APC UPS Advice/Guidance for Canada 120/240

2013-08-16 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, We are in the market for a APC UPS, and had a few questions. We are not that familiar with APC, and was hoping for some clarity. Our power demands will be for a unit that will sustain 3 kW/4 kVA scalable to 8 kVA. Input: The first issue is that I see all the units default with

Re: How big is the Internet?

2013-08-14 Thread Nick Khamis
On 8/14/13, Jorge Amodio jmamo...@gmail.com wrote: This big has been a pretty accurate answer over the years -Jorge Oh hahahhaah. Oh man, I better get back to work. Have a nice day gentlemen :). Nick from Toronto.

Re: Revealed: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

2013-08-01 Thread Nick Khamis
I'll make this short. Is our OpenVPN server prone?

Secure Tunneling. Only with more Control!!!

2013-07-13 Thread Nick Khamis
Not having to hijack http://seclists.org/nanog/2013/Jul/251, and without further ado, On 7/12/13, ryang...@gmail.com ryang...@gmail.com wrote: It wouldn't be. When the endpoint in question is compromised, there isn't any amount of tunneling or obscurity between point a and point b that will

Re: Google bot contact

2013-07-12 Thread Nick Khamis
If lucky maybe bot google contact shortdudey...@gmail.com On 7/11/13, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone that works with the Google Bot contact me off list? I am seeing some really weird access activity for a site I manage. -Grant

Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-12 Thread Nick Khamis
We are currently working on something right now where all connections are doing over an encrypted vpn. We are bringing SIP, email, search, and cloud to the tunnel. You can contact me off list if you would like to know more. Nick Khamis

Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-12 Thread Nick Khamis
I should also note that even if the stores are on an encrypted LUN you are still exposed to impersonation and journaling. -matt I would hate to assume. Please do elaborate. N.

Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-12 Thread Nick Khamis
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Bruce Pinsky b...@whack.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Baldwin wrote: While that would secure the connections from snooping if you're mailboxes are on Office 365 and those mailbox stores do not exits on an encrypted LUN

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-12 Thread Nick Khamis
Set up your own email server, host your own web pages, maintain your own cloud, breath your own oxygen FTW. N.

Re: Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re: Security over SONET/SDH]

2013-06-25 Thread Nick Khamis
Screw the pyramids. Look at that building Yeah we though about this and currently in the process of training pigeons to carry messages. Will keep everyone posted. :) Nick.

Re: Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re: Security over SONET/SDH]

2013-06-25 Thread Nick Khamis
On 6/25/13, Javier Henderson jav...@kjsl.org wrote: RFC 1149 addresses the practice of avian carriers. -jav Jav, this one takes the trump!!! You sir are a man of few words! :) N.

Re: Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re: Security over SONET/SDH]

2013-06-25 Thread Nick Khamis
On 6/25/13, Warren Bailey wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com wrote: Is there a realistic way to deal with dropped packets in that situation? I would think packet loss could get really messy.. ;) As you know this is not such a problem for UDP streams however, we have not worked out all the

Re: PDU recommendations

2013-06-23 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Michael, does that mean you do not employ PDUs in your network? I.e., found a UPS with sufficient number of outlets in the back. With that in mind, could you make a recommendation for such a UPS-direct for a VM environment. Kind Regards, Nick.

Re: PDU recommendations

2013-06-23 Thread Nick Khamis
And now for the stupid question. Is there an APC UPS in a U form factor with sufficient outlets that can act kind of like a PDU, only better? PS If it has stonith capabilities ever better!!! Kind Regards, Nick.

Re: Need ATT Contact

2013-06-22 Thread Nick Khamis
Is this an ISDN trunk or their IP Flex product? I don't have a rep for the latter. N.

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Nick Khamis
A local clec here in Canada just teamed up with this company to provide cell service to the north: http://cwta.ca/blog/2012/09/24/ice-wireless-iristel-and-huawei-partner-for-3g-wireless-network-in-northern-canada/ Scary N.

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Nick Khamis
On 6/13/13, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: On 06/13/2013 09:35 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I am assuming a not-Hauwei-only network. The idea that a router could send things through other routers without someone who is looking for it noticing is ludicrous. ::cough:: steganography

Re: OC3/STM-1 Line Card

2013-06-09 Thread Nick Khamis
Anyone? Good quality SIGTRAN/SS7 on STM-1/OCN? Kind Regards, Nick.

Re: OC3/STM-1 Line Card

2013-06-09 Thread Nick Khamis
Sorry everyone for the delayed response. Basically we are trying to setup up POPS in specific ares. Each POP should be capable of handling 1500-2000 channels or ~60-80 virutal PRIs please bare with me. Laying down the 80K for Audiocodes 3000 with an OC interface, or even a Metaswitch would be the

OC3/STM-1 Line Card

2013-06-08 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Anyone know of a way of bypassing the 90K audiocodes mediant 3000 equipped for STM-1 interface using line cards and a linux box :). What we are looking to do is replace our traditional ISDN DS3 equipped for voice using an STM-1/OC3 backbone and our own put together linux box.

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Nick Khamis
Tax payer money.. :) On 6/7/13, Mark Seiden m...@seiden.com wrote: what a piece of crap this article is. the guy doesn't understand what sniffing can and can't do. obviously he doesn't understand peering or routing, and he doesn't understand what cdns are for. he doesn't understand

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Nick Khamis
Sorry for the top post

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Nick Khamis
Server maintenance at 00 on my end.

Re: Canadian Hosting Providers - how do you handle copyright and trademark complaints

2013-06-05 Thread Nick Khamis
On 6/5/13, Sameer Khosla skho...@neutraldata.com wrote: My personal favorite is the number of notices that we receive as DMCA takedown notices, citing the specific laws. I'm not sure US copyright laws even apply to us here in Canada? What countries have no internet laws? N.

Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel

2013-05-24 Thread Nick Khamis
+1 on the interrupt cpu assignment N. On 5/24/13, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 24/05/2013 20:21, Joe Greco wrote: Luigi did the polling stuff more than a decade ago. Polling fixes some issues and seems to cause others. interrupt mitigation helps more than polling these days.

Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel

2013-05-24 Thread Nick Khamis
Sorry for the top post!!! N.

Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel

2013-05-19 Thread Nick Khamis
On May 18, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, We are running: Gentoo Server on Dual Core Intel Xeon 3060, 2 Gb Ram Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit

Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel

2013-05-19 Thread Nick Khamis
On 5/19/13, Nikola Kolev ni...@mnet.bg wrote: You might be maxing out your server's PCI bus throughput, so it might be a better idea if you can get Ethernet NICs that are sitting at least on PCIe x8 slots. Nikola, thank you so much for your response! It kind of looks that way, and we do have

Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel

2013-05-19 Thread Nick Khamis
Hi Nick, You're done. You can buy more recent server hardware and get another small bump. You may be able to tweak interrupt rates from the NICs as well, trading latency for throughput. But basically you're done: you've hit the upper bound of what slow-path (not hardware assisted)

Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel

2013-05-19 Thread Nick Khamis
This is some fairly ancient hardware, so what you can get out if it will be limited. Though gige should not be impossible. Agreed!!! The usual tricks are to make sure netfilter is not loaded, especially the conntrack/nat based parts as that will inspect every flow for state information.

Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel

2013-05-19 Thread Nick Khamis
On 5/19/13, Zachary Giles zgi...@gmail.com wrote: I had two Dell R3xx 1U servers with Quad Gige Cards in them and a few small BGP connections for a few year. They were running CentOS 5 + Quagga with a bunch of stuff turned off. Worked extremely well. We also had really small traffic back then.

High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel

2013-05-18 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, We are running: Gentoo Server on Dual Core Intel Xeon 3060, 2 Gb Ram Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) 2 bgp links from different providers using