RE: Small Internet border router options?

2024-05-13 Thread Tony Wicks
Juniper MX204, Nokia SR1/SR1s or for the cheaper side Mikrotik CCR2216 -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Tom Samplonius Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2024 6:52 AM To: NANOG Subject: Small Internet border router options? What are using for small campus border routers? So four to

RE: The Reg does 240/4

2024-02-13 Thread Tony Wicks
I use a CCR2004 at home as it's one of the only devices that could handle the 4Gb/s XGS-PON on pppoe. I've got an IPoE GPON (1000/500) failover, v4/v6 dual stack everywhere, incoming vpn and ipsec tunnels to other MT's and it run's great. The only problem I have run into is if you run the 10G ports

RE: 202401102221.AYC Re: Streamline The CG-NAT Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block

2024-01-10 Thread Tony Wicks
2)"... an operator clearly looking to acquire *publicly routable* space without being clear that this suggestion wouldn't meet their needs. ": Since 240/4 has 256M addresses while 100.64/10 has only 4M, a current CG-NAT cluster can be expanded 64 fold once the 240/4 is used.

RE: Microsoft contact

2024-01-10 Thread Tony Wicks
Not unusual for random O365 blocks to appear, I especially like they way the reject message trys to refer the user back to their ISP as if their ISP is in any way involved with the internal Microsoft blocklist. “<<< 550 5.7.1 Unfortunately, messages from [x.x.x.x] weren't sent. Please contact yo

{Disarmed} RE: {Disarmed} Re: {Disarmed} RE: IPv4 address block

2024-01-08 Thread Tony Wicks
😊 All good, when I looked back at the email it does look somewhat disingenuous, I should have really put, here is his details if the OP wants them. From: Ben Cox Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 10:07 AM To: Tony Wicks Cc: Ben Cox ; North American Network Operators' Group Su

{Disarmed} RE: IPv4 address block

2024-01-08 Thread Tony Wicks
No, Eddies is NOT me, I included his details to be helpful to the OP…. From: Ben Cox Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 9:27 AM To: Tony Wicks Cc: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: IPv4 address block Hey Tony/Eddie I think your choice of email signature may

RE: IPv4 address block

2024-01-08 Thread Tony Wicks
I have used Eddie at iptrading several times over the yearsfor IP block purchases and never had this sort of issue, so would count this as a recommendation. Regards, Eddie Stauble ed...@iptrading.com 855-IPTRADE (855-478-7233) Ext 107 Direct: 754-

RE: CPE/NID options

2023-11-23 Thread Tony Wicks
The Nokia 7210 sas range has suitable devices for layer2 (sas-k5) and MPLS (sas-k12, sas-d) edge at non totally crazy prices. They are true telco grade edge devices - https://onestore.nokia.com/asset/184551 _ From: NANOG mailto:nanog-bounces+chris=thesysadmin...@nanog.org> > on behalf

RE: 165 Halsey recurring power issues

2023-10-23 Thread Tony Wicks
If you have been sold "redundant" power and the DC provider has connected both sides to one UPS in any form they are seriously amiss. You should not be expected to know the internal workings of the DC UPS systems and any talk of battery packs (unless you are getting 48v DC) is utterly irrelevant

RE: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-09-29 Thread Tony Wicks
I am reminded of something I “saw” many years ago of a Quake server running on a Juniper M160, it wasn’t fast but oh the connectivity. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Tom Beecher Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2023 11:03 AM To: William Herrin Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix

RE: SMTP-friendly VPS provider where I can also get a BGP feed

2023-09-26 Thread Tony Wicks
t randomly hard block for no reason and there is no way to ever have any human fix it (after ensuring all their guidelines are followed) so I've given up trying to use V6 to send email to google. -Original Message- From: Mel Beckman Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 7:51 AM To

RE: SMTP-friendly VPS provider where I can also get a BGP feed

2023-09-26 Thread Tony Wicks
I can't speak to the bgp feed as this seems like unnecessary complication to me, but I use https://www.racknerd.com/ for personal email/web hosting KVM VM's and have found them to be excellent. They have yearly black Friday specials (last years - https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/ ) that are

RE: Lossy cogent p2p experiences?

2023-09-01 Thread Tony Wicks
Yes adaptive load balancing very much helps but the weakness is it is normally only fully supported on vendor silicon not merchant silicon. Much of the transport edge is merchant silicon due to the per packet cost being far lower and the general requirement to just pass not manipulate packets. U

RE: 100G-LR1 (DR/FR)

2023-04-03 Thread Tony Wicks
I have been using the QSFP-100G-CWDM4 2k optics for within rack/DC for a couple of years now. They are about the same price as SR optics but allow the use of simple duplex single mode patches without blasting 10K optics at each other over a 2M patch. Never had one fail or any compatibility issu

RE: BCP38 For BGP Customers

2022-11-07 Thread Tony Wicks
>For large BGP customers who service many BGP downstreams, the bottom line is >that BCP 38 cannot be reasonably implemented. It's one of the weaknesses in >the system. Yes, from personal experience BCP 38 should never be implemented buy a transit provider as it will inevitably cause breakage on

RE: HE.net and BGP Communities

2022-07-25 Thread Tony Wicks
> > I do understand the reasoning behind preferring customer routes. > However in the case where a customer of a customer also connects to > you directly via peering doesn't it make sense to prefer the direct > connection? or at least not prefer the customer learned routes. So from my experienc

RE: Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

2022-06-14 Thread Tony Wicks
>For those who may have forgotten: > >https://cacm.acm.org/news/257742-german-factory-fire-could-worsen-global-chip-shortage/fulltext >That was the *sole* supplier of extreme ultraviolet lithography machines for >every major chip manufacturer on the planet. >Chip shortages will only get

RE: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Tony Wicks
* Do you have any stats on what the average usage was before and after the build out? I'd expect it to go up just because but was it dramatic? Well, Back in the FTTC days of ADSL/VDSL (very little cable) as an ISP I seem to remember the average home connection was about 1.2Mb/s. Now

RE: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Tony Wicks
>To finish up the math here, how much did NZ's fiber buildout cost? I'm not suggesting that the US could build such a network, just that if its available it certainly opens up new levels of convenience and smooth use of the applications. I think it was something like $2-3B USD, don't quote me

RE: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Tony Wicks
>This whole thread is about hypothetical futures, so it's not hard to imagine >downloads filling to available capacity. >Mike So, a good example of how this capacity is used, In New Zealand we have a pretty broad fibre network covering most of the population. My niece asked me to share my

RE: Strange behavior on the Juniper MX240

2022-05-04 Thread Tony Wicks
Dude, JunOS 10.4 end of support - 06/08/2014. You have an almost 8 years past end of Vendor support O/S still in production! No, just no. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Nehul Patel Sent: Thursday, 5 May 2022 9:35 am To: Paschal Masha Cc: nanog Subject: Re: Strange behavior on the Juniper MX

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-03-09 Thread Tony Wicks
Over here in AsiaPAC we ran out of readily available IPv4 many years ago. I’ve been deploying dual stack CGNAT v4 + Public V6 to ISP networks for at least 10 years. Virtually all modern RGW’s and devices (except *** play station) have supported V6 transparently for many years and the customer’s

RE: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Tony Wicks
Invade America?… um, not even close to a thing From: NANOG On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Thursday, 3 March 2022 12:39 pm To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine You guys are missing the obvious. Russia isn't going to attack starlink in space, they are going to ta

RE: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Tony Wicks
I think you are significantly overestimating the quality, quantity and will of the Russians to do such a thing as shoot down another countries satellites. In case it wasn’t clear from the preceding week there is a significant difference between the image of conventional weapon strength the Russi

RE: Russian aligned ASNs?

2022-02-25 Thread Tony Wicks
Haha, we are like the underground cables we service. No one (apart from other engineers) notices or cares how much effort it takes to keep the packets flowing until it stops. -- Just imagine what it must be like trying to keep those IP networks func

RE: Russian aligned ASNs?

2022-02-24 Thread Tony Wicks
I would suggest keeping the free flow of outside information to Russia would be the best thing we can do. -Original Message- What is our community doing to assist Ukraine against these attacks?

RE: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2022-02-16 Thread Tony Wicks
It is really quite odd that arguably the heart of high tech in the world has such poor coverage. I remember going on a visit there 10+ years ago and being shocked that the head of the development team at the company I was visiting had the best available which was a 2meg cable plan with a data ca

Re: home router battery backup

2022-01-13 Thread Tony Wicks
Yep, a pair of long nose pliers and that beeper pops right off the board, real easy.

RE: Latency/Packet Loss on ASR1006

2021-11-27 Thread Tony Wicks
I mean a router without ASIC based forwarding like a Juniper MX or Nokia 7750. The advantage of the 1k is you don't need a services card for cgnat, but the large disadvantage is everything passes through the ESP processor and this often leads to disappointing results under load. >I'm not sure w

RE: Latency/Packet Loss on ASR1006

2021-11-26 Thread Tony Wicks
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/routers/asr-1000-series-aggregation-services-routers/200674-Throughput-issues-on-ASR1000-Series-rout.html So many years since I have used an asr1000 but, honestly you have an esp40 in a box with 10x10G interfaces? That’s a very underpowered processor

RE: massive facebook outage presently

2021-10-04 Thread Tony Wicks
Back and working by the looks.

RE: massive facebook outage presently

2021-10-04 Thread Tony Wicks
Didn't write that part of the automation script and that coder left... > I got a mail that Facebook was leaving NLIX. Maybe someone botched the > script so they took down all BGP sessions instead of just NLIX and now > they can't access the equipment to put it back... :-)

RE: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-13 Thread Tony Wicks
In resource challenged regions we have been using IPv4+CGN+IPv6 dual stack for the last ten or so years. For 20K subs you can use one /24 of ipv4 and a /40 or so of ipv6. There have been available RGW’s and sufficient vendor support throughout this time. The only issues I have ever really seen h

RE: Where to get IPv4 block these day

2021-08-05 Thread Tony Wicks
List admin, this is a direct and unwarranted personal attack that is clearly against the list rules. I recommend this person is barred or at least officially warned that this is unacceptable behaviour. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Ca By Sent: Friday, 6 August 2021 9:31 am To: Andy Ringsmuth Cc:

RE: Where to get IPv4 block these day

2021-08-05 Thread Tony Wicks
From: Ca By Sent: Friday, 6 August 2021 8:20 am To: Tony Wicks Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Where to get IPv4 block these day *sigh* you are assuming the end user is being somehow lazy and incompetent and NOT also deploying IPV6? Seriously, you still need parallel deployment of IPV4

RE: Where to get IPv4 block these day

2021-08-05 Thread Tony Wicks
Contact eddie at iptrading.com , I have used their services several times and never had any issues. On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 23:35 Alex Wacker mailto:a...@alexwacker.com> > wrote: Ipv4.global is very reliable. I’ve sold blocks there On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at

RE: 1G/10G BaseT switch recommendation

2021-07-22 Thread Tony Wicks
Nokia has the 7250-ixr-e that has 24x1/10G SFP, 8x10/25G SFP28 and 2x100G QSFP28 ports (300G FDX total) in a small depth 1U unit. We use a bunch of these and they work nicely with full MPLS features. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Adam Thompson Sent: Friday, 23 July 2021 7:35 am To: Saku Ytti Cc

RE: Technical resources for Open Access Fiber Networks?

2021-06-10 Thread Tony Wicks
In New Zealand we have a nationwide government sponsored FTTH open access network based on GPON and XGSPON. There are local access companies (LFC or Local Fibre Company) that handover double tagged layer2 that the various service providers (RSP or Retail Service Provider) can either pick up the

RE: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs

2021-06-09 Thread Tony Wicks
PS, I don’t believe I mentioned the Nokia’s would meet any particular price point, just that they have some transport boxes that have a very good price/performance/port density (7210/7250). YMMV depending on your supplier, quantities and feature requirements. From: Tony Wicks Sent

RE: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs

2021-06-09 Thread Tony Wicks
like Boeing or Airbus, the list price is X but the airlines never pay list. From: Colton Conor Sent: Thursday, 10 June 2021 8:03 am To: Tony Wicks Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs Tony, I reached out to a couple of people, and they mentioned that there is nothing

RE: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs

2021-05-26 Thread Tony Wicks
7210-sas-s or 7210-sas-sx is the low cost 24/48x1 4x10G option. These are very affordable and reliable MPLS transport devices. You’ll need to contact your local Nokia rep for pricing. regards From: Colton Conor Sent: Thursday, 27 May 2021 5:03 am To: Tony Wicks Cc: NANOG Subject: Re

RE: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs

2021-05-26 Thread Tony Wicks
The Nokia 7250-ixr-e covers exactly the port density and price range you are looking for. 24x1/10, 8x10/25 and 2x100G with 300G total capacity. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Colton Conor Sent: Thursday, 27 May 2021 4:39 am To: NANOG Subject: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs We have used Juniper'

RE: Juniper hardware recommendation

2021-05-07 Thread Tony Wicks
You really should discuss this with you local Juniper rep in the first instance I would suggest. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Javier Gutierrez Guerra Sent: Saturday, 8 May 2021 9:28 am To: r...@rkhtech.org; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Juniper hardware recommendation I need to do MPLS (vlls)

RE: wow, lots of akamai

2021-04-01 Thread Tony Wicks
No absolutely not, having the traffic coming from local CDN’s and the shorter but higher traffic is very much preferred. My comment was just to point out that yes there is a significant difference on ISP traffic between delivery via CDN/PNI/Peering than transit as in our case transit is a long w

RE: wow, lots of akamai

2021-04-01 Thread Tony Wicks
This is not actually (as in yes it does matter) the case, if a file comes from a CDN it is often a close and low latency source that will run up to very high speeds. For example in our case we connect to local peering exchanges (or PNI’s/local caches) at 100G or Nx10G with latency to the end use

RE: CGNAT

2021-03-03 Thread Tony Wicks
While I won't go into the costs as well, I've got actual work to do I must say my calculations of purchase ipv4 (@25USD/IP) vs CGNAT have always fallen significantly into the CGNAT camp. If you are doing a stand alone A10 or similar yes things would be different. If you are already buying suitab

RE: Famous operational issues

2021-02-22 Thread Tony Wicks
Many years ago I experienced a very similar thing. The DC/Integrator I worked for outsourced the co-location and operation of mainframe services for several banks and government organisations. One of these banks had a significant investment in AS/400's and they decided that it was so much hassle

Re: CGNAT

2021-02-19 Thread Tony Wicks
Because then a large part of the Internet won't workFrom: NANOG on behalf of Mark Andrews Sent: Saturday, 20 February 2021, 9:04 amTo: Steve SanerCc: nanog@nanog.orgSubject: Re: CGNATWhy not go whole hog and provide IPv4 as a service? That way you are not waiting for your customers to turn up

RE: CGNAT

2021-02-19 Thread Tony Wicks
Not the Cheapest option out there but the most rock solid one I have found is to install the extended service/multi service cards in the BNG and do it locally there. We are currently using both Juniper MX480/960 with MS-MPC cards and Nokia 7750 SR with ISA or ESA cards. Its also well worth runni

RE: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-26 Thread Tony Wicks
Actually the equipment vendor's build in this sort of situation is normally directly related to the availability of affordable chipsets from the likes of Broadcom. For example the chipset in my XGSPON router is a BCM6858. No vendor is going to spend money to produce a CPE that no one will buy. O

RE: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-25 Thread Tony Wicks
From: NANOG On Behalf Of Mark Tinka Sent: Friday, 25 December 2020 10:56 pm To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: 10g residential CPE On 12/25/20 08:04, Tony Wicks wrote: > Stand alone RGW's are hard to find, I'd be interested to hear if people have > found anything smaller tha

RE: [External] Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-25 Thread Tony Wicks
As a power user who now has 4Gb/s FDX at home I can definitively say as an end user you really can’t tell much of different from my previous 1G/0.5Gbs GPON in normal use. However there are a couple of areas that I have noticed a difference – 1. Upstream. On GPON I had 500Mb/s upstream a

RE: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-24 Thread Tony Wicks
So here in New Zealand 2/2Gbs & 4/4Gbs XGS-PON has just been rolled out in conjunction with the existing GPON rollout (Currently 79% of the country). CPE is definitely an issue and the most popular way of dealing with it is to use the Nokia XS-250WX-A ONT as the RGW as well. Permissions on the O

RE: {Disarmed} Re: Asus wifi AP re-writing DNS packets

2020-11-04 Thread Tony Wicks
I had a similar discussion with another vendor recently while testing their mesh wireless systems. This vendor’s units are actually re-writing dhcp requests that clients make to point DNS to the primary mesh unit. This even happened when the mesh platform was in pure bridge mode (as opposed to r

RE: cheap MPLS router recommendations

2020-10-21 Thread Tony Wicks
Right, well in that price/performance range you either “roll your own” or this is your best option IMHO - https://mikrotik.com/product/CCR1072-1G-8Splus and I’d pick the Mikrotik every time. From: NANOG On Behalf Of adamv0...@netconsultings.com Sent: Thursday, 22 October 2020 9:28 am

RE: cheap MPLS router recommendations

2020-10-16 Thread Tony Wicks
Well, there is always the MX104 (if you want redundancy) or MX80 if you don’t. That will give you 80gig wire speed just don’t load it up with more than one full table. From: adamv0...@netconsultings.com Sent: Saturday, 17 October 2020 10:57 am To: 'Tony Wicks' Cc: nanog@nanog.o

RE: cheap MPLS router recommendations

2020-10-16 Thread Tony Wicks
Juniper MX204, easy From: NANOG On Behalf Of adamv0...@netconsultings.com Sent: Saturday, 17 October 2020 10:31 am To: 'Jakub Horn (jakuhorn)' ; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: cheap MPLS router recommendations Yeah the XR thing would be great but NCS540 would be too expensive and too much

RE: Passive Wave Primer

2020-10-13 Thread Tony Wicks
We sell some wavelengths on passive CWDM/DWDM path's between Datacentres (less than 80Km) to customers to spread the cost of leasing the dark fibre. But yes, as far as long distance (apart from bespoke offerings) I'm yet to see a productised alien wave service. If you are spending all that money on

RE: Passive Wave Primer

2020-10-13 Thread Tony Wicks
An Alien wave comes in from an external source, for an example a customer has WDM optics in their kit. A normal wave the “customer” connects with a normal 10GE/100GE (or whatever is appropriate) and a line card on the OTN platform “grooms” that to the appropriate WDM channel. From: NANOG On

RE: Ipv6 help

2020-08-26 Thread Tony Wicks
This is nothing new, when I first started installing CGN platforms something like 10 years ago there was only ever one company that caused issues, can you guess which? It got to the point of lawyers exchanging desist letters as PSN constantly told our customers that they were blocking to contac

RE: cloud backup

2020-07-26 Thread Tony Wicks
"newbie product" NEQ "newbie user" -Original Message- From: John Sage Sent: Monday, 27 July 2020 9:45 am To: Tony Wicks ; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: cloud backup A "newbie"?

RE: cloud backup

2020-07-26 Thread Tony Wicks
Did I miss something? Is this list now the newbie product questions list? -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Sent: Monday, 27 July 2020 8:40 am To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: cloud backup

RE: Issues with deliverability to hotmail -- any Microsoft contacts?

2020-07-20 Thread Tony Wicks
Have you used this form? I feel your pain. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/supportrequestform/8ad563e3-288e-2a61-8122-3ba03d6b8d75 From: NANOG On Behalf Of Brock Tice Sent: Tuesday, 21 July 2020 4:11 am To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Issues with deliverability to hotmail -- any Microsoft

RE: CGNAT Opensource with support to BPA, EIM/EIF, UPnP-PCP

2020-07-07 Thread Tony Wicks
As someone who has spent quite a long time building CGNAT solutions I have some good news for you, there is an easy solution to your below point that works exceptionally well. The solution is dual stack IPv6, its trivial to route your IPv6 to bypass the CGNAT device you are using and pretty much

RE: Router Suggestions

2020-06-15 Thread Tony Wicks
As someone who has used VSR (Nokia) and VMX (Juniper) I’d suggest, good luck on your plan to use servers for this sort of routing. If you want a cheap router to handle full tables and a couple of 10G interfaces worth of throughput I’d suggest you would be a lot better off with Mikrotik’s latest

RE: Reaching out to Sony NOC, resolving DDoS Issues - Need POC

2020-01-07 Thread Tony Wicks
Good luck! I’ve dealt with such PSN IP blocking issues for several years and have found that Sony is the absolute worst possible gaming/content provider I’ve ever dealt with. One company I worked at had to threaten legal action as PSN would block CGN IPv4 addresses on their network and then tell

RE: Iran cuts 95% of Internet traffic

2019-11-18 Thread Tony Wicks
>Implementation specifics vary. Most rely on state control of consumer ISPs and >implement a variety of systems at that layer. Many also have chokepoints for >>international connectivity as well. I guess all these governments who like to control access so tightly are going to be in a total t

RE: Mx204 alternative

2019-08-08 Thread Tony Wicks
VMX (and VSR) throughput capacity pricing is excessive once you get over about 20G from what I have seen. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Baldur Norddahl Sent: Friday, 9 August 2019 9:16 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Mx204 alternative Hello How about Juniper vMX? 8x 10G is no problem

RE: Mx204 alternative

2019-08-08 Thread Tony Wicks
Yes, good point, I was under the impression that it would take the 12 port 10/1 mda-e card but on looking closer it appears it only supports the high capacity mda-e-xp (6x100/40/10 ports or 12x100/40/10 ports) cards. This means, as you say if you want physical 10G or lower ports then a 7210-sas-sx6

RE: Mx204 alternative

2019-08-07 Thread Tony Wicks
It’s a bit more expensive and higher capability (1.2tb vs 400G) than the MX204. But the form factor and capability is very impressive for a little box. From: Mehmet Akcin Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2019 3:30 PM To: Tony Wicks Cc: nanog Subject: Re: Mx204 alternative Thank you! Something

RE: Mx204 alternative

2019-08-07 Thread Tony Wicks
Nokia 7750 sr-1. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Mehmet Akcin Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2019 3:03 PM To: nanog Subject: Mx204 alternative Greetings, I am looking for some suggestions on alternatives to mx204. Any recommendations on something more affordable which can handle full routi

RE: QFX5k question

2019-03-23 Thread Tony Wicks
I have Virtual chassis QFX5100’s running as a switching/routing core with about 80k routes (bgp in routing-instances) and no issues. MX’s are on the upstream borders and downstream BNG’s. The only issue I has was I had some MPLS psuedowire switching on them and found a few glitches. Fr

RE: Last Mile Design

2019-02-09 Thread Tony Wicks
Certainly the devil is in the details, in New Zealand the access layer (GPON plus local transport) is largely regulated. Then Retail service providers buy the access component wholesale and add layer3, national backhaul etc. Retail for unlimited 1G/500M internet is about $75USD/month, for 100/50

RE: Last Mile Design

2019-02-09 Thread Tony Wicks
In New Zealand we have a mostly (any town of about 20k population or more) nationwide FTTH rollout underway (government/private partnership) that is mostly based on GPON. Both Point to Point and Dark Fibre are available as well. The service is layer 2 QinQ delivered to the retail service provide

RE: Last Mile Design

2019-02-08 Thread Tony Wicks
It also significantly reduces the requirement to distribute active equipment into the field while massively reducing the feeder fibre requirement. Point to point has its place to be sure, but mass market FTTH is not viable without PON's economics. On 02/08/2019 12:48 PM, Aaron wrote: > I've al

RE: Any way to collect network usage data for dial-up subscriber

2019-01-24 Thread Tony Wicks
Hi, I don't know what your scale is but setting a 15minute interim radius update has always worked well for me. A standard freeradius server running on SSD's would be able to handle the load from 100k users without too much of a load issue. Above that load balancing radius requests among servers is

RE: Proofpoint Mail Delivery Issues

2019-01-10 Thread Tony Wicks
This might be helpful - https://ipcheck.proofpoint.com/ From: NANOG On Behalf Of Tim Donahue Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2019 11:21 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Proofpoint Mail Delivery Issues Hi all, Sorry for the noise, but one of my clients is getting the standard "it's the o

RE: A few GPON questions...

2018-12-11 Thread Tony Wicks
I remember working for this little company called EDS... Some bright spark decided that ATM to the desktop was the future (not this ethernet (or even token ring) thing) and subsequently converted several thousand head office machines to E3 or OC3 to the desktop. Hell of a thing trying to make OS

RE: Cheap switch with a couple 100G

2018-11-25 Thread Tony Wicks
Actually FS has SFP28 CWDM optics (1270-1330) available but they are not up on the website, just as an FYI. -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Tom Hill Sent: Monday, 26 November 2018 10:41 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Cheap switch with a couple 100G On 25/11/2018 21:22,

RE: PPPoE Server

2018-08-08 Thread Tony Wicks
Cisco ASR1k can support up to 64K PPPoE depending on the model/cards. Juniper MX and Nokia 7750 can scale up to a couple of hundred thousands depending on the model. The thing to bear in mind is the ASR1000 is a CPU based router, this means it is very flexible (NAT/L2TP etc can just turn on with

RE: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Tony Wicks
I think its time you all had a bit of a holiday break and stopped thinking of IP networking for a little while, Just saying...

RE: Terminology Clarification - "Active Wave"

2017-10-01 Thread Tony Wicks
I would suggest they are asking if it is to be carried on an active (Powered) DWDM ADM (Add Drop Mux), or over passive optical Mux's (short range). -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Rod Beck Sent: Monday, 2 October 2017 9:19 AM To: nanog@nanog.

RE: DWDM Mux/Demux using 40G Optics

2017-06-19 Thread Tony Wicks
I think you will find the "monitor" port is most likely to be used for "lawful" intercept by unnamed government entities. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colton Conor Sent: Tuesday, 20 June 2017 8:14 AM To: Faisal Imtiaz Cc: nanog list Subjec

Re: DWDM Mux/Demux using 40G Optics

2017-06-19 Thread Tony Wicks
The guys at fibrestore will point you in the right direction on all this if you ask them these questions. They are actually very helpful and will assign you a specialist to assist. Original message From: Colton Conor Date: 20/06/17 6:26 AM (GMT+12:00) To: NANOG Subject:

RE: DMCA processing software

2017-06-06 Thread Tony Wicks
Speaking for Networks outside of the USA (and not being at all helpful sorry), /dev/null works well. Sorry, couldn't help myself... -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jason Baugher Sent: Wednesday, 7 June 2017 5:18 PM To: NANOG Subject: DMCA pr

RE: Question about experiences with BGP remote-AS

2017-05-05 Thread Tony Wicks
JunOS has three different modes for Virtual routers depending on your situation requirements. I would suggest that something in the QFX or ACX range will be able to replicate what you are after. Otherwise the entry level MX will certainly do the job for a little more outlay. -Original Message

RE: PSN (Playstation Network) security team

2017-04-27 Thread Tony Wicks
snei-noc-ab...@am.sony dot com Good luck with that! Sony is uniquely difficult to deal with when it comes to the arrogance of their "security" people at PSN. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Friday, 28 April 2017 7:27 AM To

RE: BRAS/BNG Suggestion

2016-12-03 Thread Tony Wicks
I was told by some high up people in Ericsson several years ago that their target for the Redback range is the top dozen telco's and they are not really interested in smaller customers. It's a shame, because the Redback in many ways is still superior to other offerings IMHO. To the OP's question -

RE: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-18 Thread Tony Wicks
...@thebaughers.com] Sent: Monday, 19 September 2016 12:09 PM To: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Cc: Tony Wicks ; NANOG Subject: Re: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses So I should try again to get them to tell me what an "Account Takeover Attempt" is? They ignored my last request

RE: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-18 Thread Tony Wicks
Interestingly, Sony (SNEI-NOC-Abuse - Sony say no, either through silence, or explicitly.

RE: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-16 Thread Tony Wicks
So the pain has finally flowed down to other parts of the world. (APNIC ran out of IP's a long time ago, so CGN has been in use here for a lot longer) This issue is one I have been dealing with for the last four years. Only with Sony, no other company has caused such a headache in regard to CGNAT.

RE: Host.us DDOS attack

2016-08-03 Thread Tony Wicks
nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Tony Wicks Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2016 9:10 AM To: 'NANOG list' Subject: RE: Host.us DDOS attack Interestingly my VM (LA) with them has been effectively down for half a day as far as IPv4 is concerned. IPv6 traffic seems unaffected.

RE: Host.us DDOS attack

2016-08-03 Thread Tony Wicks
Interestingly my VM (LA) with them has been effectively down for half a day as far as IPv4 is concerned. IPv6 traffic seems unaffected. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Robert Webb Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2016 1:42 AM To: NANOG list Subjec

RE: BGP peering strategies for smaller routers

2016-05-02 Thread Tony Wicks
I have used variations Gustav's solution below to good effect as well, this also works with two smaller routers providing basic fail over and load balancing. I found its best to take Full + default from one provider and just default from the other. Set a higher local-pref on the default only pro

RE: 10G-capable customer router recommendations?

2016-04-15 Thread Tony Wicks
Hmm, the chances of getting a single flow of more than 1gig to/from the "internet" is close to zero in a CPE situation. If the Connection is a service provider or similar sure, this limitation may well apply, but a home user (however high end), nope I just can't see it. If you need something cap

RE: PlayStation Network blocking an IP

2016-04-01 Thread Tony Wicks
Good luck with that! Sorry, long experience with them tells me that you are unlikely to get any help on that one. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Velocity Lists Sent: Saturday, 2 April 2016 11:31 AM To: NANOG list Subject: PlayStation Network

RE: Juniper QFX5200-32C junos base services license and BGP

2016-03-03 Thread Tony Wicks
> >Hi, >Does anyone has a QFX5200-32C gear with a "Junos Base Services" license? >Does that license technically allow running BGP? > >Currently I have a QFX5100 which only gives me warning "This feature requires a license" during commit but BGP routing works fine. So I'm wandering if that trick wo

RE: Softlayer / Blocking Cuba IP's ?

2016-02-19 Thread Tony Wicks
> >Cc: nanog list >Subject: Re: Softlayer / Blocking Cuba IP's ? > I had a couple of VM's (personal mail/web hosting) with a provider who used Softlayer for transit. About a month ago Softlayer (without any notice or warning) blocked all outgoing port 25 at multipole datacentres for this provi

RE: Nat

2015-12-16 Thread Tony Wicks
We have the ASR1006 ESP40's handling 25,000+home broadband users running NAT and barely breaking a sweat. What ESP are you using ? -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ahmed Munaf Sent: Thursday, 17 December 2015 5:36 AM To: Mark Tinka Cc: nanog@na

RE: New ISPs getting of the ground without IPv4?

2015-11-02 Thread Tony Wicks
>-Original Message- > >Surprisingly enough demand for Internet services did not end when we ran out >of IPv4. I'd like to hear from the guys and gals starting new ISPs how they >are facing this brave new world. > Well, APNIC ran out years ago, so as someone with experience running a re

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