Re: rack power question

2008-04-03 Thread Robert Boyle
At 03:50 PM 4/3/2008, Derek J. Balling wrote: So your theoretical maximum draw is NOT 1/2 the total... in a nicely populated chassis it will draw more than 1/2 the total and complain the whole time about it. That should probably have read in a well designed and fully populated chassis... I

Re: cooling door

2008-03-29 Thread Robert Boyle
At 02:11 PM 3/29/2008, Alex Pilosov wrote: Can someone please, pretty please with sugar on top, explain the point behind high power density? More equipment in your existing space means more revenue and more profit. Raw real estate is cheap (basically, nearly free). Increasing power density

RE: 10GE router resource

2008-03-26 Thread Robert Boyle
At 09:59 AM 3/26/2008, you wrote: Is there a multiport card out there on to which some of the forwarding responsibilities can be offloaded? Perhaps the CPU doesn't need to see every packet that arrives on the machine. Am I the only person who has heard of Google? It didn't take me long to

Re: data center loading (was:Re: rack power question)

2008-03-26 Thread Robert Boyle
At 10:15 AM 3/26/2008, Lamar Owen wrote: One thing I haven't seen discussed, though, is the other big issue with high-density equipment, and that is weight. Those raised floors have a weight limit. In our case, our floors, built out in the early 90's, have a 1500 lb per square inch point load

Re: 10GE router resource

2008-03-25 Thread Robert Boyle
At 09:44 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Chris Grundemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg has laid out a great bit of information and I would like to add just one possibility to the list of budget 10GE routers: Vyatta. According to a recent press release from that

Carrier Hotels in Chicago

2007-12-28 Thread Robert Boyle
Hello all, I located our new midwest datacenter site, but I'm going to need connectivity to Chicago. At which other middle of the country places should we connect? We will obviously connect back to our network in New York and Los Angeles, but I'm not familiar with other carrier hotels or

Re: South America Peering

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Boyle
At 07:39 PM 12/27/2007, AD wrote: hello, does anyone have any experience with peering in S. America? I am looking to move a lot of data between NewYork/LA and a few south american countries and looking for some ISPs that have reliable peering into those countries. Any recommendations

Re: L3 in NYC

2007-08-08 Thread Robert Boyle
At 10:10 PM 8/8/2007, you wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with Level 3 in New York ? We have circuits down, etc. An OC192 is down we have about 80 T1s down on the Broadwing/L3 network. -Robert Tellurian Networks - Global Hosting Solutions Since 1995 http://www.tellurian.com |

Re: Cisco CRS-1 vs Juniper 1600 vs Huawei NE5000E

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Boyle
At 02:17 AM 8/3/2007, you wrote: Hi,, group I need some help. Which equipment is better ( perfomance, availability, scalability, features, Support, and Price ($$$) ) ??? Some experience in the real life Dependent on your interface needs, if GigE, 10G, (40G 100G in the future)

Re: Seeking Comcast Contact: need to troubleshoot packet loss and/or asymmetric routing issue between Comcast Onvoy

2007-08-02 Thread Robert Boyle
At 09:30 AM 8/2/2007, Craig D. Rice wrote: For four months dozens of our users who are Comcast subscribers have had difficulty reaching St. Olaf College's and Carleton College's network services. We have worked through everything we can think of with our Onvoy (regional ISP) network

Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan

2007-07-26 Thread Robert Boyle
At 01:22 PM 7/26/2007, you wrote: Let us not forget that network vendors are now capitalising on the requirement to purchase expensive licensing for such features as native IPv6 routing and 6PE, on their mid to high end kit. I dont feel this sort of behaviour is helpful, I can understand

Re: History of the EPO (Emergency Power Off)

2007-07-25 Thread Robert Boyle
At 08:10 PM 7/25/2007, Sean Donelan wrote: Sometimes you need to revisit the rules. For example, for folks thought having automatic water sprinklers in data centers was a bad thing. Slowly folks have started to rethink it, and now automatic sprinklers are found in more data centers. I

Omaha, NE Carrier Hotels???

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Boyle
Omaha is right in the middle of the US and it seems to be a point on most carriers' national backbone maps. There has to be some type of carrier hotel there somehere, but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone provide insight on the 60 Hudson or One Wilshire or 111 8th or Westin of Omaha?

Re: DR plan template

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Boyle
At 02:22 PM 4/26/2007, Dennis Dayman wrote: Can anyone point me to or send me a copy of a standard disaster recovery plan. Many resources including a template are available here: http://www.drj.com/ http://www.drj.com/new2dr/samples.htm R Tellurian Networks - Global Hosting Solutions

Re: TCP and WAN issue

2007-03-28 Thread Robert Boyle
A lot of different theoretical things have been discussed, but basically, if you are running Windows XP, 2000, or 2003 over a WAN with anything more than 10-20ms of latency, make the following change to the registry and you will find a world of difference. Ideally, you would make the change

Re: TCP and WAN issue

2007-03-27 Thread Robert Boyle
At 04:26 PM 3/27/2007, Philip Lavine wrote: I have an east coast and west coast data center connected with a DS3. I am running into issues with streaming data via TCP and was wondering besides hardware acceleration, is there any options at increasing throughput and maximizing the bandwidth?

Re: Linksys WAG200G - Information disclosure (fwd)

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Boyle
At 05:48 PM 3/20/2007, you wrote: I wonder what their security process is for other types of routers? Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_vulnerability_policy.html#Problems -Robert -- Forwarded message -- Date: 20 Mar 2007 20:31:01

Re: Philly area Broadwing / Focal / Level3 fiber cut?

2007-03-13 Thread Robert Boyle
At 02:10 PM 3/12/2007, you wrote: | I cannot even call their toll-free help lines, as the figer cut apparently | is affecting that as well, according to their local NOC people, who cannot | chd any more light on this. I was able to get through to their NOC. there was a cut, but the person I

Foundry XMR/MLX Experience - Update

2007-03-12 Thread Robert Boyle
Hello all, In December 2006, I asked for input from people on their experience with Foundry since we were leaning toward them for our new core router standard for our current backbone upgrade cycle. About 50 people replied and asked me to update them with my choice and information I

Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Boyle
At 07:30 PM 1/24/2007, you wrote: Upon leaving a router at telx and asking one of their techs to plug in the equipment for me, I came back to find all my cat5 cables neatly tied with some sort of waxed twine, using an interesting looping knot pattern that repeated every six inches or so using

ISIS SNMP monitoring help

2007-01-20 Thread Robert Boyle
Hello, I am posting here because I haven't been able to find what I need despite much searching and a previous unanswered post to cisco-nsp and I'm hoping someone here will have the answer. I need to find the SNMP OID for monitoring ISIS / CLNS neighbors: I tried walking: 1.3.6.1.3.37.

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-06 Thread Robert Boyle
At 01:52 AM 1/6/2007, Thomas Leavitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this application takes off, I have to presume that everyone's baseline network usage metrics can be tossed out the window... Interesting. Why does it send so much data? Is it a peer to peer type of system where it redistributes

Foundry MLX experience?

2006-12-20 Thread Robert Boyle
Hello all, I am looking for a faster solution for our core. Our backbone connections are almost all exclusively Fast Ethernet, GigE, with some 10GE stuff on the horizon. We need something which can run at wire speed and take full routes now and for for the next 3-4 years. The Foundry MLX

Re: [c-nsp] [Re: huge amount of weird traffic on poin-to-point ethernet link]

2006-11-09 Thread Robert Boyle
You should also create a bogons list for your BGP routes which you accept from your upstream. Block all RFC1918 space and unassigned public addresses too. Just keep on top of it when new allocations are put into use. We see all kinds of crazy things which people try to announce (and

Re: [c-nsp] [Re: huge amount of weird traffic on poin-to-point ethernet link]

2006-11-09 Thread Robert Boyle
At 09:23 AM 11/9/2006, you wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006, Robert Boyle wrote: You should also create a bogons list for your BGP routes which you accept from your upstream. Block all RFC1918 space and unassigned public addresses too. Just keep on top of it when new allocations are put

Re: [c-nsp] [Re: huge amount of weird traffic on poin-to-point ethernet link]

2006-11-09 Thread Robert Boyle
At 06:58 PM 11/9/2006, you wrote: automatic systems are fine if you decide you want to do them, i was specifically responding to the author who suggested he would build the filters himself, my point was that this seemingly good intention is in fact causing real operational problems on The

Re: Need a gigabit loop - hard to find in our area - referrals?

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Boyle
At 06:55 PM 11/8/2006, you wrote: Were looking for something which is difficult to find in the area we are in. I need a gigabit loop between us and a provider or two... We have successfully used SBC in southern CA for Ethernet loops and their prices are pretty reasonable and their footprint

Re: adviCe on network security report

2006-11-02 Thread Robert Boyle
At 05:09 PM 11/2/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Rand) wrote: Over the last few years, I have worked with many ISPs. The majority of the problems had little to do with the format/style/volume of abuse complaints, and a lot to do with empowering the abuse desks to take action. you suck was not

Re: DNS DDoS [was: register.com down sev0?]

2006-10-26 Thread Robert Boyle
At 11:21 AM 10/26/2006, you wrote: Unfortunately, as Jared has pointed out, the equipment vendors have to help the operators support this. So let's all call your favorite router vendor and ask them when they will have the ip bcp38 config option. :) Even better would be the option: no ip

Re: comast email issues, who else has them?

2006-09-06 Thread Robert Boyle
At 03:24 PM 9/6/2006, you wrote: Once upon a time, Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You don't have to exchange E-mail with either Google, Comcast or any other Mail Service Provider if you don't want to. Just wait until Net Neutrality laws require you to. ...or with spammers! That's

Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?

2006-06-23 Thread Robert Boyle
At 10:04 AM 6/23/2006, you wrote: Then again, this is the same person that tried to tell me that 768 OC-192s are carried on a single DS1. Now THAT is impressive compression! I don't know what your former company did, but they should focus on selling that compression technology. ;) The

Fwd: At Dig BIG, Nothing Runs Like a Deere (Really Backhoes and Fiber together)

2006-06-06 Thread Robert Boyle
All, Just in case any of you want to see how the other half lives... and destroy some infrastructure after learning more about how to build it this week. :) Work with JOHN DEERE Equipment to build REAL utilities in a REAL work setting. Dig BIG takes place at the best place on the

Re: Black Frog - the botnets keep coming

2006-05-25 Thread Robert Boyle
At 11:33 AM 5/25/2006, you wrote: Citation on the $1M/day, please? (I'm sure the *aggregate* take is well over that, but what *single entity* is seeing that magnitude losses?) Although we all see lots of attempts at phishing and it gets lots of press coverage, it is very small compared to

Philly Carrier Hotels?

2006-04-28 Thread Robert Boyle
Hello all, Is 401 West Broad in Philadelphia equivalent to 1 Wilshire, 60 Hudson, 165 Halsey, 55 Market Post Tower, the Westin Building, etc? or is it much smaller? I have been given this address as THE carrier hotel for the Philadelphia area by one of our fiber providers. I would

Re: data center space

2006-04-21 Thread Robert Boyle
At 06:51 AM 4/21/2006, you wrote: On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:34:41AM -0700, Philip Lavine wrote: Can someone tell me if I am out of luck. I am trying to get a 10x10 cage in New Jersey (Jersey City area) but it seems everybody is at capacity. What happened? My guess (this being NJ) is an

Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?

2006-04-17 Thread Robert Boyle
At 09:50 PM 4/17/2006, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: How about this idea... are your corporate VPN services (assuming there is one aside fromm 'ssh to the bastion host' of course) prepared to double/quadruple/more-uple their normal concurrent user counts? During the fallout of Katrina we

Re: ATT: 15 Mbps Internet connections irrelevant

2006-04-01 Thread Robert Boyle
At 02:02 PM 4/1/2006, you wrote: Could be either. Did you happen to catch the woman from Verizon at the last NANOG who was sure parts of New Orleans were 2 miles below sea level? Maybe that was a really early AFJ. Maybe it's the lost city of Atlantis or maybe she was confused about meters

RE: Fire in bakery fries fiber optic cable

2006-03-27 Thread Robert Boyle
At 11:37 AM 3/27/2006, you wrote: Speaking of Backhoes, there was a picture I had saved at one point, can't find it now, maybe someone else has it.. It shows a backhoe, half-fallen down into a hole, on fire, huge tower of flames coming up out of the hole. Sitting right next to the hole (this

Re: [c-nsp] Which IOS do *you* use?

2006-03-21 Thread Robert Boyle
At 05:29 PM 3/20/2006, you wrote: I've got a customer running a few 3660s with 12.2.29 on them. We went back to 12.2.29 because we saw all sorts of evil stuff with 12.3.16 on our test box - we'd drop all BGP sessions and end up with half a dozen obviously foreign prefixes listed as directly

Re: [c-nsp] Which IOS do *you* use?

2006-03-21 Thread Robert Boyle
Sorry folks, I'm up too late. I replied to the wrong list! Have a good night everyone. -Robert Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com | 888-TELLURIAN | 973-300-9211 Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin

Re: Presumed RF Interference

2006-03-05 Thread Robert Boyle
At 06:20 PM 3/5/2006, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: What might be useful -- ask an EE, not me -- is a circuit with an isolated ground. In that case, the ground wire from the power plug is routed all the way back to the breaker panel, and isn't connected to, say, the local electrical box that the

Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Boyle
At 12:01 PM 1/19/2006, you wrote: This is really stupid. Assuming the terrorist actually have the dozens of backhoes needed to completely erase meaningfull internet connectivity in north america, they would probably prefer to use them to smash cars and kill people on the interstate highways

Re: Intradomain Traffic Engineering

2006-01-17 Thread Robert Boyle
At 12:06 AM 1/18/2006, you wrote: (snip) wrong prediction, the technique suffers very high MLU (as high as 140%). Basically, I have the following two questions: 1. In the traces I have, there exist several intervals with a huge, sudden increase of traffic on some links. The prediction

Re: WMF patch

2006-01-05 Thread Robert Boyle
At 12:54 PM 1/5/2006, you wrote: Thanks Thomas, something really useful. One thing I am still curious about, I read that there were other image formats can be used in an exploit, GIF, .BMP, .JPG, .TIF can also be used, according to F-Secure. I find this a little confusing, if that dll only

Re: Bogon stupidity... warning... operational post.

2005-12-22 Thread Robert Boyle
At 12:56 PM 12/22/2005, you wrote: P.S. 204/8 was not the only problem, there were problems with 128/8 and 133/8 as well so my apologies to people who may have noticed problems overnight. 199.128.0.0/9 too. -Robert Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection

Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making

2005-11-07 Thread Robert Boyle
At 08:52 AM 11/7/2005, you wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 06:43:35AM -0500, J. Oquendo wrote: the center of the information security vortex. Because IOS controls the routers that underpin most business networks as well as the Internet, I think in general this is an argument against

Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-28 Thread Robert Boyle
At 03:32 PM 9/28/2005, Paul Vixie wrote: PS. Is there some sort of secret net.kook cabal which I was not aware of? i thought this (nanog) was it. maybe i'm not in the loop, though. -- Paul Vixie Paul, That's the _secret_ part! ;) -Robert Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet

Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Boyle
At 10:39 PM 9/27/2005, you wrote: Actually, I think you've got it backwards. .us and all of the other country-specific TLDs are the last vestiges of nationalism. The Internet is only the second piece of truly global infrastructure. As a key component in the ongoing trend towards a unified

Apologies...

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Boyle
...for the terrible grammar and incomplete sentences in the message I just sent. It was the result of replying to a post while performing other tasks and not taking the time to properly proofread before hitting send. -Robert Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection

Re: TIA-942 Datacenter Standardization

2005-08-31 Thread Robert Boyle
At 10:20 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote: Eesh... I grabbed a copy of this thing. In a cursory over-read... I am afraid if people (people defined by lim(clue) - 0) start implementing datacenters by this guide. This would be a BRILLIANT document as the reading material for a college-level course.

Re: as numbers

2005-07-31 Thread Robert Boyle
At 10:51 AM 7/31/2005, Joe Abley wrote: I agree that implementation sooner rather than later is a good idea, but all of us already have a 2-Byte AS so although we care in theory and believe it is a good idea, we don't _really_ care as much as the first guy who gets a 4-Byte AS will. The

Re: NETGEAR in the core...

2005-07-30 Thread Robert Boyle
At 09:41 PM 7/30/2005, Robert E.Seastrom wrote: OK, not really in the core, but the subject made you look at least. :) That's for sure! ;) I'm interested in people's experiences with consumer-grade routers functioning in non-NAT mode; that is to say, running PPPoE to the ISP and routing a

Re: NETGEAR in the core...

2005-07-30 Thread Robert Boyle
At 11:32 PM 7/30/2005, Henry Yen wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 10:11:28AM -0400, Robert Boyle wrote: I'm interested in people's experiences with consumer-grade routers functioning in non-NAT mode; that is to say, running PPPoE to the ISP and routing a /29 or a /28. A sane filtering

Re: as numbers

2005-07-30 Thread Robert Boyle
At 01:12 AM 7/31/2005, you wrote: This kind of response does have a certain market-based logic to it, I must admit, but its highly risky. I don't think its all that wise for this to be delayed indefinitely until the point at which its turning from an orderly transition into a last second

Re: Cisco IPv6 Exploit, was Re: 6to4 routes disappeared from most of North America

2005-07-29 Thread Robert Boyle
At 11:20 PM 7/29/2005, you wrote: Naah. My money's on laziness; it's usually the case. 8-) Never attribute to laziness that which can be explained by incompetence. :) R Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com | 888-TELLURIAN | 973-300-9211 Well

Re: mobile user strawman argument

2005-06-30 Thread Robert Boyle
At 05:02 PM 6/30/2005, you wrote: Of course, if you're going to do this, you should also be doing at least SMTPAUTH and preferably TLSSMTP, but then again many clients are broken and don't support these technologies or don't support them correctly. Or you support POP AUTH, which just

Re: ISP phishing

2005-06-28 Thread Robert Boyle
At 05:17 PM 6/28/2005, Mark Tombaugh wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 09:54 -0400, Robert Boyle wrote: we enabled a global rule which blocks any email from accounts such as billing, root, postmaster, antivirus, abuse, security, etc. which don't originate from our management IP space where our

Re: ISP phishing

2005-06-28 Thread Robert Boyle
At 10:30 PM 6/28/2005, Paul Wouters wrote: I applaud his move, and wish more groups did the same. It would have been better if he had just installed SPF, and published DNS records for his own domain, and rejected them based on that. Then other people receiving forged emails with his

Re: rackmount DC power inverters?

2005-06-25 Thread Robert Boyle
At 03:16 AM 6/25/2005, you wrote: I have no idea if this is on or off topic (apolgies if the latter). Right now we're running 48 1u servers in a cabinet off AC. We're considering switching to DC power supplies with the hope that any cost increase in the power supply and rectifier would be

Re: ISP phishing

2005-06-24 Thread Robert Boyle
At 10:41 AM 6/23/2005, you wrote: We did as well, but we did not yet find a solution for legit bounces.. it naturally breaks that. I've been thinking about what you said, but I can't imagine a scenario in which this would affect bounce delivery to or from our admin-type addresses. Incoming

Re: ISP phishing

2005-06-23 Thread Robert Boyle
At 05:37 AM 6/23/2005, you wrote: Hi guys. I notice a large increase in recent weeks of ISP directed phishing - largely because of worms moving backward to using the user's own domain for the spam, but not just in the from: address. I believe this started out as a let's feel this out or wow,

Re: FCC To Require 911 for VoIP

2005-05-01 Thread Robert Boyle
How about an anycast address implement(ed|able) by every network provider that would return a zipcode? $ telnet 10.255.255.254 Connected 33709 Disconnected. $ are you -REALLY- arguing for the return of finger ?? --bill Not finger, but something like this could work. The server

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Robert Boyle
At 07:32 PM 4/9/2005, you wrote: David Conrad wrote: - Amount of code Again, what should be counted? Should you include rsync? Should you include utility programs like check-namedconf, axfr-get, rbldns, walldns, walldns-conf, etc.? You need only count the lines of code needed by the daemon/s

Re: Cisco to merge with Nabisco

2005-04-01 Thread Robert Boyle
At 11:45 AM 4/1/2005, you wrote: Priceless. ;-) The Register: Published Friday 1st April 2005 15:22 GMT Cisco Systems and Kraft Foods shocked investors today with an unlikely mega-acquisition that will see Cisco buy Kraft's Nabisco unit for $15bn. Perhaps even more surprising, former RJR Nabisco

RE: Cisco to merge with Nabisco

2005-04-01 Thread Robert Boyle
At 01:09 PM 4/1/2005, you wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Church, Chuck wrote: Incorrectly chosen switching path can now result in lost packets AND indigestion. Is this mitigated by activating Nabisco Express Forwarding? That would be really bad! You would almost immediately gain 300lbs if you enabled

Re: Verizon wins MCI

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Boyle
At 11:45 PM 2/14/2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: uhm, thats the '70 billing departments' ... or so said the SEC's info about how many billing systems were 'integrated' during the bernie-dynastic-times. I remember reading in IT Week or Infoweek or some other trade rag that they had over 2400

Re: radius question

2005-01-21 Thread Robert Boyle
At 06:14 PM 1/21/2005, you wrote: are authentication packets between routers and radius servers encrypted or clear-text? All clear text, but passwords are sent as an MD5 hash which is the result of a shared secret on both the radius server and the router. -Robert Tellurian Networks - The

Re: website to display AS No and ip info also

2004-10-13 Thread Robert Boyle
At 03:19 PM 10/13/2004, you wrote: ls there any websites to provide the information about AS no and IP? When typing the AS no, it can display all the information fo the company and IP belongs to this company also http://www.fixedorbit.com/search.htm Have fun! -Robert Tellurian Networks - The

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-25 Thread Robert Boyle
At 02:23 PM 9/25/2004, you wrote: engagement is fair trade. Lessaiz Faire economics was tried about 100 years ago. It resulted in the Great Depression and children dying of tuberculosis in the factories. Why does anyone think it'll work today? Curtis, I tried to stay out of this since it

Re: T1 short-haul vs. long-haul

2004-07-21 Thread Robert Boyle
At 08:25 AM 7/21/2004, you wrote: Normally in Europe when you order an E1 (G.703) connection the Telco delivers a NTU (Network termination Unit) which normally is a (S)HDSL modem converting from two-wire DSL to four-wire E1 electrical. The cable between the NTU and the Router is normally very

Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

2004-07-09 Thread Robert Boyle
At 03:20 PM 7/9/2004, you wrote: time. After the rapid DNS update is implemented, the elapsed time from registrars' add or change operations to the visibility of those adds or changes in all 13 .com/.net authoritative name servers is expected to average less than five minutes. Very cool! Kudos!

Re: IT security people sleep well

2004-06-07 Thread Robert Boyle
At 12:11 PM 6/7/2004, you wrote: ever heard of multilayer security? Absolutely and I am a huge believer in it and all of our systems and our network is designed with many layers of protection... which is why I am against running ssh AND leaving it open to the world since that leaves only a

Re: IT security people sleep well

2004-06-06 Thread Robert Boyle
At 07:14 PM 6/6/2004, you wrote: On the SSH/SSL front: IMHO these technologies give a false sense of security. Sniffing cleartext management sessions is a concern, yes, but actual incidents where it occurs, especially within your own network infrastructure, are vanishingly rare compared to the

Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT)

2004-04-19 Thread Robert Boyle
At 02:27 PM 4/19/2004, you wrote: I can burn a CD from ISO in about 5 minutes - how about you? I'm talking about XP users who haven't even updated as far as SP1. Win98 users who have never run an update in their life... Win2k users are usually the most patched up that I've seen - because that

Re: UPS and generator interaction?

2004-03-29 Thread Robert Boyle
At 01:26 PM 3/29/2004, you wrote: I'd be very grateful to hear of any solutions that you guys have come up with in this arena. Also, any recommendations for generators? I'm not looking for something huge, just something that can be mounted on a roof. If I have to pour diesel into it every couple

Re: Cisco website www.cisco.com 403 forbidden?

2004-03-16 Thread Robert Boyle
At 04:04 PM 3/16/2004, Petri Helenius wrote: No. It´s self defending network. It was the little girl with the really cool game! :) R Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com | 888-TELLURIAN | 973-300-9211 Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions,

Re: Information Warfare

2004-03-06 Thread Robert Boyle
At 12:32 PM 3/6/2004, Brian Bruns wrote: Lovely. So not only do we now have to fend off attacks from script kiddies and packet monkies, we now have to fend off attacks from idiot sysadmins who set this tool up and allow it to go all out on supposed 'attacks' against their systems. I think the

Re: Anycast and windows servers

2004-02-20 Thread Robert Boyle
At 05:43 AM 2/20/2004, you wrote: Hence the reason why I want the route to cease being advertised if the box fails. I'm trying to avoid putting yet another server load balancer box in front of the windows box to withdraw the route so a different working box will be closest. It may be an oxymoron,

Re: Dumb users spread viruses

2004-02-09 Thread Robert Boyle
At 12:24 PM 2/9/2004, you wrote: Do you honestly think that any IT manager is going to be successful getting an entire company to dump Outlook/Exchange and stop using anti-virus software? Do you have an example (within the North American area of interest to NANOG members) where this has

Re: Stopping open proxies and open relays

2004-02-06 Thread Robert Boyle
At 12:00 AM 2/7/2004, Adi Linden wrote: There are valid reasons not to run antivirus software, And they are? P90w/32MB running Win95 used for email only... Odd... When that was a state of the art machine for which I paid $3k+ in 1995 (IRC) I used a CLI virus scanner and before I opened

Re: Third Level domains not patented

2004-01-16 Thread Robert Boyle
At 09:41 AM 1/16/2004, you wrote: According to the article, somebody maanged to patent the selling of www.something.somethng.com. Which seems a bit assanine to me, since the ISP I worked for in 1993 offered custoemrs www.customer.ccnet.com. Uh, no, that's not what the article said and it's not

Re: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!

2004-01-06 Thread Robert Boyle
At 09:37 PM 1/6/2004, you wrote: Oh, also, on the subject of used market pricing... It's been a while since I looked at Cisco ChDS3 PA pricing in any serious detail, but as I recall they were valued as though they were made of gold and personally blessed by Pope John Chambers when compared to

RE: Low end router alternative?

2003-12-19 Thread Robert Boyle
At 05:18 PM 12/19/2003, you wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Ejay Hire wrote: Lucent Pipeline 130, Superpipe 95, or Superpipe 155. Well 2 minutes on Froogle tell me your definition of cheap and mine don't match. For the same price range I would get a netopia R4522 or 5300 which will reliably do NAT

Re: Most up to date packet size distribution info

2003-12-17 Thread Robert Boyle
At 04:08 PM 12/17/2003, Jared wrote: Close to what we see at one location: Router#sh ip ca flow IP packet size distribution (17137M total packets): 1-32 64 96 128 160 192 224 256 288 320 352 384 416 448 480 .004 .621 .068 .029 .013 .007 .005 .006 .003 .005 .006 .006

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Robert Boyle
At 09:27 PM 10/16/2003, you wrote: I agree that an application level solution at the edge is the best. I like the idea of having a user configurable parameter in the client browser to allow the ``finder'' URL to be set. The browser ``manufacturer'' would of course put their own default and the

Re: Extreme BlackDiamond

2003-10-13 Thread Robert Boyle
At 04:43 PM 10/13/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7600 is also vertical boards whereas the 6500 is horizontal. Yep, I think from now on, we should make this a primary distinction between switch and a router: If a device has vertical line cards, it is a router, if horizontal, it is a switch.

Re: Juniper M7i, M10i and the US DREN's IPV6 project

2003-10-13 Thread Robert Boyle
At 06:03 PM 10/13/2003, you wrote: From the PDF, regarding DREN implemention of ipv6: No great incentive for DREN sites to implement IPv6 no near term win additional effort and complexity, generally not funded Can't deploy in a safe and secure manner Existing DREN intrusion detection (IDS)

Sitefinder fan - this guy needs a clue.

2003-10-08 Thread Robert Boyle
Wow. This guy is completely delusional. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5087746.html I have been up for 24 hours working on a router upgrade and a simultaneous DS3 problem so I'm in no frame of mind to respond. Perhaps one of the more eloquent (and less tired) folks here can politely beat

Re: Sitefinder fan - this guy needs a clue.

2003-10-08 Thread Robert Boyle
At 02:06 PM 10/8/2003, you wrote: Let's hope we can append not for long if they keep this stuff up. :) The great thing about the web is a newspaper can bury its mistakes without having to admit it in the Corrections page. ZD.NET has modified the article the originally posted. ZD.NET added the

Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?

2003-10-05 Thread Robert Boyle
At 12:57 AM 10/5/2003, you wrote: At 2:11 AM + 10/5/03, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: For more fun, consider that you are [EMAIL PROTECTED], and get those It's the anti-virus ones that drive me nuts. Someone in your domain sent us a virus which always forges the from line, but we're going

Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-10-02 Thread Robert Boyle
At 02:57 PM 10/2/2003, you wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I have found a possible source of satellite bandwidth for this, assuming a critical mass of users could be accumulated to pay for it. Interested parties should send me an email off list please. If a critical mass of

Re: what happened to ARIN tonight ?

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Boyle
At 10:07 PM 9/28/2003, you wrote: I am seeing the same. ARIN is completely off the air box02rsm-en01.twdx.net sh ip bgp 192.149.252.16 % Network not in table I see them via a UUNet announcement through Veroxity and Sprint transit, but I don't see it via any other peer or transit provider. Are

Re: Cheap temperature sensors

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Boyle
At 06:29 AM 9/23/2003, you wrote: I hate to point this out but this sounds spammy as hell, and while I've been on this list a very short time, very very big alarm bells went off when I read it. I have no financial interest in the company and I was just letting the list know about a cheap

Cheap temperature sensors

2003-09-22 Thread Robert Boyle
From time to time this thread pops up. I found something which looked interesting and the price was right. I bought one and WOW! It is VERY impressive stuff for any price especially considering how cheap it was. I purchased 10 individual temperature sensors and two temp/humidity sensors, and

Re: BMITU

2003-09-04 Thread Robert Boyle
At 11:02 AM 9/4/2003, you wrote: This is my first post so please be gentle. I would like to get some opinions on the Best Mailserver in the Universe. Is there a more appropriate list for this question? I have looked at Communigate Pro, IMAIL, and others. I am interested in integrated solution

Re: BMITU

2003-09-04 Thread Robert Boyle
At 02:35 PM 9/4/2003, Brad Knowles wrote: and most *nix platforms, look at Surgemail from http://www.netwinsite.com It is incredibly scalable and VERY fast. Got any benchmarks? We have tested all of them. We process several million messages per day for tellurian.com. The only server

Re: BMITU

2003-09-04 Thread Robert Boyle
At 05:54 PM 9/4/2003, you wrote: Communigate Pro is not a Windows mail server... It runs on nearly everything; and can handle millions of accounts (it has extensive clustering support). Check their website: www.stalker.com for specs. I stand corrected. I was only familiar with the Windows

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Robert Boyle
At 09:26 AM 8/28/2003, you wrote: It takes some education to the customers, but after they understand why, most are receptive. Especially when they get DOS'ed. We have been rate limiting ICMP for a long time, however, it is only recently that the percentage limit has been reached and people have

Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread Robert Boyle
At 12:39 PM 8/28/2003, you wrote: Along these lines, how does this limiting affect akamai or other 'ping for distance' type localization services? I'd think their data would get somewhat skewed, right? Perhaps they'll come up with a more advanced system of monitoring? probally

Re: pool.ntp.org NTP servers

2003-06-07 Thread Robert Boyle
At 03:05 AM 6/8/2003 +, Paul Vixie wrote: what you're looking for in terms of an ntp server is best isochrony. as long as the delay and loss constant it doesn't matter how high they are. a secondary sort term would be server load, but presumably a server which was too loaded could just stop

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