Re: Bandwidth estimation question

2015-10-02 Thread Tom Sands
There is no telling how big a flash crowd might be. I've see them jump in the Gbps range and not Mbps. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:06 PM, JoeSox wrote: > > I am trying to figure out if our hosting plan has enough bandwidth > (currently at 15Mbps, our

Re: SNMP - monitoring large number of devices

2015-09-29 Thread Tom Sands
We have used ZenOss for a number of years at this scale (40k+ devices, at intervals of 1-5 minutes). It is possible to do if you have the hardware and storage performance to throw at it. We used OpenNMS before that and had to change due to scale. During that time we evaluated a number of the

Re: UDP clamped on service provider links

2015-07-30 Thread Tom Sands
We have similar problems with UDP 500 and being able to keep IPSEC tunnels up over Level3. It happens quite a bit when there are no signs of TCP or ICMP packet loss. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2015, at 9:14 PM, Jason Baugher ja...@thebaughers.com wrote: To bring this discussion to

RE: NANOG College Immersion Program

2014-09-26 Thread Tom Sands
Agreed, this is a great idea and opportunity (and it's finally in San Antonio) ;) From: NANOG [nanog-boun...@nanog.org] on behalf of Lee Howard [l...@asgard.org] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 2:52 PM To: Dave Temkin; nanog-annou...@nanog.org; North

RE: 10G switchrecommendaton

2012-01-26 Thread Tom Sands
Arista is good but depends on the application. They have some of the most Jr code but they are coming along with features fast. Weve chosen them for several applications when compared to Brocade, Cisco, Extreme, And Blade. There pricing is on par with the others.

Re: DDoS mitigation services from SPs

2010-04-28 Thread Tom Sands
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Re: DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-28 Thread Tom Sands
what that is, and if it's not catching all of a DDoS you have little insight as to what's being missed or control to correct it. Thank you, Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message (including any attached or embedded documents) is intended

DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-26 Thread Tom Sands
integration, and many of the basic features you'd see on the Guard. Thank you, -- Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Hosting

Re: InterNAP FCP (again?)

2010-01-04 Thread Tom Sands
and the customer. Like Ric, you can contact me off-line for details. Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer Rackspace Hosting (210

Re: Link capacity upgrade threshold

2009-08-30 Thread Tom Sands
%. Tom Sands Rackspace Hosting William Herrin wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:50 PM, devang pateldevan...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: Recommendations for Hong Kong datacenter, and a sanity check for my geopolitical conclusions ?

2009-07-28 Thread Tom Sands
good so far. I'm also not a sales person, but we could offer the capability you are looking for, though we aren't colo if you ever needed physical access to your equipment. Tom Sands

Re: Replacement for Avaya CNA/RouteScience

2008-07-05 Thread Tom Sands
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