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Blackberry.net Email Administration Contact?
by Mark Pace 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

If anyone has a contact within Blackberry.net's email department, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could get me in touch with them. We're getting hundreds of connections a second from their mail servers and have had to block them. Thanks in advance, Mark Pace

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Re: Cogent input
by Warren Bailey 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Does GBLX still have their data center in Chinatown(NYC)??? I remember about 10 years ago how amazed I was with that place... ----- Original Message ----- From: John van Oppen <john(a)vanoppen.com> To: Paul Timmins <paul(a)telcodata.us>; Justin Shore <justin(a)justinshore.com> Cc: NANOG <nanog(a)merit.edu> Sent: Thu Jun 11 15:31:24 2009 Subject: RE: Cogent input NTT (2914) and GBLX (3549) both do native v6... most everyone else on the tier1 list does tunnels. :( There are some nice tier2 networks who do native v6, tiscali and he.net come to mind. -John -----Original Message----- From: Paul Timmins [mailto:paul@telcodata.us] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:00 PM To: Justin Shore Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Cogent input > > I hope at least some SPs make this commitment back in the states. I > can't find any tier-1s that can provide us with native v6. Our tier-1 > upstream has a best effort test program in place that uses ipv6ip > tunnels. The other upstream says that they aren't making any public > IPv6 plans yet. It's hard to push the migration to v6 along when > native v6 providers aren't readily available. GlobalCrossing told me today I can order native IPv6 anywhere on their network. Don't know if they count as Tier 1 on your list, though. VZB has given me tunnels for a while, hopefully they'll get their pMTU issue fixed so we can do more interesting things with it. -Paul

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Any2 Exchange experiences to share?
by Michael J McCafferty 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

All, I am interested to hear any experiences with the Any2 Exchange at One Wilshire Blvd, especially regarding performance and reliability to the other exchange participants in comparison to routing to the same networks via Tier 1 transit providers. We are in San Diego and have easy access to the exchange via transport offered by our data center facility who does have physical presence at OWB, but *we* are not physically in OWB, ~4.5ms away and some $ for transport to OWB. All things considered, the cost will be about the same to route via Tier 1 transit providers from San Diego as it will be to transport to OWB to the exchange. The basic question is, "Does it improve my network enough to connect to the exchange?" Thank you for your help! Mike -- ************************************************************ Michael J. McCafferty M5 Hosting http://www.m5hosting.com ************************************************************

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Re: Cogent input
by Mike Tancsa 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

At 10:01 AM 6/11/2009, Andrew Mulholland wrote: >We didn't have such problems. >Had nx1Gig from them. > >On the few occasions where we had some slight issues, I was happy to >be able to get through to some one useful on the phone quickly, and >not play pass the parcel with call centre operatives. This matches our experience as well. When there are issues, they are EASY to get a hold of and the people who answer the phone clueful and dedicated to dealing with IP issues, not "can I help you with your long distance bill".... Also, they are pretty good about keeping us informed about maintenance issues. I would not use them as a sole provider (why run your own AS if you only have one transit provider?) but certainly I am happy keeping them in the mix to date. We havent seen the same level of issues as some people in YYZ have seen, but I think that seems to be more on their 100Mb connections for some reason. On the gig service we are on, they are fairly reliable. Not quite as good as TATA/Teleglobe has been for us however. ---Mike

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Data Centers in LA - CRG West
by Flint E. Barber 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

We are in the process of evaluating Equinix and CRG West in LA. Before we ink a deal, can anyone give some feedback on CRG West? I have had some minor direct operational experience with them in the past with a former employer. If anyone has some history with them; good, bad or informational on things to watch for throughout a lifecycle of a couple years with them would be appreciated. They seem pretty sound, but some things have cropped up as we have started looking at a possible contract. So if you have an opinion on the following please let me know on/off list as appropriate: Difficulties during contract phase other than terms. i.e. rights assignments, reps and warrants, etc.. Implementation issues during setup and install. Operational issues with HVAC/power/xcons/remote hands.. Any2 pitfalls. Integrity if issues arise. Comments would be welcome.. thanks! Regards, -Flint

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Traceroute management
by Dylan Ebner 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

My company uses it's internet connection primarily for VPN tunneling. I have always wanted a tool that I can enter the peer ip addresses and it will every 8 or 12 hours run a traceroute and log it so I can build historical maps of the path our traffic is taking. Has anyone ever seen any apps like this, preferably something that is free. Thanks

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Coax wiring. MoCA between neighbors.
by Dongsu Han 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Hi All, I'm trying to find out how coax cables are wired in a residential area to each house. I found out that "drop amp" amplifies the signal just out side the building, and a few neighbors share the drop amp (basically a powered splitter). What other devices are there? I'm also trying to find out whether my neighbors would be able to overhear the MoCA signal from my apartment. Anyone knows the answer? For example, my apartment building has a cabinet that concentrates all coax cables from all units, and the 2~4 coax cables are attached to a device in the cabinet. I'm assuming it is a drop amp and I think MoCa signals can travel across the drop amp. Is my guess correct? Any comments on coax cable wiring between houses or apartments and MoCA technology would be very useful. Thank you, Dongsu

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Eye protection in DWDM systems -- what threshold?
by Deepak Jain 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

At what power level do DWDM systems become dangerous to work near (i.e. not staring into any optics, using light meters, etc)? I never see technicians on inside DWDM systems using eye protection, but I see power levels of amps going higher and higher. On a recent meter I saw almost .6mW... Any pointers to a document saying 1550nm becomes dangerous at xxxx dbM? Thanks in advance, DJ

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Multi site BGP Routing design
by Justin Krejci 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

We have two geographically distinct locations that currently both fall under the same ASN. At site 1 we have a particular set of ip networks (/20 and bigger) in use only locally to this site At site 2 we have a separate set of ip networks (/20 and bigger) in use only locally to this site Each site has at least one upstream internet connection advertising with BGP. There is also a (reliable) private link between to the two sites where our routers at each site are all talking iBGP (as well as ospf). There is a router subnet (/27) that spans the two sites. We currently advertise all subnets out all upstream connections as if both sites were only one and traffic routes between sites without issue via the private link. If the private link between the two sites fails, will BGP allow for us to access the IP subnets at site 2 from site 1 via the internet given that both sites are advertising under the same ASN? Is this a case where having multiple ASNs makes sense to treat each site as remote peers to each other? Thanks, Justin

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End User Internet Monitoring for Supervisor recommendations
by JoeSox 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

I have a friend in a shop that is not running any robust Websense like applications. They are looking for a freeware solution or possibly inexpensive solution just for a few requests not for the entire company. I used one a while back but I since have lost the information and that PC that I dropped the application on has since been rebuilt. Does anyone have any recommendations that meet the following requirements: 1) A Supervisor can navigate to a url to see end user's internet activity. 2) Freeware or close to it -- Thank You, Joe

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