AfNOG 2010 Workshop on Network Technology

Track SI-E — Scalable Network Infrastructure

Links and References

IP numbers and AS numbers

• Afrinic Policy Documents.
• Afrinic WHOIS.
• RFC 1918 — allocation of private IP address space.
• RFC 3330 — special-use IPv4 addresses (updates RFC 1918).
• RFC 1930 — guidelines for creation of an autonomous system (including allocation of private AS numbers).

Operational guidelines

• RFC 2791 — a document which describes best practices for making routing protocols scale.
• RFC 2182 — an operational guide to selection and operation of secondary DNS servers.
• 10/100 Half/full duplex autonegotation — hints from Cisco.
• comp.dcom.cabling FAQ — Description of various cablings.
• Managing IP Networks with Free Software — Presentation in PDF by Joe Abley and Stephen Stuart.
• www.traceroute.org — Pointers to remote diagnostic tools.
• NOC Contact List — contact list for NOCs around the world by Jared Mauch.

Cisco-specific documentation

• Cisco password recovery procedures. (This is a local copy — please check the Cisco web site for updates.)
• IOS Essentials (PDF) — Philip Smith and Barry Greene IOS Document (rather dated now).
• Cisco regular expressions. (This is a local copy — please check the Cisco web site for updates.)
• RFC 2281 — Cisco Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP). Compare with RFC 2338 Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP).

BGP Routing: Tools and Information

• RIPE RIS — tools for analysing current and historical BGP routing information.
• RIPE 399 — RIPE Routing Working Group Aggregation recommendations.
• The Bogon Reference — BGP Bogon Filters.
• the CIDR Report — The CIDR Report.
• ISP BGP Community List — BGP communities in use on the Internet.

Software tools

• IRRToolSet (formerly RAToolSet) — tools for routing policy analysis (including RtConfig, which can generate router configurations from a policy description language).
• WREQ — a distributed request/problem tracking system.
• Rancid — a tool for monitoring and maintaining router configurations and keeping them in CVS.
• RT (Request Tracker) — a tool to manage a trouble-ticketing system.
• Open Source Monitoring Software — homepage for MRTG and Smokeping and other useful monitoring tools.
• Cacti Monitoring Software — the complete RDD based grahing tool.
• NfSen — a graphical web based front end for the nfdump netflow tools.
• Network Discovery Software — a tool to automatically discover and manage your own network.

Network Security

• Team Cymru — Team Cymru Resources.
• Arbor Atlas Feed — Arbor Atlas Feed.
• SANS — SANS Storm Centre.
• myNetWatchman — myNetWatchman.
• RTBH — setting up a Remote Triggered Black Hole.
• using a RTBH with clients — how to setup a RTBH to allow your clients to blackhole their traffic.

IPv6

• IPv6 Operators Wiki.
• ARIN IPv6 Wiki.
• SixXs — IPv6 Tunnel Brokers.
• RFC 3177 — IAB/IESG Recommendations on IPv6 Address Allocations to Sites.
• RFC 3513 — Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture.

Humour

• Cisco Psychic TAC Hotline — Madame ROMMON answers questions about Cisco Password Recovery.
• The OSPF song (and the MP3 audio file).
• Secret Working Group.