Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Loránd Jakab
The thread made it to both NetworkWorld: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/120910-wikileaks-ddos-attacks.html and Slashdot: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/12/2120254/Has-Progress-Been-Made-In-Fighting-DDoS-Attacks with the usual set of comments :) -Lorand Jakab On 12/12/2010 08:58 AM,

RE: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Drew Weaver
verizon's ddos service was/is 3250/month flat... not extra if there was some sort of incident, and completely self-service for the customer(s). Is 3250/month a reasonable insurance against loss? (40k/yr or there abouts) -chris That doesn't sound too unreasonable as long as you are in a market

RE: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Drew Weaver
I'm certain there are thresholds to that. Carrier grade mitigation solutions will start low and ramp up to 5, 6, 7, etc. figures depending on the attack and amount of bandwidth to be filtered among other variables. My point was, if you mitigate the attack vs. null routing the target you have

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Jared Mauch
On Dec 12, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: verizon's ddos service was/is 3250/month flat... not extra if there was some sort of incident, and completely self-service for the customer(s). Is 3250/month a reasonable insurance against loss? (40k/yr or there abouts) Or just buy a

Re: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks

2010-12-13 Thread mikea
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:59:07AM -0800, andrew.wallace wrote: I was reading about this- yeah really anonymous. http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/12/anonymous-releases-very-unanonymous-press-release/ Also: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/11/anonymous-isnt-loic.html All we

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Drew Weaver drew.wea...@thenap.com wrote: verizon's ddos service was/is 3250/month flat... not extra if there was some sort of incident, and completely self-service for the customer(s). Is 3250/month a reasonable insurance against loss? (40k/yr or there

Wholesale DSL implementation in Canada

2010-12-13 Thread James Smith
We're looking at implementing a DSL private network in various provinces in Canada. There seems to be two main ways to do this: build the network yourself by creating relationships with the local DSL providers (Bell, Telus, MTS, etc) ; or build the network using a third-party that already has

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Drew Weaver drew.wea...@thenap.com wrote: I'm certain there are thresholds to that. Carrier grade mitigation solutions will start low and ramp up to 5, 6, 7, etc. figures depending on the attack and amount of bandwidth to be filtered among other variables.

Re: Wholesale DSL implementation in Canada

2010-12-13 Thread TR Shaw
On Dec 13, 2010, at 10:10 AM, James Smith wrote: We're looking at implementing a DSL private network in various provinces in Canada. There seems to be two main ways to do this: build the network yourself by creating relationships with the local DSL providers (Bell, Telus, MTS, etc) ;

RE: Wholesale DSL implementation in Canada

2010-12-13 Thread Erik Soosalu
I'm using a third party for about 15 sites of Private DSL across Canada. Others may have different issues, but mine so far have been: - SaskTel apparently doesn't connect with anybody (or so I have been told) so I'm stuck with VPN. - My connections in Telus country have only been ADSL PVC (not

Re: Wholesale DSL implementation in Canada

2010-12-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 12/13/2010 10:10 AM, James Smith wrote: We're looking at implementing a DSL private network in various provinces in Canada. There seems to be two main ways to do this: build the network yourself by creating relationships with the local DSL providers (Bell, Telus, MTS, etc) ; or build

Wake on LAN in the enterprise

2010-12-13 Thread Berry Mobley
Hello... I'm trying to get a handle on implementation of wake-on-lan in an enterprise environment. Cisco gear, lots of subnets. I've made it work with directed broadcasts, but I'd really rather not have 40 or 50 'ip helper-address x.x.x.bcastaddr' statements on the vlans with the SMS

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/13/2010 8:32 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: Or just buy a gig-e from cogent at 3$/meg/mo (or is it $4 this month?) to burn for ddos. *cough* 10G burstable with 1-2G commit. Still cheaper than anything else I have or can get, and more likely to handle those large DDOS cases, where you can just

Internap FCP

2010-12-13 Thread Mark Wall
Greetings Nanog, Looking for some off-list reviews/insight on the FCP, We are looking into the device for purchase over the next few months, We are in the 10G range of products. Thank you

Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise

2010-12-13 Thread Owen DeLong
WOL is unfortunately terribly deficient in that the spec. never envisioned the possibility of a need for wake on WAN. Bottom line, it's a non-routeable layer 2 protocol. Your choices boil down to the helper address nightmare you describe or proxy servers on every subnet. Owen On Dec 13, 2010,

Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise

2010-12-13 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/13/2010 10:20 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: WOL is unfortunately terribly deficient in that the spec. never envisioned the possibility of a need for wake on WAN. Bottom line, it's a non-routeable layer 2 protocol. Your choices boil down to the helper address nightmare you describe or proxy

Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise

2010-12-13 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, December 13, 2010 11:20:20 am Owen DeLong wrote: WOL is unfortunately terribly deficient in that the spec. never envisioned the possibility of a need for wake on WAN. Use case I can think of: 'green' data center running VMware VI3 or vSphere with DRS and dynamically bringing

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Jared Mauch
On Dec 13, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 12/13/2010 8:32 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: Or just buy a gig-e from cogent at 3$/meg/mo (or is it $4 this month?) to burn for ddos. *cough* 10G burstable with 1-2G commit. Still cheaper than anything else I have or can get, and more likely to

Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise

2010-12-13 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 12/13/2010 11:08 AM, Berry Mobley wrote: Hello... I'm trying to get a handle on implementation of wake-on-lan in an enterprise environment. Cisco gear, lots of subnets. I've made it work with directed broadcasts, but I'd really rather not have 40 or 50 'ip helper-address

Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise

2010-12-13 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/13/2010 10:43 AM, christopher.mar...@usc-bt.com wrote: Jack Bates: I would suspect that proxy servers being the better deal, though my experience with Cisco is that you may have to use ASR type gear to get a nicer layout (similar to service providers) where you can backend everything to a

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2010-12-13 Thread Atticus
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2010-12-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
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2010-12-13 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/13/2010 11:07 AM, Alexander Harrowell wrote: On Monday 13 December 2010 17:02:59 Atticus wrote: Cc I presume this is some sort of spam-test? I got 3 emails from Atticus. one quoting data only, one saying just Z, and another carboned to x...@gamil.com with just zzsxexz On

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2010-12-13 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 12/13/10 10:12 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 12/13/2010 11:07 AM, Alexander Harrowell wrote: On Monday 13 December 2010 17:02:59 Atticus wrote: Cc I presume this is some sort of spam-test? I got 3 emails from Atticus. one quoting data only, one saying just Z, and another carboned to

Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise

2010-12-13 Thread Atticus
Appologies to all that got a quote email from me. My phone decided to pocket-reply to you.

Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise

2010-12-13 Thread Daniel Hagerty
Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: WOL is unfortunately terribly deficient in that the spec. never = envisioned the possibility of a need for wake on WAN. Bottom line, it's a non-routeable layer 2 protocol. Your choices boil = down to the helper address nightmare you describe or proxy

That thing the USG keeps sending people to OECD meetings to try to obfuscate:

2010-12-13 Thread Bill Woodcock
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Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Bill Bogstad
FYI, A single data point on current DDOS traffic levels. An Akamai press release says they handled DDOS attacks peaking at 14Gbps in the Nov. 30 to Dec 2nd time frame. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Akamai-Shields-Leading-prnews-2768453391.html The majority of attack traffic against the five

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Dec 14, 2010, at 2:04 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: A single data point on current DDOS traffic levels. In the 2009 Arbor WWISR, the largest attack reported was 49gb/sec. We're currently wrapping up the 2010 WWISR, and the largest attack report was considerably larger.

Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise

2010-12-13 Thread Berry Mobley
Thanks, everyone, for the replies - looks like I need to get my server team interested in knowing broadcast addresses for hosts, and making SMS send to those addresses. I do have the 'ip directed-broadcast acl' in place, but the servers are currently sending the magic packets to the all-1's

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
The largest attacks we have solid proof on are 20+ Gbps. The only larger ones that i've seen were in company's marketing collateral vs. real life. Jeff On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Dec 14, 2010, at 2:04 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: A single data

Re: peering, derivatives, and big brother

2010-12-13 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 19:36 -0800, George Bonser wrote: (...) The financial derivatives market isn't, in my opinion, a good analogy of the peering market. A data packet is perishable and must be moved quickly. The destination network wants the packet in order to keep their customer happy and

RE: peering, derivatives, and big brother

2010-12-13 Thread George Bonser
The electricity spot market is close to your definition of perishable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_market It has a derivative market, google for electricity derivatives will give you some papers and models. I'm pretty sure electricity and bandwidth share some patterns.

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:09:16 -0500 From: Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Drew Weaver drew.wea...@thenap.com wrote: verizon's ddos service was/is 3250/month flat... not extra if there was some sort of incident, and completely self-service

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Kevin Oberman ober...@es.net wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:09:16 -0500 From: Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com if you find that guy, maybe they'll also be the mythical unicorn of a sales person who will sell you ipv6 transit too? Unless VZB has

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-13 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Dec 14, 2010, at 2:40 AM, Jeffrey Lyon jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net wrote: The only larger ones that i've seen were in company's marketing collateral vs. real life. Here's a link to last year's Report (previous editions may be downloaded, as well): http://www.arbornetworks.com/report The

Re: peering, derivatives, and big brother

2010-12-13 Thread Dorn Hetzel
Yeah, well, sorta. sorta not so much :) On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:28 PM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: The electricity spot market is close to your definition of perishable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_market It has a derivative market, google for electricity

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2010-12-13 Thread Gavin Pearce
-Original Message- From: Atticus [mailto:grobe...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 December 2010 17:24 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise Appologies to all that got a quote email from me. My phone decided to pocket-reply to you. -Original Message- From: Brielle

Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-13 Thread Backdoor Santa
Ever wonder what Comcast's connections to the Internet look like? In the tradition of WikiLeaks, someone stumbled upon these graphs of their TATA links. For reference, TATA is the only other IP transit provider to Comcast after Level (3). Comcast is a customer of TATA and pays them to provide

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-13 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/13/2010 11:07 PM, Backdoor Santa wrote: Ever wonder what Comcast's connections to the Internet look like? In the tradition of WikiLeaks, someone stumbled upon these graphs of their TATA links. Forgive me for being the skeptic, but I presume there is at least a traceroute with rDNS

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-13 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Jack Bates wrote: On 12/13/2010 11:07 PM, Backdoor Santa wrote: Ever wonder what Comcast's connections to the Internet look like? In the tradition of WikiLeaks, someone stumbled upon these graphs of their TATA links. Forgive me for being the skeptic, but I presume

Re: TCP congestion control and large router buffers

2010-12-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Sam Stickland wrote: Ironically though, wouldn't smaller buffers cost less thus making the CPEs 1 megabyte of buffer (regular RAM) isn't really expensive. cheaper still? I believe the argument made in the blog post is that cheaper RAM been causing the CPE manufacturers

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Backdoor Santa wrote: Another thing to notice is the ratio of inbound versus outbound. Since Comcast is primarily a broadband access network provider, they're going to have millions of eyeballs (users) downloading content. Actually, there are plenty of access providers

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-13 Thread Rettke, Brian
I don't see anything listed that indicates operation that is at all different from any other service provider network. The capacity issue listed is not an issue at all. It's simply inciting anger and the same rhetoric that pollutes the legitimate discussion of backbone network constraints.

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-13 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
gin-nto-icore1 is a Tata router at Equinix in NY. Whether or not that port belongs to Comcast is anyone's guess. Jeff On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Jack Bates wrote: On 12/13/2010 11:07 PM, Backdoor Santa wrote: