Redundant multicast routing

2012-01-03 Thread Mark Smith
Hi What's your recipe to implement redundant multicast (stub) routing? Let's think about the simplest scenario. We have 2 routers, R1 and R2 and 3 ip networks. All 3 networks are directly connected to both routers and the routers are performing unicast routing between networks using VRRP as the re

Re: HP A-series, H3C, Huawei and their capabilities in real-life

2011-09-17 Thread Mark Smith
My apologies for using gmail. Company policy prohibits the use of corporate email and identity. Nobody has heard nothing? Hear no evil… ;) What we basically have at this point is vendor specifications, sales talk and rumors that big boys have built large networks using these boxes (or predecessor

HP A-series, H3C, Huawei and their capabilities in real-life

2011-09-14 Thread Mark Smith
Hi list Does anyone have (or know somebody who has) real-life experience of HP A-series (former Huawei and H3C) high-end routers in service provider environment? From the specs they look very good (both features and performance) but the specs don't tell everything and nothing can replace real-life

Re: ipv4's last graph

2011-02-04 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:25:18 +0900 Randy Bush wrote: > > http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/rir.jpg > > > > This is a different graph - it is a probabilistic graph that shows the > > predicted month when the RIR will be down to its last /8 policy > > (whatever that policy may be), and the relativ

Re: quietly....

2011-02-02 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:04:13 -0800 Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:43 AM, Jack Bates wrote: > > > > > > > On 2/2/2011 8:22 AM, Tony Finch wrote: > >> Counterexample: rogue RAs from Windows boxes running 6to4 or Teredo and > >> Internet Connection Sharing. This is a lot harder to fi

Re: quietly....

2011-02-02 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:18:55 -0500 John Payne wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > > On 2 feb 2011, at 20:37, John Payne wrote: > > > DHCP fails because you can't get a default router out of it. > > > >>> If you consider that wrong, I don't want to be rig

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:20:01 -0600 Max Pierson wrote: > >I'm not missing your point. I'm saying that in IPv6, we've put enough > addresses > >in to allow for things nobody has thought of in 30, 60, 90, even 100 years > and > >then some. > > As Roland said, > "Possibly, as long as we don't blow t

Re: /64 is "enough" until 2021 for 90% of users (was Re: Another v6 question)

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:03:41 -0500 Jared Mauch wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > > > On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > > > >> > >> On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> > >>> I'd like to see IPv4 go away in ~3 years. Any faster

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-25 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:49:13 +0700 Roland Dobbins wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > > The correct assumption is that most people will try and usually succeed at > > follow the specifications, as that is what is required to > > su

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-25 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:53:23 +0700 Roland Dobbins wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > But simply assuming that the IPv6 address space will forever remain that - > > only unique host identifiers - I think is disingenious at best. :-) > > I think 'disingenuous' is

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-25 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:32:59 -0500 "Ricky Beam" wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:42:29 -0500, Owen DeLong wrote: > > Seriously? Repetitively sweeping a /64? Let's do the math... > ... > > We've had this discussion before... > > If the site is using SLAAC, then that 64bit target is effectively 4

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:19:34 -0600 Max Pierson wrote: > Hi List, > > Sorry to bring up yet ANOTHER v6 question/topic, but this seems to be one > that I cannot get a solid answer on (and probably won't and in the event > that I do, it will probably change down the road anyways), but here goes. >

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-25 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:02:30 +0100 (CET) sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > > IPv6 is classless; routers cannot blindly make that assumption for > > > "performance optimization". > > > > > Blindly, no. However, it's not impractical to implement fast path switching > > that > > handles things on /64s

Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:12:26 -0500 Jim Gettys wrote: > On 01/15/2011 06:30 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:06:06 -0500 (EST) > > Brandon Ross wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Brian Keefer wrote: > >> > >>> Actually ther

Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:21:52 -0600 "Frank Bulk" wrote: > I hope the engineers in the organization will just tell their marketing folk > that it's not possible to hand out just one IPv6 address. "Our hardware > doesn't support it." > > I think there's still room for ISPs to charge $10/month for

Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:39:09 -0500 (EST) Brandon Ross wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Mark Smith wrote: > > > How do you know - have you asked 100% of the service providers out > > there and they've said unanimously that they're only going to supply a > > single

Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:06:06 -0500 (EST) Brandon Ross wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Brian Keefer wrote: > > > Actually there are a couple very compelling reasons why PAT will > > probably be implemented for IPv6: > > You are neglecting the most important reason, much to my own disdain. > Serv

Re: World IPv6 Day

2011-01-12 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:10:03 -0800 Randy Bush wrote: > > the first global-scale trial of IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to > > the Internet's main communications protocol known as IPv4. > > this phrasing is both amusing and deeply sad. amusing because many folk > have been running ipv6 glob

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:11:42 -0500 "Robert E. Seastrom" wrote: > > "Kevin Oberman" writes: > > >> The next ship will be departing in a hundred years or so, advance > >> registration for the IPv7 design committee are available over there. > > > > Sorry, but IPv7 has come and gone. It was assig

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:53:02 -0800 Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 09:38:32 + > > "Dobbins, Roland" wrote: > > > >> > >> On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Mark Smith wro

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-07 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 09:38:32 + "Dobbins, Roland" wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > > Doesn't this risk already exist in IPv4? > > > There are various vendor knobs/features to ameliorate ARP-level issues in > switchin

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-07 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:13:52 -0500 Jeff Wheeler wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > 1.      Block packets destined for your point-to-point links at your > >        borders. There's no legitimate reason someone should be > > Most networks do not do this today. Whether

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-06 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:57:50 +0100 Phil Regnauld wrote: > Jeff Wheeler (jsw) writes: > > are badly needed. The largest current routing devices have room for > > about 100,000 ARP/NDP entries, which can be used up in a fraction of a > > second with a gigabit of malicious traffic flow. What happen

Re: The tale of a single MAC

2011-01-02 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 08:50:42 -0500 Steven Bellovin wrote: > > On Jan 1, 2011, at 11:33 24PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > > On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:59:16 -0700 > > Brielle Bruns wrote: > > > >> On 1/1/11 8:33 PM, Graham Wooden wrote: > >> >

Re: The tale of a single MAC

2011-01-01 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:59:16 -0700 Brielle Bruns wrote: > On 1/1/11 8:33 PM, Graham Wooden wrote: > > So ­ here is the interesting part... Both servers are HP Proliant DL380 G4s, > > and both of their NIC1 and NIC2 MACs addresses are exactly the same. Not > > spoofd and the OS drivers are not mu

Re: Router only speaks IGP in BGP network

2010-12-25 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 08:52:42 -0500 ML wrote: > On 12/25/2010 3:36 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > On Friday, December 24, 2010 07:26:43 am Randy Bush wrote: > > > >> and do NOT redistribute bgp into ospf. > > > > This is good truth. Don't redistribute your BGP into the IGP > > (or vice versa). I'm not

Re: Pointer for documentation on actually delivering IPv6

2010-12-04 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:40:50 -0500 Mark Radabaugh wrote: > Probably a case of something being blindingly obvious but... > > I have seen plenty of information on IPv6 from a internal network > standpoint. I have seen very little with respect to how a ISP is > supposed to handle routing to resi

Re: Pointer for documentation on actually delivering IPv6

2010-12-04 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:40:50 -0500 Mark Radabaugh wrote: > Probably a case of something being blindingly obvious but... > > I have seen plenty of information on IPv6 from a internal network > standpoint. I have seen very little with respect to how a ISP is > supposed to handle routing to resi

Re: mtu question

2010-11-17 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:23:54 -0500 Brandon Kim wrote: > > Jack brings up a good point. MTU is basically pointless since packets never > traverse any real interface... > So in theory the size can be anything... > > Not quite. You hit packet length field limits. IPv4 packets can't be large

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

2010-11-13 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:30:19 -0500 Francois Menard wrote: > 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 in

Re: Migrating from PPP to DHCPo82

2010-11-09 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Jack, On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:36:45 -0600 Jack Bates wrote: > On 11/8/2010 9:40 AM, MKS wrote: > > I work for an small ISP, which does traditional xDSL service with PPPoE. > > Currently we are in the process of migrating most of our customers to > > DHCP (some customers are getting new CPEs an

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-08 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 01:49:20 -0600 Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 08:02:28AM +0100, Mans Nilsson wrote: > > > > The only reason to use (10)GE for transmission in WAN is the > > completely baroque price difference in interface pricing. With todays > > line rates, the comp

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-08 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 01:07:17 -0700 "George Bonser" wrote: > > > > > > Yes, I really don't understand that either. You would think that > the > > > investment in developing and deploying all that SONET infrastructure > > > has been paid back by now and they can lower the prices > dramatically. > >

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-06 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:45:01 -0500 Jack Bates wrote: > On 11/5/2010 5:32 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: > > > > It's really quiet in here. So, for some Friday fun let me whap at the > > hornets nest and see what happens...>;-) > > > > > > http://www.ionary.com/PSOC-MovingBeyondTCP.pdf > > > > SCTP is

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-06 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 21:40:30 -0400 Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > On Nov 5, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 15:32:30 -0700 > > "Scott Weeks" wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> It's really quiet in here.

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-05 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 15:32:30 -0700 "Scott Weeks" wrote: > > > It's really quiet in here. So, for some Friday fun let me whap at the > hornets nest and see what happens... >;-) > > > http://www.ionary.com/PSOC-MovingBeyondTCP.pdf > Who ever wrote that doesn't know what they're talking abou

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses)

2010-11-03 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 04:14:51 + (UTC) Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: > > I've had a recent experience of this. Some IPv6 CPE I was > > testing had a fault where it dropped out and recovered every 2 minutes > > - a transient network fault. I was watching a youtube video over IPv6. > > Because of the

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses)

2010-11-02 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:25:34 +1100 Karl Auer wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 23:23 +1030, Mark Smith wrote: > > Prefix lifetimes don't work that way - there is no such thing as a > > "flash" renumbering. > > The lifetimes are reset with every RA the nodes

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses)

2010-11-02 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:51:44 + (GMT) Tim Franklin wrote: > > >> Your home gateway that talks to your internet connection can either > >> get it via DHCP-PD or static configuration. Either way, it could > >> (should?) be set up to hold the prefix until it gets told something > >> different, po

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses

2010-11-02 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 01:24:45 -0400 Ben Jencks wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 00:58, David Conrad wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > >>> My guess is that the millions of residential users will be less and > >>> less enthused with (pure) PA each time they change servi

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses)

2010-11-02 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 18:04:28 -0700 Owen DeLong wrote: > >>> > >> He may or may not be. I don't think it's such a bad idea. > >> > > > > How about algorithmically generating these addresses, so that > > they're near unique, instead of having the overhead of a central > > registry, and a global r

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses)

2010-11-01 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 09:20:41 -0700 Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 2:28 AM, Mark Smith wrote: > > > On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:32:39 -0400 > > Christopher Morrow wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:10 PM, David Conrad wrote: > >>>

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses)

2010-11-01 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:24:31 + (GMT) Tim Franklin wrote: > > Surely your not saying "we ought to make getting PI easy, easy enough > > that the other options just don't make sense" so that all residential > > users get PI so that if their ISP disappears their network doesn't > > break? > > I'

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses)

2010-11-01 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:32:39 -0400 Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:10 PM, David Conrad wrote: > > On Oct 31, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > "If Woody had gone straight to a ULA prefix, this would never have > happened..." > >>> Or better yet, if Wo

Re: Odd cableone traceroute with 0.0.0.0 in path

2010-10-28 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:55:56 -0600 Brielle Bruns wrote: > Okay, so this has my head hurting a bit just trying to figure out just > how this is possible and what kind of equipment would pull this stunt. > My initial guess was that somebody put "0.0.0.0" text as the DNS PTR RR value for that hop

Re: IPv6 Routing table will be bloated?

2010-10-26 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:25:39 -0400 Scott Reed wrote: > Why would the assumption be the ISP = knowledgeable or even caring about > RIRs, etc.? > > When I started my ISP 6 years ago I knew someone issued IP addresses to > my upstream provider, but I really didn't care who that was. The > upstr

Re: IPv6 Routing table will be bloated?

2010-10-26 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:19:30 -0500 Jack Bates wrote: > On 10/26/2010 12:04 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > In practice, the RIRs are implementing sparse allocation which makes it > > possible to aggregate subsequent allocations. I.e. not as bad as it may > > seem. > > > > Except, if you are given b

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-23 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:42:41 -0700 Owen DeLong wrote: > >>> > >> Actually, it's not pointless at all. The RA system assumes that all routers > >> capable of announcing RAs are default routers and that virtually all > >> routers > >> are created equal (yes, you have high/medium/low, but, really,

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-22 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:10:08 -0700 Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2010, at 12:55 AM, Mark Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:52:08 +1100 > > Karl Auer wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 21:05 -0500, Jack Bates wrote: > >

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-22 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:52:08 +1100 Karl Auer wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 21:05 -0500, Jack Bates wrote: > > On 10/21/2010 8:39 PM, Ray Soucy wrote: > > > > > > How so? We still have RA (with a high priority) that's the only way > > > DHCPv6 works. I guess there is a lot of misunderstanding ab

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-22 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:09:39 -0400 Jared Mauch wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:51 PM, Barry Shein wrote: > > > Anyhow, it might be an interesting topic to discuss in the appropriate > > venues, IETF, "What is the cost of maintaining IPv4 forever?" but it's > > getting a little ahead of ourselv

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 ? Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:44:40 +0800 Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010, Graham Beneke wrote: > > > I've seen this too. Once again small providers who pretty quickly get > > caught out by collisions. > > > > The difference is that ULA could take years or even decades to catch > > someon

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:38:33 +0200 Graham Beneke wrote: > On 21/10/2010 03:49, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > > On 10/20/2010 5:51 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> > >> Part 2 will be when the first provider accepts a large sum of money to > >> route it within their public network between multiple sites own

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:12:11 -0700 "George Bonser" wrote: > > > > * Stream Control Transport Protocol, first spec'd in 2000 (couldn't > > be deployed widely in IPv4 because of NATs) > > I would dearly love to see SCTP take off. There are so many great potential > applications for that proto

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:29:11 +1100 Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <4cbfa9bb.9030...@matthew.at>, Matthew Kaufman writes: > > ULA + PA can have the same problems, especially if your ULA is > > inter-organization ULA, which was one of the cases under discussion. > > Which still isn't a probl

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:50:06 -0700 Matthew Kaufman wrote: > On 10/20/2010 7:27 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > > > * Stream Control Transport Protocol, first spec'd in 2000 (couldn't > >be deployed widely in IPv4 because of NATs) > "because of NATs&q

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:15:35 -0500 James Hess wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > > On 10/20/2010 6:20 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > Right. Just like to multihome with IPv6 you would have both PA addresses > > from provider #1 and PA addresses fro

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:46:34 -0700 Matthew Kaufman wrote: > On 10/20/2010 6:20 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > > > To make it clear, as it seems to be quite misunderstood, you'd have > > both ULA and global addressing in your network. > > Right. Just like to multihome

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Owen, On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:51:11 -0700 Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:39:19 -0400 > > Deepak Jain wrote: > > > >>> Use a pseudo random number, not follow bad examples. Where are

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:07:57 -0500 James Hess wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > > > > > these addresses, their address scope is global, i.e. they are expected to be > > globally unique." > > The ULA /48s are hoped to only be globally unique, but this only has

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:39:19 -0400 Deepak Jain wrote: > > Use a pseudo random number, not follow bad examples. Where are these > > examples? I'd be curious as to what they say regarding why they haven't > > followed the pseudo random number requirement. > > > > > Use something like fd00::1234, o

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:48:47 -0700 Jeroen van Aart wrote: > > > According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Special_addresses > an fc00::/7 address includes a 40-bit pseudo random number: > > "fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses (ULA's) are intended for local > communication. They a

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:24:02 +0200 Jens Link wrote: > valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: > > >> You are going to kill about 90% of all net-/sysadmins? > > > > Do you *really* want somebody working on your network that gets confused by > > a > > reference to 213/8 because it's in Class-C space?

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:41:09 -0700 "George Bonser" wrote: > > > > > You are confusing SI with Packet Filters. The technologies are > > different > > and it is, also, important to understand this distinction as well. > > I don't think I am "confusing" the two. I am saying that I have seen > peop

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:25:12 -0700 Zaid Ali wrote: > > On 10/19/10 3:58 PM, "Mark Andrews" wrote: > > > Adding is seperate IPv6 server is a work around and runs the risk > > of being overloaded. > > And what a wonderful problem to have! You can show a CFO a nice cacti graph > of IPv6 growth s

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:39:19 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > I think it's generally a bad idea. /48 is the design architecture for > > IPv6. It allows for significant innovation in the SOHO arena that we > > haven't accounted for in some of our cu

Re: 12 years ago today...

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:03:54 +0100 Will Hargrave wrote: > On 16/10/10 10:02, Warren Bailey wrote: > > > While we are on the subject of "the godfathers of the Internet", when is a > > documentary coming out that tells the story? There was a really long > > documentary done on the BBS, surely some

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:18:57 -0700 Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2010, at 5:28 AM, Curtis Maurand wrote: > > > On 10/18/2010 8:16 AM, ML wrote: > >> > And +1 on the "pioneers" comment too. > >>> > >>> Paul. > >>> > >> > >> IPv6 Hipsters..Doing it before it was cool. > >> > >> > >> > >

Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:21:29 +0100 Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 18/10/2010 12:25, Lin Pica8 wrote: > > We are starting to distribute Pica8 Open Source Cloud Switches : > > Sounds interesting. What chipset does this run on? > > Also, what's a cloud switch? Is this a switch which forwards L2 traff

Re: Choice of network space when numbering interfaces with IPv6

2010-10-16 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Kevin, On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:13:22 -0700 "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > > Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 10:24:41 +1030 > > From: Mark Smith > > > > > > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:26:54 -0700 > > "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > > > >

Re: Choice of network space when numbering interfaces with IPv6 (IPv6 STANDARDS)

2010-10-16 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:52:31 -0400 Bill Bogstad wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:40:41 +1030 > >> From: Mark Smith > >> > >> > >> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:31:22 +0100 > >> Ra

Re: Choice of network space when numbering interfaces with IPv6

2010-10-16 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:26:54 -0700 "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > > Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:40:41 +1030 > > From: Mark Smith > > > > > > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:31:22 +0100 > > Randy Bush wrote: > > > > > http://www.

Re: Choice of network space when numbering interfaces with IPv6

2010-10-16 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:31:22 +0100 Randy Bush wrote: > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-6man-prefixlen-p2p-00.txt > Drafts are drafts, and nothing more, aren't they?

Re: Choice of network space when numbering interfaces with IPv6

2010-10-15 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:26:13 -0700 Zaid Ali wrote: > SO I have been turning up v6 with multiple providers now and notice that > some choose /64 for numbering interfaces but one I came across use a /126. A > /126 is awfully large (for interface numbering) and I am curious if there is > some r

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-03 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 22:27:32 -0300 jim deleskie wrote: > If you can do a business case to support replacing routers every 3years you > doing much better then most. IMO a router should last 5 yrs on the book, > but I expect to get more life then then from it. You core today > is tomorrow's edge.

Re: RIP Justification

2010-09-30 Thread Mark Smith
ultiple OSPF processes redistributing between each > > other...) > > > I think I have an anxiety disorder from this sort of "design".. > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Mark Smith > wrote: > > How do you prevent those business partners spoo

Re: RIP Justification

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:13:11 +1000 Julien Goodwin wrote: > On 30/09/10 13:42, Mark Smith wrote: > > One of the large delays you see in OSPF is election of the designated > > router on multi-access links such as ethernets. As ethernet is being > > very commonly used for po

Re: RIP Justification

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:31:26 -0500 Christopher Gatlin wrote: > My point here is untrusted networks, such as business partners exchanging > routes with each other. Not many hops and less than a 100 prefixes. > > Using BGP to exchange routes between these types of untrusted networks is > like usi

Re: RIP Justification

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:26:17 -0400 Craig wrote: > We have a design for our wan where we use rip v2 and it works very well, we > were using ospf but it was additional config, so in our case simple was > better, and it works well.. > I'm don't really buy the extra config argument. It's literall

Re: RIP Justification

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:35:06 -0500 Christopher Gatlin wrote: > RIPv2 is a great dynamic routing protocol for exchanging routes with > untrusted networks. RIPv2 has adjustable timers, filters, supports VLSM and > MD5 authentication. Since it's distance vector it's much easier to filter > than a

Re: Online games stealing your bandwidth

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:56:21 -0400 (EDT) Jon Lewis wrote: > On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Rodrick Brown wrote: > > > If you follow the links in the article people are complaining that the LotR > > process has served 70gb in a week, others are complaining that the service > > is resulting in 300ms pings,

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

2010-09-14 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:06:03 -0700 Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:44:40AM -0500, Brian Johnson > wrote: > > OK... so doesn't this speak to the commoditization of service providers? > > I'm against more regulation and for competition. > > Competition would

Re: largest OSPF core

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:20:05 +0300 lorddoskias wrote: > I'm just curious - what is the largest OSPF core (in terms of number > of routers) out there? > Presuming OSPF and IS-IS SPF costs are fairly similar, the following page from "The complete IS-IS routing protocol" (really quite a good bo

Re: ICMPv6 rate limits breaking PMTUD (and traceroute) [Re: Comcast enables 6to4 relays]

2010-09-01 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:18:55 +0200 Simon Leinen wrote: > Jack Bates writes: > > 1) Your originating host may be breaking PMTU (so the packet you send > > is too large and doesn't make it, you never resend a smaller packet, > > but it works when tracerouting from the other side due to PMTU working

Re: Should routers send redirects by default?

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:18:15 -0400 Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:32 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Christopher Morrow > > wrote: > >> Polling a little bit here, there's an active discussion going on > >> 6...@ietf about whether or not v6 r

Re: Should routers send redirects by default?

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:25:01 -0700 "David W. Hankins" wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:12:01AM +0930, Mark Smith wrote: > > o allow an IPv6 router to indicate to an end-node that the destination > > it is attempting to send to is onlink. This situation occurs wh

Re: PacketShader

2010-08-23 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:59:43 -0400 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:23:19 -1000, Michael Painter said: > > Researchers in South Korea have built a networking router that transmits > > data > > at record speeds from components found in most high-end desktop computers > > ht

Re: Other NOGs around the world?

2010-08-22 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:51:53 +1000 Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:42:03AM +1000, Karl Auer wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:17 -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > > On Aug 22, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Rogelio wrote: > > > > What other "network operator groups" are there around the

Re: Should routers send redirects by default?

2010-08-21 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:12:47 -0500 Jack Bates wrote: > Eric J. Katanich wrote: > > > > You disable it on the host and if no host is using it, you might as well > > disable it on the router as wel. Others mentioned > > some routers need to handle this in software instead of hardware, which > >

Re: Should routers send redirects by default?

2010-08-21 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:32:00 -0400 Jared Mauch wrote: > > On Aug 21, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Jack Bates wrote: > > > Eric J. Katanich wrote: > >> You disable it on the host and if no host is using it, you might as well > >> disable it on the router as wel. Others mentioned > >> some routers need to

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-21 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:35:50 +0200 Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > > Web portals work fine, and honestly, it's not like you need to switch > > subnets, either. PPPoE/A implementations work great, as they are already > > designed to utilize radiu

Re: Should routers send redirects by default?

2010-08-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:24:43 -0400 "Ricky Beam" wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:43:39 -0400, Mark Smith > wrote: > > You're assuming the cost of always hair pinning traffic on an interface > > is cheaper than issuing a redirect. > > I am saying no s

Re: Should routers send redirects by default?

2010-08-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:49:43 -0400 "Ricky Beam" wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:20:58 -0400, Christopher Morrow > wrote: > > Polling a little bit here, there's an active discussion going on > > 6...@ietf about whether or not v6 routers should: > > o be required to implement ip redirect funct

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:30:07 +0200 Joakim Aronius wrote: > * Hannes Frederic Sowa (han...@mailcolloid.de) wrote: > > > > But most people just don't care. My proposal is to have some kind of > > sane defaults for them e.g. changing their prefix every week or in the > > case of a reconnect. This w

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:04:47 +0930 Mark Smith wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:12:19 +0200 > Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > As the first IPv6 deployments for end-users are in the planning stage > > in Germany, I realized I have not found any B

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:18:00 +0200 Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > Haven't really thought about it before. > > > > One thing to consider is that unless the preferred and valid lifetimes > > of an IPv6 prefix ar

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:12:19 +0200 Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > Hello! > > As the first IPv6 deployments for end-users are in the planning stage > in Germany, I realized I have not found any BCP for handling > addressing in those scenarios. IPv6 will make it a lot easier for > static address de

Re: net-neutrality

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:52:53 + (UTC) Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: > Hi, considering the fact that several organisations have been severely > undermining net-neutrality over the past few months, What is your definition of violating net-neutrality? Is it (a) carriers ransoming content provide

Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:56:52 +1000 Karl Auer wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 10:42 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > You do have to properly set up the rules for which addresses to use for what > > communication properly. It breaks less if you forego the ULA brokenness, > > but, some people insist for

Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:34:40 -0700 Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jul 27, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Akyol, Bora A wrote: > > > Please see comments inline. > > > > > > On 7/22/10 10:13 PM, "Owen DeLong" wrote: > > > >> In all reality: > >> > >> 1. NAT has nothing to do with security. Stateful insp

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