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Re: [Fwd: [ripe-ttraffic #23440] tt11, N/A & no GPS signal]


Hello Fotis, all,

sorry for not answering earlier, I hope I can clarify 
what happened.

During the move of our data center within Munich we also  
relocated the test box. Unfortunately the GPS antenna 
doesn\'t receive any signal at the new location. At 
RIPE-37 Fotis gave me a new antenna set, but this 
doesn\'t work at the current location, either :-(

We wanted tp try and put the antenna to another place 
but somehow forgot to do that, sorry for that!

In the meantime a colleague of mine started a cleanup of 
several \"old setups\" we do not support any longer in our 
new location. One part of this was to decomission 
192.109.251.0/24, the LAN where the test box is located.  
This explains that you are not able to reach that box.

So much about the things that happened so far, sorry for 
not keeping you up to date!

Normally we would just renumber the box and connect it 
to a different router interface, but

- it seems we have no or poor GPS reception inside our 
premises, we would have to mount the antenna outside, 
and this definitely involves some costs ...

- we are not happy about the service fee that is to be 
paid by a test box host as announced at RIPE-37:

>Another change is that you will have to pay for the 
>hardware of the boxes. A test-box currently
> costs 2750 Euro. This includes the installation costs, 
>but does not include shipping, taxes
> and import/export duties. The RIPE NCC has been asked 
>to introduce a service fee (of
> approximately 3000 Euro/Year) for the operation of the 
>boxes. However, for tax-reasons, it is
> currently not possible to do this. Therefore: 
>
>      There will be NO service fee for the remainder of 
>2000 and the first months of 2001. 

We are interested to support the test traffic project 
and would be happy to keep hosting that box, maybe even 
buy the hardware - but we are not willing to pay for 
hosting that service. We provide a professional 
computing environment and normally charge our customers 
for housing equipment at our premises - not the other 
way round ;-) 

So how can we proceed?

Regards,

Tom Forster, 
ECRC Network Engineering Team


Quoting Charles Brown <Charles.Brown@ecrc.de>:

> \"Fotis Georgatos (RIPE-NCC)\" wrote:
>
> > Hello Charles,
> >
> > Can you please check why we can\'t access the 
testbox?
> >
> > # traceroute tt11
> > traceroute to tt11.ripe.net (192.109.251.32): 1-30 
hops, 38 byte packets
> >  1  e10.overtoom.ripe.net (193.0.1.126), 3.53 ms, 
3.82 ms, 1.14 ms
> >  2  s10.pampus.ripe.net (193.0.0.54), 242 ms, 10.6 
ms, 33.2 ms
> >  3  fe20.marken.ripe.net (193.0.0.244), 9.19 ms, 
3.78 ms, 4.43 ms
> >  4  r1-amsix.ecrc.net (193.148.15.102) *, 5.25 ms, 
5.19 ms
> >  5  s0-1-0-r5-FFM2.ecrc.net (62.208.254.70), 23.9 
ms, 22.0 ms, 23.3 ms
> >  6  fe1-0-r1-FFM3.ecrc.net (195.27.83.133), 22.8 ms, 
25.1 ms, 24.2 ms
> >  7  ge9-0-bb2-FFM1.ecrc.net (62.208.234.34), 26.1 
ms, 24.2 ms, 24.7 ms
> >  8  pos10-3-bb2-MUC1.ecrc.net (62.208.240.137), 31.6 
ms, 30.7 ms, 30.4 ms
> >  9  fe5-1-r10-MUC1.ecrc.net (62.208.224.10), 30.6 
ms, 32.1 ms, 31.9 ms
> > 10  * * *
> > 11  * * *
> >
> > Please have a look on this, too:
> >
> > > I relocated the antenna today.  If there is still 
no change let me know
> and
> > > will move it again.
> >
> > Unfortunately no change yet.
> > Is there a chance that the cable itself is somewhere 
disconnected?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Fotis
> >
> > -- Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they 
appear.
> > Fotis Georgatos <fotis@ripe.net>, nic-hdl:     
FMG21-RIPE





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