint due to phone problems as well... master ticket # 7922107 Tom Sands wrote: We've also seen and heard of problems with Sprint in TX. Nothing that Sprint has confirmed though. Crist Clark

Re: Sprint Problems?

ether some of our problems over the rest of North America are related to Texas and California or more widespread. Voice and data problems. Anyone have better info on what, where, and resolution? -- ------ Tom

Re: Comments or suggestions required Internap FCP 500 vs. OER

know what you're interested in and I can expand a bit. -- -- Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Managed Hosting (210)447-4065 --

Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making

lt better" about our service as a result of it's genetic diversity. We covered only a couple of these areas, and maybe addressing some of the others might make a better case. Regards, Blaine -- -- Tom Sands

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

ress.php?func=detail&person_id=62 disclaimer-- my employer has friendly relations with both Level(3) and Cogent. -- Paul Vixie -- ---------- Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer

Re: Load Balancing between multiple BGP peer connections

bit of trial-and-error to get right unless you have Flow Stats or something so you know where the traffic is going anyway. Outbound is a variation on this theme. Let us know if you need outbound help as well. Good luck. -- ------

Re: OT: Cisco.com password reset.

as, but I called my account contact and verified that this is a valid email, and that my password needed to be reset. Just a heads up. -Joe Blanchard -- ---------- Tom Sands Chief Netw

Re: Switch advice please

on, though sometimes a little cheaper. -Bill -- ---------- Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Managed Hosting (210)447-4065 --

Google Contact

Can someone from Google please contact me off-list? Thank you, -- -- Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Managed Hosting (210)447-4065 --

Re: AT&T outage?

Only issue we've seen is a number of people connecting Cogent to AT&T in DFW. Jim McBurnett wrote: Has anyone seen a major issue out of Atlanta with AT&T... Thanks, Jim -- -------

Re: Level3 Blip?

Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net| _ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_ -- ------ Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Managed Hosting (210)447-4065 --

Cingular

Can someone from Cingular please contact me off-list Thank you, -- -- Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Managed Hosting (210)447-4065 --

Yahoo contact

Anyone from Yahoo that could assist me with a problem (ASAP), please contact me off list in reference to: http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=4030 Thank you, -- -- Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Managed

Adelphia Contact

Can somoene from Adelphia please contact me off-list. Thanks -- Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Managed Hosting (210)892-4000