Rate-Limiting.

2006-03-30 Thread Robert Sherrard
think of another creative way to do this? Is one option moving these servers into a separate VLAN, then rate-limiting from there? Rob

Re: Rate-Limiting.

2006-03-30 Thread John Kristoff
port / access. Aside from hard setting the l2 interface to 10mbit, can anyone think of another creative way to do this? Is one option moving these servers into a separate VLAN, then rate-limiting from there? Is rate limiting by source IP address an acceptable to you? If so, then you could do

Re: Rate-Limiting.

2006-03-30 Thread Robert Sherrard
I'm really interested in rate limiting outbound... with many unknown dest IP's. Rob John Kristoff wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:56:02 -0800 Robert Sherrard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a situation in which I'd like to rate limit a few servers that hang off of my 6590's

Re: Rate-Limiting.

2006-03-30 Thread John Kristoff
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:25:38 -0800 Robert Sherrard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm really interested in rate limiting outbound... with many unknown dest IP's. That's what that example was intending to show. That is, rate limiting traffic coming from the servers into the VLAN interface towards

Re: Rate-Limiting.

2006-03-30 Thread Robert Sherrard
Your first example makes sense... I think I'll give that a shot. Rob John Kristoff wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:25:38 -0800 Robert Sherrard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm really interested in rate limiting outbound... with many unknown dest IP's. That's what

rate limiting bandwidth

2005-09-13 Thread Micah McNelly
Does anyone have any recommendations concerning hardware rate limiting solutions with extensive API's? I remember packeteer from back in the day and have been looking at some of their newer solutions that have XML API's. Comments? Alternatives? I would appreciate any feedback that can

Re: rate limiting bandwidth

2005-09-13 Thread John Kinsella
of it). It seems to be decent at what it does, but doesn't have as rich a featureset as the Packeteer. John On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:32:25PM -0700, Micah McNelly wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations concerning hardware rate limiting solutions with extensive API's? I remember packeteer from back

Suggestions for failover/data-rate limiting

2005-05-26 Thread Sargon
We currently have three BGP and MBGP peering sessions, one of which is an Internet2 peer. Our primary peering session (peer A) is a 100 Mbps connection. Our secondary connection (peer B) also is a 100 Mbps connection rate-limited to 19 Mbps (for financial reason). The Internet 2 connection

Re: Suggestions for failover/data-rate limiting

2005-05-26 Thread Sargon
in the near future). I expect your answer will be in removing any rate limiting configuration, and setting up some local-prefs on AS's to balance traffic. Then your expensive 2nd link will take load (and incur cost) upon failure of link 1. We currently have local prefs in place. They work fine, but we

Re: Affects of rate-limiting at the far end of links

2004-12-13 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Completely possible. - ferg -- Sam Stickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could it be that buffers and flow-control over the 14ms third party leg are causing the rate-limiting leaky bucket to continue to overflow long after it's full? Sam -- Fergie, a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering

Re: Affects of rate-limiting at the far end of links

2004-12-13 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 13 December 2004 13:18 + Sam Stickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: doesn't lock out traffic for such long periods of time. Could it be that buffers and flow-control over the 14ms third party leg are causing the rate-limiting leaky bucket to continue to overflow long after it's full

Re: Affects of rate-limiting at the far end of links

2004-12-13 Thread Sam Stickland
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Alex Bligh wrote: --On 13 December 2004 13:18 + Sam Stickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: doesn't lock out traffic for such long periods of time. Could it be that buffers and flow-control over the 14ms third party leg are causing the rate-limiting leaky bucket to continue

Affects of rate-limiting at the far end of links

2004-12-13 Thread Sam Stickland
' end of the line, but nothing is done at the 'remote' end. The remote end is some 14ms away across a third party MPLS network. Obviously we need to shape at the remote end, but the current behaviour intrigues me. Rate-limiting, while bad compared to shaping, in my experience doesn't lock out

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-31 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: That was a ccourt order, not much any US based corporation can do about that, eh? Oh, yeah, and it didn't help stop any child pornographers, all it did was hide their tracks from the authorities

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-29 Thread Jack Bates
Temkin, David wrote: We've noticed that one of our upstreams (Global Crossing) has introduced ICMP rate limiting 4/5 days ago. This means that any traceroutes/pings through them look awful (up to 60% apparent packet loss). After contacting their NOC, they said that the directive to install

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own bac kbone?)

2003-08-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jack Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Are people idiots or do they just not possess equipment capable of trashing 92 byte icmp traffic and letting the small amount of normal traffic through unhindered? Well, when we used the policy routing example from the Cisco advisory to

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-29 Thread alex
Once upon a time, Jack Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Are people idiots or do they just not possess equipment capable of trashing 92 byte icmp traffic and letting the small amount of normal traffic through unhindered? Well, when we used the policy routing example from the Cisco

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-29 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: perhaps a change in vendors is in order? I can't see why people would lie about this, or why they'd listen to the 'request' from DHS in the first place ;( Oh well. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57804,00.html Mike Fisher,

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-29 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: perhaps a change in vendors is in order? I can't see why people would lie about this, or why they'd listen to the 'request' from DHS in the first place ;( Oh well.

Re: Dealing with infected users (Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting

2003-08-29 Thread Petri Helenius
Vadim Antonov wrote: It should be pointed put that the ISPs have their share of blame for the quick-spreading worms, beause they neglected very simple precautions -- such as giving cutomers pre-configured routers or DSL/cable modems with firewalls disabled by default (instead of the standard

GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread variable
complaints from some of our customers and forcing us to make routing adjustments as the customers notice MFN/AboveNet has broken our connectivity to these destinations. We've noticed that one of our upstreams (Global Crossing) has introduced ICMP rate limiting 4/5 days ago. This means that any

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Jared Mauch
Crossing) has introduced ICMP rate limiting 4/5 days ago. This means that any traceroutes/pings through them look awful (up to 60% apparent packet loss). After contacting their NOC, they said that the directive to install the ICMP rate limiting was from the Homeland Security folks

RE: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Temkin, David
Not that Yipes is necessarily a transit provider by any means, but they have done the same thing within the cores of their network. I was troubleshooting an issue yesterday that was pointing to them for 15-20% packet loss, and I called them and they stated that they started rate limiting ICMP

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Rubenstein
and forcing us to make routing adjustments as the customers notice MFN/AboveNet has broken our connectivity to these destinations. We've noticed that one of our upstreams (Global Crossing) has introduced ICMP rate limiting 4/5 days ago. This means that any traceroutes/pings through them look

Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Gordon
Of the DDOS attacks I have had to deal with in the past year I have seen none which were icmp based. As attacks evolve and transform are we really to believe that rate limiting icmp will have some value in the attacks of tomorrow? -Gordon On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
is from Jan 2002, if these were a problem then and still are now, perhaps people should either 1) accept that this is part of normal internet operations, or 2) decide that this is enough and it's time to seriously do something about these things. While rate limiting ICMP can be a good thing, it has

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Robert Boyle
At 09:26 AM 8/28/2003, you wrote: It takes some education to the customers, but after they understand why, most are receptive. Especially when they get DOS'ed. We have been rate limiting ICMP for a long time, however, it is only recently that the percentage limit has been reached and people have

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Gordon wrote: Of the DDOS attacks I have had to deal with in the past year I have seen none which were icmp based. As attacks evolve and transform are we really to believe that rate limiting icmp will have some value in the attacks of tomorrow? The folks doing

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Steve Carter
sent to them) which is causing complaints from some of our customers and forcing us to make routing adjustments as the customers notice MFN/AboveNet has broken our connectivity to these destinations. We've noticed that one of our upstreams (Global Crossing) has introduced ICMP rate limiting

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Rate-limiting ICMP is 'ok' if you, as the provider, think its worthwhile and you, as the provider, want to deal with the headache phone calls... Would it be fair to say that UUNET haven't been asked by Homeland Security to do the rate limiting

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: While rate limiting ICMP can be a good thing, it has to be done carefully and probably can't be uniform across the backbone. (think of a common site that gets pinged whenever someone wants to test to see if their connection went down or if it's

ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting

2003-08-28 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Steve Carter wrote: The rate-limiters have become more interesting recently, meaning they've actually started dropping packets (quite a lot in some cases) because of the widespread exploitation of unpatched windows machines. Yep, the amount of ICMP traffic seems to be

Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting

2003-08-28 Thread Steve Carter
and the community by rate limiting because the exploited are not. I agree with Wayne that we need to be smart (reads: very specific) about how we rate limit during this event. When the event is over we can go back to just a simple rate limit that protects us in a very general way until the next event

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Rate-limiting ICMP is 'ok' if you, as the provider, think its worthwhile and you, as the provider, want to deal with the headache phone calls... Would it be fair to say that UUNET haven't

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Lars Erik Gullerud
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 17:37, Steve Carter wrote: I speak for Global Crossing when I say that ICMP rate limiting has existed on the Global Crossing network, inbound from peers, for a long time ... we learned our lesson from the Yahoo DDoS attack (when they were one of our customers) back

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Jared Mauch
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:55:26PM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: While rate limiting ICMP can be a good thing, it has to be done carefully and probably can't be uniform across the backbone. (think of a common site that gets pinged

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Robert Boyle
At 12:39 PM 8/28/2003, you wrote: Along these lines, how does this limiting affect akamai or other 'ping for distance' type localization services? I'd think their data would get somewhat skewed, right? Perhaps they'll come up with a more advanced system of monitoring? probally

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Paul Vixie
Along these lines, how does this limiting affect akamai or other 'ping for distance' type localization services? I'd think their data would get somewhat skewed, right? using icmp to predict tcp performance has always been a silly idea; it doesn't take any icmp rate limit policy changes to

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread alex
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Rate-limiting ICMP is 'ok' if you, as the provider, think its worthwhile and you, as the provider, want to deal with the headache phone calls... Would it be fair to say that UUNET haven't been asked by Homeland Security to do the rate

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread alex
anyone else been asked to rate limit by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security? Just about everyone with a large enough US office was asked by DHS, in a public statement... Isnt there a difference between we have been asked and we have been ordered to? Alex

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Paul Vixie
As attacks evolve and transform are we really to believe that rate limiting icmp will have some value in the attacks of tomorrow? no. nor those of today. the only way we're going to flatten the increase of attack volume, or even turn it into a decrease, is with various forms of admission

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone else been asked to rate limit by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security? Just about everyone with a large enough US office was asked by DHS, in a public statement... Isnt there a difference between we have been asked and we have

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread alex
http://tinyurl.com/li0s Neither is really an 'order' so much as a 'suggestion'.. either way, its kind of inappropriate to make this suggestion without knowing how each operator can or could apply a fix... that is my opinion atleast. The thing is - DHS told us so is the new favourite excuse

Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting

2003-08-28 Thread Rachael Treu
Inline. On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:01:16PM -0400, Sean Donelan said something to the effect of: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Steve Carter wrote: The rate-limiters have become more interesting recently, meaning they've actually started dropping packets (quite a lot in some cases) because of the

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their ownbackbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://tinyurl.com/li0s Neither is really an 'order' so much as a 'suggestion'.. either way, its kind of inappropriate to make this suggestion without knowing how each operator can or could apply a fix... that is my opinion atleast. The

Dealing with infected users (Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting

2003-08-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
We have been doing that. During quiet times our Customer Service Reps (CSR) are calling infected users telling them a) Their computer has been compromised. In its current state it can potentially be taken over by others or other users can look at the contents of their private files etc. b)

Re: Fw: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Michael Hallgren
Selon Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Rate-limiting ICMP is 'ok' if you, as the provider, think its worthwhile and you, as the provider, want to deal with the headache

Re: Dealing with infected users (Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting

2003-08-28 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: The majority comply and are understanding. and the rest? -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]

Re: Dealing with infected users (Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting

2003-08-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:57 PM 28/08/2003 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: The majority comply and are understanding. and the rest? There will always be troublesome customers, but the VAST majority have been compliant. If they dont want to comply to something as reasonable as this,

Re: Dealing with infected users (Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting

2003-08-28 Thread Vadim Antonov
It should be pointed put that the ISPs have their share of blame for the quick-spreading worms, beause they neglected very simple precautions -- such as giving cutomers pre-configured routers or DSL/cable modems with firewalls disabled by default (instead of the standard end-user, let only

Re: The status of consumer rate limiting?

2003-07-25 Thread Eric Gauthier
I'm still waiting for a P2P system running inside IPsec. With XP and W2k making inroads on consumer computers there now is a significant user base with access to luser-friendly systems carrying these capabilities. I'm not positive, but I thought Filetopia used SSL transfers on port 443 for

Re: The status of consumer rate limiting?

2003-07-23 Thread Petri Helenius
Since some p2p programs now use well known port numbers allocated to other things eg port 80, is it even possible to block/rate limit them? And have folks attempts at blocking caused this move to use such port numbers which imho is not a good thing.. As long as there are some bits in the

The status of consumer rate-limiting?

2003-07-22 Thread Owings, Curtis L [GMG]
Im interested in an informal poll of consumer ISPs regarding application rate-limiting. For all you folks out there managing broadband networks to residential end-users: Are you controlling peer-to-peer traffic in some way (i.e. rate-limiting, blocking, etc)? Do you have plans

Re: The status of consumer rate-limiting?

2003-07-22 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Owings, Curtis L [GMG]) [Tue 22 Jul 2003, 20:10 CEST]: I'm interested in an informal poll of consumer ISP's regarding application rate-limiting. For all you folks out there managing broadband networks to residential end-users: We're asking everybody to turn off HTML when

Re: The status of consumer rate-limiting?

2003-07-22 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Niels Bakker wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Owings, Curtis L [GMG]) [Tue 22 Jul 2003, 20:10 CEST]: I'm interested in an informal poll of consumer ISP's regarding application rate-limiting. For all you folks out there managing broadband networks to residential end-users

Re: The status of consumer rate-limiting?

2003-07-22 Thread Dr. Jeffrey Race
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:13:35 +0200, Niels Bakker wrote: We're asking everybody to turn off HTML when they post to mailing lists. Here's some boilerplate I wrote for this purpose: http://www.camblab.com/nugget/turnoff.txt

The status of consumer rate limiting?

2003-07-22 Thread Owings, Curtis L [GMG]
Repost in plain text... just a little too clicky on the send button folks. I'm interested in an informal poll of consumer ISP's regarding application rate-limiting. For all you folks out there managing broadband networks to residential end-users: Are you controlling peer-to-peer traffic

Re: The status of consumer rate limiting?

2003-07-22 Thread Fletcher E Kittredge
Are you controlling peer-to-peer traffic in some way (i.e. rate-limiting, blocking, etc)? no Do you have plans to control peer-to-peer traffic? no Are you imposing other total traffic download/upload limits? no Additional comment: we market based on no limits and so far have met our

Re: The status of consumer rate limiting?

2003-07-22 Thread Fletcher E Kittredge
Are you controlling peer-to-peer traffic in some way (i.e. rate-limiting, blocking, etc)? no Do you have plans to control peer-to-peer traffic?

Re: The status of consumer rate limiting?

2003-07-22 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Kittredge wrote: Are you controlling peer-to-peer traffic in some way (i.e. rate-limiting, blocking, etc)? no Do you have plans to control peer-to-peer traffic? no Are you imposing other total traffic download/upload limits? no Additional comment: we market based

RATE-Limiting and

2003-07-03 Thread Vandy Hamidi
Excellent point. It does depend on the traffic type. Though I don't like to complicated my configs, you can always use CAR (cisco rate limiting) through an ACL to protect against the file transfer from the core servers issue you referred to below. It can make sure a high bandwidth xfer won't

RE: RATE-Limiting and

2003-07-03 Thread Vandy Hamidi
; Andy Dills; prue; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RATE-Limiting and Depends on the equipment you have installed. If you are running a 65xx/76xx if you are running mls with full flow masks you can set up a microflow policer which would allow you to mark or drop traffic on a per flow basis