[tech] Re: [ucc] WAIX is back

David Luyer david_luyer at pacific.net.au
Thu Jan 31 23:57:16 WST 2002


> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:07:36PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:51:18PM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> > > Indeed. On that - what's required to make the AGS do 
> useful things?
> > 
> > Not much. It only has AUX so you need lots of tranceivers and 
> > it will only do 10Mb. [...]
> 
> I take it AUX is the plural of AUI? French?

Doesn't AUX refer to a Cisco AUX port?  I'm impressed you got one
running faster than 115,200 Grahame :-)

> > For extra cuteness it would be cool to:
> >   - bring up a BGP session UCS -> UCC and show UCC WAIX
> >     (with appropriate filters ;-)

Yeah... for example:

      muchacho <-> BGP <-> UCC AGS+

      UCC box <-> UCC AGS+ <-> either UCS or Loop0
                               based on BGP table
                               (use an incoming route-map
                                to pervert next hops
                                of appropriate AS-paths)

      AGS+ loop0 set to NAT incoming packets to WAIX
      addresses

...or something like that should do it :)  Course you could
do the same with Zebra on Linux too.

> What will that buy UCC tho? 
> Especially if the AGS+ only does 10Mb/s ?

Bah.  Sell chocolates or something, and then buy a 7401ASR
edge services router and a pair of redundant 6500s... should
only take a century or two :-)))

> > Will investigate tommorow; I have a feeling the utility 
> > LAN goes somewhere near UCC (into the Guild maybe) and 
> > we can run VLAN trunks onto the dlink switches we were 
> > bought. We've been wanting to try that for real; UCC 
> > would be a good test.
> 
> Dlink switches. *shudder*

Come on, it could be worse - they could be Cabletron
(Enterasys/Vertical Horizon).

David "Cisco or die" Luyer.
(and don't go pointing out the obvious about Juniper vs Cisco ok? :-))
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