December 2001 - Test - lists.nanog.org

Re: Network Operations Luminaries?
by brandon＠rd.bbc.co.uk 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

> But back to the point, why we don't need luminaries in this business: > We're an engineering culture which hopefully means we analyse what people say rather than just believing based on who said it (which has been behind some spectacular business failures) > Celebrating personality is irrelevant to our social construct; it serves > no function. personality helps with girls though brandon

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AOL looking glass
by Vincent Rais 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

hello, does anyone know of the existence of a looking glass on the AOL network? thanks, Vince Vincent Rais IP Buying Coordinator Versatel Telecom Europe B.V. PO Box 22697 1100 DD Amsterdam Z-O The Netherlands t. (+31) 20 750 2180 f. (+31) 20 750 1037 m.(+31) 6 11043278 http://www.carrier.versatel.com

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Re: Open Source BGP-router?
by Steven Hessing 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

True, bgpd.pl is not being maintained. I would be happy pick up development again and fix some known bugs if someone could provide me with a full BGP feed from a router. This router should not be in a production network and should be able to deal with lots of BGP notifications, session re-establishments and other testing activities. Ideally, I would like BGP sessions set up with all the different BGP implementations ofcourse but one would already be nice to start with. - Steven At 09:40 AM 12/7/2001 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:49:31PM -0700, > Irwin Lazar <ILazar(a)tbg.com> wrote > a message of 14 lines which said: > > > > > > Can someone point me to an Open Source OS which can host > > > a BGP-capable router? > > > > See: http://bgpd.sourceforge.net/ > >It's a funny experiment (a BGP speaker entirely in Perl), but it is >not maintained and I'm not aware of anyone using it in production. > >The only free (as in free speech, not as in free beer, i.e. not gated) >BGP speaker in production seems to be Zebra.

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RE: Open Source BGP-router?
by Irwin Lazar 07 Dec '01

07 Dec '01

> > > Can someone point me to an Open Source OS which can host > a BGP-capable router? See: http://bgpd.sourceforge.net/ ------ Irwin Lazar, Senior Consultant, Burton Group Web: http://www.burtongroup.com/ E-mail: ilazar(a)tbg.com <mailto:ilazar@tbg.com> Office: 703-742-9659 Cell: 703-402-4119 "DrivingNetworkEvolution"

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Additional IPv4 address range 220/8 allocated to APNIC
by George Michaelson 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

[posted on behalf of the APNIC hostmasters] ------------------------------------------------- APOLOGIES for multiple copies. Dear colleagues APNIC received the IPv4 address range 220/8 from IANA on 2nd December 2001 and will now begin making allocations from this range. Please configure your routing filters accordingly. For more information on the resources administered by APNIC, see: http://www.apnic.net/db/ranges.html For information on the minimum allocation sizes within address ranges administered by APNIC, see: http://www.apnic.net/db/min-alloc.html Kind regards APNIC Secretariat <secretariat(a)apnic.net> -------------------------------------------------

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'Acupuncture map' to defend US against cyber attacks
by Hank Nussbacher 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=46507&pub=tt&categoryid=0 Extract: "The center will create, if you will, an acupuncture map of the country, so that if there is a fire in a railroad tunnel in Baltimore, we know the Internet slows down in Chicago," Clarke told a gathering of high-tech executives at the Business Software Alliance's first Global Tech Summit. The simulation is another attempt by the federal government to secure the nation's sprawling telecommunications networks in the wake of the Sept. 11 hijacking attacks that killed 3,600 in New York and Washington. -Hank

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NON operational...but funny as hell
by Todd Suiter 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

Apologies because this is non-op, but its too damn funny. Site is a bit slow, but its worth the wait... http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147

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Power problems: Qwest OC-48 down in New Mexico
by Sean Donelan 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

Qwest has a fiber outage between Albuquerque & Farmington (four corners area) New Mexico. Reports indicate an OC-48 is down due to power problems at a regen station.

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Re: Open Source BGP-router?
by neil＠DOMINO.ORG 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

Jim, > A 350MHz FreeBSD box can easily handle three interfaces running > 30~40Mb/s both directions on 100BaseT/FD interfaces. No network > performance issues seen running consortium gated and gtting a full > routeing table. How well have you tested this across the packet size spectrum? Yes it seems to work for best efforts bursty traffic but be a bit stringent about the different packet sizes and you find that various flows get different levels of "quality". As an internet router this works ok with ethernet. > I would be very reluctant to try it with ATM interfaces of custom > hardware for hisgh speed serial interfaces. I know someone who got an ATM card to work and for a single PVC upto around 70M it was fine, it only fell apart when you started to mess around with the packet sizes and we believe that to be more of an issue with the PC than the ATM card or driver. Neil.

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charter peering
by Turpin, Mark 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

A lot of discussion lately has been about peering and also the @Home network. Since my first post on the topic, I've received a few emails about private peering, and requests for public peering if we were to locate ourselves at a site to support it. I've been working with a few of the southeastern and central region folks on examining their network, and determining just where exactly we have connectivity. I would be interested in hearing from those of you with connectivity in Charlotte, Atlanta, St. Louis, and Chicago. Please keep in mind; this is simply a request to see who is interested in peering, if we were to, in one of those locations. Not an actual request to peer. This will assist me in determining the ramifications of options that exist. To keep traffic off the list, you can reply directly to me. -mark "The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers."

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