European ISP enables IPv6 for all?

2007-12-17 Thread Sean Siler
In a recent Slashdot article (http://slashdot.org/articles/07/12/17/1451230.shtml) discussing IPv6, someone left a comment the read, in part One of the largest IPSs (sic) in Europe turned on IPv6 to all 8 million users this week. They've done the right thing and made it opt-in for now, their

Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?

2007-12-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/17 10:01, Sean Siler wrote: Does anyone know which ISP the poster is talking about? Is there any truth to this at all? http://www.iliad.fr/presse/2007/CP_IPv6_121207.pdf

RE: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?

2007-12-17 Thread Sean Siler
Thanks to all for your private replies - I have the answer now. (It appears to be Free.fr, if you are interested.) http://www.iliad.fr/en/presse/2007/CP_IPv6_121207_eng.pdf Sean Sean Siler|IPv6 Program Manager -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Looking for generic OID to transmit free-form text in an SNMP trap

2007-12-17 Thread Frank Bulk
I'm looking to do some custom monitoring of a system and the contracted NOC only supports pings, SNMP queries, and SNMP traps. My first choice was to send an e-mail and have their system ingest it, but that's not possible, and the first two aren't an option, which means I'm looking to send them

Cogent's having peering problems with AOL again

2007-12-17 Thread CARL . P . HIRSCH
Cogent's again seeing congestion at their hand-off to ATDN.net. Traceroutes to their mailservers show packet loss and mail into AOL is dying a few packets into the conversation. Cogent says they're waiting on a call back from AOL, no ETR provided. Carl Hirsch

Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?

2007-12-17 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Dec 17, 2007 10:29 AM, Sean Siler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all for your private replies - I have the answer now. (It appears to be Free.fr, if you are interested.) http://www.iliad.fr/en/presse/2007/CP_IPv6_121207_eng.pdf I'm glad they managed to get in all the hype for v6

Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?

2007-12-17 Thread Randy Bush
Furthermore, IPv6 simplifies the configuration of devices when connected to the Internet. It improves data security and supports quality of services. how does it improve data security exactly? attackers are daunted by the smoke and mirrors? sigh this stuff is hard enough to roll without the

Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?

2007-12-17 Thread Alain Durand
Apparently, from what I have gathered from other french people, Free has rolled out a variation of 6to4 using their own prefix instead of the well known 2002::/16. As they control their home gateway, this was fairly easy for them to do and did not require much core infrastructure change. The

Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?

2007-12-17 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:29:21 -0800 Christopher Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how does it improve data security exactly? Back in 1994, it was expected to be true because v6 would mandate IPsec, and v6 would be deployed long before the installed base of v4 machines would be upgraded to IPsec.

Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?

2007-12-17 Thread Danny McPherson
On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:37 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:29:21 -0800 Christopher Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how does it improve data security exactly? Back in 1994, it was expected to be true because v6 would mandate IPsec, and v6 would be deployed long before

Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?

2007-12-17 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [re: v6 mythos] In a slightly more realistic vein, a huge address space makes life harder for scanning worms. As Angelos Keromytis, Bill Cheswick, and I have pointed out, harder is by no means

Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?

2007-12-17 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Dec 17, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Danny McPherson wrote: when client-side attacks seem to be more than sufficient. A self-selected group of victims really helps lower the reconnaissance opex, heh. ; --- Roland Dobbins

Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?

2007-12-17 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Dec 17, 2007 9:59 PM, Paul Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [re: v6 mythos] In a slightly more realistic vein, a huge address space makes life harder for scanning worms. As Angelos