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date: "2021-05-28T22:16:44Z"
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title: IPng arrives in Lille
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- /s/articles/2021/05/28/lille.html
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---
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I've been planning a network expansion for a while now. For the next few weeks,
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I will be in total geek-mode as I travel to several European cities to deploy
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AS50869 on a european ring. At the same time, my buddy Fred from
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[IP-Max](https://ip-max.net/) has been wanting to go to Amsterdam. IP-Max's
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[network](https://as25091.peeringdb.com/) is considerably larger than mine, but
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it just never clicked with the right set of circumstances for them to deploy
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in the Netherlands, until the stars aligned ...
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## Deployment
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{{< image width="300px" float="right" src="/assets/network/lille-civ1.png" alt="Lille CIV1" >}}
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After our adventure in [Amsterdam]({{< ref "2021-05-26-amsterdam" >}}), and
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after Fred and I both got negative PCR test results, we made our way down to
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Lille, France. There are two datacenters there where IP-Max has a presence,
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and they are very innovative ones. There's a specific trick with a block of
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frozen ice that allows for the facility cooling to run autonomously in case
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of a chiller or power failure. I got to see the storage of the icecube :)
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Now, because Fred is possibly even more enthusiastic about our eurotrip than
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I am, he insisted that I also put a machine here in Lille, even though
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originally it was meant to be only Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris and Zurich.
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After some tough negotiations, I reluctantly agreed. While I did not have a
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Supermicro, I did have some freshly procured Dell R610s, the old machines
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from Coloclue AS8283, which they have recently upgraded to newer routers.
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I installed the pair at EUNetworks for Coloclue, and another team mate
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installed the pair at DCG/NorthC, after which four of these units were left
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written off and available. And I would not be me, if I were not to accept
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some perfectly valuable second hand vintage Dells :-)
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So the plan is: we drop an R610 here now, and I ship a replacement _standard
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issue_ Supermicro + APU3d3/WiFi later.
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### Connectivity
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{{< image width="300px" float="right" src="/assets/network/frggh0-rack.png" alt="Lille Rack" >}}
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By now I'm getting pretty good ad creating L2VPN EoMPLS circuits, so I
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created one for myself from the Amsterdam router **er01.ams01.ip-max.net**
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to the one here at **er01.lil01.ip-max.net**. The one here is a Cisco
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ASR9006, a respectable machine. In the second point of presence, in
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the neighboring town of Anzin, there is an ASR9010 called **er01.lil02.ip-max.net**
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but that one is tucked away in a telco room reserved for deities, not
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in the normal serverroom which is available for _plebs_ like me.
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The inbound span goes from Amsterdam through Antwerp (Belgium) and Brussels
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and finally landing in Anzin, and from there it's dark fiber to this rack.
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I realised that because I use [UN/LOCODE](https://unece.org/trade/cefact/unlocode-code-list-country-and-territory)
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that I should be precise in my naming. The town here is a suburb of Lille,
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the country's fourth biggest city after Paris, Marseille and Lyon. The
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town itself is called Sainghin-en-Mélantois, which resolves to
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**FR GGH** and thus my temporary Dell R610 will be called **frggh0.ipng.ch**.
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Fred happened to have a spare Intel X552 in his bag, so I commandeered it and
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gave the machine two legs of Tengig, one going to the ASR9006 and the other
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going the Nexus3064PQ under it. Soon, we will connect here to the local
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internet exchange [Lillix](https://www.lillix.fr/membres/). There are very
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few non-locals, let alone international members at LilleIX, but considering
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larger clubs like Zayo require two or more french peering points, this will
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be my ticket to some pretty good peers. Nice!
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The idea is that one VLL lands me on Amsterdam, and the other will eventually
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land me on Paris at Telehouse TH2. But that will be after the weekend, as
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first we need to spend some quality time exploring Lille and recreating the
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_grignotage_ (English: nibbling) that must be done in the north of France.
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## The results
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As always on the IP-Max network, they speak for themselves. During daytime,
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the connectivity from my basement to Frankfurt is at 6.7ms, to Amsterdam
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it's 13ms and all the way to Lille it's 20.3ms, with throughputs that
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are, let's just say, _line rate_ **booyah**!
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```
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pim@chumbucket:~$ traceroute frggh0.ipng.ch
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traceroute to frggh0.ipng.ch (194.1.163.34), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
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1 chbtl1.ipng.ch (194.1.163.67) 0.246 ms 0.214 ms 0.135 ms
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2 chgtg0.ipng.ch (194.1.163.19) 0.513 ms 0.478 ms 0.445 ms
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3 chrma0.ipng.ch (194.1.163.8) 0.633 ms 0.599 ms 0.658 ms
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4 defra0.ipng.ch (194.1.163.25) 6.808 ms 6.773 ms 6.740 ms
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5 nlams0.ipng.ch (194.1.163.27) 13.090 ms 13.057 ms 13.024 ms
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6 frggh0.ipng.ch (194.1.163.34) 20.370 ms 20.550 ms 20.473 ms
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pim@frggh0:~$ iperf3 -c chrma0.ipng.ch -P 10 -R
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...
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[SUM] 0.00-10.02 sec 8.84 GBytes 7.58 Gbits/sec 271 sender
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[SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 8.75 GBytes 7.52 Gbits/sec receiver
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pim@defra0:~$ iperf3 -P 10 -c frggh0.ipng.ch -R
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...
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[SUM] 0.00-10.02 sec 11.1 GBytes 9.54 Gbits/sec 292 sender
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[SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 11.1 GBytes 9.51 Gbits/sec receiver
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```
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After the weekend, we'll be driving on to Paris to complete the ring, after
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which I will have two different ways to traverse -- clockwise from
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Zurich to Geneva, Paris, Lille, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, or counterclockwise
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on the same ring. There will be 10Gbit between each of my routers in each
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direction. We do not compromise on quality, throughput or latency over here.
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I could not be happier with the service provided so far. Paris, here we come!!
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