Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-30 Thread Piotr Salwerowicz
W dniu 2012-01-27 09:32, Erik Bais pisze: We have a full purple network, so my answer for this would be Extreme Networks. We have a few Black Diamond 8800. There is big problem with microburst, congestion. There is only 4MB buffers per slot allocated dynamicly. Extreme support said: make LAG

Re: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-30 Thread Rodrick Brown
On Jan 29, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Joe Provo nanog-p...@rsuc.gweep.net wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 08:02:28PM -0200, Alvaro Pereira wrote: And note that the Juniper EX2500 does not run JUNOS, it is just an OEM box from someone else... Blade Networks, now IBM. If I remember correctly I

SV: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-30 Thread Andreas Larsen
I would check out Extremes x670-48v they are very very affordable and have very low latency, We just bought a couple of them, And they do 40G module cards also. // Andreas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Deric Kwok [mailto:deric.kwok2...@gmail.com] Skickat: den 26 januari 2012 21:21

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-30 Thread Jack Bates
On 1/27/2012 2:23 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: It's definitely real, but seems like they're handling it as incompetently as possible. We got numerous copies to the same email address, the logins didn't work initially. The phone numbers given are of questionable utility. Virtually no useful information

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-30 Thread Matthew S. Crocker
- Original Message - From: Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net To: Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 10:54:02 AM Subject: Re: US DOJ victim letter On 1/27/2012 2:23 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: It's definitely real, but seems like they're

Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Ray Soucy
What are people using for console servers these days? We've historically used retired routers with ASYNC ports, but it's time for an upgrade. OpenGear seems to have some nice stuff, anyone else? -- Ray Soucy Epic Communications Specialist Phone: +1 (207) 561-3526 Networkmaine, a Unit of the

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Pierre-Yves Maunier
2012/1/30 Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu What are people using for console servers these days? We've historically used retired routers with ASYNC ports, but it's time for an upgrade. OpenGear seems to have some nice stuff, anyone else? -- Ray Soucy We're using opengear CM4116 to have a

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Tim Jackson
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Matthew Huff mh...@ox.com wrote: We use MRV, and are very happy with them: http://www.mrv.com/oobn/console-servers/ At least someone is.. We couldn't keep their -48vdc products from dying every few months requiring a manual reboot, or hardware replacement.

RE: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Stewart
We really like Lantronix .. use them a lot. Paul -Original Message- From: Ray Soucy [mailto:r...@maine.edu] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 11:09 AM To: NANOG Subject: Console Server Recommendation What are people using for console servers these days? We've historically used retired

RE: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Jensen Tyler
+1 Opengear Jensen Tyler Sr Engineering Manager Fiberutilities Group, LLC (319) 297-6915 (office) *NEW (319) 364-8100 (fax) (319) 329-8578 (mobile) -Original Message- From: Ray Soucy [mailto:r...@maine.edu] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 10:09 AM To: NANOG Subject: Console Server

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread -Hammer-
Avocent Cyclades ACS. Enterprise class. http://www.avocent.com/Products/Category/Serial_Appliances.aspx -Hammer- I was a normal American nerd -Jack Herer On 1/30/2012 10:08 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: What are people using for console servers these days? We've historically used retired routers

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Leigh Porter
On 30 Jan 2012, at 16:10, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: What are people using for console servers these days? We've historically used retired routers with ASYNC ports, but it's time for an upgrade. OpenGear seems to have some nice stuff, anyone else? +1 for OpenGear. I asked this

Re: Fiber outage in Miami

2012-01-30 Thread Joe Marr
I've yet to hear back from them on the reason for the outage and explanation on why our redundant darkfiber pairs both were down. On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Jason LeBlanc j...@packetpimp.org wrote: We got the same RFO. BS. On 01/28/2012 01:36 PM, Randy Epstein wrote: Anyone has seen

Route Management Best Practices

2012-01-30 Thread Joe Marr
My network has grown large enough that maintaining my prefix announcements to the rest of the world has become increasingly difficult. I currently use static routes and tags on my edge routers to inject route into BGP. The tags correspond to communities that reflect how the routes are announced

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Ray Soucy
Thanks, all. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Malte von dem Hagen m...@hosteurope.de wrote: Hi, leigh.por...@ukbroadband.com wrote on Mo, 2012-01-30 at 17:47+0100: On 30 Jan 2012, at 16:10, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: What are people using for console servers these days?  We've

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Rafael Rodriguez
Opengear On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: What are people using for console servers these days? We've historically used retired routers with ASYNC ports, but it's time for an upgrade. OpenGear seems to have some nice stuff, anyone else? -- Ray Soucy

IP KVM suggestions

2012-01-30 Thread Blake Pfankuch
I have a need for a small, portable, web based IP kvm with decent features that doesn't break the bank. Preferably something that supports ISO mounting from http or ftp and USB connectivity. Would also prefer something browser independent. Small plugin like the Raritan devices would be

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Asaf Rapoport
I use Opengear more often now on smaller installs.. Works well and they have some neat add ons (Nagios, UPS monitoring etc) Asaf Rapoport On 1/30/12 9:31 AM, Rafael Rodriguez packetjoc...@gmail.com wrote: Opengear On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: What

Re: IP KVM suggestions

2012-01-30 Thread James Triplett
Thanks! Blake I have used dozens of these: Opengear IP-KVM 1001. It's a small, single box, that handles one machine and costs about $300. It has a lot of nice little convenience features, like a second RJ-45 port so it doesn't use up a position on the big switch. Tried the Raritan, but

RE: IP KVM suggestions

2012-01-30 Thread Express Web Systems
I have a need for a small, portable, web based IP kvm with decent features that doesn't break the bank. Preferably something that supports ISO mounting from http or ftp and USB connectivity. Would also prefer something browser independent. Small plugin like the Raritan devices would be

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Brent Jones
Another +1 to Opengear Just buy the units that have the pinout for your devices, or you may need adapters. -- Brent Jones br...@brentrjones.com On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Asaf Rapoport arapop...@telepacific.comwrote: I use Opengear more often now on smaller installs.. Works well and

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Gino
+1 for Cyclades .. we've been using a few of these with a bunch 20-port PDU strips (2 x 15A circuits) and they've worked out pretty well for us. We did have some overheating issues with the PDU's though, but this was fixed with an adjustment to the HVAC (CYCLADES-ACS-PM-MIB is your friend ;-)

RE: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: -Hammer- Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:26 AM Subject: Re: Console Server Recommendation Avocent Cyclades ACS. Enterprise class. http://www.avocent.com/Products/Category/Serial_Appliances.aspx -Hammer- We're using some of those, no trouble with

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Leigh Porter
On 30 Jan 2012, at 18:41, Brent Jones br...@brentrjones.com wrote: Another +1 to Opengear Just buy the units that have the pinout for your devices, or you may need adapters. And making them gets boring very quickly! -- Leigh

FYI - New ARIN Legacy Registration Services Agreement (LRSA 3.0) Posted

2012-01-30 Thread John Curran
Please note the availability of a revised Legacy RSA (version 3.0) from ARIN. This version addresses several issues raised with past versions and hence may be of particular interest to some folks in the region. The accompanying FAQ has a summary of the more significant changes. FYI, /John John

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Brandon Butterworth
Just buy the units that have the pinout for your devices, or you may need adapters. Hate that, I got a Cyclades by accident, never more. Lantronix is same pinout as cisco and everything else we use regularly. Lantronix still makes terminal servers? Huh. I designed their first ones over 20

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com Lantronix still makes terminal servers? Huh. I designed their first ones over 20 years ago! And Lantronix has the *delightful* policy that *they will still support those units (assuming they do at all) free*, even if I bought

Re: Wireless Recommendations

2012-01-30 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Jim Gonzalez j...@impactbusiness.com wrote: Hi,                I am looking for a Wireless bridge or Router that will support 600 wireless clients concurrently (mostly cell phones).  I need it for a proof of concept. I've had some great luck with a variety

Re: Wireless Recommendations

2012-01-30 Thread david raistrick
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: That said, I'm not sure what you're trying to do here, but I think you'll be disappointed with any AP with 600 *active* stations associated to it. No AP can work around the congestive collapse of hundreds of stations all transmitting RTS frames at

Re: IP KVM suggestions

2012-01-30 Thread Chris Hunt
On 1/30/2012 11:05 AM, nanog-requ...@nanog.org wrote: -- Message: 8 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:09:16 -0600 From: Express Web Systems mailingli...@expresswebsystems.com To: 'NANOG' nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: IP KVM suggestions Message-ID:

ARP is sourced from loopback address

2012-01-30 Thread Joe Maimon
Hey All, Anycast related. Is this normal behavior? Whats the workaround? Why havent I run into this before? 192.168.76.1 is a HSRP address on a ring of routers transiting a private non routed vlan to the service addresses hosted on systems that have independent management interfaces.

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
On 01/30/12 11:41, Brandon Butterworth wrote: Just buy the units that have the pinout for your devices, or you may need adapters. Hate that, I got a Cyclades by accident, never more. Lantronix is same pinout as cisco and everything else we use regularly. Avocent Cyclades ACS uses Cat5

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Coy Hile
Avocent Cyclades ACS uses Cat5 straight through cables to Cisco consoles. I use them in our lab and production sites. I personally use these as well; so does work. There's a dongle for some things like the older Sun Netra devices that used an RJ45 console connector. One of the nicest

Cing Installers

2012-01-30 Thread Grupo IPv6
Hi all, Does anyone know where to find the installers for network measuring tool “cing” ? All the links I found are down. I’m using Ubuntu 11.04 Many thanks, Gabriel

Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions..

2012-01-30 Thread Christopher J. Pilkington
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Mark Tinka mti...@globaltransit.net wrote: Like the ASR1002-F, the ASR1001 is based on an ESP5 forwarding processor. That comes with 512,000 FIB entries maximum. As a side note, unlike the ASR1002-F, the ASR1001 can be upgraded (software license) form the

Re: ARP is sourced from loopback address

2012-01-30 Thread Keegan Holley
Even though TCP dump doesn't show it the ARP packets should have a source mac address that is reachable on the link. I think the reply is unicast to that mac address regardless of the IP in the request. Otherwise the receiving station would have to do an arp request for the source IP in the

Re: ARP is sourced from loopback address

2012-01-30 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: Is this normal behavior? Whats the workaround? Why havent I run into this before? 192.168.76.1 is a HSRP address on a ring of routers transiting a private non routed vlan to the service addresses hosted on systems that have

Re: ARP is sourced from loopback address

2012-01-30 Thread Joe Maimon
Thanks for the reply. Yes, it does appear to have the correct mac. root@debian31:~# tcpdump -e -n -i eth1 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 12:54:17.882537 00:03:fd:03:38:08

Re: ARP is sourced from loopback address

2012-01-30 Thread Joe Maimon
Golden. Thank you, William. Joe William Herrin wrote: net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce = 1 net.ipv4.conf.eth1.arp_announce = 1

Re: MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-30 Thread John Kristoff
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:52:41 -0500 Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: Unfortunately, Network Engineers are lazy, impatient, and frequently clueless as well. While the quantity of peering sessions I've had is far less than yours, once upon a time when I had tried to get MD5 on dozens

Re: ARP is sourced from loopback address

2012-01-30 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: Golden. Thank you, William. Hi Joe, You're welcome. The flip side of Linux's arp funkiness is that you can get it to do some nifty stuff. For example, a /32 ethernet looks more or less like this: ifconfig lo:1 198.51.100.1

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Christopher J. Pilkington
On Jan 30, 2012, at 16:52, Robert Hajime Lanning lann...@lanning.cc wrote: Avocent Cyclades ACS uses Cat5 straight through cables to Cisco consoles. We have Cyclades ACS boxen also, but ours require rollover cables, not straight, when talking to a Cisco console. YMMV.

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Mark Gauvin
Currenly run 80+ raritan ksx boxes under the cc device with zero issue alot more expensive than othe solutions but the single point of touch is a life saver Sent from my iPhone On 2012-01-30, at 6:44 PM, Christopher J. Pilkington c...@0x1.net wrote: On Jan 30, 2012, at 16:52, Robert

Re: IP KVM suggestions

2012-01-30 Thread Jeff Fisher
Lantronix Spider is a small, portable, affordable and web enabled IP KVM. Supports ISO mounting and has USB connections. http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/kvm-over-ip/securelinx-spider.html It is a single server unit. So if you want to connect many servers at the same time, it might not be

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Joe Hamelin
-1 for Cyclades. At least in Clear's DC plants the PCMCIA modems would often wedgie and require a re-insert. Also, if you have a DC power side fail, they beep and beep and beep. Very annoying when your power people are still catching up when you're trying to commission equipment. -- Joe Hamelin,

Please help our simple bgp

2012-01-30 Thread Ann Kwok
Hello Our router is running simple bgp. one BGP router, two upstreams (each 100M from ISP A and ISP B) We are getting full feeds tables from them We discover the routes is going to ISP A only even the bandwidth 100M is full Can we set the weight to change to ISP B to use ISP B as preference

Re: Please help our simple bgp

2012-01-30 Thread Joel Maslak
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Ann Kwok annkwo...@gmail.com wrote: We discover the routes is going to ISP A only even the bandwidth 100M is full There are several ways to handle this is, if you have at least two /24s of space. Let's say you just have two /24s, both part of the same /23.

Re: IP KVM suggestions

2012-01-30 Thread Randy McAnally
+1 on lantronix. Also does serial console. Lots of settings. Beats the pants off other units in terms of flexibility and configuration options. Sent from my IPhone (pardon the typo's) On Jan 30, 2012, at 9:11 PM, Jeff Fisher na...@techmonkeys.org wrote: Lantronix Spider is a small,

Re: MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-30 Thread Keegan Holley
I suppose so but BFD certainly has alot more moving parts then adding MDF checksums to an existing control packet. I'm not saying everyone should turn it on or off for that matter. I just don't see what the big deal is. Most of the shops I've seen have it on because of some long forgotten

Re: Console Server Recommendation

2012-01-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:08:45 AM Ray Soucy wrote: What are people using for console servers these days? We've historically used retired routers with ASYNC ports, but it's time for an upgrade. Cisco 2811. Mark. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Route Management Best Practices

2012-01-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 01:01:30 AM Joe Marr wrote: I currently use static routes and tags on my edge routers to inject route into BGP. The tags correspond to communities that reflect how the routes are announced per region. I would love to heat from others on how they handle this. We

Re: Route Management Best Practices

2012-01-30 Thread Joe Marr
Thanks Mark What do you use for reflectors, hardware(Cisco/Juniper) or software daemons(Quagga)? I've been toying with the idea of using Quagga route servers to announce our prefixes to our edge routers and redistribute BGP annoucements learned from downstream customers. Only drawback is the

Re: Route Management Best Practices

2012-01-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 03:04:15 PM Joe Marr wrote: What do you use for reflectors, hardware(Cisco/Juniper) or software daemons(Quagga)? We operate 2x networks. One of them runs Cisco 7201 routers as route reflectors, while the other runs Juniper M120 routers. The large Juniper routers