Re: Symmetry, DSL, and all that

2015-03-02 Thread Steve Clark
On 03/02/2015 02:19 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote: The backend is still symmetric. It's still something like 1.25 gigs up and 2.5 gigs down. You can only beat that going to AE. Truth is, once the user is achieving what they consider to be acceptable performance they don't care if it is symmetric

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Steve Clark
On 02/27/2015 04:11 PM, Scott Helms wrote: Daniel, 50MB/s might be tough to fill, but even at home I can get good use out of the odd 25MB/s upstream burst for a few minutes. Which would you choose, 50/50 or 75/25? My point is not that upstream speed isn't valuable, but merely that demand for

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-27 Thread Steve Clark
Scott, Maybe if it the upstream bandwidth was there would be more applications to use it. I know it is a real pain to upload pics to Facebook, etc on my 1mbs uplink, or move things to work across my VPN. Steve On 02/27/2015 02:30 PM, Scott Helms wrote: Daniel, Well, I wouldn't call using

Re: US patent 5473599

2014-04-22 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/22/2014 01:30 PM, Paul WALL wrote: On Tuesday, April 22, 2014, Henning Brauer hb-na...@bsws.de wrote: I won't waste time on your uninformed ramblings, you have the facts plain wrong. There is enough material on the net for everybody to read up on what happened. carp causing outages

Re: Fwd: Serious bug in ubiquitous OpenSSL library: Heartbleed

2014-04-08 Thread Steve Clark
According to the changelog it cvs is fixed now. $ rpm -qa|grep openssl openssl-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7.x86_64 openssl-devel-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7.x86_64 Tue Apr 8 12:17:25 EDT 2014 Z643357:~ $ rpm -q --changelog openssl | less * Mon Apr 07 2014 Tomás( Mráz tm...@redhat.com 1.0.1e-16.7 - fix CVE-2014-0160

Re: random dns queries with random sources

2014-02-20 Thread Steve Clark
On 02/20/2014 08:57 AM, Pavel Zeleny wrote: Masataka Ohta mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp writes: Joe Maimon wrote: What is the purpose of this? ... Masataka Ohta Hi guys, for a second, have you any clue how to block this traffic on DNS

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-30 Thread Steve Clark
On 11/30/2012 09:45 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: I'll see your disagree and raise you another ;-) I would say you almost never want to store addresses as character data unless the only thing you're using them for is logging (even then it's questionable). I run into people who do this all the time and

Re: IPv6 /64 links (was Re: ipv6 book recommendations?)

2012-06-06 Thread Steve Clark
On 06/06/2012 03:05 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: It is because of IEEE EUI-64 standard. It was believed at the time of IPv6 development that EUI-48 would run out of numbers and IEEE had proposed going to EUI-64. While IEEE still hasn't quite made that change (though Firewire does appear to use EUI-64

Re: Host scanning in IPv6 Networks

2012-04-20 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/20/2012 08:17 AM, Tei wrote: It would be a very fast dictionary attack :D accede bade dad decade face axed babe deaf bed Abe bee Decca exec fade bead bedded deed exceed Abba deface efface feed On 20 April 2012 09:08, Fernando Gontferna...@gont.com.ar wrote: FYI Original

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-17 Thread Steve Clark
I agree with this 100%. Having worked with many people over the last 40 years, the good trouble shooters understood how things were suppose to work. This helps immeasurably in determining where to start looking. On 02/17/2012 10:12 AM, Mario Eirea wrote: Well, I will argue this. I think the

Re: Polling Bandwidth as an Aggregate

2012-01-20 Thread Steve Clark
On 01/20/2012 10:53 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Leo Bicknellbickn...@ufp.org said: To suggest Netflow is more accurate than rrdtool seems rather strange to me. It can be as accurate, but is not the way most people deploy it. Comparing Netflow to RRDTool is comparing apples to

IPV6 issue

2011-12-20 Thread Steve Clark
Hello, I have a SIXXS ipv6 tunnel that terminates in Ashburn, Va. I have two HE ipv6 tunnels, one terminates in Dallas the other terminate in Ashburn. I can ping each endpoint of the tunnels that terminate in Ashburn, but I can't ping between the SIXXS and HE with the HE termination in Dallas.

Re: IPV6 issue (occaid.net)

2011-12-20 Thread Steve Clark
On 12/20/2011 12:12 PM, Michael Sinatra wrote: On 12/20/11 06:33, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2011-12-20 15:17 , Steve Clark wrote: Hello, I have a SIXXS ipv6 tunnel that terminates in Ashburn, Va. I have two HE ipv6 tunnels, one terminates in Dallas the other terminate in Ashburn. I can ping

Re: Comcast IPv6 Update

2011-11-09 Thread Steve Clark
On 11/09/2011 11:40 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2011-11-09 17:32 , Brzozowski, John wrote: Update from http://www.comcast6.net IPv6 Pilot Market Deployment Begins Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Comcast has started our first pilot market deployment of IPv6... Congrats! One step closer to full

Re: lots of latency on qwest to google?

2011-09-20 Thread Steve Clark
On 09/20/2011 03:06 PM, Chris Brookes wrote: Anyone else seeing a lot of latency to google via qwest? .. 11 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms min-edge-12.inet.qwest.net [207.225.128.1] 1215 ms13 ms12 ms chx-edge-03.inet.qwest.net [67.14.38.5] 1312 ms21 ms13 ms 72.14.214.78

Re: The stupidity of trying to fix DHCPv6

2011-06-10 Thread Steve Clark
On 06/10/2011 09:37 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: You really didn't just write an entire post saying that RA is bad because if a moron of a network engineer plugs an incorrectly configured device into a production network it may cause problems, did you? You are the moron - this stuff happens and

Re: Cogent HE

2011-06-09 Thread Steve Clark
On 06/09/2011 06:21 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:55:44AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: Respectfully, RAS, I disagree. I think there's a big difference between being utterly unwilling to resolve the situation by peering and merely refusing to purchase transit to a

Re: Yahoo and IPv6

2011-06-01 Thread Steve Clark
On 05/31/2011 05:31 PM, Voll, Toivo wrote: Going to http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/ipv6/ and hitting Start IPv6 Test I get: Your system will continue to work for you on World IPv6 day. However, we found that your server only supports IPv4 at this time. You'll simply continue to use IPv4 to

Re: Yahoo and IPv6

2011-05-17 Thread Steve Clark
On 05/17/2011 08:56 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 11:07:17 +0200 From: Mans Nilssonmansa...@besserwisser.org ... It's not like you can even reach anything at home now, let alone reach it by name. that must and will change. let's be the generation who makes it possible. I'd

Re: 365x24x7

2011-04-15 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/15/2011 09:25 AM, Charles Mills wrote: I've had it done in places where I work where you'll have 3 rotations working 12 hour shifts. In a 2 week pay period they get their 80 hours in a blend 36 one week and 44 the next. It gives some nice consecutive days off time which also doubles as a