yOn Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jay wrote:
Speaking of tools, we're releasing an open source utility called "OpRoute" at the end of this month. The tool works something like traceroute, but it also reports # of NAPs, AS hops, layer 3 hops, latency, packet loss, etc... It also gives you the option to show a side-by-side compariason of those statistics (from "a" to "z") on your network versus another outside network.
And just how do you know when someone went through a NAP?
Anyway, this is coming out (with source code) at the end of the month -- if interested, I'll post a notice to this list when its released.
Very interested. I _REALLY_ get off on screwing with marketing hype motivated people.
"Thrashing" routes is a concern. We have to throttle-back our optimizations and have put in some algorithms for dealing with this. The actual process of changing the route we do with proprietary protocols in-house.
Read: Modify route-map xxx "clear ip bgp x.x.x.x soft in"
As for multihomed customers, that gets me into a whole new area... I don't know if this list would care to hear the entire bit, so I'll just hit the basics. If anyone wants more information, just email me off-list. Anyway, our current product (bandwidth) is being augmented by a new product (called IRIS) that goes into beta in April. IRIS is basically a client-side version of the routing intelligence technologies which interoperates with our core. IRIS is specifically for diverse networks (multihomed or otherwise) -- no matter if they're using the Opnix bandwidth product or not.
Let me guess. IRIS doesn't run on the 75xx or 120xx? Rules of thumb in internet marketing to geeks: (1) Make it work with Cisco (2) Make it ACT like Cisco
multihomed to multiple Opnix PNAPS^H^H^H^(oops, wrong marketing hype engine enabled)POPS?
Heh, you can never keep the marketing department under control. :)
~Jay
It's real easy when you have ENGINEER types holding the purse. You don't let the Marketing Types release BULLSHIT to the word. If/When they do, you fire their dumb %$$es. It's that simple. They have released something that is going to be an EMBARRASSMENT to the company in front of anyone who is technically compitent. They have alienated 90% of your customer base. They are FIRED. --- John "Never fired a Marketing Type I didn't already hate" Fraizer EnterZone, Inc