RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Michel Py
Richard J. Sears wrote: I am looking at upgrading my current 7507 backbone routers. Each of my routers has dual RSP4s Keep in mind that dual RSP does _not_ mean load sharing; it's for redundancy, if you can get RPR+ to work the way you want that is. and I was thinking of upgrading them to

Re: updated root hints file

2004-01-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:44:42PM -0800, bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 54 lines which said: http://www.root-servers.org/ seems to only have news on I's ASN change, no mention of B or J or the anycast F/K/I's ... methinks this info should have a home on this site..

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread David Luyer
Michel Py wrote: My limited experience with the 7206 says that it might eventually be able to push _one_ gig from one PA to another, but not aggregate: say you have 4 or 5 OC3s aggregating into a GigE with some ACLs (which would run distributed on a 7500) I don't think that even the NPE-G1

Kinda' funny...

2004-01-30 Thread Michael Painter
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34919.html

Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today

2004-01-30 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 30-jan-04, at 7:20, Alexei Roudnev wrote: Second problem is directory structure. In Unix, when I configure IDS (osiris or Tripwire or Intact), I can just be sure, that 'bin' and 'etc' and 'sbin' and 'libexec' directories does not have any variable files - all non-static files are in /var

RE: Kinda' funny...

2004-01-30 Thread Aaron Thomas
Sorry, I don't see the funny in 1200 people losing their homes. Is there something else to the story that I am missing? Aaron -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Painter Sent: January 30, 2004 1:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

B.root-servers renumbering

2004-01-30 Thread John L Crain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Colleagues, This is to inform you about an IPv4 address change in b.root-servers.net. The old address is: 128.9.0.107 The new address is: 192.228.79.201 New Hints files can be found at: ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/db.cache

Re: Kinda' funny...

2004-01-30 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Aaron Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Michael Painter' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:13 PM Subject: RE: Kinda' funny... Sorry, I don't see the funny in 1200 people losing their homes. Is there something else to the story that I am

The Cidr Report

2004-01-30 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Jan 30 21:48:00 2004 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of an AS4637 (Reach) router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org/as4637 for a current version of this report. Recent Table

Re: An analysis.

2004-01-30 Thread Michael . Dillon
Which one of you guys took down the world? We have separate carriers for internet, ATM, and Phone Whenever you get simultaneous outages for multiple telecom services at the same time it's almost always due to a local issue like a major cable cut or a central office fire. Sounds like a SONET

reminder ipv4 allocation 83/8 (IANA to RIPE-NCC)

2004-01-30 Thread Christian Steger
hello there, i just want to remind you, that IANA has allocated an new block in november 2003 (83/8). the reason why i remind again here is, we (as8514) have received a block within that range (83.64/15 -- RIPE-NCC) in the end of 2003 and customers complains still sites in the state they

Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today

2004-01-30 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Actually IMO putting all their crap in their own dir is a feature rather than a bug. I really hate the way unix apps just put their stuff all over the place so it's an incredible pain to get rid of it again. Putting all crap in the working

Re: updated root hints file

2004-01-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:19:43PM -0500, Coppola, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 22 lines which said: In preparation for tomorrow morning's B-root IP change from 128.9.0.107 to 192.228.79.201 I notice trouble to reach the new server from many places. Here a machine connected

Re: updated root hints file

2004-01-30 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, bill wrote: Well the answer is yes it changed a little while ago, having searched for a link to post I cant find one, thats bad.. http://www.root-servers.org/ seems to only have news on I's ASN change, no mention of B or J or the anycast F/K/I's ... methinks

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Simon Hamilton-Wilkes
One more interesting feature - if you need a 4th GigE port, you can add the GigE I/O card which still uses none of the bus bandwidth points. The buses are fine for OC3 and below... Simon

Re: updated root hints file

2004-01-30 Thread bill
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:44:42PM -0800, bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 54 lines which said: http://www.root-servers.org/ seems to only have news on I's ASN change, no mention of B or J or the anycast F/K/I's ... methinks this info should have a home on this

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Jack.W.Parks
Does anyone have definitive speed results on the 3 built-in Gig ports on the NPE-G1? I know that they aren't attached to the PCI Buses, and don't consume bandwidth points, but all of that is mute. Can all three of the ports do line rate Gig? The Gig PA is limited to 400Mbps. I have seen posts

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread alex
Keep in mind, 72xx is still flow-based, so you need to count *both* shared fabric capacity (aka PCI buses) and capacity of NPE to establish flows (aka pps rate). NPE-G1 might probably route 3*GE, without any services and if all 3GE are in a single flow, but will melt down at a face of

Re: updated root hints file (fwd)

2004-01-30 Thread bill
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:39:40 -0500 To: bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: updated root hints file I thought the RSSAC site was www.root-servers.org. root-servers.org is -NOT- the rssac site. --bill

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Ryan
Do you get commission from Juniper? Matt. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 January 2004 16:51 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question Keep in mind, 72xx is still flow-based, so you need to count *both* shared

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread sthaug
Keep in mind, 72xx is still flow-based, so you need to count *both* shared fabric capacity (aka PCI buses) and capacity of NPE to establish flows (aka pps rate). Why do you say it is flow-based? You *do* use CEF, don't you? In which case 7200 with NPE-G1 is a prefix-based architecture, with

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread alex
Wow, that's quite an accusation. No, I don't use neither Cisco nor Juniper hardware in my network. For what its worth, 6500 with sup2 and better is also line-rate, at any mix of traffic, with any services. Happy now? Alex Pilosov| DSL, Colocation, Hosting Services President |

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread alex
Keep in mind, 72xx is still flow-based, so you need to count *both* shared fabric capacity (aka PCI buses) and capacity of NPE to establish flows (aka pps rate). Why do you say it is flow-based? You *do* use CEF, don't you? In which case 7200 with NPE-G1 is a prefix-based architecture,

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Rubens Kuhl Jr.
* The 7206VXR prior to the NPE-G1 could only do around 560Mbps per bus typically, due to PCI limitations. Which usually was not a problem with i-mix traffic or ddos-traffic, because pps limitation would hit sooner. * Compiled ACLs on 12.2S perform very well on NPE-G1s. I saw no

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Petri Helenius
Matt Ryan wrote: Do you get commission from Juniper? Where do I get my comission then? I´ve described inferior product as such many times and so far I haven´t seen deposits from vendors in my bank account? !!OT warning!! Pete Matt. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today

2004-01-30 Thread Scott Francis
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:37:09PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been wondering lately, after about 10 years of email worms spreading in exactly the same manner with every incarnation ... why do you think people haven't learned not to open

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Ryan
It's not the Cisco bashing I was referring to, but the all singing all dancing Juniper performance claim. Matt. -Original Message- From: Petri Helenius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 January 2004 17:43 To: Matt Ryan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

Re: B.root-servers renumbering

2004-01-30 Thread Daniel Kerr
On Jan 30, 2004, at 4:26 AM, John L Crain wrote: snip New Hints files can be found at: ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/db.cache ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.cache ftp://rs.ineternic.net/domain/named.root [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ whois ineternic.net Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Alex Yuriev
It's not the Cisco bashing I was referring to, but the all singing all dancing Juniper performance claim. That would not have anything to do with Juniper sucking the least? Alex

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Petri Helenius
Matt Ryan wrote: It's not the Cisco bashing I was referring to, but the all singing all dancing Juniper performance claim. If you feel differently, (and this might be a different list) you might want to back up your referring with some data. Pete

Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown

2004-01-30 Thread JC Dill
At 09:43 PM 1/29/2004, Brian Bruns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Properly implemented watermarking won't be affected by the recompression. It may not be as clear to the program as it would be if it was in its old format, but its still legible. That's *visible* watermarking, not invisible *digital*

Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown

2004-01-30 Thread Nicole
Yes, AOL has always been know for less than original image quality. But we are often having users getting no image. WIth the images show up as broken images (red x) in their browsers about 30% of the time. Optimized is one thing but optimzed to oblivion is very painful. Tracerouting to

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Ryan
The Juniper software is great, very stable under testing (for 2 weeks in the lab). But as with all routers there are pro's and con's and it also has some issues. What is unfortunate is that the poster runs (by their own admission) neither Cisco or Juniper in their network and yet make unfounded

Impending (mydoom) DOS attack

2004-01-30 Thread bcm
Is anyone taking any special precautions given the potential for a sudden increase in aggregate packets per second across your networks come Sunday afternoon when the original Mydoom virus enters into itsDOS phase? Does anyone know if the virus' assault will be slowed if it is unable to

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Michel Py
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: flow-based means router's performance is based on number of flows established, and first packet of each 'flow' is processed differently [slower] from all other within the flow, and things like nachi will kill it. That would be where the NPE-G1 would be better than

here are some postfix patterns i found useful today

2004-01-30 Thread Paul Vixie
what you do is, install postfix 2.0 or later, set header_checks to some filename (in your main.cf), and in that file, you put the following: /^Subject: Anti-Virus Notification/ REJECT av01 /^Subject: BANNED FILENAME/ REJECT av02 /^Subject: File blocked - ScanMail

Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack

2004-01-30 Thread Chris Behrens
I believe the only route to SCO comes via us, XO, to a customer of ours who provides bandwidth to SCO. We've been in contact with our customer and they have been in contact with SCO, discussing precautions we can take. I think we're relaying the results of those discussions to our major peers.

Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack

2004-01-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
Having looked for some information to educate myself and my employer, I will say a weakness right now is that there is limited info about this worm. I have yet to see any good information on how effective the attack might be, or what some basic prevention steps (eg filtering) might do to the

Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack

2004-01-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:18:05PM -0800, Donovan Hill wrote: I think we should help out SCO by creating new wildcard entries into our DNS servers that point *.sco.com to 127.0.0.1 as well as blackholing all SCO SWIPd IP Address Space. I'm going to be one of the last

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread jlewis
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Michel Py wrote: That would be where the NPE-G1 would be better than an RSP8; however Isn't it somewhat wrong to compare the NPE-G1 to any RSP since most of the packets, most of the time, are handled by the processors on the VIPs and never bother the RSP other than

Lack of Info (was Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack)

2004-01-30 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Leo Bicknell wrote: If anyone has any good analysis on the current worm (other than it attacks www.sco.com), that would be welcome. Yep, the information gap is pretty big on this one. Neither the anti-virus vendors nor the ex-Symantec guy at Homeland Security seems to be

Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack

2004-01-30 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Leo Bicknell wrote: Bruce Perens has said it far better than I ever could at http://perens.com/SCO/DOS/. Please read what he has to say. We (Open Source, ISPs, etc) must, MUST, come to SCO's defense on this one. I am doing what I can with my employer to do just that. I agree both with

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Cisco plainly admits that the GEIP tops out at around 400mbit/s, but it's based on the rather old VIP2-50. Anyone know if they plan to put out a more capable GEIP, perhaps based on the VIP6-80, which theoretically would double

Fw: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack

2004-01-30 Thread james
OK, enough ppl are asking so I will post this public, instead of just sending this to those who asked. Since I do not understand assembly or FORTH I cannot verify what this guy on the full disclosure list said so far no one on the list is commenting on this persons post. So I make NO claims

Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack

2004-01-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
Are there any reliable estimates as to the amount of infected hosts out there? Looking at my stats for email sent this week, I am seeing a 70:1 ratio for mydoom.a as compared to Swen.a (the next most prevalent virus). Perhaps if we had some rough #s to work with we could start to approximate

MyDoom statistics (was Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack)

2004-01-30 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote: Are there any reliable estimates as to the amount of infected hosts out there? Looking at my stats for email sent this week, I am seeing a 70:1 ratio for mydoom.a as compared to Swen.a (the next most prevalent virus). Perhaps if we had some rough #s to

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread matt
... That is of course, as opposed to Juniper, which is truly line-rate at any interface, with any services, at any composition of traffic. No. While I was at my former employer, we took our edge ACL into the Juniper POC lab, and verified that an M40 stuffed full of OC48 linecards could

Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack

2004-01-30 Thread Donovan Hill
On Friday 30 January 2004 04:39 pm, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:18:05PM -0800, Donovan Hill wrote: I think we should help out SCO by creating new wildcard entries into our DNS servers that point *.sco.com to 127.0.0.1 as well as blackholing all SCO

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Rubens Kuhl Jr.
No. While I was at my former employer, we took our edge ACL into the Juniper POC lab, and verified that an M40 stuffed full of OC48 linecards could sustain just over 85% of line rate with our edge ACL applied before sustaining packet loss; the POC lab engineers double checked and verified

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread David Luyer
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:29:41PM -0200, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote: * The 7206VXR prior to the NPE-G1 could only do around 560Mbps per bus typically, due to PCI limitations. Which usually was not a problem with i-mix traffic or ddos-traffic, because pps limitation would hit sooner.

Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown

2004-01-30 Thread webmaster
JC, I would encourage you to get more familiar with the HTTP 1.1 spec with regard to your claim of copyright infringement. I will summarize my interpretation of a part of it here. When someone provides HTTP content, they are agreeing to the protocols governing the transmission of that content,

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 03:51 AM 31/01/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep in mind, 72xx is still flow-based 72xx NPE-xxx is NOT flow-based -- unless you explicitly configure it to be. (i.e. disable CEF, enable flow switching). CEF is prefix-based switching - where all possible prefixes (routes/RIB) are already

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Michel Py
Michel Py wrote: That would be where the NPE-G1 would be better than an RSP8; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isn't it somewhat wrong to compare the NPE-G1 to any RSP since most of the packets, most of the time, are handled by the processors on the VIPs and never bother the

Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack

2004-01-30 Thread Phillip Grasso
I've implemented a means of distributing the www.sco.com/32 or any other DDoS destination network block around my own AS and blocking it by routing to null on the edge routers. no need to update heaps of routers at the edge and when the attack its over simple to restore connectivity to DDoS