Re: Software router state of the art

2008-07-29 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
Aaron Glenn wrote: On 7/28/08, Seth Mattinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Junpier's J-series is a BSD based platform as far as I understand it. ImageStream is *much* more affordable for me, but is Linux-based, and I fear ...snip... AFAIK, none of Juniper's Juniper kit rocks BSD outside of

Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

2008-07-29 Thread Randy Bush
however, since it is off-topic for nanog ha ha. please stop telling people that they are off topic for nanog. randy

Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

2008-07-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Paul Vixie: Listen on 200 random fake ports (in addition to the true query ports); at first glance, this is brilliant, though with some unimportant nits. It doesn't work OOTB for most users because the spoofed packets never reach the name server process if you don't use the ports to send

Re: Federal Government Interest in your patch progress

2008-07-29 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:06:40 +0100 Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:36:57PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 29 lines which said: I've been talking to US Gov't folks, too. They really want DNSSEC (and secure BGP...)

Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

2008-07-29 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Colin Alston wrote: Why does it use UDP? :P Faster? Smaller? Less code to break? No perceived need for state? -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio

Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

2008-07-29 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:56:19 +0200 Colin Alston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DNS uses UDP. Ahh yes of course.. Why does it use UDP? :P In this situation, UDP uses one query packet and one reply. TCP uses 3 to set up the connection, a query, a reply, and three to tear down the connection.

Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

2008-07-29 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:56:19 +0200 Colin Alston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DNS uses UDP. Ahh yes of course.. Why does it use UDP? :P In this situation, UDP uses one query packet and one reply. TCP uses 3 to set up the connection, a query,

Re: Software router state of the art

2008-07-29 Thread David E. Smith
Andrew D Kirch wrote: Anyone have experience with RouterOS (http://www.mikrotik.com/)? Created mostly to run on these guys I think (http://www.routerboard.com/comparison.html) which generally don't get above 200k pps on the higher models.. But will RouterOS run on bigger boxen? Yes I do, and

Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

2008-07-29 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In this situation, UDP uses one query packet and one reply. TCP uses 3 to set up the connection, a query, a reply, and three to tear down the connection. *Plus* the name server will have to keep state for every client, plus TIMEWAIT state, etc.

Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

2008-07-29 Thread Laird Popkin
We mainly use UDP for tracker announces, and only use TCP when we have to, and can confirm that the server spends far more time on the TCP setup/teardown than on computing the tracker response. - LP On Jul 29, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Steven M.

Remote Cisco IOS FTP exploit (fwd)

2008-07-29 Thread Gadi Evron
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:31:11 +0100 From: Andy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Remote Cisco IOS FTP exploit Hi, The IOS FTP server vulnerabilities were published in an advisory by Cisco in May 2007. The FTP server does not run

Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-29 Thread John A. Kilpatrick
We've deployed a bunch taps in our network and now we need a platform on which to capture the data. Our bandwidth is currently pretty low but I've got 8 links to tap, which means I need 16 ports. Has anyone done any research on doing accurate packet capture with commodity hardware? --

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-29 Thread Jared Mauch
Check out packet forensics depending on what your ultimate requirements are. Jared Mauch On Jul 29, 2008, at 7:10 PM, John A. Kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've deployed a bunch taps in our network and now we need a platform on which to capture the data. Our bandwidth is

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-29 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Jared Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out packet forensics depending on what your ultimate requirements are. I would also add a 'see packet forensics'... On Jul 29, 2008, at 7:10 PM, John A. Kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've deployed a bunch

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-29 Thread Network Fortius
Richard's blog @ http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/search?q=taps and especially his books (Tao of Network Security Monitoring and Extrusion Detection) are the best sources I have ever found, concerning [not only] taps and[/but] so much more on the subject - proper usage and best methodologies and

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-29 Thread James Pleger
There are several things that you can do with open source solutions, however looking at the data may be a bit more difficult than something like Network Generals or Solera Networks capture appliances. It is still doable and is definitely much much cheaper... Something you might want to look into

RE: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-29 Thread Darryl Dunkin
Hubs sure are fun... I would trunk the ports you are monitoring, and run the port monitor on the trunk port instead (one trunk port, one port per VLAN, plus one span) which will help with your density. This is assuming the analysis software you have can read the dot1q tags, but means you do not