Your considered opinion

2005-06-28 Thread Olivier Beauchemin (gmail)
I'm in the process of building a NOC for my current employer, and I'm interested in knowing if any folks on this list have ever worked with a product called Unity, by Singlestep? (www.singlestep.com) If so, I'd love to hear about your experiences. Please reply off-list, and if there's any

DHCP and aliases

2005-06-28 Thread Eric Frazier
Hi, I am hoping this is an ok question for this list. I believe it is. I have just never thought about doing something like this before and it is likely totally child's play to many of you guys. :) I am using a FreeBSD 4.11 IPFW firewall on a ADSL connection. I want to be able to take

Brand X decision could mean widespread VoIP blocking

2005-06-28 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Jeff Pulver makes a good point in a Forbes article when he says I believe it's a matter of when, not if providers start blocking VoIP traffic from competitors across their own infrastructure, especially on the heels of the Brand X SCOTUS ruling. If I'm a service provider offering my own voice

Re: Brand X decision could mean widespread VoIP blocking

2005-06-28 Thread W. Mark Herrick, Jr.
At 02:06 PM 6/28/2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Jeff Pulver makes a good point in a Forbes article when he says I believe it's a matter of when, not if providers start blocking VoIP traffic from competitors across their own infrastructure, especially on the heels of the Brand X SCOTUS

Re: Brand X decision could mean widespread VoIP blocking

2005-06-28 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
I tend to agree with Mr. Willison. ;-) - ferg -- W. Mark Herrick, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Pulver makes a good point in a Forbes article when he says I believe it's a matter of when, not if providers start blocking VoIP traffic from competitors across their own infrastructure,

Re: Brand X decision could mean widespread VoIP blocking

2005-06-28 Thread Frank Coluccio
I commented independently concerning the same issue just a little while ago, at:http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21457409re: The question may now become if consumer can order Vonage, 8x8, ... VoIP service, riding the cable Internet service.---begin snip:Agreed, that is a major

Re: ISP phishing

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Tombaugh
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 people work. As a result, we have stopped

Re: Brand X decision could mean widespread VoIP blocking

2005-06-28 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Jeff Pulver makes a good point in a Forbes article when he says I believe it's a matter of when, not if providers start blocking VoIP traffic from competitors across their own infrastructure, especially on the heels of the Brand X SCOTUS

Re: ISP phishing

2005-06-28 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:17 PM -0400 2005-06-28, 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

Re: Brand X decision could mean widespread VoIP blocking

2005-06-28 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
When people start to talk about blocking, just say no. It took our politicians in Sweden approx one month to start trying to extend the child porn filtering some large ISPs agreed to implement, to also include trafficking and prostitution advertising. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: [EMAIL

Re: Brand X decision could mean widespread VoIP blocking

2005-06-28 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: When people start to talk about blocking, just say no. It took our politicians in Sweden approx one month to start trying to extend the child porn filtering some large ISPs agreed to implement, to also include trafficking and prostitution

Re: Brand X decision could mean widespread VoIP blocking

2005-06-28 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:51:08PM -0500, Frank Coluccio wrote: I commented independently concerning the same issue just a little while ago, at: http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21457409 re: The question may now become if consumer can order

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 Paul Wouters
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: At 5:17 PM -0400 2005-06-28, 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

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: Brand X decision could mean widespread VoIP blocking

2005-06-28 Thread Aaron Glenn
On 6/28/05, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm a service provider offering my own voice over broadband offering, and I've got the ability to block my competition, why not? Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Vonage can't give their packets a high priority over a

Re: DHCP and aliases

2005-06-28 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:24:42PM -0700 I heard the voice of Eric Frazier, and lo! it spake thus: But can I do this without setting up another nic? So is it possible to use DHCP to get an IP alias? I don't think it is (I tried it a while back). I've heard there are some tricks you can do