Re: [uknof] Openreach OSA Channel Numbering

2023-09-05 Thread Rob Evans
Hi, > https://www.openreach.co.uk/cpportal/content/dam/cpportal/public/images-and-documents/home/help-and-support/sins/documents/SIN_514.pdf Just to note there are two products, OSA Filter Connect, which uses Adva equipment and is documented in SIN 489, then OSEA Filter Connect, which uses

Re: [uknof] Openreach OSA Channel Numbering

2023-09-05 Thread Rob Evans
Hi, > Can anyone point me in the right direction to understand what DWDM channels I > can put over an Openreach OSA? Assuming you mean OSA Filter Connect, then it’s documented in SIN489 — obviously it depends on the filter module and single/dual fibre. Cheers, Rob

Re: [uknof] I want fibre!!!

2023-06-19 Thread Rob Evans
Hi, > I went a walkaround for work purposes with an OR engineer a while back in the > city centre, he was looking for the T-node which wasn't in the place > documented so had to pop a few lids. Every time there were other provider > fibres in there, and he tutted and grumbled that while

Re: [uknof] BGP attributes 20 & 21 in the DFZ

2022-09-30 Thread Rob Evans
Hi, > Prefix 144.124.0.0/16 from origin ASN(s) AS786 (JANET) has attribute(s) {20} > Prefix 147.143.0.0/16 from origin ASN(s) AS786 (JANET) has attribute(s) {20} > Prefix 137.44.0.0/16 from origin ASN(s) AS786 (JANET) has attribute(s) {20} > Prefix 159.86.128.0/18 from origin ASN(s) AS786 (JANET)

Re: [uknof] Age Old Question - Juniper vs Cisco

2021-07-27 Thread Rob Evans
> Can anyone give a full difference between the MX204, MX204-IR and MX204-R, am > I correct in assuming the MX204-R is the router with no restrictions. Assuming it is the same as the linecards, IR would be limited to 32 L3VPNs. We have a reasonable number of MX960s with MPC7Es, but I’d

Re: [uknof] UK interconnects and Brexit

2020-12-10 Thread Rob Evans
Hi, Sorry to bring up the B word but is Brexit causing UK operators to have to renegotiate transit and peering arrangements with their continental counterparts? Transit and peering not so much as we do most of it in the UK so getting the packet passports is their problem. :-) We’ve been

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

2020-05-26 Thread Rob Evans
ISP B is just starting out and has to pay RIPE fees and get on a waiting list for a /24. All the while being unable to provide IPv4 services. Or go to a broker and buy a /24 or whatever from a network that can make do with fewer addresses. The good news at the moment is that the RIPE

Re: [uknof] Public IPv4 Addresses Required

2020-05-06 Thread Rob Evans
Hi, > One of which is the ridiculous amount of IPv4 addresses historically > assigned to some educational institutions by JISC :-) Most Universities have addresses directly allocated to them from days that pre-date the Regional Internet Registries (especially the /16s). > Public IPv4 addresses

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

2020-04-14 Thread Rob Evans
Hi, > The challenge is having meaningful and non-chaotic discussions, which is > easier with a smaller sized audience. With all online events, ‘non-chaotic’ means (IMHO) moderated by someone other than the speaker (come to think of it, that applies to in-person events just as much). Zoom has

[uknof] Fwd: Peter Kirstein

2020-01-09 Thread Rob Evans
All, There will be those on this list that knew Peter, either first-hand, or through hearing him speak at an event. As the email below says far better than I could, he was instrumental in connecting UCL, and eventually the UK, to the Internet, and even when I started working in R networking

Re: [uknof] Anyone at plymouth.ac.uk or csirt.ja.net can look into this?

2019-12-17 Thread Rob Evans
Hi, Over the last year I've sent multiple abuse reports to ab...@plymouth.ac.uk and not even received an auto-reply. A couple of weeks ago upon receiving another mail I sent an abuse report to i...@csirt.ja.net and have again heard nothing. That surprises me. There are definitely CSIRT folk

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

2019-10-17 Thread Rob Evans
> Weird, the network status page has me in queue with 3340 folks in front of > me.. ...and when you get to the front it just says "geeks at work" with no extra information, so don't waste your time... Cheers, Rob

Re: [uknof] WHOIS Syntax Fail

2018-08-17 Thread Rob Evans
Is this not possible within the native whois client? One reason it’s difficult is that there isn’t a 1:1 mapping between ASN and AS-SET. For example, AS786 uses AS-JANETUS, AS-JANETPLUS, and AS-JANETEURO (the names are largely historic, JANETUS is for transit, JANETEURO is for the

Re: [uknof] virus in attachment from john.bou...@mobileinternet.com

2018-07-04 Thread Rob Evans
> Did anyone else get this? And did anyone analyse the attachment? I did, also in reply to an email from 2015, and I didn't touch the attachment with the proverbial bargepole. Cheers, Rob

Re: [uknof] Example of total DC loss

2017-06-01 Thread Rob Evans
> As a reminder for the bitrot in the last 16 years... > > http://www.slimey.org/bbc_ticket_10083.txt Our version of the same is appended (newest updates at top). Rob > Ticket Number: 20010912-2 Ticket Status: UPDATE > Ticket Type : Unscheduled Ticket

Re: [uknof] Example of total DC loss

2017-06-01 Thread Rob Evans
> As I recall fuzzy though was AC issues caused by dust and they eventually ran > out of fuel for the generator as the port authority wouldn't allow tankers > onto Manhattan. Might be wrong on that long time ago. We have an epic ticket from that, I’ll see if I can find a copy. Rob

Re: [uknof] MTP Single Mode cables - Wanted

2016-08-23 Thread Rob Evans
> I seem to recall a large academic network having saved over a million pounds > by > using MMF optics purely for links between their packet and optical platforms > that would typically be in adjacent racks, although that may have been a few > years ago and suffering early adopter pricing for

Re: [uknof] UKNOF mailing list migration

2016-08-12 Thread Rob Evans
> However, it was all a dream. "mail.uknof.net" doesn't have an > record. Sorry Nat ... back to the drawing board. :( lists.uknof.org.uk, however, does. ~ rhe$ host lists.uknof.org.uk lists.uknof.org.uk has address 46.235.226.246 lists.uknof.org.uk has IPv6 address 2a00:1098::86:1000:37:4:1

Re: [uknof] Brocade 100G LR4 to Ciena 6500 Interop

2015-12-22 Thread Rob Evans
> Wait, LR4 <> C-band transponder? > > Having worked a bit with Ciena 6500, there should be a pair of cards > at either side, theres a "client" card with a matching LR4 optic, and > the transponder ("line") card that is tunable in the C-band. Wouldnt > be so sure about hooking an LR4 straight up

Re: [uknof] DNS Issue - Expenential-e / newham.gov.uk

2015-02-02 Thread Rob Evans
Hmm, I've asked the folk here to check where the typo crept in and do the needed. Cheers, Rob

Re: [uknof] Belfast

2014-09-10 Thread Rob Evans
Good venue, good people, good content, good hosting, tasty shortbread biscuits and delicious scones (not had scones in a break since Bristol?). Thanks to all involved. Rob

Re: [uknof] Equipment in customs

2014-01-23 Thread Rob Evans
I have tried this on a number of occasions and not been successful but it doesn't hurt to try again I suppose! Even a small sporting event with rings and billions of viewers didn't swing it! To heavily paraphrase Dame Edna, “So, HMRC, why didn’t you want to let the multi-billion-pound

Re: [uknof] Equipment in customs

2014-01-23 Thread Rob Evans
To heavily paraphrase Dame Edna, “So, HMRC, why didn’t you want to let the multi-billion-pound sporting event off a little import duty?” :) Bah. Mrs Merton, not Dame Edna, natch.

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

2013-04-17 Thread Rob Evans
So not that much considering cost of CGN which actually works. Even more silly is the fact space is still available from ARIN on normal terms (they're not into their last /8 yet) so it's clearly some form of spam. Note they're also asking for IPv6 space... Rob

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

2013-04-17 Thread Rob Evans
Most people will still filter on a /24 I believe , although some will filter on a /22 (Minimum RIPE Allocation) I'll also just plug a talk at tomorrow's meeting by Olaf Maennel of Loughborough University -- Observing Limited Visibility Prefixes in the Wild. More details on the agenda:

Re: [uknof] A dual stack London2012?

2012-01-14 Thread Rob Evans
Then, have the ISP do some magic* to make IPv4 visible. * I'll leave it as an exercise to those more sober and less tired to solve that problem. But I guess it'd mean some clever DNS capture/re-map for all locations which don't have addresses, remap them to a local 6 to 4 proxy. I think

[uknof] RIPE 63: Call for Presentations

2011-09-01 Thread Rob Evans
Hi, Some of you may be interested in this. The RIPE programme committee is looking for plenary content for the next meeting in Vienna during the first week of November. One of the topics that has been brought up is content delivery and how ISPs in the UK especially have dealt with the large

Re: [uknof] Four recent IPv4 /8 allocations - please update your filters

2010-07-27 Thread Rob Evans
I came across this (old) article about how some of the unallocated blocks are unuseable due to pollution, sorry if you've already seen it. http://labs.ripe.net/Members/franz/content-pollution-18 would be interested to know if the situation's improved since 1/8 was debogonised. There was a