November 1998 Presentation Abstracts
The North American Network Operators Group
(NANOG)
(More abstracts will be added often ... stay tuned.)
Good ISPs Have No Class: Addressing Nuances and
Nuisances (Howard
Berkowitz)
This tutorial reviews some of the more subtle points of CIDR, aggregation,
and renumbering. Included are tricks and techniques that the newer ISP
might need, including pure address administration and procedures for
submitting address space justifications. Hank Nussbacher's CIDR FAQ is a prerequisite for
the session.
Optimal External Route Selection: Tips and
Techniques for ISPs
(Avi Freedman, Net Access)
Tips for ISPs on external route selection, including the BGP MED and
LOCAL_PREF attributes, peering at multiple locations; backup transit; and
how to mix transit, public, and private peering.
Who
You Gonna Call? (Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates)
A review of methods for inter-provider communications and their
effectiveness. Donelan reviews past problems and speculates about future
trends and possible solutions. Are there methods to assure communications
will work under unusual conditions? What role should ISPs play in
critical infrastructure protection planning?
Interesting Peering Activities at the Exchange
Points
(Naiming Shen, Cisco)
During the summer of 1997, when I was working on Internet peering issues
at iMCI, I had a chance to help track down a couple of unusual peering
activities. These involved rewriting eBGP next hops to some NAP routers;
passing third party next hops; pointing default; and registering incorrect
DNS names for NAP routers. Some of these activities were due to a
misconfiguration, such as running IGP protocols over NAP FDDIs or turning
on native IP multicasting on the NAPs.
CAR Talk: Configuration
Considerations for Cisco's Committed Access Rate (Cathy Wittbrodt,
@Home)
Some months ago @Home began evaluating
CAR for some of the functionality that we required. We evaluated solely
CAR's rate limiting capabilities, and the extent to which rate limiting
impacts the network. In the process we discovered how CAR interacts with
TCP, as well as the optimum configuration of burst parameters.
Data Center Needs, Problems, and Technology
(Bill Norton, Equinix, and Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates)
Internet facilities need to grow more robust to meet the needs of today's
networking environment. Outages due to air conditioning problems,
accidental circuit pulls, and shortages of space and bandwidth at
collocation and exchange facilities all lead to reliability issues that
now affect millions of users worldwide. This BOF is intended to highlight
concerns and technology problems that affect the robustness of the
Internet Data Center facilities. We hope that specific recommendations on
areas for improvement in infrastructure can be made that the community can
adopt when constructing or improving infrastructure facilities.
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