RE: 32-bit ASN acceptance by ISPs in ARIN region

2013-09-23 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
I'd like to see an option for a larger private ASN block - 1K of private ASNs can be quite a pain in really large organizations. I have seen others mention this in the past - e.g. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/cisco/nsp/158375 But apparently there's not enough traction to cause

RE: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-09 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
On Saturday, June 08, 2013 6:44 PM, Ryan Malayter [mailto:malay...@gmail.com] wrote: Speaking from the content provider dide here, but we've always run IPsec on DCIs and even private T1s/DS3s back in the day. Doesn't everyone do the same these days? I find it hard to imagine passing any

RE: [outages] NTP Issues Today

2012-11-20 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
Logs from a Juniper router in a customer network - we had hundreds of these affected. They all synchronize to internal hosts (172.20.167.251 and .252) which are configured to get time from NIST and USNO CORP-NTP-01#sh ntp as address ref clock st when poll reach delay

RE: NANOG poll: favorite cable labeler?

2012-08-21 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
We use the Brady IDXPERT label makers to create the self-laminating cable labels and Brother P-Touch to label devices, etc. The Brady label printers and supplies are a bit more expensive than the Brother but it's worth it for the cable labels. The Brother supplies are available at most office

RE: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags

2012-08-20 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
Quality Union work! -Original Message- From: Miles Fidelman [mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 3:29 PM Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Eric Wieling wrote:

RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?

2011-11-08 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
. - we're also Juniper and Cisco partners too but we prefer the Palo Altos for firewalls these days. Let me know how I can help -Ben R. Benjamin Kessler CCIE #8762, CISSP, CCSE President / Chief Network Geek Zenetra Corporation Email: ben.kess...@zenetra.com http://www.zenetra.com Office: 260-271-4330

RE: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-10 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
From: William Herrin [mailto:b...@herrin.us] * Carrier NAT... I spend most of my days fighting with carriers to actually carry bits from point A to point B like they're paid to do. I'm sick and tired of them blaming CPE for circuit bounces and outages that are magically fixed without us

RE: Post-Exhaustion-phase punishment for early adopters

2011-02-08 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
From: George Herbert [mailto:george.herb...@gmail.com] Let's just grab 2/8, it's not routed on the Internet... +1 I was consulting for a financial services firm in the late '90s that was acquired by a large east-coast bank; the bank's brilliant scheme was to renumber all new acquisitions

RE: ethernet to serial converters with ACLs

2010-03-10 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Michael Holstein wrote: Can anyone recommend a cheap Ethernet to Serial (RS232/422/485) converter with functionality like the Lantronix boxes .. except one that supports access lists (nothing complicated .. maybe a list of 5 approved hosts). I need a bunch of

MLFR Differential Delay Problems

2010-02-18 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
Hello NANOGers - I'm working on a project to migrate a customer from one Tier 1 provider to another at 50+ locations (all domestic US sites). Most of these connections are 4xT1 multi-link bundles. The old router configuration was MLPPP which was rock-solid for 3 years (save for the

cisco.com

2009-08-04 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
Hey Gang - I'm unable to get to cisco.com from multiple places on the 'net (including downforeveryoneorjustme.com); any ideas on the cause and ETR? Thanks, Ben

What Platform for a small ISP (was: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router)

2009-07-22 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
There has been a lot of good feedback regarding the deficiencies of the 7600 platform... So, the new question is: what platforms should a small, start-up ISP consider when looking to provide Ethernet services to their customers? - Scalability - 100M, 1G, 10G access speeds (backplane limitations,

RE: What Platform for a small ISP (was: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router)

2009-07-22 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
tables) three POPs meshed together On 7/22/09 9:39 AM, R. Benjamin Kessler r...@mnsginc.com wrote: There has been a lot of good feedback regarding the deficiencies of the 7600 platform... So, the new question is: what platforms should a small, start-up ISP consider when looking to provide