Re: sprint cancelling business dsl in california

2002-07-12 Thread Peter John Hill
You might want to check out what the current prices are for a T-1. I used to work for a 9-12 school, and I upgraded their old frame 56k to sdsl. My friend who just took over the job is upgrading to a T-1 this summer. Not through the local telco it seems, but he says it will be the same price

Re: QoS/CoS in the real world?

2002-07-15 Thread Peter John Hill
--On Sunday, July 14, 2002 9:26 PM -0400 Art Houle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:13:13 -0400 (EDT) Art Houle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, to put it another way, how are the packets marked ? And why not just drop them then

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Peter John Hill
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10:41 AM, Joe Baptista wrote: Ipv6 uses 128 bits to provide addressing, routing and identification information on a computer. The 128-bits are divided into the left-64 and the right-64. Ipv6 uses the right 64 bits to store an IEEE defined global

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Peter John Hill
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 05:07 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:43:38 -0400 Peter John Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10:41 AM, Joe Baptista wrote: Since it so easy for a host (relative to ipv4) to have multiple ip addresses, I

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-28 Thread Peter John Hill
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 05:33 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Kurtis Lindqvist wrote: censored fears abuse as a hardware ID wired into the ipv6 protocol can be used to determine the manufacturer, make and model number, and value of the hardware equipment

Re: sFLOW collector?

2003-04-02 Thread Peter John Hill
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 12:28 PM, Darrell Carley wrote: If someone could point me in the right direction, or recommend another free collector that could help me out, I would greatly appreciate it. We use Argus http://www.qosient.com/argus/ I guess we kind of have a paternal link to

Re: Moving filters from edge to core

2003-07-28 Thread Peter John Hill
--On Monday, July 28, 2003 12:16 AM -0700 Mike Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would tend to keep the filters on the edge, for obvious reasons. Your management would probably agree with this the first time you get attacked coming from each of your edge routers with nothing to protect it from

New attack against port 135?

2003-10-10 Thread Peter John Hill
I am seeing lots of scanning of port 135 on my network. 66 byte long packets. Anyone have a name for this? It is less aggressive than the welchia scans I have seen. Seems to scan at about 3000 or so flows per 5 minutes. Thanks Peter Hill Network Engineer Carnegie Mellon

RE: Rx and Tx on a single SMF strand for MANs?

2003-10-24 Thread Peter John Hill
http://www.opticalzonu.com/products/P2P%20Gig%20Ethernet%20OTDR%20Transceivers.html gbic form factor. No experience with it, but looks pretty cool for special cases... Peter Hill --On Friday, October 24, 2003 2:09 PM -0400 Deepak Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bunch of guys make these in

RE: Router with 2 (or more) interfaces in same network

2003-11-11 Thread Peter John Hill
--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:19 AM -0300 Lucas Iglesias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I know, according to the routing theory, it has no sense to have 2 interfaces on the same net. At least, on Cisco routers is not allowed. It would make much more sense to have two routers connected to the

Re: using sniffer on high-bandwidth pipes

2004-12-03 Thread Peter John Hill
If you want to get serious, check out endace cards... www.endace.com Their cards offload much of the pcap processing to the specialized nic... It is only for sniffing. They manage to do a zero copy directly to memory... You can capture near line rate at gigabit speeds. They are expensive, but

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Peter John Hill
Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM. What gives ? How can their be no whois info anywhere ? How about the following... (note that just because someone is using someone as their authoritative name server doesn't mean that the other people (in

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Peter John Hill
More fun... Mike Tancsa wrote: 1M IN MX10 www 1M IN A 200.124.75.12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ whois 200.124.75.12 inetnum: 200.124.64/19 responsible: GoldToe International Inc. address: 60 Market Square, 0, 0 address: 0 -

Re: Intradomain DNS Anycast revisited

2005-03-27 Thread Peter John Hill
On Mar 26, 2005, at 1:41 PM, just me wrote: 1) should each dns cache server be configured a static default route (0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0)? If server-(1,3) is configured statically to use router-1 as default router, will Quagga make it use router-2 when router-1 is not reachable? configure a

Re: Intradomain DNS Anycast revisited

2005-03-28 Thread Peter John Hill
On Mar 28, 2005, at 8:40 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote: I like BGP more as I could transport that /32 with no-export right away. Yes, in a simple hub-and-spoke anycast topology, iBGP is simplest. In a wagon-wheel or mesh topology, having an IGP makes some things simplest, though you can still use

Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-13 Thread Peter John Hill
Dear Comcast, Let me inform you of an exciting new concept... Anycast DNS... It is not difficult... Get with the freaking program... Peter On Apr 13, 2005, at 7:15 AM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: BetaNews: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-14 Thread Peter John Hill
I have completely given up on relying on Comcast for dns service... For now I will continue to use them for transit If they are unwilling to implement anycast dns then I cannot trust them... On my mac... sudo vi /etc/hostconfig DNSSERVER=-YES- :wq No wonder entrenched broadband ISPs are so

Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-14 Thread Peter John Hill
even in the face of a single or multiple host failure. This substantially reduces resolution delays due to server failure. Peter Hill On Apr 14, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Daniel Senie wrote: At 02:00 PM 4/14/2005, Peter John Hill wrote: I have completely given up on relying on Comcast for dns service

Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-14 Thread Peter John Hill
On Apr 14, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote: When Comcast goes down at home I hop in the car or walk a few blocks to one of many wifi outlets (some even free). Yes, that does make it difficult to check email or pay bills at 6am in my bath robe, but it works. Would I *like* to see Comcast