Re: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene

2011-08-27 Thread Joe Greco
ng machine in the customer silo, for anyone desperate to avoid cannibalism. ;-) ;-) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Dire

Re: Verizon Business - LTE?

2011-08-16 Thread Joe Greco
went over 5GB, they ... capped him at a speed which allows him maybe as much as 452GB/month? % expr 150 / 8 \* 30 / 1024 \* 86400 / 1048576 452 I must be doing the math wrong or maybe I messed up reordering the expr to avoid integer overflows... 150 bits per second / 8 bits per byte * 30 d

Re: How long is your rack?

2011-08-14 Thread Joe Greco
> I hope someone will explain the operational relevance > of this ... I don't know, but 50 people had snarfed the picture I posted within 30 minutes, a few hundred have by now, and it's the weekend. Fun. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http:/

Re: personal backup

2011-08-13 Thread Joe Greco
r awhile and praying they spin up later bothers me. :-) On the other hand, running Unison to a server someplace else has obvious benefits and some downsides too. Backups remain a tricky problem to get right. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Joe Greco
> On 08/12/2011 09:17 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> What nobody wired their abode with fiber ? > >> > >> Am i the only one here > > I ran a bunch of fiber from the telco rack > > What's in the telco rack? This is in your house? What's on it? Dema

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-12 Thread Joe Greco
is at least a little bit isolated from everything else. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-12 Thread Joe Greco
nology isn't 100% perfect, but it's way awesomely better than a paper list. It'd be nice to be able to query the fridge to see what's in it. So I don't expect that the fridge makers will do better ... this year, or next. But in five or ten years? Yeah, maybe, probably eve

Re: NANOG List Update - Moving Forward

2011-07-12 Thread Joe Greco
rtunately my filter predates NANOG's use of that so now I gotta go fix it here. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - D

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-22 Thread Joe Greco
rnet-capable TV set Internet-capable Blu-Ray player Networkable TiVo AppleTV Video Game Console Networked AV Receiver UPS and an uplink of course. 8 ports. Geez. That keeps striking me as such a paradigm shift. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net &

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-22 Thread Joe Greco
> Joe Greco wrote: > > that things are changing. The number of TV's in a household are going > > up. Some can now stream directly to the TV. I have numerous devices > > How can it go up even more? I thought every bedroom and living room has > one by now, in the

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-11 Thread Joe Greco
> Just as a toyota corolla perfectly fulfills the need to drive your > toddlers around and drive to and from work. An SUV in almost all cases > is added luxury. My SUV carries seven passengers and allows me to haul gear including conduit, lumber, ladders, etc. It's actively

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-11 Thread Joe Greco
o mention all the MP3 players, tablet computers, etc. Streaming video is more demanding, certainly, but for a large family, what you propose isn't necessarily way out there, especially if we think about ten years down the road. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI -

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-05 Thread Joe Greco
t one can reach a conclusion as to what the "proper rack" for this guy is, but I can say that from my own experience, folks have provided a very comprehensive set of options and a wealth of practical experience that ought to move things in the right direction. It's been enjoyable t

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Joe Greco
> Once upon a time, Joe Greco said: > > Now of course we have no idea what's going to be mounted in this, but > > it's an HP rack so I assume maybe HP servers, which tend towards the > > heavy. > > One thing about using a 2-post rack for servers that can be

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Joe Greco
istributor: SLIM 5 KNOCK DOWN 37 SP, 20" DEEP $275.99 MIDDLE ATLANTIC - U.S. Found online: http://salestores.com/apwmay2273.html $90.78 So I'm a little skeptical about that too. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - htt

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Joe Greco
at these can be used as the front and back of a single rack. Remember to tie them together if you go that route, attachment to a wall or up top highly recommended as well. Of course, this only works if you didn't really need doors on your rack, etc. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Se

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Joe Greco
nightmare to try to support random VoIP gear, and they'd rather sell $29/month VoIP-to-a-POTS-jack service because it's more profitable. That's an artificial constraint on the market, that's not actually the market. This is probably off-topic for NANOG at this point; I'm no

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
> - Original Message - > > From: "Joe Greco" > > > With end-to-end digital, you can have reliable call supervision and > > status, OOB Caller-ID delivery, crystal clear call quality, probably > > the ability to handle multiple calls intelli

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
ant or need to go on; POTS *stinks* compared to digital. I have no objection to you wanting your lines handed off as POTS, but I'd like mine delivered digitally. > For that matter I'd rather get > rid of every digital phone in our business, they're a waste of mon

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
> >From: Joe Greco =0A>I have no idea why anyone would be = > paying Ma Bell $69/month for a phone=0A>line, unless you like giving them y= > our money or something.=0A=0AIn my neck of the woods (Washington DC), the P= > OTS line is the one that works =0Aduring a=A0bad=A0pow

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
> On 2/28/2011 5:19 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Home_telephone > >>> People are not, en-masse, going away from POTS and towards plugging a > >>> VoIP device into the back of their router. > > Twenty bucks says the first

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
ustomer, just aware of them as a reputable carrier from the Asterisk community), and some of the cheapies like InPhoneX have "World Unlimited" plans that work out to $20/month or thereabouts (again not a customer). I have no idea why anyone would be paying Ma Bell $69/month for a phone lin

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
o legacy POTS lines in the target residence. In fact, I've had trouble finding any way to get our cable company to hand off their telephony service digitally, making the claims of "digital phone service" a little laughable as they still hand it off analog. ... JG -- Joe Greco - so

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
air or accurate to represent this as a lost POTS line, at least for some counts. Kids have also moved towards cell phones and away from landlines as the preferred method of communication, but you already mentioned cell phones. Just wanted to point out that there's probably been a huge loss of se

Re: ISDN BRI

2011-02-17 Thread Joe Greco
nection from the cable company; they may share a bunch of poles, but at some point it will diverge and you're largely guaranteed to be on somewhat different equipment in the CO/headend, heh. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the &#

Re: quietly....

2011-02-03 Thread Joe Greco
our network to support that next new hot protocol. It may be better, however, and also simultaneously less disruptive in the long run, to engineer a network that *can* implement that next, new hot protocol and just use firewall policy to prevent it. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

2011-01-19 Thread Joe Greco
ast DNS setup, using GNU's > Zebra tool to automatically alter routing tables. > http://www.netlinxinc.com/netlinx-blog/45-dns/118-introduction-to-anycast-dns.html You wouldn't use Zebra; it isn't actively developed anymore and has not been updated in many years. Use Quagga ins

Re: Request Spamhaus contact

2011-01-18 Thread Joe Greco
a tool to add an ASN to the Sendmail access file automatically.) ... Oh, wait, you meant a problem for *Jeffrey.* Yes, that could be. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chanc

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-06 Thread Joe Greco
> > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> However, that's not the only potential use! =A0A client that initiates > >> each new outbound connection from a different IP address is doing >

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-06 Thread Joe Greco
> > On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > > >>> It has nothing to do with "security by obscurity". > >>=20 > >> You may wish to re-read what Joe was saying - he was positing sparse = > addres=3D > >> sing as a positive go

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-06 Thread Joe Greco
> On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > > There are numerous parallels between physical and electronic security. > > Let's just concede that for a moment. > > I can't, and here's why: > > 1.In the physical world, attackers run a subst

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-06 Thread Joe Greco
ing to make it harder for bad guys. There are lots of security techniques that I don't like, too, or may disapprove of for one reason or another. NAT anyone? :-) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at th

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-06 Thread Joe Greco
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > ... > > To say that "the endpoint *will be found*" is a truism, in the same > > way that a bank *will* be robbed. =A0You're not trying to guarante

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Greco
> On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > > > Generally speaking, security professionals prefer for there to be more ro= > adblocks rather than fewer. =20 > > The soi-disant security 'professionals' who espouse layering unnecessary mu= > ltiple, inef

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Greco
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > > However, that's not the only potential use! =A0A client that initiates > > each new outbound connection from a different IP address is doing > > something Really Good. > > No, Joe, it is not doing anything

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Greco
> > On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > > > If you don't understand the value of such an increase in magnitude, > > I can count as well as you can, I assure you. > > > I invite you to switch all your ssh keys to 56 bit. > > The differ

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Greco
0 bits of space to probe (16 bits of ports on each of 64 bits of address), you're making a hell of a jump. If you don't understand the value of such an increase in magnitude, I invite you to switch all your ssh keys to 56 bit. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwauke

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Greco
> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> > This is a much smaller issue with IPv4 ARP, because routers generally > >> > have very generous hardware ARP tables in comparison to the typical > >> > size of an IPv4 subnet. > >>

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Greco
late hour is unlikely to be productive; it took many years to get IPv6 into the state it is, and if we are going to go and change it all because you don't like sparseness, will it be ready to deploy before 2020? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Greco
ture; calls for packing IPv6 space more tightly serve merely to marginalize that win. We should be figuring out ways to make /64's work optimally, because in ten years everyone's going to have gigabit Internet links and we're going to need all the tricks we can muster to make an attac

Re: Spamhaus under DDOS from AnonOps (Wikileaks.info)

2010-12-19 Thread Joe Greco
? Domain ID:D130035267-LROR Domain Name:WIKILEAKS.ORG Created On:04-Oct-2006 05:54:19 UTC Last Updated On:17-Dec-2010 01:57:59 UTC Expiration Date:04-Oct-2018 05:54:19 UTC It seems like it'd be reasonable to be cautious. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the

2010-12-17 Thread Joe Greco
ons on hot potato routing been, historically? I seem to recall Cogent made lots of noises early on about how they could do hot potato routing to encourage peering, but over the years that didn't seem to pan out that way. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - ht

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Joe Greco
someone else have a go at it. This leveraging-captive-customers-to-get-money-from- others game is fundamentally dirty, at least if the rumors about your transit connections are true. Which probably brings us around to the reasons that it'd be interesting to have Comcast volunteer the information

Re: A fascinating piece of spam

2010-12-07 Thread Joe Greco
10 15:42:49 -0800 (PST) > From: Carla Fletcher > Reply-To: carlafletche...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: Re: Abuse@ contacts > To: jgr...@ns.sol.net I didn't know that anybody was still keying on subject lines; our spam filter tossed it anyways. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Netwo

Re: Abuse@ contacts

2010-12-07 Thread Joe Greco
inly to cause customer churn. Cheap webhosts and the like are typically under pressure to keep costs low. You may end up with an abuse desk that overreacts, or that doesn't care until the volume of complaints becomes deafening. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee,

Re: Pointer for documentation on actually delivering IPv6

2010-12-06 Thread Joe Greco
passing of the firewall through misconfig or other perils at the network level. You won't make much progress on these fears because there's genuinely something to them. What we really need are killer IPv6 apps that can't easily be NAT'd. :-) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Netwo

Re: Cloud proof of failure - was:: wikileaks unreachable

2010-12-06 Thread Joe Greco
of meta-cloud, it should be obvious that meta-cloud computing is proving to be very resilient. But that brings us to a Tron-like mentality about the whole Internet... how apropos. :-) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the &

Wikileaks moved to cave bunker in Iran, Mr. Assange reportedly offered asylum by North Korea...

2010-12-03 Thread Joe Greco
://www.aolnews.com/world/article/sex-by-surprise-at-heart-of-julian-assange-criminal-probe/19741444 [*2] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/ [*3] http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/us-government-seizes-82-websites-draconian-future ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network S

Re: Blocking International DNS

2010-11-22 Thread Joe Greco
rden on service providers. It's funny, isn't it, didn't we just finish convincing the government of the need for DNSSEC, making the DNS system more resistant to some forms of tampering? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-25 Thread Joe Greco
> On 25/10/2010 15:56, Joe Greco wrote: > > Four is, IMHO, the best number of servers to have. They do not need to be > > fast or modern machines. > > They do need to have a somewhat unbroken internal clock. That's a good point. > This tends to mean that running n

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-25 Thread Joe Greco
ory up to 1GB, two PCI slots, serial console capable, etc. Available fairly cheap. Great for things like NTP, DNS, we've got one for our FTP archive, Asterisk PBX, etc. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the

Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch

2010-10-19 Thread Joe Greco
to be able to figure out what sort of power that represents compared to a given task. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again.

Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch

2010-10-18 Thread Joe Greco
rder to implement if you're too focused on the "evil" of oversubscription. I think what you want to avoid are providers who are unable to maintain sufficient spare capacity to cope with peak demand. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net &qu

Re: Hey Leber - you think Melissa is going to issue that refund

2010-10-12 Thread Joe Greco
> They should shut down your power again for that one. It's like asking for them to cycle your power on and off until your stuff starts letting out the magic smoke around event number 100,000. :-) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net &qu

Re: New hijacking - Done via via good old-fashioned Identity Theft

2010-10-09 Thread Joe Greco
if you do sufficiently BOFHish things. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail

Re: New hijacking - Done via via good old-fashioned Identity Theft

2010-10-08 Thread Joe Greco
reveal which companies you will no longer choose to do business with. This turns out to be very powerful and very flexible. It can be extended to include functionality such as single-use addresses or limited-age addresses, etc. The big trick is to leverage the e-mail address field itself rather than

Re: Scam telemarketers spoofing our NOC phone number for callerid

2010-10-06 Thread Joe Greco
habit of dialing you from the number you called, even if you specifically asked them to use a different callback number. > However, SIP scanning and brute forcing has become really common, so it's > about as likely that a phone system has been compromised as someone is > forging call

Re: RIP Justification

2010-09-29 Thread Joe Greco
, sometimes being able to bring a client's network back on-line in a crisis is more important than technical correctness. I feel reasonably certain that I would not have been able to cobble together a quick solution if they had been relying on OSPF, etc. A simple protocol can be a blessing. I

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,

2010-09-21 Thread Joe Greco
better. They might feel > they have been ripped off. As time goes by, their Internet performs > worse and worse, they begin to blame their network provider for that, > not the content provider who produces a product that consumes increasing > amounts of bandwidth as time goes by. C

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,

2010-09-21 Thread Joe Greco
have a realistic *choice*? At the end of the day, after stripping away all the distractions, the concept of prioritizing traffic looks to me like something that is ultimately intended to squeeze more revenue out of the network, and this happens by not giving the customer some of what they have alrea

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,

2010-09-20 Thread Joe Greco
killer point, though, is when you look at what's happening in other > > areas of the world. You can see broadband Internet services elsewhere > > evolving. You can even see rogues here in the US (I'm looking at you, > > Sonic!) who are pushing the envelope. > > >

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,

2010-09-20 Thread Joe Greco
an see broadband Internet services elsewhere evolving. You can even see rogues here in the US (I'm looking at you, Sonic!) who are pushing the envelope. The reality is that the world is changing, and subscribers are going to be pushing more and more data, often without even recognizing

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,

2010-09-18 Thread Joe Greco
to expect that the "business model" will remain useful or that any component of it, such as massive oversubscription, must necessarily be correct and remain viable in its current form, just because it worked a decade ago. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, W

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,

2010-09-17 Thread Joe Greco
ess to the Internet. That means that if I can get packets in and out of your transit without fuss, that's probably good enough. If you've short-circuited things with peering that gives me faster access, that's great too. However, if your transit is 100% saturated for 20% of the day,

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized

2010-09-17 Thread Joe Greco
just sum it up for you: Get real. Rather than allowing service providers to pick and choose who subscribers can communicate with, we're much more likely to see regulation intervene to enforce reasonable rules. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.so

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,

2010-09-17 Thread Joe Greco
ing issues. What happens if YouTube doesn't want to pay for "paid" prioritization of their traffic? Does my ISP decide to route them through Timbuktu in order to punish them, effectively holding me as a hostage until YouTube pays up? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Serv

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,

2010-09-16 Thread Joe Greco
doctor to prescribe their products instead of their competitor's, even where the competitor's product might be a better fit for my medical needs." Now, really, just think about that for a little while. (*) All companies listed are just used as hypothetical examples, and should not be

Re: just seen my first IPv6 network abuse scan,

2010-09-07 Thread Joe Greco
y in it says a lot about where consumer electronics is going, and that we're likely to be seeing a lot more of this sort of low-level bad guy activity that is able to target a list of heterogeneous targets. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net &

Re: Numbering nameservers and resolvers

2010-08-17 Thread Joe Greco
ld happen that would take down the whole network; this is the downside to having less compartmentalization. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact

Re: Numbering nameservers and resolvers

2010-08-17 Thread Joe Greco
t; bind related crap. tcp/zonetransfer can also be configured to run off of a different IP address, for example, the native IP of the box. This works just fine. In BIND, you're looking for transfer-source ${qaddr} port ${qport}; IIRC. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwauk

Re: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space

2010-08-16 Thread Joe Greco
acked for injecting that packet > into the public internet. > > What *possible* use case would require a 1918-sourced packet to be traversing > the public internet? We're all waiting with bated breath to hear this one. ;) It's great for showing in traceroutes who the heel is.

Re: Out-of-band paging

2010-07-28 Thread Joe Greco
27;m aware that I may not be "in touch". I'm perfectly capable of sorting that situation out myself. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I wo

Re: Out-of-band paging (was: Web expert ...)

2010-07-28 Thread Joe Greco
re someone looks at the picture in a few years and says, "we've already got 1Gbps data pipes to our cell sites, why are we running voice over a separate 45Mbps pipe?" And as far as I can tell, that's happening a lot more quickly than many people have expected. I strongly agree

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-27 Thread Joe Greco
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:37:57 -0400, Joe Greco wrote: > > Relatively speaking, at&t's Enterprise Paging (which appears to just be > > enterprise SMS with a TAP/SNPP gateway) has been a lot more reliable. I > > have no idea how reliable it'd be in a major

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-27 Thread Joe Greco
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > > As wonderful as the new communications paradigms are, do we also > > have a situation now developing where it might eventually become > > very difficult or even impossible to ensure out-of-band lines of > > comm

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-27 Thread Joe Greco
es of communications remain available? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-ma

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-16 Thread Joe Greco
e core and border definitions as well, of course, such as what happens when you connect a core router interface to an upstream and you wind up with a mongrel. However, the "core means bfr" definition strikes me as singularly useless and something that's really more marketingspeak f

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-15 Thread Joe Greco
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > > For example, for a provider whose entire upstream capacity is 1Gbps, I ha= > ve a hard time seeing how a Linux- or FreeBSD-based box could credibly be c= > laimed not to be a suitable edge router. > > Because it can and

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-15 Thread Joe Greco
time seeing how a Linux- or FreeBSD-based box could credibly be claimed not to be a suitable edge router. The problem with Roland's statement is its absoluteness; I have a much easier side to argue, since I merely need to explain one case where the use profile does not result in failure, and t

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-14 Thread Joe Greco
> On Jul 14, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > > > The truth is that you can keep throwing CPU at a problem as well. I can = > size a software based router such that it can remain available. > > Not against mpps, or even high kpps, you can't, unfortunately. Really

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-14 Thread Joe Greco
> On Jul 14, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > > That's just a completely ignorant statement to make. > > It's based on a great deal of real-world experience; I'm sorry you consider= > that to be 'ignorant'. You're speaking to someone wh

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-13 Thread Joe Greco
> On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > > It's interesting. One can get equally militant and say that hardware bas= > ed routers are irrelevant in many applications.=20 > > When BCPs are followed, they don't tend to fall over the moment someone hit= > s

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-13 Thread Joe Greco
hardware based routers are irrelevant in many applications. I think it depends on the application, and it's usually the specifics of the application and the scale and features needed that's going to be more of a deciding factor. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwauk

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Joe Greco
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Joe Greco wrote: > > There's a happy medium in there somewhere; it's not clear that having (to > > use the examples given) air traffic control computers directly on the > > Internet has sufficient value to outweigh the risks. However, it seems

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Joe Greco
ks about job creation will change that reality. These networks ought to be air gapped to the maximum reasonable extent possible; all pathways in ought to be defended as though they were the gateway to the kingdom. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.

Re: Broadband initiatives - impact to your network?

2010-06-29 Thread Joe Greco
le to backup someone's PC over a SOHO cablemodem to a corporate backup server, and in fact some people try to do that, since the alternatives are not good. Bleh :-) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the app

Re: Experience with the Dell PowerConnect 8024F - compare to the

2010-06-18 Thread Joe Greco
, even though I don't really have a good use for them anymore. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Market

Re: Experience with the Dell PowerConnect 8024F - compare to the

2010-06-18 Thread Joe Greco
f which turned out to be true (only supports a handful of IPv6 routes). ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direc

Re: On the control of the Internet.

2010-06-13 Thread Joe Greco
> On 6/13/2010 15:54, Joe Greco wrote: > > If we want to be pedantic, Sony this year announced that it is shutting > > down its production of floppy disks by next year. Of course, the choice > > of "floppy disk" is irrelevant, and I'm guessing you kn

Re: On the control of the Internet.

2010-06-13 Thread Joe Greco
> On 6/13/2010 14:59, Joe Greco wrote: > > > Yes, but unreachability is basically only a problem for those who have > > failed to design and plan for it. You can engineer for unreachability. > > You're a lot more screwed if we start talking about government mandates

Re: On the control of the Internet.

2010-06-13 Thread Joe Greco
> On 6/13/2010 14:59, Joe Greco wrote: > > >>>> How about the case where the master zone file has be amputated and the > >>>> secondaries can no longer get updates? > > Mea culpa. > > That was suppose to say "How about the case where the mast

Re: On the control of the Internet.

2010-06-13 Thread Joe Greco
> On 6/13/2010 14:59, Joe Greco wrote: > > What happens? The master zone simply doesn't get updated until someone > > FedEx's a floppy. You know, some of us made these sorts of contingency > > plans long ago, back in days when the Internet actually wasn't

Re: On the control of the Internet.

2010-06-13 Thread Joe Greco
s. How that works in the case where a government mandates something specific happens within your zone file is of course debatable, but possibly more back towards the original topic. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bit

Re: On the control of the Internet.

2010-06-13 Thread Joe Greco
is a little more centralized than it ought to be in order to allow the "routed around" concept to work successfully. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Greco
last decade, BCP38 filtering still isn't prevalent, abuse desks are commonly considered to be black holes, and people still talk about disinfecting a virus-laden computer. There is only so much you can do, short of getting out a Clue by Four and going around hitting people with it. ... JG -- Jo

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Greco
> On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 12:08 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > > That's not going to happen (but I'll be happy to be proven wrong). > > Oh, there are so many things that are "not going to happen", aren't > there? And because of that we shouldn't even

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Greco
rive to fail sooner" or "the fans will burn out faster", because that seems to be borne out by actual real world experience, but I wasn't aware that the security quality of Windows varied significantly based on the cost of the computer. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Netwo

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Greco
gligent, or is this just your own personal definition of negligence? Because I doubt that a judge, or even an ordinary person, could possibly consider it such. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple'

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Greco
> --=-sFVAwQY0p26r8nFOk9Ww > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 08:50 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > > Primarily because the product that they've been given to use is defective > > by design. > > In

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Greco
IAA. What you're suggesting is even more Rube Goldberg, and as a way to address the issue of software quality, would appear to be a spectacular EPIC FAIL based on the influence of the software industry and the resulting effects of what you suggest. They'll simply state that it would

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