RE: Small IX IP Blocks

2015-04-05 Thread Paul Stewart
+1 I worked for a provider until recently that happened to get an IP assignment at an IXP that was transitioning from /25 to /24. It was painful chasing down peers to get them to change their netmask just so we could connect. This went on for several months dealing with the peering/network

lotsa pcap reporting

2015-04-05 Thread Hank Disuko
hi nanog folks, i have 7GB of darn pcap data separated into individual 50MB files. Collected via Wireshark. i need a tool that can slurp in all this data and regurgitate pretty, colourful and management-friendly reports. Windows or Linux. any suggestions? thanks, Hank

Re: lotsa pcap reporting

2015-04-05 Thread Harry Hoffman
So, NTop or Afterglow might be a good start. They are both user-friendly tools that can ingest pcap files and output all sorts of pretty things. Cheers, Harry On 04/05/2015 09:36 AM, Hank Disuko wrote: Thanks for the response, Harry. the basic stuff that managers are interested in seeing:

Re: Any google network admins out there?

2015-04-05 Thread Harald Koch
On 4/4/2015 3:11 AM, Lou Ashtonhurst wrote: Randy, you can just use the contact details on their page about it: https://support.google.com/websearch/contact/ban Ask them for the netflow or other source of proof. My understanding was they blocked on /32s not larger subnets which would

Re: lotsa pcap reporting

2015-04-05 Thread Harry Hoffman
Hmm, maybe start with defining what you want to report about? Top talkers, top protocols/ports, open services, DNS info, reconstructed files, etc... Lots of different tools but it depends on what you want to do. Cheers, Harry On Apr 5, 2015 9:16 AM, Hank Disuko gourmetci...@hotmail.com

RE: lotsa pcap reporting

2015-04-05 Thread Hank Disuko
Thanks for the response, Harry. the basic stuff that managers are interested in seeing: - yes what you said- who or what is taking up all my precious network bandwidth- colourful 3D pie charts Kind regards, Hank Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 09:30:03 -0400 Subject: Re: lotsa pcap reporting From:

Re: lotsa pcap reporting

2015-04-05 Thread John Mason Jr
http://www.riverbed.com/products/performance-management-control/network-performance-management/packet-analysis.html#Overview On Apr 5, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Harry Hoffman hhoff...@ip-solutions.net wrote: So, NTop or Afterglow might be a good start. They are both user-friendly tools that can

Re: Consumer products with baked-in VLAN tagging

2015-04-05 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 05/04/2015 03:32, Robert Seastrom wrote: As you may know if you've played around with recent Apple Airports (Express at least) in bridge mode with guest network turned on, they seem to know about 802.1q and have fairly reasonable or at least defensible behavior out of the box - that is to

Re: Any google network admins out there?

2015-04-05 Thread Randy
On 4/4/2015 3:11 AM, Lou Ashtonhurst wrote: Randy, you can just use the contact details on their page about it: https://support.google.com/websearch/contact/ban Ask them for the netflow or other source of proof. My understanding was they blocked on /32s not larger subnets which would indicate

Re: Small IX IP Blocks

2015-04-05 Thread Will Hargrave
On 5 Apr 2015, at 04:29, Paul Stewart p...@paulstewart.org wrote: I worked for a provider until recently that happened to get an IP assignment at an IXP that was transitioning from /25 to /24. It was painful chasing down peers to get them to change their netmask just so we could connect.

RE: lotsa pcap reporting

2015-04-05 Thread Hank Disuko
This is fantastic. Thank-you everyone for your input. I have a busy day of software evaluation ahead of me. Thanks again! Hank Subject: Re: lotsa pcap reporting From: john.mason...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 10:44:56 -0400 To: nanog@nanog.org

Re: Small IX IP Blocks

2015-04-05 Thread Brandon Butterworth
When we renumbered LONAP from /24 to /22, we had to change netblocks too The LONAP change was the snoothest, speediest, no drama IXP addressing change I've seen. All IXP should copy their process. brandon

Re: Cisco's IOS-XE and PCEP implementation

2015-04-05 Thread Rob Shakir
On 30 March 2015 at 15:42:59, Mohamed Kamal (mka...@noor.net) wrote: I'm wondering, why there is no MPLS-TE PCE support for IOS-XE till now?! Should I be getting a 9k/CRS on the edge to implement an automatic tool to build MPLS-TE tunnels! In general, PCE(P) implementations have been

Re: Cisco's IOS-XE and PCEP implementation

2015-04-05 Thread Mohamed Kamal
and hence being implemented on IOS-XR within the Cisco environment today I disagree! .. Engineering is all about optimization, and using an ASR1k (which is being marketed as an edge/PE router) in my edge doesn't mean that my network is not a high-scale environment, it does mean that it fits my

Re: Cisco's IOS-XE and PCEP implementation

2015-04-05 Thread Rob Shakir
On 5 April 2015 at 20:43:24, Mohamed Kamal (mka...@noor.net) wrote: and hence being implemented on IOS-XR within the Cisco environment today  I disagree! .. Engineering is all about optimization, and using an ASR1k  (which is being marketed as an edge/PE router) in my edge doesn't mean  that my