I believe RAD makes a device similar to the Accedian. There's also the Metro
Nid line from Accedian, but while they do a lot, they're pretty spendy.
Shawn
-Original Message-
From: "Tim Burke"
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2023 12:38am
To: "Ross Tajvar"
Cc: "North American Network O
Is anyone else seeing a lot of 'strange' IPSEC traffic? We started seeing logs
of IPSEC with invalid spi on Friday. We're seeing it on pretty much all of our
PE routers, none of which are setup to do anything VPN related. Most are just
routing local customer traffic.
decaps: rec'd IPSEC pa
I personally own a .us domain name -- while it's a personal domain and doesn't
do a lot of traffic, it's still a legitimate domain.
-Original Message-
From: "goemon--- via NANOG"
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2023 4:30pm
To: "NANOG list"
Subject: .US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shor
We know the feeling well. Try porting from them…..
> On May 2, 2023, at 4:41 PM, Daniel Marks via NANOG wrote:
>
> My issue was just trying to convince Spectrum to look into the problem in
> the first place, I brought the Atlas probe receipts because it’s such a
> helpful tool, but wasn’t ab
You should be able to setup a VPLS between 3 (or more) devices. Something like
this --
Example: VFI on a PE Device
The following example shows a virtual forwarding instance (VFI) configuration:
Device(config)# l2 vfi vfi110 manual
Device(config-vfi)# vpn id 110
Device(config-vfi)# neighbor 172
All i can say is good luck. We see the 'trash-bag mod' on a lot of AT&T aerial
boots and PEDs, as well as Charter/Spectrum/TWC gear. A lot of times, they
don't even get that. Unless you know how to get in contact with a local tech,
they will most likely not respond until the customer complai
Those are Twin Gig Converter Modules. They went in the 3560 series (and
probably others). You could either insert a 10 gig module, or the converter
module and get 2 1-gig sfp slots.
-Original Message-
From: "Matt Erculiani"
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 11:26am
To: "Mel Beckman"
I think they call me around once a week right now. Even after I've told them
we're not interested. Every once in a while they switch the numbers they're
calling from, just to keep things interesting.
Shawn
-Original Message-
From: "Dennis Burgess"
Sent: Friday, August 5, 2022 4:20
With the current shortages and lead times, I almost feel like I did back in the
beginning of my career ---
Then it was "what can we do with what we can afford" now it's more like "What
can we do with what we have (or can actually get)"?
Shawn
-Original Message-
From: "Adam Thompso
I'd still go with telect-style blocks. Wire-wrap on the front and amphenol on
the back/bottom depending you application. Way less space than 66 or 110.
-Original Message-
From: "Dave Phelps"
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2022 4:27pm
To: "Mike Hammett"
Cc: "NANOG"
Subject: Re: Copper T
Thanks for all who've responded. I was able to reach a very helpful engineer @
HE.
Shawn
-Original Message-
From: "Owen DeLong"
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 2:15pm
To: "Shawn L"
Subject: Re: Any engineers from HE on the list?
FWIW, [ supp...@he.net ]( m
Wondering if there are any engineers from HE (Hurricane Electric) on the list
that could help with a strange traffic issue through your network
If so, please contact me off-list
Thanks
Shawn
Meraki MX series?
I don't like the way they do their licensing (your license runs out, the box is
a paper-weight) but they do really well at establishing site-to-site VPNs in
some pretty challenging scenarios. Dynamic IPs and NATs don't really cause
them a problem. Some CGNats do (AT&T I'm
o preserve battery for the
phone portion. Though that behavior can be changed in software.
-Original Message-
From: "Michael Thomas"
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 2:48pm
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: home router battery backup
On 1/12/22 10:54 AM, Shawn L via NANOG
In $dayjob I work for a telco that deploys fiber to the home. If we are
providing voice services over fiber a battery backup is installed (we maintain)
that powers the customer's phone in the event of a power outage. It does not
power their router, etc. 99% of the customers do not install a
we received it as well
-Original Message-
From: "Matt Hoppes"
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 8:21am
To: "North American Network Operators' Group"
Subject: Anyone else getting the 'spam' bomb threat?
I've now heard from several operators - our selves included - about
getting an e-ma
Why about thinks like the Cisco 4500 switch series that are almost as long as a
1u server. But yet only has mounts for a relay type rack.
As far as boot times, try a Asr920. Wait 15 minutes and decide if it’s time to
power cycle again or wait 5 more minutes
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 25,
This one is always a bit tricky.
For example, if you have an apartment building with say 8 apartments, the
provider can install a larger MDU in a centralized location and potentially
utilized existing internal cabling in the building to get to each apartment
that would like service. It's a
Is there anyone on the list that's from an ISP that's participating in the ACAM
or ACAM II programs? If so, I'd like to ask a couple of questions (off-list)
specifically about the speed testing requirements.
Thanks
Shawn
There's also Rackspace. They have e-mail and web hosting, etc.
-Original Message-
From: "Ryan Finnesey via NANOG"
Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2021 10:56pm
To: "Steve Saner" , "nanog@nanog.org"
Subject: RE: Email and Web Hosting
If the client base wants to stick with basic IMAP/POP3 em
2.4 gbps down, 1.2 up. So yes, you could
-Original Message-
From: aar...@gvtc.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:18pm
To: "'Mark Tinka'" , nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: New minimum speed for US broadband connections
Yeah I thought gpon was 2.4 ghz down and 1.2 ghz up... so you could o
From the ISP side, I can tell you that when a customer signs up for service and
you offer them a couple of choices of wireless routers, they almost always pick
the cheapest one.
If you give them a reasonable / good router when you hook-up their service,
some will still put their old 15-year
The Accedian boxes are nice, as long as you remember they're not switches or
routers. We've used them for specific use cases, but have to remember that
there's things you just can't do on them. Though things may have changed on
them since we used them.
-Original Message-
From: a
Agreed. Don't fix what isn't broken.
-Original Message-
From: "Mark Tinka"
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2021 4:33pm
To: "Randy Bush" , "Rod Beck"
Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group"
Subject: Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?
On 3/20/21
That brings back memoriesI had a similar experience. First month on the
job, large Sun raid array storing ~ 5k of mailboxes dies in the middle of the
afternoon. So, I start troubleshooting and determine it's most likely a bad
disk. The CEO walked into the server room right about the time
When I last spoke to them, it sounded like they were using a bunch of LAG
groups based on ip address because they _really_ wanted to know how many ip
addresses we had and what kind of traffic we would be expecting (eyeball
networks, big data transport, etc).
-Original Message-
From: "
We once moved a 3u server 30 miles between data centers this way. Plug
redundant psu into a ups and 2 people carried it out and put them in a vehicle.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 1, 2020, at 11:58 PM, Christopher Morrow
> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 11:53 PM Alain Hebert wrote:
I completely agree. One of the people I used to do interviews with would look
through the resume, etc. and then say something like "this all looks good. Tell
me about something you've done". And we'd move on to talk about projects and
how they tackled it, etc.
We didn't give tests, just qu
We _always_ have at least one spare, or something that could be (relatively)
easily pressed into service as one.
Even in the Midwest, we've had times where 'guaranteed next day replacement' is
more like 2nd or third day due to weather conditions, the carrier routing it
weird, or just plain t
Innomedia is decent as well, but again it all depends on loop lengths.
Might want to look at more of a carrier system. Something like a Calix E7, E5
or C7 line. You could probably pick up a C7 chassis on the used market and
fill it up with ADSL or VDSL cards that will push dial-tone at least
This brings up an interesting question -- what is "good DDoS protection" on an
ISP scale? Apart from having enough bandwidth to weather the attack and having
upstream providers attempt to filter it for you/
-Original Message-
From: "Bottiger"
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 5:30pm
T
That's a tough one. In the telco space, the common sizes are 19" and 23". 19"
for gear, 23" for fiber patch panels, etc. There are also some 25" floating
around (Nortel, I'm looking at you).
Unfortunately, 19" gear fits in 19" racks. It fits in 23" sometimes -- if the
manufacture makes b
And here I actually went to their website (not Cogent -- they still call me all
the time as well) to see what they sell.
-Original Message-
From: "Kaiser, Erich"
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:50pm
To: "NANOG list"
Subject: Re: [EXT] Shining a light on ambulance chasers - Nocti
That's a tough one. 48 port dslams with internal splitters are easy. When
you're looking for more density you're almost always looking at external
splitter shelves. Could also look at the calix c7 platform -- tons around on
the used market -- but then again, no splitters.
-Original Me
Same -- we had an Akamai cache for 15+ years. Then we were notified that it
was done and were sent boxes to pack our stuff up and send it back.
-Original Message-
From: "Jared Mauch"
Sent: Saturday, December 7, 2019 2:05pm
To: "Seth Mattinen"
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Elepha
I have one who calls me bi-weekly even though we have declined to purchase
service from them at this time. I'd be happy to provide contact details
off-line.
-Original Message-
From: "Jon Sands"
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2019 9:30am
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Cogent sales re
s and DSL modems could be maintained by a
local admin through the pfSense web interface with no need to touch the DSLAMs
or anything CLI.
--Blake
Shawn L via NANOG wrote on 1/4/2019 8:59 AM:
Might want to look for old Zhone ip bitstorm dslams. There should be a bunch
on the used market
Might want to look for old Zhone ip bitstorm dslams. There should be a bunch
on the used market. They do all of the ATM conversions internally so you just
need to feed them with ethernet.
-Original Message-
From: "Nick Edwards"
Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 9:36am
To: "Brandon Mart
Speaking of GPS-enabled NTP appliances, etc. wondering what hardware people are
using for this.
thanks
-Original Message-
From: "Raymond Burkholder"
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2018 12:01pm
To: "Matthew Huff" , "l...@satchell.net" ,
"nanog@nanog.org"
Subject: Re: CenturyLink
O
Actellis also makes some ethernet over dry pair gear. The only issue is that
they require repeaters like a T1 (different spacing though). I'm guessing if
you're doing T1 at that distance you already have repeater housings in the
field at least.
-Original Message-
From: "Alfie Pa
Honestly, most carriers I've talked to are fed up as well, and just want to
find a way to make it stop. As some one said, it's exactly like BCP38 --- the
carriers that care keep their clients from spoofing caller id, etc. The ones
that don't make everyone else look bad.
-Original Messag
for the best speeds / quality on long loops order was like this
Zhone Bitstorm -> Zyxel 660HN
Zhone Bitstorm -> Comtrend AR5381u
Calix ADSL 2+ -> Zyxel 660HN
Calix ADSL 2+ -> Comtrend AR5381u
-Original Message-
From: "Mike Hammett"
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 20
At $dayjob we use both Comtrend and Zyxel modems. Both have a 1-port modem
that can be deployed in bridged mode. They both seem to work well with Calix
gear. We've found the Zyxel modems tend to work a little better at longer loop
lengths. But, for us at least, it's very easy to get custom f
JDSU make some nice ones that we use to qualify cell tower back haul. Not
cheap though
-Original Message-
From: "Jeremy Austin"
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 11:29am
To: "James Breeden" , "n...@flhsi.com" ,
"nanog@nanog.org"
Subject: Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment
JW, have you mov
Depending on the area and conditions (rock, etc). We're seeing
$4 /foot Aerial
$5-$7 /foot direct bury
$10 - $14 /foot directional bore
These are not including the fiber cable itself.
-Original Message-
From: "Luke Guillory"
Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 8:50am
To: "Jared Mauc
Looks like they're announcing quite a bit
-Original Message-
From: "Adam Greene"
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 8:52am
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: AS4233852001 advertising 192.0.0.0/2?
We were alerted to this by https://radar.qrator.net.
This seems wrong from a number of angl
What are people using to manage / send their outage notifications? We're
currently using a mostly manual process to identify customers that need to be
aware of an outage and send out e-mail at $dayjob. Looking for a way to
automate it more. I'd prefer something open source, but that's not a
I believe they fixed this -- when I've spoken to tech support recently, I had
to give them a tech support key so that they could access the devices I had
questions about.
-Original Message-
From: "Paul Nash"
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 8:55am
To: "Untitled 3"
Subject: Re: automa
We use the Meraki series -- MX @ the main office, and Z1 for the remote, or
just 2 Z1 units if it's a small network and they work great.
We've even gone so far as to utilize Avaya ip phones over the link so the
teleworker's extension works wherever they are. I have to say, compared to a
PI
We use observium. It has most of what you're looking for. Used to use cacti
but switched a couple of months ago
-Original Message-
From: "Baldur Norddahl"
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 6:18pm
To: "nanog@nanog.org"
Subject: mrtg alternative
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD
We use the Accedian Metro Nid in places. They work well, but are layer 2 only
-- at least the ones we got.
-Original Message-
From: "Colton Conor"
Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 9:34am
To: "Nick Hilliard"
Cc: "NANOG"
Subject: Re: Low density Juniper (or alternative) Edge
I
We're currently using Vantage Point out of North Dakota. Haven't had to
actually put anything into production as of yet though.
-Original Message-
From: "Crier, Brent"
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 10:04am
To: "nanog@nanog.org"
Subject: Lawful Intercept Trusted 3rd Party
Just
We like Calix's gpon gear, especially the E7 series. Though it's on the higher
side price-wise than others. Manageable through their CMS software, the web,
or command line. We tend to use their CMS software for most things, but the
CLI is decent, and gives you access to anything you'd want.
I've used Dan's Guardian before. Usually in a K-12 setting
-Original Message-
From: "shawn wilson"
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 11:10am
To: "MKS"
Cc: "North American Network Operators Group"
Subject: Re: inexpensive url-filtering db
On Oct 16, 2015 6:52 AM, "MKS" wrote:
>
> No
I know there are others on this list who used Google Apps for ISPs and recently
migrated off (as the service was discontinued).
We have had several cases where the user had a YouTube channel or Picasa photo
albums, etc. that they created with their Google Apps for ISPs credentials.
Now that
We ran it for a while, then gave up and just updated the info on Arin.
-Original Message-
From: "Josh Luthman"
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 3:56pm
To: "Dan White"
Cc: "Josh Moore" , "nanog@nanog.org"
Subject: Re: Debian RWHOIS
I think this is what you're asking for:
http://projec
: [ joh...@google.com ]( mailto:joh...@google.com )
Sincerely,
Omid Kordestani
Chief Business Officer
-Original Message-
From: "Marciano Lopes"
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 11:48am
To: "Shawn L"
Subject: Re: Google contact?
Hello Shawn!
Google cancelled their ISP program as of the 8th of June.
Feel free to contact me off-list for more info. They cancelled ours as well.
-Original Message-
From: "Christopher Tyler"
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 9:28am
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Google contact?
Need some help.. D
Remember, distance ratings are just generalizations. It all comes down to
power budget. When fiber is laid there are slack loops for potential
future service and for use if a cable is cut, splice cases -- because it's
hard to work with a fiber spool with more than 5 miles of cable on it,
other c
Can someone from Charter's NOC contact me off list? We have a mutual
customer who's having issues and not getting anywhere going through normal
channels.
thanks
Could a Charter engineer with familiarity with Michigan contact me
off-list? We have a mutual client who's having issues communicating
between sites.
Thanks
I was going to ask if you've tested the cable pair at all. If the pair is
bad, or even a little out of balance, bad scotch loks, etc. VDSL isn't
going to work properly.
We have customers that are definitely in-range for VDSL but who cannot get
it because there is a 26 gauge insert between two cro
Has anyone seen a good matrix of Cisco switches and their port-types, etc?
I'm looking for something where I can say 'I need a switch with X 10-gig
ports and Y 1-gig sfp ports, which models meet that criteria?'
I know I can look through all of the data sheets at cisco's website, but
there has to b
Slightly off-topic but what are people using as a cpe device in a
dual-stack scenario like this?
On Friday, August 1, 2014, Lee Howard wrote:
>
>
> On 7/30/14 3:45 PM, "joshua rayburn" >
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Starting in 3.10 code you can utilize Bulk Port Allocation to carve out
> >small consecutiv
On our HE uplink, I'm seeing no packet loss until your hop #9
at that point I see alot
HOST: Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- ***0.0%100.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.0
2.|-- ***0.0%100.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0
It seems ok from here
traceroute 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
4 dtr02rhnlwi-bue-1.rhnl.wi.charter.com (96.34.16.250) 20.843 ms 21.236
ms 21.616 ms
5 crr02euclwi-bue-7.eucl.wi.charter.com (96.34.17.32) 27.662 ms 36.047
ms 35.623 ms
6 bbr02euclwi
Calix makes a number of ONTs some with residential gateways, some that are
just bridges
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Aled Morris wrote:
> I notice Cisco's new ME4600 ONT's come in two flavors, one (the
> "Residential GateWay") with all the bells and whistles that you'd expect in
> an all-in
With all the talk lately about the growth in routes, I got to thinking
about upgrading the memory in a couple of my routers.
Does anyone have experience using third-party "guaranteed compatible"
memory.
With Cisco's discount it looks like I can upgrade for $5k vs $700 with
third party memory. I'm
Do the ASR1k routers have this issue as well? I searched around but
couldn't find any information.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Irwin, Kevin
Date: Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Getting pretty close to default IPv4 route maximum for
6500/7600 routers.
To: "nanog@nan
I just received the same exact notification -- same AS announcing one of my
blocks.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Joseph Jenkins
wrote:
> So I setup BGPMON for my prefixes and got an alert about someone in
> Thailand announcing my prefix. Everything looks fine to me and I've
> checked a bunch
With all of the new worms / denial of service / exploits, etc. that are
coming out, I'm wondering what others are using for access-lists on
residential subscriber-facing ports.
We've always taken the stance of 'allow unless there is a compelling reason
not to', but with everything that is coming o
It depends on what you mean by affordable and how much you're going to
use it.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Pui Edylie wrote:
> Dear Member,
>
> Anyone can recommend a reliable and "affordable" fusion splicer please?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
We had some similar issues whenever the BGP scanner process was running.
Ultimately we tracked down the issue to an access list that had the 'log'
statement appended to it, so it was logging all denies. Removing that
cleared up the issue.
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Shahab Vahabzadeh
wrote:
If you have one of their routers, etc. you cannot lock yourself out of the
device. You can always web to the 'inside' interface and make basic
configuration changes. It's not going to let you do policy stuff, etc. but
will let you do enough to establish / re-establish network connectivity.
On T
There are a couple of ways to do this. If you're going to keep everything
below grade in a man hole or cable vault of some type, you definitely need
to have it in a sealed splicing enclosure. That means instead of using a
patch panel, everything has to be fusion spliced. You'll get less loss
bec
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