Re: BGP Monitoring

2024-02-26 Thread Denis Fondras via NANOG
Le Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 07:12:57PM +0100, Job Snijders via NANOG a écrit : > On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 05:41:12PM +, Ray Orsini via NANOG wrote: > > What tools are you using to monitor BGP announcements and route changes? > > The wonderful BGP.tools already has been mentioned a few times. > >

Re: The Reg does 240/4

2024-02-14 Thread Denis Fondras via NANOG
Le Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 03:24:21PM -0800, David Conrad a écrit : > This doesn’t seem all that positive to me, particularly because it’s temporary > since the underlying problem (limited resource, unlimited demand) cannot be > addressed. > I agree with this. Yet I am in favor of changing the

Re: "Lit" Buildings

2023-12-07 Thread Denis Fondras
Le Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 07:52:09AM -0600, Mike Hammett a écrit : > For those of you who list your network (usually wireline, but sometimes > wireless) with third parties, are you supplying just the KMZ or lit buildings > as well? If lit buildings, are you including residential? How are you >

Re: Pulling of Network Maps

2023-10-26 Thread Denis Fondras
Le Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:17:22AM -0500, Mike Hammett a écrit : > Has anyone else noticed a trend of some network operators that previously > offered street-level detailed maps, not only upon request, but also posted > publicly have started to only provide them upon quotes? > There is no small

Re: Software to document fiber networks - in house only

2023-06-14 Thread Denis Fondras
Le Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 03:12:29PM -0300, Jean Franco a écrit : > Hi all, > > I know this must have been on the table before, but I'm looking for a > in-house solution, something I can host on our own datacenter to document > fiber networks, maps and so forth. > I use a mix of Qgis, PostgreSQL,

Re: What is going on with BGP

2023-06-13 Thread Denis Fondras
Le Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 02:42:47AM +0100, Ignas Bagdonas a écrit : > A brief overview of developments happening in the IETF working groups > related to BGP evolution. The view is current as of mid-2023, in the > timeframe between IETF meetings 116 and 117, and looking back several years > to cover

Re: Routed optical networks

2023-05-04 Thread Denis Fondras
Le Wed, May 03, 2023 at 06:20:48AM +, Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG a écrit : > > Additionally, I am sure that in many countries/Metro it is cheaper to lay > down a new fiber than to provision DWDM, even if it is a pizza box. The > colored interface is still very expensive. > Of course, there

Re: 2023 State of Network Automation Survey

2023-02-27 Thread Denis Fondras
Le Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 11:16:13AM -0700, Chris Grundemann a écrit : > Update: The survey has received almost 4 dozen responses already! > > Of course, for the most meaningful results possible, I'd like to see that > about 10x higher. > Don't expect too much when you need a Google account to

Re: ipv4/25s and above

2022-11-19 Thread Denis Fondras
Le Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 01:39:59PM -0500, Bryan Fields a écrit : > On 11/18/22 6:44 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > >> We could, but many of our DIA customers have all manner of CPE's that > >> may or may not support this. Having unique designs per customer does > >> not scale well. > > its almost 2023.

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-07 Thread Denis Fondras
Le Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 08:12:07AM -0500, Mike Hammett a écrit : > Would it matter if it took 10 minutes or an hour? > Yes, it means the computer could be off for 50 minutes. Also everyone who had a connection reset when uploading a big file after 55 minutes understands why it is good if it

Re: Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

2021-11-24 Thread Denis Fondras
Le Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 05:08:43PM -0800, William Herrin a écrit : > I don't recall there being any equipment or software compatibility > concerns with 1.0.0.0/8. If you do, feel free to refresh my memory. Perhaps not the whole /8 but definitely some buggy implementations :

Re: PCH Peering Survey 2021

2021-10-29 Thread Denis Fondras
Le Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 01:47:37PM +0200, Bill Woodcock a écrit : > If you’re peering with an MLPA route-server, you’re welcome to include just > the route-server’s ASN, if that’s easiest, rather than trying to include each > of the peer ASNs on the other side of the route-server. Either way is

Re: Rack rails on network equipment

2021-09-24 Thread Denis Fondras
> You mention a 25-minute difference between racking a no-tools rail kit and > one that requires a screwdriver. At any reasonable hourly rate for someone > to rack and stack that is a very small percentage of the cost of the > hardware. If a device that takes half an hour to rack is $50 cheaper

Re: Setting sensible max-prefix limits

2021-08-18 Thread Denis Fondras
Le Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:46:34AM +0100, Steve Lalonde a écrit : > > We always use PeeringDB data and refuse to peer with networks not in PeeingDB > That !

Re: Tier1 BGP filter generation data sources & frequency

2021-05-22 Thread Denis Fondras
Le Fri, May 21, 2021 at 05:40:21PM -0600, Clinton Work a écrit : > Is there any compiled information for Tier1 providers on the supported BGP > filter generation data sources and frequency? > > This is what I have been able to determine so far: > - TATA AS6453: IRR and RPKI ROAs >

Re: Unable to email anyone from my primary domain name; thanks Google Mail and G Suite.

2019-10-25 Thread Denis Fondras
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 07:52:17AM -0700, Damian Menscher via NANOG wrote: > > There is a persistent mythos -- a worst practice, actually -- among many > > operations that obfuscating the reasons why messages are rejected is > > useful. > > This is wrong. > > > > Consider: either the sender is

Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment

2019-10-07 Thread Denis Fondras
On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 05:58:39PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > 8.8.4.5.13.9/40 > 8.8.4.5.17.168/40 > This is so unreadable to me :/ My brain keeps on wondering if this is an "IPv4+" or a phone number or a typo...

Re: AT/as7018 now drops invalid prefixes from peers

2019-02-12 Thread Denis Fondras
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 03:05:28PM +, Nick Hilliard wrote: > Matthew Walster wrote on 12/02/2019 14:50: > > For initial deployment, this can seem attractive, but remember that one > > of the benefits an ROA gives is specifying the maximum prefix length. > > This means that someone can't hijack

Re: Amazon Peering

2019-01-30 Thread Denis Fondras
> Yup, super professional of them. > Have you tried to order a port on DirectConnect to check if it was hassleless ? :p

Re: Accepting a Virtualized Functions (VNFs) into Corporate IT

2016-11-29 Thread Denis Fondras
> On 28/Nov/16 19:53, Kasper Adel wrote: > > Hi, > > Vendor X wants you to run their VNF (Router, Firewall or Whatever) and they > refuse to give you root access, or any means necessary to do 'maintenance' > kind of work, whether its applying security updates, or any other similar > type of task

Re: IPv6 deployment excuses

2016-07-02 Thread Denis Fondras
On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:49:40AM -0600, William Astle wrote: > it usually boils down to "we don't want to put any effort or resources into > updating anything". > And they must be right as their clients won't go away... :p

ERPS/G.8032 interoperability

2016-06-05 Thread Denis Fondras
Hi all, Is there any study on ERPS/G.8032 interoperability between different equipment manufacturer ? Denis

Re: Programmable SFP+ Transcievers

2016-01-20 Thread Denis Fondras
> How does Solid Optics compare on pricing? They don't list them on their > website. > Last time I checked, it was roughly US$90 for a SFP-10G-LR+-SO.

Re: /27 the new /24

2015-10-09 Thread Denis Fondras
> >>Plus one to that. We are such a provider, and IPv6 is on my list of > >>things to implement, but the barriers are still plenty high. Firstly, I > >>do have an Ipv6 assignmnt and bgp (v4) and an asn, but until I can get > >>IPv6 transit, > > > >There are lots of transit providers that provide

Re: /27 the new /24

2015-10-04 Thread Denis Fondras
> Building a secure firewall takes more than just knowing how to issue > ip6table commands; one also needs to know exactly what goes into those > commands. NANOG concentrates on network operators who need to provide a > good Internet experience to all their downstream customers, which is why I >

Re: Yet Another BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) Python Implementation

2015-08-06 Thread Denis Fondras
Hi experts Cisco has open sourced one part of their BGP monitoring system - YABGP And hosted source code on GitHub. https://github.com/smartbgp/yabgp Documentation: http://yabgp.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ I don't want to be mean but is it of any use in 2015 to release a tool that doesn't

Re: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post)

2015-06-02 Thread Denis Fondras
the possibility of building a true 'Internet kill switch' with effects far beyond what various governmental bodies have managed to do so far in the DNS space. Could you elaborate ? I don't see how it could be worse. Comparing with DNS is not relevant IMHO. Everyone is managing its own

Re: Measuring DNS Performance Graphing Logs

2015-05-20 Thread Denis Fondras
I was wondering which tool(s) can I use to measure the performance of my 3 DNS servers (1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 solely cacheDNS)? From the stats I would like to know if my DNS server is serving as it should be or if any of it's options are set inappropriately and others alike. Perhaps

Re: FTTx Active-Ethernet Hardware

2015-02-11 Thread Denis Fondras
Hi, Price and functionality-wise Planet MGSW-28240F and GSD-1020S look pretty close to what I'm looking for. Anyone have real experience with using them on a large scale? Performance? Thank you for the pointer to MGSW-28240F. I am also curious to hear some feedback as the gear is awfully

Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard and Ubiquiti Networks Routing and Switching Solutions

2014-08-12 Thread Denis Fondras
Le 12/08/2014 17:15, Justin Wilson a écrit : Another thing to consider is how you feel about the configuration. Mikrotik has a more polished GUI and command subset. UBNT is still working things out. A lot of what you have to to do with the UBNT line has to still be done in command

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-23 Thread Denis Fondras
Hi all, Le 23/03/2014 20:13, Mark Tinka a écrit : On Sunday, March 23, 2014 09:05:54 PM Cb B wrote: i would say the more appropriate place for this policy is the printer, not a firewall. For example, maybe a printer should only be ULA or LLA by default. I would support adding security