[AusNOG] PIPE NSW Changing Details

[Reuben Farrelly]

It's also very unfortunate that they changed the rules a few years ago 
to only allow just 1 single MAC address on the end of the link.

This bit me some time ago when we upgraded a peering link and moved the 
termination location to another rack.  I formally requested an exception 
to have 2 (known in advance) MACs, on the basis that we had two routers 
that could be used on the service, and it was declined.

I understand why, and indeed think it's a good idea, to have a finite 
set limit of mac addresses, but a hard set limit of just one address was 
just unnecessarily restrictive IMHO.  It also made the planned 
relocation I was doing at the time more painful than it needed to be for 
no obvious good reason.

Reuben

On 01/10/2014 10:24 AM, Nathan Brookfield wrote:
> That's crazy, the NOC used to be able to do this in 15 minutes, I
> would be absolutely raging and demanding for it to be done, very poor
> form but that's TPG for you.
>
> Kindest Regards, Nathan Brookfield (VK2NAB)
>
> Chief Executive Officer Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
>
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> -----Original Message----- From: AusNOG
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Joseph Goldman
> Sent: Wednesday, 1 October 2014 9:16 AM To: AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] PIPE NSW Changing Details
>
> Hi list,
>
> I am just wondering if this is normal - trying to change MAC address
> for router port after urgent change-over for our PIPE peering
> connection in NSW, request was sent through to the MACD team but they
> are telling me the request needs to be approved by their management
> and ETA is 3-5 business days??
>
> I'm not a massive user of PIPE IX but I have now been without it for
> 24 hours and its looking like it could be another 48-72 hours before
> getting it back! For someone who might get a LOT of their traffic via
> PIPE IX this would be a pretty bad amount of downtime, as other
> transit links would have to pick up the slack.
>
> If any PIPE engineers on list willing to help the request move a
> little quicker I'd appreciate it.
>
> Thanks, Joe