Art and Tech is madness

2019-09-04 Thread Kasper Adel
In SPRING a time when segment and routing had no mismatch, a time when isis and ospf ate a forbidden encap, all they had to do was forward bgp like its hot, but crazy flapping doesnt leave any real LDP without some real FSM check, My dynamic unnumbered neighbor. Suddenly, Out of order, an AS is o

Re: Application or Software to detect or Block unmanaged swicthes

2018-06-08 Thread Kasper Adel
How about some scripts around fail2ban, if the same account logs in multiple times, its banning time. Kasper On Friday, June 8, 2018, David Hubbard wrote: > This thread has piqued my curiosity on whether there'd be a way to detect > a rogue access point, or proxy server with an inside and outsi

Re: Application or Software to detect or Block unmanaged swicthes

2018-06-08 Thread Kasper Adel
I guess you can do that and more with a linux based switch like cumulus and pica8. They allow you to do all sorts of things like that because they are open. On Thursday, June 7, 2018, wrote: > In my previous life, we used a nac appliance from Bradford Networks > whereby the mac address of every

Re: Intel DPDK vs Broadcom/Mellanox SDK

2018-06-05 Thread Kasper Adel
me router, then there are a lot more factors and the CPU factors > may > outweigh the chipset factors. You may want to look at a list related to > home > routers for more guidance. > > Mack > > -Original Message- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Be

Re: VPP-based router vs Hardware assisted ones

2018-06-05 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi Ross Did you make a decision to take that direction after reviewing ‘open networking’ platforms like cumulus and pica8? Are you trying to use the full routing table? ~kim On Thursday, May 24, 2018, Ross Tajvar wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone had any luck building their own routers on commo

Intel DPDK vs Broadcom/Mellanox SDK

2018-06-03 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi Anothe email thread to get some guidance on points to consider when comparing new platforms that advocate using DPDK as the hardware acceleration SDK vs the broadcom/mellanox. The DPDK ones claim enhanced performance but every time i ask questions, i get the logical and typical answer of “it d

Broadcom vs Mellanox based platforms

2018-06-03 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello I’m asked to evaluate switching platforms that has different forwarding chips but the same OS. Assuming these vendors give the same SDK and similar documentation/support, then what would be comparison points to consider, other than the obvious (price, features, bps, pps). I’m thinking, how

Re: Open Souce Network Operating Systems

2018-05-03 Thread Kasper Adel
Feedback about Cumulus has been positive : https://www.mail-archive.com/cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net/msg66192.html if i am not mistaken, they have added lots of networking enhancements to the OS, they have videos on youtube that will paint the picture. On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Colton Con

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

2017-08-09 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, This is not a vendor bashing thread. We are a group of networking engineers less experience with software) in the middle of the process of procuring a network automation/orchestration controller, if that is even a good definition and we are clueless on how to evaluate them. Other than the o

DevOps workflow for networking

2017-08-09 Thread Kasper Adel
We are pretty new to those new-age network orchestrators and automation, I am curious to ask what everyone is the community is doing? sorry for such a long and broad question. What is your workflow? What tools are your teams using? What is working what is not? What do you really like and what do

SD-WAN for enlightened

2017-04-16 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, I'm not sure if the buzzword SD-WAN is used to compensate for another buzzword that got over-utilized (SDN) or it is a true 'new and improved' way of doing things that has some innovation into it. I heard different explanation from different vendors: 1) appliances (+ controller) placed in-li

Brainstorming acceptance issues - WAN impediment

2017-02-06 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, I am in the process of testing an 'automation/sdn' kind of controller, it will be managing configuration on our routers and also deploying some VNFs too. Before accepting it, i'd like to perform some testing, to make sure of the behavior if there are network issues between the controller and

Accepting a Virtualized Functions (VNFs) into Corporate IT

2016-11-28 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, Vendor X wants you to run their VNF (Router, Firewall or Whatever) and they refuse to give you root access, or any means necessary to do 'maintenance' kind of work, whether its applying security updates, or any other similar type of task that is needed for you to integrate the Linux VM into yo

NFV Solution Evaluation Methodology

2016-08-02 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, I am interested in hearing the approach and thought-process that senior people on NANOG are following when presented with an NFV solution. Assuming that the exercise at hand is to consider NFV for future expansions of Firewalls and L3VPNs or stay with the existing model of what is called PNF (

Thinking Methodically about building a PoC

2016-06-12 Thread Kasper Adel
hi, I am asked to build a large lab/test it. I'm provided crazy scale numbers for lots of technologies (L*VPN, IPv*, IGP*, All Tunnels flavors...etc). It took me a lot of time to build this lab, because when I got the request/test plan handed over to me, I did not verify that these scaled numbers

Data Mining/Crawling through a Mailing List

2013-09-05 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, A bit off topic but i was looking for a way/tool that could crawl through nanog(or other) archives and try to filter most common discussions and things like that, if anyone is aware of such a tool, pls let me know. Thanks, Kim

Parsing Syslog and Acting on it, using other input too

2013-08-29 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello. I am looking for a way to do proactive monitoring of my network, what I am specifically thinking about is receiving syslog msgs from the routers and the backend engine would correlate certain msgs with output/data that i am receiving through SSH/telnet sessions. What i am after is not expos

Vendors CLI Usability vs UNIX Shell

2013-07-20 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, My vendor is giving me speeches on how they are improving their product Serviceability, Usability and Manageability. They told me they are adding a lot of new way of doing things, introducing more Unix-like utilities and over all making CLI smarter by exposing more visibility into system st

Re: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-15 Thread Kasper Adel
ers, everyone > will learn and benefit from the experience. > > Dave > > -Original Message- > From: Kasper Adel [mailto:karim.a...@gmail.com ] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:16 PM > To: Andrew Latham > Cc: NANOG list > Subject: Re: Quantifying the value of cus

Re: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-14 Thread Kasper Adel
them the dump tables and numbers that they are looking for. Kim On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Andrew Latham wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Kasper Adel > > > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We are a 2nd level of escalation in a service provider, trying to put a

Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-14 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, We are a 2nd level of escalation in a service provider, trying to put a $ value on the support we give to our NOC and other implementation teams, when they email us about problems they face. But we are merely bits and bytes engineers that cant quantify and justify the value of what we do to

Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU

2012-11-11 Thread Kasper Adel
s to be built with that in mind. > > Frank > > -----Original Message- > From: Kasper Adel [mailto:karim.a...@gmail.com ] > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 5:23 PM > To: NANOG list > Subject: Whats so difficult about ISSU > > Hello, > > We've been hearing abo

Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU

2012-11-08 Thread Kasper Adel
t; On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Kasper Adel > > > wrote: > >> What i was asking is full ISSU, even with micro code. I assume between >> Major release there will be microcode upgrade most of the time. >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Phil >&

Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU

2012-11-08 Thread Kasper Adel
gt; Juniper and Cisco with the 9K have gone through some hurdles but ISSU is > actually usable now if the software versions support it. > > The main remaining hurdle is updating microcode on linecards, they still > need to be rebooted after an upgrade. > > Phil > &g

Whats so difficult about ISSU

2012-11-08 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, We've been hearing about ISSU for so many years and i didnt hear that any vendor was able to achieve it yet. What is the technical reason behind that? If i understand correctly, the way it will be done would be simply to have extra ASICs/HW to be able to build dual circuits accessing the

CLI Roadmap

2012-10-14 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, I have never used any CLI other than Cisco so i am curious what useful and creative knobs and bolts are available for other network appliance Vendors. I guess what makes *NIX CLI/Shell so superior is that you can advanced stuff from the CLI using sed, awk and all the great tools there so m

Re: Software Bugs

2011-02-20 Thread Kasper Adel
Thanks Valdis. On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:43 PM, wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:05:44 +0200, Kasper Adel said: > > (Disclaimer - I've never filed a bug report with Cisco or Juniper, > but I've spent 3 decades filing bugs with almost everybody else in > the co

Re: Software Bugs

2011-02-20 Thread Kasper Adel
Good Day, I have always been exposed to one vendor only so i can never compare but I am curious to know what every one here have seen in their lives on the below: 1) Which vendor has more bugs than others, what are the top 3 ? 2) Who is doing a better job fixing/handling these bugs overall 3)

Software Bugs

2011-02-20 Thread Kasper Adel
Good Day, I have always been exposed to one vendor only so i can never compare but I am curious to know what every one here have seen in their lives on the below: 1) Which vendor has more bugs than others, what are the top 3 2) Who is doing a better job fixing them 3) What do you consider is a go

Re: Auditing a network to add Voice

2010-11-22 Thread Kasper Adel
well at least in our WAN infrastructure. > > Bret > > > > On 11/22/2010 09:59 AM, Kasper Adel wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> My customer would like to add VoIP over their network and they asked us >> for >> an audit. the result of the audit would be si

Re: Auditing a network to add Voice

2010-11-22 Thread Kasper Adel
Sorry i forgot to add more detail. We are not looking for IP Telephony type of voice but RTP from Media Gateways. Cheers, Kim On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Kasper Adel wrote: > Hi, > > My customer would like to add VoIP over their network and they asked us for > an audit. the r

Auditing a network to add Voice

2010-11-22 Thread Kasper Adel
Hi, My customer would like to add VoIP over their network and they asked us for an audit. the result of the audit would be simply "you guys are ready for it" Breaking it down [high level] for me sounds like : (suggestions are more than welcomed) : 1) Looking at hardware computation finite resour

Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-27 Thread Kasper Adel
Havent seen a thread on this one so thought i'd start one. Ripe tested a new attribute that crashed the internet, is that true? Kim

Calculating Cost

2010-08-22 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello everyone, How would you calculate the cost of a network outage, specifically if its related to a software bug or a misconfiguration. Suppose that this could have been avoided by testing in a lab before deployment, how can i calculate that too? Unicast replies are welcomed. Cheerio, Kim

Re: NOC Best Practices

2010-07-16 Thread Kasper Adel
anagement best practices and working with operations/engineering when a change will be implemented Should i be looking for ITIL stuff or its not any good? Thanks, Kim On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Kasper Adel wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am currently working on building a NOC

NOC Best Practices

2010-07-14 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello Everyone, I am currently working on building a NOC so i'm looking for materials/pointers to Best Practices documented out there. On the top of my head are things like: 1) Documenting Incidents and handling them 2) Documenting Syslog messages 3) Documenting Vendor Software Bugs 4) Shift to

Common statistics from your NOC

2010-04-05 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, I want to collect experience from the Gurus on this mailer on how they make use of the data they can get from NOC. what i mean by data, trouble tickets opened internally or with vendors. I wonder what would be common or even uncommon type of statistics that a network operator would like to

RE: Resilience - How many BGP providers

2009-11-11 Thread adel
what point is adding another peering in my case a waste of money. I haven't gone into switch and power redundancy, because I "think" I understand it. I wanted to concentrate on the multiple upstreams question. Heads starting to whirl right about now. Adel On Wed 5:27 PM

Re: Gig Throughput on IPSEC - alternatively Layer2 encryption devices

2009-11-11 Thread adel
on't have that much experience with them. I think my subject line mentioning IPSEC is a bit confusing as I'm really after information on Layer2 encryption hardware. Adel On Wed 6:45 PM , Brad Fleming bdflem...@kanren.net sent: > > On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:25 AM, adel@ > baklawasecre

Resilience - How many BGP providers

2009-11-11 Thread adel
UK. Hope the above makes sense. Adel

Transit from Cogent - thoughts?

2009-11-11 Thread adel
sort of regard they are held in the community. Thanks Adel

Re: Gig Throughput on IPSEC

2009-11-11 Thread adel
On second thoughts, thinking about this I am probably looking for some kind of Layer2 encryption devices.  This will make things a lot easier for the deployment.  Any experiences, thoughts on these types of devices, would be much appreciated. Adel On Wed 9:25 AM , a...@baklawasecrets.com

Gig Throughput on IPSEC

2009-11-11 Thread adel
a gig of IPSEC.  I'm leaning towards keeping my exising Juniper SSG550's for firewall/routing capability at each site.  Then having a separate encryption devices to handle the site-to-site vpn requiring the gig throughput.  Does anyone have any suggestions on devices to use?   Adel

Re: BGP Peer Selection Considerations

2009-11-10 Thread adel
the cross connects, I can explain that to the business. Adel On Mon 7:10 PM , William Herrin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:40 PM, wrote: > > I have an existing relationship with provider A, colo, cross connects > > etc.  Provider A has offered to get the PI space

Re: BGP Peer Selection Considerations

2009-11-10 Thread adel
Managing two cross connect providers, managing ongoing relationship with two Tier1 providers and so on. However resilience comes at a cost I suppose is the answer. Comments appreciated. Adel On Mon 7:10 PM , "William Herrin" herrin-na...@dirtside.com sent: > On Mon, Nov 9, 200

BGP Peer Selection Considerations

2009-11-09 Thread adel
Hi, Thanks to everyone that replied to my post on failover configuration. This has lead me to this post. I'm at a point now where I'm looking at dual-homing with two BGP peers upstream. Now what I am looking at doing is as follows: BGP Peer with Provider A who is multihomed to other provider

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-09 Thread adel
with embedded network boxes as a pose to a linux solution. I guess what I'm saying is this is partially a political thing. Adel On Mon 3:20 PM , Joe Greco wrote: > > > > Thanks, > > > > I've taken your advice and decided to reconsider my requirement for a &

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-09 Thread adel
BGP as a means of failover between two separate upstream ISPs. We are not an ISP. Thanks Adel On Mon 1:32 PM , a...@baklawasecrets.com wrote: > Thanks, > > I've taken your advice and decided to reconsider my requirement for a > full routing table. I believe I'm bein

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-09 Thread adel
ne. Thanks for your comments. Look forward to hearing which solutions come back into the mix having dropped the full routing table requirement. Regards, Adel On Mon 11:45 AM , Joe Greco wrote: > > > > Basically the organisation that I'm working for will not have the > skill

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-09 Thread adel
t the price point using Cisco, obviously other solutions are going to come into the picture. Adel On Mon 11:39 AM , Arnold Nipper wrote: > On 09.11.2009 11:53 a...@baklawasecrets.com wrote > > > You will laugh, but the budget at the moment looks like £13k. > > Imposs

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-09 Thread adel
Looking at two 100Mbit/s BGP connections, so I think I want something that will do more than 100 but nowhere close to a gig. So full routing table capability with throughput of mixed traffic around 200Mbit/s. If that makes sense. Do the 2850s fall into that sort of price point? Adel On

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-09 Thread adel
nbsd, or linux with quagga. > > > > Probably looking at Cisco or Juniper products, but interested > > > in any other alternatives people suggest. I realise this is quite a > > broad > > > question, but hoping this will provide a starting point. Oh and > > > if I have missed any specs I should have included above, please let > me > > > know. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Adel > > > > > > > > >

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-08 Thread adel
t; in any other alternatives people suggest. I realise this is quite a > broad > > question, but hoping this will provide a starting point. Oh and > > if I have missed any specs I should have included above, please let me > > know. > > > > Thanks > > > > Adel > > >

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-08 Thread adel
. Thanks Adel On Sun 10:18 PM , Seth Mattinen wrote: > a...@baklawasecrets.com wrote: > > I think partial routes makes perfect sense, makes sense that traffic > for customers who are connected to each of my upstreams should go out of > > the correct BGP link as long as they are

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-08 Thread adel
. Thanks Adel On Sun 10:18 PM , Seth Mattinen wrote: > a...@baklawasecrets.com wrote: > > I think partial routes makes perfect sense, makes sense that traffic > for customers who are connected to each of my upstreams should go out of > > the correct BGP link as long as they are

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-08 Thread adel
I think partial routes makes perfect sense, makes sense that traffic for customers who are connected to each of my upstreams should go out of the correct BGP link as long as they are up! Now I need to start thinking of BGP router choices, sure I have a plethora of choices :-( On Sun 10:01 P

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-08 Thread adel
to carry a full Internet routing table, correct? So I can get away with some "lightweight" BGP routers not being an ISP if that makes sense? Adel On Sun 9:26 PM , Ken Gilmour wrote: > Hey, > > Yes you apply to RIPE for your allocation. You should ask them for a > /

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-08 Thread adel
been very valuable and definitely seem to be pointing in some fruitful directions. Adel On Sun 6:31 PM , James Hess wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:34 AM, wrote: > [..] > > connections from different providers I would still have issues.  So > > I guess that if my prima

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-08 Thread adel
Hi, Thanks for the info on UKNOF. I've started a thread there with regards to RIPE and obtaining ASN numbers and so on., as this is I guess quite UK specific. Adel On Sun 8:40 PM , Arnold Nipper wrote: > Hi Adel, > > On 08.11.2009 21:24 Ken Gilmour wrote > > &

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-08 Thread adel
licy so traffic is directed at the active BGP connection. Whats involved here, preferring one BGP link over the other? Thanks again, I obviously need to do some reading of my own, but all the suggestions so far have been very valuable and definitely seem to be pointing in some fruitful directio

Re: Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-08 Thread adel
so is terminating bgp on the ssg also an option? I really like the flexibility of route based VPN with addresable tun interfaces. Thanks adel On Sun 3:47 PM , "Joe Maimon" jmai...@ttec.com sent: > > > adel@ > baklawasecrets.com wrote:> HI, > > > > > &g

Failover how much complexity will it add?

2009-11-08 Thread adel
m asking what are my options with regard to failover between one Internet connection and the other? I'm hoping to figure out whether adding an extra Internet connection actually gives us that much, in fact whether it justifies the complexity and spend. Many Thanks for your comments. Adel

sniffing x.25 on SUN/Solaris

2009-07-05 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, I am trying to capture x.25 traffic from a Sun Machine and i wonder if snoop supports it because i asked my customer to capture it and send it over but the trace doesnt include anything x/25 related. Regards, Kas