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something of interest to gated users
by Paul A Vixie 23 Oct '97

23 Oct '97

i know that programming is passe, and i apologize for not being able to think of any good political statements to make here, but if you're running bgp via gated and you'd like to know which of your peers are misconfigured, the following perl script may be of help. change $us as appropriate. note that you need "traceoptions state detail send open recv open" in your bgp declaration, and the script below wants your gated.log file as input. #!/usr/bin/perl $us = "204.152.184.134"; while (<>) { chop; next unless /^\w\w\w \d\d (\d\d\:\d\d\:\d\d)\s+/o; ($ts, $_) = ($1, $'); if (/^BGP RECV /o) { $_ = $'; if (/^((\d+\.){3}\d+)\+\d+ \-\> ((\d+\.){3}\d+)\+\d+$/) { ($outer_ts, $their_ip, $our_ip) = ($ts, $1, $3); }elsif (/^version 4 as (\d+) holdtime \d+ id ((\d+\.){3}\d+)/){ if ($ts eq $outer_ts) { ($as, $id) = ($1, $2); } } } elsif (/bgp_pp_recv\: no group for ((\d+\.){3}\d+)\+\d+/) { if ($ts eq $outer_ts && $our_ip eq $us) { $_ = sprintf("as %5d ip %15s id %15s", $as, $their_ip, $id); $result{$_} = $ts; } } } while (($key,$val) = each %result) { print "$val: $key\n"; } exit 0;

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22 Oct '97

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Host for NANOG 12
by William B. Norton 22 Oct '97

22 Oct '97

Hi - We are looking for a host for the next meeting (NANOG 12) to be held in the February '98 timeframe. We have a "Tips for hosting a NANOG" writeup on the web page: http://www.nanog.org/tips.html in which we describe what is involved and what has worked well at past NANOGs. If you think you might be interested, please speak with me at NANOG 11 in Phoenix, send me e-mail (wbn(a)merit.edu) or call me at (313) 764-9430. Thanks, Bill -------------------------------------------------------------- William B. Norton <wbn(a)merit.edu> (313) 764-9430

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Re: Possible topic?
by Paul G. Donner 22 Oct '97

22 Oct '97

At 05:58 PM 10/21/97 -0400, Dorian R. Kim wrote: >On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Richard Irving wrote: > Which one: >> With about 1/3 of all global internet passing through that parking This one? >> garage out there, 20% loss starts to take on a whole new meaning... Or this one? :-) > >Just curious, but how was that figure arrived at? > >-dorian > > >

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Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible topic?)
by Vadim Antonov 22 Oct '97

22 Oct '97

>Aren't all the Gigaswitches from DEC ATM backed anyway? (FDDI is an >emulation on an OC3/12 card slot?) That's what the DEC literature seemed >to say when I perused it last. Not. Gigaswitch is a crossbar-based _packet_ switch. I recall reading fairly comprehensive article on its internals. Most likely it is still available from somewhere on Internet. If i understand correctly, its ATM interfaces do packet shredding/reassembly. --vadim

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Sprint NAP
by jvanick＠megsinet.net 22 Oct '97

22 Oct '97

Hi There, I know that this is a little off-topic, but I was wondering if anybody could give me any pointers on who to contact to get into the sprint nap... we're bringing up OC3c to Ameritech NAp and a concentrated-FDDI connection into MAE-East, and while we're running through the east coast area we though we'd get into the sprintnap as well... Any info would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Jason Jason Vanick ------------------------------------------ jvanick(a)megsinet.net Network Operations Manager V: 312-245-9015 MegsInet, Inc. 225 West Ohio St. Suite #400 Chicago, Il 60610

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Exchange point stats info
by Jeremy Porter 22 Oct '97

22 Oct '97

I was wondering if someone who knew something about the current status of the group(s) that were working on a standard data collection format for exchange point statistics, could speak up. It seems to me that operators could still get valuable trend information out of published data from exchange points. However this data would be more useful if compared accross multiple exchange point, as there are at least 40 in north america alone. (Although most of those are smaller exchange points.) (Then if we could just get providers to publish info on private exchange points...) --- Jeremy Porter, Freeside Communications, Inc. jerry(a)fc.net PO BOX 80315 Austin, Tx 78708 | 1-800-968-8750 | 512-458-9810 http://www.fc.net

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Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking?
by David Lesher 22 Oct '97

22 Oct '97

Steven Schnell sez: > > > FDDI is a finished standard and no more bandwidth upgrades are planned. > Ethernet, however, is now in the gigabit range. It may be extended to > operate in the multi-gigabit range, if the IEEE decides the frame format > and the media access method will work at such speeds. Products based on > GbE are in use today. A NAP can drop in one or two GbE switches, connect > them to existing GIGAswitch/FDDIs, and scale (somewhat) from there. Come > to NANOG this next week to see how this can be done. See http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/beowulf.html for an application of Packet Engine GbE. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible topic?)
by Peter Lothberg 22 Oct '97

22 Oct '97

> > > Actually, there is at least one known way to build an exchange > > point which scales nearly indefinitely. We're working on making > > it real. Other folks may have other ideas. > > Cool, Vadim; welcome to the ATM bandwagon! > > :-) > > -alan > Most likely you are better off not on the ATM bandwagon, but a good exchange point has to support even the people who beleives in cells, and maybe enough people se the brick-wall before they smash into it.. If the exchange_points becomes "WEB-farms" I'm not so sure they will survive, as there is no_one responsible for the service, as all lives in the "DMZ-zone". -Peter

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Operational issue (Mae-west)
by dlr＠bungi.com 21 Oct '97

21 Oct '97

Once again, mae-west is experiencing problems between gigaswitch #1 and gigaswitch #2. We are seeing consistant, and high, loss between peers. MFS has at least one ticket open on this now. -- Dave Rand dlr(a)bungi.com http://www.bungi.com

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