Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attacks

2010-10-25 Thread Bret Clark
If we got rid of the spammers and attackers we'd have more then enough IP addresses and everyone would be able to get by on dial up! Seriously though I estimate that 5% of my upstream bandwidth is used by people to spam and attempt hack attacks on me. I use numerous apps to stop them such as

Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attacks

2010-10-25 Thread Optimum Wireless Services
I've been getting attacked as well but, it has decreased after I took some mearsures. I changed the ssh server not to accept root login: PermitRootLogin no Also installed fail2ban and on top of that created a script that would block ip addresses I find in the log: BAD=/etc/badIp IPS=$(cat $BAD)

Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attacks

2010-10-25 Thread Glenn Kelley
Bret - If I poked @ your network right - you are using Cogento. They should be able to allow you to place something in their DC prior to it reaching your network. (cost may be $100/mo or so) A simple transparent gateway/firewall would do wonders. On Oct 25, 2010, at 6:49 AM, Bret Clark

Re: [WISPA] Grid dish material

2010-10-25 Thread Mathew Howard
Depends what kind, I think they are either cast aluminum or galvanized steel. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 12:51 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Grid dish

Re: [WISPA] Grid dish material

2010-10-25 Thread Scott Reed
All of them I have must be steel; they rust. On 10/25/2010 10:49 AM, Mathew Howard wrote: Depends what kind, I think they are either cast aluminum or galvanized steel. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett

Re: [WISPA] Grid dish material

2010-10-25 Thread Blake Bowers
Everyone I have seen is aluminium with some steel clamps and supports. Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them down here! Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today. - Original Message - From: Mathew Howard mat...@litewire.net To: WISPA General List

[WISPA] WiFi Direct

2010-10-25 Thread RickG
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Re: [WISPA] Grid dish material

2010-10-25 Thread RickG
The ones I have dont rust. They're either aluminium or an alloy. I've got a bunch and dont use them any longer. Think the recycling yard will take them for a few bucks? On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Scott Reed scottr...@onlyinternet.netwrote: All of them I have must be steel; they rust.

[WISPA] Cookie Security Alert

2010-10-25 Thread Glenn Kelley
http://codebutler.com/firesheep When logging into a website you usually start by submitting your username and password. The server then checks to see if an account matching this information exists and if so, replies back to you with a cookie which is used by your browser for all subsequent

Re: [WISPA] Cookie Security Alert

2010-10-25 Thread Jeromie Reeves
Cookies have been a security issue for a long time now (you could do this by hand, but it takes a modicum of skill). With the plugin, every one gets a go. Hopefully this will kick websites into a more secure mind set. Sadly, no linux love with the plugin, oh well keep on with wireshark! =) On

Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attacks

2010-10-25 Thread Bret Clark
Cogent is one of our providers and that would be an idea, but we have several upstream providers that we peer with via BGP. The usages isn't an issue for as we have enough Internet bandwidth, but it is amazing the amount of illegal traffic that comes into our network in terms of hackers,

Re: [WISPA] Grid dish material

2010-10-25 Thread Mike Hammett
A magnet has it narrowed down to aluminum or stainless steel. Being as though the material is malformed with my bare hands, it isn't stainless steel. Is there any use for these old grids other than scrap? In a MIMO world, I have no use for them. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing

[WISPA] Autoreply: Wireless Digest, Vol 34, Issue 34

2010-10-25 Thread dave
Greetings. I will be on vacation from Oct 25th-29th. If your matter is urgent: For quote requests, send email to quo...@ctg3.com Additional support contacts: Bethany Crowell - (206) 383-8938 - bcrow...@ctg3.com Marti Perkins - (360) 425-1212 - ma...@ctg3.com Amy Matthews - (206) 245-3735 -

Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attacks

2010-10-25 Thread Marco Coelho
Do a traceroute on the IP, then write a complaint to the upstream providers (ab...@xyx.com). Works 80% of the time. Marco On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Robert West robert.w...@just-micro.comwrote: Brute force attack. Various user names, various passwords. Dictionary attack. Seems to

Re: [WISPA] Every email and website to be stored

2010-10-25 Thread Marco Coelho
I'm thinking of trying to corner the Hard Drive Market there... Marco On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Fred Goldstein fgoldst...@ionary.comwrote: At 10/22/2010 02:46 PM, you wrote: That is an insane amount of storage. E-mail all your customers what their policy is going to do to the

Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attacks

2010-10-25 Thread Matt
Is it just me or is everyone having their gateway servers attacked by those Chinese so-and so’s?  (WISPA REGS) My logs show attacks all weekend on all of my MT gateways.  Sad Never had that before.  Even the Routerboard I use at the house. RELENTLESS! If you have a Mikrotik

Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attacks

2010-10-25 Thread Glenn Kelley
i hear ya there There are a few alternatives - depending on the relationship you have w/ your upstream but I hear ya - On Oct 25, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Bret Clark wrote: Cogent is one of our providers and that would be an idea, but we have several upstream providers that we peer with via

Re: [WISPA] Autoreply: Wireless Digest, Vol 34, Issue 34

2010-10-25 Thread RickG
Have a great vacation! On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:59 PM, d...@ctg3.com wrote: Greetings. I will be on vacation from Oct 25th-29th. If your matter is urgent: For quote requests, send email to quo...@ctg3.com Additional support contacts: Bethany Crowell - (206) 383-8938 -

Re: [WISPA] Grid dish material

2010-10-25 Thread jp
We've got some that I think are some sort of magnesium/alloy material. I haven't tried making one burn yet. Other than scrap, you can use them as extra rebar in small concrete projects. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:58:55AM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: A magnet has it narrowed down to aluminum or

[WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread Forbes Mercy
I just took delivery on a 100MB Fiber connection from Charter, we're perplexed at the variable speed tests we are getting. Charter's varies from 25 to 50MB down, speedtest.net goes to about 20-25MB down and 30 up, speakeasy doesn't go above 20MB. Charter says the cap is off on our 100MB so

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread Jeremie Chism
Are you hard coding 100 full. Sent from my iPhone4 On Oct 25, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.com wrote: I just took delivery on a 100MB Fiber connection from Charter, we're perplexed at the variable speed tests we are getting. Charter's varies from 25 to 50MB

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread Ryan Goldberg
2811 will choke most likely http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeremie Chism Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 3:40 PM To: WISPA

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread David E. Smith
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 15:37, Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.comwrote: The anatomy of our network is fiber to our head-end, goes to a Charter switch then to our Cisco 2811, then to a gig netgear switch. We're doing our speed tests on a standard browser (Firefox) in a Windows 2003 box

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
Forbes, Besides the usual things to look for, please keep in mind that most of the SpeedTest Servers out their are 'capped' and not really designed to test for 100meg x 100meg connections. The best way to test it is to use 'Bandwidth Tester' tool (Mikrotik's have one built in), and there are

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread Tom DeReggi
Lots of possibilities First, you need to find a method of testing other than public web test sites like speedtest.net and speakeasy.net. You will not be able to narrow it down conclusively, without having control of variables on both sides of a test path. Second, we found

[WISPA] chipset vs standard based beam forming?

2010-10-25 Thread Rogelio
I see lots of discussion about the new 802.11n standard supporting beam forming, and I'm trying to wade through the chipset ones (e.g. Ruckus, Extricom, Meru, etc) and other solutions that claim to be more standards based. From what I gather from the marketing literature, the various vendor

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread richard sterne
turn auto neg off. It causes me many problems. richard On 25 October 2010 22:49, Tom DeReggi wirelessn...@rapiddsl.net wrote: Lots of possibilities First, you need to find a method of testing other than public web test sites like speedtest.net and speakeasy.net. You will not be able to

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread Glenn Kelley
Use IPERF IPERF will let you do this - w/o much of a system in fact. :-) you do need something else on the other end however On Oct 25, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: Forbes, Besides the usual things to look for, please keep in mind that most of the SpeedTest Servers out their

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread Jeremy Parr
On 25 October 2010 17:55, richard sterne wireless.r...@gmail.com wrote: turn auto neg off. It causes me many problems. I used to swear by this as well, but as of late you are better letting it auto negotiate.

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread Josh Luthman
ISR 2811 Process switching 3,000 1.536 Fast/CEF switching 120,000 61.44 Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ryan Goldberg rgoldb...@compudyne.netwrote: 2811 will choke most likely

Re: [WISPA] chipset vs standard based beam forming?

2010-10-25 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
Rogelio, Please don't take this the wrong way. You are trying to understand a very complex 'patented' technology via a very simplistic understanding. Beam forming is a very complex (lots of analytical analysis done on a real time basis) technology, there are a number of Masters PHD

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread Josh Luthman
I've found the best way to achieve a links true full potential is to use Bittorrent. Share some *nix ISOs with the world. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Glenn Kelley gl...@hostmedic.com wrote:

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread Ryan Goldberg
As an aside, the packet pushers podcast is really quite good. I especially enjoy Ivan P. And I concur that nowadays turning off autoneg results in more half-dup connections than it does solve problem. Fwiw, I still lock redline-cisco links. On Oct 25, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Jeremy Parr

[WISPA] WasabiNet in St. Louis appeared on local TV news

2010-10-25 Thread Ben West
KSDK, a local TV station, recorded this interview with Minerva and myself in May. After editing the clip for 5months (?), they finally aired it earlier this month. The WasabiNet KSDK video from 10/14 is now on Youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pDpUpRT6ZM I will be gradually posting this

Re: [WISPA] chipset vs standard based beam forming?

2010-10-25 Thread Rubens Kuhl
interference nulling, etc), but that seems to have limited effectiveness when it comes to receiving transmitted packets from the client end (resulting in slow uplink?). Multi-antenna systems like the ones doing beamforming can provide MRC (Maximal-Ratio Combining), which does improve the

[WISPA] WISP surplussing Moto units

2010-10-25 Thread Forbes Mercy
I'm going to list some Motorola radios for sale on eBay but I'll give first shot to my fellow WISP's, they are all used early edition and recently taken out of service: 4 5700 SM 4 5700 BH-10 2 5700 BH-20 1 5700 AP 1 5400 AP 1 5200 AP 1 5200 SM 14 reflectors Let me know if you want any before

Re: [WISPA] WISP surplussing Moto units

2010-10-25 Thread Josh Luthman
What kind of reflectors? On Oct 25, 2010 9:38 PM, Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.com wrote: I'm going to list some Motorola radios for sale on eBay but I'll give first shot to my fellow WISP's, they are all used early edition and recently taken out of service: 4 5700 SM 4 5700 BH-10

Re: [WISPA] Can't get my 100MB

2010-10-25 Thread RickG
I can break my fiber connection by turning on auto neg every time. Thats on a Dell managed switch. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Jeremy Parr jeremyp...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 October 2010 17:55, richard sterne wireless.r...@gmail.com wrote: turn auto neg off. It causes me many problems.

Re: [WISPA] chipset vs standard based beam forming?

2010-10-25 Thread RickG
This reminds me of another question I have: Why dont I get synchronous speeds? On a rare occasion, I do, but not normally. LOL, once in a while, I get better uploads than downloads and cant explain that either! On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Faisal Imtiaz fai...@snappydsl.net wrote: Rogelio,

Re: [WISPA] Every email and website to be stored

2010-10-25 Thread Robert West
I'm working on a plan to use the ionosphere to store the excess data. I've channeled Nikola Tesla and he tells me it's possible. Retrieval, however, is a bit harder and may require some major granting. From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf

[WISPA] Hacking Tranzeo

2010-10-25 Thread Steve Barnes
I have had a thought since MUM. Is there anyone who has loaded wrt-dd or MTik ROS on a Tranzeo CPQ. It's a micro pc with a wireless card. I would love to get ROS v5 on them with the Nv2 to use the TDMA. Thoughts?? Ideas??? I like Tranzeo and UBNT but all my AP's are Mikrotik. To go to a

Re: [WISPA] Hacking Tranzeo

2010-10-25 Thread Josh Luthman
Chipsets are probably to old for nv2 but ROS maybe. Needs a lot of RAM. On Oct 25, 2010 10:28 PM, Steve Barnes st...@pcswin.com wrote: I have had a thought since MUM. Is there anyone who has loaded wrt-dd or MTik ROS on a Tranzeo CPQ. It's a micro pc with a wireless card. I would love to get ROS

Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attacks

2010-10-25 Thread Robert West
Create a user, aardvark, password aardvark Let them login with no rights! Over in a second! Tried it on the home MT Routerboard They WIN! Oh, heck... no use. They moved on. Was all in fun! From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attacks

2010-10-25 Thread Robert West
Using it but as suggested, changed the timeout to 7 days. From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 12:25 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attacks I suggest using the SSH

Re: [WISPA] Hacking Tranzeo

2010-10-25 Thread Justin Wilson
Ram Bootstrap would be the challenge. Not saying it can¹t be done, just would be a challenge. -- Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net http://www.mtin.net/blog ­ xISP News http://www.twitter.com/j2sw ­ Follow me on Twitter Wisp Consulting ­ Tower Climbing ­ Network Support From: Steve Barnes

Re: [WISPA] WISP surplussing Moto units

2010-10-25 Thread Forbes Mercy
Motorola brand reflectors. As for pricing I haven't really looked at their value yet, I'll look at a few sources tomorrow so I can get an idea. Forbes On 10/25/2010 6:39 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: What kind of reflectors? On Oct 25, 2010 9:38 PM, Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.com