Re: [tlug] VPN appliance and network connection suggestions?

[Sven Simon <sven@example.com>]

James Cluff wrote:

>Quoting Patrick Niessen <patrick.niessen@example.com>:
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>>NTT B-Flets offer 10M or 100M Fibre optics connection.  Not sure about
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>>availability guarantees (probably none or minimal).  100M for business
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>>cost you around 60,000 Yen, If you get away with the family package, you
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>>might only pay half of that (but then don't have a fixed IP).
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>>Patrick
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>Since we depend on minimal latency (hopefully ~150ms to the states)
>and high reliability we can't go with anything like B-Flets or Usen.
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>Well, Usen has a business service, too I heard. Maybe they offer some
>SLA... will check. But for a real backbone connection we'll probably
>have to go with a tier 1 provider. Anyone tried Internap
>(www.internap.co.jp)?
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>Using NTT form our office here in tokyo pinging california 64.62.134.228
>with 32 bytes time average = best 148 MS to worst 515 MS sending 4 packets 4
>times
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>Pinging yahoo.com 64.58.79.230 from the same location same set 4x4 32 bytes
>I got 411 to 755 MS.
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>Pinging the above yahoo.com IP from the california location 64.62.134.228 I
>got 62-66MS.
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>If that is usefeul or not I don't know from California it is 8 hops from
>here it is 20 hops doing a traceroute to Yahoo.  Of course there could be
>some internal firewall and routing effects since I did this from behind a
>firewall in both locations, but not major effects I hope.  I think your
>results will varry depending on your provider in the US also, if you are
>using cable and wireless there for example, I would think you would have a
>more direct route also using it here rather than someone else.  It would be
>nice if there was a way to have the carriers send you a traceroute from
>their location to your US location, that might give you some idea.
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>Hope that helps
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>James
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Thanks all for your input. We just had the sales guy from USEN come over 
and since their service is
quite cheap it seem like a good deal. One thing that made me worry, 
though, is that he wasn't "allowed"
to give details about their connections the the IX's... can't be a good 
sign. He did give me some ping times
to Cogent, the carrier we selected in the states, though, and an average 
of 200ms is something we can
live with, I guess.

For the VPN, Watchguard probably will make the race. I'm sure you'll 
here back from me when it comes
to configure these things ;)

Sven

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