Re: End of 2017 hurricane season

2018-01-22 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 2017-12-01 01:15, John Souvestre wrote: > The #(provider name)sucks tweets on twitter in South Florida and South > Texas have essentially stopped. I assume this means that providers > have repaired almost all Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma damage. In an area touched by freezing rain,

Re: End of 2017 hurricane season

2018-01-22 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 2017-11-30 22:34, Sean Donelan wrote: > The #(provider name)sucks tweets on twitter in South Florida and South > Texas have essentially stopped. I assume this means that providers > have repaired almost all Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma damage. Sorry for delay in this old topic. In e

Re: Blockchain and Networking

2018-01-22 Thread Alex White-Robinson
I'd be interested in applications around ownership of IP space or ASNs, but there's so many ways to skin that cat already that people don't do because it's 'hard' or 'reduces our flexibility' or sometimes because it involves hardware upgrades as Christopher Morrow pointed out with RPKI and BGPsec.

Re: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

2018-01-22 Thread Martin List-Petersen
On 23/01/18 02:12, Michael Crapse wrote: Tier 1 just means they don't pay for ip transit themselves, only Peering. Doesn't mean that it's good transit. Best provider i've ever used is hurricane electric, actually a tier 2 provider, but bigger/better than many tier 1s. I'd still categorise Hurr

Re: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

2018-01-22 Thread Michael Crapse
Tier 1 just means they don't pay for ip transit themselves, only Peering. Doesn't mean that it's good transit. Best provider i've ever used is hurricane electric, actually a tier 2 provider, but bigger/better than many tier 1s. On 22 January 2018 at 19:07, Martin List-Petersen wrote: > On 22/01

Re: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

2018-01-22 Thread Martin List-Petersen
On 22/01/18 20:05, Mike Hammett wrote: I much prefer using WDM transport as opposed to Ethernet\VPLS transport due to it being significantly harder (I try not to say impossible) to oversubscribe. That said, it isn't always available at a decent rate at a given location. Cogent has a reputation

Re: Leasing /22

2018-01-22 Thread Lee Howard
From: Michael Crapse Date: Monday, January 22, 2018 at 5:27 PM To: Mark Andrews Cc: Lee Howard , NANOG list Subject: Re: Leasing /22 > Customers on ps4s and xboxes will hate you. They will always get "strict" nat, > and it's your fault not mega corporation X's fault for not releasing IPv

Re: Leasing /22

2018-01-22 Thread Joe Provo
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 03:27:49PM -0700, Michael Crapse wrote: > Customers on ps4s and xboxes will hate you. They will always get "strict" > nat, and it's your fault not mega corporation X's fault for not releasing > IPv4s I think you misspelled "those console platforms' fault for being bad netwo

Re: Leasing /22

2018-01-22 Thread Michael Crapse
Customers on ps4s and xboxes will hate you. They will always get "strict" nat, and it's your fault not mega corporation X's fault for not releasing IPv4s On 22 January 2018 at 15:23, Mark Andrews wrote: > Add to that CGN from RFC 6598 addresses (100.64/10) + IPv6 though that > reaches its limit

Re: Leasing /22

2018-01-22 Thread Mark Andrews
Add to that CGN from RFC 6598 addresses (100.64/10) + IPv6 though that reaches its limit at ~4M customers. Native IPv4 with a GUA to customers is essentially unavailable for new ISPs. It’s a matter of picking which flavour of NAT you and your customers are going to use. The sooner ALL ISP’s pro

Re: Leasing /22

2018-01-22 Thread Lee Howard
IPv6 still solves your problem if you add any of NAT64, DS-Lite, 464xlat, MAP-T, MAP-E. Yes, you’re NATing, but only the traffic to places like Hulu, and it will decrease over time. And while you need addresses for the outside of the translator, you don’t need as many (or to get more as frequentl

Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

2018-01-22 Thread Mike Hammett
I much prefer using WDM transport as opposed to Ethernet\VPLS transport due to it being significantly harder (I try not to say impossible) to oversubscribe. That said, it isn't always available at a decent rate at a given location. Cogent has a reputation (right or wrong) for running things a l