Re: The Making of a Router

2013-12-27 Thread Francois Menard
You could look into Noviflow! F. Sent from my mobile device. Apologies for any typo. On Dec 27, 2013, at 8:05, Baldur Norddahl baldur.nordd...@gmail.com wrote: On the topic of building a software router for an ISP, has anyone tried it using OpenFlow? The idea is to have a Linux server run

IPv6 implementation NANOG list

2011-05-06 Thread Francois Menard
Folks, I am looking at rolling out IPv6 in the access. My platform does DHCP Option 82 for geolocating customer MACs to certain ports of multi-port layer 2 demarcation devices. What is the IPv6 version of that ? F.

Re: open source DPI suggestions?

2011-05-06 Thread Francois Menard
How about RouterOS from Mikrotik ? You cannot beat a $70 RB750G for doing P2P hijacking. F. On 2011-04-29, at 8:59 AM, Kornelijus Survila wrote: Snort (http://www.snort.org/) is also a nice IDS. They provide paid and free rules/signatures. -k On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Raymond

State of QoS peering in Nanog

2011-04-02 Thread Francois Menard
Folks, The Canadian telecommunications regulator, the CRTC, has just launched a public notice with possible worldwide implications IMHO, Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011-206: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-206.htm I think this is the very first regulatory inquiry into IP

Anyone out there providing Public Services over MEF E-Tree ?

2011-01-09 Thread Francois Menard
In an effort of figuring out a metro ethernet access network to carry Internet access services, I'm comparing the approaches of several equipment manufacturers insofar as how, they allow a metro service provider to provide point-to-multipoint E-TREE public services, (where the leaves of the

Re: Good MPLS/VPLS book?

2010-12-25 Thread Francois Menard
Looks like a third edition is on the way slated for March 2011 http://www.amazon.com/MPLS-Enabled-Applications-Developments-Technologies-Communications/dp/0470665459/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2 I would expect it to cover MPLS-TP and the struggling evolution of PBB-TE ... anybody has any idea if this is

Multipoint VPLS mapping to MEF E-TREE

2010-12-06 Thread Francois Menard
Is there anyone out there who has a position on whether it is worth the effort to map Multi-root EVPL (E-TREE) atop VPLS or to await for PBB-TE and MEF to come up with somekind of a common roadmap ? F. On 2010-12-03, at 10:26 AM, Manu Chao wrote: I have only GRT and L3VPN traffic and would

Re: Recent operational experience choosing between PBB-TE, MEF9+14, VPLS or T-MPLS ?

2010-11-13 Thread Francois Menard
leave much other choice but VPLS does it not ? F. On 2010-11-13, at 5:38 PM, Mark Smith wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:30:19 -0500 Francois Menard franc...@menards.ca wrote: I'm embarking on a new project which involves a large scale MAN network where ultimately, the objective is to carry QinQ

Re: Low end, cool CPE.

2010-11-12 Thread Francois Menard
On 2010-11-12, at 4:24 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 05:41:00PM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote: I've run into a number of low end CPE situations lately where I haven't found anything that does what I want, but I have to believe it is out there. I'm hoping NANOG can help.

Recent operational experience choosing between PBB-TE, MEF9+14, VPLS or T-MPLS ?

2010-11-12 Thread Francois Menard
I'm embarking on a new project which involves a large scale MAN network where ultimately, the objective is to carry QinQ, while at the same time delivering services over IPv6. The objective is to support jumbo frames on all interfaces, at least to carry QinQ standard-size ethernet frames, but

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-20 Thread Francois Menard
We just bought a fair amount of MRV Optiswitches for that same purpose. F. On 2010-10-20, at 11:29 AM, Curtis Maurand wrote: I'd add Alcatel to that list. On 10/20/2010 11:24 AM, Eric Merkel wrote: I've been tasked with making a recommendation for the core and access equipment for a small

Transporting QinQ across a Layer 2 link locked at 1518 octets AND across a Layer 3 link

2010-09-12 Thread Francois Menard
Folks, Question #1: Is it possible for me to put an MPLS router on both ends of a circuit leased from a transport service provider which does not support QinQ (i.e. packets of 1526 bytes), and which requires us to tag traffic onto a well specified set of VLANs (i.e. if we want two VLANs, the

Re: Transporting QinQ across a Layer 2 link locked at 1518 octets AND across a Layer 3 link

2010-09-12 Thread Francois Menard
Oops two typos - sunday evening casualties. On 2010-09-12, at 10:06 PM, Francois Menard wrote: Folks, Question #1: Is it possible for me to put an MPLS router on both ends of a circuit leased from a transport service provider which does not support QinQ (i.e. packets of 1526 bytes

Re: Looking for Fiber Plant Management software

2010-08-27 Thread Francois Menard
We use Fiberworks from Enghouse. Its built atop ArcObjects and all data is stored in an ARCGIS geodatabase, providing good flexibility to get the data brought up on ArcGIS Server (Web) for web-based editing. The good thing about this system is that it can also be used for design of FTTH as

Advertising BGP-4 from two islands

2009-09-12 Thread Francois Menard
I have an opportunity to launch services in a remote marke, where I cannot extend my backbone to. However, this market is big enough that I can afford to put a Cisco 7201 over there and peer in BGP-4. Do you have any advice as to what may happen if I advertise different blocks from the

DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Francois Menard
The Coalition of Internet Service Providers has filed a substantial contribution at the CRTC stating: 1) The CRTC should forbid DPI, as it cannot be proven to be 98.5% effective at trapping P2P, such as to guarantee congestion relief 2) The CRTC should allow for other forms of traffic

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Francois Menard
également inclus une interprétation française aussi bien ? Sincèrement, Lorell Hathcock -Original Message- From: Francois Menard [mailto:franc...@menards.ca] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 3:51 PM To: nanog list Subject: DPI or Flow Management The Coalition of Internet Service Providers

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Francois Menard
-Original Message- From: Francois Menard [mailto:franc...@menards.ca] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 3:51 PM To: nanog list Subject: DPI or Flow Management The Coalition of Internet Service Providers has filed a substantial contribution at the CRTC stating: 1) The CRTC should forbid DPI

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Francois Menard
Its like the post office getting envolopes by the truckload, then opening each envelope, read the content, to decide when to send the opened letter for delivery, either by foot or car, claiming that such a decision process will prevent envelopes from flooding the post office, coming into the post

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Francois Menard
The issue is use of dpi to eliminate congestion stemming from p2p's natural unfairness behind the unbundling interface. F. Le 09-03-01 à 21:14, Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net a écrit : Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: In short, the entire DPI debate is starting to go on similar lines, and

Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-14 Thread Francois Menard
The short story behind this deployment is that Charle's infrastructure is at the tail end of a submarine cable on an island, where there is only 1 competitor, but the ILEC, on the island side of the submarine cable. The ILEC owns the submarine cable But the ILEC will not do BGP The

Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-14 Thread Francois Menard
The rule with ARIN is that you only need to demonstrate that you WANT do do multihoming, not that you WILL do multihoming. That question would be better asked on the ARIN policy mailing list. I'm also on that list. That was cleared with ARIN as part of the process to get that /22 I guess

Re: transcievers/amplifiers for 150 km fiber run

2008-10-12 Thread Francois Menard
or you buy some boxes from BTI Photonics that specialize into taking GigE around the world... F. -- François D. Ménard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11-Oct-08, at 12:25 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Friday 10 October 2008 14:50:11 Fletcher Kittredge wrote: We are looking to light a two strand fiber