Re: fiber switch for gig

2008-04-01 Thread Pekka Savola
be looking for a larger number of SFP GE ports though. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: mtu mis-match

2008-03-20 Thread Pekka Savola
setting DF bit; no MSS clamping and some DSL clients have MTU=1492 exposed to the user, others have a middlebox router which shows MTU=1500; some others). You may want to check that both ends are receiving ICMP packet too big messages (i.e. a firewall doesn't filter them out). -- Pekka Savola

Re: Operators Penalized? (was Re: Kenyan Route Hijack)

2008-03-17 Thread Pekka Savola
document is found for that, I can add some verbiage to the abovementioned draft. (Currently, however, it is not obvious to me if that draft is going to progress, and if so which IETF WG or similar forum would be the right place to develop it.) -- Pekka Savola You each name

cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
stack is higher than the cost of spending timemoney on beind on the bleeding edge to do v6-only yet supporting v4 for your existing and future customers still wedded to the older IP protocol? -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
2, for decades. I proport there are strong economic reasons why that is probably not ging to be the case. I may interpret your steps differently, but I see at least a decade more of work before we get to step 2) (i.e., before we get to 90% penetration). -- Pekka Savola You

v4 exhaustion and v6 impact [Re: cost of dual-stack vs v6-only]

2008-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
it to try to market v6 to their end-users. So v6 capabilities in the ISP backbones will improve but the end-users and sites still don't get v6 ubiquituously. This is a significant improvement from v6 perspective but is still not enough to get to 90% global v6 deployment. -- Pekka Savola

Re: v4 exhaustion and v6 impact [Re: cost of dual-stack vs v6-only]

2008-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
to define a business case for it. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

BGP prefix filtering, how exactly? [Re: YouTube IP Hijacking]

2008-02-25 Thread Pekka Savola
a mess, and too long filters, to fix this way.) [1] Joe Abley's explanation on SIDR list on 20 Jun 2007: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/sidr/current/msg00201.html -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems

Re: BGP prefix filtering, how exactly? [Re: YouTube IP Hijacking]

2008-02-25 Thread Pekka Savola
be applied today (whether or not you want to use IRR and/or autogenerated configs is a matter of taste) but the principle seems sound. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R

Re: 240/4

2007-10-18 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] The operators who want to do something private with this space don't need the IETF or IANA approval to do so. So they should just go ahead and do it. If they can manage to get it to work, and live to tell

Re: 240/4

2007-10-16 Thread Pekka Savola
context. Prior to that, there is no need to do anything. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: Cisco CRS-1 vs Juniper 1600 vs Huawei NE5000E

2007-08-03 Thread Pekka Savola
protocols (PIM, MSDP, various IPv6 stuff)? The last time we tried running non-C/J as a router was a very Extreme experience and we swore never again to touch similar router underdogs in the future. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
.. There are also (proprietary) solutions leveraging cable for symmetric 10/10 or 100/100 Mbit/s. One example I'm aware of is Teleste's ETTH technology: http://www.teleste.fi/index.phtml?page_id=1114navi_id=1114 -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

Re: IPv6 section of ARIN Number Resource Policy (Sec 6.5.1.1.c)

2007-01-17 Thread Pekka Savola
on other, less network-stressful, ways. At least one way to do so to examine what can be done to influence your upstreams' (and recursively if applicable) route preferences (e.g., using communities). -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

Re: RIS [Re: AS41961 not seen in many networks]

2007-01-05 Thread Pekka Savola
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Alexander Koch wrote: On Fri, 5 January 2007 08:11:41 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: Well, the undocumented fact is that RIS does not accept multi-hop BGP peerings, which may somewhat limit its coverage. Why then do I have one? They do such things, they indeed do. Well

RIS [Re: AS41961 not seen in many networks]

2007-01-04 Thread Pekka Savola
, the undocumented fact is that RIS does not accept multi-hop BGP peerings, which may somewhat limit its coverage. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: CWDM equipment (current favorites)

2006-11-15 Thread Pekka Savola
on and reset the system :-( -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: CWDM equipment (current favorites)

2006-10-31 Thread Pekka Savola
are likewise less than ideal.. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

different flavours of uRPF [RE: register.com down sev0?]

2006-10-27 Thread Pekka Savola
still keep wondering why Cisco hasn't implemented something like Juniper's feasible-path strict uRPF. Works quite well with multihomed and asymmetric routing as well -- no need to fiddle with communities, BGP weights etc. to ensure symmetry. -- Pekka Savola You each name

Re: GTSM - Do you use it?

2006-08-17 Thread Pekka Savola
on nanog will :-( -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

backbone threats [Re: key change for TCP-MD5]

2006-06-26 Thread Pekka Savola
of the document is to be able to better convey the real story both between the operator-operator and operator-IETF interfaces :-) -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash

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

2006-03-06 Thread Pekka Savola
longer. I'd love to see something like that (even better: charging by what you advertise).. but unfortunately, I don't think it'd happen, and if it did, I guess the main folks benefiting would be lawyers.. :) -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

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

2006-03-01 Thread Pekka Savola
a moving target, but it should give a hopefully short and relatively concise summary. Unfortunately, it _doesn't_ describe how to solve the problems that Randy was referring to... :-) -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom

Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?

2006-01-25 Thread Pekka Savola
. Yes, there's a draft -- draft-ietf-rpsec-bgpsecrec-03.txt -- but it has been woefully lacking on the operator deployment requirements. More people should participate in the effort. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom

Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?

2006-01-25 Thread Pekka Savola
Exactly. If $OTHER_FOLKS don't deploy it, cases like Panix may not really be avoided. I think that's what folks proposing perfect -- but practically undeployable -- security solutions are missing. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

Re: do bogon filters still help?

2006-01-12 Thread Pekka Savola
, packets coming from other native networks, encapsulated by their relays with src=192.88.99.1 coming towards your 6to4-using customers would get blocked. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks

Re: do bogon filters still help?

2006-01-11 Thread Pekka Savola
addresses from that prefix, no matter what the folks at bit.nl think). This is not correct. It's perfectly fine to source packets from 192.88.99.0/24. Please show a citation if you think different. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

Re: the iab simplifies internet architecture!

2005-11-15 Thread Pekka Savola
the protocols are somewhat more limited (though not zero) when the specs and code (those that don't address the needs of a particular set of operators as-is, in any case) have already shipped. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

Re: the iab simplifies internet architecture!

2005-11-13 Thread Pekka Savola
energy fighting that. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: classful routes redux

2005-11-04 Thread Pekka Savola
on cleaning up the AS number mess a bit rather than throwing more technology at the problem. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-25 Thread Pekka Savola
transit. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-17 Thread Pekka Savola
to other mechanisms or approaches (e.g., HIP). -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: IPv6 news [global crossing]

2005-10-12 Thread Pekka Savola
this). At least one of these doesn't (IMHO) qualify as native IPv6 [backbone]. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Bittorrent on v6 [Re: IPv6 news]

2005-10-12 Thread Pekka Savola
. My (unverified) recollection is that BT supports v6 off-the-box in most linux distros, but I may be wrong. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: Who is a Tier 1?

2005-10-06 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, J. Oquendo wrote: /* tip never write e-mail within the first hour of your waking morning */ if you just would have followed your own advise..

Re: router worms and International Infrastructure

2005-09-22 Thread Pekka Savola
that are in the FIB? Yes. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: router worms and International Infrastructure

2005-09-22 Thread Pekka Savola
it in the contract, and when the packets get dropped, explain the situation ;-) -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: router worms and International Infrastructure

2005-09-21 Thread Pekka Savola
on what they accept from downstream.. Btw. Juniper's Feasible Path uRPF (mentioned in RFC3704) is your friend, even on multihomed/asymmetric links. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security

Re: router worms and International Infrastructure

2005-09-21 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Pekka Savola wrote: Btw. Juniper's Feasible Path uRPF (mentioned in RFC3704) is your friend, even on multihomed/asymmetric links. So, say I'm a large consumer broadband ISP, and I made the decision some years ago to use

Re: Openbsd fixes icmp protocol bugs apparently ignored by the IETF

2005-07-13 Thread Pekka Savola
-- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

the problems being solved -- or not

2005-05-24 Thread Pekka Savola
this be? -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: the problems being solved -- or not

2005-05-24 Thread Pekka Savola
constraints or ability to decipher the RIR tools to make a functional policy implementation. But see above, as prefix lists would NOT have solved the AS9121 problem, as was pointed out. And managing the certificates, processing them, , would be significantly easier? -- Pekka Savola

draft-savola-mtufrag-network-tunneling-04.txt

2005-05-24 Thread Pekka Savola
avoided. This memo justifies why this is a common, non-trivial problem, and goes on to describe the different solutions and their characteristics at some length. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems

Re: soBGP deployment

2005-05-21 Thread Pekka Savola
for deployability in mind.) Maybe the important operational differences are only observable from 1K feet view ? -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: soBGP deployment

2005-05-21 Thread Pekka Savola
the practical deployment issues with the on-the-path signing model seem prohibitive (too much 3rd party deployment required before the solution would be useful). -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks

Re: MD5 for TCP/BGP Sessions

2005-03-31 Thread Pekka Savola
customers. I.e., strict uRPF -like prevention, so that nobody (neither a peer, upstream or customer) is able to spoof the infrastructure IP addresses. That's what we're doing, and I'd hope more people would as well. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

Re: MD5 for TCP/BGP Sessions

2005-03-30 Thread Pekka Savola
the above but indeed is also a pain to set up and maintain. There are other attacks you can make against TCP sessions (protected by MD5 or not) using ICMP, though. (see draft-gont-tcpm-icmp-attacks-03.txt). -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

Re: MD5 for TCP/BGP Sessions

2005-03-30 Thread Pekka Savola
in This is why this helps for eBGP sessions only the peer is also protecting its borders. I.e., if you know the peer's network has spoofing-prevention enabled, nobody is able to spoof the srcip the peer uses. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

Re: Emergency Internet Backbone Provider Maintenance Tonight

2005-01-24 Thread Pekka Savola
really hope it's bigger this time.. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

RE: 16 vs 32 bit ASNs [Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI]

2004-11-30 Thread Pekka Savola
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Owen DeLong wrote: --On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 7:44 AM +0200 Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Chris Burton wrote: It is highly doubtful that the policies in place will become more relaxed with the introduction of 32-bit ASNs, the more

Re: ULA and RIR cost-recovery

2004-11-29 Thread Pekka Savola
, and larger blocks will also need to be provided. Oops, they already have! -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: 16 vs 32 bit ASNs [Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI]

2004-11-29 Thread Pekka Savola
of routes, but also the churn those routes would make.. Oh god. It's better to try to stick to 16 bit ASNs for now, and make stricter policies and reclaim the space if needed. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds

RE: 16 vs 32 bit ASNs [Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI]

2004-11-29 Thread Pekka Savola
ASNs, pretty much anyone could have an ASN if they wanted to unless the policies were very strict, and it would be very difficult to justify why it would have to be strict because there is so vast resource to be used. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet

Re: ULA and RIR cost-recovery

2004-11-29 Thread Pekka Savola
home customers like DSL, and it's going to be a a pain because they either must get a new prefix or give their customers a /64 instead of /48. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George

Re: 16 vs 32 bit ASNs [Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI]

2004-11-29 Thread Pekka Savola
or whoever and we're done. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

A6/DNAME not needed for v6 renumbering [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]]

2004-11-28 Thread Pekka Savola
less protocol complexity? As you note, A6/DNAME wasn't a panacea. A lot additional stuff is needed to achieve the goal. It seems to me that actually the A6/DNAME part is a relatively simple one to achieve using current mechanisms. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king

Re: A6/DNAME not needed for v6 renumbering [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]]

2004-11-28 Thread Pekka Savola
.). To paraphrase Randy from a couple of years ago: 'Ocean: do not drain.' -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

16 vs 32 bit ASNs [Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI]

2004-11-28 Thread Pekka Savola
at least :) would rather that that the endsites had other means to do multihoming which wouldn't require such global resources. ASN exhaustion is IMHO just a symptom of the real problem. Enlarging the ASN space does not cure the disease, just makes it worse. -- Pekka Savola You each

Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32)

2004-11-27 Thread Pekka Savola
a few, not tens of thousands as with AS numbers, and the fairness argument doesn't apply. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI

2004-11-27 Thread Pekka Savola
like the idea myself, but there it is. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]]

2004-11-22 Thread Pekka Savola
. Care to offer a couple of examples of this empirical evidence ? -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]]

2004-11-22 Thread Pekka Savola
the more specifics to Internet anywhere. How rare is this? -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]]

2004-11-21 Thread Pekka Savola
the more specific multihoming/traffic engineering mess we have with v4, most of those big enterprises don't really seem to need globally routable PI space, provided that they can already use ULAs if they want. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

2004-11-14 Thread Pekka Savola
space (their employees?), and how ISC would not be an end-site. This is a more generic issue, of course. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-09 Thread Pekka Savola
where the application in question would not have to deal with NAT traversal logic at all if it were to choose v6-only approach. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-08 Thread Pekka Savola
for bigger enterprises is also one area where (at the moment) something like ULAs have some questionable uses. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-08 Thread Pekka Savola
and no global connectivity, so the box will need some automated configuration protocol in any case. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

POLL: SPs' IPv6 (tunnel) deployment requirements

2004-11-02 Thread Pekka Savola
-requirements-01.txt For a lengthier document describing BB ISP IPv6 deployment options, see: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-asadullah-v6ops-bb-deployment-scenarios-01.txt Feedback on these is also welcome, of course! -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet

Re: BW Management solutions advice

2004-10-22 Thread Pekka Savola
are available in Gbit/s-grade which do not need you to configure certain kind of rate-limiters a priori, but can automatically react to most kinds of attacks, even simple ones (e.g., TCP SYN floods). -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

Re: I-D on operational MTU/fragmentation issues in tunneling

2004-10-14 Thread Pekka Savola
wrote: On 11-okt-04, at 10:12, Pekka Savola wrote: The document is about to be IETF Last Called for Informational RFC, but prior to that, I'd like to solicit comments/feedback/review from the people here because I'm 100% sure a lot of people have been faced with these issues (we certainly

Re: aggregation table entries

2004-10-13 Thread Pekka Savola
adjusting the weight or preference for the advertisement you receive w/ eBGP and the advertisement you send in iBGP (so that only that one router would send its traffic over that link), but that's likely a bit more work and operational complexity. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves

I-D on operational MTU/fragmentation issues in tunneling

2004-10-11 Thread Pekka Savola
this is a common, non-trivial problem, and goes on to describe the different solutions and their characteristics at some length. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R

Re: FBI bust DDoS 'Mafia'

2004-08-30 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Len Sassaman wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Pekka Savola wrote: The America is not what it used to be. Welcome to the 21st century. Have those guys rotting at Guantanamo been proven guilty? What was the deal with Sklyarov (http://www.freesklyarov.org/)? Etc

Re: FBI bust DDoS 'Mafia'

2004-08-29 Thread Pekka Savola
this concept called innocent until proven guilty. What country are you from? The America is not what it used to be. Welcome to the 21st century. Have those guys rotting at Guantanamo been proven guilty? What was the deal with Sklyarov (http://www.freesklyarov.org/)? Etc. -- Pekka Savola

Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?)

2004-08-04 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, David A.Ulevitch wrote: SPF's use of TXT records doesn't bother me so much. It's more that people are (blindly) clamoring for it. Maybe you should -- draft-ymbk-dns-choices-00.txt -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

RE: Real-Time Mitigation of Denial of Service Attacks Now Available With ATT

2004-06-03 Thread Pekka Savola
, or even doesn't support (line-rate) filtering? Change the vendors and filter at your core connecting those crappy boxes then. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin

Re: ntp config tech note

2004-05-21 Thread Pekka Savola
chrooted and setuid'ed with special clock change privileges for 3+ years now. The code has been shipping for about three years in Red Hat Linux, for example. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security

Re: New IPv4 Allocations for APNIC

2004-04-28 Thread Pekka Savola
to provide the IANA web site using HTTPS to mitigate HTTP hijacking, DNS spoofing, or whatever? -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: New IPv4 Allocations for APNIC

2004-04-28 Thread Pekka Savola
redundant as anyone should Use the Source in any case :) -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: Alternate and/or hidden infrastructure addresses (BGP/TCP RST/SYN vulnerability)

2004-04-23 Thread Pekka Savola
think those still exist... (TTL should only be decremented when _forwarding_, and I don't think you could argue that you need to _forward_ a packet from your ingress interface to your _loopback_ interface..) -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

Alternatives to MD5 [Re: Winstar says there is no TCP/BGP vulnerability]

2004-04-21 Thread Pekka Savola
to be forgetting that for these TCP packets to be processed, they must be spoofed to come from a certain source IP address. If packets spoofed from that address are summarily discarded at appropriate places before reaching the infrastructure, you're pretty much safe. -- Pekka Savola

Re: Winstar says there is no TCP/BGP vulnerability

2004-04-21 Thread Pekka Savola
saying. You don't need to deploy anti-spoofing filters everywhere. It needs to be done by those parties which are the ones setting up MD5 passwords. No more than that. (See my thread Alternatives to MD5 for more.) -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy

asymmetric/peer RPF [RE: TCP/BGP vulnerability - easier than you think]

2004-04-21 Thread Pekka Savola
something you're filtering, tell to peers not to advertise anythnig that's not properly in the routing DB's, etc.)? This doesn't seem so bad to me... -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security

Re: TCP Vulnerability makes case for authenticated BGP

2004-04-20 Thread Pekka Savola
). -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: Lazy network operators

2004-04-16 Thread Pekka Savola
with that, but will likely be less effective when the attackers get smarter to choose attacks which are indistinguishable from mainstream applications. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security

Re: IOS 12.3(x) Strange service ports open on router

2004-04-09 Thread Pekka Savola
to believe this is a problem, so I'm waiting for v6 deployment to get really started before writing bugtraq. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

RE: BGP TTL check in 12.3(7)T

2004-04-08 Thread Pekka Savola
to this conversation! (tongue in cheek) Maybe you should be listening to the vendors instead, and pick ones which provide the features you need? -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R

Re: BGP TTL check in 12.3(7)T

2004-04-08 Thread Pekka Savola
) value of zero. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: Enterprise Multihoming

2004-03-11 Thread Pekka Savola
is such a big thing they'll want to avoid it always. If it happens, for a brief moment, once in five years (for example), for most companies that's an acceptable level of risk. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems

Re: Enterprise Multihoming

2004-03-11 Thread Pekka Savola
. Public AS number is often enough (and even private will do, but that leads to other kind of mess.) -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Re: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-11 Thread Pekka Savola
to experimental, the intent of this document is that use of DNAME RRs in the reverse tree be deprecated. do you difficulties in parsing? -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R

WG Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-isp-scenarios-analysis-01.txt (fwd)

2004-02-09 Thread Pekka Savola
FYI, Feedback is welcome, either to the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or to me and the document editor (in Cc:) directly. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:58:44 +0200 (EET) From: Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Are SW upgrades needed in MPLS core networks?

2004-02-06 Thread Pekka Savola
) is due to the other reason, because some vendors have sold crappy hardware which does not support IPv6, or does not offer sufficiently good IPv6 performance. On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Pekka Savola wrote: Just taking a quick poll, as we don't use MPLS and I think this is an interesting thing to know

Re: Strange public traceroutes return private RFC1918 addresses

2004-02-02 Thread Pekka Savola
to if you're using a vendor the implementation of which doesn't allow you to do that.. :) -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

Are SW upgrades needed in MPLS core networks?

2004-01-26 Thread Pekka Savola
for that (fixing bugs (minor upgrade)? providing new features, if so which features? etc.?) Please respond off-list if you feel so. Thanks. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin

good cabling in real environments [Re: Request for submissions: messy cabling and other broken things]

2003-12-17 Thread Pekka Savola
://thrashyour.com/lhr1-wiringdemo.jpg or http://new.onecall.net/timages/cat5patch.jpg How do you do good cabling in dynamic, real environments? :-) -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R

I-D ACTION:draft-savola-bcp38-multihoming-update-01.txt (fwd)

2003-10-27 Thread Pekka Savola
FYI, This document has passed the IETF Last Call for Best Current Practice, and has been significantly revised based on the comments. I'll be on the IESG agenda in a couple of weeks. Feedback and comments is still sought (especially, I'd like to reword the title to be more generic, but

Re: IAB concerns against permanent deployment of edge-based filtering

2003-10-18 Thread Pekka Savola
to upgrade, it just harms itself. Backbone networks harms everyone concerned. It's good to remember who bears the pain for (in)action in whichever case. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oykingdom bleeds. Systems. Networks. Security

Re: Extreme BlackDiamond

2003-10-13 Thread Pekka Savola
of doubts about anything more complex than that. We made the mistake of one Extreme here as a router, and that has paid us back with sweat and tears. We'll be switching it to a Juniper freeing up soon, and we'll be dancing with joy afterwards. -- Pekka Savola You each name yourselves

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