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AfNOG and AfriNIC Joint Announcement: Meetings in May 2006
by Randy Bush 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

AfNOG and AfriNIC Joint Announcement: Meetings in May 2006 7th AfNOG Meeting AfriNIC-4 Meeting The African Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) and the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) are pleased to announce that the 7th AfNOG Meeting and the AfriNIC-4 Meeting will be held Nairobi, Kenya, in May 2006. About the entire event AfNOG and AfriNIC are jointly organising a two-week event that includes the AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology (offering advanced training in a week-long hands-on workshop), several half-day Tutorials, a one-day AfNOG meeting, and a two-day AfriNIC meeting. Further information about the event may be found at <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/> and <http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/>. Timetable AfNOG Workshop 7 - 12 May 2006 (Sunday - Friday) AfNOG Tutorials 14 May 2006 (Sunday) AfNOG Meeting 15 May 2006 (Monday) AfriNIC Meeting 16 - 17 May 2006 (Tuesday - Wednesday) Venue The event will be held in Nairobi, Kenya. The exact venue has not yet been finalised. Updated information will be made available at <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/> and <http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/>. About AfNOG AfNOG (see <http://www.afnog.org/>) is a forum for cooperation and the exchange of technical information between operators of Internet-connected networks in Africa. AfNOG has organised an event like this one every year since 2000. About AfriNIC AfriNIC (see <http://www.afrinic.net/>) is a Regional Internet Registry (RIR), responsible for the registration and allocation of Internet number resources in Africa and parts of the Indian Ocean. AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology The AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology aims to offer advanced training to people who are in the process of developing and enhancing an Internet-connected network with regional and international connectivity. The target audience includes senior and mid-level technical staff of commercial Internet service providers (ISPs), academic networks, government networks, or NGO networks. This workshop builds on the experience of previous AfNOG workshops held annually from 2000 to 2005 in six different African countries, and also the Internet Society's INET workshops, held annually from 1993 to 2000 at eight locations around the world. The workshop's instructors are an international team with many years of experience operating large networks and teaching about network operations. The workshop is divided into four parallel tracks: Track E0 - Unix System Administration (in English), focused on using a Unix-like operating system as a platform for delivery of Internet services. Track E1 - Scalable Internet Services (in English), focused on the design and operation of email, web, and other Internet services, in ways that can scale to handle large numbers of end users. Track E2 - Scalable Network Infrastructure (in English), focused on the design and operation of networks using routers and switches, in ways that can scale to handle large numbers of interconnected sites. Track F2 - Infrastructure R=E9seaux IP (en fran=E7ais), similar to track E2, but given in French. Further information and application forms are available at <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/workshop/>. AfNOG Tutorials On 14 May 2006, the day before the AfNOG conference, several tutorials will be offered. Tutorials are typically half a day in duration (4 hours including a break). Tutorials take place in a classroom-style environment, and may include a hands-on practical component. Tutorials are non-commercial in nature, and most are technically oriented. They are intended to highlight issues relating to technology already deployed or soon to be deployed on networking and related services provisioning for ISP operations. People interested in presenting a tutorial are invited to submit a proposal, following the instructions at <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/tutorial/>. 7th AfNOG Meeting The 7th AfNOG meeting will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 15 May 2006. AfNOG conferences provide a forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices. The meetings are informal, with an emphasis on relevance to current and future African backbone engineering practices. Previous AfNOG conferences have attracted over 200 participants, mainly consisting of engineering staff from network service providers, managers from IT enterprises, and members of the research and education community. People interested in making a presentation or chairing a panel discussion at the AfNOG meeting are invited to to submit a proposal, following the instructions at <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/conference/>. AfriNIC-4 Meeting The AfriNIC-4 meeting will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 16 and 17 May 2006. This meeting will be both a public policy meeting and an annual members meeting. The public policy part of the meeting will include discussion of proposed policies for how AfriNIC should manage resources such as IP addresses and AS numbers. The annual members meeting will include voting for Board members, and reporting on AfriNIC's activities. Further information is available at <http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/>. -- Issued jointly by AfNOG and AfriNIC $Id: event-announcement.txt,v 1.10 2005/09/27 18:05:04 apb Exp $

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Re: IPv6 news
by Peter Lothberg 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

> so having dual stack backbones is very important. but ... Other global providers have a IPv6 network to, all open for business, but there are very VERY few customers. And, I'm not so sure we even have a "Internet" of IPv6 out there either. It looks cold and empty to me. Here's a challange, have NTP server attached directly to a good clock and a IPv6 network. Is there anyone who can talk to it using IPv6 on the Nanog list? (Time20.Stupi.SE, 2001:0440:1880:1000::0020) -Peter

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ADSL multiplexing (bonding)
by Gregory Edigarov 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hello List, Need an advice on what type of equipment/manufacturer would one use to multiplex 2 or 4 ADSL lines? E.g we need to get 2 ADSL line to act as one. Something like Etherchanel with Ciscos. Any advise? Thanks a lot in advance. -- With best regards, GRED-RIPE

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Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)
by Jeroen Massar 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

[re-ordered front-posting] 24 okt 2005 kl. 11.35 skrev Jeroen Massar: > > The multihoming that people here seem to want though is the Provider > > Independent one, and that sort of automatically implies some routing > > method: read BGP. On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:40 +0200, Peter Salanki wrote: > Or shim6 :) Of course, note that I wrote 'some routing method', which effectively shim6 will be doing using some translations. Though I have to see it first that it is up and running and people start using it, having good hopes though but there are too many requirements and thus it won't fit everybody the way they like it. Some people will simply require PI space and nothing else... (*) Greets, Jeroen * = For IPv6 this means: be a LIR, plan 200 customers -> get it.

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multi homing pressure
by Brandon Butterworth 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

"Firms must defend against ISP clashes, warns Gartner Commercial row between ISPs shows vulnerability of single sourcing says analyst" http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=212391 Looks like it's about to enter the corporate rule book "Gartner said every location that requires mission-critical internet connectivity, including externally hosted websites, should be multi-homed" and end "tier 1" hosting brandon

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estimating VoIP data traffic size from VoIP signaling traffic size ?
by Joe Shen 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hi, is there any statistics on aggregated VoIP signaling bandwidth and aggregated VoIP data bandwidth? eg. if we monitored there is 2Mbps(average) traffic on VoIP signaling protocol ports ( including SIP, H.323, MGCP), how could we estimate average VoIP data bandwidth? Joe __________________________________ Meet your soulmate! Yahoo! Asia presents Meetic - where millions of singles gather http://asia.yahoo.com/meetic

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RIR Resource Allocation Data Inconsistencies
by Randy Bush 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

so, looking for somehting, i am wandering around potaroo etc, and i find these really strange reports about inconsistent data http://www.cidr-report.org/bogons/rir-data.html http://bgp.potaroo.net/stats/nro/ http://www.potaroo.net/drafts/draft-huston-ipv4-iana-registry-01.html and they seem to be current, in the sense they look to be generated daily (except the internet-draft, which i imagine is generated once a decade). are these, expecially one registry's data, as <ahem> unhappy as they seem? and how long has this been the case? randy

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["Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send."]
by bmanning＠vacation.karoshi.com 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

lest we forget... ----- Forwarded message ----- Bill, Could you forward to NANOG for me? Thanks, [snip] Jon, I'm sorry I forgot until just today... http://www.postel.org/postel.html ----- End forwarded message -----

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Microwave link security.
by MARLON BORBA 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

Fellow NANOGers, Please, do you know any documents and/or links about securing data microwave links? I am writing a project for MAN interconnection of several buildings with MW radios and concerned about possible security threats. TIA, Marlon Borba, CISSP.

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BGP Analysis BOF at NANOG-35
by Mohit Lad 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

Dear All, This NANOG meeting in LA will feature a BGP Analysis Tools BOF on Monday afternoon. The purpose of this BOF is to showcase some existing free BGP analysis tools. (http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0510/ lad.html) Link-Rank is one of the tools to be presented in this BOF. Link- Rank is a tool used to visualize BGP routing dynamics and a new version is now freely available from http://linkrank.cs.ucla.edu/ At last Nanog, we got some requests from operators who were interested in visualizing their own dynamics instead of Routeviews and RIPE. Keeping this in mind, we have setup a temporary web service where you can upload a small period of your ISP's BGP data to our web server. This data will then be processed and made visualization ready by NANOG time, so during the BGP analysis BOF, you can contact us and be able to see your ISPs routing dynamics. For more information goto: http://linkrank.cs.ucla.edu/nanog35/ We highly encourage you to upload a MRT format Rib file and a small period (a few hours) of MRT format BGP update logs to see if you can find LinkRank useful at your ISP. Please email me if you have any questions. Thanks Mohit Lad UCLA.

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