#ix links

This page is linked from http://www.pound-ix.net/ (thanks ianai) and http://www.hash-ix.net/ (thanks ivan_bev :)

#ix is an IRC channel for IX-related chat (netops, peering, maintenance notification, etc). Put your proper name (& possibly company) in your "RealName" IRC entry, and please append your AS number to your username, so people can find you if they need to contact a rep of your ASN - ESPECIALLY if you are new!

For connection onto the IRC network, please contact me, ivan_bev (email at bottom of page).

LINX 70 photo links: (ivan_bev)

NANOG 49 photo links: (ivan_bev)

RIPE 60 photo links: (ivan_bev)

GPF 5 photo links: (ivan_bev)

EPF 4 photo links: (ivan_bev)

UKNOF 14 photo links: (ivan_bev)

LACNIC 11 photo links: (ivan_bev)

Links to #ix and peering related sites and information

The technical side:

Peering database (ras, etc) <- Use and keep this up to date!
Datacentre locations (thanks mbev)
IRRweb beta (ras)
Network operations mailing list - nanog-ml replacement (ras)
Juniper clue (ras)
Cisco clue (angrignon)
32-bit ASN clue
ASN peering locations using peeringdb (thanks ianai)
Hubble prefix global reachability / black-hole locator (thanks ivan_bev)
Cyclops prefix & ASN oddity detection (thanks ivan_bev)
Cymru IP to ASN lookup instructions (thanks scottm)
routing/dns/internet swiss-army-knife tools (robban)
looking-glass search & traceroute server (thanks remco)
Link aggregation - loadblancing etc (ams-ix)
example eBGP config (jared)
BGP communities guide (charlie)
current BGP routing leaks - searchable (jared)
CW BGP communities (thanks cobalt)
Internet exchange directory (woody)
IX members lists [reverse DNS] (ras)
Telegeography posters including submarine cable maps
Equinix submarine cable map (thanks ipgoddess/ivan_bev)
UK undersea cables (thanks will-h)
Marine data kmz for Google Maps/Earth including submarine maps for UK/FR (thanks ivan_bev)
international submarine cable list (thanks marty)
TATA submarine cable map - was VSNL (thanks ivan_bev/niels)
Colo locations - kml [Google-earth format] (thanks vato, cobalt)
NL Colo locations (thanks habbie)
UK telephone exchanges - kml [Google-earth format] (thanks aden)
Datacentre map - locations for many datacentres (thanks ivanbev)
London Telehouse suite map (slimey)
Foundry docs, un-passworded US site and JP site (thanks owen, ivan_bev)
Undocumented Cisco commands (thanks ivan_bev)
Cisco price lists:
- EMEA current [html/xls] - 20080908 (thanks ik5pvx)
- EMEA local copies of 20100715 kit price list [xls] (thanks ivanbev & others)
- GLOBAL [xls] - 20060925 (thanks cobalt)
- USA 20060808 discounted [pdf] (thanks remco-vm)
- USA in "search" (thanks slimey)
Juniper price list: 20081003 [xls] (thanks ivanbev)
Cisco product sheets - router/switch performance etc (thanks will-h, ivan_bev)
Cisco emulator (thanks lochii)
Linux on a Cisco 2500 (thanks yinglam)
Cisco dec7 password decryptor and [local copy] (sjc) one-liner (ytti)
CoPP (control plane policing) implementation on Cisco (thanks matt)
Cisco ISP Essentials 2001 book (thanks slimey)
Champion One long-range single SMF transceivers (thanks ed & rhe)
gihp SFPs cheaper compatible modules (thanks will-h)
ProLabs SFPs from hardware.com - SFPs at least work in Cisco without "service unsupported transceiver" (thanks will-h)
Realm Comms Inc fiber-optic kit, etc (thanks bdb)
Repsole cables in London Docklands area [near Telehouse/Telecity/Redbus] (thanks ivan_bev)
gocables/cablesys fast fiber/cable supplier in USA (thanks matt)
bluetooth console modules [consider security issues] (thanks ivan_bev)
IEC320 connector types & alternative (thanks macwomble and will-h)
Cable management (for racks), etc:
- Mini5 fiber panels used by AMS-IX (thanks niels)
- Mini5 cable management (thanks dang)
- Panduit wire managers (thanks dang)
ssfnet high-perf network modelling/simulation (thanks todd)
Broadband (DSL/cable/FIOS/etc):
- OECD Broadband stats worldwide - June 2008 (thanks nick)
- GB broadband resource (thanks willh)
- Thinkbroadband UK availability & news [was adslguide]
UK non-geographic -> geographic telephone numbers - needed for calling NGN numbers from abroad, etc (thanks slimey)
Firefox AS number plugin (thanks chimon)
GeoIP address lookup [open database - please ammend info if incorrect] & Firefox plugin (thanks ivan_bev)
GE's colaborative whiteboard [flash-based] (thanks doxx)
Default password lists for various kit (thanks ivan_bev):
- various [cirt.net]
- single-page [phenoelit]
- routers [cyberpunkcafe]
- various [defaultpassword.com]
RADB mirrored whois dbs [list of whois dbs around] (thanks randy)
RIPE's RIS - Routing Information Service (thanks niels)
BGP resources - Looking glasses, route servers etc (thanks stefan)
internet exchange documentation BCP - graphs, member lists etc (thanks ivan_bev)
peering contract template (thanks john-linx)
IX members in CSV format:
- AMS-IX (thanks Niels)
- LINX (thanks vanessa)
- LIPEX (thanks cobalt)
Location codes - for router naming etc (thanks niels)
Compact sh ip int - for cisco routers (thanks matt)
COSE - Cisco-centreic Open-Source Exchange (thanks ivan_bev)
Cisco EEM examples - TCL scripts for embedded event manager (thanks lochii)
SNMP translator - mainly for cisco MIBs (thanks vato)
Cisco SNMP object navigtor (thanks rhe)
DNSBL checker script hack (berni)

The travel side:

ISOC events calendar (thanks rhe)
world times/timezones (thanks ik5pvx)
Aircraft / flight related sites (for planning trips):
- ITA flight fare & availability info (thanks mikewho)
  - with advanced query instructions (thanks will-h)
- Flight availability & status info [subscription required] (thanks mikewho)
- Flight-tracking using google-earth [free as of 20060418] (thanks terryr)
- USA flight tracking (thanks macwomble)
- USA flight tracking (thanks mikewho)
- flight details (US includes tracking) including mobile website (thanks ivan_bev)
- EU flight tracking (thanks asr)
- Great Circle Mapper - globe-plotting for flights (thanks ras)
- Seatguru - seat planners (thanks stevegibbard)
- FAA USA flight delay info (thanks angrignon)
- aviation weather maps - Jetplan/Jeppesen (thanks will-h)
- Volcano cloud status (EU, 2010)
  - UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) (thanks ivan_bev)
  - List of VAACs (Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre), including London VAAC graphics (thanks ivan_bev)
  - Jetplan high-level significant forecast (thanks will-h)
Other travel sites
- Seat61 train travel (thanks rhe)
Hotel related sites (cheap / last-minute):
- booking.com (thanks ivan_bev)
- hotels.com (thanks ivan_bev)
- Late rooms (thanks tm)
GSM roaming coverage map (thanks ivan_bev)
Free wifi at airports (also see here):
- Europe:
  - IST - Istanbul, Turkey. SSID = TAV_FREE_INTERNET
  - SNN - Shannon, Ireland.
- USA:
  - Google holiday wifi 2009 - around 50 US airports (thanks marty)
  - CMH - Columbus, OH, USA. SSID = CMH
  - LAS - Las Vegas, NV, USA.
  - LGB - Long Beach Airport, CA, USA.
  - MYR - Myrtle Beach, SC, USA.
  - PDX - Portland, OR, USA.
  - PHX - Phoenix, AZ, USA.
  - SEA - (Northwest lounge) Seattle, WA, USA.

The social side:

Who's who (macwomble)
Photos of (and plans for) associated industry events [LINX, NANOG, RIPE, UKNOF, etc] (ivan_bev)
Who's where [Frapr] (cara)
Doctor Peering (wbn)
peering Multiply group
NANOG Multiply group (ren)
Associated industry websites: APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE APRICOT NANOG UKNOF
Other community/social sites used: linkedin orkut multiply facebook
Beerix ML (dotwaffle)
t-shirts:
- peering is a scam (ras)
- peering is a scam v2 (ras)
- nanog police (ras)
- 3/cogent depeering (ras)
- chicks <3 aggregation (nick)
fun stuff:
- ix quotes (all, thanks ras)
- depeering forum [play on peering forum] (angrignon, ras)
- GPF3 agenda 2008-04-01 (fearnor)
- ianai's distractions (ianai)
- new cisco logo [oct 2006] (angrignon)
- googleswitch (angrignon)
- Nanog Police (thanks fearnor)
- IOS posse (angrignon)
- ras's stuff (ras):
  - failur(3)
  - audio/video funnies (ras)
  - the night before Christmas (thanks ras)
  - ras's rants - where do we start ...
    - network diagram
- akamai/ianai's peering policy (ras)
- marty's movie-poster & other images (marty):
  - saving private ras
  - sneakers, starring peter
  - NANOG madness
  - Cogent/Level3 series: [(3)xorcist] [Pirat(3)s] [Rout(3)man]
  - TorIX
  - Goldeneye, with wbn
  - ras for nanog committee campaign
  - spaceballs
  - Brokeback Rooter
  - Pirat3s 2
- level3 is the shit (robban?)
- google HR (rs)
- Levelled(3) - [repeated IGP-BGP redistribution failures] (thanks angrignon)
- Equinix power (bryan)
- NYIIX 12 days of Christmas [2007] (thx ras) (thx lochii)
- GraNNy's distractions (GraNNy)
- Peering denied (thanks randy)
- Internet diagram (vato)
- Peerseidon (wbn, peter): [ thanks ras] [ thanks exile] [ YouTube]
- Peter's peering personal (peter et al)
- subtitled Indian movie clip (peter)
- The day the routers died (Secret-WG/Gary Feldman/RIPE-NCC)
- rackmonkey cam beta (bb)
- street-colo (bb)
- redbus interhouse parody (thanks will-h)
- Foundry frustration one two (thanks sjc) three (thanks owen)
- vyatta router advert [cisco vader]
- fergie preaching (thanks asr)
- network traffic violation ticket and other NFR funnies (thanks feanor)
- depeer art (vgill)
- cirque-du-soleil ft. pilo (thanks angrignon)
- googolopoly (thanks aden)
- feanor & tkap @ DEFCON 200807 (thanks randy)
- wbn xenu (thanks angrignon)
- Removing network equipment at speed ORA spoof (thanks vato)
- b-s meter (thanks ik5pvx)
- #ix calendar 2006:
  - for the guys (peter, macw, slimey, mustang)
  - for the girls (peter, vanessa)
- Demotivational posters (things to relate to) -
  - despair.com (thanks ivan_bev)
  - on flikr (thanks randy)
  - ishkur.com (thanks ianai)
  - top 40 (thanks vgill)
- High-powered lasers from wickedlasers (thanks ras), laserglow (thanks aaronw) and neo-laser (thanks doxx)
Nasty tricks:
- upside down internet (thanks lars)
- airpwn at Defcon (thanks ras)
#ix channel stats: mustang ras tris

Thoughts for a #ix t-shirt?

representative ix logos
other logos (eg packetheads/terrahertz/whatever .. perhaps ISP)?
random funny (relevant) quotes
taglines, eg:
- real networkers hang out in #ix
- #ix for your peering pleasure
- #ix - where livers come to get pickled (thanks chrisy)

What's missing? pm me or email me: ivan_bev (IRC) [or various other IM networks] Ivan Beveridge <ivan.beveridge@dreamtime.org>