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Network Nerd Thoughts?
by Michael Horwath Aug. 21, 2023

Aug. 21, 2023

ObOnTopic: Anyone have a contact there to see if they are willing to join MICE? ObOffTopic: everything else https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gateway-fiber-bringing-100-fiber-o… I moved into CR July 2020 and .. connectivity options are not really options. Greenbutthole (you know, Centurylink, Lumen, some name that starts with Q) loves to say high speed, every address in a 4 block area around me is only capable of 10Mbps down. Comcast? I mean, it works, for a small value of works. Anyone dealt with these folks in the past in other areas? Will they come through? Are there any gotchas? I wish we had more choice. I mean, we had over 200 choices back in the late 90s and early-mid 2000s but they are all gone now. -- Mike Horwath, reachable via drechsau(a)Geeks.ORG

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OT: Blast from the past!
by Jay Hanke Aug. 14, 2023

Aug. 14, 2023

[image: 20180410_090819.jpg] -- Jay Hanke, President South Front Networks jayhanke(a)southfront.io Phone 612-204-0000 https://southfront.io/path.html

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Ridgeview Traffic
by Jay Hanke Aug. 7, 2023

Aug. 7, 2023

Looks like a successful weekend at the new Ridgeview. This is the uplink traffic measured at the 511 end. [image: image.png]

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Give Aways
by Justin Krejci Aug. 4, 2023

Aug. 4, 2023

I have a few items to give away: first responding, first served. Must either pick up in Minnetonka, MN or possibly nearby area. 4x Fiber SMF duplex jumpers * SC to LC blue connectors (not green APC) * 5m fiber jumper with thicker outdoor jacket * The last 12 inches or so at each end are the standard yellow jacket. * Condition: New/unused 8x (could be 9 or 10) standard RJ45 patch panels * 48 ports * 2RU height * 19" width post * Model: unknown * Includes cable management clips that fasten onto the front side * Wire bars on the rear side for tying rear side cables * Condition: New/unused 2x 40G QSFPs * Model: Robofiber QSFP-4010-PLR4-A * Condition: Light or no use 2x 40G QSFPs * Model: Robofiber QSFP-4010-LR4-A * Condition: Light or no use 6x 40G QSFP AOCs * 1m length * Model: Robofiber QSFP-40G-01AOC-A * Condition: Light use, no damage, no visible wear and tear If anyone wants pictures of any of these let me know and I can send you some. -Justin

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MICE Ridgeview Traffic
by Jay Hanke Aug. 3, 2023

Aug. 3, 2023

Running about 18G of traffic on the new MICE Ridgeview switch! Jay

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Fiber cut?
by Frank Bulk July 25, 2023

July 25, 2023

Did anyone notice a fiber cut on Zayo's network between Le Mars and Sioux City around 2:45 pm? Our staff saw some damage south to their fiber of NIPCO, but it's possible that Zayo abandoned that stretch of fiber due to an earlier Hwy 75 road project. Regards, Frank

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Re: FW: [EXTERNAL] - [MICE-DISCUSS] MICE Participants List
by Richard Laager June 28, 2023

June 28, 2023

It turns out that I had the route server links wrong. There is a database ID that gets put into the BIRD protocol. I thought it was the customer (participant) ID. But it turns out it is the VLAN Interface ID. I corrected this, and now the links work correctly. On 2023-06-28 06:26, Miles McCredie wrote: > > FWIW, the looking glass links generate the following message > -- Richard

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MICE Participants List
by Richard Laager June 28, 2023

June 28, 2023

The MICE participants list is now built from IXP Manager: https://micemn.net/participants.html If there is something wrong about your entry, please let me or Jeremy know. See below about port discrepancies, first. I want to specifically thank Dustin Frandle of South Front Networks. He started this effort with JavaScript code to convert a standard IX-F JSON export into a participants table. While I ended up going a different direction (for reasons discussed below), he got the ball rolling. Jeremy and I wanted to retain the contact addresses, which IXP Manager only outputs in the IX-F export if you are logged in. (And, despite my request, they remain firm in that position and refuse to allow customization.) Additionally, I wanted to retain the ports, since our current process has Cologix using the website as the LOA/CFA. (We may want to move to a more standard approach on that, but I didn't want to put that change into the critical path of getting the participants list automated.) Unfortunately, despite a previous request and my re-request for it, the IXP Manager maintainer has taken a firm position that the IX-F JSON export should not be customizable. So I cannot easily tweak the template to output emails when unauthenticated or add additional information for ports. IXP Manager does support the idea of a custom member export, and INEX (the exchange primarily behind IXP Manager development) does use that for a custom JSON output. However, that requires building the desired output from scratch. I figured if I was going to do that, I might as well just output HTML directly. That way, I only have one thing in one language (PHP) to worry about, rather than two things (PHP + JavaScript). Granted, there are some cons too. I'm not 100% happy about any of this. But, ultimately I had to make some decision to get it done, and that's where I landed. I did the best I could with the responsive design. There are a couple of pre-existing bugs on edge cases (e.g. when your size falls at 991.xx so it's not <= 991 but also not >= 992, which is maybe only possible on HiDPI displays) that affect the whole site. This page in particular is not ideal on mobile, but I did what I could. If you've got better ideas, please let me know. ---- There are a couple port discrepancies that I've asked Jeremy to review: 702 Communications * Bluepeak Broadband Visions * G-Core Labs * HBC * LTD Broadband Omnitel * Paul Bunyan South Front Truestream * US Internet * I'm pretty sure these were wrong/outdated on the old list and correct in IXP Manager / on the new list. -- Richard

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WiscNet router maintenance Thursday, June 29, 4pm
by Chris Wopat June 27, 2023

June 27, 2023

WiscNet will be replacing a router this coming Thursday at 4pm local time. Our MICE connection will be down during this transition. Expect it down for 15mins or so, maintenance should be complete by 7pm. Cheers, -- Chris Wopat Network Engineer, WiscNet wopat(a)wiscnet.net 608-210-3965

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Three BGP peers
by Frank Bulk June 24, 2023

June 24, 2023

Anyone else seeing both Yahoo peers and one Google peer down since early am? I didn't see any log messages about exceeding prefix counts or the like. Frank SiouxCity-Fibernet-Arista(s2)#sh ip bgp sum | ex Estab BGP summary information for VRF default Router identifier 207.32.15.21, local AS number 18883 Neighbor Status Codes: m - Under maintenance Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent InQ OutQ Up/Down State PfxRcd PfxAcc 206.108.255.58 4 10310 2035987 4886675 0 0 12:23:38 Active 206.108.255.59 4 10310 2029469 4886360 0 0 12:23:41 Active 206.108.255.167 4 15169 2050148 4888984 0 0 12:23:40 Active SiouxCity-Fibernet-Arista(s2)#sh ipv6 bgp sum | ex Estab BGP summary information for VRF default Router identifier 207.32.15.21, local AS number 18883 Neighbor Status Codes: m - Under maintenance Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent InQ OutQ Up/Down State PfxRcd PfxAcc 2001:504:27::2846:0:1 4 10310 2209610 1893247 0 0 12:23:40 Active 2001:504:27::2846:0:2 4 10310 2202613 1892818 0 0 12:23:47 Active 2001:504:27::3b41:0:2 4 15169 2043589 1894022 0 0 12:23:48 Active SiouxCity-Fibernet-Arista(s2)#

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