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Summary of Alteon inquiry
by K.Graham 30 Mar '01

30 Mar '01

At the request of many below is a summarization of the emails I recieved concerning my Alteon question. There seems to be alot of people very interested in Alteon's. The common answer was that it is difficult to find extensive information about them on the web. My assumption would be is if you do not have a support contract then the best way to recieve guidance with Alteon products would be to contact them directly. Either via a sales representative or by the email address below. Websites: http://www.alteon.com http://www.alteonwebsystems.com/ http://www.alteonwebsystems.com/whitepapers/ (pdf documents) http://www39.nortelnetworks.com/products/ (white papers, equipment specs, FAQ's, Viso icons) http://www39.nortelnetworks.com/products/780/ http://www39.nortelnetworks.com/products/webos/ http://vegan.net/lb (mailing list and searchable archives) http://www.nortelnetworks.com/documentation https://www.esight.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+dns.home Suggestions: Ask your sales rep or sales engineer. We've been very happy with our AceDirector 3's. I was able to find some stuff by searching on google for 'alteon loadbalancer example config' (or something like that) it at least gave me enough to get a loadbalanced config up and running.. support(a)alteon.com Their documentation isn't publically available last time I checked. But they shouldn't have any problems emailing you electronic copies or even hard copies. Kim Graham

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Re: GSR and bgp maximum-paths
by Jon Allen Boone 30 Mar '01

30 Mar '01

Rob Evans <rhe(a)noc.ten-155.net> writes: > > Is anyone else have any problems with "maximum-paths" on a GSR and if yes, > > what release of IOS? Any other issues I should be aware of? > > It may not affect you (given you are running 12.0(10)S), but having > maximum-paths set to something other than 1 can cause problems on > Engine 2 linecards. The result is that the CEF IPC Background > process eats all available linecard CPU. Packet forwarding is not > directly affected, but it can mean that the CEF tables take a long > time to converge after a routing flap. > > As far as I am aware the bug was introduced around 12.0(13.6)S, and > has not been fixed in any releases so far. BugTrack ID? -tex -------------------------------------------------- Jon 'tex' Boone (610) 466-0477 tex(a)delamancha.org http://delamancha.org --------------------------------------------------

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RE: Microwave...
by Dee McKinney 30 Mar '01

30 Mar '01

If it's a commercial carrier grade shot, and it's been engineered correctly, and, and, and...... It should work fine as I have service on microwave that operates as good as our fiber. -----Original Message----- From: Rodney Joffe [mailto:rjoffe@centergate.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 3:16 PM To: NANOG Subject: Microwave... I' be interested in hearing about any operational experience the users on this list have had, such as issues and challenges with routing, reliability, etc., with the use of Microwave at DS3 or greater level.... --

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gTLD Informational Message
by Brad Verd 30 Mar '01

30 Mar '01

This is an Informational Message to the internet community: Thursday evening, the 29th of March, Verisign Global Registry Services will be changing the IP address for d.gtld-servers.net in the authoritative NS set serving com/net/org. The new set of servers authoritative for these TLDs will be: A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 6D IN A 192.5.6.30 G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 6D IN A 198.41.3.101 C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 6D IN A 192.26.92.30 I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 6D IN A 192.36.144.133 B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 6D IN A 203.181.106.5 D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 6D IN A 192.31.80.30 L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 6D IN A 192.41.162.30 F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 6D IN A 192.35.51.30 J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 6D IN A 210.132.100.101 K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 6D IN A 213.177.194.5 E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 6D IN A 207.200.81.69 M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 6D IN A 202.153.114.101 This will not require any change to root.cache file and both the old and new IP's for d.gtld-servers.net will provide answers for com, net, and org in parallel for enough time to accommodate the zones TTL's. -------------------------------------- Brad Verd Operations Manager Resolution Systems Verisign Global Registry Services Email - bverd(a)verisign.com ---------------------------------------

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Alteon Question
by K.Graham 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

Just a quick question. I am trying to find some documentation on Alteon switches. In particular the WebOS. Of particular interest are command references, troubleshooting, and configuration. If anyone can give me pointers to information it would be appreciated. Please reply off line so we do not spam the list. Kim Graham

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RE: Alteon Responses
by K.Graham 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

Thank you everyone for your responses. I did not anticipate the number of great pieces of information. Now to go digging through it all. Many thanks Kim Graham

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FW: Next Hop Attribute
by Charles Smith 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

re-posted for broader audience: My apologies if this has been discussed recently... Is there a collective wisdom as to why the BGP RFC makes the statements that it does about the BGP next hop attribute? Specifically: (From RFC 1771): "A BGP speaker must never advertise an address of a peer to that peer as a NEXT_HOP, for a route that the speaker is originating. A BGP speaker must never install a route with itself as the next hop. When a BGP speaker advertises the route to a BGP speaker located in its own autonomous system, the advertising speaker shall not modify the NEXT_HOP attribute associated with the route. When a BGP speaker receives the route via an internal link, it may forward packets to the NEXT_HOP address if the address contained in the attribute is on a common subnet with the local and remote BGP speakers." At routers that have EBGP session injecting routes into its own AS on Cisco routers we set the next-hop-self attribute to eliminate synchronization issues, but I'm curious as to why the RFC made these requirements in the first place? Thank you for any brain cycles spent on this. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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anyone having trouble reaching ICANN site?
by Stephen Kowalchuk 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

Can't get there from here. Anyone else having the same problem? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Kowalchuk skowalchuk(a)diamonex.com Diamonex, Incorporated ...learning cannot be controlled; it is out of control by design. Learning emerges spontaneously, it proceeds in an individualistic and unpredictable way, and it achieves its goal in its own good time. Once triggered, [it] will not stop--unless it is hijacked by conditioning. -- Roger Fouts --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Content Injection Appliance
by Irwin Lazar 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

I think that you are referring to the Nortel/Alteon product line. http://www.nortelnetworks.com/solutions/mahs/hosting/idc/net_host.html These devices have the potential to make the Internet look a lot more like cable delivery networks - e.g. Time Warner Cable forces Disney to pay to allow TWC's cable modem customers to access Disney web content. UUNET strikes an agreement with CNN that blocks access to FOX, NBC and other news sites, etc. It also could kill the web banner advertising industry as these devices allow ISPs to replace banner ads on a web site with ads inserted by the ISP. Even worse, web surfers might be forced to watch a 30 second commercial for every ten minutes that they surf. The privacy issues alone could generate enough discussion to write a book (or two). It almost looks as if we'll move to a model where free, unimpeded access to the net is going to cost a whole lot more than $21.95 per month. Irwin -----Original Message----- From: shane [mailto:shane@bratnet.net] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:43 AM To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Content Injection Appliance I need someones help, I saw a product at ISPCON Fall in CA. And the product allowed me to have it operate on my core routers and watch web traffic and allow me to "Inject" a "pop-up add" or a service anouncement. I have been searching my ISPCON "stuff" I collected and I can't find it, and it is driving me crazy. What I want to do is set up this box to watch web traffic, and when a new user logs in it checks to see "for example" if he has new mail on our mail-server, and pop-up a little window on his/her screen alerting them about this. But I don't want to make the user be required to use our home page as the start page. Can anyone tell me the name of this product, I am already aware of FrontPorch and their product would work, but they require me to allow them to to advertising to my customers, I don't want that. shane brath TDS.NET Internet Services shane(a)bratnet.net

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RADIUS info for traveling users ...
by Mohan Sundar 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

Hi, A Service Provider, having several POPs, I presume will be using at least one RADIUS server that is associated to each POP, and are usually colocated at the POP, along with the RAS, aggregation and other IP service devices. And the IP address assigned for a subscriber dialing up from one location is assigned by the corresponding RADIUS server, after authentication. If this is the case, how is this subscriber provided service like internet connectivity, when he travels to another part of US? Will the RADIUS server info be available to all the POPs of the Service Provider? How are the current ISPs doing this? To take it further, when policies are associated with this subscriber that are based on IP address, how is that handled when the subscriber travels? Your input on this will be greatly appreciated. thanks. Mohan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text

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