Re: Cloudflare, dirty networks and politricks

2016-07-28 Thread McDonald Richards
Feel free to demonstrate to us all how you're leading by example. Until then, as a consumer of "the Internet", I'd like my any-to-any access to remain that way. On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote: > On 7/28/16 11:24, McDo

Re: Cloudflare, dirty networks and politricks

2016-07-28 Thread McDonald Richards
Be sure to let us all know how this works out for your business. On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:35 AM, J. Oquendo wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2016, Naslund, Steve wrote: > > > You obviously have a much shorter Internet memory than some of the > engineers on here that have had a

Re: L3 over OTN vs pure IP/MPLS

2016-07-08 Thread McDonald Richards
This sounds like somebody is trying to sell you equipment. Can you elaborate on the degradation you're experiencing? Are you sure you're utilizing all your link bandwidth effectively and packets are not being stuck in large buffers or crammed into a starving forwarding class? On Thu, Jul 7,

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread McDonald Richards
If you want a direct path then SMW3 remains the only cable for the final leg from Singapore to Perth and it's capacity is only a few hundred gigabits. There are at least 2 proposed new systems racing to get into the water between Singapore and Perth to try and address this gap in supply and

Re: Reporting DDOS reflection attacks

2014-11-08 Thread McDonald Richards
Out of curiosity, have any of you had luck reporting the sources of attacks to the admins of the origin ASNs? Any failure or success stories you can share? Macca On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Paul Bennett paul.w.benn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Roland Dobbins

Re: packet loss out of Texas on Cogent and GlobalCrossing

2011-11-14 Thread McDonald Richards
I take multiple services from Global Crossing in San Jose and have had reports of packet loss from Cogent users in Chicago and London (and been able to reproduce). In all cases it appears to be after wherever Cogents' mci01 location is. 10.|-- te0-3-0-3.mpd21.mci01.atl 0.0% 100 205.7 205.2

Re: ASR1002

2010-01-06 Thread McDonald Richards
I'd recommend 2.4.x (XNDx) unless you REALLY need the BGP PIC features in 2.5. 2.4 was the first release to support L2VPNs and should be mature enough in it's general support of MPLS/VRFs. 2.5 is still VERY new and was only released publicly in December. 2.4.2 still has a few bugs but for the

Re: BGP FlowSpec support on provider networks

2009-04-10 Thread McDonald Richards
In my experience it's vendor support that is lacking, not provider support On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Fouant, Stefan stefan.fou...@neustar.bizwrote: Hi folks, I am trying to compile data on which providers are currently supporting BGP Flowspec at their edge, if there are any at