Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread Part 2

[ZSK]

Hi @Afrigirl @AfriNatic is Afrihost participating in the Openserve double speed promo that started yesterday?

 

[Afrigirl]

Hi @Afrigirl @AfriNatic is Afrihost participating in the Openserve double speed promo that started yesterday?

Hi, clients will be notified as soon as it has been launched. Our Dev team is working on it.

 

[Soul Assassin]

Hi @Afrigirl @AfriNatic is Afrihost participating in the Openserve double speed promo that started yesterday?

I didn't even see anything about this, where did you see it?

 

[Zaque]

Further to this. Afrihost is busy testing the feasibility of PPPoE on a larger scale. DHCP-related issues have forced our hand. DHCP at a large scale gets more complex and difficult to secure and manage properly when you throw in more FNO's and different vendors.

There are challenges with this project. Features we require to be enabled on an OLT level are DHCP snooping and MFF (Mac forced forwarding) These layer 2 security features are no longer available when switching PPPoE on and so a complete switch per vlan/FNO is required in some cases.

@AfriNatic

The MACFF causes to many headaches and can randomly black hole traffic

The guys can do triple stack dhcpv4,v6 and pppoe with DHCP Snoop and PPPoe snoop

The ONT will test and switch between the two authentication protocols with this setup and prevents Rogue DHCP Servers

 

[AfriNatic]

I didn't even see anything about this, where did you see it?

Home | Openserve

openserve.co.za

Dev is working on the implementation of the promo.

 

[AfriNatic]

@AfriNatic

The MACFF causes to many headaches and can randomly black hole traffic

The guys can do triple stack dhcpv4,v6 and pppoe with DHCP Snoop and PPPoe snoop

The ONT will test and switch between the two authentication protocols with this setup and prevents Rogue DHCP Servers

DHCP Snoop doesn't help much. If an OLT doesn't have it enabled or correctly enabled it can still cause a rogue dhcp for the clients on an OLT with it enabled and it happens over L2. Another issue we have is with the Huawei WS7200 and the Huawei AX3 routers which most of our clients use. Once these routers detect other Huawei's, they start meshing and go into extender mode that cascades from there and spreads like wildfire over layer 2.

 

[BigMikey]

@Afrigirl and @AfriNatic I've noticed my traffic being routed inside your network is hitting a specific device (169.1.1.165) where I'm seeing consistent packet loss (+- 40% to 50%) and high latency to multiple end points.

Mind taking a look please.

 

[BigMikey]

@Afrigirl and @AfriNatic I've noticed my traffic being routed inside your network is hitting a specific device (169.1.1.165) where I'm seeing consistent packet loss (+- 40% to 50%) and high latency to multiple end points.

Mind taking a look please.

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[AfriNatic]

@Afrigirl and @AfriNatic I've noticed my traffic being routed inside your network is hitting a specific device (169.1.1.165) where I'm seeing consistent packet loss (+- 40% to 50%) and high latency to multiple end points.

Mind taking a look please.

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Hi

That is normal the router is filtering out icmp. The loss doesn't carry to the rest of the trace route or the destination.

 

[jimini]

Vuma Villages down again...

 

[AfriNatic]

Vuma Villages down again...

Not seeing an impact currently.

There are a lot of Vuma Villages network incidents currently.

 

[jimini]

Not seeing an impact currently.

There are a lot of Vuma Villages network incidents currently.

Can add Lonehill/ Pineslopes to the list, I have no connectivity at all.

 

[AfriNatic]

Can add Lonehill/ Pineslopes to the list, I have no connectivity at all.

Looks like the POP is up. Are you still having issues?

 

[jimini]

Looks like the POP is up. Are you still having issues?

Yup, back up again. You may go to sleep now, thanks for responding so late

 

[AfriNatic]

Yup, back up again. You may go to sleep now, thanks for responding so late

Okay great stuff.

I'm on shift until 6am actually.

 

[AfriNatic]

Hi @Afrigirl @AfriNatic is Afrihost participating in the Openserve double speed promo that started yesterday?

Please keep an eye on your email for the promo link to claim your free Openserve upgrade. We will send reminders to clients to downgrade in February if they don't want to pay extra for the new speeds. @Afrigirl

 

[bar1]

Hello!

 

[jimini]

Vuma Villages down again.

 

[ThinkCars]

Vuma Aerial / Vuma Villages is down again

 

[bar1]

Bye!