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Mentoring Groups
by Jonathan Robins 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

Hi, Would be interested to know if anyone is aware of any mentoring groups out there that are targeted at High School leavers to help guide those that are keen to join the telecommunications industry? Cheers Jonathan

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Level One GVT-1000 SFP Media Converter in Trendnet TFC-1600 Fibre Chassis
by Alexander Neilson 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

I have a Level One GVT-1000 SFP to 1Gbps transceiver that looks like it should fit inside my TrendNET TFC-1600 chassis system http://www.flickr.com/photos/30026567(a)N04/8975140328/in/set-7215763398094… Top is the Level One and bottom is a TrendNET known compatible (but not useful in this situation) media converter. Has anyone got any experience using this hardware together? if so was is compatible / successful? I can use it stand alone if it won't work but I mainly want to avoid blowing it up. It would be a waste to use it stand alone (and a lot messier in the POP) if I can use the perfectly good chassis already waiting there for me. I will test it and come back with results if anyone else would like to know Off list replies are welcomed. Apologies if this breaches the charter. I had a read and felt it was close enough but happy to accept any feedback. Also if somebody knows of a supplier with in country supplies of chassis / standalone TrendNET and Transition Networks media converters (fixed laser and SFP Types) could they please let me know off list. Regards Alexander

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Re: [nznog] Another Brocade question for my favorite mailing list
by McDonald Richards 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

CES/CER can handle 1000 LSPs (lsp tunnels) before they stop making new ones. This can be an issue if you're letting your entire Cisco LDP domain pollute them. MLX would be a good order of magnitude larger but I don't have a specific figure. Have tested and used MTUs of 9000+ for VLL with no issues. Have tested and used MTUs of 4000+ for VPLS with some issues although this is the smaller CES platform and there may have been some feature gap in the Ironware version I was using at the time (MLX will have more features around this). QinQ works fine if you do port mode VLLs. Also have tested it working in a "raw" VPLS environment (port mode again). In case that’s not clear, port mode would be where you have all client ports as untagged. Raw mode every time if you ever want to do inter-op. This will set the VC-type to 5 and indicates that the port is transparent – from memory Cisco have this as a default in IOS. Macca From: Sam Russell <sam.h.russell(a)gmail.com<mailto:sam.h.russell(a)gmail.com>> Date: Tuesday, 4 June 2013 12:05 PM To: "nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz<mailto:nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>" <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz<mailto:nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>> Subject: [nznog] Another Brocade question for my favorite mailing list Hi, The interop stuff was a resounding success, and the details are at http://pieknywidok.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/brocade-and-juniper-interop-ospf-… if anyone is interested. I'm now trying to engineer it so we can add Juniper devices while changing as little Brocade config as possible. Can anyone help me with the following questions: - How many LSPs can a Brocade MLX4/MLX8 handle before it falls over? We have a mesh of 15 chassis, and the output of "show mpls memory" looks like this: Mem-Type Alloc BytesAlloc TotalAlloc TotalFree AllocPeak AllocFail FreeFail LSP 28 25760 369 341 28 0 0 Does this mean that it's full? The documentation is sparse, I'm hoping someone else has gone down that rabbit hole and found an answer for me :) - What MTU are people using for VLL/VPLS? - Has anyone got QinQ working with VLL/VPLS on a Brocade? - Does anyone have a preference for raw mode vs tagged mode for VLL and VPLS? Cheers Sam

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Another Brocade question for my favorite mailing list
by Sam Russell 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Hi, The interop stuff was a resounding success, and the details are at http://pieknywidok.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/brocade-and-juniper-interop-ospf-… if anyone is interested. I'm now trying to engineer it so we can add Juniper devices while changing as little Brocade config as possible. Can anyone help me with the following questions: - How many LSPs can a Brocade MLX4/MLX8 handle before it falls over? We have a mesh of 15 chassis, and the output of "show mpls memory" looks like this: Mem-Type Alloc BytesAlloc TotalAlloc TotalFree AllocPeak AllocFail FreeFail LSP 28 25760 369 341 28 0 0 Does this mean that it's full? The documentation is sparse, I'm hoping someone else has gone down that rabbit hole and found an answer for me :) - What MTU are people using for VLL/VPLS? - Has anyone got QinQ working with VLL/VPLS on a Brocade? - Does anyone have a preference for raw mode vs tagged mode for VLL and VPLS? Cheers Sam

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IANA AS Numbers registry update
by Selina Harrington 30 May '13

30 May '13

The IANA AS Numbers registry has been updated to reflect the allocation of 1 block to ARIN in 2013-05-30: 62464-63487 You can find the IANA AS Numbers registry at: http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xml Regards, Selina Harrington ******************************************* Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90094 Phone: +1 310 301 5800 Fax: +1-310-823-8649 *******************************************

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Fwd: [wellylug] Next meeting 17th Jun 6pm
by Hugh Davenport 28 May '13

28 May '13

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [wellylug] Next meeting 17th Jun 6pm Date: 2013-05-23 13:01 From: Hugh Davenport <hugh(a)davenport.net.nz> To: Wellington Linux Users Group <wellylug(a)lists.wellylug.org.nz> Reply-To: Hi All, Thank you heaps for those who came to the social meetup the other week. I caught a few of you there when I finally arrived, and you seemed like a interesting bunch of people. I'm happy to announce that I have scheduled a technical meeting for next month. It will be on Monday 17th of June, at 6pm. The location is Level 3 Catalyst House. The front doors lock at 6pm, so best to come earlier, but there will be a number on the wall to get someone to come let you in. Future meetings will be on the third Monday of every month and will hopefully be pizza and beverages supplied (this one should as well!). I would be interested if anyone would like to present any material, let me know if you would like to. I will send a follow up closer with details of the talks on the night. tl;dr, come to lvl 3 catalyst house 6pm 17th june, email me to speak. Cheers, Hugh

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Juniper and Brocade VPLS interop - any horror stories?
by Sam Russell 26 May '13

26 May '13

We've got a mix of Brocade MLX and Juniper MX chassis on our network and I'm working on getting VPLS standing up between them with LDP signalling (RSVP underneath for the base MPLS). Everything seems okay except for the odd quirk (Brocade can't do OSPF with jumbo frames, Juniper doesn't automatically strip VLAN tags when sending into the VPLS cloud) but otherwise it's standing up. I just wanted to see if anyone else has this sort of setup, and whether there's anything I should be looking for that might trip me up? My logic so far is as long as I don't try and make the Brocades do BGP then I should be safe, is this about right? Thanks in advance Sam

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Global Gateway support details
by Tristram Cheer 24 May '13

24 May '13

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ISP provided routers
by Mauricio Freitas 23 May '13

23 May '13

So, which ISP is providing Tenda modem/routers to users? >From http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=49&topicid=119152 "I installed a Tenda W150D at a friends place 2 weeks ago and their internet usage jumped from 200-600MB/day to 2-15GB/day." This had default DNS responder, open web administration and telnet visible from the WAN side. Cheers Mauricio Freitas www.geekzone.co.nz<http://www.geekzone.co.nz> www.freitasm.com<http://www.freitasm.com> www.twitter.com/freitasm<http://www.twitter.com/freitasm>

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Vodafone/TelstraClear routes to AU
by Mauricio Freitas 23 May '13

23 May '13

Something is going on again... Pings to cdn.geekzone.co.nz (Sydney) went from 35ms to 165ms now... Any ideas? Cheers Mauricio Freitas www.geekzone.co.nz<http://www.geekzone.co.nz> www.freitasm.com<http://www.freitasm.com> www.twitter.com/freitasm<http://www.twitter.com/freitasm>

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