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Re: Are there plans to do MBONE broadcasts of the upcoming meeting?
by William B. Norton 17 Oct '96

17 Oct '96

Yup - Larry Blunk has graciously volunteered to set up the MBone audio and video equipment and multicast the NANOG meeting from the Michigan Union. Bill At 08:58 AM 10/17/96 -0400, Curtis Generous wrote: >..for those of us who might not be able to make it to Michigan? >There was a pretty good turnout on the last NANOG session in DC. > >--curtis >-- >Curtis Generous generous(a)uucom.com Phone: (703) 461-1350 >UUcom Inc., Suite 250, 4875 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22304-0797 > >

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Re: Are there plans to do MBONE broadcasts of the upcoming meeting?
by William B. Norton 17 Oct '96

17 Oct '96

Just like the last IETF - We'll assign a set of IP Addresses to a set of wires on the table. Bill At 11:40 AM 10/17/96 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote: >Static host addresses, DHCP, what? > >- paul > >At 11:23 AM 10/17/96 -0400, William B. Norton wrote: > >>Randy - >> >>The plan is get a couple of hubs and string a handful of thinnet lines to >>the back of the room for the laptop crowd. People seemed to like this setup >>at D.C. so we're going to do that again. There is also a computer lab down >>the hall in the adjacent building with a hundred or so machines. >> >>Bill >> >>At 07:36 AM 10/17/96 PDT, Randy Bush wrote: >>>> Yup - Larry Blunk has graciously volunteered to set up the MBone audio and >>>> video equipment and multicast the NANOG meeting from the Michigan Union. >>> >>>Cool. Will there be better connectivity than the last Ann Arbor meeting, >>>i.e. places to jack in? Pretty please? >>> >>>randy >>> >>> >> >> >> > > >

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Re: Windows/NT to break the Internet?
by William S. Duncanson 17 Oct '96

17 Oct '96

At 14:47 10/16/96 UTC, Hank Nussbacher wrote: >How long can the Internet last if every customer needs to get a /24? >That is what appears to be with Windows/NT 4.0. This server has >lately become very popular with small customers that install an NT >server and a few PCs and want a connection. ISPs up to know would assign >a /26 or perhaps a /27 or even a /30 to SOHOs like this. Windows NT 4.0 >when defining the address range as well as the DNS and inverse - only has >space in the form for 3 octets. They assume you are a /24 or larger. I >have had customers come back to me and say that they can't even enter >the 255.255.255.224 mask I gave them on their system since the NT doesn't >support it. Let alone the problems with inverse subnetting that there >is a draft RFC out there that almost everyone follows. Seems to have >slipped by the people in Oregon, though. >-----snip----- >Am I missing something here on WinNT installs? Or is Microsoft gonna >cause the IP address space to expire sooner than we had planned? You're missing something. On the DNS issue, I would agree with you that their implementation has some serious shortcomings. On the other issue, I think there's something wrong with your customers. I have a computer on my home network running Windows NT 4. It's not a /24 network, it's a /29, and NT4 accepts a .248 netmask without any problem. -- William S. Duncanson NeoSoft Operations william(a)neosoft.com (888) NEOSOFT or (713) 968-5800

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Re: Are there plans to do MBONE broadcasts of the upcoming meeting?
by Paul Ferguson 17 Oct '96

17 Oct '96

Static host addresses, DHCP, what? - paul At 11:23 AM 10/17/96 -0400, William B. Norton wrote: >Randy - > >The plan is get a couple of hubs and string a handful of thinnet lines to >the back of the room for the laptop crowd. People seemed to like this setup >at D.C. so we're going to do that again. There is also a computer lab down >the hall in the adjacent building with a hundred or so machines. > >Bill > >At 07:36 AM 10/17/96 PDT, Randy Bush wrote: >>> Yup - Larry Blunk has graciously volunteered to set up the MBone audio and >>> video equipment and multicast the NANOG meeting from the Michigan Union. >> >>Cool. Will there be better connectivity than the last Ann Arbor meeting, >>i.e. places to jack in? Pretty please? >> >>randy >> >> > > >

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Re: Are there plans to do MBONE broadcasts of the upcoming meeting?
by William B. Norton 17 Oct '96

17 Oct '96

Randy - The plan is get a couple of hubs and string a handful of thinnet lines to the back of the room for the laptop crowd. People seemed to like this setup at D.C. so we're going to do that again. There is also a computer lab down the hall in the adjacent building with a hundred or so machines. Bill At 07:36 AM 10/17/96 PDT, Randy Bush wrote: >> Yup - Larry Blunk has graciously volunteered to set up the MBone audio and >> video equipment and multicast the NANOG meeting from the Michigan Union. > >Cool. Will there be better connectivity than the last Ann Arbor meeting, >i.e. places to jack in? Pretty please? > >randy > >

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Re: generators, etc....
by Peter Lothberg 17 Oct '96

17 Oct '96

> > Even when you have generators, there are still a myriad of things which > > can and do go wrong no matter how hard you try, even with trebly > > redundant backups, etc. etc. > > > > A fuel supplier accidently puts half a load of jet fuel instead of #2 > > diesel in your storage tank, which you won't find until it reloads the > > run tank from the day tank. > > Run the generator under load periodically. Have your gen maintenance > contractor do fuel tests quarterly. Water is just as bad in the Diesel > tank. This can be solved, it's a matter of logistics and procedures, when did you last hear that an airline filled with diesel instead of Jet-A1? -Peter Before anyone statrs to build a very expensive pop, revisit the idea of several locations and geograpghical diversity, as it is close to defend a single locataion, a competing ISP could go around and cut all your wires....

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Re: generators, etc....
by Peter Lothberg 17 Oct '96

17 Oct '96

> > Sure, Mike, but how do you protect against an airplane falling > > out of the sky? Build the pop by blasting out a tunnel deep into a mountain and out again on the other side. Then a 90 degree shaft in the middle into the pop rom itself. (So, if somwone wan't to create a shockwave in the pop, they have to have two blasts, and it's hard to do rigt) > > or having the building that houses your generators flattened by > > a runaway semi? You have 2+2 generators, two in a backroom with it's own proper ventilation shaft, and one in each end of the tunnel that goes across the mountain. (You might concider Jet-turbines). Each generator has it's own fuel supply, and power wiring is redundant. The pop itself should be a -48V DC plant. > > Or the ever present possibility that the building next > > door will have a gas leak and explode? Explosions in the access tunnel is non fatal, and probably some gas- detectors and proper fans would be a good thing to have. > > And what about that house-sized meteor that could come hurtling down? Likely to shake the mountain, so, we build a house inside the cave, and put this house on suspenders (that will provide proper shock absortion). Airconditioning is a separate problem, usally the mountain leeks enough wather (+5 centigrades) that you can run through your heat-exchanger, or you have to drill for wather. If we have several of those locations, all with 24*7 staffin, I think it would be produce a good service, even when there are no customers left. --Peter Ps: Make sure that your external connections are redundant enough, microwave towers ontop are likely to be wiped out.. --::))

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RE: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)
by Chris A. Icide 17 Oct '96

17 Oct '96

>One of the reasons that cisco has earned its place as Number One is >that, to my knowledge, cisco has never terminally screwed a client. >No other contender can make that claim with me. I've been screwed by >all of them, except cisco. They don't always give me what I want when >I want it, but they don't do fundamentally bad things like walking >away from the ISP market as Proteon did or wiping out their upper >management team as Wellfleet did from time to time. > > >--Kent I've had my problems with Cisco, and there have been many, however, I must say that when you poke them in the eye and say, "uhm, I've got a problem that needs fixing now!", the engineers pop out of the walls like that green thing in Ghostbusters. They slime things all up, and quickly pull a working solution out of the muck. In fact, I found myself at O'Hare Airport in Chicago early Sunday morning picking up two routers and a bunch of interface cards. Cisco had been working on an unidentifiable prblem, and decided that we may need to unload a couple of our routers so they zipped out a couple of extra routers to us, along with an engineer. Anyway, I know that I can count on their customer support organization to immediately respond to my needs. The ONLY other company I ever worked with that offered (and met) this level of support was HP. Chris

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Re: sprint and multihoming
by William Allen Simpson 17 Oct '96

17 Oct '96

> From: randy(a)psg.com (Randy Bush) > Some weeks back, I whined about SprintLink's policies and implementation in > respect to multi-homing. They did not leak the multi-homer's more specific > prefix outside of SprintLink. Nor did they accept the longer prefix from > outside, hence traffic from SL customers would die when the MHed site's SL > link was down. > Me, too.... > I just wanted to publicly thank SprintLink, and Hank Kilmer and his team in > particular, for fixing this. IMIHO, this makes SprintLink a reasonable > choice for a provider if you intend to multi-home. > Hmmm, well, as I reported here earlier, we already changed our ISP contract away from Sprint. But, for my clients, based on your representation that it is finally working, I suppose that I might be willing to at least allow Sprint in future multi-home bids, as long as the contract specifically requires Sprint to be on better behaviour. Thanks for the update, Randy! WSimpson(a)UMich.edu Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32 BSimpson(a)MorningStar.com Key fingerprint = 2E 07 23 03 C5 62 70 D3 59 B1 4F 5E 1D C2 C1 A2

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Are there plans to do MBONE broadcasts of the upcoming meeting?
by Curtis Generous 17 Oct '96

17 Oct '96

..for those of us who might not be able to make it to Michigan? There was a pretty good turnout on the last NANOG session in DC. --curtis -- Curtis Generous generous(a)uucom.com Phone: (703) 461-1350 UUcom Inc., Suite 250, 4875 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22304-0797

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