Re: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

2010-12-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: [Frank Bulk] Some MSOs (including ourselves) have power systems (e.g. Alpha) in place throughout the plant to provide backup power for at least some time. Does that back up the cablemodem in the residence? If not, game over. Thing is, not

Re: SDSL circuits in UK?

2010-12-27 Thread Peter Hicks
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 21:51 +, Paul Cupis wrote: There are a number of network operators capable of supplying SDSL (Annex B) in the UK depending on the location. Really? I heard BT were phasing out SDSL due to the low take-up, and the likes of TalkTalk are providing Annex M services with

Re: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

2010-12-27 Thread Brian Christopher Raaen
On Monday, December 27, 2010 01:04:33 am Owen DeLong wrote: On Dec 26, 2010, at 7:35 PM, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote: Does that back up the cablemodem in the residence? If not, game over. Owen All of the Arris eMTA models have a version with built in battery backup, and as I recall drop

Public Wireless access (ticket / token / schedule based)

2010-12-27 Thread Bill Lewis
What is everyone using for enterprise grade wireless authentication for simple public access (i.e. users that are non-employee that need internet access (non-PCI) while in your building). Obviously I will hang this off a DMZ switch outside of my private LAN. Looking for something vendor driven,

ipfix/netflow/sflow generator for Linux

2010-12-27 Thread Peter Phaal
The latest version of Host sFlow adds support for ULOG traffic monitoring (with ingress/egress ifIndex numbers): http://host-sflow.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, Peter My only issue is that I can't seem to find any good software for Linux that works with multiple interfaces to generate the flow

Re: Cheap home CPE troubles

2010-12-27 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 27, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Mike wrote: Hi, Well as is customary in our part of the country (Northern California), with the stormy weather comes brownouts and blackouts comes a massive influx of end users with locked up and malfunctioning home networking equipment. Every single

Re: Cheap home CPE troubles

2010-12-27 Thread Andrew Kirch
Send each customer out to buy this: http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BE350G problem solved. Andrew On 12/27/2010 10:10 AM, Mike wrote: Hi, Well as is customary in our part of the country (Northern California), with the stormy weather comes brownouts and

Re: Cheap home CPE troubles

2010-12-27 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 12/27/2010 10:10 AM, Mike wrote: Is there anyone who has a script or process or policy concerning unreliable customer equipments and how to effectively deal with unsophisticated home users? I mean, users with business oriented gear If power glitches are the problem, doing a bulk buy of

Re: Cheap home CPE troubles

2010-12-27 Thread todd glassey
On 12/27/2010 7:10 AM, Mike wrote: Hi, Well as is customary in our part of the country (Northern California), with the stormy weather comes brownouts and blackouts comes a massive influx of end users with locked up and malfunctioning home networking equipment. Every single time the power

Re: Cheap home CPE troubles

2010-12-27 Thread todd glassey
On 12/27/2010 11:53 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Dec 27, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Mike wrote: Hi, Well as is customary in our part of the country (Northern California), with the stormy weather comes brownouts and blackouts comes a massive influx of end users with locked up and malfunctioning

Re: Cheap home CPE troubles

2010-12-27 Thread Simon Lyall
Happened a few years back to one ISP I know. The common ADSL Modem given away free with the accounts (Dynalink DSL302G is the one I'm using right now, might be a few other models) had a problem that if authenticated failed (due to the account being locked say) and logins failed continuously

RE: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

2010-12-27 Thread Frank Bulk
Cable modem is no different than a DSL modem, right? ;) If it's an eMTA, it may have battery backup, though the operational default is to disable the Ethernet port after a few minutes to provide the maximum amount of dial-tone. Frank -Original Message- From: Owen DeLong

Re: Public Wireless access (ticket / token / schedule based)

2010-12-27 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Bill Lewis ble...@hottopic.com writes: What is everyone using for enterprise grade wireless authentication for simple public access (i.e. users that are non-employee that need internet access (non-PCI) while in your building). Obviously I will hang this off a DMZ switch outside of my private

Re: Public Wireless access (ticket / token / schedule based)

2010-12-27 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: Assuming that this is for your offices not your retail outlets... Is there some reason you can't run it wide open without even so much as a captive-portal-check-the-box thing?  All of the commercial boxes I've seen