Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-06 Thread Marty Anstey
Nick Hilliard wrote: PHP stinks on the command line and text processing This is a bit of a broad sweeping statement! Can you elaborate on what your definition of how PHP stinks in this context? We have dozens of CLI scripts all written in PHP, some of which have been running for years and

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-06 Thread Marty Anstey
Max Gribov wrote: On 04/06/2010 01:17 PM, Marty Anstey wrote: Nick Hilliard wrote: PHP stinks on the command line and text processing This is a bit of a broad sweeping statement! Can you elaborate on what your definition of how PHP stinks in this context? well, try

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Marty Anstey
Hopefully this e-mail is considered operational content :) The recent thread on the new linkys kit and ipv6 support got me thinking about CPE choice. What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the high end d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experiences

Re: NTP clock source

2010-03-25 Thread Marty Anstey
Kyle Bader wrote: Can anyone recommend a solid clock souce (stratum 0) that's not overly expensive? The only stuff I've found so far is ESE, can anyone recommend them or conversely has anyone had any problems with their hardware? If you are of the DIY persuasion, check out the following

Re: Need advise for a linux firewall

2010-03-11 Thread Marty Anstey
PFsense, (being freeBSD-based, comes under your other category) It uses the OpenBSD-based pf firewall, with a web-based GUI for almost everything (except maybe console resets). works for me in several locations, some `heavy and high`. +1 for pfsense. I've been running it for over 18

Re: Alaska IXP?

2010-03-04 Thread Marty Anstey
Joe Abley wrote: On 2010-03-03, at 18:51, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Mar 3, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: Are there any common locations in Alaska where multiple local ISPs exchange traffic, either transit or peering? Or is Seattle the closest exchange point for Alaska

Re: Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

2010-02-11 Thread Marty Anstey
William Pitcock wrote: FreeBSD's network stack chokes up in DDoS attacks due to interrupt flooding. We used to use FreeBSD for firewalling and basic routing, but when noticing that we had horizontal scalability (e.g. a Celeron 667mhz performed nearly as well as a dual dual-core Xeon system

IPv6 Training

2009-12-23 Thread Marty Anstey
Greetings, Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with IPv6 training courses. A quick search turns up a few results on the subject, but it would be handy to hear if anyone has any firsthand experiences or recommendations. We're based in western Canada but don't mind traveling a bit, but