A shim6 summary paper [Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)]

2006-03-01 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Lucy E. Lynch wrote: point us to the documents which describe how to deploy it in the two most common situation operators see o a large multi-homed enterprise customer o a small to medium multi-homed tier-n isp never under-estimate the range and productivity of Pekka! ht

Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing

2006-03-01 Thread David Barak
--- Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the most important thing we should remember is > that currently, > routing table growth is artificially limited by > relatively strict > requirements for getting a /24 or larger. With IPv6 > this goes away, > and we don't know how

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

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Day
For those watching and grumbling, I'll move the discussion to a shim6 mailing list, or in private if anyone wants to continue beyond this. Just make sure you cc: me if you move the discussion somewhere else. On Mar 1, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 1-Mar-2006, at 13:32, Kevin Da

second v6 multihoming paper

2006-03-01 Thread Lucy E. Lynch
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ajf101/irp-ajf101-multihoming.pdf the money quote: "The lack of a standardised solution to multihoming remains a large issue frustrating wider-scale deployment of IPv6, as many large sites rely on multihoming for connection reliability and optimality. The proposed

Re: How do you handle client contact for network abuse/malware compaints etc.?

2006-03-01 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Nicole Harrington wrote: >Hello >As a sort of addendum to the thread of "Quarantine your infected users >spreading >malware" I am curious how other handle contact to the users/clients for network >security incidents. > > The question I have is; When someone reports an incident to you about >one

the need for shim6

2006-03-01 Thread Edward B. DREGER
I hesitate to make an analogy, lest the analogy wars begin... Sometimes I am forced to use a telephone. I periodically get dead air or a fast busy. Sadly, my phone skills are rusted. Can someone please tell me how I select the switches and trunks through which my call is routed? Thanks.

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

2006-03-01 Thread Edward B. DREGER
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:46:22 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when/if a shim6 proof of concept is built, Let's look at IPv4 options: 0x83 0x04 0x04 0x?? 0x?? 0x?? 0x?? usually doesn't make it very far. Try % traceroute -n -g ip.of.some.router and.of.the.destination from

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 18:29, Randy Bush wrote: You will note I have glossed over several hundred minor details (and several hundred more not-so-minor ones). The protocols are not yet published; there is no known implementation. possibly this contributes to the sceptisim with which this is viewed

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

2006-03-01 Thread bmanning
ok... i've slept some. let me rephrase my agnst this way... when/if a shim6 proof of concept is built, THEN is the time to start debating the merits of shim6 and setting policies on addressing plans. Find one(or more) of the converted, build the darned thing, run some tests, and then there wil

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

2006-03-01 Thread Randy Bush
>>> How about some actual technical complaints about shim6? >> good question. to give such discussion a base, could you >> point us to the documents which describe how to deploy it in >> the two most common situation operators see >> o a large multi-homed enterprise customer > There are no docu

Re: How do you handle client contact for network abuse/malware compaints etc.?

2006-03-01 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 3/1/06, Nicole Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > In short, how much information do you pass on to support yourself and when. We've found that a simple "we've received complaints about you and your machine. Go here (symantec, fsecure, windowsupdate, etc) and patch your machine." wor

Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing

2006-03-01 Thread Owen DeLong
> I think you're missing that some people do odd > things with their IPs as well, like have one ASN and 35 > different sites where they connect to their upstream Tier69.net > all with the same ASN. This means that their 35 offices/sites > will each need a /32, not one per the entire asn in t

Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing

2006-03-01 Thread Owen DeLong
> Please don't mix up addressing and routing. "PI addressing" as you > mention is addressing. SHIM6 will become a routing trick. > I think that is overly pessimistic. I would say that SHIM6 _MAY_ become a routing trick, but, so far, SHIM6 is a still-born piece of overly complicated vaporware of

Re: a plea re: shim6

2006-03-01 Thread Michael Loftis
--On March 1, 2006 12:08:21 PM -0800 Matt Ghali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK there is no deployed, or even working shim6 code. No there isn't As such, it is not an operational issue by any stretch of the imagination. There are a number of more apropriate mailing lists for discu

How do you handle client contact for network abuse/malware compaints etc.?

2006-03-01 Thread Nicole Harrington
Hello As a sort of addendum to the thread of "Quarantine your infected users spreading malware" I am curious how other handle contact to the users/clients for network security incidents. The question I have is; When someone reports an incident to you about one of your clients (a user or server

a plea re: shim6

2006-03-01 Thread Matt Ghali
AFAIK there is no deployed, or even working shim6 code. As such, it is not an operational issue by any stretch of the imagination. There are a number of more apropriate mailing lists for discussion of issues surrounding the design and operation of shim6. Coincidentally, I am not subscribed

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

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Loch
Kevin Day wrote: If you include "Web hosting company" in your definition of ISP, that's not true. Unless you're providing connectivity to 200 or more networks, you can't get a /32. If all of your use is internal(fully managed hosting) or aren't selling leased lines or anything, you are not

Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

2006-03-01 Thread David Nolan
--On Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:42:01 -0600 Jack Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you find that web redirection actually stems the flow of calls to the helpdesk? We find that anything out of the normal usually results in a customer calling the helpdesk just because they weren't expect

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 13:32, Kevin Day wrote: We have peering arrangements with about 120 ASNs. How do we mix BGP IPv6 peering and Shim6 for transit? You advertise all your PA netblocks to all your peers. Ok, I was a bit too vague there... How do we ensure that peering connections are always

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

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Day
On Mar 1, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 1-Mar-2006, at 02:56, Kevin Day wrote: If you include "Web hosting company" in your definition of ISP, that's not true. Right. I wasn't; I listed them separately. It's important to note that even if you are a hosting company who *does*

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

2006-03-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 1-mrt-2006, at 17:22, David Barak wrote: I think that we could spend our time better in coming up with a different approach to addressing hierarchy instead. I agree. The address space is one dimensional. This means you can encode a single thing in it in a hierarchical manner "for free".

Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing

2006-03-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 1-mrt-2006, at 18:05, David Barak wrote: Is it easier to scale N routers, or scale 1*N hosts? Is it easier for the government to make a 5 year plan or for everyone to spend time and energy finding the best deal for everything? Every router has to search through its FIB tables for e

Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

2006-03-01 Thread Jack Bates
Christopher L. Morrow wrote: agreed, punting this problem to the helpdesk makes the helpdesk manager grab his gun(s) and find the security wonk that put a hurtin' on his numbers :) Also, it costs lots of money, which isn't generally a good plan. Do you find that web redirection actually stems

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 11:55, David Barak wrote: --- Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm just one guy, one ASN, and one content/hosting network. But I can tell you that to switch to using shim6 instead of BGP speaking would be a complete overhaul of how we do things. You are not alone i

Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing

2006-03-01 Thread Jared Mauch
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:05:17AM -0800, David Barak wrote: > > > > --- Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On 1-Mar-2006, at 11:22, David Barak wrote: > > > As far as I can tell, the whole reason for these > > > discussions is the insistence on the strict > > > PA-addressing

Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing

2006-03-01 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:05 -0800, David Barak wrote: [..] > Is it easier to scale N routers, or scale 1*N > hosts? If we simply moved to an "everyone with an ASN > gets a /32" model, we'd have about 30,000 /32s. It > would be a really long time before we had as many > routes in the table as

APC NetworkAir FM series

2006-03-01 Thread JB Nanog
  Wanted to know thoughts on the APC Network FM series for cooling datacenters?  If this is the wrong place for this topic, I apologize.   Thanks

Shim6 vs PI addressing

2006-03-01 Thread David Barak
--- Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 1-Mar-2006, at 11:22, David Barak wrote: > > As far as I can tell, the whole reason for these > > discussions is the insistence on the strict > > PA-addressing model, with no ability to advertise > PA > > space to other providers. > > The who

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

2006-03-01 Thread David Barak
--- Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm just one guy, one ASN, and one content/hosting > network. But I > > can tell you that to switch to using shim6 instead > of BGP speaking > > would be a complete overhaul of how we do things. > > You are not alone in fearing change. It isn't

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 11:22, David Barak wrote: Also, the current drafts don't support middleboxes, which a huge number of enterprises use - in fact the drafts specifically preclude their existence, which renders this a complete non-starter for most of my clients. I have not yet reviewed the las

Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

2006-03-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, JP Velders wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:50:29 + (GMT) > > From: Christopher L. Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: nanog@merit.edu > > Subject: Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware > > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Jim Segrave wrote: > > > > www.quaranta

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

2006-03-01 Thread David Barak
--- Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about some actual technical complaints about > shim6? The jerking > knees become tedious to watch, after a while. Okay, if I'm an enterprise with 6 ISPs but don't qualify for PI space, I'll need to get PA space from all of them, for Shim6 to wor

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

2006-03-01 Thread bmanning
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:33:51AM -0500, John Payne wrote: > > > On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Joe Abley wrote: > > >Shim6 also has some features which aren't possible with the swamp > >-- for example, it allows *everybody* to multi-home, down to people > >whose entire infrastructure consist

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

2006-03-01 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> There is > talk at present of whether the protocol needs to be able to > accommodate a site-policy middlebox function to enforce site policy Certainly, firewalls may be the only point such policy will work when the hosts are hidden behind them on a corporate lan 10 years of host legacy l

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 10:33, John Payne wrote: On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Joe Abley wrote: Shim6 also has some features which aren't possible with the swamp -- for example, it allows *everybody* to multi-home, down to people whose entire infrastructure consists of an individual device, and

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

2006-03-01 Thread John Payne
On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Joe Abley wrote: Shim6 also has some features which aren't possible with the swamp -- for example, it allows *everybody* to multi-home, down to people whose entire infrastructure consists of an individual device, and to do so in a scaleable way. Only if *ever

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

2006-03-01 Thread Lucy E. Lynch
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Randy Bush wrote: How about some actual technical complaints about shim6? good question. to give such discussion a base, could you point us to the documents which describe how to deploy it in the two most common situation operators see o a large multi-homed enterprise

Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

2006-03-01 Thread Bill Nash
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, David Nolan wrote: Yeah, but it's not near as fun as dynamic acls updated via a script monitoring flow logs in real-time. It's definitely easier to implement, though. Interesting... Thats actually basically what we were doing before, but phased out in favor of the URPF &

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 02:56, Kevin Day wrote: On Mar 1, 2006, at 12:47 AM, Joe Abley wrote: o a small to medium multi-homed tier-n isp A small-to-medium, multi-homed, tier-n ISP can get PI space from their RIR, and don't need to worry about shim6 at all. Ditto larger ISPs, up to and inc

Re: FYI - China To Launch Alternate Country Code Domains

2006-03-01 Thread Todd Vierling
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Gadi Evron wrote: > The United States wants to keep the so-called Internet Governance and control > of IP allocation and Internet Naming all to itself. Why should I, or anyone > else for that matter use their system, than? They haven't even been a > benevolent dictator, for th

Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

2006-03-01 Thread David Nolan
--On Wednesday, March 01, 2006 07:54:17 -0600 Jack Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Nolan wrote: (*): For anyone who doesn't know, URPF is essentially a way to do automatic acls, comparing the source IP of on an incoming packet to the routing table to verify the packet should have

Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

2006-03-01 Thread JP Velders
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:50:29 + (GMT) > From: Christopher L. Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: nanog@merit.edu > Subject: Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Jim Segrave wrote: > > www.quarantainenet.nl > > It puts them in a protected environment

Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

2006-03-01 Thread Jack Bates
David Nolan wrote: (*): For anyone who doesn't know, URPF is essentially a way to do automatic acls, comparing the source IP of on an incoming packet to the routing table to verify the packet should have come from this interface. With the right hardware this is significantly cheaper then

Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

2006-03-01 Thread David Nolan
--On Tuesday, February 28, 2006 14:39:37 -0500 David Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We a couple techniques at Carnegie Mellon, depending on the network scenario. The DHCP based technique outlined above requires no extra infrastructure, just extra configuration, so it is what we use for m

NZNOG 06 - March 22-24 , Registrations online

2006-03-01 Thread Simon Lyall
NZNOG 06 - Registrations now online. http://www.nznog.org The next conference of the New Zealand Network Operators' Group is to be held in Wellington, New Zealand between 22-24 March 2006. The conference is on the week before the ICANN meeting in Wellington so p