Re: Is there an established method for reporting/getting removed a company with 100% false peeringdb entries?

2021-03-08 Thread James Breeden
Yeah, I know a couple of people who have thrown massive peeringdb operations up just to make them look big but their routing table analysis looks nothing like what they say they have. James W. Breeden Managing Partner [cid:3c34773f-9c3e-42cf-87ba-144ee1fa163f] Arenal Group: Arenal

Re: telia selling carrier ops to polhem infra

2020-10-06 Thread James Breeden
Still smells Swedish to me. Probably will end up with a different name, but other than that I don't see much changing. Sounds more like a spinoff than acquisition. James W. Breeden Managing Partner [cid:0fd85346-f2b0-4a58-b98a-468c53bb9ef8] Arenal Group: Arenal Consulting Group | Acilis

Partial vs Full tables

2020-06-04 Thread James Breeden
I have been doing a lot of research recently on operating networks with partial tables and a default to the rest of the world. Seems like an easy enough approach for regional networks where you have maybe only 1 upstream transit and some peering. I come to NANOG to get feedback from others who

Legacy Concentric/XO Web Services Blocking?

2020-03-02 Thread James Breeden
NANOG, Looking for anyone from XO or Legacy Concentric web hosting services (now VDMS). I have a mutual customer that is getting caught at some form of Web App firewall coming from a specific IP range. Thank you! James W. Breeden Managing Partner [logo_transparent_background] Arenal Group:

RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread James Breeden
Hmm. Wonder if this can be used to cancel some cogent services... I mean, they technically aren't providing access to the full internet now. 路‍♂️樂 Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note9, an AT 5G Evolution capable smartphone Original message From: Rich Kulawiec Date: 1/7/20

RE: AT AS7018 - Filter Changes

2019-12-24 Thread James Breeden
) To: James Breeden Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: AT AS7018 - Filter Changes Did you try opening a ticket with express ticketing for a route change? they normally handle them almost instantly every time I've ever added or changed a prefix On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 2:00 PM James Breeden

AT AS7018 - Filter Changes

2019-12-23 Thread James Breeden
Anyone here high enough in AT IP engineering that can grab a lifecycle ticket and make some filter changes on a BGP session? I've had a ticket open to make some transit filter adjustments for almost 4 days now and no updates and nobody seems to understand what RADB is Feel free to hit me

Sprint Operations

2019-05-09 Thread James Breeden
Hello, If anyone from Sprint Mobile operations is on list, could you reach out to me off list? Having issues with some ip ranges properly communicating with your WiFi Calling and SMS over IP hosts. James Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note9, an AT 5G Evolution capable smartphone

Hill Country Telephone Cooperative

2019-02-07 Thread James Breeden
Anyone from HCTC operations on here? Trying to reach your wholesale sales team, web contacts aren't getting answered. Please reach out offlist. Thanks! James W. Breeden Managing Partner [logo_transparent_background] Arenal Group: Arenal Consulting Group | Acilis Telecom | Pines Media PO

Re: colocation in Kansas City

2019-01-18 Thread James Breeden
I've done business with Tierpoint before but not in KC. Good facilities, kinda middle of the road support - they take care of you though. Fairly easy to work with. I remember security being kinda lax, you signed in on a kiosk but it didnt really integrate with the doors and you just kinda

Re: Service Provider NetFlow Collectors

2019-01-16 Thread James Breeden
Jim, please send me additional information on your solution as well, we're in the market for a flow analytics solution. James W. Breeden Managing Partner [logo_transparent_background] Arenal Group: Arenal Consulting Group | Acilis Telecom | Pines Media PO Box 1063 | Smithville, TX 78957

Re: Centurylink/Level3 WDM?

2019-01-09 Thread James Breeden
...@arenalgroup.co<mailto:ja...@arenalgroup.co> | office 512.360. | cell 512.304.0745 | www.arenalgroup.co<http://www.arenalgroup.co/> From: NANOG on behalf of James Breeden Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 12:48:25 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Centurylin

Centurylink/Level3 WDM?

2019-01-09 Thread James Breeden
Anyone else having issues with Centurylink IP (Legacy Level3/3356) in/around Houston, or WDM issues between Houston and San Antonio? James W. Breeden Managing Partner [logo_transparent_background] Arenal Group: Arenal Consulting Group | Acilis Telecom | Pines Media PO Box 1063 |

RE: routeviews.org pending delete

2018-12-26 Thread James Breeden
Kudos to Eric for finding my inquiry and getting us all up and running on Routeviews. Thanks! From: NANOG On Behalf Of James Breeden Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2018 12:17 PM To: Eric Smith ; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: routeviews.org pending delete Eric Is this ownership /steward change

Re: routeviews.org pending delete

2018-12-26 Thread James Breeden
Eric Is this ownership /steward change why I haven't been able to reach anyone at Routeviews via the web or help addresses recently? I've been trying to set up some new multi hop sessions for a couple networks I operate. Thanks James Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note9, an AT 4G LTE

Re: How to choose a transport(terrestrial/subsea)

2018-12-18 Thread James Breeden
I can't stress enough the importance of controlling your own route and even cable diversity. Require KMZs of the routes for any services you take (especially single path Wave type services). Put them in the contracts if you can. I've had at least 1 situation where we had vendor diversity and

RE: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

2018-09-13 Thread James Breeden
Mehmet, My opinion to you (and I have no network in the Carribbean or interest in it other than a purely academic and technical exercise) would be that you guys go ahead and start, even if you just initially split the cost of the switch and interfaces to peer among yourselves. Once you get a

Centurylink/Level3 Plans

2018-07-19 Thread James Breeden
Does anyone know what the plans or even watercooler chat is concerning Centurylink (AS209) and Level3 (AS3356) integration, direct peering, or continuing separation? We are looking at a IP Transit deal involving one or both networks and while I'd love to have transit routes from both, I don't

Re: BGP Community Support WAS: Re: Cogent vs. HE ;-) WAS: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

2018-01-23 Thread James Breeden
4.0745 | www.arenalgroup.co<http://www.arenalgroup.co/> From: christopher.mor...@gmail.com <christopher.mor...@gmail.com> on behalf of Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 1:07:29 PM To: Mike Hammett Cc: James Breeden

BGP Community Support WAS: Re: Cogent vs. HE ; -) WAS: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

2018-01-23 Thread James Breeden
While we're on the topic of BGP community support, I'd be interested in the greater group's favorites, pros, and cons of what you want to see in a BGP community support table/system from a provider. Taking notes for a customer.. James W. Breeden Managing Partner

MultiCarrier Fiber Mapping Tools

2018-01-16 Thread James Breeden
Anyone aware of competitors to the NEF FiberLocator tool out there? Fiberlocator has gotten way too pricey in my mind. They used to give a free seat for giving them your map but they only give like 10% off now. Thanks in advance. James W. Breeden Managing Partner

AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time

2018-01-02 Thread James Breeden
Before I take this to the ARIN PPML, wanted to get NANOG's thoughts. I'm amazed at the number of AS numbers that are assigned, but not actively being used. I'm not talking just like they are offline for a week or month, this is complete non-use of the AS in the global routing table within

4 or smaller digit ASNs

2017-10-11 Thread James Breeden
Hello NANOG... I have a client interested in picking up a new AS number but they really want it to be 3 or 4 digits in length. Is there a process to request this from ARIN, or doss anyone know of unused ASns fitting this that anyone is looking to sell for some quick cash? Thanks! James

RE: NANOG 70 network diagram and upstream

2017-06-04 Thread James Breeden
Yeah, I was wondering about that 4x100G. is that a necessity or a "because we can" move? -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Eric Dugas Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 4:35 PM To: Aaron Gould Cc: NANOG Subject: RE:

RE: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-05-30 Thread James Breeden
When we had to do this once in a blue moon, we just bought a pair of old Agilent Framescopes off ebay. They worked great but we had issues getting reporting out of them. They had RJ45 and SFP on them. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+james=arenalgroup...@nanog.org]

RE: Ingress filtering from an external cloud service to the internal network

2017-05-04 Thread James Breeden
Is it possible for you to get a private/direct connect service from your network perimeter to the cloud provider and eliminate using the public connectivity? Or because its Internet-based you have to use public connectivity? James W. Breeden Managing Partner Arenal Group: Arenal Consulting

New ASN Assignments in ARIN

2017-03-23 Thread James Breeden
If requesting a new ASN assignment in the ARIN region these days, what block of ASNs is ARIN assigning from? More curiosity than anything. James W. Breeden Managing Partner [logo_transparent_background] Arenal Group: Arenal Consulting Group | Acilis Telecom | Pines Media PO Box 1063 |

RE: difference with caching when connected to telia internet

2017-03-17 Thread James Breeden
Shouldn't be. It could just be that the content on the cache locally is not what the user is requesting. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Gould Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 9:59 AM To: 'NANOG' Subject: difference with

RE: BGP Route Reflector - Route Server, Router, etc

2017-01-12 Thread James Breeden
this year with this same move. Happy to discuss more indepth offlist if you'd like. ​-- James Breeden The Fusion Network j...@gotfusion.net fusion 844.548.1421 direct 512.360. cell 512.304.0745 www.gotfusion.net facebook.com/gotfusion -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog