Re: [AusNOG] VPNs over Telstra wireless broadband

On Fri, 15 Mar 2024, James Andrewartha wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, Craig Askings wrote: > > > Are you using an ip address or FQDN as the vpn target for the students to > > connect to? > > FQDN. > > I've turned on keepalive but there's no timer settin

Re: [AusNOG] VPNs over Telstra wireless broadband

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, Craig Askings wrote: > Are you using an ip address or FQDN as the vpn target for the students to > connect to? FQDN. I've turned on keepalive but there's no timer setting available. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC

Re: [AusNOG] VPNs over Telstra wireless broadband

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, James Andrewartha wrote: > We've recently rolled out a Fortigate IKEv2 IPSec VPN to our student > devices and it works well for most of them, but for some it works for a > short time (5 seconds to 5 minutes) and then gets stuck, leaving the > student with

[AusNOG] VPNs over Telstra wireless broadband

Hi noggers, We've recently rolled out a Fortigate IKEv2 IPSec VPN to our student devices and it works well for most of them, but for some it works for a short time (5 seconds to 5 minutes) and then gets stuck, leaving the student with no internet access (since we force it to be always-on).

Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft 365 - Junk Policy (last 2 weeks)

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023, Luke Thompson wrote: > Thanks for the consensus here, it's good to know we're not alone. It seems > the impact is being realised by more people into this > week. > > We've now had clients in the health space flag this - they want links to > official alerts acknowledging the

[AusNOG] Automatic transfer switches and generators

Has anyone fed a generator into an automatic transfer switch? We got a generator recently, which is hooked up to some circuits in our server room, that can be manually switched between mains and a generator. We also have an existing UPS that most of the room runs on, and has a runtime of about

Re: [AusNOG] "Telstra" scammers

There is a new code (December 2020) relating to scam calls requiring carriers in the transit path to share information and disconnect customers who are originating scam calls: https://www.commsalliance.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/72150/C661_2020.pdf So kick up a fuss with your provider.

Re: [AusNOG] 4G router alternatives to Cradlepoint

On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, Andrew Yager wrote: > I'm looking for a solid alternative to Cradlepoint for a large rollout (about > 400 sites) with 4G primary connection. The sites > have unreliable power, which means things like SRXs are not a go. (I do like > the 320s with LTE mPIM "mostly"). > >

Re: [AusNOG] IPsec issues over Telstra

On Thu, 6 Aug 2020, Daniel Carpenter wrote: > Anyone seeing any new issues forming IPsec IKEv2 tunnels over both > Telstra.internet and Telstra.extranet lately? I’ve been > trying to implement a new hub and spoke for a new environment using a HA pair > of FortiGate 300e as the hub and Teltonika

Re: [AusNOG] My condolences to the people trying to sort out remote learning

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020, Bill Woodcock wrote: > FWIW, I’ve been looking at a lot of the options, and I know a lot of other > people who have as well, for various school districts and universities, and > the best option (mainly from a > not-exposing-children-to-malware-and-naked-Nazi-zoombombers

Re: [AusNOG] 4G Redundancy Device

dreams, desires, > and goals. > Have you been good today? .ಠ_ಠ > > > On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 20:28, Brad Peczka wrote: > Cradlepoint have some good offerings in this space - the > CBA850-1200M-B-AP and AER2200 are both rated for 1.2Gbps > via LTE Adva

Re: [AusNOG] Vocus Office 365 CDN corrupt again

Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / On Fri, 17 Apr 2020, James Andrewartha wrote:

Re: [AusNOG] Vocus Office 365 CDN corrupt again

http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / On Fri, 17 Apr 2020, James Andrewartha wrote: > Hi Samuel,

Re: [AusNOG] Vocus Office 365 CDN corrupt again

Hi Samuel, Where did you find the logfile with the error? We're having problems installing Office 365 yesterday and today, the client seems to be downloading http://officecdn.microsoft.com.edgesuite.net/pr/7ffbc6bf-bc32-4f92-8982-f9dd17fd3114/Office/Data/16.0.11929.20708/stream.x64.x-none.dat

Re: [AusNOG] Traffic volumes & COVID19 impact?

my head trying to understand why on a 100-500 person VC you > need 500 people all sharing video at the same time.  > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 19:19, James Andrewartha > wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, Bevan Slattery wrote: > > > It’s all relative.  Streaming sti

Re: [AusNOG] Traffic volumes & COVID19 impact?

On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, Bevan Slattery wrote: > It’s all relative.  Streaming still makes up the vast amount of capacity > usage, but yeah Video conferencing type data has > increased significantly.  This will only grow over time once school goes back > and the vast majority of students are logging

Re: [AusNOG] 4G Redundancy Device

Most of these have LTE Cat 4 modems, ie 150Mpbs down/50Mbps up theoretical. I'm still on the lookout for a standalone one that's Cat 6 or better. Well, there is the Netgear Nighthawk M1/M2 but it's more of a consumer device than one suited for infrastructure use. We're using Fortigates at the

Re: [AusNOG] Scam Number 0343444621

going to create a > headache for the next person who receives it after the > scammer has moved on. It needs to be dealt with at the source, and that’s not > exactly something you can do…) > >  - mark > > > > On 21 Jan 2020, at 1:46 PM, James Andrewartha > w

Re: [AusNOG] Scam Number 0343444621

What's the best way to handle these? In November we got a lot of calls with random caller IDs, and I was gathering logs to open a case with our carrier per the Comms Alliance CUSTOMER PROCESS –HANDLING OF LIFE THREATENING AND UNWELCOME COMMUNICATIONS but by the time I was ready to, they'd

Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: > Admittedly I’m not super clear on this but I thought Microsoft stopped really > generally offering O365 via ER and it’s now on > “special request only”? > “Free peering” is “Direct connectivity” FWIW. They recently announced Azure Peering

Re: [AusNOG] FTTC

On Wed, 1 May 2019, Beeson, Ayden wrote: > That is spot on, but I haven’t seen a single quote come back that was in the > price range you would actually consider going ahead with. > > Admittedly that was for FTTN -> FTTP upgrades, but still I always got the > feeling those “choices” were

Re: [AusNOG] FTTC

New DPUs that support G.fast may also be installed in the future, the existing NTDs support both VDSL and G.fast. On Mon, 29 Apr 2019, Philip Loenneker wrote: > > From the horses mouth… > > https://www.nbnco.com.au/residential/learn/network-technology/fibre-to-the-curb-explained-fttc > >   >

Re: [AusNOG] Network Atlas (was Re: AUSNOG)

the holidays. If a cable is passing traffic but there's no restoration notice is it really up? On Fri, 4 Jan 2019, Matt McDonough wrote: > Pretty sure you’ll find ASC was up and operational between Perth and > Singapore before the end of 2018. > > Cheers > > Matt > > > On 4

Re: [AusNOG] Network Atlas (was Re: AUSNOG)

So that's a total of 0 functioning submarine cables from Perth at this point in time. (OK ASC is live from Perth to Indonesia, but not Singapore) On Fri, 4 Jan 2019, Brad Peczka wrote: > Not entirely. >   > I think the Trident cable has been cancelled (Paul?), and Australia West > Express

Re: [AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Paul Wilkins wrote: > "Given that Dutton was straight on the band wagon within hours of the events > in Melbourne last week. Im sure this will be > railroaded through and any opposition will be called out as "weak national > security policy".  I think the chances of this

Re: [AusNOG] auDA Policy Review Panel - Public Forums

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Narelle wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Christopher Hawker > wrote: > > In all fairness Narelle, if you perhaps e-mailed from an official auDA > e-mail address (instead of a free GMail > address), you may have received a few

Re: [AusNOG] 4G VPN Router

On Fri, 8 Dec 2017, Matt Hare wrote: > It only supports > >     LTE Category 4 (up to 150 Mbps): B2, 4, 5, 12 >     UMTS DC-HSPA+ - (up to 42 Mbps): B2, 5 > > So only Vodafone? Unless there's a new model coming out. Can't find much > information. Looks like a good 'quick set' device for >

Re: [AusNOG] 4G VPN Router

On Fri, 8 Dec 2017, Jamie Lovick wrote: > Out of the Netgear/Sierra Wireless range, I find the AirCard 790S good value. > They do CAT6 LTE, and cover a lot of bands. > They're a hotspot, but they can be used as a USB modem only. > >

Re: [AusNOG] ABC 4Corners - What's Wrong with the NBN?

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017, Mark Newton wrote: > On Oct 24, 2017, at 11:22 AM, Giles Pollock wrote: > > > > Difference is on NBN your landline is converted to a VoIP line and provided > > by the ISP. Said ISP won't divulge the SIP configuration so if you want to > > use it you're

Re: [AusNOG] QoS on Internet traffic

Hi Tony, Apologies for top-posting but I don't want my replies to be lost in your excellent statement of the problem. I'm on the EDUCAUSE NETMAN (university network admins) list and the discussion about bandwidth shaping comes up occasionally. Since they're mostly in the US, a lot of them

Re: [AusNOG] Recommendations for reliable LTE devices

On Thu, 25 May 2017, Mark Tees wrote: > Would specifically like to hear from anybody using the Teltonika > RUT950 as that appears to fit perfectly. I think I will have that and > one of integrated Routerboard's tested. I came across this range of Netgear LTE gateways, they're US models but

Re: [AusNOG] ADSL Bridge Modems

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017, Zia Nayamuth wrote: > I had a Draytek Vigor130 for a while. Lovely little box, and supports NBN > VDSL as well as boring old ADSL2+ (as well as VLANs > and multi-circuit stuff for triple-play services and whatnot). My TD-8817 on > the other hand was hopelessly unreliable.

Re: [AusNOG] Sydney Google Cloud routing region active

On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Phillip Grasso wrote: > FYI.  > Should change some traffic towards Sydney region. > > https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/sydney/ > > Tell me if want to switch to GCP :-) Like every other region it's charging 19c/GB for data to Australia, even though it's in