December 2000 - Test - lists.nanog.org

San Jose power outage
by Sean Donelan 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

Murphy's back. I returned to the San Jose area after the chrismas holidays. I flew into the San Jose airport. Pacific Gas & Electric, the electric utility serving San Jose and the airport, lost a high-voltage power line about 6:40pm. The emergency generator serving one of the terminals as the airport failed to start. Power was restored about two hours later. As far as I know, none of the ISPs or colocation providers in San Jose were affected. There are also two major winter storms disrupting utilities through the Midwest. At least 200,000 subscribers were without power in various midwestern states.

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Re: your mail
by Richard A. Steenbergen 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 doug(a)safeport.com wrote: > Qwest gave a couple of interesting presentations at BSDCon2000. See > http://www.users.qwest.net/~presentations/ The above url should come with the warning that a significant number of attendees walked out in the middle of that presentation, in order to better make personal comments about the stupidity of the Qwest designs. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras(a)e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/humble PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

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None
by Charles Smith 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

are there any published standards regarding POP construction or POP equipment installation? if available, I suspect this may fall under the jurisdiction of the ITU, ISO or equivalent standards body. your input is appreciated. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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RE: POP construction standards (was Re: [Empty])
by Sean Donelan 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

On Tue, 26 December 2000, "Muir, Ronald" wrote: > You forgot NEBS. I forgot literally thousands of standards (IEC, NFPA, etc). NEBS is a proprietary purchasing standard published by Telcordia. Portions of Telcordia's standards have been incorporated into ANSI industry consensus standards. One problem with NEBS is acceptance criteria can vary from company to company. Its not like a UL label which everyone accepts, one carrier may look at the NEBS test results and accept the equipment. Another carrier may look at the same NEBS test results and reject it.

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RE: POP construction standards (was Re: [Empty])
by Muir, Ronald 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

You forgot NEBS. -----Original Message----- From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean@donelan.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 4:48 PM To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: POP construction standards (was Re: [Empty]) On Tue, 26 December 2000, "Charles Smith" wrote: > are there any published standards regarding POP construction or POP > equipment installation? if available, I suspect this may fall under the > jurisdiction of the ITU, ISO or equivalent standards body. > > your input is appreciated. Yes, there are thousands of standards regarding POP construction and POP equipment installation. There are lots of standards bodies who publish standards, although many good ones are still proprietary. You need to be a bit more specific. See ANSI, ATIS, Bellcore(telcordia), ETSI, Factory Mutual, ICBO, MIL-STD, MIL-HDBK and UL to get you started. A major public or university library can help you with your research needs.

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POP construction standards (was Re: [Empty])
by Sean Donelan 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

On Tue, 26 December 2000, "Charles Smith" wrote: > are there any published standards regarding POP construction or POP > equipment installation? if available, I suspect this may fall under the > jurisdiction of the ITU, ISO or equivalent standards body. > > your input is appreciated. Yes, there are thousands of standards regarding POP construction and POP equipment installation. There are lots of standards bodies who publish standards, although many good ones are still proprietary. You need to be a bit more specific. See ANSI, ATIS, Bellcore(telcordia), ETSI, Factory Mutual, ICBO, MIL-STD, MIL-HDBK and UL to get you started. A major public or university library can help you with your research needs.

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small device with IP address
by Mikael Abrahamsson 24 Dec '00

24 Dec '00

Does anyone know if there is a device somewhere that is small, cheap, has 1 10mbit (or 100mbit) ethernet port and a small IP stack that enable you to set ip address and default gateway on it (dhcp perhaps?). I would like to put something like this at some customers to use for pinging to see that the customer is reachable. Cost should preferrably be in the $50-$100 range. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike(a)swm.pp.se

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by Brad seves 23 Dec '00

23 Dec '00

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Re: environmental monitors
by Sean Donelan 22 Dec '00

22 Dec '00

On Fri, 22 December 2000, Jimmy Kyriannis wrote: > While we're on the topic of small devices... What are folks' > experience with SNMP-manageable environmental sensors for > temperature, humidity, electrical variations, etc., for remote > monitoring of data closets, comm rooms, enclosed racks, etc.? There are a whole gaggle of them, ranging in price from $200 to $20,000. Each have their own quirks and monitor different things. Everyone does temperature, most do humidity, few do electrical. With dry or wet contacts you can connect additional devices such as door ajar, smoke or leak detectors. Standalone units Liebert sitenet integrator: http://www.liebert.com/ Nbase-Xyplex enviromental manager: http://www.nbase-xyplex.com/ NetBotz: http://www.netbotz.com/ Sierra Monitor environmental controller: http://www.sierramonitor.com/ Versalynx environmental monitor: http://www.versalynx.com/ I have my preferences, but in most cases I needed to add some additional sensors using a few dry contacts or analog inputs. There are also a number of units integrated with some other piece of equipment (e.g. a UPS) or require an additional PC to run the SNMP agent software. What I find interesting is very few people have any type of environmental monitoring, and even fewer monitor the sensors they do have by any operation center. Maybe I'm just weird, and used to monitor too many things too closely. Besides the temperature of their cisco router, do people regularly monitor other environmental parameters in their POPs?

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 22 Dec '00

22 Dec '00

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Dec 22 12:00:00 PST 2000 It is not checked before it leaves my workstation. However, hopefully you will find this report interesting and will take the time to look through this to see if you can improve the amount of aggregation you perform. The report is split into sections: 0) General Status List the route table history for the last week, list any possibly bogus routes seen and give some status on ASes. 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level This lists the "Top 30" players who if they decided to aggregate their announced classful prefixes at the origin AS level could make a significant difference in the reduction of the current size of the Internet routing table. This calculation does not take into account the inclusion of holes when forming an aggregate so it is possible even larger reduction should be possible. 2) Weekly Delta A summary of the last weeks changes in terms of withdrawn and added routes. Please note that this is only a snapshot but does give some indication of ASes participating in CIDR. Clearly, it is generally a good thing to see a large amont of withdrawls. 3) Interesting aggregates Interesting here means not an aggregate made as a set of classful routes. Thanks to xara.net for giving me access to their routing tables once a day. Please send any comments about this report directly to me. Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html for a daily update of this report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIDR REPORT for 22Dec00 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 151200 95822 161200 95919 171200 95802 181200 95790 191200 96081 201200 96409 211200 96198 221200 96064 Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.plot.html for a plot of the table history. Possible Bogus Routes --------------------- *** Bogus 91.16.23.0/24 from AS11770 *** Bogus 219.219.219.0 from AS2563 AS Summary ---------- Number of ASes in routing system: 9441 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 5499 (3068 cidr, 2431 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 1099 announced by AS705 Largest number of classful routes: 1656 announced by AS1221 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 22Dec00 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description AS1221 1656 1216 440 26.6% TELSTRA-AS AS2563 239 72 167 69.9% KoRean Education Network AS701 1572 1417 155 9.9% Alternet AS271 284 131 153 53.9% BCnet Backbone AS9269 168 46 122 72.6% Hong Kong CTI AS7545 189 67 122 64.6% TPG Internet Pty Ltd AS8013 450 345 105 23.3% PSINET-CA AS6595 166 64 102 61.4% DODDSEUR AS7657 255 164 91 35.7% The Internet Group Limited AS4755 215 125 90 41.9% Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. India AS705 328 244 84 25.6% ALTERNET-AS AS4293 341 260 81 23.8% Internal ASN for C&W AS174 534 453 81 15.2% Performance Systems International AS7496 100 22 78 78.0% Power Up AS7046 333 256 77 23.1% UUNET-CUSTOMER AS1727 183 107 76 41.5% MRMS-WEST AS4151 283 208 75 26.5% USDA Internet Access Network AS724 245 172 73 29.8% DLA-ASNBLOCK-AS AS3908 234 162 72 30.8% Supernet, Inc. AS1942 137 65 72 52.6% FR-CICG-GRENOBLE AS13999 79 7 72 91.1% UNKNOWN AS577 240 170 70 29.2% Bell Backbone AS7018 590 526 64 10.8% AT&T WorldNet Service Backbone AS5106 101 37 64 63.4% AADS-COLUMBUS AS3749 123 60 63 51.2% TECNET AS226 168 105 63 37.5% USC/Information Sciences Institut AS2548 370 310 60 16.2% DIGEX-AS AS3602 306 247 59 19.3% Sprint Canada Inc. AS16758 63 6 57 90.5% UNKNOWN AS376 133 77 56 42.1% RISQ For the rest of the previous weeks gain information please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html 2) Weekly Delta Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report 3) Interesting aggregates Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report

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