Re: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center issued a Severe (G4) Geomagnetic Storm Watch

2024-05-10 Thread Raymond Burkholder
We had some Meinberg's which did something similar but different some time ago.  NTP was out of sync with GPS.  We had a CheckMk instance which detected drift between sources in our network.  Turns out there was one or more configs in the Meinberg that enable failover from one source to

Re: Network chatter generator

2024-02-23 Thread Raymond Burkholder
scapy? On 2024-02-23 10:33, Brandon Martin wrote: Before I go to the trouble of making one myself, does anybody happen to know of a pre-canned program to generate realistic and scalable amounts of broadcast/broad-multicast network background "chatter" seen on typical consumer and business

Re: Cisco Nexus Odd sFlow Implementation

2023-03-20 Thread Raymond Burkholder
. *From: *"Raymond Burkholder" *To: *nanog@nanog.org *Sent: *Monday, March 20, 2023 10:16:37 AM *Subject: *Re: Cisco Nexus Odd sFlow Implementation On 3/20/23 08:55, Mike Hammett wrote: Cisco is sending the in and out packets in their sFlow impl

Re: Cisco Nexus Odd sFlow Implementation

2023-03-20 Thread Raymond Burkholder
packets transiting is double, but I generally have specific reports for specific traffic patterns I focus on anyway. Raymond Burkholder One Unified Net Limited - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL><https://

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 1/22/23 21:54, Tom Beecher wrote: Yes re: Iridium. Contrary to what the Chief Huckster may say, inter-sat comms are not some revolutionary thing that he invented. It’s also not likely to function anything like they show in marketing promos, with data magically zipping around the

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 1/22/23 16:05, Matthew Petach wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 2:45 PM Michael Thomas wrote: I read in the Economist that the gen of starlink satellites will have the ability to route messages between each satellite. Would conventional routing protocols be up to such a

Re: any dangers of filtering every /24 on full internet table to preserve FIB space ?

2022-10-10 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2022-10-10 09:39, Jay Hennigan wrote: On 10/10/22 07:58, Edvinas Kairys wrote: We're considering to buy some Cisco boxes - NCS-55A1-24H. That box has 24x100G, but only 2.2mln route (FIB) memory entries. In a near future it will be not enough - so we're thinking to deny all /24s to save the

Re: Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

2022-06-14 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2022-06-14 09:46, Saku Ytti wrote: These EOLd are HMC devices, Micron EOLd HMC back in 2018, no one else made them. MX304 is a very different device than MX80, MX104, MX204. Previously these were single chip very BOM optimised devices. MX304 has YT on each card, which also means half of the

Re: Upstream bandwidth usage

2022-06-09 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2022-06-09 17:35, Michael Thomas wrote: On 6/9/22 4:31 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: Adam, Your point on asymmetrical technologies is excellent. But you may not be aware that residential optical fiber is also asymmetrical. For example, GPON, the latest ITU specified PON standard, and the

Re: FYI - 2FA to be come mandatory for ARIN Online?

2022-05-24 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2022-05-24 16:22, John Curran wrote: On 24 May 2022, at 4:39 PM, niels=na...@bakker.net wrote: * nanog@nanog.org (Laura Smith via NANOG) [Tue 24 May 2022, 22:22 CEST]: Its 2022. Do we really still need a consultation on why mandatory 2FA is a good thing ? Even more so for something like

Re: VoLTE and SRTP

2022-03-08 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2022-03-08 2:58 p.m., Michael Thomas wrote: Hi, I was reading an article on why Russia hasn't taken out Ukraine's mobile networks and one of the premises was that they could use it to eavesdrop on calls. Depending on how old their infrastructure is, that doesn't make sense as I would

Re: SRv6 Capable NOS and Devices -> MPLS instead?

2022-01-15 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 1/15/22 10:22 AM, Colton Conor wrote: True, but in general MPLS is more costly. It's available on limited devices, from limited vendors. Infact, many of these vendors, like Extreme, charge you if you want to enable MPLS features on a box. And in this discussion group, when MPLS is mentioned,

Re: Assistance with Microsoft O365 Email Deliverability?

2021-12-10 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 12/10/21 6:42 AM, Tom Daly wrote: Reaching out for help - having troubles with email delivery into O365 inboxes. Have done the requisite PTRs, SPF+DKIM work, domain reputation, RBL checks, etc. For some reason, this one is vexxing me. Anyone from Microsoft on the list that could lend a

Re: Increase bandwidth usage in partial-mesh network?

2021-10-14 Thread Raymond Burkholder
optimization on top of faucet/openvswitch/openflow to calculate best paths based upon bandwidth, paths, and fill-factors.  There is a presentation where Google uses that technique to obtain high utilization on their links (not necessarily those tools though). Raymond Burkholder

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-06-01 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 6/1/21 11:33 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: 99% of the end-users I know can't tell the difference in any amount of speed above 5 megs. It then just either works or doesn't work. And that might be the crux: 'just make it work'.

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-31 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 5/31/21 7:14 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: Yes, WFH (or e-learning) is much more likely to have simultaneous uses. Yes, I agree that 3 megs is getting thin for three video streams. Not impossible, but definitely a lot more hairy. So then what about moving the upload definition to 5 megs? 10

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 5/30/21 8:32 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2021 15:56:52 -0500, Blake Dunlap said: The co op electric serving my families house in bfe tn that doesn't have either sewer or cable managed to run hard fiber for dirt cheap to all their subscribers. Its clear from that the problem

Re: (Slightly OT?) K8S Platform As A Service Recommendations

2021-04-07 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 4/7/21 9:16 AM, Charles N Wyble wrote:> Does anyone have a recommendation for a self-hosted, on premise, > platform as a service layer for k8s (specifically k3s)? FWIW: Maybe you don't need kubernetes: https://endler.dev/2019/maybe-you-dont-need-kubernetes/ Manually install a single node

Re: Hosting recommendations ... ?

2021-01-19 Thread Raymond Burkholder
the ProxMox abstraction and run the LXC commands and IP commands directly. Raymond Burkholder blog: https://blog.raymond.burkholder.net

Re: Linux router network cards

2020-10-20 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2020-10-20 22:37, Philip Loenneker wrote: Take a look at the Mellanox ConnectX 5 series of cards. They handle DPDK, PVRDMA (basically SR-IOV that allows live migration between hosts), and can even process packets within the NIC for some models. They did a fantastic presentation at AusNOG

Re: mail admins?

2020-04-23 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2020-04-23 7:31 p.m., Michael Thomas wrote: On 4/23/20 6:20 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:57 PM Michael Thomas wrote: Passwords over the wire are the *key* problem of computer security. Nothing else even comes close. One only needs to look at the LinkedIn salting

Re: Quagga for production?

2020-02-23 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2020-02-23 5:26 a.m., Dmitry Sherman wrote: Hello, Anybody working with Quagga for production peering with multiple peers and dynamic eBGP/iBGP announcement? Free Range Routing (FRR) forked Quagga a few years back.  I would say it is the new Quagga. But either flavour handles multiple

Re: Mx204 alternative

2019-09-02 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2019-09-02 8:07 p.m., Brandon Martin wrote: On 9/2/19 6:04 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: Like how about 8-16*100GE single Trio PCI card with no-questions asked, specification released, would there be a market? I like to think there would be. Oh my gosh this.  Especially if the docs are truly

Re: Asset management recommendations

2019-08-24 Thread Raymond Burkholder
Expanding further, there are those that use ansible for network management.  But I don't think it does well in scaling out for functionality.  I have used saltstack for network config and server builds, as it becomes the source of truth for the infrastructure, allowing for consistent upgrades

Re: CenturyLink

2018-12-29 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2018-12-29 7:51 a.m., Matthew Huff wrote: We have two stratum-1 servers synced with GPS and a PTP feed from a provider that also provides PTP to market data systems, but we still have to monitor drift between system time and NIST time. Don't ask for the logic behind it, it's a regulation,

Re: Pinging a Device Every Second

2018-12-15 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2018-12-15 11:32 a.m., Colton Conor wrote: The problem I am trying to solve is to accurately be able to tell a customer if their home internet connection was up or down.  Example, customer calls in and says my internet was down for 2 minutes yesterday. We need to be able to verify that

Re: Linux BNG

2018-07-15 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 07/15/2018 10:56 AM, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: On 2018-07-15 19:00, Raymond Burkholder wrote: On 07/15/2018 09:03 AM, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: On 2018-07-14 22:05, Baldur Norddahl wrote: About OVS, i didnt looked much at it, as i thought it is not suitable for BNG purposes, like

Re: Linux BNG

2018-07-15 Thread Raymond Burkholder
with a fourth on the way. 1) native kernel, 2) hardware offload via TC (SwitchDev), 3) DPDK, 4) eBPF. Linux tap device has very high overhead, it suits no more than working as some hotspot gateway for 100s of users. As does the 'veth' construct. -- Raymond Burkholder r...@oneunified.net https

Re: Linux BNG

2018-07-14 Thread Raymond Burkholder
to write about, but those writings would depend up on what you already have in place, what you would like to put in place, and how you wish to segment your network. Hope this helps. Baldur -- Raymond Burkholder r...@oneunified.net https://blog.raymond.burkholder.net

Re: BGP in a containers

2018-06-15 Thread Raymond Burkholder
want to make sure I am not over looking any other options before I dive in. Any thoughts or suggestions? -James -- Raymond Burkholder r...@oneunified.net https://blog.raymond.burkholder.net -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed

Re: Open Souce Network Operating Systems

2018-01-17 Thread Raymond Burkholder
atform / code train in that function? or across many functions? -- Raymond Burkholder r...@oneunified.net https://blog.raymond.burkholder.net -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

Re: Comparison of freeware open source switch software?

2018-01-09 Thread Raymond Burkholder
nism to drive the hardware (both switch and network cards) from the OS, without a pre-compiled proprietary SDK blob (black box). http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_switch_software/PB_Spectrum_Linux_Switch.pdf Disclaimer: I not affiliated with Mellanox, only a customer. -- Raym

RE: Comparison of freeware open source switch software?

2018-01-09 Thread Raymond Burkholder
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RE: Comparison of freeware open source switch software?

2018-01-09 Thread Raymond Burkholder
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Lanner Devices - NCA-5510

2017-12-05 Thread Raymond Burkholder
Hello, A number of people have been suggesting Lanner boxes for routing. I have used FW-7543A and FW-7573A boxes with Debian with no issues. I am currently trying the NCA-5510 model with NCS2-IGM806B (XL710) and NCS2-IXM407A (I350) cards with a standard Debian Stretch installation. I was

Re: CPE that support 1G with BGP multihomed

2017-09-29 Thread Raymond Burkholder
into install mode with dnsmasq providing deb-install preseed build files.  On the auto reboot after o/s install, I finish up with consistent, documented builds with SaltStack.  This provides the necessary customized switching, routing, security, and monitoring. Raymond Burkholder https

Re: USA local SIM card

2017-09-18 Thread Raymond Burkholder
. https://roammobility.ca/ This one is different, this is a one-time use SIM. What can you advice? Thank you! -- Raymond Burkholder https://blog.raymond.burkholder.net/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

Re: 100G - Whitebox

2017-08-20 Thread Raymond Burkholder
Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- Raymond Burkholder https://blog.raymond.burkholder.net/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

Re: (Network Orchestrators evaluation) : tail-f vs Anuta vs UBIqube vs OpenDaylight

2017-08-10 Thread Raymond Burkholder
ement, orchestrating upgrades/migrations/repairs, telemetry/monitoring, alarm management … and orchestrating all the bits and pieces to minimise ‘touch’ as network elements are changed. Raymond Burkholder https://blog.raymond.burkholder.net -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

Re: DevOps workflow for networking

2017-08-10 Thread Raymond Burkholder
our prod deployment we leverage 'push on green' and gating to push > package changes to prod devices. Which can be orchestrated. > > Thanks Raymond Burkholder https://blog.raymond.burkholder.net -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

RE: Monitoring system recommendation

2016-06-06 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> We are currently planning to upgrade our monitoring system (Opsview) due > to scalability issues and I was wondering what do you recommend for > monitoring > 5000 hosts and 35000 services. We would like to use a monitoring system that Another consideration is check_mk. We use it in our shop.

RE: Usage Graphing per Subnet

2015-02-17 Thread Raymond Burkholder
Hi All, I have a requirement to plot a usage graph per subnet. As an example. I have a 192.168.1.0/24 subnet divided among 32 customers where each one will get a /29 [ 192.168.1.0/29 = Customer A ; 192.168.1.8/29 = Customer B etc... ] ... Is there any tool to graph the usage of

RE: Checkpoint IPS

2015-02-05 Thread Raymond Burkholder
But there's no overstating the usefulness of a properly-tuned IPS for attack prevention I've never heard a plausible anecdote, much less seen meaningful statistics, of these devices actually 'preventing' anything. I think it depends upon where you put them, and whether or not you have

RE: Alerting systems, Logicmonitor and/or alternatives

2015-01-28 Thread Raymond Burkholder
What's the collective opinion here? Is anyone using them or a similar service? Are there non-cloud-based alternatives that are relatively easy to set up and manage? We've explored Zabbix, Nagios, MRTG and its various wrappers, and Intermapper. Anything else new on the horizon that has a GUI

RE: OSPF Costs Formula that include delay.

2014-01-24 Thread Raymond Burkholder
Some networks I have worked with took the average latency of each link and assigned that (with some constant multiple) as the interface cost. Of course this all fails miserably if you are using anything like MPLS underneath your OSPF. But then when using MPLS underneath, then MPLS

RE: Open source hardware

2014-01-03 Thread Raymond Burkholder
Vyatta and now VyOS are important projects for networking. We really need to get away from locked down non-free hardware and software for critical infrastructure. It's natural that most of the people in this community (myself included) will be fans of companies like Cisco and Juniper and

RE: turning on comcast v6

2014-01-03 Thread Raymond Burkholder
There is simply no good reason not to include default route in the configuration for DHCPv6, and it's long overdue. As I've said before, if we're going to bother doing it, we should just include RIO options, but otherwise, I agree with you. Are DHCPv6 and/or NDP extendible for other

RE: Mikrotik Cloud Core Router and BGP real life experiences?

2013-12-27 Thread Raymond Burkholder
My real world experience with these is that they suck. Plain and simple. Don't waste your time. Would you mind elaborating what you were trying to accomplish and what failed? Thank you. Ray -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to

RE: Network configuration archiving

2013-10-25 Thread Raymond Burkholder
I am unsure what we as networkers have done in the past, but I am sure we've done our fair share of atonement and don't have to keep using RANCID. Some people in this thread have been mentioning config generators. There is / was something called netomata. A web search brings up various

RE: Bird vs Quagga revisited (MP-BGP RR)

2012-08-23 Thread Raymond Burkholder
Of those who have used Quagga or Bird, or anything else, would either of them be appropriate and/or well suited for use as an iBGP blackhole route server? To expand the opinion set, how do Quagga, Bird, exaBGP, OpenBGPd hold up for handling Multi-Protocol BGP Route Reflector duties in a

RE: software wanted

2011-12-20 Thread Raymond Burkholder
can anybody recommend a piece of software, that could graph a live network scanning it via snmp. requirements are: 1. must produce a text output suitable for postproduction. graphviz is an ideal, xml - acceptable. 2. must use no external database i.e. have text config file. clean text

RE: Looking Glass Functionality

2011-10-05 Thread Raymond Burkholder
Does anyone know of a off-the-self product that provides looking glass functionality for a network ? RANCID at shrubbery.net has a looking glass script. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

RE: skype

2011-06-07 Thread Raymond Burkholder
I love how this story was published AFTER MSFT purchased them ;-) http://plug2play.blogspot.com/2010/12/skypes-biggest-secret-revealed.html reverse engineering hack was reported back in mid December. On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Randy Bush wrote: http://heartbeat.skype.com/

RE: open source DPI suggestions?

2011-04-29 Thread Raymond Burkholder
Can anyone suggest any open source DPI (deep packet inspection) projects? I'll recommend Bro-IDS (http://www.bro-ids.org/) as it's what I spend my days working on. It's essentially a programming language for long term network traffic monitoring which is focused on doing deep decoding of