Re: Juniper BGP Convergence Time

2018-05-15 Thread Ruairi Carroll
On 15 May 2018 at 07:10, Adam Kajtar wrote: > Hello: > > I'm running two Juniper MX104s. Each MX has 1 ISP connected running > BGP(full routes). iBGP is running between the routers via a two port 20G > lag. When one of the ISPs fails, it can take upwards of 2 minutes for > traffic to start flowin

Re: MTU to CDN's

2018-01-19 Thread Ruairi Carroll
On 19 January 2018 at 13:48, Mike Hammett wrote: > Other than people improperly blocking ICMP, when does PMTUD not work? > Honest question, not troll. > > It can break under _certain_ scenarios with Anycast. It can break under _certain_ scenarios in v6 with ECMP. It can break across an LB in L4

Re: Open Souce Network Operating Systems

2018-01-17 Thread Ruairi Carroll
Hey, Have a look at a similar thread from recently: http://seclists.org/nanog/2018/Jan/180 /Ruairi On 17 January 2018 at 14:28, Colton Conor wrote: > If one were to deploy whitebox switches, X86 servers, low cost ARM and > MIBPS CPE devices, and basically anything that can run linux today, wha

Re: Arista Layer3

2017-12-01 Thread Ruairi Carroll
Their L3 stuff is as stable as their L2 stuff, in general. MP-BGP and VRFs are a tiny bit bleeding edge/lacking features, however for plain OSPF/BGP, they're great. /Ruairi On 30 November 2017 at 18:36, Romeo Czumbil wrote: > So I've been using Arista as layer2 for quite some time, and I'm p

Re: tracking TCP session hop by hop

2017-11-29 Thread Ruairi Carroll
Have a look at tcptraceroute: https://github.com/mct/tcptraceroute/blob/master/examples.txt On 28 November 2017 at 20:48, Yifeng Zhou wrote: > Hi Experts, > > Is there any way that we can track TCP session hop by hop? > > Say we have 10 ECMP between A and Z point, what's the easiest way to tra

Rogers Cable contact

2017-10-13 Thread Ruairi Carroll
Hello, Does anyone have a technical contact in Rogers (AS 812) they could refer me to to fix up some issues? Cheers /Ruairi

Re: Juniper Advertise MED on EBGP session.

2017-02-21 Thread Ruairi Carroll
Unless I'm going insane, I think you're trying to use the IGP metric as MED? If so, then : https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos12.3/topics/topic-map/bgp-med.html#jd0e3487 /Ruairi On 21 February 2017 at 16:26, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > I tried to pull an old trick out of my playboo

Re: IPv6 deployment excuses

2016-07-03 Thread Ruairi Carroll
On 3 July 2016 at 12:15, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 3/Jul/16 12:01, Ruairi Carroll wrote: > > > Core of the issue is that we _need_ to get an ICMP message back to the > original "real server" who sent it. It's a non-issue in the SP space, but > imagine if

Re: IPv6 deployment excuses

2016-07-03 Thread Ruairi Carroll
On 3 July 2016 at 11:42, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 2/Jul/16 17:35, Ruairi Carroll wrote: > > - ECMP issues (Mostly around flow labels and vendor support for that, also > feeds back into PMTUD issues) > > > Do you rely on the ToS field in IPv4 for ECMP? > > Nope

Re: IPv6 deployment excuses

2016-07-02 Thread Ruairi Carroll
Issues I've faced in the past with v6 deployments, from the point of view of stub networks. Feel free to pick/choose as you wish: - Badly understood (By the team) methods to assign addressing to servers. - Poor tooling in regards to log processing/external providers. - Unknown cost in dev time to

Re: Strange Problem with 16 byte packets

2016-06-16 Thread Ruairi Carroll
some dummy data so that instead of 16 bytes, we > push 1 MB of data. In that case i saw no issues. Any idea if there is a > firewall setting that could be coming into play here? > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Ruairi Carroll > wrote: > >> Follow the TCP stre

Re: Strange Problem with 16 byte packets

2016-06-16 Thread Ruairi Carroll
Follow the TCP stream - which side times out the link, and for what sequences of data do you get ACKs for? /Ruairi On 16 June 2016 at 10:43, Glen Kent wrote: > Hi, > > I am using a proprietary protocol and sending a bunch of bytes to a Draytek > router at an enterprise site. When i send the dat

Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

2015-06-11 Thread Ruairi Carroll
On 11 June 2015 at 06:46, Alex White-Robinson wrote: > Matthew Petach wrote: > > > On a slightly different note, however--while it's good to > > have an appreciation of the past and how we got here, > > I think it's wise to also recognize we as an industry > > have some challenges bringing new b

Re: Equinix Virginia - Ethernet OOB suggestions

2014-11-10 Thread Ruairi Carroll
On 10 November 2014 15:20, Joe Greco wrote: > > Hey, > > > > VPN setup is not really a viable option (for us) in this scenario. > > Honestly, I'd prefer to just call it done already and have a VPN but due > to > > certain restraints, we have to go down this route. > > Without explaining the "rest

Re: Equinix Virginia - Ethernet OOB suggestions

2014-11-10 Thread Ruairi Carroll
t a router or VPN system on the single IP they are giving > you and use RFC1918 addressing space? > > OOB doesn't normally justify a /24 let alone a /23. > > On 10 November 2014 13:18, Ruairi Carroll > wrote: > >> Dear List, >> >> I've got an upcomin

Equinix Virginia - Ethernet OOB suggestions

2014-11-10 Thread Ruairi Carroll
Dear List, I've got an upcoming deployment in Equinix (DC10) and I'm struggling to find a provider who can give me a 100Mbit port (With a commit of about 5-10Mbit) with a /23 or /24 of public space , for OOB purposes. We had hoped to use Equinixs services, however they're limiting us to a single p

Re: Reporting DDOS reflection attacks

2014-11-08 Thread Ruairi Carroll
Hey, We've been hit on/off with large scale amplification attacks over the last few years. We found looking up src ASN of the attack and reporting is not super helpful, as many blocks come from sub allocations and you'll just get redirected to someone else. This will just cause more overhead and

Re: Saying goodnight to my GSR

2014-09-20 Thread Ruairi Carroll
> And what, exactly, is it vulnerable to? Most of these, I'd imagine: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/12_0s/release/ntes/120SCAVS.html On 20 September 2014 14:25, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > And what, exactly, is it vulnerable to? > > >-Original Message- > >From: NANOG [mailto:na

Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins

2014-07-27 Thread Ruairi Carroll
On 26 July 2014 17:10, Joly MacFie wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > > Telecommuting should not be a rare exception: it should be the default. > > And "corporate headquarters" should be as small and inexpensive as > > possible, > > staffed (in person) only by a h

Re: Heartbleed Bug Found in Cisco Routers, Juniper Gear

2014-04-11 Thread Ruairi Carroll
Slightly sensationalistic article, tends to imply that heartbleed will allow you to capture data-plane traffic on any piece of Cisco/Juniper kit. Either way, as I've said before, if you're exposing *any* management interfaces, be is ssh,netconf or https to the internet in general, you've got bigge