Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Saku Ytti
On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 09:44, Mark Tinka wrote: > What I do agree with is that the loss of control of operating your > network yourself does present a risk. But that is a personal position, Yes. Few comparisons are obviously and exclusively better or worse. It is attractive to think of them as

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/27/22 09:32, Saku Ytti wrote: I do disagree, if I understood the argument right. If the argument is 'cloud makes no business sense to anyone'. I don't agree that cloud does not make business sense to anyone. There is a reason why Amazon, Microsoft and Google are milking it right now,

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Saku Ytti
On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 09:16, Mark Tinka wrote: > > Saving 12 months of opex $ sounds great, except when you lose 18 > > months of opex $ in 2 days completely outside of your ability to control. > > I don't disagree. > > What this does, though, is democratize access into the industry. For a >

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/26/22 23:04, Christopher Morrow wrote: It seems like some of the situation is:   "5g/mobile builds include a bunch more 'general machine' resources which offload a bunch of the work from what was dedicated appliances/etc." Followed quickly by:   "Well, we don't have the resources/etc

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/26/22 21:38, Michael Thomas wrote: I think for the vast majority of cloud users they'd do a way worse job at uptime than the providers. Indeed... I mean, we've seen it with the migration of on-premise infrastructure into the cloud, en masse, for a number of "corporate" services.

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/26/22 17:10, Tom Beecher wrote: Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when the Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to anticipate because it's all black box. Saving 12 months of opex $ sounds great, except when you lose 18 months of opex

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:37 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > > I think for the vast majority of cloud users they'd do a way worse job at > uptime than the providers. Whether that applies to some telcos, I'm not > sure. > > It seems like some of the situation is: "5g/mobile builds include a bunch

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/26/22 7:10 AM, Tom Beecher wrote: For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of direct operational control. Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when the Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to anticipate

Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-26 Thread Joel Esler via NANOG
Are you asking for commercial solutions? Free solutions? Open Source? > On Jan 25, 2022, at 10:46 AM, David Bass wrote: > > Wondering what others in the small to medium sized networks out there are > using these days for netflow data collection, and your opinion on the tool? > > Thanks!

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-26 Thread Mel Beckman
Nick, you can always choose to use nginx if you like, but there’s no reason anyone else should be forced to. -mel On Jan 26, 2022, at 7:55 AM, Nick Suan via NANOG wrote:  While I agree that, yes everything SHOULD support TLS, there's a perfectly good reason for terminating TLS in

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-26 Thread Nick Suan via NANOG
While I agree that, yes everything SHOULD support TLS, there's a perfectly good reason for terminating TLS in something like (nginx/caddy/apache/etc): X number of things supporting TLS on their web interface means X number of ways of configuring TLS. If I terminate it on nginx, there's only

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-26 Thread Mel Beckman
People who advocate TLS lash-ups like nginx front ends remind me of Mr. Beans DIY automobile security, which started with a screwed-on metal hasp and padlock, and then continued to a range of additional “layers”. Not “defense-in-depth”, merely unwarranted “complexity-in-depth”:

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Brielle
Or, when someone dies because their cell phone doesn’t work and can’t do a simple 911 call anymore when AWS has yet another outage for 2 days. All those pesky side effects of removing certain functionality that was once handled locally… Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 26, 2022, at 8:11 AM, Tom

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Tom Beecher
> > For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of > direct operational control. > Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when the Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to anticipate because it's all black box. Saving 12 months of

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-26 Thread heasley
Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 07:21:19AM -0600, Mike Hammett: > Why is it [TLS] even necessary for such a function? confidentiality and integrity, even if you do not care about authentication. I am surprised that question is asked. The fewer things that are left unprotected, the better for everyone.

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/26/22 16:41, Randy Bush wrote: s/de-risk/re-risk/ it's just a different risk I should have finished that sentence with "de-risk their infrastructure spend", because the actual risk is in having to spend money upfront to build the network. For some folk, the risk of money cost

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Randy Bush
> If you stay away from getting stuck in the word "cloud", there is lots > of value for folk that choose to de-risk their infrastructure, s/de-risk/re-risk/ it's just a different risk randy

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-26 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Laura Smith said: > I don't know about anyone else here, but frankly in 2022 TLS support should > be a first class citizen. > > If I have to mess around with running something else as a proxy in front of > it then that's the end of my software evaluation. > > Crypto is no

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/26/22 15:29, Mike Hammett wrote: Like most other things cloud, the value is going to be much harder to find than the hype. If you stay away from getting stuck in the word "cloud", there is lots of value for folk that choose to de-risk their infrastructure, by letting someone else run

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Mike Hammett
Like most other things cloud, the value is going to be much harder to find than the hype. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Michael Thomas" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-26 Thread Mike Hammett
Why is it even necessary for such a function? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Laura Smith via NANOG" To: "nanog@nanog.org list" Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-26 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 at 11:08, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > elastiflow is extremely easy to run on an httpd listening only on localhost > and proxy behind a simple nginx TLS1.2/1.3 only configuration listening on > port 443. > I don't know about anyone

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-26 Thread Eric Kuhnke
elastiflow is extremely easy to run on an httpd listening only on localhost and proxy behind a simple nginx TLS1.2/1.3 only configuration listening on port 443. as are a number of other tools. On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 at 16:06, Laura Smith via NANOG wrote: > On Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 at