MPLScon

2006-03-29 Thread Irwin Lazar
Title: MPLScon Nanog list members if you are interested in attending MPLScon in NYC in May, please contact me for a discount code. Irwin -- Irwin Lazar, Conference Director, MPLScon http://www.mplscon.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MPLScon 2006 Call for Presentations

2005-10-06 Thread Irwin Lazar
regarding speaking at the event. Irwin -- Irwin Lazar, Conference Director, MPLScon http://www.mplscon.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 703-742-9659 AIM/iChat/Skype/Gizmo: imlazar

RE: Tidbit from DirectNIC

2005-09-02 Thread Irwin Lazar
Per http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475927/posts the firefighters are taking sniper fire and have barracaded themselves inside the building. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Greb Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 5:16 PM To:

Re: Internet impact of Apple Tiger

2005-04-29 Thread Irwin Lazar
Yes, but the difference is that Firefox doesn't come with a pre-populated set of news feeds. Irwin From: Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:10:16 +0100 To: Irwin Lazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Internet impact of Apple Tiger Irwin

Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-13 Thread Irwin Lazar
During the first outage this week I used Bluetooth DUN via my Treo to dial-up from home and check Comcast's customer support web page. There was a note on the network health page stating that Internet access was down for all cable modem subscribers. Uh no, it wasn't down - just their DNS was

FW: [IP] a briefing at the National Academies

2005-03-24 Thread Irwin Lazar
FYI: -- Forwarded Message From: Brownstein, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:05:58 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: can you assist in announcing this To interested IP'ers The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies invites you to a

FW: [MPLS-OPS]: Toolbox for Traffic Engineering freely available

2005-02-24 Thread Irwin Lazar
Thought I'd pass this along in case anyone is interested: -- Forwarded Message From: Skivee Fabian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:22:13 +0100 (CET) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MPLS-OPS]: Toolbox for Traffic Engineering freely available Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Break-In At SAIC Risks ID Theft

2005-02-14 Thread Irwin Lazar
You can always use http://www.bugmenot.com/ as well. irwin From: Todd Vierling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:22:21 -0500 (EST) To: Jim Popovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Break-In At SAIC Risks ID Theft On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Jim Popovitch wrote:

RE: Any news about Diego Garcia?

2004-12-28 Thread Irwin Lazar
Unaffected - see: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1309255/posts -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gregory Hicks Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 10:59 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Any news about Diego Garcia?

Re: (newbie) BGP For Dummies?

2004-12-12 Thread Irwin Lazar
Try: http://www.itprc.com/routing.htm Look under the BGP sub-heading for links to a lot of info. Irwin From: David E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:35:34 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (newbie) BGP For Dummies? Hi, long-time

Re: How to Blocking VoIP ( H.323) ?

2004-11-11 Thread Irwin Lazar
The following resources may be helpful for H.323: IP Ports and Protocols used by H.323 Devices http://www.teamsolutions.co.uk/tsfirewall.html The Problems and Pitfalls of Getting H.323 Safely Through Firewalls http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~rakerman/articles/ig-h323_firewalls.html SIP uses TCP

Re: Status of FCAPS model? Useful? Obsolete?

2004-11-10 Thread Irwin Lazar
We see a lot of interest among enterprises in ITIL for IT service management, which I'm guessing would overlap the FCAPS framework. Is anyone investing it for the SP side? (what's ITIL? - http://www.ogc.gov.uk/index.asp?id=2261) Irwin From: Christian Kuhtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 09

RE: MPLS experiences?

2004-10-27 Thread Irwin Lazar
Folks, if anyone is interested in presenting a case study of their MPLS experiences, or participating in a panel discussion on shared experiences at next year's MPLScon, please contact me off-line. MPLScon is May 16-19, 2005 in NYC. Thanks, Irwin -Original Message- From: Greg

MPLScon Call For Presentations

2004-09-28 Thread Irwin Lazar
The ³Call for Presentations² for MPLScon 2005 is now available on the web at: http://www.mplscon.com/speaker/submit_pres.html MPLScon 2005 will be held on May 16-19 at the Marriott Financial Center in New York City. Please let me know if you have any questions. Submissions are due November

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-17 Thread Irwin Lazar
I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network management, such as Nagios or Big Brother. We are currently using WhatsUp Gold, and would like to move to something more flexible (and not running on a Windows platform). Something that has email/paging capabilities, and can process SNMP

Re: Oct. NANOG - hotel? At the two month marker now.

2004-08-23 Thread Irwin Lazar
One other word of advice, hotel space in this area has been pretty hard to come by in recent months, book early or you may find that the closest available room is in Maryland or at a resort like Landsdowne. Also, there are lots of low-cost hotels on Route 28 north of the airport and Route 7 east

RE: Cisco Systems to Purchase Procket Networks...

2004-06-17 Thread Irwin Lazar
FYI: Cnet just published an interview with him this morning entitled routing's rock star see: http://news.com.com/Routing%27s+rock+star/2008-1035_3-5236759.html?tag=nl -Original Message- From: John Curran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:00 PM To: Wayne E.

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Irwin Lazar
I'm leaving off news publications like Light Reading and Network World. Any thoughts? Have NANOG powerpoint presentations made these sorts of journals obsolete? :) My favorite journal is the NANOG slide presentations. They are nice abstracts of someone's work, much better than the

RE: Fed. Govt and IEEE ban contributions to/from Cuba, Libya, Iran, Syria

2003-10-30 Thread Irwin Lazar
Thought it might be useful to pass on a copy of a letter from the IEEE President that was published in the last issue of Spectrum - On Serving Members In Embargoed Countries In January of 2002, the IEEE took action to fulfill the U.S. Treasury Department trade regulations

RE: Sobig.f surprise attack today

2003-08-22 Thread Irwin Lazar
FYI: At 1500 GMT, Mikko Hypponen, director of anti-virus research at F-Secure, told New Scientist that 18 of the 20 internet addresses his company had identified in the virus had been blocked. But if even one

RE: North America not interested in IP V6

2003-07-31 Thread Irwin Lazar
-Original Message- From: Michel Py [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:16 PM To: Jeroen Massar Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: North America not interested in IP V6 Jeroen Massar wrote: It has a timeline (slides 47-50) showing the US falling behind

Patching for Cisco vulnerability

2003-07-18 Thread Irwin Lazar
Just out of curiosity, are folks just applying the Cisco patch or do you go through some sort of testing/validation process to ensure that the patch doesn't cause any other problems? Given typical change management procedures how long is taking you to get clearance to apply the patch? I'm

RE: IPv6

2003-06-15 Thread Irwin Lazar
IPv6's major implementation problem is going to be apathy. After all, things are working fine at the moment, and who cares that some day there might be a big ip address crunch? Nick FYI: http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2221821 June 13, 2003 Pentagon Commits to IPv6 By Roy

IPv6

2003-06-12 Thread Irwin Lazar
Excuse the off-topic question, but does anyone know if there is some sort of list anywhere of service providers who are running IPv6 in a production capacity, either totunnel IPv4 or to offer native IPv6 services? I'm not looking for test or research networks but rather a list of IPv6

RE: ENUM/E.164 books

2003-02-23 Thread Irwin Lazar
I've put some ENUM resources on http://www.itprc.com/tcp_ip.htm Irwin -Original Message- From: Pete Kruckenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ENUM/E.164 books Anyone have recommendations on good books (or similar

RE: IPv6 subnet calculators?

2003-02-12 Thread Irwin Lazar
Try: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sipcalc/?topic_id=150 -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Wheat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 5:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IPv6 subnet calculators? I am trying to find an IPv6 subnet calculator or

Risk of Internet collapse grows

2002-11-26 Thread Irwin Lazar
Thought this might be worth passing on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2514651.stm There is a recent book out called "Linked: The New Science of Networks" which details the potential for causing widespread Internet damage by targeting a few hubs instead of random or widespread

RE: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

2002-10-07 Thread Irwin Lazar
-Original Message- From: Scott Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:56 AM To: Stephane Bortzmeyer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:49:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

research request

2002-09-05 Thread Irwin Lazar
me off-list. Thanks, Irwin -- Irwin Lazar Practice Manager, Burton Group www.burtongroup.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 703-742-9659 Cell: 703-402-4119 DrivingNetworkEvolution

Broadening the IPv6 discussion

2002-08-29 Thread Irwin Lazar
Since we're on the topic of IPv6, I wanted to gauge the current attitude of the ops. community toward its deployment. We're seeing a lot more interest from our enterprise clients in using v6, especially as things like VoIP and PDAs consume their address pools, and NAT gets in the way of

MPLScon

2002-06-27 Thread Irwin Lazar
about their operational experiences with MPLS, and are local to the Denver area (or can travel there), please contact me off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I'm currently recruiting for panel discussions related to MPLS VPN security, OAM, and MPLS vs. ATM. Thanks, Irwin --- Irwin Lazar

D.C. area based ISP's unite

2002-06-18 Thread Irwin Lazar
FYI: o ISPs Form DC-based Organization To Battle Large Telecom Firms Washington, DC -- About 200 Internet service providers (ISPs) from around the country have formed a new organization based in Washington DC that will battle against what they call monopolistic local telephone companies