Re: [uknof] Top 50 Bad Hosts & Networks 2009

2010-04-02 Thread Neil J. McRae
FYI. > > http://hostexploit.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=201&Itemid=106 > > Best Regards, > > Guillaume FORTAINE > > > > -- Neil J. McRae -- Alive and Kicking. n...@domino.org

Re: [uknof] UKNOF17: Edinburgh 7th Sep - Registration, Accommodation information

2010-09-01 Thread Neil J McRae
try again Jon I cancelled my room as im flying in and out on the same day. Sent from my iPad On 1 Sep 2010, at 19:01, Jon Morby wrote: > Just catching up on mails and realised I haven't done anything about a hotel > as yet > > The Ibis is booked up Monday night now ... has anyone got any rec

Re: [uknof] congestion management at ISP's customer routers

2010-09-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
syncronisation of a backup set to a remote storage company (moving this to out of hours took 20M of the peak traffic). You then have the dilemma of questionable user traffic. At lunchtime you'd see the traffic levels to youtube etc rise significantly, with some flow shaping you can make sign

Re: [uknof] FTTH Gathering

2010-11-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
ig Society vanguard/first fibre village reps etc, let them know the > time and place please! > > best Paul. > > -- Neil J. McRae -- Alive and Kicking. n...@domino.org

Re: [uknof] Consumer broadband packet scheduling

2011-04-09 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 08/04/2011 21:30, "Mo McRoberts" wrote: >On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:13, Adrian Kennard wrote: > >> Biggest issue is the likes of bit-torrents. They are lots of separate >> tcp sessions so normal "full link" behaviour tends to balance between >> tcp sessions not between customers. > >Pardon t

Re: [uknof] Consumer broadband packet scheduling

2011-04-10 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 10/04/2011 19:54, "Keith Mitchell" wrote: >I'm not sure it is so simple on this latter point. At present, there are >no trunk link technologies that scale cost-effectively above >10Gb/s - last I looked 40Gb/s gear costs 4x as much as 10Gb/s, and >100Gb/s is only just becoming available. This l

Re: [uknof] Workshop PPP/L2TP/RADIUS 3pm 19th at AQL - all welcome

2011-04-14 Thread Neil J. McRae
adrian it would be useful to know what the confusion is. if its on any of the BT products I can feed that back in and try and improve the documentation. Neil Sent from my iPhone On 14 Apr 2011, at 17:42, Adrian Kennard wrote: > I am planning to have a workshop on Tue 19th at 3pm at AQL offic

Re: [uknof] Workshop PPP/L2TP/RADIUS 3pm 19th at AQL - all welcome

2011-04-14 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 14 Apr 2011, at 19:08, Adrian Kennard wrote: > It is all sorts - we have been dealing with many ISPs of late and a > scary number do not understand what goes on under to hood! so is this a general clue problem? In which case this might be useful to play to a wider audience. > The mobile o

Re: [uknof] Workshop PPP/L2TP/RADIUS 3pm 19th at AQL - all welcome

2011-04-15 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 15 Apr 2011, at 07:36, Adrian Kennard wrote: > On 15/04/11 06:47, Neil J. McRae wrote: >> >> On 14 Apr 2011, at 19:08, Adrian Kennard <<mailto:uk...@e.gg>uk...@e.gg >> <mailto:uk...@e.gg>> wrote: >> >>> It is all sorts - we have been de

Re: [uknof] Workshop PPP/L2TP/RADIUS 3pm 19th at AQL - all welcome

2011-04-15 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 15 Apr 2011, at 08:45, Adrian Kennard wrote: > I know that! What has actually surprised us (and I am not going to name > names) is that there seem to be ISPs out there that just buy boxes and plug > them together and cross their fingers. To me it seems odd not to understand > the workings i

Re: [uknof] Oversubscription maths

2011-05-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
historical data is your best hope. or build a model and use scenarios. Sent from my iPad On 26 May 2011, at 16:12, Adam Armstrong wrote: > Hi All, > > Do any of you have any pointers on how to go about predicting usage for > high-speed ethernet access service? > > I'm running 1GE links int

Re: [uknof] Urgent Bytemark contact

2011-08-02 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 02/08/2011 09:39, "Christian de Larrinaga" wrote: > >There was a clear perception at the time that uk.com had higher brand >value than .co.uk for a preferred name There was no such perception in my world!

Re: [uknof] UKNOF20, Bristol 6th September: Agenda now available

2011-08-25 Thread Neil J. McRae
the park inn is ok here also Sent from my iPhone On 25 Aug 2011, at 10:41, "Adrian Kennard" wrote: > We were thinking IBIS > http://www.ibishotel.com/gb/hotel-5547-ibis-bristol-centre/index.shtml > > Whilst I am prepared to buy a few drinks, I don't think sponsoring the > curry is on this time

Re: [uknof] PGP Keysigning at UKNOF 20

2011-09-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 6 Sep 2011, at 09:29, "Ben Laurie" wrote: > a) Who cares? PGP is for email and other online transactions, your > government (or whatever) issued ID is irrelevant. How do you propose we check who is who then Ben? :)

Re: [uknof] PGP Keysigning at UKNOF 20

2011-09-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 06/09/2011 10:48, "Ben Laurie" wrote: >Just because there is a problem it does not mean there is a solution :-) I love your honesty! :-) >In general, my approach to key-signing is that if you can persuade me >the key goes with the email address you want me to sign (the name is >immaterial

Re: [uknof] Active DWDM hardware recommendations?

2011-10-20 Thread Neil J. McRae
why do you need active? how many waves? how complex topology? active is much more pricey than passive. Sent from my iPad On 20 Oct 2011, at 12:04, "Ivan A. Beveridge" wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm after recommendations for active DWDM hardware. Currently I'm > looking for either 4 or 8 x 1gig in

Re: [uknof] Widespread JunOS BGP issues today?

2011-11-08 Thread Neil J. McRae
This is not a new issue. Juniper issued an advisory for it back in August. -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domino.org From: uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk [uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk] on behalf of Ben Ward [b...@crouchingbadger.com] Sent: 07 November 2011 22:52

Re: [uknof] UKNOF21, London 19th January: Agenda available

2012-01-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
Just to ensure that it's clear - if you are not pre-registered you will _not_ gain access to the event. Thanks, Neil. Sent from my iPad On 6 Jan 2012, at 23:00, "Keith Mitchell" wrote: > Happy New Year. > > I'm pleased to confirm that UKNOF21 will be taking place in the City of > London on

Re: [uknof] A dual stack London2012?

2012-01-12 Thread Neil J. McRae
ok I'm biting! I suspect I will regret it! :) enabling the web server to be IPV6 is probably trivial but it would be less than ideal if the network that connects it was not yet ready to deliver IPV6. BT's IPv6 roll out programme is documented on her website. I am not part of London2012 but I

Re: [uknof] A dual stack London2012?

2012-01-12 Thread Neil J. McRae
ok I'm biting! I suspect I will regret it! :) enabling the web server to be IPV6 is probably trivial but it would be less than ideal if the network that connects it was not yet ready to deliver IPV6 which is not so trivial. BT's IPv6 roll out programme is documented on her website. I am not p

Re: [uknof] A dual stack London2012?

2012-01-12 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 12 Jan 2012, at 20:40, "Adrian Kennard" wrote: > Good job IPv6 has been properly around and working for well over a > decade now, and people with at least that length of experience running > IPv6 in large networks (like JANET) are available. In my former life I looked after AS1273 where the

Re: [uknof] A dual stack London2012?

2012-01-12 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 12 Jan 2012, at 22:54, "Andy Davidson" wrote: > I normally agree with you, Seb :-) but I disagree here. > > No greenfield project in 2012 should not be dual stack, because IPv6 is not > an experiment any more. I think if this was in prep for the 2016 games one might agree but it's not,

Re: [uknof] A dual stack London2012?

2012-01-14 Thread Neil J. McRae
And make it work (with features) for millions of subscribers with bandwidth ranging from 2M to 10G! Not so easy. Sent from my iPhone On 13 Jan 2012, at 23:54, "Paul M" wrote: > I have an interesting idea. A lot of these consumer grade CPEs haven't > sufficient ROM/RAM to do dual stack. So, thr

Re: [uknof] A dual stack London2012?

2012-01-14 Thread Neil J. McRae
Thinking about this more - Several engineering rules come into play: if it isn't broke don't fix it and don't break the future by fixing the past. If you are having to play with DNS then in my experience you are probably heading in the wrong direction. Sent from my iPhone On 13 Jan 2012, at 23

Re: [uknof] A dual stack London2012?

2012-01-14 Thread Neil J. McRae
Adrian would love to hear more about this box might be a good presentation for the next UKNOF ? Sent from my iPhone On 14 Jan 2012, at 09:28, "Adrian Kennard" wrote: > On 2012-01-13 23:49, Paul M wrote: >> I have an interesting idea. A lot of these consumer grade CPEs haven't >> sufficient ROM

[uknof] UKNOF 21 - Reminder

2012-01-18 Thread Neil J. McRae
All Just a short note to remind registrants to bring ID with them tomorrow and for those who are not registered just a reminder that you _won't_ get in tomorrow If you turn up- only registered attendees will be admitted. Thanks Neil

Re: [uknof] UKNOF21 Final Information

2012-01-19 Thread Neil J. McRae
Ray, You need to get a job in an internet company :) Neil. From: Ray Bellis mailto:ray.bel...@nominet.org.uk>> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:48:35 + To: Will Hargrave mailto:w...@harg.net>> Cc: "uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk" mailto:uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk>> Subject:

Re: [uknof] PCI DSS and IPv6

2012-01-31 Thread Neil J. McRae
They set a framework - which isn't bad at all. It's interpretation of that framework that is the problem. Sent from my iPhone On 31 Jan 2012, at 22:38, "Gavin Hamill" wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 21:02 +, Tom Hill wrote: >> On 31/01/12 15:35, Leo Vegoda wrote: I note that PCI DSS p

Re: [uknof] PCI DSS and IPv6

2012-01-31 Thread Neil J. McRae
"management" if only they didn't exist and we could get rid of all the customers! I've deployed PCI accreditation (and many other more painful frameworks) on several occasions, no failure was needed. this isn't about the piece of paper, it's about ensuring that you manage risk effectively. Se

Re: [uknof] Apprenticeship

2012-02-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
Cliff - BT is taking on in BTID send me his details Sent from my iPhone On 13 Feb 2012, at 17:14, "Cliff Stanford" wrote: > Hi > > I hope this isn't too far off-topic for this list --- feel free to flame me > if it is, I still have thick skin. :) > > My stepson (who is 17) left school last y

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
Whilst I personally believe that these solutions don't work as a standalone option I think we also need to remember that many if not all of the people downloading stuff via TPB are actually breaking the law. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domin

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
about this" response and if we keep on this path I fear for what other crazy laws/ideas/court judgements we may need to face. I wonder how people would cope with that response if you saw someone being mugged but did nothing about it? Doesn't bode well for us all does it! :) Neil.

Re: [uknof] Bottom posting

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
point 1 exists in bottom posting also! I agree on HTML/Rich emails. Sadly nothing drives my email as well as Outlook does nor does anything manage calendar so well (and yes I've tried them all). -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domino.org From: uknof

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
That looks like a question out of GMAT LOL! -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domino.org From: akum...@gmail.com [akum...@gmail.com] on behalf of Anand Kumria [akum...@acm.org] Sent: 01 May 2012 16:39 To: Neil J. McRae Cc: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re

Re: [uknof] Bottom posting

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
Yeah but we are in a bandwidth selling business! :) Sent from my iPhone On 1 May 2012, at 09:36, "William Anderson" wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Neil J. McRae wrote: >> point 1 exists in bottom posting also! I agree on HTML/Rich emails. > > Well, as y

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
Yes of course I know Malcolm. Welcome to the "we don't give a stuff" world where individual interest is all that matters! Be careful what you wish for. -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domino.org From: Malcolm Hutty [malc...@linx.net] Sent: 01 Ma

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
Will, here is a clue that applies to TPB from your own link. Distributing a large enough number of copies to have a noticeable effect on the business of the copyright owner -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domino.org From: Will Hargrave [w...@harg.net] Sent: 01

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
the name of freedom of speech. I fail to see the difference between a phishing site and the pirate bay. Neil. Sent from my iPad On 1 May 2012, at 18:31, "Alec Edworthy" wrote: > On 1 May 2012, at 16:32, "Neil J. McRae" wrote: > >> Whilst I personally believe

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 1 May 2012, at 18:55, "Adrian Kennard" wrote: > I hate to say "I told you so", but when there was campaigning for 100% > IWF block list take up by ISPs, I spoke out against it. I said it would > quickly expand beyond its remit. Now we see that, not just within the > IWF, but by the courts us

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 2 May 2012, at 06:25, "Steve Dyer" wrote: > Nicholas Lansman, who 'is' ISPA, was on Radio 4 a few days ago on this > subject. He was rambling and not persuasive in any way. There are other more > effective organisations: > http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2012/what-they-want-is-control

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 1 May 2012, at 21:51, "Adrian Kennard" wrote: > Oh, I know. But are we enough of a voice to cause sanity to No because we don't have a voice and our only form of communication is to say "that'll never. work" then we shut down other scam sites because clearly that works!

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 1 May 2012, at 17:11, "Aled Morris" wrote: > I don't believe that assertion has been tested in a UK court. Then why is there more than one court order that has effectively banned two sites?! > Kudos to BT for insisting on judicial scrutiny on the spurious requests from > the so-called "r

Re: [uknof] Traffic Shaping and VoIP

2012-06-07 Thread Neil J. McRae
IP networks 101. If you have enough bandwidth everything gets a good deal. Sent from my iPhone On 7 Jun 2012, at 10:42, "Justin Finkelstein" mailto:jus...@ilithium.com>> wrote: nteresting; so it sounds, from what you say, that by default VoIP gets a "good deal" out of the available bandwidth?

Re: [uknof] Traffic Shaping and VoIP

2012-06-07 Thread Neil J. McRae
iPad On 7 Jun 2012, at 16:10, "Christian de Larrinaga" mailto:c...@firsthand.net>> wrote: Neil Do you find the model of asynchronous links to premises makes it tougher for everything to get "enough bandwidth" ? Christian On 7 Jun 2012, at 15:05, Neil J. McRae wr

Re: [uknof] Traffic Shaping and VoIP

2012-06-07 Thread Neil J. McRae
ailto:jus...@ilithium.com>> wrote: Well, yes of course. But not everyone has enough bandwidth.s not On 7 June 2012 15:05, Neil J. McRae mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: IP networks 101. If you have enough bandwidth everything gets a good deal. Sent from my iPhone On 7 Jun 2012, at 10:

Re: [uknof] Traffic Shaping and VoIP

2012-06-07 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 7 Jun 2012, at 19:53, "Justin Finkelstein" mailto:jus...@ilithium.com>> wrote: On 7 June 2012 19:49, Neil J. McRae mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: in some cases yes - ATM based DSL lines are particularly bad at coping with VoIP under congestion - I presented some stat

Re: [uknof] Traffic Shaping and VoIP

2012-06-08 Thread Neil J. McRae
's an expensive solution - probably more than the cost of the bandwidth and certainly not with the margins on voice (!) and not something that in my view aligns with a net neutrality direction. > > On 07/06/12 13:35, Matthew Ford wrote: > > > >http://www.iab.org/c

Re: [uknof] Etiquette for correcting BGP announcements

2012-09-07 Thread Neil J. McRae
Might be worth looking on ripe db etc for other admin/tech contacts. I've even used linkedin to get more specific contact details in situations similar to yours. Often a phone call can have a dramatic impact. Neil Sent from my iPhone On 7 Sep 2012, at 09:07, "Ed Butler" wrote: > What's the

Re: [uknof] List newbie!

2012-09-10 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 10/09/2012 12:09, "James Greig" wrote: >Hi Jonty, > >I hope the following helps to answer this: > >Is peering going to give you benefits over transit. > >1 major factor is that peering in most cases is free whereas transit is >paid for so as part of the bigger picture it helps in reducing band

Re: [uknof] List newbie!

2012-09-10 Thread Neil J. McRae
Runs for the hills! Sent from my iPhone On 10 Sep 2012, at 19:38, "Keith Mitchell" wrote: > Jonty Hewlett wrote: > >> Thank for that fantastic response, and the steerage of using AS's rather >> than subnets. >> >> Much appreciated and first impression a great one! > > You can also find a fa

Re: [uknof] IPv6 Matrix results for August 2012

2012-09-11 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 10/09/2012 16:54, "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" wrote: Not meaning to urinate in your cornflakes but just making a website dual stack means absolutely nothing I'm afraid. The underlying infrastructure needs to be enabled for IPV6 and the UK has a fantastic story in this regard, in fact OFCOM hel

Re: [uknof] IPv6 Matrix results for August 2012

2012-09-11 Thread Neil J. McRae
Surely then IPV6 streaming was available anywhere?! Yup I for one will be looking back ten years from now, at the many world records that fell, the astonishing Oscar Pistorious, Mo Farah, Usain Bolt, the outstanding BBC coverage, Sir Chris Hoy, the ladies relay, the amazing rowing, the fantasti

Re: [uknof] IPv6 Matrix results for August 2012

2012-09-11 Thread Neil J. McRae
Sent from my iPhone On 11 Sep 2012, at 22:59, "Will Hargrave" wrote: > > Not 100% good fortune - who remembers this olympic-related disaster? :-) > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/mogwai_83/5751106858/ > I'm sure anyone with -actual- experience of building networks would agree, if you said

Re: [uknof] IPv6 Matrix results for August 2012

2012-09-12 Thread Neil J. McRae
12 Sep 2012, at 08:20, "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" mailto:o...@gih.com>> wrote: Neil, On 11/09/2012 17:30, Neil J. McRae wrote: "The official London 2012 website, which BT hosted, had more than 450 million visits ­ four times as many as the Beijing Games website in 2008&quo

Re: [uknof] IPv6 Matrix results for August 2012

2012-09-12 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 12 Sep 2012, at 22:13, "Tim Chown" wrote: > That's a very defensive attitude. And it's not what's being said, rather that > it's very disappointing that whoever made the IT decisions didn't strive for > the same level of aspiration. As Sam said, it's down to attitude. The > attitude of th

Re: [uknof] IPv6 Matrix results for August 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 13 Sep 2012, at 09:27, "Adrian Kennard" wrote: > So for BT to say they "hosted" the site is not really correct, is it? Neil. Yes it is - who hosts iTunes?

Re: [uknof] IPv6 Matrix results for August 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 13/09/2012 09:54, "Adrian Kennard" wrote: >No idea, I'd have to look, not really relevant. Of course it is. >And, you have not answered the question. Of course I did, you just didn't like my answer. >What proportion of those 450 million visits hit a box that was actually >on BT's network?

Re: [uknof] IPv6 Matrix results for August 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 13/09/2012 09:02, "Tim Chown" wrote: >So why do you think Google and Facebook made the decision that they made? I'm not sure speculating about why they did makes sense. I guess if they are building something new, its easy to add IPV6 at the start rather than add it later on. >In terms of cha

Re: [uknof] IPv6 Matrix results for August 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
>You don't have a figure, but DNS suggests that the actual visits to the >site, to where the site was actually "hosted", went to places like >Akamai. So Akamai "hosted" the london2012 web site, not BT. DNS currently suggest surely? >"hosting" is a pretty well understood term. I couldn't disagr

Re: [uknof] IPv6 Matrix results for August 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 13/09/2012 10:37, "Neil J. McRae" wrote: >>That at least is excellent news! Any information on how it's being >>delivered? > >Yes we will be sharing this soon. I also meant to add - that for BT Internet Connect which is BT's corporate, all new service

Re: [uknof] IPv6 Matrix results for August 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 13/09/2012 12:26, "Tim Chown" wrote: >The interesting aspect here is that if you wanted to deploy a new >IPv6-only access network (which might be of interest in some parts of the >world) then you'd only need to translate about half your traffic. The >rest can flow natively. I would have guess

Re: [uknof] IPv6 Matrix results for August 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 13 Sep 2012, at 13:21, "Will Hargrave" wrote: > > On 13 Sep 2012, at 13:00, Neil J. McRae wrote: > >>> The interesting aspect here is that if you wanted to deploy a new >>> IPv6-only access network (which might be of interest in some parts of t

Re: [uknof] Go daddy what happened

2012-10-05 Thread Neil J. McRae
but even if they didn't have RR how do they get into a situation where a router starts switching in software. RR is a red herring in this failure scenario even with full mesh this failure would still have happened. root cause is somewhere a wad of routes turned a lot of silicon into something

Re: [uknof] Go daddy what happened

2012-10-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domino.org From: Will Hargrave [w...@harg.net] Sent: 06 October 2012 10:55 To: Neil J. McRae Cc: Thomas Mangin; uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re: [uknof] Go daddy what happened On 6 Oct 2012, at 05:29, "Neil J. McRae"

Re: [uknof] Go daddy what happened

2012-10-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
Ah ok now I understand Will's email, didn't spot this reply :-) and your hypothesis seems very reasonable. -- Neil J. McRae. n...@domino.org From: uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk [uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk] on behalf of Daniel A

Re: [uknof] [Fwd: [dns-operations] Fwd: [pacnog] Verisign's Patent Application for the Transfer of DNSSEC Domains]

2012-10-08 Thread Neil J. McRae
No - we just won't use DNSSEC! Sent from my iPhone On 8 Oct 2012, at 10:17, "Graeme Fowler" wrote: > Anyone with experience and a documented process for transferring domains > with DNSSEC records, please read the attached. > > If you could submit some prior art to invalidate the patent applic

Re: [uknof] Papers on networking (especially efficiency)

2012-10-20 Thread Neil J. McRae
You should trail thru usenix papers and I am sure you'll find a lot. Usenix.org. Also worth grabbing a copy of Stevens books which whilst a little out of date are still the best TCP/IP reference there is. Every network engineer should own atleast 1 copy! Sent from my iPhone On 20 Oct 2012, at

Re: [uknof] Free talk by Radia Perlman on 'Folklore of Network Protocols', 15/01

2013-01-10 Thread Neil J. McRae
Kate, thanks for sharing this with us. I'm looking forward to the talk. Neil. On 10 Jan 2013, at 22:24, "Oliver, Kate" mailto:k.oli...@ucl.ac.uk>> wrote: List members might be interested to know Radia Perlman is giving an open lecture on 'Folklore of Network Protocols' at UCL on Tuesday 15th J

Re: [uknof] Need advice on L2TP/WBMC or other wholesalers

2013-01-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 16/01/2013 15:29, "Gavin Henry" wrote: >We're currently looking at the ASR1001/2 for this at the moment but >are also speaking to Juniper as on the MX5-80 range they are rolling >out LNS and L2TP but it's quite early compared to the ASK1001/2. >Depends if you want Cisco on the edge for that,

Re: [uknof] Need advice on L2TP/WBMC or other wholesalers

2013-01-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 16/01/2013 15:48, "Nat Morris" wrote: > >Can it drop users into VRFs with different OSPF/BGP instances per VRF >via a radius attribute? > >A requirement for MPLS providers. Not if it doesn't support OSPF ;) or ISIS for that matter (the latter being far more important!). Neil.

Re: [uknof] Need advice on L2TP/WBMC or other wholesalers

2013-01-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 16/01/2013 15:56, "Ben Ward" mailto:b...@crouchingbadger.com>> wrote: Thanks to all for the excellent responses. I can continue this discussion on the list and add any relevant findings from the meeting. Since I am getting a very good price on Juniper MX and nobody's said "forget PPPoE, it'

Re: [uknof] Need advice on L2TP/WBMC or other wholesalers

2013-01-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
Thomas - I'll reach out to my ALU contacts and comeback with some options. Neil On 16/01/2013 16:03, "Thomas Mangin" wrote: > >> Alcatel Lucent 7750 > >Any recommendation to where to go to get product information from Alcatel >... They do not seem very geared for dealing with "small shops". > >

Re: [uknof] Need advice on L2TP/WBMC or other wholesalers

2013-01-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
have been chasing ALU on edge for ten years, ALU now have 7750-E! Sent from my iPad On 16 Jan 2013, at 16:30, "Aled Morris" mailto:al...@qix.co.uk>> wrote: On 16 January 2013 16:21, Neil J. McRae mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: Thomas - I'll reach out to my ALU cont

Re: [uknof] EFM DSLAM recommendations/costs

2013-01-25 Thread Neil J. McRae
Quite a few people are using zycel I believe - not used them myself. Sent from my iPhone On 25 Jan 2013, at 13:34, "Ben Ward" mailto:b...@crouchingbadger.com>> wrote: Hi again all, Apologies for those who I missed by not going to UKNOF last week. Since the baby arrived life has become more sm

Re: [uknof] EFM DSLAM recommendations/costs

2013-01-25 Thread Neil J. McRae
So I deployed actelis at colt - excellent box with great manageability - at BT we use Hatteras which also works well. Neil Sent from my iPhone On 25 Jan 2013, at 15:58, "Simon Lockhart" wrote: > On Fri Jan 25, 2013 at 01:27:06PM +, Ben Ward wrote: >> I'm looking for low-cost, fairly dumb

Re: [uknof] UK LTE (4G) auctions?

2013-01-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
I can't comment on the spectrum auctions but BT's strategy on mobile has been stated several times and hasn't changed. Sent from my iPhone On 27 Jan 2013, at 16:39, "Ben Ward" mailto:b...@crouchingbadger.com>> wrote: Paul, Wish I could chime in on this, but I'm working for MLL Telecom & the a

Re: [uknof] DNS DDoS

2013-01-31 Thread Neil J. McRae
Good luck with rate limiting! Fixing the edge is vital; having a way to inject a path/flow to take the traffic to a bucket is also important - routers work best when routing. (Openflow has a great use case in this area) having distribution in the core and aggregation layer and routers that have

Re: [uknof] DNS DDoS

2013-02-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
The can turn it at the first layer 3 gateway though! Suspect though cheap switches with low features! Sent from my iPhone On 1 Feb 2013, at 08:47, "Ray Bellis" wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2013, at 18:37, Robert McKay wrote: > >> Having said that, I think a lot of these kinds of attacks actually or

Re: [uknof] 2013 Submarine Cable Map

2013-02-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
Maps are out of date before they even start printing! From: Paul Mansfield mailto:p...@mansfield.co.uk>> Date: Sunday, 3 February 2013 11:06 To: "uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk" mailto:uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk>> Subject: Re: [uknof] 2013 Submarine Cable Map On 3 Feb 2

Re: [uknof] LINX80

2013-02-11 Thread Neil J. McRae
Fight club rules apply James! On 11/02/2013 19:53, "James Bensley" wrote: >Evening all, > >LINX80 is next week, is anyone here going? Presumably a fair few! > >I will be attending. It will be my first LINX meeting and I'll be on >my own, so i'll be looking for a friendly face or two. If anyone w

Re: [uknof] LINX80

2013-02-11 Thread Neil J. McRae
Interestingly it was a LINX meeting that probably made me realise I drank too much/couldn't handle my beer* Since that meeting I don't think I've ever been drunk since ever. Somehow I made it home - couldn't remember anything other than dreadful food and something about a keg of beer. http://ph

Re: [uknof] Our flagship datacentre is now Open...

2013-02-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
Can we all send spam to the list? On 13/02/2013 11:16, "Ashley Eighteen" mailto:ashley.eight...@datum.co.uk>> wrote: If this email doesn't display properly you can view it in your web browser. Datum Datacentres

Re: [uknof] Our flagship datacentre is now Open...

2013-02-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
t your v6 roll out ;-) > > >Neil J. McRae wrote: >> Can we all send spam to the list? >> >> >> On 13/02/2013 11:16, "Ashley Eighteen" > <mailto:ashley.eight...@datum.co.uk>> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> If this email doesn't display properly you can _view it in your web >> >

Re: [uknof] Hurricane Electric paper spam

2013-03-11 Thread Neil J. McRae
I got it also - has a funny company associated with it that makes think it has come via RIPE db - will check tomorrow. Neil Sent from my iPhone On 11 Mar 2013, at 21:30, "Jona Young" mailto:j...@younghouse.info>> wrote: On 11 March 2013 17:29, Paul Sladen mailto:uk...@paul.sladen.org>> wrote

Re: [uknof] Please Advise: UK - India Routing issues

2013-04-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
As will says many cable issues - falcon and flag seems to be on for now but this was causing chaos last week. Sent from my iPhone On 1 Apr 2013, at 13:45, "waynemerricks" wrote: > Hi all, > > I apologise if this is the wrong place to ask but I was recommended reaching > out to the UKNOF list

Re: [uknof] First one of these I've received...

2013-04-17 Thread Neil J. McRae
Its great news in my view – more competition in IP space is good for all. From: Simon Green mailto:si...@wirehive.net>> Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2013 09:56 To: 'Gavin Henry' mailto:ghe...@suretec.co.uk>> Cc: "uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk" mailto:uknof@lists.uknof.org

Re: [uknof] First one of these I've received...

2013-04-17 Thread Neil J. McRae
Agreed, I think also that the fact that address space sitting in lawyers desk are being freed up is a good thing – look at nortel/microsoft. From: Ben King mailto:b...@warwicknet.com>> Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2013 11:08 To: "uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk" mailto:ukn

Re: [uknof] DDoS mitigation appliances

2013-04-29 Thread Neil J. McRae
the below is true but means you typically bin the good traffic to your customer also... Sent from my iPad On 29 Apr 2013, at 16:00, "Zoë O'Connell" mailto:zoe-uk...@complicity.co.uk>> wrote: On 29/04/2013 12:53, Simon Green wrote: We’re looking at DDoS mitigation options at the moment, and one

Re: [uknof] Transit providers to avoid?

2013-05-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
a good test is to randomly phone their help desk and see how helpful they are. NTT won this test for me. Sent from my iPad On 6 May 2013, at 10:19, "Gavin Henry" wrote: >> On Mon May 06, 2013 at 10:06:11AM +0100, Adrian Bool wrote: >>> I suspect you'd get more of a response if you asked for m

Re: [uknof] Transit providers to avoid?

2013-05-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
"BGP team". Neil. Sent from my iPhone On 6 May 2013, at 21:15, "Sebastien Lahtinen" wrote: > > On Mon, 6 May 2013, Neil J. McRae wrote: > >> a good test is to randomly phone their help desk and see how helpful they >> are. NTT won this test for me. &g

Re: [uknof] Transit providers to avoid?

2013-05-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
evoip.co.uk Did you see our API? http://www.surevoip.co.uk/api - Reply message - From: "Neil J. McRae" mailto:n...@domino.org>> To: "Sebastien Lahtinen" mailto:s...@lonap.net>> Cc: "Gavin Henry" mailto:ghe...@suretec.co.uk>>, "uknof@list

Re: [uknof] Picking Data centres

2013-05-15 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 15 May 2013, at 19:37, "Gavin Henry" wrote: > Hi all, > > With so many to chose from in the Manchester and London areas what do > you look for when opening a PoP? > > * Customer demand? > * Strategic placement? > * Carrier list? > * Power? more than one of the above ideally along with cost

Re: [uknof] Picking Data centres

2013-05-15 Thread Neil J. McRae
for IPX quite a while and existing will remain. but Internet will start to happen towards Xmas into new year. Sent from my iPad On 15 May 2013, at 21:42, "Gavin Henry" wrote: > On 15 May 2013 21:12, Neil J. McRae wrote: >> On 15 May 2013, at 19:37, "Gavin Henry

Re: [uknof] Picking Data centres

2013-05-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
I thought Exodus had this in its old London Data centre that C&W bought some of? > >It was announced in their spam-mails; > >Telehouse opens primary substation for its London Docklands Data Centres > >Telehouse has become the first commercial data centre to own and run a >primary substation within

Re: [uknof] Wholesale subscriber campaigns

2013-05-17 Thread Neil J. McRae
With a phone number or apostcode. Neil Sent from my iPhone On 17 May 2013, at 14:52, "Ben Ward" mailto:b...@crouchingbadger.com>> wrote: Hi All, Thanks for all the great responses on datacentre space. Perfect timing for us and thanks to Gavin for asking. Now, I have a question about wholesa

Re: [uknof] Wholesale subscriber campaigns

2013-05-17 Thread Neil J. McRae
Yes - or web page. Sent from my iPhone On 17 May 2013, at 19:50, "Ben Ward" mailto:b...@crouchingbadger.com>> wrote: Using an API to the wholesaler's BSS? On 17 May 2013 19:45, "Neil J. McRae" mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: With a phone number or apos

Re: [uknof] Wholesale subscriber campaigns

2013-05-17 Thread Neil J. McRae
- it's a very ambitious project. In Cyprus there are a few 5Ghz wireless companies that rely upon leaflets in shops community centres etc. Sent from my iPhone On 17 May 2013, at 21:04, "William Waites" wrote: > On Fri, 17 May 2013 18:45:23 +0000, "Neil J. McRae" sai

Re: [uknof] leasing/managed offices in London, UK with 10gbe carriers POPs?

2013-05-26 Thread Neil J. McRae
Probably your best bet is BT or COLT. Most of the folks here will be using them. Sent from my iPhone On 26 May 2013, at 13:18, "Andrius Kazimieras Kasparavičius" wrote: > Hi, > > I was going through this database[1] looking for office > facilities/buildings with 10gbe carriers POPs already

Re: [uknof] Transfer vs 95th% based billing

2013-06-07 Thread Neil J. McRae
Don't forget that 95th percentile as a metric in your network is also going to help you ensure you dimension your network more accurately. Sent from my iPhone On 7 Jun 2013, at 17:24, "Simon Green" mailto:si...@wirehive.net>> wrote: A collective thanks for all the replies I got on this, on and

Re: [uknof] 3rd party optics for Juniper MX5-80

2013-06-11 Thread Neil J. McRae
flexoptics. Sent from my iPad On 11 Jun 2013, at 08:23, "Gavin Henry" mailto:ghe...@suretec.co.uk>> wrote: Hi all, What 3rd party optics are folks using on the MX5-80 platform? Got a quote for Smart optics but will keep some Juniper branded ones of support if needed. Recommendations? Than

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