Re: Low to Mid Range DWDM Platforms

2023-10-06 Thread Dave Bell
Smartoptics? https://smartoptics.com/ Regards, Dave On Fri, 6 Oct 2023 at 14:43, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 10/6/23 15:07, Mike Hammett wrote: > > > I've been using various forms of passive WDM for years. I have a couple > different projects on my plate that require me to look at the next

Re: Upstream bandwidth usage

2022-06-10 Thread Dave Bell
We are rolling out XGS-PON everywhere which is 10G symmetric. Just because the PON runs at 10G, doesn't mean you need to provision all of your customers at 10G. We have a range of residential packages from 150Mbps up to 1Gbps symmetric. The ONT is the same in all situations. There is no SFP cost,

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-05 Thread Dave Bell
; encompasses all the planes (realms) and the shaft. Plus all the air in > between. But the IPv6 host could be so nice as to support YATT, which > effectively is an effort on its part, but gives it a /64 for free, > automatically. That’s a bonus that could become handy. > > > > Ke

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-05 Thread Dave Bell
Considering this requires updating every single IP stack that wants to utilise this, what are the benefits of it other than just moving to IPv6? Regards, Dave On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 08:24, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG < nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > Hello Matthew > > > > At the moment the

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-04-04 Thread Dave Bell
This seems pretty unworkable. We would now all need to maintain large CG-NAT boxes in the network to decasulate the traffic from a source to the subscriber. It does seem like it would be fairly stateless, it is not improving things. Assuming the end host is sending traffic with the magic header

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-17 Thread Dave Bell
You can still do NAT with IPv6 like you ask for. It's been around over a decade now: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6296 On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 at 12:02, Matthew Huff wrote: > Did you read his email? He was saying that what a lot of people wanted was > IPv4 + bigger address space, and

Re: IPv6 and CDN's

2021-11-28 Thread Dave Bell
On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 at 13:00, Masataka Ohta < mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > That facebook poorly managed their DNS to cause the recent disaster > is an important evidence to support my point that DNS, so often, may > not be helpful for network operations against disastrous failures,

Re: AWS and IPv6

2021-11-28 Thread Dave Bell
It's a /56 per VPC, and a /64 per subnet. Seems reasonable to me. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/get-started-ipv6.html Dave On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 at 20:54, Michael Thomas wrote: > > On 11/27/21 2:44 PM, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: > > > The Register

Re: Geolocation for Disney Plus

2021-11-12 Thread Dave Bell
Check out this link. https://thebrotherswisp.com/index.php/geo-and-vpn/ On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 at 15:51, Drew Weaver wrote: > We’ve had a few complaints that users are getting redirected to the EN-GB > version of Disney+ whenever they try to visit the site. > > > > I have tried very hard to figure

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-17 Thread Dave Bell
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 18:42, Saku Ytti wrote: > Hey, > > > Why do we really need SR? Be it SR-MPLS or SRv6 or SRv6+? > > I don't like this, SR-MPLS and SRv6 are just utterly different things > to me, and no answer meaningfully applies to both. > I don't understand the point of SRv6. What

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-14 Thread Dave Bell
You just reminded me to vote. Thanks! On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 12:32, Elad Cohen wrote: > The public will decide. > -- > *From:* NANOG on behalf of Baldur Norddahl < > baldur.nordd...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:25 AM > *To:* nanog@nanog.org >

Re: QUIC traffic throttled on AT residential

2020-02-20 Thread Dave Bell
> Not indiscriminate. > Indiscriminate - done at random or without careful judgement. Considering that Daniel is complaining that QUIC is broken, it certainly seems like some network operators are subjecting all UDP traffic on their network to the same policers. This feels pretty indiscriminate

Re: Re: QUIC traffic throttled on AT residential {5403687}

2020-02-20 Thread Dave Bell
I didn't contact you. Fuck off. On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 16:01, Dead.net Customer Service < d...@wmgcustomerservice.com> wrote: > Thank you for contacting Dead.net customer service. > > Our customer service team will reply to your email as soon as possible. > > Due to our current email volume,

Re: QUIC traffic throttled on AT residential

2020-02-20 Thread Dave Bell
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 15:31, Ca By wrote: > UDP is broken > I would argue that UDP isn't broken. Networks which drop it indiscriminately are broken.

Fwd: Forest HQ Has Received Your Message: Re: QUIC traffic throttled on AT residential

2020-02-19 Thread Dave Bell
Is anyone else receiving this spam? Is there a better way to report this? I couldn't see anything from a quick look through the various list pages. Dave -- Forwarded message - From: Electric Forest Festival Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 09:42 Subject: Forest HQ Has Received Your

Re: QUIC traffic throttled on AT residential

2020-02-19 Thread Dave Bell
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 08:18, Masataka Ohta < mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > Christopher Morrow wrote: > > > 2 way flow means something on your home host or home gateway. > > It means very little at internet scale... since, in many cases, you -> > > server and server -> you are not

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-02-12 Thread Dave Bell
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 14:46, Brandon Martin wrote: > It would be nice if things could drop overnight to hopefully > spread things out during the daytime lull some. > Night-time for you is daytime for someone else. I agree that the folks pushing these massive data loads could be considerate

Re: Pinging a Device Every Second

2018-12-15 Thread Dave Bell
Is RADIUS accounting an option here? Dave On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 at 18:32, Colton Conor wrote: > The problem I am trying to solve is to accurately be able to tell a > customer if their home internet connection was up or down. Example, > customer calls in and says my internet was down for 2

Re: BCP38/84 and DDoS ACLs

2017-05-27 Thread Dave Bell
Your bogon list has a few non-bogons, and is missing a few current bogon. Team Cymru keep a good resource for this: http://www.team-cymru. org/bogon-dotted-decimal.html Regards, Dave On 26 May 2017 5:01 pm, "Compton, Rich A" wrote: > To block UDP port 19 you can add

Re: Network traffic simulator

2016-05-24 Thread Dave Bell
I've used Spirent in the past. They do a hardware option, as well as a VM. Lots of things supported like BGP, and PPP. Regards, Dave On 24 May 2016 at 21:31, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > I’m in the process of building a box using MoonGen [1] and a supported > Intel 82599 6

Re: AW: Cogent - Google - HE Fun

2016-03-11 Thread Dave Bell
On 10 March 2016 at 15:55, William Herrin wrote: > It's Cogent's fault because: double-billing. Google should not have to > pay Cogent for a service which you have already paid Cogent to provide > to you. Cogent's demand is unethical. They intentionally fail to > deliver on the

Re: IGP choice

2015-10-22 Thread Dave Bell
On 22 October 2015 at 19:41, Mark Tinka wrote: > The "everything must connect to Area 0" requirement of OSPF was limiting > for me back in 2008. I'm unsure if this is a serious argument, but its such a poor point today. Everything has to be connected to a level 2 in IS-IS.

Re: ipv6 connectivity bugs

2015-10-19 Thread Dave Bell
Do you have anything in the way of COPP on either box that may be dropping packets? I would imagine the issue is likely to be on the AS1k end. Additionally I see you have different interface speeds at each side. Is the thing in the middle at fault? ND is done using multicast. One final thing is

Re: Android and DHCPv6 again

2015-10-15 Thread Dave Bell
On 15 October 2015 at 13:22, Ray Soucy wrote: > Android does not have a complete IPv6 implementation and should not be IPv6 > enabled. Please do your part and complain to Google that Android does not > support DHCPv6 for address assignment. I use android devices on my network

Re: Need help with Time Warner announcing my new /24 on their network

2015-10-08 Thread Dave Bell
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Martin Moreno > wrote: >> Since we are not multi homed nor have our own AS TW did a static route from >> their gateway router /IP to our router On 8 October 2015 at 17:09, William Herrin wrote: > router bgp YOURAS# >

Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero

2015-09-25 Thread Dave Bell
On 25 September 2015 at 02:57, wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:39:54 -0700, Michael Thomas said: >> That will be pretty interesting for anybody who's using aws as their >> server infrastructure since aws is >> still v6 useless last i heard. > > I wonder if a sudden

Re: Multi-gigabit edge devices as CPE

2015-04-08 Thread Dave Bell
Mikrotik? I believe they support all these features other than maybe flowspec, and you can get a box with a 10G SFP+ port for around $500. On 8 April 2015 at 23:46, Daniel Rohan dro...@gmail.com wrote: I work at a state REN and we are seeking a lead for a new edge device for on prem deployment

Re: link monitoring and BFD in SDN networks

2015-01-19 Thread Dave Bell
BFD etc aim to prove there is end-to-end connectivity between two points, not just that all links are up along the path. All ports could be up, but end-to-end connectivity broken, for example a misconfigured VLAN across a L2 network. Sending some kind of packet across the network is pretty much

Re: command that can display routes containing AS loops

2015-01-12 Thread Dave Bell
On a Juniper, you could do something like: show route hidden aspath-regex .*Target-AS.* Regards, Dave On 12 January 2015 at 13:05, Song Li refresh.ls...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I am curious about the AS loops in the AS-path. I think there should be a very, very few received BGP

Re: DDOS solution recommendation

2015-01-11 Thread Dave Bell
Maybe try the Cisco CSR1000v. In the trial mode it won't give you a decent throughput, but should have all features enabled. On 11 January 2015 at 15:02, Ammar Zuberi am...@fastreturn.net wrote: I’m stuck trying to find a virtual router environment that I can play with flowspec on. We do have

Re: Cisco CCNA Training

2014-11-12 Thread Dave Bell
The CSR1000v (http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/cloud-services-router-1000v-series/index.html) runs on normal VM infrastructure, and will do (almost?) everything required from a routing perspective to pass everything up to the CCIE RS. It requires a license to use it for proper

Re: BGP communities question

2014-07-30 Thread Dave Bell
This sounds perfectly acceptable. Your ISP-B should have a published list of communities that do different things. You need to choose the specific community to get the behaviour you are after. For example you can see a list of what Level3 accept from customers about half way down here:

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Dave Bell
On 15 July 2014 04:51, Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com wrote: Netflix's arrangement isn't peeering. (They call it that, misleadingly, as a way of attempting to characterize the connection as one that doesn't require money to change hands.) In my book (As a network operator in the UK)

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-11 Thread Dave Bell
Would it be right if Netflix comes to You and says we see you've got a lot of our customers hooked up to your backbone so to serve better service we'd like to connect to your network directly. Yes. As an eyeball network operator I pay my transit provider to get the packets my customers want

Re: IPAM DDI Software, Subscriber Management, CMDB and Per Customer VLANs

2014-05-14 Thread Dave Bell
On 14 May 2014 16:14, char...@thefnf.org wrote: On 2014-05-13 16:37, Kyle Leissner wrote: RFC 1918, ewww. v6 sir! Greenfield network and everything. VRF, Overlapping Address Space, ewww again. Those are horrible hacks, v6 all the things. People use VRF's to provide Layer3 VPNs to

Re: IPAM DDI Software, Subscriber Management, CMDB and Per Customer VLANs

2014-05-14 Thread Dave Bell
It depends on the service you are providing. If its fully managed up to the customer premises, I fail to see how you can get away without knowing what addressing the customer is using. On 14 May 2014 17:16, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2014 17:09:02 +0100, Dave Bell said

Re: VMware Training

2014-02-20 Thread Dave Bell
It means your VMs can run on any host and access the files it requires. If this was not the case then you could not tolerate a hardware failure and expect your VMs to survive. It also means you can do things like evacuate a host and take it down for maintenance. Of course you could build your

Re: Everyone should be deploying BCP 38! Wait, they are ....

2014-02-18 Thread Dave Bell
That article is terrible. Looking at the stats provided, only 2582 unique AS's were tested. http://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/#General_Status has over 46k AS's currently in the routing table. This means they have tested around 5% of the AS's on the Internet. Dave On 18 February 2014 17:20, Jay

Re: Will a single /27 get fully routed these days?

2014-01-26 Thread Dave Bell
But more important: which /10 is set aside for this? It is not listed on https://www.arin.net/knowledge/ip_blocks.html 100.64/10 http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc6598