[OCCAID] 2006 Service Realignment Project

[Ryan A. Daggett]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:31:31PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote:
> >>>>> "jb" == Jesse Brown <wolf at daforest.org> writes:
> 
>     jb> would like to help out with the NBONE initiative,
> 
> yes, I also have finally ready a somewhat stable 100Mbit/s FreeBSD box
> at Pilosoft (a few blocks from NYIIX), and I have a few people who
> right now would like to connect downstream from me if I could change
> from grandfathered-BGP-site to an regular EINTAP.  So I guess I should
> try to help with NBONE now instead.
> 
> What I'd like is to serve these people who have asked me with tunnels,
> BGP, /48.  To have downstream cable sites connected to me with BGP
> like they are connecting to the other EINTAPs now, do I need to run
> OpenVPN and join my colo to the ``L2 fabric'' and be an ``NBONE
> Participant NTU OpenVPN''? or can I use regular BGP and L3 gif tunnels
> and be an ``NBONE Participant AS'' but have other AS's downstream from
> me?
> 
> Anyway I'm up for whatever and would like to get involved in NBONE!


I'll fwd this to nbone-ops folks.  I have no idea where we are with
NBONE setup thus far, due to all the hectic projects falling on our plate.

What is your tunnel end point address for this project though?  I see we're
24-42ms (jittered) to www.ivy.net from here.

traceroute to castrovalva.ivy.net (69.31.131.61), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  ibr01-f0-1.bstn01.hcctrc.com (216.93.252.33)  0.450 ms  0.467 ms  0.501 ms
 2  4.ge-0-1-0.r2.bos.twdx.net (216.93.255.1)  0.464 ms  0.299 ms  0.486 ms
 3  ge-0-2-2.c1.bos.twdx.net (216.93.255.193)  0.484 ms  0.334 ms  0.491 ms
 4  ge-0-0-1.c2.bos.twdx.net (216.93.255.226)  0.462 ms  0.129 ms  0.227 ms
 5  440.fe-0-0-0.b1.lga.twdx.net (216.93.255.160)  6.978 ms  6.769 ms  6.841 ms
 6  crnc.invisiblehand.net (216.12.164.73)  7.318 ms  7.558 ms  7.892 ms
 7  pop1-nyc-fe-2-1.gtdn.net (207.99.73.90)  7.974 ms  7.075 ms  7.637 ms
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  66.250.55.178 (66.250.55.178)  16.377 ms  15.878 ms  16.603 ms
11  kadmirra.Ivy.NET (69.31.131.53)  34.365 ms  35.330 ms  24.073 ms
12  ezln.Ivy.NET (69.31.131.58)  34.895 ms  21.682 ms  42.686 ms
13  castrovalva.Ivy.NET (69.31.131.61)  35.262 ms  35.926 ms  24.728 ms


cheers,
-rad

Ryan A. Daggett
Network Operations
TowardEX Technologies, Inc.
Office: +1-617-459-4051 x500
rad at towardex.com | www.towardex.com | www.twdx.net