network or not? Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-16 Thread Scott Weeks
that idea!! :-) scott : : - Original Message - : From: "Scott Weeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:32 PM : Subject: Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap : (personal) 1U colo?) : : : > : >

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Is it bad, If they (your sysadmins) understand your backbone infrastructure and understand such things, as MTU MTU discovery, knows about ACL filters (without extra details) and existing limitations? They are not required to know about VPN mode or T3 card configuration, but they must understand ba

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Alexei Roudnev
- Original Message - From: "Scott Weeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:32 PM Subject: Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?) > > > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Alexei Roudn

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
> I find it ironic that one of the presentations at the last nanog was about > a system kind of like that: > http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/gauthier.html > and that we had some luser on the nanog30 wireless network infected by SQL > slammer. Well it wouldnt be nanog without a few infections, passw

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread jlewis
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe NANOG needs to implement a system where you have to log > in to a web page with your NANOG meeting passcode in order to > get a usable IP address. Then, when an infected computer shows > up we will know exactly whose it was. Might even be inter

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Scott Weeks
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Randy Bush wrote: : > No true in many cases. All I have to prove is it's not the network and : > then I hand it off to the windows/*nix/ sysadmins. To prove : > it's not the network, I don't need to know the end systems in any sort of : > detail. : : to pass the buck, one

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Kelly Setzer
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:21:54PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote: > > > No true in many cases. All I have to prove is it's not the network and > > then I hand it off to the windows/*nix/ sysadmins. To prove > > it's not the network, I don't need to know the end systems in any sort of > > detail. > >

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Randy Bush
> No true in many cases. All I have to prove is it's not the network and > then I hand it off to the windows/*nix/ sysadmins. To prove > it's not the network, I don't need to know the end systems in any sort of > detail. to pass the buck, one needs to know nothing. what makes a great noc engin

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Scott Weeks
detail. scott : : - Original Message - : From: "Pete Templin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 7:16 AM : Subject: Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap : (personal) 1U colo?) : : : > : > Lau

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Alexei Roudnev
not a good answer. - Original Message - From: "Pete Templin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 7:16 AM Subject: Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?) > > Laurence F. Sh

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Pete Templin
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Pete Templin wrote: I didn't suggest saying "I'm not gonna do it". I just suggested "You hired me to deploy dynamic routing on your statically-routed network. What prompted you to think that I could configure site-wide anti-virus services such that no one ever

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Ben Crosby
John, There are the beginnings of some wireless devices that are capable of directing wireless clients to cease transmission with L2 link control messages. These are just beginning to emerge, and unfortunately I'm certain that with only a matter of time people will write drivers that ignore such

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread John Kristoff
On 15 Mar 2004 08:01:15 -0500 "Robert E. Seastrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe NANOG needs to implement a system where you have to log > > in to a web page with your NANOG meeting passcode in order to > > get a usable IP address. Then, when an infected computer shows [...] > Seconded. T

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Dr. Jeffrey Race
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 04:57:03 -0500 (EST), Sean Donelan wrote: > NANOG has less than 500 attendees, >yet has about the same number as infected computers as any other >ad-hoc network population. If true this is a very significant fact

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Pete Templin wrote: Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Pete Templin wrote: There's a reason I've gotten out of small ISP consulting - I don't do Windows, and I'm getting overrun by Linux corrosion slowly. I route, I switch, I help with securing networks. And I do wear a lot of hats at my day j

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Pete Templin
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Pete Templin wrote: There's a reason I've gotten out of small ISP consulting - I don't do Windows, and I'm getting overrun by Linux corrosion slowly. I route, I switch, I help with securing networks. And I do wear a lot of hats at my day job, but I remind them

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Pete Templin wrote: > Employee to PHB: "You hired me to provide core network engineering and lead the level 2 network ops staff. Tell me again why you want me to provide any server engineering, if you knew my strengths when you hired me?" There's a reason I've gotten out of small ISP consulti

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Pete Templin
Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Seconded. This is dirt simple to do. If we believe in public humiliation, a list of infected machines and their owners (along with a suitably snarky "don't hire these top network engineers to maintain your fleet of windows boxes" message) could be displayed on the pro

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> a suitably snarky "don't hire these top network engineers to maintain > your fleet of windows boxes" message) could be displayed on the Is this an opt-in list? I'd like to opt-in. Now. Nu. Proto. A lifetime ago.

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Maybe NANOG needs to implement a system where you have to log > in to a web page with your NANOG meeting passcode in order to > get a usable IP address. Then, when an infected computer shows > up we will know exactly whose it was. Might even be interesting > for a res

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Michael . Dillon
>I expect every NANOG conference from now on will be filled with >announcements asking people to please fix their computers because >worms are killing the network. NANOG has less than 500 attendees, >yet has about the same number as infected computers as any other >ad-hoc network population. May

Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Petri Helenius wrote: > I see this as a two different processes. There are definetly some > individuals who have no help whatsoever with their computers and need > the abuse/helpdesk to walk them through the disinfecting process. Gartner estimates the total cost of ownership