Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

2006-06-17 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I used very raw estimation (which is not well correct but dont make too much of errors) - to remive 1 KW out of building, yiou spend extra 1 KW. But anyway, 450,000 servers have a great power consumption - you can use river or a lake to cool them, but you still need 45,000 KW of power to make

Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

2006-06-17 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Mecahnical work converts to heat in the very end. Not _mostly 100%_ but _absolutely 100%_. Except if it is cell station which inducts energy into the radio wawes, and minus some light coming out of the building (which removes energy as well). - Original Message - From: David Lesher

Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

2006-06-16 Thread Alexei Roudnev
450,000 * 100 WT (power itself) Cooling - I donot know, but I should estimate it as extra 70% of consumed power. So, 450,000 * 0.2KWT = 90,000KWT. - Original Message - From: chuck goolsbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 10:47 AM Subject: Re: WSJ:

Re: Black Frog - the botnets keep coming

2006-05-30 Thread Alexei Roudnev
and they will exist in 201x. Just as mountain lionss do exists in Bay Area (and sometimes can eat your favorite cat...) - Original Message - From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Fergie [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Black Frog - the botnets keep coming

2006-05-29 Thread Alexei Roudnev
You have not other chance than to accept it - itr is real life. Period. - Original Message - From: Fergie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 2:59 PM Subject: Re: Black Frog - the botnets keep

Re: Black Frog - the botnets keep coming

2006-05-27 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Internet IS a wild west. You should live with it. It will never be _quet, dead american's residential area, where dogs do not bark and kids do not play themself on streets in age of 8 (normal dogs bark, and normal kids often play themself when they are 8)_. It is the whole WORLD, not one

Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

2006-04-12 Thread Alexei Roudnev
PROTECTED] To: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; John Dupuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:29 AM Subject: Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism law professor I'd really suggest that readers confirm this claim (that intentional sending

Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

2006-04-11 Thread Alexei Roudnev
It's legal to have broken NTP server in ANY country, and it's legal in most (by number) countries to send counter-attack (except USA as usual, where lawyers want to get their money and so do not allow people to self-defence). So, it can be a GOOD prtactice in reality. But, of course, not in USA.

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

2006-03-29 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I use snmpstatd - snmpstat.sf.net . - Original Message - From: Ray Burkholder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Ashe Canvar' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 4:47 PM Subject: RE: Backbone Monitoring Tools A few more comments. I found a link to snmp

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

2006-03-29 Thread Alexei Roudnev
PROTECTED] To: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ray Burkholder [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Ashe Canvar' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:09 AM Subject: Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Alexei Roudnev wrote: I use snmpstatd - snmpstat.sf.net

Re: a plea re: shim6

2006-03-06 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I love long discussion about dead cow (shim6). The early we forget about this dumb idea the better. - Original Message - From: Michael Loftis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 2:34 PM Subject: Re: a plea re: shim6 --On March 1, 2006 12:08:21 PM

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's face it, IPv6 is close enough to IPv4 that any attempt to put a price on IPv4 addresses will simply cause a massive migration to free and plentiful IPv6 addresses. You assume that there will be a source of free and plentiful IPv6 addresses. Why

Re: protocols that don't meet the need...

2006-02-16 Thread Alexei Roudnev
How do you count # of networks? 8M means - 8M of independent, multihomed companies. What is the reson to expect so many? Don't forget that today's number of networks is multiplied few times because you (foten) need to get more than 1 allocation. And what is a problem with 8M networks in next 8

Re: protocols that don't meet the need...

2006-02-15 Thread Alexei Roudnev
So what? They are good for the customers, and then, scaling problems are minor (esp. if you count on decreasing of # of allocations per company). PI space for multihoming and AS number growth is a bad thing for scaling

Re: Is my router owned? How would I know?

2006-01-14 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I use CCR (Cisco COnfiguration Repository, part of snmpstat project) and have change reports daily, + have syslog reports hourly. The same (osiris ) with hosts, btw. - Original Message - From: Rob Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NANOG nanog@merit.edu Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:19

Re: Is my router owned? How would I know?

2006-01-14 Thread Alexei Roudnev
http://snmpstat.sourceforge.net/CCR-config.htm - Original Message - From: Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jared Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: NANOG nanog@merit.edu Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Is my router owned? How would I know? Configuration Change

Re: Is my router owned? How would I know?

2006-01-14 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Some Cisco IOS'es have numerous bugs, related to SNMP (I watched few cases, when all Cisco's 72xx lost configuration becuase of receivbing something bogus), so SNMP should be filtered out from public internet. - Original Message - From: Mikael Abrahamsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NANOG

Re: a record?

2005-11-20 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Are you sure? ?? statistics shows me opposite. There are people actively scanning for any open ports running any protocol, without a SPECIFIC interest in your computer. I mean - for ANY. Pretty easy to check - set up access liost with 'log' for 2 ports - port 22 and port 63023, and show us

Re: a record?

2005-11-19 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I said many times - just use non standard port. Number of hackerts who discover this port wil decrease approx 10,000 times, to almost 0 (number). (Of course, except if you are a bank). Other approach exists as well - SecureID on firewall. Login to firewall, authenticate, and have dynamic access

Re: a record?

2005-11-19 Thread Alexei Roudnev
: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 7:02 PM Subject: Re: a record? On 11/20/05, Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other approach exists as well - SecureID

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-27 Thread Alexei Roudnev
seconds. T1 wil not be suitable for full routing of course, so what? Just agaion - there are many tricks todo things right, out of theoretics of IPv6 commitees. - Original Message - From: Blaine Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lincoln Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-26 Thread Alexei Roudnev
- it will be crearted easily. Today we eed 160,000 routes - and it works (line cards,m software, etc - it DO WORK). - Original Message - From: Lincoln Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Daniel Senie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 2:42 AM

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-25 Thread Alexei Roudnev
this fragility. Rubens On 10/24/05, Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One question - which percent of routing table of any particular router is REALLY used, say, during 1 week? I have a strong impression, that answer wil not be more than 20% even in biggerst backbones

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
It is not true. Many tier-2 ISP specializes in very ghigh quality Internet access, so mnasking problems of big ISP (who in reality never can provide high quality Internet at all). Good example - Internap. So, it is not about tier-1 vs tier-2, it is about ISP specialized on cheap acvcess and ISP

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
One question - which percent of routing table of any particular router is REALLY used, say, during 1 week? I have a strong impression, that answer wil not be more than 20% even in biggerst backbones, and will be (more likely) below 1% in the rest of the world. Which makes a hige space for

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Randy; we are living on Earth with small size (only 6,000 km in radius), so we will never see unlimited grouth in multihomed networks. It is not a problem. We are not building Internet for the whole universe. Good old Moore can deal with our planet very well. I repeated many times - IPv6 idea of

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
We do not think, that _it wil be IPv6_. IPv6 is a good example of _second_ system, and do not looks as _succesfull_ for now. And it is not definitely _LAST PROTOCOL_. It _can be_ IPv6, true. But it can be other protocol (or just workaround for IPv4, as we had CIDR and CLASSLESS) instead. -

Re: What happen in Russia?

2005-09-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Fixed already. There was cable ct bteween Moscow and St. Petersburg. - Original Message - From: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:35 AM Subject: What happen in Russia? What is wrong with Internet in Russia? Looks

Re: What happen in Russia?

2005-09-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
of National Investigations. The Statesman says that with the network down the running of the country will be a 'Herculean task'. Frank - Original Message - From: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:35 AM Subject: What happen in Russia

Re: Technical contact at Cogent

2005-09-09 Thread Alexei Roudnev
They are 'cogentco.com' . - Original Message - From: Tao Wan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 2:08 PM Subject: Technical contact at Cogent Can someone from Cogent or with a technical contact there (other than [EMAIL PROTECTED]) contact me

Re: DARPA and the network

2005-09-06 Thread Alexei Roudnev
This in reality protects from EVERYTHING! In theory - not, but in reality - no exploits exists at all (except DDOS exploints, of course) for such systems. - Original Message - From: Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 2:43 AM Subject:

Re: KVM over IP suggestions?

2005-08-23 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Things you must pay attention to: (1) IP KVM should not use client software - good switches uses VNC and can work via WEB. The same with authentication. (2) If you connect IP KVM to normal KVM, check if they are well compatible in suich things as: - monitor recognition on KVM; - switching ports

Re: KVM over IP suggestions?

2005-08-23 Thread Alexei Roudnev
DELL's DRAC-III is waste of money. DELL's DRAC-IV is a very good thing, and I find it replacing al consoles around (it have embedded monitoring with e-mail and SNMP alerts; have VNC based console servcie with perfect /not ideal, through/ mouse syncronisation, haVE VIRTUAL cd (SLOW, BUT WORKING)

Re: KVM over IP suggestions?

2005-08-22 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Not a switch, but if you use DELL 2850 , 1850 and other _modern_ DELL xx8x servers, DRAC-IV cards provides very good IP-KVM functionality. (Older DRAC-III cards, used in 1650, are just a piece of junk). - Original Message - From: Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org To: Drew Weaver [EMAIL

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread Alexei Roudnev
. IPv6 addressed problem which do note exists in reality. - Original Message - From: Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: NANOG nanog@merit.edu; Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 11:12 PM Subject: Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread Alexei Roudnev
To: Christopher L. Morrow Cc: Alexei Roudnev ; NANOG ; Brad Knowles Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 1:02 AM Subject: Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Christopher L. Morrow wrote: randy already asked for a kibosh on the lunacy here... I agree, it'd be nice, but... On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Alexei Roudnev wrote

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread Alexei Roudnev
with constant renumbering they proposed to use. Just wait 2 - 10 years and you will see). - Original Message - From: Dave Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Syed Junaid Farooqi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: NANOG nanog@merit.edu

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-08 Thread Alexei Roudnev
. - Original Message - From: Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andre Oppermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: NANOG list nanog@merit.edu; Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 8:11 AM Subject: Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 On 2005-07-07, at 10:23

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-08 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Message - From: Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 1:23 PM Subject: Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Is it a pproblem keeping 500,000 routess in core routers? Of course, it is not (it was in 1996, but it is not in 2005

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-08 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Moreover, if you are not multihomned, you can be aggregated. If you became multihome - yes, you take a slot; how many entities in the world should be multihomed? - Original Message - From: Kuhtz, Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-08 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Message - From: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NANOG nanog@merit.edu Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 1:03 AM Subject: Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 At 12:51 AM -0700 2005-07-08, Alexei Roudnev wrote: Who need this complexity? What's wrong with old good _routing rotocol_ approach

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-07 Thread Alexei Roudnev
is terrible. IPSec - compare SSH and IPSec. Compare IPSec and PPTP. No, IPSec is extremely bad thing. - Original Message - From: David Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Daniel Golding [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Scott McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu Sent

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-07 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Message - From: Mohacsi Janos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Daniel Golding [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Scott McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 1:08 AM Subject: Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 On Wed, 6

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Alexei Roudnev
IPv6 is an excellent example of _second system_ (do you remember book, written by Brooks many years ago?) Happu engineers put all their crazy ideas together into the second version of first 9succesfull) thing, and they wonder why it do not work properly. OS/360 is one example, IPv6 will be

Re: Email peering

2005-06-19 Thread Alexei Roudnev
My e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I send it when I am on DSL with EthLink (and thru Earthlink SMTP). And it is 100% valid situation. - Original Message - From: John Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 12:25 AM Subject:

Re: OT: NOC Display's

2005-06-04 Thread Alexei Roudnev
(I do not feel it as off-topic, btw). Q. - what really are you going to see on this projected screen? I saw very , very few systems and screens, which was really interesting for the big screen. Most 'World map, colored icons, fancy lines' views are 99% useless (many reasons). Big screen is

Few notices about Moscow, M9-IX, and last outage

2005-05-28 Thread Alexei Roudnev
1) M9 have UPS power for a few days. BUT - it is 60V DC power. Only a very few routers or switches are able to use it. 2) Power outages in Moscow data centers are very rare event, because most have 2 - 3 different power inputs. 24 May failure was caused mainly by operator's error, who

Re: More on Moscow power failure( was RE: Moscow: global power outage)

2005-05-28 Thread Alexei Roudnev
RIPN and Relcom was not affected, except their M9 colocations. They had, in theory, backup connectivity thru another node, but I am not sure, if it really worked or not. - Original Message - From: Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Saturday, May

Re: soBGP deployment

2005-05-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I agree with Tony. No need to overcomplicate a problem. Today, more and more ISP verify routing, using prefixes or (less reliable) AS--es, taking them from different sources. If you be able to add, in small increments, certified information into this routes, OR create external source of such

Re: soBGP deployment

2005-05-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Yes, corect - registry is as accurate as it used for the routing decisions. The more it is used, the better is feedback and the faster it will fix unavoidable errors. No one registry can be accurate until it is used for every day operations. - Original Message - From: Florian Weimer

Microsoft broke MTU discovery by last security pathces??

2005-05-17 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Do you have amny information about last Microsoft problems with security patches? We can see, how one of last updates broke MTU discovery (not totally, but it restricts number of discovered pathes so servers tsop working in a few days). And, amazingly, no one published this problem.

Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

2005-05-16 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Hosman' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Joe Loiacono' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Alexei Roudnev' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 5:41 AM Subject: Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Alexei Roudnev wrote: What I can't

Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

2005-05-13 Thread Alexei Roudnev
So imagine a residential area all pulling digital video over wireless. Sound familiar? Ironically close to TV! (yet so different) What I can't understand is why multicast hasn't just gone gangbusters into use yet. I see it as a really pent-up capability that, in light of Because multicast

Re: ACL Monitoring

2005-05-13 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Other is CCR (Cisco Configuration Repository), derived from here: snmpstat.sf.net - Original Message - From: joshua sahala [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 2:16 PM Subject: Re: ACL Monitoring On (12/05/05 17:14), Paul Ryan wrote: All - I am

Re: ACL Monitoring

2005-05-13 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Used in CCR, and adapted for Cisco IOS Cisco Catos Pix OS Cisco VPN 3000 os Really nice thing. - Original Message - From: Glynn Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 3:39 PM Subject: RE: ACL Monitoring If you anticipate doing a lot of

Re: Subject : RE: ACL Monitoring

2005-05-13 Thread Alexei Roudnev
It's all done in CCR. It encrypts passwords (allowing you to have a few password groups, all WEB configurable), and uses passphrases + 3DES or public/private key encryption (or just you can enter logi and password from the web). idea is simple - operators have WEB access and know passphrase, but

Re: Internet attack called broad and long lasting

2005-05-12 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Alexei Roudnev wrote: O, my god. Primitive hack, primitive ssh exploit I watched it all 6 years ago, bnothing changed since this. It is _minor_ incident, in reality. Primitive I can understand, but _minor_? First, I don't really see why an attack should be estimated by the tool

Re: Internet attack called broad and long lasting

2005-05-12 Thread Alexei Roudnev
*Your* boxes may be hardened beyond all belief and plausibility, but you're *STILL* screwed if some teenaged kid on another continent has more effective control of the router at the other end of your OC-48 than the NOC monkey you call when things get wonky It is mostly fantasy. DNS

Re: Internet attack called broad and long lasting

2005-05-12 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I agree. But I saw, how hackers intruded into XXX agency (USA's, I mean) 6 years ago. Cisco sources never was a great secret Then you shouldn't be talking about it. I mean - such things was common even 6 years ago. There was (always) some level of rooted servers, some level of teen

Re: Internet attack called broad and long lasting

2005-05-11 Thread Alexei Roudnev
O, my god. Primitive hack, primitive ssh exploit I watched it all 6 years ago, bnothing changed since this. It is _minor_ incident, in reality. - Original Message - From: Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 10:32 PM Subject: NYT: Internet

Re: Port 25 - Blacklash

2005-04-27 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Hmm, the onses who block everything and cut wires off send 0 spam. So what? - Original Message - From: Daniel Golding [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hank Nussbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Adam Jacob Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Nanog Mailing list nanog@merit.edu Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 2:50 PM

Re: ICMP Vulnerability

2005-04-13 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Too much noice on too small problem. The only use of this - BOT wars in IRC world (mopre likely, with a very low success rate). - Original Message - From: Alex Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Hannigan, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@merit.edu;

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-30 Thread Alexei Roudnev
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:36:19 -0600, Chris Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once upon a time, Eric A. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Do you also block NNTP so that customers have to use your servers? Change that to SMTP and you'll get a bunch of yes answers. Why is one right and the

Re: public accessible snmp devices?

2005-03-07 Thread Alexei Roudnev
with 0 counters). - Original Message - From: Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim Popovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:18 AM Subject: Re: public accessible snmp devices? Jim Popovitch wrote

Re: public accessible snmp devices?

2005-03-07 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Cisco drops SNMP requests but not return '0', I saw it (dropped requests because of _busy_) many times. - Original Message - From: Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim Popovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu Sent: Sunday

Re: public accessible snmp devices?

2005-03-06 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Hmm, good idea. I add my voice to this question. But, btw, SNMP implementations are extremely buggy. Last 2 examples from my experience (with snmpstat system): - I found Cisco which have packet countters (on interface) _decreased_ instead of _increased_ (but octet counters are _increased_); - I

Re: Gtld transfer process

2005-01-18 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Problem - you are talking about changing registrar, but in reality you describe changing of domain owner. Why (what for) is it allowed to transfer from one registrar to another with changing NS records and other owner information? Why don't separate this 2 events - changing registrar, and

Re: panix.com hijacked (VeriSign refuses to help)

2005-01-16 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I addition, there is a good rule for such situations: - first, return everything to _previous_ state; - having it fixed in previous state, allow time for laywers, disputes and so on to resolve a problem. It makes VeriSign position very strange (of course, it is dumb clueless behemot as it was

Re: panix.com hijacked (VeriSign refuses to help)

2005-01-16 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I addition, there is a good rule for such situations: - first, return everything to _previous_ state; - having it fixed in previous state, allow time for laywers, disputes and so on to resolve a problem. agreed. but then proverbially, common sense isn't. What happen if someone

Re: The entire mechanism is Wrong!

2005-01-16 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Joe Maimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or perhaps do you mean previous owners can call in a stop order or dispute the transfer unilaterally within X days of occurence, much like it works for many REAL money transactions? That makes considerable sense. You should be able to call in, say

Re: panix.com recovery in progress

2005-01-16 Thread Alexei Roudnev
There is more sertious problem here. I can image 2 kinds of transfer: - (1) domain is transferred WITHOUT CHANGES to the new registrar. Notice - WITHOUT CHANGES. New registrar should not change diomain without explicit order from owner. - (2) Domain is expired and, after reasonable HOLD period,

Re: IBGP Question --- Router Reflector or iBGP Mesh

2005-01-12 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Are you sure? RR should just distribute routes. RR do not make any route decisions, and (btw) iBGP do not make route decisions - they are mostly based on IGP routing. All iBGP + RR are doing is: - tie external routes to internal IP; - distribute this information using iBGP mesh, RR's etc. -

Re: IBGP Question --- Router Reflector or iBGP Mesh

2005-01-12 Thread Alexei Roudnev
strong as it seems initially. You can always add direct iBGP connections between 2 RR clients, if they have direct IP connection and you suspect suboptimal routing thru RR's. If we want to continue (I am not 100% sure in this problem), let's drow pictures first. On 12-jan-05, at 9:06, Alexei

Re: Broken PMTUD for . + TLD servers, was: Re: Smallest Transit MTU

2005-01-10 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I receive DNS responses 500 bytes every day (reported by PIX firewall). So it is an issue, no matter wgat is recomended in RFC. - Original Message - From: Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 3:08 PM Subject: Re: Broken PMTUD for . + TLD

Re: Broken PMTUD for . + TLD servers, was: Re: Smallest Transit MTU

2005-01-10 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Yes, it is correct. It is a cisco pix, right? Maybe just replacing the thing with a 1U openbsd box will work wonders. A PIX firewall can handle EDNS fine. It just has to be told what is the maximum EDNS size being advertised by the internal clients. The defaults assume there is no

Re: minimum requirements for a full bgp feed

2005-01-03 Thread Alexei Roudnev
36xx or 72xx Old != bad . All you need is MEMORY = = 256 Mb. - Original 36xx, 72xx Message - From: Erik Amundson To: Mark Bojara ; nanog@merit.edu Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 6:27 AM Subject: RE: minimum requirements for a full bgp feed Well,

Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing

2004-12-20 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Please,do not compare connections thru PNAT (DSL + Linksys) with dialup. So, this all is incorrect - DSL providers are (in 90% cases) protected from the very beginning by hardware (even if they never hear word FIREWALL) - because of PNAT. - Original Message - From: Suresh

Re: (newbie) BGP For Dummies?

2004-12-12 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I recommend such thing (remembering, how we learned BGP ourself many years ago, and then participated in edition of the book about BGP). But it all depends of complexity. 2 uplink multihome site - simple case; 100 node backbone with reflectors and private AS-es - another one. On Fri,

Re: (newbie) BGP For Dummies?

2004-12-12 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Here is it: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a00800c95bb.shtml Very good document.

Re: (newbie) BGP For Dummies?

2004-12-11 Thread Alexei Roudnev
There was excellent docuent on Cisco (better than book). I can search for it, if you want. Btw, BGP is not for dummies, too many possible consequencies of config errors are possible. - Original Message - From: David E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: using sniffer on high-bandwidth pipes

2004-12-07 Thread Alexei Roudnev
We are using FreeBSD 4.x on 1Gbit Ethernet (for snifferring). Never had a problems (but I should not garantee 100% snifferring on 400,000pps). In reality, correct, pps is important, bandwidth is not important. If traffic is VoIP, it's a problem; if it is 90% WEB, it's an easy task. -

Re: Intelligent Automation of network tasks

2004-12-07 Thread Alexei Roudnev
On Cisco it is (generation of config update) veryu complicated (in general case) task. But we always automated every day config changes (acccess lists, as path lists, route maps, interfaces except some special cases, and so on). perl + 'expect+ 'conf net' was key elements. - Original

Re: Enterprise syslog management and alert generation.

2004-12-07 Thread Alexei Roudnev
In such products, only 20% value is in engine; 80% are in rules, because I can not wrire rules myself - I have not event until it happen, and I can not filetr out noice until it happen. We use a few syslog analyzers (using syslog-ng as a transport), some with simple logcheck, other with database

Re: How to Blocking VoIP ( H.323) ?

2004-11-13 Thread Alexei Roudnev
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: If someone want to be insane - allow him to do it; what's the problem? Is this question coming from Panamian government? -:) when you have to comply with some insane gov't ruling at penalty of legal (possibly felony type actions) you

Re: How to Blocking VoIP ( H.323) ?

2004-11-13 Thread Alexei Roudnev
your filters. - Original Message - From: Robert Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NANOG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 11:12 AM Subject: Re: How to Blocking VoIP ( H.323) ? On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:46:15 -0800 From

Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?

2004-11-13 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Btw - using Solaris + no_stack_exec + old ssl - appear to be 100% secure from all random attacks (it can be broken - in theory, see articles from 'Solar designer' - but it is absolutely inpractical for hacking). I watched such system (absolutely not patched, with apache and openssl, untouched

Re: How to Blocking VoIP ( H.323) ?

2004-11-13 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Below, please: s/such/VoIP filtering/ and it will be true. It do not depends of alghoritm you are using. Moreover, if you deploy such service, someone else can deploy VoIP which uses https tunnel to it, and you will not have any chances than to block total https traffic. It (such thing) can

Re: How to Blocking VoIP ( H.323) ?

2004-11-12 Thread Alexei Roudnev
If someone want to be insane - allow him to do it; what's the problem? Is this question coming from Panamian government? -:) This is internet - if I have 10 Mbit connection and 100msec latency, I can use it for Voice, no way to block me; if it is 19200bits/second and 2 second latency, I can

Re: How to Blocking VoIP ( H.323) ?

2004-11-12 Thread Alexei Roudnev
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:38:00 -0800 From: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Irwin Lazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Joe Shen [EMAIL PROTECTED], NANOG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How

Re: How to Blocking VoIP ( H.323) ?

2004-11-11 Thread Alexei Roudnev
SkyPE was designed to work thru any firewalls (except, of course, if you block all outbound connections and require using HTTP proxy) -:). - Original Message - From: Irwin Lazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joe Shen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: NANOG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11,

Re: How to Blocking VoIP ( H.323) ?

2004-11-11 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Hmm - just introduce some jitter into your network, and add random delay to the short packets - and no VoIP in your company -:). Other way - block ALL outbound connections (including DNS and HTTPS) and require using proxy, or better do not allow external IP addresses. -:) (I should not be very

Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-11-01 Thread Alexei Roudnev
as it has to code password in login script. Is there any tool to get configuration file from read-only SNMP cumminity? Joe --- Jon Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Checkout http://perfparse.sourceforge.net/ lets you graph the data from the nagios plugins... --- Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL

Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-11-01 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Nagios is one of the best systems (and widely used). CCR is part of snmpstat (but separate installation tar), see http://snmpstat.sf.net - Original Message - From: J Sparacio To: Joe Shen Cc: Alexei Roudnev ; Jon Lyons ; Andy Dills ; Charlie Khanna - NextWeb

Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-11-01 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/snmpstat and docs are here http://snmpstat.sourceforge.net/CCR-config.htm - Original Message - From: Joe Shen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jon Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Andy Dills [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Charlie Khanna

Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-10-30 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Nothing all in one place, that I'm aware of. But with a little work, you snmpstat have hardcoded set of monitored parameters, but creates all graphs anb links automartically, including customer-only view of customer's links, link to the database record about this link, and link to the

Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-10-29 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I use http://snmpstat.sf.net for bandwidth, links monityoring, router's cpu usage, etc etc; and http://cricket.sourceforge.net/ for additional parameters. First (developed in Moscow for few ISP) monitors abd adapted here for Enterprise (and shows everuything on the single scree, with

Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-10-29 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I generated config for 'snmpstatd' automatically, from user;'s database (it was simple; all I need was Router, Interface, User-name, number for this user, priority). For automated config backups, I use CCR (fully web based Cisco configuration - CVS system). - Original Message - From:

Re: why upload with adsl is faster than 100M ethernet ?

2004-10-15 Thread Alexei Roudnev
CAR does not work like a regular link; no way. It works like a link with 0 buffer size. Problem is that CAR drops packets which override bandwidth, do not query them (and do not prioritize them), so it use TCP adaptation to the packet drop, not to the delay/rtt. This thing works fine with drop

Re: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS

2004-10-10 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Pardon for my possibly ill informed interjection. I was under the impression that the current wind was blowing towards filtering outbound It is not true, as I know; moreover, the day when I receive such proposal from my ISP will be my last day with this ISP, so it will be for many others.

Re: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS

2004-10-09 Thread Alexei Roudnev
If my ISP block port 25, I'll change ISP next day. But if it will be _configurable_ (blocked by default, but I can change setting by simple openimng web page and select checkbox) - why not. - Original Message - From: Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

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