Re: On the control of the Internet.

2010-06-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:05:14AM +0100, Brandon Butterworth wrote: I worry now if it will survive the people that operate it. I doubt it. When the machines rise up against us they will kill the current net and carry on with their own IPv8 network. Purely photonic relativistic cut-through

Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP

2010-06-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
, people liked 4800G series a lot. http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1276786511413+28353475threadId=1400446 -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100

Sustaining the Internet with hyperbolic mapping

2010-09-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
resolving serious scaling limitations that the Internet faces today. Besides this immediate practical viability, our network mapping method can provide a different perspective on the community structure in complex networks. [full text snipped] -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:27:21PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: I have a feeling that IP addresses will now be used in ways that people have not envisioned them being used before. Given a surplus of any resource, people find creative ways of using it. Encoding high-resolution geographic

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 02:51:24AM +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote: How do you knew that your local NTP server knew what time it is? (for sure) By polling as many stratum 1 and 2 time servers as possible. Having your own stratum 2 server(s) beats nebulous NTP servers out in the big bad

Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

2010-11-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 03:56:17PM +, Tony Finch wrote: I note that he doesn't actually describe how to implement a large-scale addressing and routing architecture. It's all handwaving. I'm probably vying for nanog-kook status as well, but in high-dimensional spaces blocking is arbitrarily

Re: Low end, cool CPE.

2010-11-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
...@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A

Re: Low end, cool CPE.

2010-11-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:10:30AM -0500, Jason Lewis wrote: Everytime I'm in the market for a device like you describe, it comes down to the limitations of consumer devices. You can't get all those things in a low cost solution. I end up rolling my own. My latest system is this

NWW: Fix to Chinese Internet traffic hijack due in January

2010-12-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=/news/2010/120710-chinese-internet-traffic-fix.htmlpagename=/news/2010/120710-chinese-internet-traffic-fix.htmlpageurl=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/120710-chinese-internet-traffic-fix.htmlsite=printpagensdr=n Fix to Chinese

anyone using Netgear GSM7352S-200 ?

2011-01-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
This is way offtopic, but I figured this would be a good place to ask. Anyone using Netgear GSM7352S-200 in production? http://www.netgear.com/images/GSM7328Sv2_GSM7352Sv2_23Sept1018-10817.pdf I know, it's Netgear, but how badly does it blow chunks? Inquiring minds, etc. (Disclaimer: I am

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:33:05AM +, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: Even if every RIR gets to 3 /12s in 50 years, that's still only 15/512ths of the initial /3 delegated to unicast space by IETF. There are 6+ more /3s remaining in the IETF pool. That's good news - we need to make sure

Re: quietly....

2011-02-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
/membership/billing/procedure-enduser.html (other than because they can, I mean). Owen And, even if you are an ISP, you only pay the larger of the two fees if you have both v4 and v6. I'm not sure if that is permanent or not, though. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 08:17:11PM -0300, Fernando Gont wrote: I'm mildly surprised if you think we're going to be done with *this* mess in a few decades. I fully agree. But planning/expecting to go through this mess *again* is insane. -- I hope the lesson has been learned, and we won't

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2011-02-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
Authority. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: A pragmatic issue with running out of v4 :)

2011-02-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:52:44AM -0500, Eric Gauthier wrote: I wonder if Skynet upgraded to v6... http://www.skynet.be/jack-nl/high-tech/dossier_belgacom-bereidt-zich-voor-ipv6?articleId=835562 .be afraid. Eric :)

Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/3/23/4778509.html Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million by Milton Mueller on Wed 23 Mar 2011 10:30 PM EDT | Permanent Link | ShareThis Wake up call for our friends in the Regional Internet Registries. Nortel,

One big cluster: How CloudFlare launched 10 data centers in 30 days

2012-10-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/one-big-cluster-how-cloudflare-launched-10-data-centers-in-30-days/ One big cluster: How CloudFlare launched 10 data centers in 30 days With high-performance computing, pixie-booting servers a half-world away. by Sean Gallagher - Oct 19

UK Scientists Claim to Develop 2000 Times Faster Broadband via Fibre Optic

2012-11-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2012/11/uk-scientists-claim-to-develop-2000-times-faster-broadband-via-fibre-optic.html UK Scientists Claim to Develop 2000 Times Faster Broadband via Fibre Optic Posted Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 (11:08 am) by Mark Jackson (Score 746) A team of scientists

Re: [HacDC:Byzantium] Re: OT: Hurricane retweet-2-smtp.

2012-11-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
, long range links must be improvised on a case by case basis. Ben the Pyrate On Nov 11, 2012 7:47 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: - Forwarded message from chris tknch...@gmail.com - From: chris tknch...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 07:07:27 -0500 To: jamie rishaw j

NASA DTN Protocol: Interplanetary Internet, How It Works, What LEGOS Have to To With It

2012-11-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://anewdomain.net/2012/11/10/nasa-dtn-protocol-bp-protocol-vint-cerf-interplanetary-internet-how-it-works-what-legos-have-to-to-with-it/# NASA DTN Protocol: Interplanetary Internet, How It Works, What LEGOS Have to To With It Author: Gina Smith NASA is calling it the interplanetary

Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header

2012-11-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:08:15PM -0500, William Herrin wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Ammar Salih ammar.sa...@auis.edu.iq wrote: 2- Layer 7 will not be detected by layer 3 devices (routers) .. so location-based service on layer-3 will not be possible. Geographic-based layer 3

Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header

2012-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 02:19:48PM -0800, John Adams wrote: Your proposal doesn't even give people a way to encrypt their location data; By moving geodata to a portion of the protocol which is not covered It's not possible to hide location. Anonymity and efficient transport don't mix. This

Re: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration

2012-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:25:47AM -0800, Damian Menscher wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: Again, where're the compelling IPv6-only content/apps/services? To answer your rhetorical question, http://www.kame.net/ has a dancing kame. To my

Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header

2012-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:56:52PM -0200, Carlos M. Martinez wrote: Just for redundancy's sake: No, L3 is **not** the place for this kind of information. L3 is supposed to be simple, easy to implement, fast to I agree. You need to put it into L2, and the core usage would be for wireless meshes.

Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header

2012-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 05:46:33PM -0500, Harald Koch wrote: This also naively assumes that wireless network topology correlates with geographic location. Any radio engineer (or cell phone user) can explain why that doesn't work. Serval has about 200 m line of sight range. In general LoS

Re: [serval-project-dev] Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header

2012-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
and resolving current network locations. On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: - Forwarded message from George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com - From: George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:51:57 -0800 To: William Herrin b

Spanner: synchronizing the largest global database with GPSDO stratum 1 in every datacenter

2012-11-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
(GPSDO for local data center as stratum 1) http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google-spanner-time/all/ Exclusive: Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on Earth By Cade Metz 11.26.12 6:30 AM Each morning, when Andrew Fikes sat down at his desk inside Google headquarters

Integrity of Internet Is Crux of Global Conference

2012-11-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/technology/dark-warnings-about-future-of-internet-access.html?pagewanted=print November 27, 2012 Integrity of Internet Is Crux of Global Conference By ERIC PFANNER PARIS — A commercial and ideological clash is set for next week, when representatives of more

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
. - Sir William Clayton -- ~Em -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: [tor-talk] William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
2012 19:22, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: - Forwarded message from Emily Ozols win...@team-metro.net - From: Emily Ozols win...@team-metro.net Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:14:08 +1100 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help

[tor-relays] Bandwidth and server leads [was: Tor raid]

2012-11-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A

[liberationtech] Internet back in Syria

2012-12-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http

/. ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection

2012-12-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/12/05/0115214/itu-approves-deep-packet-inspection ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 04, @08:19PM from the inspect-my-encryption-all-you'd-like dept. dsinc sends this quote from Techdirt about the International

Re: Gmail and SSL

2012-12-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:36:08AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: Seconded. I was a hold-out for a long time on personal stuff - I trust me, I'm not paying someone else to trust me - but StartSSL makes a lot of the pain go away with minimal effort. because paying for random

Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

2012-12-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 01:13:15PM -0800, George Herbert wrote: I don't know that the discussion is a NANOG-centric one from here on in, but it's good to have raised the idea. Something optical, like a 10 GBit/s SR version of TOSLINK would be nice.

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:43:56PM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote: The only place PON made any sense to me was extreme rural areas. If you could go 20km to a splitter and then hit 32 homes ~1km away (52km fiber pair length total), that was a win. If the homes are 2km from the CO, 32 pair (64km

Fast fibre: A community shows the way

2013-02-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21442348 Fast fibre: A community shows the way COMMENTS (198) Lancashire leads way on fast fibre connection How fast is your home broadband? Seventy to 80 Mbps if you're one of the few with the very fastest fibre broadband services? Perhaps 10Mbps if

glass fiber @ 0.997 c

2013-03-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23309-information-superhighway-approaches-light-speed.html Information superhighway approaches light speed 18:00 24 March 2013 by Jacob Aron Nothing moves faster than light in a vacuum, but large volumes of data can now travel at 99.7 per cent of this

Closing the gap to improve the capacity of existing fiber optic networks

2013-04-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.gizmag.com/cudos-fiber-optic-network-capacity/26969/ Closing the gap to improve the capacity of existing fiber optic networks By Darren Quick April 7, 2013 Researchers claim to have increased the data capacity of optical networks to the point that all of the world’s internet

Re: It's the end of the world as we know it -- REM

2013-04-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 06:10:30PM -0400, Andrew Latham wrote: tl;dr: ARIN predicted to run out of IP space to allocate in August this year. Are you ready? I have sadly witnessed a growing number of businesses with /24s moving to colocation/aws networks and not giving up their unused

Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.

2011-12-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:47:22AM -0800, Scott Weeks wrote: In our industry, especially with all the tools we have today, it would seem that telecommuting would be more accepted, but it's not and I don't understand why. People are social primates, alphas like access to nonverbal cues for

Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.

2011-12-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 12:25:41PM +, Thorsten Dahm wrote: Yes, I know, they can call you, or send an Email, but nothing beats the good old Let's go for a coffee, I'd like to ask you a question. Some people just put up a dedicated netbook with a permanent video/audio link (can be a

photonic buffer bloat

2012-01-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
In future photonic networks (which will do relativistic cut-through directly in a photonic crossbar without converting photons to electrons and back) the fiber is not just a transport channel but also a photonic buffer (e.g. at 10 GBit/s Ethernet a short reach fiber already buffers a standard

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:33:12AM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Ridwan Sami rms2...@columbia.edu There is no legitimate reason for a user to use BitTorrent (someone will probably disagree with this). Yeah, no. You've clearly never tried to download a

[NSG-d] Historian is trolling for memories about the early days of SF and ARPANet. Anybody?

2012-03-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
or Unsubscribe: http://MarsHome.org/mailman/options/NSG-d Hosted by CyberTeams.com and Mars Foundation(tm), http://MarsHome.org - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM

Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

2012-03-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 01:18:04PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote: As long as we keep using IPv4, we are mostly stopping at /24 and must stop at /32. But, see the subject. It's well above moore. For high speed (fixed time) routed look up with 1M entries, SRAM is cheap at /24 and is fine at

Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

2012-03-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:57:10PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote: That's one reason why we should stay away from IPv6. What prevents you from using http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n6/full/ncomms1063.html with IPv6? Though I didn't paid $32 to read the full paper, it's like a

Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

2012-03-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:25:46AM -0400, William Herrin wrote: Geographic routing strategies have been all but proven to irredeemably violate the recursive commercial payment relationships which create the Internet's topology. In other words, they always end up stealing bandwidth on links

airFiber

2012-03-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
Claim: 1.4 GBit/s over up to 13 km, 24 GHZ, @3 kUSD/link price point. http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber

Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup

2012-04-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:22:20AM -0700, Henk Hesselink wrote: Have you looked at the HP ProLiant MicroServer? Notice it takes up to 8 GByte ECC memory and supports zfs via napp-it/Illumos. A hacked BIOS was required to use the 5th internal SATA port in AHCI mode, maybe that's no longer

OpenFlow @ GOOG

2012-04-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/going-with-the-flow-google/all/1 Going With The Flow: Google’s Secret Switch To The Next Wave Of Networking By Steven Levy April 17, 2012 | 11:45 am | Categories: Data Centers, Networking In early 1999, an associate computer science professor

Re: [liberationtech] Syria blackout?

2012-05-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Andrew Lewis and...@pdqvpn.com - From: Andrew Lewis and...@pdqvpn.com Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:29:05 -0400 To: Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org, liberationt...@lists.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Syria blackout? User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel

Re: [liberationtech] Syria blackout?

2012-05-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: - Forwarded message from Rafael Cresci raf...@cresci.org - From: Rafael Cresci raf...@cresci.org Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:41:09 -0300 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Syria blackout? X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278) Customers (from UAE) who have servers with us

Re: [liberationtech] Syria blackout?

2012-05-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
yesterday. I am going to do some more digging. Tor, and some specific types of VPNs still seem to be working fine. -Andrew On 5/31/2012 2:26 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: - Forwarded message from Rafael Cresci raf...@cresci.org - From: Rafael Cresci raf...@cresci.org Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

2012-07-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:49:40PM +0200, Peter Lothberg wrote: I leave the computer kernels out of this for a second..:-) We have a timescale that runs at constant speed forward it's named TAI, it is based on the definition on the atomic second. Notice that in inertial frame dragging

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

2012-07-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:10:45PM -0400, William Herrin wrote: IMO, leap seconds are a really bad idea. Let the vanishingly few people who care about a precision match against the solar day keep track of the deviation from clock time and let everybody else have a *simple* clock year after

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

2012-07-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:26:22AM -0700, Roy wrote: Remember OpenTime is only for people who want their system clocks to ignore leap seconds. I don't include myself among the possible users of OpenTime. Obviously you need a machine time, which is monotonous, high-resolution (you don't

[liberationtech] new opennet citizen lab report: routing gone wild

2012-07-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech - End forwarded message - -- Eugen

Re: The Cidr Report

2012-07-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 03:48:47AM +1000, Skeeve Stevens wrote: I think the effort to moderate this particular list would be far to much effort. Most mailing lists allow moderation of new list members by default. Typically, the moderation is removed after the first non-spam post. This causes

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:52:53AM -1000, William Herrin wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote: A good portable generator is more than $500, and if it's a wide-spread outage there's not enough portable generators to go around, and if there were, not

Re: IPv6 End User Fee

2012-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:31:06PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: You MIGHT have paid some other organization for the privilege of transferring part or all of their registration rights to you. But in no case did you pay for the addresses themselves unless you are silly enough to think that a

Re: IPv6 End User Fee

2012-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 10:59:09AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: On 8/4/12, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:31:06PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: onboard (as most smartphones and tablets do). 24 + 24 + 16 bits are just enough to represent a decent-resolution WGS84

Re: IPv6 End User Fee

2012-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 10:31:02AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: IPv6 missed a great chance of doing away with all the central waterfall trickle-down space distribution. There was no need to fix what wasn't broken. Let's say I want to plunk down a zero-administration node somewhere, as an

Re: IPv6 End User Fee

2012-08-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 06:53:48PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: This ignores the many many studies of the idea of geo-based addressing which have proven its unfeasibility as well as the I disagree that the studies have looked at the problem space from the right angle. fact that not everyone

Re: IPv6 End User Fee

2012-08-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 04:00:18PM -, John Levine wrote: Do you see problems with this scheme? There's considerable interest and momentum in end user owned routing infrastructure, including wireless ad hoc meshes across urban areas. I've seen remarkably little overlap between the people

raging bulls

2012-08-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/all/ Some interesting, network-relevant content there (but for the neutrino and drone rubbish).

Re: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 05:15:51PM -1000, Michael Painter wrote: Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/all/ Some interesting, network-relevant content there (but for the neutrino and drone rubbish). 'Rubbish' might be a pretty strong word when you're

RIPE NCC now allocating IPv4 address space from the last /8 netblock

2012-09-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/europe-officially-runs-out-of-ipv4-addresses/ Europe officially runs out of IPv4 addresses RIPE NCC now allocating IPv4 address space from the last /8 netblock by Iljitsch van Beijnum - Sep 14, 2012 3:20 pm UTC Earlier today, the RIPE

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:27:04AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: What technology are you planning to deploy that will consume more than 2 addresses per square cm? Easy. Think volume (as in: orbit), and think um^3 for a functional computers ;)

The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://paritynews.com/network/item/325-department-of-work-and-pensions-uk-in-possession-of-169-million-unused-ipv4-addresses Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses Written by Ravi Mandalia Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 03:32:47PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 18/09/2012 15:07, Eugen Leitl wrote: Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses unused? sez who? Oh, it said it on the internet so it must be true. Other than that, I'm

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:57:34AM -0500, Jason Baugher wrote: Considering the rather extensive discussion on this list of using quantum entanglement as a possible future communications medium that would nearly eliminate latency, I don't see how my comment is moot or a waste. You need

is CERNET part of the Internet?

2012-09-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
I'm trying to figure out whether CERNET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERNET is part of the official Internet, or is behind the Great Firewall where access to invididual networks on the public Internet must be explicitly granted. Anyone in the know?

/. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/terabit-ethernet-is-dead-for-now/ Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now by Mark Hachman | September 26, 2012 A straw poll of the IEEE's high-speed Ethernet group finds that 400-Gbits/s is almost unanimously preferred. Sorry, everybody: terabit Ethernet looks

[liberationtech] The Hidden Internet of Iran: Private Address Allocations on a National Network

2012-10-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
Sounds just like CGN. - Forwarded message from Collin Anderson col...@averysmallbird.com - From: Collin Anderson col...@averysmallbird.com Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:06:34 -0400 To: liberationt...@lists.stanford.edu Subject: [liberationtech] The Hidden Internet of Iran: Private Address

US government gets an F for IPv6 Internet make-over

2012-10-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
that is clear, simple, and wrong.--H.L. Mencken - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3

Re: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 06:59:20PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Where's Noel Chiappa when you need him? (2) The new protocol will use variable-length address for the Host portion, such as used in the addresses of CLNP, This also was considered during the IPv6 design phase,

Re: [tt] IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 05:10:00PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote: Above describes your setting for the next protocol. There is not a lot of leeway in design space, I'm afraid. Just keep using IPv4. Masataka Ohta PS See

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
a mesh it won't work. I'm sorry, but I am very afraid of Central Authority. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
do that. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Syngenta space

2011-04-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
Hi, sorry for the noise, but my contact at Syngenta says they have 147.0.0.0/8 168.0.0.0/8 and 172.0.0.0/8, which is obviously bogus. They do have a 168.246.0.0/16 however. Any tool to look the other two up quickly, without having to iterate through the entire second octet? Thanks! -- Eugen

Backbone operators see IPv6 connectivity demand up, but little traffic

2011-05-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://searchtelecom.techtarget.com/news/2240035722/Backbone-operators-see-IPv6-connectivity-demand-up-but-little-traffic Backbone operators see IPv6 connectivity demand up, but little traffic Internet backbone and wholesale carriers are anecdotally reporting a rapid rise in demand from their

reporting Swiss Money Report?

2011-05-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
these people? Thanks! Regards, Eugen Leitl

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:34:10AM -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Though it's nice to have why would one *need* 100 Mbps at home? I Residential broadband is asymmetric, so it's typically more like 6/100 MBit/s, though VDSL and FTTH are also making (slow) progress. Even with that slow upstream

[pfSense Support] Strange TCP connection behavior 2.0 RC2 (+3)

2011-06-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
(or 8.2 for our production systems). I have tried the freebsd net mailinglist, but im hoping you lot can help me! Cheers in advance Will - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:17:55PM -0700, George Herbert wrote: Micron has some large-cap SLC drives in the chain for September/October/ish timeframes. Ramdisk with rsync or rdiffbackup to spinning storage will do just fine. Or hybrid zfs pools. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
this. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

is First Media Service Limited a bulletproof hosting network?

2011-08-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
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40 GBit @ 240 GHz across 1 km LoS

2013-05-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
Fraunhofer: http://www.iaf.fraunhofer.de/de/news-medien/pressemitteilungen/presse-2013-05-16.html Google Translate: New world record in data transmission by radio Press Release 16/05/2013 With a Langstreckendemonstrator between two skyscrapers in Karlsruhe, a distance of over a kilometer

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:07:57PM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote: Has fingers directly in servers of top Internet content companies, dates to 2007. Happily, none of the companies listed are transport networks: I've always just assumed that if it's in electronic form, someone else is

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 12:25:35AM -0500, jamie rishaw wrote: tinfoilhat Just wait until we find out dark and lit private fiber is getting vampired. /tinfoilhat Approaches like http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619 obviously don't scale to small time operators. But if you

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:10:57AM +0300, Kauto Huopio wrote: I would add opportunistic STARTTLS to all SMTP processing devices. What we actually need is working opportunistic encryption in IPv6, something like http://www.inrialpes.fr/planete/people/chneuman/OE.html

Re: Prism continued

2013-06-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 06:35:35PM -0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: In the PRISM context, I highly doubt their using Splunk for any kind of analysis beyond systems and network management. It's not good at indexing non-texty-things. What if you need to search for events that were geographically

Re: huawei

2013-06-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:34:28AM -0600, Phil Fagan wrote: Yeah, I can't imagine there is any real magic there...mystical protocol not seen over transport. Compromised NICs can leak info through side channels (timing) but it's too low bandwidth. For end user devices with backdoors (remote

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 07:51:22PM -0400, Scott Helms wrote: Really? In a completely controlled network then yes, but not in a production system. There is far too much random noise and actual latency for that to be feasible. The coding used for the stegano side channel can be made quite

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 08:34:49PM -0400, Scott Helms wrote: Is it possible? Yes, but it's not feasible because the data rate would be too low. That's what I'm trying to get across. There are lots things that can be done but many of those are not useful. I could encode communications in

Server Sky - Internet and computation in orbit

2013-06-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
(This may be Wacky Friday, but this one is not tongue in cheek -- the name Keith Lofstrom should ring a bell). http://server-sky.com/ Server Sky - internet and computation in orbit It is easier to move terabits than kilograms or megawatts. Space solar power will solve the energy crisis. Sooner

Re: [cryptography] Google's QUIC

2013-07-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
/07/13 12:37 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: - Forwarded message from Saku Ytti s...@ytti.fi - Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 21:35:58 +0300 From: Saku Ytti s...@ytti.fi To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Google's QUIC User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) On (2013-06-29 23:36 +0100), Tony Finch wrote

Re: How big is the Internet?

2013-08-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:30:24PM -0400, Scott Howard wrote: How about this - the size of the Internet is just short of 3 billion. That's the number of people that have access to it. To me, that's a far more telling number than anything around IP address or Exabytes of data. Sure enough --

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