RMON Agent

2000-12-14 Thread saurabh
Hello Everybody, Can anybody tell me , from where can i get an RMON agent. I need it badly. thnqs in anticipation, Saurabh Dave

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Jon Crowcroft
Sean, there were several interesting talks in the ietf plenary last night and i'd also like to respond 1/ randy's "woah, the DNS is bust" talk solution - put your named boot file on your web server and set up robots.txt right get the 15 or so most popular search engines to start

Re: guidance (re: social event politeness)

2000-12-14 Thread John Martin
...and speaking of bad manners, I noticed that there is a resurgence of people talking mobile-phone calls in meetings. I was only there for one day but it happened twice in three meetings. Another annoyance is those who allow it to ring and then cancel the call (presumably using CLI or

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Sean Doran wrote: So, why are people deploying them? Just to name two... 1) With NAT I ask for much smaller address spaces. Consequently, I don't have to disclose my network details, deployment is less likely to be delayed, and both my non-recurring and recurring cost

RE: guidance (re: social event politeness)

2000-12-14 Thread Book, Robert
Look, over a year ago, I was made painfully aware of the of the automated vacation notice propagating emails to members of lists. It was never my intent to inconvenience anyone by using the vacation notices function, rather just the opposite. I'm an Outlook user as it's the corporate standard on

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:55:48 +0100, Sean Doran said: So, why are people deploying them? They are so awful, that it must only happen when people have NO OTHER OPTION. A quick analysis of most of the evils of the last 2 millenia or so would reveal that most were perpetrated for one of several

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Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Scott Brim
I see we're about to embark on the 7th iteration of the NAT mail wars. I don't believe anything new is going to come out of it. Last night's arguments at the microphones were quoted from previous mail. Could you take it somewhere else? Is there an alt.nat group?

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Jon Crowcroft
i can just see it when the aliens land and ask how to connect to our infrastructure, we'll have to say oh we used to have an internet, but it lost something in the translation j.

the pre-plenary video?

2000-12-14 Thread Jeff . Hodges
is the video shown at the beginning of the plenary last night available anywhere? who's volumetric 3-d network mapping stuff was that in there? and who's the pleasant loonies behind the vid anyways? thanks, JeffH

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread itojun
You do not consider IPv6 an option? ipv6 is working just fine even here at IETF49 venue, it's so much more convenient than IPv4, for couple of reasons. - DHCPv4 lease time is set to 10 minutes, and we keep changing IPv4 address. if I suspend my laptop, go to

Re: the pre-plenary video?

2000-12-14 Thread Joel Jaeggli
The pleasent loonies are from caida. Dr Claffy and co. joelja On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is the video shown at the beginning of the plenary last night available anywhere? who's volumetric 3-d network mapping stuff was that in there? and who's the pleasant loonies behind

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Tony Dal Santo wrote: Dennis Glatting wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Sean Doran wrote: So, why are people deploying them? Just to name two... 1) With NAT I ask for much smaller address spaces. Consequently, I don't have to disclose my network details,

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Geoff Huston
If it isn't an address issue, is it a routing issue? Is it that the routing tables/protocols/hardware can't handle the large number of routes? Are ISPs refusing to carry reasonable routes? Seems to me if the entire address space was broken up into subnets of 4096, there would be about 1

Congestion control

2000-12-14 Thread Dave Crocker
For an industry that has been predicated on queuing theory that permits managing data traffic through moments of transient congestion, the idea that the best way to achieve Quality of Service is simply to throw excess bandwidth at the problem is quaint. On the other hand, that simplistic

Re: the pre-plenary video?

2000-12-14 Thread Brian Lloyd
At 11:47 AM 12/14/2000, you wrote: and who's the pleasant loonies behind the vid anyways? Pleasant loonies? Brian Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.530.676.1113 - voice +1.360.838.9669 - fax

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread James Aldridge
Dennis Glatting wrote: If it isn't an address issue, is it a routing issue? Is it that the routing tables/protocols/hardware can't handle the large number of routes? Are ISPs refusing to carry reasonable routes? Seems to me if the entire address space was broken up into subnets of 4096,

Terminal room lost and found

2000-12-14 Thread John W Noerenberg II
A couple of laptop power supplies, a mouse and a USB cable have been left behind in the terminal room. If you've missing an item like this, drop me a note, and I'll see if I have it. -- john noerenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Keith Moore
I see we're about to embark on the 7th iteration of the NAT mail wars. I don't believe anything new is going to come out of it. I wish I were so optimistic to think that nothing new would come of NATs...unfortunately, the NAT group keeps inventing more cruft. Keith

What is the IETF? -- A note of caution

2000-12-14 Thread John W Noerenberg II
As a representative of of one of the co-hosts for this meeting, I am equally gratified and terrorized to have the distinction hosting the largest IETF meeting to date (I fully expect this meeting to be surpassed soon). Fred's summary of the diversity of the IETF was truly impressive. But in

Re: Congestion control

2000-12-14 Thread Scott Brim
Given that the overcrowding at this IETF was the worst ever, and really interfered with work, not to mention the social event ... Building on a previous suggestion: * When you register for the IETF, you specify which WGs you are interested in in priority order. * Simultaneously WG Chairs

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Frank Solensky
Tony Dal Santo wrote: What exactly is the state of the IPv4 "address pool"? Hilarie Orman, Scott Marcus and I will be working together over the next few weeks to get a more up-to-date view of the world. As soon as we get something together, we'll announce it to the list.

Re: Terminal room lost and found

2000-12-14 Thread Randy Bush
small two button usb mouse and sony usb cable in black bag? actually left in plenary last night? randy

Re: Congestion control

2000-12-14 Thread Jelena Mirkovic
* Software magically takes registrant WG preferences and fills rooms, giving priority to those who have been active (purely according to WG chairs). Once a room is full no one is added. OK, this is the cruddiest part, but leave the details for now. Eso some people get cut off even

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Frank, This is goodness. Can I ask that you publish the *method* before you publish any results? I have seen various attempts to tackle this in the past, and they have all given results that are very hard to interpret and whose meaning depends very much on the method used. I think we could react

Re: Congestion control

2000-12-14 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
I think this is a really, really, really bad idea. This is my first IETF. I had read all the drafts of what interested me before going here. I thought that was enough. Boy was I wrong. I am now also subscribed to the mailiglists... However, I have been to several of the other gatherings of the

Re: Congestion control

2000-12-14 Thread Scott Brim
(Continuing this for its value in exploring the issues ...) On 14 Dec 2000 at 16:57 -0800, Jelena Mirkovic apparently wrote: * Software magically takes registrant WG preferences and fills rooms, giving priority to those who have been active (purely according to WG chairs). Once a room is

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Frank Solensky
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Frank, This is goodness. Can I ask that you publish the *method* before you publish any results? I have seen various attempts to tackle this in the past, and they have all given results that are very hard to interpret and whose meaning depends very much on the

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread David W. Morris
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Geoff Huston wrote: The rate of growth in the table and the prefix length distribution in the table both point to the growth of small prefixes (/24) as a major factor in the growth of the routing table. There are strong indications that NAT is one factor behind this

Re: What is the IETF? -- A note of caution

2000-12-14 Thread Matt Crawford
But in retrospect, one thing he said bothered me greatly. He mentioned there were representatives of some five hundred different organizations at this meeting. That too is impressive. But it's that word "representative" I find disquieting. We are here not as corporate

Re: Congestion control

2000-12-14 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
I think this is a really, really, really bad idea. This is my first IETF. I had read all the drafts of what interested me before going here. I thought that was enough. Boy was I wrong. I am now also subscribed to the mailiglists... However, I have been to several of the other gatherings of

Re: Congestion control

2000-12-14 Thread Dave Crocker
At 03:58 PM 12/14/00 -0800, Scott Brim wrote: Building on a previous suggestion: Just to be clear, my suggestion is diametrically opposed to the list that you specified. You are suggesting very tight queue management. By the mid-70's, Kleinrock showed that these mechanisms do not work in the

Re: What is the IETF? -- A note of caution

2000-12-14 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Hello: (I copy this to the poisson list, since I am somehow blocked from the IETF list). I am fully understand what your concern is. But, - what should those "corporate representative" do? - where should they go? best regards, -- Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim - VLSM-TJT - http://rms46.vlsm.org

RE: What is the IETF? -- A note of caution

2000-12-14 Thread Kyle Lussier
But it's that word "representative" I find disquieting. I second everything you said John. How does the IETF prevent a "RAMBUS" type scenario where a company sits in on IETF, copies the technologies, patents them, waits for everyone to adopt them, and then sues everyone for infringement? This

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Masataka Ohta
Itojun; You do not consider IPv6 an option? ipv6 is working just fine even here at IETF49 venue, it's so much more convenient than IPv4, for couple of reasons. We can't use IPv6 until multihoming issues are properly solved and global routing table size and the number of ASes

Re: What is the IETF? -- A note of caution

2000-12-14 Thread Keith Moore
He also introduced the ADs as "name from employer" after the IAB had been introduced solely by name. I don't like the word "representatives" either. But employers who support employees' IESG and IAB participation certainly deserve to be recognized, since such an employee will spend a

Re: What is the IETF? -- A note of caution

2000-12-14 Thread Ari Ollikainen
At 3:34 PM -0800 12/14/00, John W Noerenberg II wrote: We are here not as corporate representatives, but as individuals committed to building the best Internet we can. Becoming part of a working group means you leave your company badge at the door. As the Internet has become more and more

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
ipv6 is working just fine even here at IETF49 venue, it's so much more convenient than IPv4, for couple of reasons. We can't use IPv6 until multihoming issues are properly solved and global routing table size and the number of ASes are controlled to be below reasonable upper

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread M Dev
hi all, i'm late in giving my contribution to this subject, as i'm on the other side of world... regarding NAT, its not horrible at all. as u all must be knowing its the solution that was provided to the problem of reducing IPv4 addresses. Yes, there is a shortage of ipv4 addresses. Initially

Re: What is the IETF? -- A note of caution

2000-12-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:11:25 EST, Kyle Lussier said: How does the IETF prevent a "RAMBUS" type scenario where a company sits in on IETF, copies the technologies, patents them, waits for everyone to adopt them, and then sues everyone for infringement? They can't copy-and-patent the technology

Re: What is the IETF? -- A note of caution

2000-12-14 Thread Ole J. Jacobsen
Did we not just have this whole debate on the Poisson list or is this a new flavor? Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher The Internet Protocol Journal Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 GSM: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On

WLAN

2000-12-14 Thread Teemu Rinta-aho
Hi, nice to notice that the IETF WLAN is also working here at the Embassy Suites hotel, which is far (ab. 2 miles) away from the Sheraton... Is here a secret/uninformed access point or is the range of WLAN this awesome on this side of the world?-) BR, Teemu