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MAE-East weirdness on May 13, 1999
by Sean Donelan 13 May '99

13 May '99

Did anyone else experience some weirdness at MAE-East this morning at about 9:30-10:00am Eastern? All of our circuits were up, but BGP had an unusually difficult problem maintaining sessions. The same thing happened again around 1:00-2:00pm Eastern this afternoon. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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NANOG 16 REMINDER
by Pam Ciesla 13 May '99

13 May '99

Registration ends on Friday, May 14. The registration fee after May 14 is $285 and cancellation fee is $35. All information on the NANOG 16 meeting can be found on the webpage http://www.nanog.org. Any questions please contact me. Thanks Pam Pam Ciesla Merit Network,Inc. 734-936-0172 - phone 4251 Plymouth Road 734-647-3185 Bldg.I, Suite C pam(a)merit.edu Ann Arbor, MI 48107

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Re: ALERT: Sean Donelan cuts fiber
by Sean Donelan 13 May '99

13 May '99

bcoffey(a)connix.COM (Brendan Coffey) writes: >Does anyone think it inescapably odd that Sean Donelan _always_ >knows the who, the what, the when, and the where of nearly _every_ >fiber cut in North America (and occasionally beyond) nearly as soon >as it happens? > >I'm thinking maybe he drives a backhoe on the side. Its unfounded rumors such as that which lead to visits from the men in dark sunglasses with no sense of humor. Who are not on the best terms with me after last weekend anyway. Hint: It might sound like a good idea at the time, but do NOT put network equipment inside a 'secure' government building. If the equipment fails, it is a pain in the a** to get in on the weekend. The careful reader will note such a backhoe would have to be capable of faster than light travel to damage fiber on opposite coasts at virtually the same time in some cases in the past. If I had FTL travel, do you really think I would be wasting my time on this antiquated Internet? The only known person with such a device is Kris Kringle. Due to the enormous power consumption of the FTL device, he can only use his FTL sled once a year. Besides I hear Kringle's non-disclosure agreement has some very harsh penalities for breach of contract. Seriously, I learn about most fiber cuts from the following sources: - I notice something is down, and its annoying enough I look into it. - Reports from the DRA NOC. DRA may not have an OC-192 network, but it only takes one 56Kbps DDS circuit in each right-of-way to notice most outages around the country. I get annoyed when the other 56Kbps circuits which weren't supposed to be in the same right-of-way also turns red at the same time. Yes, DRA's NOC has a pretty network map which turns red just like those other providers with NOC's which look like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. - Reports from DRA customers using other providers. Every customer service rep knows users are the "canaries" of the Internet. - Reports from various people on the net who send me e-mail instead of posting it themselves. - Reports from various news and wire services (AP, CNN, etc). - Reports from the provider itself. I usually get the initial report from somewhere else, and I will call or check provider's web pages for more details. Also I frequently receive corrections from individuals (but never 'official' spokespersons, and therefore prefer to remain anonymous) at a provider after I post something egregiously wrong. In any case, you should be learning about these outages from your provider anyway, not from me. You should be asking your provider why with their billion dollar operations, you read about an outage first from someone who does it only occasionally in his spare time. Really, this is not my real job. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Re: ALERT: Sean Donelan cuts fiber
by owen＠dixon.DeLong.SJ.CA.US 12 May '99

12 May '99

> > http://www.seanslandscaping.baweb.com/ > > > *heh* from the web page... > > Site Work: Dozer, Backhoe, and Machinery Hire > > > ouch! But it goes so well with the Bell Atlantic logo at the bottom of the page. :-) Owen

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RE: ALERT: Sean Donelan cuts fiber
by Lauren.Nowlin＠Level3.com 12 May '99

12 May '99

Actually... even on vacation in the West Indies Sean is interested in fiber cuts. Catch a shot of him in his infamous "Call Before You Dig" wear: http://www.i-regatta.org/History/1998/Chris-pics/Chris-pics/I%20think%20I%20 found%20the%20problem.JPG John Curran, Chris Icide & I tripped over this one body surfing at Mayreaux, WI last December. -Ren ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ren(a)Level3.net http://www.Level3.net Level 3 Communications tel.: 303-635-9647 fax.: 303-926-3353 nasdaq: LVLT On Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:55 AM, Brendan Coffey [SMTP:bcoffey@connix.com] wrote: > > > Lo! It is written in the book of Andrew Brown: > > > i thought he was just a second cousin to wintermute and could "feel" > > the cuts... ;-) > > > Heh. > > From an anonymous source: > > http://www.seanslandscaping.baweb.com/ > > Coincidence? I think not... > > -Brendan

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Re: ALERT: Sean Donelan cuts fiber
by Brendan Coffey 12 May '99

12 May '99

Lo! It is written in the book of Andrew Brown: > i thought he was just a second cousin to wintermute and could "feel" > the cuts... ;-) > Heh. >From an anonymous source: http://www.seanslandscaping.baweb.com/ Coincidence? I think not... -Brendan

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PERL script for PPP debug
by Tatsuya Kawasaki 12 May '99

12 May '99

Does anyone have a perl progam to decode PPP debug created by cisco router? TIA, Tatsuya /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Tatsuya Kawsaki KIVEX.com Unlock the Power of the Internet URL:www.KIVEX.com Phone 301.215.6777 Fax 301.215.5991 /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

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ALERT: Sean Donelan cuts fiber
by Brendan Coffey 12 May '99

12 May '99

Does anyone think it inescapably odd that Sean Donelan _always_ knows the who, the what, the when, and the where of nearly _every_ fiber cut in North America (and occasionally beyond) nearly as soon as it happens? I'm thinking maybe he drives a backhoe on the side. -Brendan

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VPN
by Jason Taylor 12 May '99

12 May '99

I realize that this is probably not the proper list for this, but I am hoping somone can point me in the right direction. We have a customer who wants to setup VPN between their location and a remote site. Both sites will be running WIndows NT 4.0 the setup is no problem, I am wondering how much bandwidth they are going to need. They are only going to be using an automotive DOS based inventory system between locations and an occasional e-mail. If anyone could let me know how to calculate the bandwidth or give me some pointers I would appreciate it. Thanks... Jason Taylor Jason(a)aiis.net Network Systems Engineer AIIS Voice - (810)794-1650 http://www.aiis.net

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www.whitehouse.gov down for 24 hours
by Sean Donelan 12 May '99

12 May '99

In case your NOCs get phone calls from customers reporting they can't reach the White House. The Associated Press is reporting the www.whitehouse.gov web site will be down for 24 hours due to hacking activity originating in Hong Kong. Over the weekend, the White House web site was reportly down briefly due to an unrelated equipment problem. In other Washington outage news, Bell Atlantic is working yet another cable cut in the District, 7,000 people without phone service. Over the weekend MFS had an OC-12 equipment failure near the Capital. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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