Re: ASPATH Loop

2009-05-10 Thread Nathan Ward
in the comments field: http://psg.com/as3130/ Regarding strange announcements by AS 3130 of prefixes in 98.128.0.0/16 is in the big headings on the top of that page. He is no doubt announcing it with an origin AS of 3130 so no person or router complains about inconsistent origins. -- Nathan Ward

Re: how many BGP routers, how many ASes

2009-05-13 Thread Nathan Ward
). -- Nathan Ward

Re: ICSI Netalyzr launch

2009-06-10 Thread Nathan Ward
, as opposed to invalid or untrusted or whatever normally comes up. Screenshot of the GUI: http://don.braintrust.co.nz/~nward/netalyzr.png -- Nathan Ward

Re: Telephones for Noisy Data Centers

2009-06-17 Thread Nathan Ward
, I'll get an auxiliary ringer. Does anyone have a phone model that they find to be excellent in a louder than usual data center? Not 100% what you asked for, but the noise cancelling Jawbone bluetooth earpieces are great. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Public/testing 4to6 gateway?

2009-07-13 Thread Nathan Ward
in how the outer IPv4 destination is built, taken from the inner IPv6 destination address. 6over4 is different again. I think someone wrote a draft explaining this a while back.. not sure where or what it was called. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Anomalies with AS13214 ?

2009-07-28 Thread Nathan Ward
:FN2233-RIPE source: RIPE # Filtered Dispatch someone from IETF, that is on in Stockholm right now. Actually, Paul Jakma might be there, dispatch him if it really is a Quagga bug. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Subnet Size for BGP peers.

2009-07-29 Thread Nathan Ward
in to private VLANs on Cisco, or whatever similar feature exists for your vendor. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Verizon transparent web caching issue? WASRe: Data Center QoS equipment breaking http 1.1?

2009-07-31 Thread Nathan Ward
browser's queries, despite what nslookup shows in a terminal window. As you are on OS X, have a read of http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man5/resolver.5.html It lets you do per-domain resolvers, and so on. -- Nathan Ward

Re: cisco.com

2009-08-04 Thread Nathan Ward
. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?)

2009-08-10 Thread Nathan Ward
of the network closely, but I'm sure there are other places higher up the list than FTE.. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Nathan Ward
tied in to silly rules, nor do you get IGP bloat. I have an extensible IP management tool that I've been hacking on heaps in the last week that does this stuff for you. It should be ready for people to tinker with in the next few weeks. -- Nathan Ward -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-15 Thread Nathan Ward
, there was no win to be had in classful. This is really this basis of my reply, so, I'll just say +1 Read about how sparse allocation/binary chop stuff works. You get the same amount of routes in your IGP table (or less) but it's much more flexible. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-19 Thread Nathan Ward
this technique with /44s or /40s, or something. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Anyone else seeing (invalid or corrupt AS path) 3 bytes E01100 ?

2009-08-20 Thread Nathan Ward
for one or two troublesome ASNs as a quick hack at 3am - don't do it unless you understand why it works and why you shouldn't do it. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Network Ring

2009-09-07 Thread Nathan Ward
make more sense. I echo Roland's comment, but I'll make it more specific - stay away from anything with spanning tree in it. -- Nathan Ward

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Nathan Ward
in the past several times and it's *ok*. Now though, I say don't bother, this thing is maybe a couple hundred dollars, and saves you oodles of time fooling around making it work reliably. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Practical numbers for IPv6 allocations

2009-10-06 Thread Nathan Ward
be an easy thing to do. On a personal note, I hope that we DO need to expand IPv6 allocations to ISPs as this thing finally gets deployed. My understanding is that the RIRs are doing sparse allocation, as opposed to reserving a few bits. I could be wrong. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 internet broken, Verizon route prefix length policy

2009-10-12 Thread Nathan Ward
that are direct customers of Verizon. What about the small matter of all of the current s for the the IPv6 enabled root DNS servers? -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 internet broken, Verizon route prefix length policy

2009-10-13 Thread Nathan Ward
good data on this. -- Nathan Ward

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-13 Thread Nathan Ward
On 14/10/2009, at 3:49 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Nathan Ward na...@daork.net said: On 14/10/2009, at 2:14 PM, Chris Adams wrote: What about web-hosting type servers? Right now, I've got a group of servers in a common IPv4 subnet (maybe a /26), with a /24 or two routed to each

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-14 Thread Nathan Ward
/2009, at 11:26 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: Nathan Ward, please stand up. Adrian On Tue, Oct 13, 2009, TJ wrote: -Original Message- From: Justin To go along with Dan's query from above, what are the preferred methods that other SPs are using to deploy IPv6 with non-IPv6-capable edge

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-14 Thread Nathan Ward
of people, when in reality it's a solution for a small number of people. Thanks for the point about the tunnel brokers though, I missed that, I'll update this tomorrow with any suggestions I get before then. -- Nathan Ward

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-15 Thread Nathan Ward
have two sites without a guaranteed link between them. This is a bit annoying though, yeah. But, I'm not sure I can think of a good solution that doesn't involve us changing the routing system so that we can handle a huge amount of intentional de-aggregates or something. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

2009-10-17 Thread Nathan Ward
AdvAutonomousFlag? -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

2009-10-18 Thread Nathan Ward
in DHCPv6: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dhcwg/current/msg07412.html -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

2009-10-18 Thread Nathan Ward
. Perhaps, but if you're operating a LAN segment you're going to want to filter rouge RA and DHCPv6 messages from your network, just like you do with DHCP in IPv4. Filtering RA and DHCPv6 are done in very similar ways. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

2009-10-18 Thread Nathan Ward
On 18/10/2009, at 9:52 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 09:29:41PM +1300, Nathan Ward wrote: Perhaps, but if you're operating a LAN segment you're going to want to filter rouge RA and DHCPv6 messages from your network, just like you do with DHCP in IPv4. Filtering RA

Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

2009-10-18 Thread Nathan Ward
On 18/10/2009, at 11:02 PM, Andy Davidson wrote: On 18 Oct 2009, at 09:29, Nathan Ward wrote: RA is needed to tell a host to use DHCPv6 This is not ideal. Why? Remember RA does not mean SLAAC, it just means RA. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

2009-10-18 Thread Nathan Ward
On 19/10/2009, at 1:10 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Oct 18, 2009, at 3:05 AM, Nathan Ward wrote: On 18/10/2009, at 11:02 PM, Andy Davidson wrote: On 18 Oct 2009, at 09:29, Nathan Ward wrote: RA is needed to tell a host to use DHCPv6 This is not ideal. Why? Remember RA does not mean

Re: IPv6 Allocations

2009-10-19 Thread Nathan Ward
because there was a bit of confusion. -- Nathan Ward

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-19 Thread Nathan Ward
often than you'd sometimes like. That's why we have Unique Local Addresses. -- Nathan Ward

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-19 Thread Nathan Ward
On 20/10/2009, at 3:10 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 03:07:39PM +1300, Nathan Ward wrote: On 20/10/2009, at 3:02 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: plus want the ability to take their address space with them when they change ISPs (because there are too many devices

Re: Consistent asymetric latency on monitoring?

2009-10-21 Thread Nathan Ward
timestamps gives you the latency in that direction. I believe a packet is sent, and the target router responds with a timestamp. But yeah, timestamps are being compared. I'm with Perry though - sounds like your clocks are drifting. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Simple Change Management Tracking

2009-10-26 Thread Nathan Ward
or some type? I suggest sticking with RT. I run RT on CentOS by maintaining a separate Perl libs dir for the cpan modules that are required by RT and keeping it separate from the OS managed stuff, it works very well. -- Nathan Ward

Re: dealing with bogon spam ?

2009-10-27 Thread Nathan Ward
if you only accept signed advertisements.. I don't know if that is the intended default mode or not.. Need to do some reading I guess. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Power Analysis/Management Tools

2009-10-27 Thread Nathan Ward
I haven't used cacti in a while, but does it let you combine several RRD files in to one graph? If so that's useful for power stuff, because you're likely to want to graph an aggregate of several things across different devices - for example a+b power of a server, or aggregate power usage

Re: dealing with bogon spam ?

2009-10-27 Thread Nathan Ward
within a current RIR pool, not so much. -- Nathan Ward

Re: dealing with bogon spam ?

2009-10-27 Thread Nathan Ward
On 28/10/2009, at 2:20 PM, Church, Charles wrote: This is puzzling me. If it's from non-announced space, at some point some router should report no route to it. How is the TCP handshake performed to allow a sync to turn into spam? Unallocated is not the same as unannounced.

Re: dealing with bogon spam ?

2009-10-28 Thread Nathan Ward
anything on their site that provides a BGP feed of prefixes allocated by RIRs, which I think is what we're talking about here. -- Nathan Ward

Re: PPPoE vs. Bridged ADSL

2009-10-28 Thread Nathan Ward
Apologies if this message is brief, it is sent from my cellphone. On 29/10/2009, at 11:33, Walter Keen walter.k...@rainierconnect.net wrote: Most aDSL modems if set to PPPoE (I think Actiontec's come this way by default) will send the mac as the pppoe un/pw. David E. Smith wrote:

Re: Speed Testing and Throughput testing

2009-11-02 Thread Nathan Ward
about 10/100/1000mbit connections, you might want to put something in place that prevents several people testing at once. -- Nathan Ward

Re: DNS query analyzer

2009-11-30 Thread Nathan Ward
wireshark's Lua extension system to write a plugin to do this for you right within wireshark. The wireshark/Lua stuff is quite powerful (though not super super fast), it's a really useful tool to have on hand. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Nathan Ward
on the outside? He is confused, and means 6to4. Also the airport extreme does not do DHCPv6-PD or anything (as far as I know, they certainly did not last time I tried), so I don't know that we'd really call them an IPv6 CPE in the way that I suspect Wade means. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Nathan Ward
.) Yes it will break auto MDI/MDI-X. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Wow

2008-10-12 Thread Nathan Ward
around this, encourage your ISP to build a 6to4 relay, which is a couple of commands on a spare Cisco router. For extra points, get them to build out a Teredo relay as well, which is a few commands on a spare Linux box. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Wow

2008-10-12 Thread Nathan Ward
gets you best of both worlds. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Wow

2008-10-12 Thread Nathan Ward
On 13/10/2008, at 3:46 PM, Daniel Senie wrote: At 06:05 PM 10/12/2008, Nathan Ward wrote: On 13/10/2008, at 9:53 AM, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: This brings up an interesting question, should we stop announcing our 6to4 relays outside of Europe? Is there consensus

Re: IPv6 Wow

2008-10-13 Thread Nathan Ward
to perform poorly. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Wow

2008-10-13 Thread Nathan Ward
On 13/10/2008, at 7:18 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Nathan Ward wrote: 6to4 is enabled by default in Vista - any Vista machine with a non- RFC1918 address will use 6to4. It is also available in some linksys routers, and is enabled by default in Apple Airport Extreme

Re: spurring transition to ipv6 -- make it faster

2008-10-14 Thread Nathan Ward
. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-29 Thread Nathan Ward
this chicken/egg thing it's not even funny, just do it already. Well, if you don't it's no problem I suppose, your users are automatically tunnelling across you already. If you're only thinking about doing a small IPv6 deployment now, you're behind the curve. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-29 Thread Nathan Ward
network now. That makes it a monetary thing, something they understand better perhaps.. Yep, this post is going against my best instincts. -- Nathan Ward

Re: MPLS for IPv6

2008-11-04 Thread Nathan Ward
for many people. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Metro Ethernet Multicast Support

2008-11-04 Thread Nathan Ward
down it, perhaps talk to your L2 service provider and see if they can provide you with this in parallel to your L2 service. -- Nathan Ward

Re: hosted PBX/VOIP thru VPN?

2008-11-12 Thread Nathan Ward
on context, and quality degrades during packet loss before you get silence. The i stands for Internet - so no surprise it works great in typical Internet conditions. -- Nathan Ward

Re: McColo: Are the 'Lights On at Telia?

2008-11-15 Thread Nathan Ward
On 16/11/2008, at 5:30 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: Is the spam SMTP meant to be originating from the McColo ranges or is it being used to control other machines elsewhere? The latter. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 routing /48s

2008-11-17 Thread Nathan Ward
to be globally reachable. Maybe to stop uRPF breaking ICMP messages if routers on the exchange respond from their interface address.. though.. I'd prefer to make my routers respond from loopback or something. -- Nathan Ward [1] Maybe I mean allocated, whatever. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Router Choice

2008-11-17 Thread Nathan Ward
- it is a core component of how switching works across the platform. They really seem to have thrown away a whole bunch of conventional thinking, and the result is, in my opinion, really quite good. -- Nathan Ward [1] I believe that it's the same L2 service that you use when creating

Re: IPv6 routing /48s

2008-11-19 Thread Nathan Ward
, however when that non-RFC1918 address is behind NAT, or some sort of packet filter, then it doesn't work so well, and the client does not have a way to detect that reliably. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 routing /48s

2008-11-19 Thread Nathan Ward
million PCs that aren't going to do their patches. I still plan to.. hopefully I'll get around to it when I feel a bit less jaded :-) -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 routing /48s

2008-11-19 Thread Nathan Ward
On 20/11/2008, at 11:05 AM, Jack Bates wrote: Nathan Ward wrote: The problem here is XPSP2/Vista assuming that non-RFC1918 = unfiltered/unNATed for the purposes of 6to4. Well, deeper problem is that they're using 6to4 on an end host I suppose - it's supposed to be used on routers. While I

Re: Tcpdump data collection

2008-12-02 Thread Nathan Ward
/malik_tcpdump_filters.html You might also consider using netflow instead of tcpdump, there are lots of tools available for processing netflow data in ways that are useful to network operators. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Yahoo DNS broken?

2008-12-03 Thread Nathan Ward
IN A 68.142.254.15 yf2.yahoo.com. 1800IN A 68.180.130.15 ;; Query time: 15 msec ;; SERVER: 68.180.131.16#53(68.180.131.16) ;; WHEN: Wed Dec 3 15:35:07 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 105 !DSPAM:22,4936edf127844578318734! -- Nathan Ward

Re: Stress Testing LAN/WAN

2008-12-04 Thread Nathan Ward
. If anyone knows of some software that works well for this I would appreciate letting me know. iPerf. -- Nathan Ward

Re: e300 vs mx240 for border router ?

2008-12-17 Thread Nathan Ward
with it. -- Nathan Ward [1] I only tried with FreeBSD, I'm told OpenBSD is similar.

Re: Managing CE eBGP details common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices

2008-12-21 Thread Nathan Ward
+! -- Nathan Ward

Re: Managing CE eBGP details common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices

2008-12-22 Thread Nathan Ward
, but I've often used this one as being pretty good. (whois -h whois.radb.net AS3356) -- Nathan Ward

Re: What is the most standard subnet length on internet

2008-12-22 Thread Nathan Ward
could find themselves facing random black holes. People are filtering /24s without a 0/0 route? -- Nathan Ward

Re: What is the most standard subnet length on internet

2008-12-22 Thread Nathan Ward
On 23/12/2008, at 2:39 PM, Joe Provo wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:34:39PM +1300, Nathan Ward wrote: [snip] Let me rephrase; Are there people who are filtering /24s received from eBGP peers who do not have a default route? of course. Curiously, it was really meant as a rhetorical

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-03 Thread Nathan Ward
recursive DNS server addresses that the DHCPv6 server hands out. If they are so inclined, they might even re-number dynamically if they get their prefix using PD. -- Nathan Ward

Re: [Update] Re: New ISP to market, BCP 38, and new tactics

2009-02-03 Thread Nathan Ward
advertise v4 prefixes in v6 sessions, keep them separate. If you do, you have to do set next-hops with route maps and things, it's kind of nasty. Better to just run a v4 BGP mesh and a v6 BGP mesh. -- Nathan Ward

Re: [Update] Re: New ISP to market, BCP 38, and new tactics

2009-02-03 Thread Nathan Ward
On 4/02/2009, at 2:43 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Nathan Ward wrote: On 4/02/2009, at 2:33 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: - Currently, (as I write), I'm migrating my entire core from IPv4 to IPv6. I've got the space, and I love to learn, so I'm just lab-ing it up now to see how things will flow

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

2009-02-04 Thread Nathan Ward
is waiting for hosts to do a DHCPv6 query to get a new address. That is sub-optimal. -- Nathan Ward

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

2009-02-04 Thread Nathan Ward
to the 69,000 other NANOG posts on the topic. -- Nathan Ward

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] (IPv6-MW)

2009-02-04 Thread Nathan Ward
to each customer - if they need more they ask for it automatically. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)

2009-02-04 Thread Nathan Ward
a trade off between 65k ISP server networks, and 65k link nets. Let's say 32k for each. -- Nathan Ward

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] (IPv6-MW)

2009-02-04 Thread Nathan Ward
I am told that juniper have just released their E series code to do hitless failover and ipv6cp at the same time. If you are not running hitless it has been working for some time. Apologies if this message is brief, it is sent from my cellphone. On 5/02/2009, at 17:29, Matthew Moyle-Croft

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-04 Thread Nathan Ward
Apologies if this message is brief, it is sent from my cellphone. Begin forwarded message: From: Nathan Ward On 5/02/2009, at 16:58, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Since NAT == stateful firewall with packet mangling, it would be much easier to drop the packet mangling and just use

Re: [Update] Re: New ISP to market, BCP 38, and new tactics

2009-02-06 Thread Nathan Ward
~1million entries because our hardware-based routers might run out of TCAM and bring the whole network to a screeching halt. Or more than 256k routes on a SUP2, or 192k/239K routes on a SUP720. We are at 285798 as of last CIDR report. So, I guess you should be worried.. now :-) -- Nathan

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems

2009-02-06 Thread Nathan Ward
only requires touching the router sending the RA messages. -- Nathan Ward

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

2009-02-06 Thread Nathan Ward
will run out of food. -- Nathan Ward

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

2009-02-06 Thread Nathan Ward
differently for multiple hosts on a single broadcast domain? There are some people that do that, but as Randy would say, it is something that I would encourage my competitors to do. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 delivery model to end customers

2009-02-07 Thread Nathan Ward
customer is listening to RA messages. The problem may very well exist right now. -- Nathan Ward

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

2009-02-09 Thread Nathan Ward
their external IPv4 address changes. -- Nathan Ward

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

2009-02-10 Thread Nathan Ward
in to Iljitsch's mouth. -- Nathan Ward

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

2009-02-10 Thread Nathan Ward
/fix SLAAC because you have a problem with it then again, I encourage you to get involved in the IETF. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Nathan Ward
boxes. ...or, until we have another way of getting resolvers that has widespread adoption.. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Nathan Ward
this differently. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Nathan Ward
IPv4 servers. NAT-PT allowed for the opposite direction, IPv4 clients connecting to IPv6 servers - NAT64 does not. The server must have an A record in DNS, and the client must use that name to connect to - just like NAT-PT. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Nathan Ward
for the edge. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Nathan Ward
/16, but I could be wrong. -- Nathan Ward [1] Yes I know that this is not allowed under current policy at any RIR.

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Nathan Ward
as well for those of you wanting to use DHCPv6 for addressing - RA is not giving out addressing information, and is only giving out Use DHCPv6 bits and a router address. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Nathan Ward
to a number of problems. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Nathan Ward
. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Nathan Ward
there are lots of people who want auto configuration in IPv6 but who clearly do not do this in IPv4. That seems strange, to me. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Nathan Ward
implementation of DHCPv6 for address assignment does. Better? :-) -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Nathan Ward
On 19/02/2009, at 9:53 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:44:38AM +1300, Nathan Ward wrote: I guess you don't use DHCP in IPv4 then. No, you seem to think the failure mode is the same, and it is not. Let's walk through this: 1) 400 people get

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Nathan Ward
that. That way, we get DHCPv6 vs. SLAAC selection when a host connects to the network without having to manually configure, and we get IPv4 DHCP-like behaviour. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Nathan Ward
On 19/02/2009, at 10:07 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:00:48AM +1300, Nathan Ward wrote: The point I am making is that the solution is still the same - filtering in ethernet devices. No. I agree that in some enviornments DHCPv4/DHCPv6/RA filtering

Re: switch speed question

2009-02-25 Thread Nathan Ward
some bus architectures know about how multicast works, and it consumes *less* resources than doing the same thing with many unicast streams. If the bus does not know about multicast, then the bus would treat it as 24 unicast streams, surely. -- Nathan Ward

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