Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Jussi Peltola
High density virtual machine setups can have 100 VMs per host. Each VM has at least a link-local address and a routable address. This is 200 groups per port, 9600 per 48 port switch. This is a rather large amount of state for what it's worth. If you have mld snooping on a switch aggregating multipl

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Karl Auer
On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 06:41 +0200, Jussi Peltola wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:07:57PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote: > > Also, if a switch does not do MLD snooping, it will flood multicast to > > all ports. You lose one of the major benefits of IPv6 multicast - less > > admin traffic. > NDP multica

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 29, 2013, at 20:36 , George Herbert wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: >> In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 07:46:06PM -0800, Owen DeLong >> wrote: >>> Case 2, you move the CO Full problem from the CO to the adjacent >>> cable vaults. Even with fibe

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 29, 2013, at 20:30 , Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: > On 13-01-29 22:03, Leo Bicknell wrote: > >> The _muni_ should not run any equipment colo of any kind. The muni >> MMR should be fiber only, and not even require so much as a generator >> to work. It should not need to be staffed 24x7,

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 29, 2013, at 20:16 , Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 07:53:34PM -0800, Owen DeLong > wrote: >> It really isn't. You'd be surprised how many uncompensated truck rolls >> are eliminated every day by being able to talk to the ONT from the >> help desk and

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
> > That's why I think rather than having the muni run colo (which may > fill), they should just allow providers to drop in their own fiber > cables, and run a fiber patch only room. There could then be hundreds > of private colo providers in a 1km radius of the fiber MMR, generating > lots of co

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-29 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: To: "Rob McEwen" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 6:38 AM Subject: Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land snip So where are all the arrests and convictions for the mortgage games and other Wall Street malfeasance that led to the financi

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:07:57PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote: > Also, if a switch does not do MLD snooping, it will flood multicast to > all ports. You lose one of the major benefits of IPv6 multicast - less > admin traffic. > > You need to spec new switches with IPv6 capability. NDP multicast has

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread George Herbert
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 07:46:06PM -0800, Owen DeLong > wrote: >> Case 2, you move the CO Full problem from the CO to the adjacent >> cable vaults. Even with fiber, a 10,000 strand bundle is not small. >> >> It's also a l

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-01-29 22:03, Leo Bicknell wrote: > The _muni_ should not run any equipment colo of any kind. The muni > MMR should be fiber only, and not even require so much as a generator > to work. It should not need to be staffed 24x7, have anything that > requires PM, etc. This is not possible in a

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-01-29 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-01-29 19:39, Jay Ashworth wrote: > It rings true to me, in general, and I would go that way... but there is > a sting in that tail: Can I reasonably expect that Road Runner will in fact > be technically equipped and inclined to meet me to get my residents as > subscribers? Especially if th

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 07:53:34PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: > It really isn't. You'd be surprised how many uncompensated truck rolls > are eliminated every day by being able to talk to the ONT from the > help desk and tell the subscriber "Well, I can manage your ONT and > it'

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 07:46:06PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: > Case 2, you move the CO Full problem from the CO to the adjacent > cable vaults. Even with fiber, a 10,000 strand bundle is not small. > > It's also a lot more expensive to pull in 10,000 strands from a few > bloc

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 29, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 07:11:56PM -0800, Owen DeLong > wrote: >> I believe they should be allowed to optionally provide L2 enabled services >> of various >> forms. > > Could you expand on why you think this is necessary?

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 29, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 02:14:46PM -0800, Owen DeLong > wrote: >> The MMR should, IMHO be a colo facility where service providers can >> lease racks if they choose. The colo should also be operated on a cost >> recovery bas

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 07:11:56PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: > I believe they should be allowed to optionally provide L2 enabled services of > various > forms. Could you expand on why you think this is necessary? I know you've given this some thought, and I'd like to unders

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
I would put it differently. I believe that the entity (muni, county, state, special district, or whatever) should be required to make dark fiber patches available. I believe they should be allowed to optionally provide L2 enabled services of various forms. I believe that they should be prohibi

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 03:03:51PM -0500, Zachary Giles wrote: > Not to sidestep the conversation here .. but, Leo, I love your concept > of the muni network, MMR, etc. What city currently implements this? I > want to move there! :) I don't know any in the US that have the mo

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 29, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" > >> It is in fact important for a government (municipal, state/privince or >> federal) to stay at a last mile layer 2 service with no retail >> offering. Wholesale only. >> >> Not o

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 02:14:46PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: > The MMR should, IMHO be a colo facility where service providers can > lease racks if they choose. The colo should also be operated on a cost > recovery basis and should only be open to installation of equipment > d

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:54:26PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Hmmm. I tend to be a Layer-2-available guy, cause I think it lets smaller > players play. Does your position (likely more deeply thought out than > mine) permit Layer 2 with Muni ONT and Ethernet handoff, as lo

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-01-29 Thread John T. Yocum
On 1/29/2013 4:39 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" It is in fact important for a government (municipal, state/privince or federal) to stay at a last mile layer 2 service with no retail offering. Wholesale only. Not only is the last mile comp

Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" > It is in fact important for a government (municipal, state/privince or > federal) to stay at a last mile layer 2 service with no retail > offering. Wholesale only. > > Not only is the last mile competitively neutral because it is not >

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 1/29/13 3:50 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: > It is in fact important for a government (municipal, state/privince or > federal) to stay at a last mile layer 2 service with no retail offering. > Wholesale only. That reminds me, the City of Eugene is interviewing for a CTO. I think the City could

Re: switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC

2013-01-29 Thread Peter Phaal
Peter, Network visibility wasn't mentioned as a requirement, but it is worth considering since the ToR switches are the best place monitor server network I/O, tunneled traffic (VxLAN, GRE etc), storage (iSCSI, FCoE, HDFS etc). The Nexus 5548 switch does not include monitoring (i.e. no NetFlow/sFl

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
It's a matter of economies of scale. If everyone has to light their own fiber, you haven't saved that much. If the fiber is lit, at L2, and charged back on a cost-recovery basis, then there are tremendous economies of scale. The examples that come to mind are campus and corporate networks.

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-01-29 15:17, Jay Ashworth wrote: > If you're at layer 1, and arguably at layer 2, then move-add-change on > physical patches / VLAN assignments is all you would need to log, since you > don't actually touch "real traffic". It is in fact important for a government (municipal, state/privince

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 29, 2013, at 09:05 , Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:59:31AM -0500, Jay Ashworth > wrote: >> Regular readers know that I'm really big on municipally owned fiber networks >> (at layer 1 or 2)... but I'm also a big constitutionalist (on the first, >>

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2013, at 10:03 , Joe Maimon wrote: > >> >> >> Eugeniu Patrascu wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Pavel Dimow wrote: >> >>> As being personally involved deploying IPv6 on an enterprise network, >>> here's how I did it (

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 1/28/2013 7:27 AM, Eugeniu Patrascu wrote: >> >> - configure IPv6 firewall rules (mostly a mirror of the IPv4 rulesets) > > > Hopefully that did not included filtering ICMPv6? :) No, of course not :) I did a bit (actually very little) of re

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Mukom Akong T. wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu > wrote: >> >> I thought about running pure IPv6 inside and do 6to4, but it's too >> much of a headache, > > > Nice call (skipping 6to4) > >> >> not to mention that not all the internal eq

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
There's a really simple solution to this problem... Let the muni provide L1/L2 network, and make sure that your L3 usage is entirely run over encrypted channels between you and your (non-muni) L3 service provider. At that point, sure, the muni can see that you sent a lot of packets full of gibber

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-29 Thread Zachary Giles
One thing that is bothersome about carriers is that sometimes if they have Tons of fiber to your building, they still will only offer Layer2/3 services. If there's fiber there, I'd like to be able to lease it in some fashion (even if expensive, but preferably not). If a muni is making something th

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
> >>> Whereas, with IPv6 you have most, if not all of the same factors >>> to consider, but there is some marginal added complexity around >>> things like SLAAC/RA, some different terminology, binary math in >>> hex instead of octal, network sizes are many orders of magnitude >>> larger, etc. So t

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article you write: >- Original Message - >> From: "Doug Barton" > >> > Depends on how big your "deployment" is. For a small office -- say, >> > 100 PCs or less; something that will fit in what I will catch schidt >> > for referring to as a "Class C" :-) -- with a single current >> >

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Elle Plato" [ attribution lost ] > > See, the Comcast's and AT&T of the world are right that governments > > shouldn't be ISP's, that should be left to the private sector. I > > want a choice of ISP's offering different services, not a single > > monopoly. In

Re: Ethernet Service at 150 S. Market Street, SJ

2013-01-29 Thread Warren Bailey
Both. If you're looking for some kind of actual out of band (for disaster recovery scenarios), Satellite is an excellent option. If you just need 100-200kbps for basic console access, you could absolutely accomplish this with satellite. The only real difference between Satellite and Cellular is

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Elle Plato
> See, the Comcast's and AT&T of the world are right that governments > shouldn't be ISP's, that should be left to the private sector. I > want a choice of ISP's offering different services, not a single > monopoly. In this case the technology can provide that, so it > should be available. > It

Re: Ethernet Service at 150 S. Market Street, SJ

2013-01-29 Thread PC
For typical console access/OOB use cases only or a lot more data? If the former, I can't see any reason to mess with anything more than a telemetry-rate plan SIM card in a 3g/4g console server. Chances are, if you can get cell phone coverage to your cage, it will work fine. They're also very che

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "John Kemp" > Not sure if anyone mentioned Aaron's presentation on this topic > from way back... Here's the link: > > http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Wednesday/Hughes_Kosters_fundamentals_N47_Wed.pdf I hadn't, but now that I have, my opin

Re: Ethernet Service at 150 S. Market Street, SJ

2013-01-29 Thread Warren Bailey
I would be more than happy to put an antenna on a data center roof. Depending on throughput requirements, it would probably end up being cheaper to use satellite. Satellite is excellent for actual OOB and obviously much more reliable in a DR scenario. >From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The fi

Re: Ethernet Service at 150 S. Market Street, SJ

2013-01-29 Thread George Herbert
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Mike Lyon wrote: > Last I heard, roof rights are pricey down there :) > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Warren Bailey < > wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote: > >> Satellite! ;) ...And somewhat silly, given that it's *that* facility. But the roof

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread John Kemp
Not sure if anyone mentioned Aaron's presentation on this topic from way back... Here's the link: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Wednesday/Hughes_Kosters_fundamentals_N47_Wed.pdf John Kemp (k...@routeviews.org) On 1/26/13 1:26 AM, Pavel Dimow wrote: > Hi, > > I have read

Re: Ethernet Service at 150 S. Market Street, SJ

2013-01-29 Thread Mike Lyon
Last I heard, roof rights are pricey down there :) On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Warren Bailey < wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote: > Satellite! ;) > > > From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network. > > > > Original message > From: Mike L

Re: Ethernet Service at 150 S. Market Street, SJ

2013-01-29 Thread Warren Bailey
Satellite! ;) >From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network. Original message From: Mike Lyon Date: 01/29/2013 12:17 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Christopher Nielsen Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Ethernet Service at 150 S. Market Street, SJ GSM modem? Then

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" > Is last mile infrastructure really considered "internet" ? If a GPON > system operates as layer 2, it provides no internet connectivity, no IP > routing and would/should not implement any IP use policies such as > throttling etc. About

Re: Ethernet Service at 150 S. Market Street, SJ

2013-01-29 Thread Mike Lyon
GSM modem? Then you aren't depending on the fiber coming into the building... -Mike On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Christopher Nielsen wrote: > Hello, > > We're in need of low-bandwidth ethernet service in our cage at > Datapipe at 150 S. Market Street for OOB. Any recommendations? > > TIA >

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-01-29 10:59, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > Regular readers know that I'm really big on municipally owned fiber networks > (at layer 1 or 2)... but I'm also a big constitutionalist (on the first, > second, fourth, and fifth, particularly), and this is the first really good > counter-argument I've s

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread TJ
> Also, if a switch does not do MLD snooping, it will flood multicast to > all ports. You lose one of the major benefits of IPv6 multicast - less > admin traffic. Agreed; but just to be fair: there is still a difference between multicast being flodded everywhere and boradcast being flooded everywh

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Zachary Giles
Not to sidestep the conversation here .. but, Leo, I love your concept of the muni network, MMR, etc. What city currently implements this? I want to move there! :) -Zach 2013/1/29 Masatoshi Enomoto : > ifHCin-が64bitでifin-が32bitカウンタのMIBなんですね > 勘違いしてました。 > -- Zach Giles zgi...@gmail.com

Ethernet Service at 150 S. Market Street, SJ

2013-01-29 Thread Christopher Nielsen
Hello, We're in need of low-bandwidth ethernet service in our cage at Datapipe at 150 S. Market Street for OOB. Any recommendations? TIA -- Christopher Nielsen "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin "The tree of lib

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/29/2013 01:54 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > You haven't tried to *buy* IPv6 edge transit, have you? *cough*Implementation detail*cough* :)

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Doug Barton" > > Depends on how big your "deployment" is. For a small office -- say, > > 100 PCs or less; something that will fit in what I will catch schidt > > for referring to as a "Class C" :-) -- with a single current > > generation consumer market edge

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/29/2013 01:09 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Doug Barton" > >>> IPv4 is mature enough that for small to medium sized networks, >>> the answer is "you plug everything in". >>> >>> My appraisal of v6 is that it's an order of magnitude (or two) >>> more compl

Re: MessageLabs/MXLogic issues

2013-01-29 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 01:43:04PM -0500, Thomas York wrote: > Have any of you noticed issued delivering email through MessageLabs [...] Better on the mailop list. I believe (but am not certain) that personnel from those operations are present there. ---rsk

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Doug Barton" > > IPv4 is mature enough that for small to medium sized networks, the > > answer is "you plug everything in". > > > > My appraisal of v6 is that it's an order of magnitude (or two) more > > complex than that, both in 'attack' surface and interop

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/29/2013 09:20 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Doug Barton" > >> On 1/28/2013 6:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>> To paraphrase Guy L Steele: >>> >>> If we are this far on into the "new IPv6 world" and that question is >>> not >>> one which can be answered by a

MessageLabs/MXLogic issues

2013-01-29 Thread Thomas York
Have any of you noticed issued delivering email through MessageLabs to people who use MXLogic for spam/AV filtering? I've seen it more and more over the last month, to the point that I have to call 5-10 people a day to tell them to whitelist our domain in MXLogic. It isn't specific to a certain dom

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Masatoshi Enomoto
ifHCin-が64bitでifin-が32bitカウンタのMIBなんですね 勘違いしてました。

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Eric Brunner-Williams" > i'm also indifferent to the "leo-in-the-noc" rationale, as the > separation is presently somewhat fictive and overzealous prosecutions > are the norm. So, you're saying "muni transport is bad because there's *less* separation" is act

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 1/29/13 9:40 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: > I'd like to join Jay, Scott, Leo, and presumably Dave > supporting muni network ... +1 i'm indifferent to the "public-can't" rational as munis appear to do an adequate job of water and power delivery-to-the-curb, in eugene, palo alto, san francis

Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Leo Bicknell" > I am a big proponent of muni-owned dark fiber networks. I want to > be 100% clear about what I advocate here: > > - Muni-owned MMR space, fiber only, no active equipment allowed. A > big cross connect room, where the muni-fiber ends and provi

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-29 Thread Rob McEwen
On 1/29/2013 12:21 PM, William Allen Simpson wrote: > ill-informed racist Really? And you call me a "troll", too? > anti-Obama diatribe that has no place on this list. I never said anything about Obama, but, at face value, the 'Disclose' Act was totalitarian in nature. Something I'd expect to se

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread William Allen Simpson
I'd like to join Jay, Scott, Leo, and presumably Dave supporting muni network ownership -- or at least a not-for-profit entity. I tried to start one a decade ago, but a lawsuit was threatened by the incumbent cable provider (MediaOne in those days) who claimed an exclusive right. Since then the

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-29 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 1/29/13 8:30 AM, Rob McEwen wrote: On 1/29/2013 7:43 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: The graft and corruption was in *private* industry, not the Federal government, due to lack of regulation and oversight. I never said there wasn't graft and corruption in private industry... but that is an

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Scott Brim
On 01/29/13 12:02, Jay Ashworth allegedly wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Rob McEwen" >> When any government entity desires log files from an ISP, and if that >> ISP is very protective of their customer's privacy and civil liberties, >> then the ISP typically ONLY complies with the

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Scott Brim" > > (Actually, my approach if I was building it would be Layer 2 unless the > > resident wants a Layer 1 connection to {a properly provisioned ISP,some > > other location of theirs}. Best of both worlds.) > Right, and a public-private partnership

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" > What's different about the Post Office is that they're required to pre-fund > for 75 years. Yes, you read that right - they need to pay in *now* for > the pension fund of mail carriers who won't even be born for another > decade. And if t

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-29 Thread Rob McEwen
On 1/29/2013 11:38 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > So where are all the arrests and convictions for the mortgage games and > other Wall Street malfeasance that led to the financial crisis of 2008? > Seems that was a tad more egregious than anything Enron did, so there should > have been more a

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:59:31AM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Regular readers know that I'm really big on municipally owned fiber networks > (at layer 1 or 2)... but I'm also a big constitutionalist (on the first, > second, fourth, and fifth, particularly), and this is the

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Rob McEwen" > When any government entity desires log files from an ISP, and if that > ISP is very protective of their customer's privacy and civil liberties, > then the ISP typically ONLY complies with the request if there is a > proper court order, granted b

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Rob McEwen
On 1/29/2013 10:59 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> From: "Rob McEwen" >> (C) The fact that the Internet is a series of PRIVATE networks... NOT >> owned/operated by the Feds... is a large reason why the 4th amendment >> provides such protections... it becomes somewhat of a "firewall" of >> protection ag

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:20:25 -0500, Rob McEwen said: > The market will eventually sort this out... and in many cases already > has! Meanwhile, Amtrack and the Post Office show no signs of ever making > it without their MASSIVE taxpayer subsidies. I can't speak to Amtrack, but a large part of the

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Radabaugh
On 1/29/13 7:43 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: On 1/29/13 1:20 AM, Rob McEwen wrote: [...] the US Federal government: (A) ...cannot do a darn thing without MASSIVE graft & corruption... plus massive overruns in costs... including a HEAVY dose of "crony capitalism" where, often, the companies

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Dave Crocker
On 1/29/2013 7:59 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Rob McEwen" (C) The fact that the Internet is a series of PRIVATE networks... NOT owned/operated by the Feds... is a large reason why the 4th amendment provides such protections... it becomes somewhat of a "firewa

Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Rob McEwen" > (C) The fact that the Internet is a series of PRIVATE networks... NOT > owned/operated by the Feds... is a large reason why the 4th amendment > provides such protections... it becomes somewhat of a "firewall" of > protection against Federal gov'

Re: switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC

2013-01-29 Thread Alain Hebert
Hi, I do suggest you go over EN offering with a fine tooth comb. We experienced a whole lot of issues with 6 x650: . from hardware licensing (start at shipping from the fab and not when the customers get them); . software licensing (have to license every box even the

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Doug Barton" > On 1/28/2013 6:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > To paraphrase Guy L Steele: > > > > If we are this far on into the "new IPv6 world" and that question is > > not > > one which can be answered by a link on the first page of ghits for > > 'implement

Re: switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC

2013-01-29 Thread Steven Fischer
although everyone here seems to hold Cisco in contempt, the Nexux 5548 is a rock-solid switch - at least that has been my experience with it. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Piotr wrote: > > Hello, > > I looking some 10G switches, it should work as TOR or core in DC. It > should have more than

RE: switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC

2013-01-29 Thread Summers, William
We use IBM networking (used to be BLADE networks) Rackswitch 8264. They will do TRILL, and have multi-chassis link aggregation, they call vLAG. We use this for cross datacenter aggregation. They do have the L3 features you are looking for and BGP as a possibility, but no full tables. It is a c

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-29 Thread Rob McEwen
On 1/29/2013 7:43 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: > The graft and corruption was in *private* industry, not the Federal > government, due to lack of regulation and oversight. I never said there wasn't graft and corruption in private industry... but that is anecdotal... "hit and miss". In contrast

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-29 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 1/29/13 1:20 AM, Rob McEwen wrote: [...] the US Federal government: (A) ...cannot do a darn thing without MASSIVE graft & corruption... plus massive overruns in costs... including a HEAVY dose of "crony capitalism" where, often, the companies who get the contracts are the ones who pad the wal

Fwd: Re: switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC

2013-01-29 Thread Nick Hilliard
a...@shady.org replied: Subject: Re: switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:25:57 + From: andy To: Nick Hilliard CC: Piotr , nanog@nanog.org Force10's S4810 isnt bad, we use these for a 10G 48 port box that doesnt require Ultra Low latency. http://www.scribd.com/d

Re: switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC

2013-01-29 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 29/01/2013 11:27, Piotr wrote: > Extreme 670 looks good but they have small port buffers. It can be also > some small chassis with line cards but the cost per 10G ports is too big.. the extreme x670, juniper ex4550, brocade ICX6550 and arista 7150 will most of this, and probably many others too

switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC

2013-01-29 Thread Piotr
Hello, I looking some 10G switches, it should work as TOR or core in DC. It should have more than 40 port 10G in one unit, wirespeed L2 L3, with virtual routers and some other ip functions like some BGP, OSPF, policy routing, 1-2U, MLAG, g.8032 (ERPS) trill-like ? Other important features a

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Karl Auer
On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 09:37 +0100, Måns Nilsson wrote: > Subject: Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers Date: Mon, Jan > 28, 2013 at 08:45:39PM +0400 Quoting Mukom Akong T. (mukom.ta...@gmail.com): > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu wrote: > > > > Does an L2 switc

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-29 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 08:45:39PM +0400 Quoting Mukom Akong T. (mukom.ta...@gmail.com): > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu wrote: > > > I thought about running pure IPv6 inside and do 6to4, but it's too > > much of

Re: Google's Public DNS does DNSSEC validation

2013-01-29 Thread Mansoor Nathani
I guess its only a matter of time before they start validating all requests. And more importantly returning SERVFAIL for invalid hosts. Mansoor On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Marco Davids wrote: > This is interesting news; it seems that Google's Public DNS is > performing DNSSEC validation (w