Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-30 Thread Leon Ward
On 30 Jul 2008, at 03:26, James Pleger wrote: Something you might want to look into is traffic aggregation with a switch or hub. You can buy an Allied Telesyn switch and basically turn it into a hub by disabling switchport learning. Just an idea. Never try to aggregate multiple TAPs with a

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-30 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jul 29, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Darryl Dunkin wrote: Hubs sure are fun... This might be a stupid question, but where can one get small hubs these days? All of the common commodity (eg: 4 port Netgear) hubs these days are actually switches. What I am looking for is: Small enough to live

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-30 Thread Jon Kibler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warren Kumari wrote: On Jul 29, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Darryl Dunkin wrote: Hubs sure are fun... This might be a stupid question, but where can one get small hubs these days? All of the common commodity (eg: 4 port Netgear) hubs these days

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-30 Thread Lynda
Warren Kumari wrote: On Jul 29, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Darryl Dunkin wrote: Hubs sure are fun... This might be a stupid question, but where can one get small hubs these days? All of the common commodity (eg: 4 port Netgear) hubs these days are actually switches. True enough. For those

[NANOG-announce] NANOG44 updated agenda, so register already

2008-07-30 Thread Todd Underwood
hat org=NANOG program committee role=chair An updated agenda for NANOG44 has been posted at: http://nanog.org/mtg-0810/agenda.html you might notice that this NANOG features: * Keynote by Vint Cerf of Google * More tutorials than you can shake a stick at * A

RE: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-30 Thread Matthew Huff
The Cisco 8 port 10/100/1000 switch (WS-C2960G-8TC-L) supports RSPAN which would allow you to tap all the ports even though it's a switch. It's about $750, so it's not a cheap option, but it's not outrageous either. It's the right size also. Matthew Huff | One Manhattanville Rd

Re: [funsec] Subject line misleading. ATT Pwned. Sweet Irony: Metasploit Creator a Victim of His Own Creation (fwd)

2008-07-30 Thread Gadi Evron
I guess history decided the previous discussion in favor of vix. Although I doubt vix sees this compromise at ATT as a victory, but rather a loss. Note: HD has not been compromised. Gadi. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:46:49 -0700 From: Dragos Ruiu

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-30 Thread nathan
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, John A. Kilpatrick wrote: We've deployed a bunch taps in our network and now we need a platform on which to capture the data. Our bandwidth is currently pretty low but I've got 8 links to tap, which means I need 16 ports. Has anyone done any research on doing accurate

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-30 Thread David Newman
Jon Kibler wrote: Hubs are still available that are REAL hubs. I got 4 netgears about a year ago and they are still available. However, there is a problem with your specification: No hub (that I am aware of) can do 1Gbps. All hubs are 10/100 AFAIK. Grand Junction made a gigabit Ethernet

big DC -48V to AC inverters

2008-07-30 Thread Andreas Ott
Hello, we are looking into providing power for 'legacy' equipment in a data center that is exclusively giving us -48V DC power. The most recent thread on this list was about -48V DC modems but in our case I am rather looking into inverting on the order of 4 kW per rack from the supplied DC into

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-30 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out Endace cards, that will let you do line rate gig e or better and has native libpcap interface. I believe Endace also have a productized box containing their capture cards (NinjaProbe); it can be used to capture packets, and

Re: big DC -48V to AC inverters

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Jackson
Unipower out of florida.. They can provide scalable inverters for 120 and 208/240. Modular N+1 setups and very flexible.. We have a large 200amp 120vac setup from them. I'd recommend letting your electrician build a parallel setup instead of relying on their modules, however... On 7/30/08,

RE: big DC -48V to AC inverters

2008-07-30 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
If you do invert, don't forget the cooling budget. Inverters run HOT! -Original Message- From: Tim Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5:36 PM To: Andreas Ott; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: big DC -48V to AC inverters Unipower out of florida.. They

Re: [funsec] Subject line misleading. ATT Pwned. Sweet Irony: Metasploit Creator a Victim of His Own Creation (fwd)

2008-07-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess history decided the previous discussion in favor of vix. Although I doubt vix sees this compromise at ATT as a victory, but rather a loss. Note: HD has not been compromised. Well so if any of you uses an iphone to

Re: [funsec] Subject line misleading. ATT Pwned. Sweet Irony: Metasploit Creator a Victim of His Own Creation (fwd)

2008-07-30 Thread Martin Hannigan
Not so quick. Privacy policy? -M On 7/30/08, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess history decided the previous discussion in favor of vix. Although I doubt vix sees this compromise at ATT as a

RE: [funsec] Subject line misleading. ATT Pwned. Sweet Irony:Metasploit Creator a Victim of His Own Creation (fwd)

2008-07-30 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Between a potential problem with privacy, and an actual problem with having my sessions redirected to the RBN, I'll take the privacy risk. YMMV. -Original Message- From: Martin Hannigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:13 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian;

RE: [funsec] Subject line misleading. ATT Pwned. Sweet Irony:Metasploit Creator a Victim of His Own Creation (fwd)

2008-07-30 Thread Gadi Evron
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: Between a potential problem with privacy, and an actual problem with having my sessions redirected to the RBN, I'll take the privacy risk. YMMV. Depends on your priorities--and that of whoever owns the phone. You, or your employer. Gadi.

RE: [funsec] Subject line misleading. ATT Pwned. Sweet Irony: Metasploit Creator a Victim of His Own Creation (fwd)

2008-07-30 Thread Skywing
If you don't mind OpenDNS proxying all your Google searches, sure. http://blog.metasploit.com/2008/07/on-dns-attacks-in-wild-and-journalistic.html Personally, I would never use OpenDNS. Tactics like that are not particularly acceptable in my book, well-meaning or not. Not, however, trying

Re: [funsec] Subject line misleading. ATT Pwned. Sweet Irony: Metasploit Creator a Victim of His Own Creation (fwd)

2008-07-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I can point it to a colo'd resolver I have elsewhere - but opendns is rather more redundant. Yes I know what else it does re advertising and such, but I dont do any sensitive work related stuff through those resolvers anyway. On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Skywing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-07-30 Thread Larry J. Blunk
Warren Kumari wrote: On Jul 29, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Darryl Dunkin wrote: Hubs sure are fun... This might be a stupid question, but where can one get small hubs these days? All of the common commodity (eg: 4 port Netgear) hubs these days are actually switches. What I am looking for is: