[Nanog-futures] Steve Werby is out of the office.

2008-08-18 Thread Steven M Werby/FS/VCU
I will be out of the office starting 08/09/2008 and will not return until 08/21/2008. I'm away from the office, returning 8/21. I will have limited email access while I am away, but I will attempt to access email when feasible. If you need to discuss an urgent VCU information security need,

RE: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-18 Thread michael.dillon
for my own use, i use m4, python and perl, and peval() m4 is a macro processor that you probably should not bother learning since you can do everything that it does by using Python and regular expressions, or one of the Python parsing modules. For instance PLY supports conditional lexing and

RE: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-18 Thread michael.dillon
(Without an offline configuration generator, I postulate that it can't be done.) Doesn't everyone use an offline config generator these days? After all, there is a lot more CPU power and database capacity outside of the routers than there is inside. --Michael Dillon

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-18 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:51:20AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: m4 is a macro processor that you probably should not bother learning since you can do everything that it does by using Python Oh, Abley is gonna have fun with this... and for the record, my money is on Joe. He could probably

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-18 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 07:57:25PM -0500, Pete Templin wrote: Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: Since there are ways to dynamically filter the bogons, using BGP or DNS, I don't really see the need to stop doing so. If you're managing your routing and firewall filters manually, you have bigger problems

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-18 Thread Pete Templin
Jared Mauch wrote: On a router with full routes (ie: no default) the command is: Router(config-if)#ip verify unicast source reachable-via any None of these suggestions (including the wisecrack ACLs) provide full filtering: If a miscreant originates a route in bogon space, their

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-18 Thread Nathan Ward
On 19/08/2008, at 2:01 AM, Sam Stickland wrote: I think you misunderstand the meaning of the ip verify unicasr source reachable-via any command. When a packet arrives the router will drop it if it doesn't have a valid return path for the source. Since the source is a bogon, and routed to

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-18 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Sam Stickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think you misunderstand the meaning of the ip verify unicasr source reachable-via any command. When a packet arrives the router will drop it if it doesn't have a valid return path for the source. Since the source is a bogon, and

It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080817-were-running-out-of-ipv4-addresses-time-for-ipv6-really.html Well, on reading it, it's more an IPv6: It's great -- ask for it by name! piece. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-18 Thread james
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080817-were-running-out-of-ipv4-addresses-time-for-ipv6-really.html Well, on reading it, it's more an IPv6: It's great -- ask for it by name! piece. IPv6 gives me brain ache. I hear I'm not alone in that. I'd v6 tomorrow if I didn't have to think

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-18 Thread Deepak Jain
james wrote: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080817-were-running-out-of-ipv4-addresses-time-for-ipv6-really.html Well, on reading it, it's more an IPv6: It's great -- ask for it by name! piece. IPv6 gives me brain ache. I hear I'm not alone in that. I'd v6 tomorrow if I didn't have

RE: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-18 Thread TJ
-Original Message- From: Deepak Jain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 2:19 PM To: james Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum james wrote: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080817-were-running-out-of-ipv4

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-18 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Deepak Jain wrote: operational content: Is anyone significantly redesigning the way they route/etc to take advantage of any hooks that IPv6 provides-for (even if its a proprietary implementation)? As far as I can tell, most people are just implementing it as IPv4 with a

Re: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other ISPs IP space by mistake

2008-08-18 Thread Deepak Jain
Absent any kind of network wide enforcement, why don't you just roll participation and compliance with this into your peering contracts, with propagation? Require your peers to have it, and ask that they pass the requirement on. This isn't rocket science, clearly, because even I understand it.

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-18 Thread Eric Jensen
Message: 3 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:21:38 -0500 From: Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? None of these suggestions (including the wisecrack ACLs) provide full filtering: If a miscreant originates a route in bogon space, their transit

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-18 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Deepak Jain wrote: operational content: Is anyone significantly redesigning the way they route/etc to take advantage of any hooks that IPv6 provides-for (even if its a proprietary implementation)? As far as I can tell, most people are just implementing it as IPv4 with a

RE: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-18 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
If all you're using is BGP null routes, that's true. I would posit that BCP include Prefix filtering and ACLs as well, with dynamic updates. YMMV. -Original Message- From: Chris Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 7:30 AM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Is it

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-18 Thread Danny McPherson
On Aug 18, 2008, at 6:33 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On a router with full routes (ie: no default) the command is: Router(config-if)#ip verify unicast source reachable-via any Go ahead and try it out. you can view the resulting drop counter via the 'show ip int x/y' command.

RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Scott Weeks
-Original Message- From: Scott Weeks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a general rule, most clients are following the If we gave them static IPv4 addresses we will give them static IPv6 addresses (infrastructure, servers, etc). The whole

Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Dale W. Carder
Hey Scott, On Aug 18, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: From: TJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] As a general rule, most clients are following the If we gave them static IPv4 addresses we will give them static IPv6 addresses (infrastructure, servers, etc). The whole SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 is a

RE: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-18 Thread TJ
-Original Message- From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 3:18 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Deepak Jain wrote: operational content: Is anyone significantly

Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Charles Wyble
Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: To try to stay operational about this, H. I think this is an operational topic, but I can see how it would be seen as more of a strategic item. I have a reality testing question I've used in IPv4 and, for that matter, bridged networks: I submit that if you

RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread TJ
-Original Message- From: Scott Weeks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 3:34 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: TJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] As a general rule, most clients are following the If

RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread TJ
-Original Message- From: Howard C. Berkowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 3:42 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 To try to stay operational about this, I have a reality testing question I've used in IPv4 and, for that matter,

RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread TJ
-Original Message- From: Dale W. Carder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Hey Scott, On Aug 18, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: From: TJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] As a

Re: impossible circuit

2008-08-18 Thread Paul Wall
Jon, I think we can safely conclude from the information provided that you're looking at some sort of a misconfigured traffic mirroring or [un]lawful intercept. Sadly, as neither Sprint nor your loop provider will fess up, I don't think you're going to get much further on here. Probably best to

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 aug 2008, at 21:18, Justin M. Streiner wrote: Just because IPv6 provides boatloads more space doesn't mean that I like wasting addresses :) That kind of thinking can easily lead you in the wrong direction. For instance, hosting businesses that cater to small customers generally have

Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 aug 2008, at 22:23, Dale W. Carder wrote: - really, really, really broken: it didn't support handing out any DNS info until RFC 5006, thus SLAAC still requires human intervention on a client to make teh v6 interwebs work. While I agree that it is bad that the DNS configuration issue

Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread David W. Hankins
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:52:50PM -0700, Scott Weeks wrote: Seeing Howard's quick response saying To try to stay operational about this... makes me realize I may have inadvertently invited a religious flame fest. I guess that rules me out. :( Please! Operational content and hands-on

Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Charles Wyble
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 18 aug 2008, at 22:23, Dale W. Carder wrote: DHCPv6 - doesn't ship w/ some OS's Forget about it on XP, Hmmm. MS says otherwise: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/ipv6/ipv6faq.mspx but it's in Vista. You can add it to BSD/Linux without too much

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-18 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 18 aug 2008, at 21:18, Justin M. Streiner wrote: Just because IPv6 provides boatloads more space doesn't mean that I like wasting addresses :) That kind of thinking can easily lead you in the wrong direction. For instance, hosting

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 aug 2008, at 23:28, Justin M. Streiner wrote: I don't have a problem with assigning customers a /64 of v6 space. My earlier comments were focused on network infrastructure comprised of mainly point-to-point links with statically assigned interface addresses. In that case,

RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread TJ
-Original Message- From: Charles Wyble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 5:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 18 aug 2008, at 22:23, Dale W. Carder wrote: DHCPv6 - doesn't ship w/ some OS's Forget

RE: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-18 Thread TJ
-Original Message- From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 5:29 PM To: Iljitsch van Beijnum Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 18 aug 2008, at

RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Sean Siler
Nope. XP does not support DHCPv6 - only Vista/Windows Server 2008 (and later) can do that. Sean -Original Message- From: TJ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 2:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 -Original Message- From:

Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:27:56 -0700 From: Charles Wyble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 18 aug 2008, at 22:23, Dale W. Carder wrote: DHCPv6 - doesn't ship w/ some OS's Forget about it on XP, Hmmm. MS says otherwise:

Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Charles Wyble
Sean Siler wrote: Nope. XP does not support DHCPv6 - only Vista/Windows Server 2008 (and later) can do that. Sean http://internecine.eu/systems/windows_xp-ipv6.html and http://internecine.eu/software/dibbler_dhcpv6.html discuss how to deploy dhcpv6 on xp. It's 3rd party but doable.

Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Charles Wyble wrote: Forget about it on XP, Hmmm. MS says otherwise: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/ipv6/ipv6faq.mspx None of the XP systems here (even with all the latest service packs installed) seem to do DHCPv6. but it's in Vista. You can add it to

RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Sean Siler
Yep - absolutely. I was referring to built-in support from the stack. Dibbler is the primary third party provider we have seen for DHCPv6 support on downlevel clients. Sean -Original Message- From: Charles Wyble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 2:55 PM To:

Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Charles Wyble wrote: http://internecine.eu/systems/windows_xp-ipv6.html and http://internecine.eu/software/dibbler_dhcpv6.html discuss how to deploy dhcpv6 on xp. It's 3rd party but doable. Hmmm I'm getting You don't have permission to access

Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Justin Shore
Charles Wyble wrote: This was especially a question when L2 was in and routing was out: how do you ping a MAC address? l2ping works on bluetooth devices on Linux. Might work for other stuff as well. Not sure what Cisco offers in this regard. The ideal solution would be OAM. Of course

Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread David W. Hankins
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:11:16PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Forget about it on XP, but it's in Vista. You can add it to BSD/Linux without too much trouble (are there good, bugfree implementations for those yet?) If anyone is aware of any bugs in ISC dhclient -6, please submit them

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:57:27PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: operational content: Is anyone significantly redesigning the way they route/etc to take advantage of any hooks that IPv6 provides-for (even if its a proprietary implementation)? As far as I can tell, most people are just

labovitz: The End is Near, but is IPv6? (seen on slashdot today)

2008-08-18 Thread Paul Vixie
http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/08/the-end-is-near-but-is-ipv6/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

Smallest netblock that providers will accept?

2008-08-18 Thread Mike Lyon
Hello All, I am curious as to the routing polices of the bigger providers such as ATT, L3, Internap, Qwest, Etc Etc... Is there a standard size netblock that these providers will accept? For instance, if customer A gets a /22 from ARIN and his upstream provider is ATT and L3, what would the

Re: Smallest netblock that providers will accept?

2008-08-18 Thread Christian Koch
a lot of providers have their bgp/routing policy published somewhere online/in their community guide for instance, you can find L3's policy in their irr objects ( whois -h whois.radb.net as3356) there are also plenty of community guides available here - http://www.onesc.net/communities/

RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 vs IP Address Lifecycle Management

2008-08-18 Thread John Lee
Scott, There are solutions that support both static, quasi-static, also driving DHCPv6 servers and Dynamic DNS updates. There are networks that have deployed IPal to automate and consolidate their IPv4 and IPv6 block allocations and interface assignments. Router Prefix delegation, SLAAC and

Re: Smallest netblock that providers will accept?

2008-08-18 Thread Kevin Blackham
Your assumption is generally true with most any provider. They may even accept something smaller, but it won't make it very far if less than /24. It's also a good idea to announce a covering prefix in case some peer network filters on IRR minimums. On 8/18/08, Mike Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

OT:Please excuse the noise

2008-08-18 Thread Joe Blanchard
I'm dealing with Hughsnet and have observed the following issue/ SOA is me for testing 72.169.156.122 Upstream router seems to be a public IP Number: 15942 Date: 18Aug2008 Time: 23:03:21 Product:FireWall-1 Interface: eth0 Origin:

Re: OT:Please excuse the noise

2008-08-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: Joe Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:50:08 -0400 I'm dealing with Hughsnet and have observed the following issue/ SOA is me for testing 72.169.156.122 Upstream router seems to be a public IP Number: 15942 Date: 18Aug2008 Time:

uTorrent, IPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Nathan Ward
Sit up and pay attention, even if you don't now run IPv6, or even if you don't ever intend to run IPv6. Your off-net bandwidth is going to increase, unless you put some relays in. As a friend of mine just said to me: Welcome to your v6-enabled transit network, whether you like it or not ;-).

Re: Smallest netblock that providers will accept?

2008-08-18 Thread Anton Kapela
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Kevin Blackham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your assumption is generally true with most any provider. They may even accept something smaller, but it won't make it very far if less than /24. It's also a good idea to announce a covering prefix in case some peer