Re: Bgpmon alternatives?

2019-07-17 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 3:16 AM TJ Trout wrote: > Anyone know of a hosted alternative to bgpmon? I'm testing > Qrator but I can't determine if it will notify in real-time of a > prefix hijack? Qrator guy there. Real-time notifications are there but are only available on a commercial basis,

netstat -s

2019-07-17 Thread Randy Bush
do folk use `netstat -s` to help diagnose on routers/switches? randy

Re: Bgpmon alternatives?

2019-07-17 Thread TJ Trout
Anyone know of a hosted alternative to bgpmon? I'm testing Qrator but I can't determine if it will notify in real-time of a prefix hijack? On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 9:23 AM Matt Corallo wrote: > There's also https://github.com/NLNOG/bgpalerter (which I believe they're > trying to turn into a

Re: Fiber providers - Englewood / Centennial Colorado

2019-07-17 Thread Mike Bolitho
Denver is a tough market for diversity's sake. Just about everyone that was there was gobbled up by what is now CenturyLink. -Mike Bolitho On Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 4:12 PM JASON BOTHE via NANOG wrote: > Hi all > > Just curious if you know of any fiber providers other than CL or Zayo in > the

Fiber providers - Englewood / Centennial Colorado

2019-07-17 Thread JASON BOTHE via NANOG
Hi all Just curious if you know of any fiber providers other than CL or Zayo in the Englewood/Centennial area. Having a really tough time finding routes that avoid the Solarium at Quebec / E Orchard as well as 910 15th St. Seems there are so many single points of failure and collapsed routes

Re: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers

2019-07-17 Thread Nikolas Geyer
You can achieve performance based routing using latency/jitter and partial blackhole detection as your metrics without resorting to prefix splitting - adjust local preferences on received routes, don’t install received routes, add static routes, change MPLS label if doing EPE etc. I see very

Re: Colo in Africa

2019-07-17 Thread Rod Beck
Circuits linking Asia & Europe via Siberia have proven highly unreliable. Repairs are long and difficult. And arguably Russia is a better case scenario than Africa. More politically stable. Better finances. Better basic infrastructure. From: NANOG on behalf

Re: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers

2019-07-17 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 9:52 PM Jared Geiger wrote: > Similar to how DNSSEC led many ISPs to remove their DNS redirecting > "search services". > Not that significant, but DNSSec, at the 4% adoption rate, didn't do that, HTTPS and HSTS did. -- Töma >

Re: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers

2019-07-17 Thread Jared Geiger
I was attracted to BGP route optimizers for latency/jitter reduction and partial black hole detection scenarios. Our traffic is low enough in volume that we aren't playing the circuit commit game, but rather optimizing the path to VoIP customers who don't care that provider Y in path X-Y-Z had a

Re: Colo in Africa

2019-07-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/19 17:04, Rod Beck wrote: > The cross continent connectivity is not going to be particularly > reliable. Prone to cuts due to wars and regional turmoil. And imagine > how it takes to repair problems at the physical layer. I think that view is too myopic... you make it sound like

Re: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers

2019-07-17 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 12:38 AM Hank Nussbacher wrote: > > On 16/07/2019 20:41, Job Snijders wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:33 PM Mike Hammett wrote: >> >> More like do whatever you want in your own house as long as you don't >> infringe upon others. > > > That's where the rub is; when

Re: Colo in Africa

2019-07-17 Thread Rod Beck
The cross continent connectivity is not going to be particularly reliable. Prone to cuts due to wars and regional turmoil. And imagine how it takes to repair problems at the physical layer. From: NANOG on behalf of Eric Kuhnke Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Re: Colo in Africa

2019-07-17 Thread Gregoire Ehoumi via NANOG
Ken,You can have useful information in AFNOG mailing list (af...@afnog.org).--Gregoire Ehoumi-- Original message--From: Ken GilmourDate: Tue, Jul 16, 2019 6:48 PMTo: C. A. Fillekes;Cc: North Group;Subject:Re: Colo in AfricaWhat matters is whether or not we can get a facility in Africa

Way O/T - but I know you folks are resource-rich..

2019-07-17 Thread Allen Kitchen
Folks, I work with several people on legal probation for various offenses such that they are completely prohibited from internet access. In a few cases, some of these would benefit educationally from having a copy of old printed Mouser, Digi-Key, Jameco or similar catalog - just for educational

Re: Colo in Africa

2019-07-17 Thread Mehmet Akcin
Visit https://live.infrapedia.com and you can connect colo owners , capacity owners directly On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 15:34 Ken Gilmour wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I work for a Security Analytics org and we're looking to build a small POP > in Africa. I am pretty clueless about the region so I was

Re: Colo in Africa

2019-07-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/19 02:32, Joel M Snyder wrote: >   > When a lot of people say "Africa," they really mean "South Africa" > (the small country), and there is great connectivity there---but > positioning yourself in South Africa doesn't really help you any more > to get to Ghana (for example) than

Re: Colo in Africa

2019-07-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/19 03:05, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > Without being more specific on what geographic region you want to > serve, in terms of ISPs, it's hard to say. > > For example: > > If you look at submarine cable topology at layer 1, and BGP sessions, > AS adjacencies between ISPs: Freetown, Sierra

Re: Colo in Africa

2019-07-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Jul/19 02:32, Joel M Snyder wrote: >   > When a lot of people say "Africa," they really mean "South Africa" > (the small country), and there is great connectivity there---but > positioning yourself in South Africa doesn't really help you any more > to get to Ghana (for example) than