RE: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day

2011-06-07 Thread John.Herbert
Bill Woodcock [mailto:wo...@pch.net] spake: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2533454/ Uh... This does rather assume that users can access Google/Bing (both IPv6 day participants) to search for a solution to the problems they are experiencing, and then that they can actually access the KB

RE: IPv6 day fun is beginning!

2011-06-07 Thread John.Herbert
No issues connecting to FB for me on IPv6 (both to www.v6.facebook.com and to the returned by www.facebook.com now). Interesting (perhaps) side note - www.facebook.com has a , but facebook.com does not. Google / Youtube records are up and running nicely also. J. -Original

RE: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-08 Thread John.Herbert
Seth Mattinen [se...@rollernet.us] said: Forget all of that and just multihome to two separate providers with BGP --Assuming that you're advertising PI space or can work around that appropriately with your providers, I agree, that's the ideal situation. Having multiple circuits to one provider

RE: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-08 Thread John.Herbert
From: a...@baklawasecrets.com [a...@baklawasecrets.com] - BGP router capable of holding full Internet routing table. (whether I go for partial or full, I think I want something with full capability). --Capable of holding _2_ full internet routing

RE: Multi site BGP Routing design

2009-06-05 Thread John.Herbert
Depending on your security policies you may want to encrypt said tunnel also. Other than that, it all depends on it all depends. For example - if you receive / or have a default route pointing to the ISP, then the fact you have the same AS and won't receive the other site's routes in BGP

RE: Multi site BGP Routing design

2009-06-05 Thread John.Herbert
This is a good concept but if the ISP route is a Juniper then as I recall by default it looks ahead, sees the as-path routing loop if it were to send it to the other router, and doesn't send it. So while you might be able to configure it on the receiving router, if the sending router won't send

RE: Multi site BGP Routing design

2009-06-05 Thread John.Herbert
Steve, Agreed. I'm not suggesting that a tunnel is the ultimate best solution, but rather just pointing out that if you go with a tunnel, it's worth remembering that it's going unencrypted over a public network rather than site to site over a private link. j.

RE: IXP BGP timers (was: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers)

2009-05-25 Thread John.Herbert
For those in multivendor environments, it's worth also being aware that since 7.6R1 JunOS sets the minimum BGP hold timer to 20 seconds. If I were creating a standard timer config to deploy consistently on customer peers (and needed something on the fast side in timer terms) I would need to