Re: [uknof] Thought for the day: announce the end of IPv4 internet connections by 2026

2020-05-23 Thread Neil J. McRae
-x12c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::12c]) by uknofmailman.vs.mythic-beasts.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jazC1-0001zf-87 for uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk; Tue, 19 May 2020 11:09:49 +0100  On 23/05/2020, 10:43, "Paul Mansfield" wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 15:26, Nei

Re: [uknof] Thought for the day: announce the end of IPv4 internet connections by 2026

2020-05-23 Thread Neil J. McRae
The time was 22 years ago sadly the failure of anyone to make a compelling case to move to IPV6 had derailed this ? and as long as there is demand for IPV4 ISPs will continue to support it. It's not the network operators job to decide what the market wants; I so love your "well BT it's up to you

Re: [uknof] Thought for the day: announce the end of IPv4 internet connections by 2026

2020-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
; one but all of them) would make any service issues, or anything else > better. > > Neil. > > > On 22/05/2020, 17:43, "uknof on behalf of Will Hargrave" > wrote: > > On 22 May 2020, at 15:26, Neil J. McRae wrote: >

Re: [uknof] Thought for the day: announce the end of IPv4 internet connections by 2026

2020-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 22/05/2020, 17:43, "uknof on behalf of Will Hargrave" wrote: On 22 May 2020, at 15:26, Neil J. McRae wrote: > Any action needs to have customers and users at the forefront of the > thinking; not an afterthought. This could be an interesting and refreshing

Re: [uknof] Thought for the day: announce the end of IPv4 internet connections by 2026

2020-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
. On 22/05/2020, 16:48, "Christian" wrote: How long until Hard Brexit? On 22/05/2020 16:34, Neil J. McRae wrote: > And this wouldn't change that, nor anything else. It would be a legal tax efficient way to avoid Pete's tax. > > Neil. > &g

Re: [uknof] Thought for the day: announce the end of IPv4 internet connections by 2026

2020-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
Pete - I'm impressed with your perseverance on this idea even though it's got more flees than a Worf's pet targ. all the cable systems are registered in Bermuda, yet none of them go anywhere near the place On 22/05/2020, 16:39, "Pete Stevens" wrote: > Why would that happen Pete? No

Re: [uknof] Thought for the day: announce the end of IPv4 internet connections by 2026

2020-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
And this wouldn't change that, nor anything else. It would be a legal tax efficient way to avoid Pete's tax. Neil. On 22/05/2020, 16:30, "Tim Chown" wrote: > On 22 May 2020, at 15:49, Neil J. McRae wrote: > > As I'm not allowed to use any more

Re: [uknof] Thought for the day: announce the end of IPv4 internet connections by 2026

2020-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
Is this really not UKNOT?! Why would that happen Pete? Nobody would even know that you had even done it. Regards, Neil. On 22/05/2020, 16:05, "Pete Stevens" wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2020, Neil J. McRae wrote: > As I'm not allowed to use any more Friday memes :D

Re: [uknof] Thought for the day: announce the end of IPv4 internet connections by 2026

2020-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
As I'm not allowed to use any more Friday memes :D I'll just move all my IPv4s to be assets in a company in Luxembourg. Neil. On 22/05/2020, 15:35, "uknof on behalf of Pete Stevens" wrote: > Here's a thought. Make IPv4 addresses taxable assets and have them declared on balance

Re: [uknof] Thought for the day: announce the end of IPv4 internet connections by 2026

2020-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
* And whilst some on here seem to think that ridiculing peoples opinions and suggestions is acceptable, I think that Paul (Mansfield) has made a valid suggestion that deserves to be discussed in an adult manner. Sorry as its Friday, I actually thought Paul was trying to be funny! RFC 246

Re: [uknof] Thought for the day: announce the end of IPv4 internet connections by 2026

2020-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
I can see the meme generator is going to be busy today! :D On 22/05/2020, 14:06, "uknof on behalf of Christian" wrote: Another question. If all Internet connections (capital "I" please note) have to have a public IP provided that is stable and are able to initiate and respond to

Re: [uknof] Thought for the day: announce the end of IPv4 internet connections by 2026

2020-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
https://imgflip.com/i/42fn8j On 22/05/2020, 13:26, "uknof on behalf of Paul Mansfield" wrote: Here's a thought. Industry leading bodies* should announce that from 2026 all internet connections sold in the UK will be IPv6 only, and thus all CPEs must support IPv6 on the WAN an

Re: [uknof] 9pm data dip

2020-05-12 Thread Neil J. McRae
vers around that time may also yield insights. Keith On 5/12/20 6:16 AM, Neil J. McRae wrote: > All things being equal Clive I agree give or take a small plus or > minus, but the operators have different market shares and not all of > the population is a mobile pho

Re: [uknof] 9pm data dip

2020-05-12 Thread Neil J. McRae
er 24 hour period and possible to miss something. Understanding the size of the gradient change of the dip would be helpful. Neil. On 12/05/2020, 11:10, "Clive D.W. Feather" wrote: Neil J. McRae said: > Giles, interesting correlation ??? would be very interesting to find out

Re: [uknof] 9pm data dip

2020-05-12 Thread Neil J. McRae
We don’t see a statistically interesting drop in the traffic at that time, we see traffic up and down throughout the evening period but nothing special about 21:00. Giles, interesting correlation – would be very interesting to find out if this was the cause. I’d find that quite surprising if it

Re: [uknof] Waiting on more FTTC capacity at a cabinet?

2020-05-05 Thread Neil J. McRae
For both of these nobody will be able to respond and any dates given are high risk given the current situation. Your best bet to get an accurate view is to ask your CP to ask Openreach. Neil. > On 5 May 2020, at 16:30, Paul Mansfield wrote: > > Any BT lurkers who can help? I don't want t

Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm

2020-04-29 Thread Neil J. McRae
he same even if labels and ASNs have since changed. So yeah, maybe the wet string needed more water.. On Wed, 29 Apr 2020, 15:21 Neil J. McRae, mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: Jeez, that article reminds me of Good Morning Vietnam (but not so funny). [DISK JOCKEY] “What's the weather l

Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm

2020-04-29 Thread Neil J. McRae
t Regards, Matthew Mercer From: uknof on behalf of Neil J. McRae Sent: 29 April 2020 11:35 To: Alan Ramsay Cc: uknof ; Paul Mansfield Subject: Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm Alan, Not sure what organisation you are from, but are you share details

Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm

2020-04-29 Thread Neil J. McRae
astructure would have been in place to be more resilient than that! Alan On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 11:16, Neil J. McRae mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: Read the part about a fibre break… From: uknof mailto:uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk>> on behalf of Paul Mansfield mailto:paul%2

Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm

2020-04-29 Thread Neil J. McRae
Read the part about a fibre break… From: uknof on behalf of Paul Mansfield Date: Wednesday, 29 April 2020 at 10:38 To: Alan Ramsay , uknof Subject: Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm just speculating wildly, was this a result of IPv6 deployment going wrong?

Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm

2020-04-29 Thread Neil J. McRae
So my understanding is that VM had a fibre break from around 13:45 until 02:00. On 28 Apr 2020, at 16:49, Neil J. McRae wrote:  Does it goto the same VM pop if so could be a power outage or something? If you can send me a BT circuit ID to neil.mc...@bt.com I can take a look. Cheers Neil

Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm

2020-04-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
w for certain, but we know failover depends on BGP (we've a few hundred IPs that are supposed to switch over), and we are still down when we try to use our backup/BT circuit. Thanks, Simon. On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 16:41, Neil J. McRae mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: Simon Are you saying

Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm

2020-04-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
Simon Are you saying your BT circuit also failed? Neil Sent from my iPhone On 28 Apr 2020, at 13:54, Simon Burke wrote:  On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 10:14, Giles Coochey mailto:gi...@coochey.net>> wrote: On 28/04/2020 09:49, Tom Bird wrote: On 27/04/2020 23:43, Marek Isalski wrote: Good luck

Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm

2020-04-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
Well whatever it was, I suspect it's not as high on the stupid list as running BGP over a GRE tunnel over a cable modem for backup. On 28/04/2020, 09:51, "uknof on behalf of Tom Bird" wrote: On 27/04/2020 23:43, Marek Isalski wrote: > Good luck to the engineers at 5089, 6830, and bey

Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm

2020-04-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
:) There’s a much smaller similar blip on BT on Downdetector … people who’s forgotten which ISP they're on? https://downdetector.co.uk/status/bt-british-telecom/ M On 27 Apr 2020, at 21:42, Neil J. McRae mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: Suspect it’s not something normal and they ha

Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm

2020-04-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
Suspect it’s not something normal and they have everyone and their vendors working on it; From: uknof on behalf of Chris Malton Date: Monday, 27 April 2020 at 21:38 To: Charl Tintinger , Mark Boyce Cc: "uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk" , Peter Knapp Subject: Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm

Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm

2020-04-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
Probably the hop after the headends. Sent from my iPhone On 27 Apr 2020, at 20:15, Chris Russell wrote:  Its definitely hitting Virgin Mobile too . Seems to be routing related as during dead time I can hit my local headend but no further, it also seems to take an age to restore a full tab

Re: [uknof] [IP] COVID-19 Internet Usage Update (US)

2020-04-20 Thread Neil J. McRae
I thought that was in place already after a set amount of time? On 20/04/2020, 12:09, "uknof on behalf of Paul Mansfield" wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 11:04, Will Hargrave wrote: > conspiracy theories have accelerated when we are paying somewhere > between three and ten million

Re: [uknof] Fwd: [IP] COVID-19 Internet Usage Update (US)

2020-04-18 Thread Neil J. McRae
What needs study is how this totally unacceptable madness has happened. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-theory-news-latest-bt-openreach-ee-engineers-attack-abuse-a9468031.html Sent from my iPhone On 17 Apr 2020, at 15:25, Neil J. McRae wrote

Re: [uknof] Fwd: [IP] COVID-19 Internet Usage Update (US)

2020-04-18 Thread Neil J. McRae
ds like a duck…..it’s rarely just a coronavirus tracking app. Regards. Paul. P.S. but on the virus, a combination of asymptomatic carriers, lack of a reliable antibody test and a high probability it’ll mutate each year anyway like other coronaviruses, kinda suggests it won’t help anyway. Fro

Re: [uknof] Fwd: [IP] COVID-19 Internet Usage Update (US)

2020-04-18 Thread Neil J. McRae
I’ve been playing a lot of old text based RPG’s and your reply made me chuckle: “In the desert of good ideas you see in the horizon ahead, it’s looks like an ideas oasis, your party becomes excited! They run towards it, +1exp but sadly the oasis is but a mirage and all you find is Paul Webb (-5

Re: [uknof] Fwd: [IP] COVID-19 Internet Usage Update (US)

2020-04-17 Thread Neil J. McRae
Agree with Steve on spam, and I can’t believe the number of asshat companies that think using covid19 to sell their snakeoil is going to be any more effective than the last stupid idea they had. Spam is up, lots of unsolicited direct messages.. in particular a Claire Durber of Stratus

Re: [uknof] Fwd: [IP] COVID-19 Internet Usage Update (US)

2020-04-17 Thread Neil J. McRae
April 2020 at 14:35 To: "uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk" Subject: Re: [uknof] Fwd: [IP] COVID-19 Internet Usage Update (US) On 17/Apr/20 14:51, Neil J. McRae wrote: Yes I’ve been updating network stats for BT on my twitter page almost daily although less so now as there isn’t a lot to

Re: [uknof] UK IPv6 Council round table meeting, 28th April

2020-04-17 Thread Neil J. McRae
As expected, some large organisations effectively signing out of large meetings until June next year...

Re: [uknof] UK IPv6 Council round table meeting, 28th April

2020-04-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
There is no doubt about the fact that we're heading into one of the biggest global turndowns, some economists estimating 20% - the banking crisis was 3.4% by comparison. We've been lazy on collaboration and frankly well over invested. I know of few other industries that has the volume of face

Re: [uknof] COVID-19 offers of help and network changes

2020-03-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
Reminds me (in a another life) of giving transit to a few folks who lost out during 9/11 for free - Fantastic that you guys are offering this free! Well done! Neil. On 16/03/2020, 20:36, "uknof on behalf of Leigh Harrison" wrote: Bravo, Gavin, I’m just about to write to my cust

Re: [uknof] Fibre internet - was Re: Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2020-02-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
No idea, I avoid clickbait sites. From: Paul Mansfield Date: Friday, 21 February 2020 at 10:54 To: Neil McRae , "uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk" Subject: Re: [uknof] Fibre internet - was Re: Current State of Multicast on the Internet? Hi Neil, Could it be something to do with this rumour? https://

Re: [uknof] why aren't we giving /31 to customers

2020-02-20 Thread Neil J. McRae
Only the crazy would do that! Sent from my iPhone On 20 Feb 2020, at 13:11, Stephen Wilcox wrote:  On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 19:39, Tom Bird mailto:t...@marmot.org.uk>> wrote: On 20/02/2020 12:07, Richard Halfpenny wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On what connectivity (colo/fibre/etc)? Just on ethernet ter

Re: [uknof] Fibre internet - was Re: Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2020-02-10 Thread Neil J. McRae
Paul As soon as I know something concrete I’ll let you know! Nell. Sent from my iPhone > On 10 Feb 2020, at 16:08, Paul Mansfield wrote: > > I know patience is a virtue, but four months on and I'm hoping for > some news, thanks! > >> On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 1

Re: [uknof] Open Source Software

2020-02-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
rything you need, integrated together, and with the flexibility to differentiate, with no Wireshark, named, quagga/zebra or similar ? I’m not sure how you could run an ISP without *some* of the mainstream open source software tools. Thanks John From: Neil J. McRae Sent: 06 February 2020 10:

Re: [uknof] Open Source Software

2020-02-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
sday, 6 February 2020, 09:47:33 GMT, Adrian Bolster wrote: TSR to me means terminate and stay resident but not sure if that’s what Neil means Sent from my iPhone On 6 Feb 2020, at 09:36, John P Bourke wrote: Hi, At the risk of sounding dumb … what is TSR ? John From: uknof

Re: [uknof] Open Source Software

2020-02-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
The list will be long, but just beware with new TSR stuff coming down the road – keeping it secure is going to be a bigger factor that it once was (and quite rightly so). On 06/02/2020, 09:02, "uknof on behalf of Leigh Harrison" mailto:uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk> on behalf of leigh.harri

Re: [uknof] Extortion?

2020-02-05 Thread Neil J. McRae
Have you spoke to NCSC? Sent from my iPhone On 4 Feb 2020, at 19:48, Mardak, Stefan wrote:  Aled, You might want to dig a bit into extortion: https://blogs.akamai.com/sitr/2019/11/fake-cozy-bear-group-making-ddos-extortion-demands.html https://www.cert.govt.nz/it-specialists/advisories/ddos-e

Re: [uknof] someone? fibre issue

2020-01-31 Thread Neil J. McRae
Adjusted the subject :) and probably jinxed that it’s us! :) Neil Sent from my iPhone On 31 Jan 2020, at 18:15, Simon Woodhead wrote:  Gamma claim they have a dual break on the East coast and London area. The London one may be off-net but I haven’t heard. We’ve not seen anyone else affected

Re: [uknof] BT? fibre issue

2020-01-31 Thread Neil J. McRae
Right now I don’t see anything major affected.but have asked to be sure. Sent from my iPhone > On 31 Jan 2020, at 17:59, Simon Woodhead wrote: > > Gamma, Martin. > >> On 31 Jan 2020, at 17:50, Martin Hepworth wrote: >> >> Seeing lots of chatter on twitter /downdetector about what looks lik

Re: [uknof] Wayleave

2020-01-14 Thread Neil J. McRae
14 Jan 2020, 18:47 Neil J. McRae, mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: Isn’t that what I said? :) On 14 Jan 2020, at 18:42, Paul Mansfield mailto:paul%2buk...@mansfield.co.uk>> wrote:  On Tue, 14 Jan 2020, 17:57 Neil J. McRae, mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: Agree with Chris /

Re: [uknof] Wayleave

2020-01-14 Thread Neil J. McRae
Isn’t that what I said? :) Sent from my iPhone On 14 Jan 2020, at 18:42, Paul Mansfield wrote:  On Tue, 14 Jan 2020, 17:57 Neil J. McRae, mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: Agree with Chris / but this is typical landlord make money fast BS. More likely the management agents being a

Re: [uknof] Wayleave

2020-01-14 Thread Neil J. McRae
Agree with Chris / but this is typical landlord make money fast BS. Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Jan 2020, at 17:28, Chris Wilkie wrote: > > Hi Ben > > Answering this using experience of being on the other side of the table (my > company is, amongst other things, building an FTTH network):

Re: [uknof] Technical contact at BT?

2019-12-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
Send me a note to neil.mc...@bt.com and I’ll get this request to the right folks. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Dec 2019, at 15:19, Keith Mitchell wrote: > > You may also want to try asking this question on the "mailop" list. > > Keith > > >> On 12/3/19 8:05 AM, Robert Fitzgerald wrote: >> >

Re: [uknof] Openreach EAD ECC's

2019-11-07 Thread Neil J. McRae
Chris, Pretty sure you can't use the allowance of the second one on the ECC for the first one I'm afraid. Cheers, Neil. On 06/11/2019, 18:54, "uknof on behalf of Chris Wilkie" wrote: Hi All Is anyone experienced with ordering EAD circuits from Openreach and able to advise, plea

Re: [uknof] SYN_RECV

2019-10-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
Interesting coinciding with an increased volume of phishing attacks. Sent from my iPhone > On 28 Oct 2019, at 17:28, Keith Mitchell wrote: > > On 10/28/19 11:26 AM, Tom Bird wrote: > >> For a while now I've been seeing quite a lot of TCP sockets in the >> SYN_RECV state on any machine offer

Re: [uknof] Three hosed. Make it right please!

2019-10-17 Thread Neil J. McRae
in Hepworth mailto:max...@gmail.com>> Cc: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk<mailto:uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk> mailto:uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk>>; Neil J. McRae mailto:n...@domino.org>>; Paul Mansfield mailto:paul+uk...@mansfield.co.uk>> Subject: Re: [uknof] Three hosed. Make it right

Re: [uknof] Three hosed. Make it right please!

2019-10-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
Thu, 17 Oct 2019, 05:12 Neil J. McRae, mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: Network has been down for well over 5 hours Who provides the backhaul for Three from cell sites? Do they have a preferred supplier for connection to any regional PoPs?

[uknof] Three hosed. Make it right please!

2019-10-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
Anyone here from three? Network has been down for well over 5 hours - nothing on social media and website has had something added about maintenance on the website? 3G came back for like 10 seconds then died again - 4G isn’t working at all nor is roaming. My daughter can’t use her phone! Call

Re: [uknof] Talktalk wholesale xDSL radius session steering

2019-10-04 Thread Neil J. McRae
We’re crazy but not stupid! :D Sent from my iPhone > On 4 Oct 2019, at 17:12, Ray Bellis wrote: > > > >> On 04/10/2019 16:59, Neil J. McRae wrote: >> Gareth is the network hero for using Perl! Well done! :) > > For those that want to try something really b

Re: [uknof] Talktalk wholesale xDSL radius session steering

2019-10-04 Thread Neil J. McRae
Gareth is the network hero for using Perl! Well done! :) Sent from my iPhone On 4 Oct 2019, at 12:36, Gareth Bryan mailto:gareth.br...@timico.co.uk>> wrote: I did this a few months ago - agree it's a little odd. Ended up using a perl module: *snip* my $ttb_tunnel_vr = $1 if $RAD_REQUE

Re: [uknof] Fibre internet - was Re: Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-10-02 Thread Neil J. McRae
t some fibre > deployed whilst there's deep excavations! > > >> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 16:25, Neil J. McRae wrote: >> >> Paul - you have such little patience. >> >> On 19/09/2019, 16:24, "Paul Mansfield" wrote: >> >>>O

Re: [uknof] Weird domestic electrical fault

2019-09-30 Thread Neil J. McRae
I’d get that checked out - could be trouble ahead. Sent from my iPhone > On 30 Sep 2019, at 09:12, Ray Bellis wrote: > > This is puzzling me. > > Yesterday morning we had the vacuum cleaner running when it appeared to cut > out. At first we thought it had broken, but we soon discovered that

Re: [uknof] Fibre internet - was Re: Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-19 Thread Neil J. McRae
Paul - you have such little patience. On 19/09/2019, 16:24, "Paul Mansfield" wrote: On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 16:41, Neil J. McRae wrote: > > Where do you live Paul? I gave Neil my address, fortunately he didn't "send the boys round" to shut

Re: [uknof] Fibre internet - was Re: Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-05 Thread Neil J. McRae
I'm much more inclusive than that. On 05/09/2019, 16:54, "uknof on behalf of William Anderson" wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 4:48 PM Neil J. McRae wrote: > Where do you live Paul? Is Neil about to send the boys around? :) -n

Re: [uknof] Fibre internet - was Re: Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-05 Thread Neil J. McRae
Where do you live Paul? Sent from my iPhone > On 5 Sep 2019, at 15:52, Paul Mansfield wrote: > >> On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 16:44, Marek Isalski wrote: >> the G.Fast trial in Chorlton, ~150 metres from the exchange: >> >> https://fs.maz.nu/chorlton-cabinet-42.jpg > > it's all gone very quiet on

Re: [uknof] Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
t;> wrote: > On 3 Sep 2019, at 14:54, Neil J. McRae > mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: > Yah we’re about to go 100G at my place :) fortunately for us we’re well on > the petabit journey. Ok, while we're all bragging about home Internet speeds, here's my serving cabi

Re: [uknof] Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 3 Sep 2019, at 16:25, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > >> On 2/Sep/19 18:53, Neil J. McRae wrote: >> BT TV is delivered via multicast. Works lovely and we sell TV connect for >> those that want their content delivered via multicast. > > I don't think customer

Re: [uknof] Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
> >> On 2/Sep/19 18:48, Marek Isalski wrote: >> >> Isn't it all about on-demand streaming now, rather than broad-/multi-cast? >> I mean, who actually watches live TV these days? It seems like building a >> network for the future of video consumption (Millenial and Gen-Z) will need >> CDN-t

Re: [uknof] Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
> On 3 Sep 2019, at 16:35, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > >> On 3/Sep/19 12:37, Brandon Butterworth wrote: >> >> I'd not bother with ipv4 multicast now, ipv6 refined things >> a bit for multicast so v6 ssm is what we'd want to do. > > Except that STB support is poor. Unless things have changed si

Re: [uknof] Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
Sorry I meant TV and not just ITV. > In definitive terms yes you can say hundreds of millions of pounds or > terabits of traffic, but what about relative terms? What relative > percentage of traffic and OPEX has it saved you across your core? Not sure why you care if it’s opex or anything else.

Re: [uknof] Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
I meant TV obvs! Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Sep 2019, at 12:21, Brandon Butterworth wrote: > >> On Tue Sep 03, 2019 at 10:33:39AM +0100, David Derrick wrote: >>> On 02/09/2019 20:45, Neil J. McRae wrote: >>> Nope you need petabit long before folks have gigabit to

Re: [uknof] Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
Multicast has saved us hundreds of millions of pounds in delivering lTV which is still a substantially huge amount of traffic. The complexity is minimal and if done right saves you money to the last mile (which is the same cost for unicast in any case). The question that’s hard to answer is wh

Re: [uknof] Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-02 Thread Neil J. McRae
The miracle of a Winchester! On 02/09/2019, 22:17, "uknof on behalf of Ray Bellis" wrote: On 02/09/2019 20:43, Neil J. McRae wrote: > Linear TV is still huge - live sport, reality TV nonsense and coronation street. How does multicast cope there whe

Re: [uknof] Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-02 Thread Neil J. McRae
Linear TV is still huge - live sport, reality TV nonsense and coronation street. Sent from my iPhone On 2 Sep 2019, at 18:51, Marek Isalski wrote: >> On 2 Sep 2019, at 17:37, Nicholas Humfrey wrote: >> Is there any chance of multicast making a resurgence? If everyone has >> gigabit internet

Re: [uknof] Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-02 Thread Neil J. McRae
> By the time everyone has gigabit in their homes we'll be running petabit > round our cores. But by then everyone will want to watch holographic streams > and the colony on the moon will be complaining about latency. Nope you need petabit long before folks have gigabit to their homes. Neil.

Re: [uknof] Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

2019-09-02 Thread Neil J. McRae
BT TV is delivered via multicast. Works lovely and we sell TV connect for those that want their content delivered via multicast. Sent from my iPhone On 2 Sep 2019, at 18:51, Marek Isalski wrote: >> On 2 Sep 2019, at 17:37, Nicholas Humfrey wrote: >> Is there any chance of multicast making a r

[uknof] Veoo

2019-08-17 Thread Neil J. McRae
Has anyone come across this company? Or is anyone here from this company? They seem to be responsible for sending me a text message that cost me £1.50 without me authorising it in anyway which I’m staggered at. Googling them seems to list endless scams. If anyone has a contact I’d appreciate it

Re: [uknof] BT Postmasters

2019-07-12 Thread Neil J. McRae
Phil you can send to me neil.mc...@bt.com Neil. On 12/07/2019, 16:20, "uknof on behalf of Phil Bartlett" wrote: Good afternoon all I was wondering if any of BTs postmasters frequented this list and if they do could they drop me a mail please. Need some assistance with an issue Phil Bar

Re: [uknof] Cisco 887VA - forwarding "kind of breaks" after a week

2019-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
That is good to see. On 22 May 2019, at 20:27, Marek Isalski wrote: >> On 22 May 2019, at 20:09, Neil J. McRae wrote: >> Surprised anyone uses these guys after the way they handed the last vuln >> they had. > > Possibly as a result of how they handled

Re: [uknof] Cisco 887VA - forwarding "kind of breaks" after a week

2019-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
Surprised anyone uses these guys after the way they handed the last vuln they had. Neil. Once I moved to Mikrotik, I don't have this issue anymore. The router stays up until I reboot it for a software update.

Re: [uknof] Cisco 887VA - forwarding "kind of breaks" after a week

2019-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
Maybe all UDP? Sent from my iPhone On 22 May 2019, at 14:13, Tom Storey mailto:t...@snnap.net>> wrote: Hey James, controller VDSL 0 operating mode vdsl2 firmware filename flash:VA_A_39m_B_38h3_24h_o.bin modem UKfeature ! This particular image was recommended to me by someone that is a bit

Re: [uknof] Cisco 887VA - forwarding "kind of breaks" after a week

2019-05-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
I was using a 887 a while back and had lots of similar issues. I think the VDSL chipset on its not great on it. I can’t remember if you can use one of the Ethernet points and then use another modem to see if that makes a difference. Cheers, Neil. On 22/05/2019, 09:57, "uknof on behalf of Tom S

Re: [uknof] Bitcoin community

2019-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
Hell yes, more bitcoin miners, please! we need many more folks who invest in a currency where the value is purely driven by sentiment! Makes shorting it so much more fun! Cheers, Neil. Sent from my iPhone On 1 May 2019, at 22:57, Carla Dwyer mailto:carla.dw...@clearstreamgroup.co.uk>> wrote

Re: [uknof] defensive domain registration - yes or no?

2019-04-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
In my view just take action if they abuse it. The more you register the more folks the try to register domains like yours knowing that you’ll cough up for it... In my view make your core domain-name so obviously the one to use that everyone will know that anything else is bollocks. Sent from m

Re: [uknof] Parental Controls - Who’s Responsible?

2019-04-24 Thread Neil J. McRae
t, I could have written the code to do when I was eleven. For the extreme person, they can by-pass it by various means, but also loads of sites aren’t under UK jurisdiction in anycase but parents want a solution to this and many ISP's and other companies offer it. Cheers, -- Neil J. McRae.

Re: [uknof] Parental Controls - Who’s Responsible?

2019-04-22 Thread Neil J. McRae
> On 22 Apr 2019, at 18:22, Scott Weeks wrote: > > No, you mentioned the government above. They DO NOT obviously > have a role to play here unless something illegal is going on. Something illegal is going on though isn’t it? > Otherwise they should keep out as their decisions will hinder > f

Re: [uknof] NetLdn 1

2019-04-05 Thread Neil J. McRae
It’s not in London!!! Sent from my iPhone > On 5 Apr 2019, at 18:22, Catalin Dominte wrote: > > What is wrong with Slough? > > > > > Catalin Dominte > > On 05/04/2019, 18:16, "uknof on behalf of Neil J. McRae" > wrote: > >Jus

Re: [uknof] NetLdn 1

2019-04-05 Thread Neil J. McRae
Just promise me one thing that there won’t be netldn meetings in slough! Sent from my iPhone > On 5 Apr 2019, at 17:53, James Bensley wrote: > >> On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 10:06, Tom Hill wrote: >> >>> On 02/04/2019 09:49, James Bensley wrote: >>> Similar to the Manchester chapter >> >> >> As "

Re: [uknof] Cisco NCS55xx in the wild?

2019-03-26 Thread Neil J. McRae
What do you mean by interesting? Interesting good? Or Interesting bad? Cheers, Neil. On 26/03/2019, 13:48, "uknof on behalf of Leigh Harrison" wrote: Hello all, We’re looking at upgrading parts of our core network and for high capacity customer links, we’re looking at using Cisco NCS55xx r

Re: [uknof] Approved scanning vendor for PCI-DSS

2019-03-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
Don’t feed the PCI troll! :) Sent from my iPhone On 5 Mar 2019, at 14:56, Chris Russell mailto:cruse1977...@gmail.com>> wrote: Would this be the 5 minute argument or the full half hour? Summary of my experience in backports and definitions of 'firewalls'. On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:49 PM Pe

Re: [uknof] Juniper MX80 BGP keepalive's going missing

2019-03-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
Assume you have checked that there is no underlying connectivity problem? Can you crack the debug up on the BGP process on both sides... also check no wierd filters on the switches and any firewalls or inline devices that someone installed that might interfere? Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Mar

Re: [uknof] BT/EE and Vodafone - why the split?

2019-02-08 Thread Neil J. McRae
y, money are cashed in, investors are happy... who cares about users? > > > Catalin Dominte > > On 08/02/2019, 11:57, "uknof on behalf of Neil J. McRae" > wrote: > >Ah ok let me take a look but feels pretty obvs! > >Sent from my iPhone >

Re: [uknof] BT/EE and Vodafone - why the split?

2019-02-08 Thread Neil J. McRae
Ah ok let me take a look but feels pretty obvs! Sent from my iPhone > On 8 Feb 2019, at 08:57, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >> On 2019/02/08 01:05, Tom Hill wrote: >>> On 07/02/2019 22:26, Gavin Henry wrote: >>> Does anyone have an insight as to why EE kicked Vodafone off their >>> network last F

Re: [uknof] BT/EE and Vodafone - why the split?

2019-02-07 Thread Neil J. McRae
EE is just a brand so not sure what you mean - kicked them off? Regards, Neil. Sent from my iPhone On 7 Feb 2019, at 22:31, Gavin Henry mailto:ghe...@suretec.co.uk>> wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have an insight as to why EE kicked Vodafone off their network last Friday at 5pm? Thanks, -- Kin

Re: [uknof] Join the RPKI Deployathon, 7-8. March 2019, Amsterdam

2019-01-11 Thread Neil J. McRae
ble in the NLNOG community. It’s shows, because the Netherlands currently is firmly #1 in RPKI adoption. Kind regards, Job Ps. Alternatively, can you lead the way and show us how to deploy RPKI? Thanks! :-) On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 21:41, Neil J. McRae mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: Is thi

Re: [uknof] Join the RPKI Deployathon, 7-8. March 2019, Amsterdam

2019-01-09 Thread Neil J. McRae
Is this really a thing? We are going to get a lot of engineers together in one place and do a mass fiddle with the worlds critical routing BGP infrastructure training session on a lot of varied autonomous systems in the same location (I guess in band!) At the same time? Am I alone in reaching

[uknof] UK network operators charity pinball tournament.

2019-01-09 Thread Neil J. McRae
TL DR - slightly off topic... Folks As some of you may know I do charity work for kids on the autism spectrum and other special needs and I do this by raising cash thru gaming usually pinball. I was wondering if you would be interested in a tournament either in Woking ( https://youtu.be/GDmHKjz

Re: [uknof] BT Cloud Phones

2018-12-11 Thread Neil J. McRae
oIP solutions tied to BT internet only? I can > understand the desire to prefer this option to maintain call quality, but > generally this more of an advisory in my experience. > > Regards > > Paul Bone > Chief Technical Officer > Bridge Fibre > > Sent from my iPhon

Re: [uknof] BT Cloud Phones

2018-12-11 Thread Neil J. McRae
There are several types with different backends and different ownership models - which one are you refering to? Sent from my iPhone > On 11 Dec 2018, at 16:44, Paul Bone wrote: > > Does anyone know if BT cloud phones will work on 3rd Party internet services? > > The documentation appears to s

Re: [uknof] Office fitout - ISP + Ubiquiti wifi/security cams

2018-12-05 Thread Neil J. McRae
I have ubiquiti unifi at home and its very good. Sent from my iPhone > On 5 Dec 2018, at 18:52, Paul Mansfield wrote: > >> On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 13:57, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: >> Our office fitout company wants to take on the connectivity+wifi, but I >> thought it would be prudent to ask the

Re: [uknof] DSL Checker down?

2018-11-20 Thread Neil J. McRae
Should be fixed now. Sent from my iPhone On 20 Nov 2018, at 11:47, Neil J. McRae mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: Ive reported this to the ops folks to look at. Sent from my iPhone On 20 Nov 2018, at 11:27, Hal Ponton mailto:h...@buzcom.net>> wrote: Getting the same thing from

Re: [uknof] IPv6 default on EE

2018-11-20 Thread Neil J. McRae
remaining v4 only hubs and what BTs plans are for them? It is a decade on now. Will you replace them with fibre infrastructure that is v6 ready rather than ongoing copper? Or are they likely to remain at the end of the queue? best Christian Neil J. McRae wrote: > Before my time at BT so no idea!

Re: [uknof] IPv6 default on EE

2018-11-20 Thread Neil J. McRae
t; > > Christian > > Neil J. McRae wrote: >> Well the league table is meaningless but for us a lot of customers on legacy >> hubs that we cant put V6 on. Some progress to come on this but there will >> likely be a long tail. >> >> Neil >> >>

Re: [uknof] IPv6 default on EE

2018-11-20 Thread Neil J. McRae
Well the league table is meaningless but for us a lot of customers on legacy hubs that we cant put V6 on. Some progress to come on this but there will likely be a long tail. Neil Sent from my iPhone > On 20 Nov 2018, at 10:16, Nicholas Humfrey wrote: > > Really exciting the EE are rolling t

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