Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

2013-08-27 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-08-27 00:01 +), Christopher Palmer wrote: If anyone has any data or anecdotes, please feel free to send an off-list email or whatever. [y...@ytti.fi ~]% ssh ring ring-all -t90 ping -s 1473 -c2 -w3 ip.fi|pastebinit http://p.ip.fi/KA7N [ytti@sci ~]% curl -s

Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

2013-08-27 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 26, 2013, at 22:02 , valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:01:45 -, Christopher Palmer said: What is the probability that a random path between two Internet hosts will traverse a middlebox that drops or otherwise barfs on fragmented IPv4 packets? THe fact

Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

2013-08-27 Thread Emile Aben
On 27/08/2013 08:55, Saku Ytti wrote: On (2013-08-27 00:01 +), Christopher Palmer wrote: If anyone has any data or anecdotes, please feel free to send an off-list email or whatever. [y...@ytti.fi ~]% ssh ring ring-all -t90 ping -s 1473 -c2 -w3 ip.fi|pastebinit http://p.ip.fi/KA7N

Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

2013-08-27 Thread Tony Finch
Christopher Palmer christopher.pal...@microsoft.com wrote: What is the probability that a random path between two Internet hosts will traverse a middlebox that drops or otherwise barfs on fragmented IPv4 packets? This question is important for large EDNS packets so you'll find some recent

Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

2013-08-27 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
Christopher Palmer christopher.pal...@microsoft.com wrote: What is the probability that a random path between two Internet hosts will traverse a middlebox that drops or otherwise barfs on fragmented IPv4 packets? This question is important for large EDNS packets

Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

2013-08-27 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-08-27 10:45 +0200), Emile Aben wrote: 224 vantage points, 10 failed. 48 byte ping:42 out of 3406 vantage points fail (1.0%) 1473 byte ping: 180 out of 3540 vantage points fail (5.1%) Nice, it's starting to almost sound like data rather than anecdote, both tests implicate 45%

Re: CableWiFi SSID in Washington DC?

2013-08-27 Thread Chung, Chae
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TCP Performance

2013-08-27 Thread Nick Olsen
Greetings all, I've got an issue I was hoping to put a few more eyes on. Here's the scenario. Downloading a file at our Border is multiple orders of magnitude faster then a few hops out. Using the same 128MB test file, I tested at two different locations. As well as between them. Using

Re: ATT.net postmaster contact

2013-08-27 Thread Tim Burke
I've had good luck emailing them at abuse_...@abuse-att.net. Takes a couple days to hear back from them, but they do generally reply. On 08/26/2013 01:21 PM, Drew Weaver wrote: Howdy, Does anyone know of a good/working ATT.net postmaster contact? We have been trying for several weeks to get

Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

2013-08-27 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Aug 27, 2013, at 6:24 AM, Saku Ytti s...@ytti.fi wrote: On (2013-08-27 10:45 +0200), Emile Aben wrote: 224 vantage points, 10 failed. 48 byte ping:42 out of 3406 vantage points fail (1.0%) 1473 byte ping: 180 out of 3540 vantage points fail (5.1%) Nice, it's starting to almost

Re: TCP Performance

2013-08-27 Thread Blake Dunlap
You didn't indicate this, but do you understand how TCP windowing works? This conversation can go two very different ways depending on the answer. To me, it looks like this is what you'd expect, and you need to fix your packet loss issues, which possibly might be QoS settings related (but it's

Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

2013-08-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:34:57 -0700, Owen DeLong said: That's a lot of questions he didn't ask. This isn't your first rodeo. You should know by now that the question actually asked, the question *meant* to be asked, and the question that actually needed answering are often 3 different things.

Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

2013-08-27 Thread Blake Dunlap
And then you have other issues like networks that arbitrarily set DF on all packets passing through them. That burnt a good three days of my life back in the day. -Blake On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:33 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:34:57 -0700, Owen DeLong said:

Re: TCP Performance

2013-08-27 Thread Nick Olsen
Duplex mismatch has been checked across the board. On every device. Nick Olsen Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106 From: Chad Dailey na...@thedaileyplanet.com Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:48 AM To: n...@flhsi.com Subject: Re: TCP Performance

Re: TCP Performance

2013-08-27 Thread Nick Olsen
I have done a decent amount of reading on both TCP windowing and Flow Control. But I've seen a lot of conflicting data. Some say flow control breaks more then it fixes. Where some say it's completely required. Currently we do not have Flow control enabled. Our routers do not support flow

Re: TCP Performance

2013-08-27 Thread Blake Dunlap
This really sounds like you aren't testing the correct flow type in i/jperf, or you have some QoS queues for http traffic but not the perf traffic that are filled. Regardless, your problem looks like either tail drops or packet loss, which you showed originally. The task is to find out where this

Anyone from Bluehost?

2013-08-27 Thread Robert Glover
Hello, Can someone from Bluehost please contact me? Email blacklist issue. We have gone through the normal support channels, but have come up with the support staff @ Bluehost not understanding the nature of our request. Thanks, -Bobby

RE: TCP Performance

2013-08-27 Thread Tim Warnock
Regardless, your problem looks like either tail drops or packet loss, which you showed originally. The task is to find out where this is occurring, and which of the two it is. If you want to confirm what is going on, there are some great bandwidth calculators on the internet which will show

Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

2013-08-27 Thread Dave Brockman
On 8/27/2013 10:04 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: On Aug 27, 2013, at 6:24 AM, Saku Ytti s...@ytti.fi wrote: On (2013-08-27 10:45 +0200), Emile Aben wrote: 224 vantage points, 10 failed. 48 byte ping:42 out of 3406 vantage points fail (1.0%) 1473 byte ping: 180 out of 3540 vantage points

Re: TCP Performance

2013-08-27 Thread Blake Dunlap
If you have a router, you can turn on shaping to the bandwidth the link will support. -Blake On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Nick Olsen n...@flhsi.com wrote: I do indeed have stats for TX Pause Frames And they do increment. However, Our router is ignoring them since it doesn't support flow

Re: TCP Performance

2013-08-27 Thread Nick Olsen
No QoS is in use anywhere.. To the best of my ability I've eliminated Packet loss. However, I've not found a way any better than ICMP/MTR/Ping -f..etc. The reason flow control has been mentioned is to correct buffer overflow at the Microwave links. Where they physically link at GigFDX. But the

RE: TCP Performance

2013-08-27 Thread Nick Olsen
I do indeed have stats for TX Pause Frames And they do increment. However, Our router is ignoring them since it doesn't support flow control. I guess my next question would be. In the scenario where we insert a switch between the radio and the router that does support flow control. Are we not

Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

2013-08-27 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Christopher Palmer christopher.pal...@microsoft.com wrote: What is the probability that a random path between two Internet hosts will traverse a middlebox that drops or otherwise barfs on fragmented IPv4 packets? Hi Christopher, I think there might be three

Re: TCP Performance

2013-08-27 Thread Nick Olsen
I have indeed tried that. And it didn't make any difference. Functionally limiting each router port to is connected microwave links capacity. And queuing the overflow. However the queue never really fills as the traffic rate never goes higher then the allocated bandwidth. Nick Olsen Network

Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

2013-08-27 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 27, 2013, at 07:33 , valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:34:57 -0700, Owen DeLong said: That's a lot of questions he didn't ask. This isn't your first rodeo. You should know by now that the question actually asked, the question *meant* to be asked, and the

Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Eric Louie
Based on various conversation threads on Nanog I've come up with a few criteria for evaluating Tier 1 providers. I'm open to add other criteria - what would you add to this list? And how would I get a quantitative or qualitative measure of it? routing stability BGP community offerings

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-08-27, at 15:02, Eric Louie elo...@yahoo.com wrote: Based on various conversation threads on Nanog I've come up with a few criteria for evaluating Tier 1 providers. I'm open to add other criteria - what would you add to this list? And how would I get a quantitative or qualitative

looking for hostname geographic hint validation

2013-08-27 Thread Bradley Huffaker
We are currently working on an algorithm that automatically detects geographic hints inside of hostnames. At this point we are seeking operators who can validate some of our inferences. Please contact me if you can valid one of the inferences below or can provide us with one we have missed.

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Eric Louie wrote: Based on various conversation threads on Nanog I've come up with a few criteria for evaluating Tier 1 providers. I'm open to add other criteria - what would you add to this list? And how would I get a quantitative or qualitative measure of it? Define

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Aug 27, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Eric Louie elo...@yahoo.com wrote: Based on various conversation threads on Nanog I've come up with a few criteria for evaluating Tier 1 providers. It's easy. Tier 1 is yourself. Tier 2 is your customers and your competitors. Tier 3 is your customers'

RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Eric Louie
Clued-in support is a good criteria. (I've been using a broker for some of my connections and there was virtually no value-add there, especially in the prefix-list modifications, and a liability in other MACs) That's a good point with the Tier 2 providers. So that begs the question, why

RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Eric Louie
Good stuff Justin - Any other criteria that you would use? much appreciated, Eric Louie -Original Message- From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:strei...@cluebyfour.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:17 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers On Tue, 27

RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Eric Louie wrote: Good stuff Justin - Any other criteria that you would use? Joe covered a lot of good stuff in his response. A few providers call themselves Tier 1, though the accuracy of those assertions is often suspect. The truth can be somewhat more

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:45:34 -0700, Eric Louie said: That's a good point with the Tier 2 providers. So that begs the question, why wouldn't I just get my upstream from a Tier 2? (Because my management is under the perception that we're better off with Tier 1 providers, but that doesn't mean

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Tassos Chatzithomaoglou
http://www.renesys.com/products/ provide some guidance, but probably not the kind of detailed tech you want. Judging from my own experience, we have mostly been hit by limited path diversity everything seems fine support in the past. -- Tassos Eric Louie wrote on 27/8/2013 22:02: Based on

RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Eric Louie
Tier 1 = Internet backbone providers (United States - ATT, UUNET, Sprint, AboveNet/Zayo, Cogent, Qwest/CenturyLink, L3/GBLX). However, I might be better served with a Tier 2 for reachability as pointed out in another response. When you say level of service, what are you referring to? Customer

RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Eric Louie
I'm thinking that same thing, although after researching, the de-peering King is probably not a contender as one of our primary upstream connection. (And I don't have secondary or tertiary connections) much appreciated, Eric Louie -Original Message- From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Blake Dunlap
If you don't have secondary connectivity, then I don't suggest going with a Teir 1. Using a peer-only as a transit link is not something I would recommend in general unless you know what you are doing in that regard, and have designed around the inevitable peering issues related to that decision.

RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Eric Louie wrote: Tier 1 = Internet backbone providers (United States - ATT, UUNET, Sprint, AboveNet/Zayo, Cogent, Qwest/CenturyLink, L3/GBLX). However, I might be better served with a Tier 2 for reachability as pointed out in another response. Some of those providers

RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Eric Louie
I appreciate that warning. The bigger truth is, No secondary/tertiary on that router/in that location. I do have iBGP with alternate providers through my core. much appreciated, Eric Louie -Original Message- From: Blake Dunlap [mailto:iki...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Bryan Socha
To add some more from recent experiences.. Most of these are in colocation datacenters. - speed to handle your emergency support call. (recent experience, some tier1 can take a couple hours) - if support requires a portal opened ticket, is the staff to reset a password also 24/7. - Latency

RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Eric Louie
-Original Message- From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:strei...@cluebyfour.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:36 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Eric Louie wrote: I would also look at which providers are on-net in

RE: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Eric Louie
From: Bryan Socha [mailto:br...@serverstack.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 2:45 PM To: Eric Louie; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers To add some more from recent experiences.. Most of these are in colocation datacenters. [EL] I'm colocated too. -

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Bill Blackford
If this was previously mentioned, my apologies. The time they can respond to a PNI upgrade. If you have an existing 10G and wish to add another. Can this be provisioned off the same device to form a LAG or can they only provide ECMP. May not be something you can evaluate at contract signing, but

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Bryan Socha
- speed to handle your emergency support call. (recent experience, some tier1 can take a couple hours) *[EL] * time to respond / time to resolve are good ones (hard to get them to provide the true values, though) Call and pretend your a customer with an emergency.You might be

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Eric Louie elo...@yahoo.com wrote: Based on various conversation threads on Nanog I've come up with a few criteria for evaluating Tier 1 providers. I'm open to add other criteria - what would you add to this list? Billing issues such as: attitude during a

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Michael Smith
You should also consider who exactly your customers (or you alone) want to reach. Are you mostly looking to connect to eyeball networks? Enterprise networks? Government networks? If you have some target networks you should do some due diligence to find out how well connected your various

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Eric Louie elo...@yahoo.com wrote: Based on various conversation threads on Nanog I've come up with a few criteria for evaluating Tier 1 providers. I'm open to add other criteria - what would you add to this list? BGP Peering relationships Peering policy. A

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Ben Hatton
- time taken to turn around BGP import filter changes So much This... You don't realize how important this is until your nationwide provider takes 8 WEEKS to add one network to your (already set up and working for 20 other networks) peering. Then decides to charge you a fee for the change.

Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers

2013-08-27 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Ben Hatton wrote: - time taken to turn around BGP import filter changes So much This... You don't realize how important this is until your nationwide provider takes 8 WEEKS to add one network to your (already set up and working for 20 other networks) peering. Then

Fwd: [newtech-1] Barclays wifi

2013-08-27 Thread Joly MacFie
From the NY tech meetup list. Any one here care to comment, off or on list? j -- Forwarded message -- From: Dean Collins Anyone know more about Barclay Wifi - http://www.fastcompany.com/3007452/innovation-agents/brooklyn-nets-barclays-center-slam-cam-puts-every-dunk-your-face

RE: [newtech-1] Barclays wifi

2013-08-27 Thread Warren Bailey
Any idea of the data rate required per stream? Sent from my Mobile Device. Original message From: Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com Date: 08/27/2013 8:14 PM (GMT-08:00) To: North American Network Operators Group nanog@nanog.org Subject: Fwd: [newtech-1] Barclays wifi From the