Woot! We hit 50Gbps at INEX!
Quietly at just after 10pm, #INEX traffic went over 50Gig for the first time – 51.178Gig. Taking bets on when we hit 100! #peeringprizes — INEX (@ComePeerWithMe) January 31, 2013
View ArticleNOCtools and OSS_SNMP Get Support for Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) Protocol
NOCtools (a mixed bag collection of tools and utilities for NOC engineers) and OSS_SNMP (a PHP SNMP Library for People Who HATE SNMP, MIBs and OIDs) have just gotten support for Multiple Spanning Tree....
View ArticleBird / Quagga with MD5 Support for IPv4/6 on FreeBSD & Linux
Over in INEX we run a route server cluster which alleviates the burden of setting up bilateral peering sessions for the more than 80% of the members that use them. The current hardware is now about six...
View ArticleUseful RIPE Database Links
Some very useful RIPE database links that I was recently shown include: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split ftp://ftp.ripe.net:/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt...
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Querying Cisco MST Port Roles via SNMP with OSS_SNMP
OSS_SNMP is a PHP SNMP library written by myself for people who hate SNMP. After a customer migration from PVST to MST (Multiple Spanning Tree), I have added a number of MST functions / MIBs to...
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Peering Week Articles on trefor.net
I spent the first few days of St Patrick’s week last month in Leeds at the first of the two annual Euro-IX conferences on behalf of INEX. Trefor Davies, of trefor.net, organised a series of articles...
View ArticleIXP Manager – Planning for v4
A lot has changed in the 3 to 5 years that the decision was made to use certain libraries / technologies / methods on IXP Manager. In previous major version changes we made some serious architecture...
View ArticleOS X Built-in tftp Server
Turned out to be very useful during a recent RMA maintenance window:sudo launchctl load -F /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist sudo launchctl start com.apple.tftpdThe default tftp file path is...
View ArticleNagios Plugin to Check Extreme Networks Devices
Over at INEX we’ve embarked on a forklift upgrade of the primary peering LAN using Extreme Networks Summit x670’s and x460’s. As usual, we need to monitor these 24/7 and we have just written a new...
View ArticleA Brief History of IXP Manager
For another INEX project, I was asked to put together a timeline for IXP Manager – an open source application for managing Internet eXchange Points. Reproduced here: IXP Manager was originally a web...
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