Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Nathan Stratton
I use Comcast Business for my primary at home, but it is so bad that I was forced to get Starlink as backup. I am not in a city, but close enough that there would be issues. ><> nathan stratton On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 9:47 PM John Levine wrote: > It appears that Eric Kuhnke said:

Re: Open source mapping of US high voltage electrical grid

2022-01-16 Thread Nathan Stratton
Very cool, thanks, Eric. ><> nathan stratton On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 9:48 PM Eric Kuhnke wrote: > Possibly of interest for network operators who have inter-city circuits, > where the underlying carrier is something on OPGW fiber in high voltage > lines. > > These peo

Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

2021-03-29 Thread Nathan Stratton
I mix Starlink and Comcast over two openvpn tunnels to my datacenter in Ashburn. ><> nathan stratton On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 3:38 PM Matt Erculiani wrote: > I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if anyone out there was trying to > mix their StarLink kit and existing

Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-30 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:13 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > The folks on this list likely know where the central Tennessee backup > tandem office is located. Although its semi-public knowledge, I avoided > mentioning its location until the immediate threat passed. LATAs don't > have much legal meaning

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-21 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 4:45 PM Sander Steffann wrote: > > I find there's a strong INVERSE correlation between the quantity of > > certificates on an applicant's resume and their ability to do the > > job. > > Never got a certificate, don't want one either :) > That's what I said about high scho

Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test

2018-10-03 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 4:18 PM wrote: > Iphone, vzw, silicon valley, rcvd. > > Interesting question though... I wonder if people on micro-cells and/or > wifi calling don’t get the alerts. That would be extremely dumb and > irresponsible of the cell phone carriers, so its likely the case :) > Ver

Re: Colocation in New York for a POP

2012-04-19 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Andrew Mulholland wrote: at $JOB-2 we had a couple of racks in 60 Hudson St, which worked well I just took a few racks on the 9th floor, I know there are some others that are free. <> Nathan Stratton nathan at robotics.net http://www.robotics.net

Re: Network Storage

2012-04-12 Thread Nathan Stratton
some nice 10 gig capture cards. The 2nd way is to use Gluster, over a large number of hosts with infiniband connecting them together. <> Nathan Stratton nathan at robotics.net http://www.robotics.net

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, chris wrote: Comcast same deal ethernet only Yep, I got a quote for that, 7K a month yet I can get 100 meg on a gig circuit for $400 bucks from them in a datacenter. Oh, and the 7K is NOT to cover build out, did I forget to mention that node for my area is in MY bac

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, William Herrin wrote: A cost I could live with. It's the fact that they won't sell me BGP service in the FiOS product line *at all* that makes me pine for the days of FCC mandated unbundling. Having the same problem with Comcast, even on there business Cable service they

Re: Route Optimization Software / Appliance

2011-08-23 Thread Nathan Stratton
that complicated, you basically take netflow data and send it to a host that has tunnels over each one of your BGP peers that you care about. It then uses a combination of traceroute and ping to collect its data that is then injected back to the router over BGP. <> Nathan St

Re: Internap FCP

2011-06-06 Thread Nathan Stratton
enough of the active flows. I believe the overall idea can provide a lot of value, it just was not the best solution for our needs. <> Nathan StrattonCTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com http://www.roboti

Re: Wire-rate Packet Capture on 10gbE

2011-04-29 Thread Nathan Stratton
you to build a distributed storage over many servers. You can find 10 gig infiniband cards on ebay for around $50 and a good 24 port topspin/cisco switch will cost you about $1K. <> Nathan StrattonCTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net

Re: Request Spamhaus contact

2011-01-17 Thread Nathan Stratton
orporation" for what you guys are doing? <> Nathan StrattonCTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com http://www.robotics.nethttp://www.blinkmind.com

Re: Want to move to all 208V for server racks

2010-12-02 Thread Nathan Stratton
wg/search.shtml?searchQuery=GFCI+breaker&op=search&Ntt=GFCI+breaker&N=0&sst=subset Home Depot also must have missed this: http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?keyword=gfci+breaker&langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053 <> Nathan Stratton

Re: Looking Glass

2010-09-07 Thread Nathan Stratton
ss elegant. Anyone know of a good http looking glass that works with quagga? <> Nathan StrattonCTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com http://www.robotics.nethttp://www.blinkmind.com

Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC

2010-08-11 Thread Nathan Stratton
video conferencing solutions that require us to be closer to our subscribers. Some providers will lower their rates if you can show them most of your traffic will stay local. <> Nathan StrattonCTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net

Re: Traceroute management

2009-06-10 Thread Nathan Stratton
ic is taking. Has anyone ever seen any apps like this, preferably something that is free. We ended up writing our own, take a look at perl Net::Traceroute throw it in a DB with DBI and then graph it with graphviz. <> Nathan StrattonCTO, BlinkMind, Inc

Re: 10-GigE for servers

2009-05-01 Thread Nathan Stratton
your application supports Infiniband, but if not you can run IP over IB. <> Nathan StrattonCTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com http://www.robotics.nethttp://www.blinkmind.com

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Nathan Stratton
other possibilities. Sad but true, we have had to turn off signups outside the US because of that very problem. Yes, I am sure we lose some sales, but in general it is not worth the fraud costs. <> Nathan StrattonCTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at r