RE: Check Point Firewall Appliances

2012-12-19 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Watch out for licensing gotchyas. In active/active ClusterXL situations (load sharing multicast mode) be careful of multicast--make sure any traversed switches and routers are compatible with Ethernet Multicast (make sure they don't partition ports due to high broadcast traffic). Active/Active

RE: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Seriously. --p -Original Message- From: Aled Morris [mailto:al...@qix.co.uk] I'd treat this as the first of their pen tests - a social engineering attack to obtain secret information about the network, and refuse. Aled

RE: Penetration Test Assistance

2012-06-05 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
I'm with Barry--a network diagram showing everything from the pov of the pen team should be part of the end report. --p -Original Message- From: Barry Greene [mailto:bgre...@senki.org] Hi Tim, A _good_ pen test team would not need a network diagram. Their first round of penetration

RE: Protocols for Testing Intrusion Detection?

2012-05-15 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
nmap has some modes that are useful for this: nmap -sX network#christmas treepackets are sent, nastygram, kamikaze, should light up any IPS nmap -sS network#stealth syn scan, should light up any good IPS nmap -O network #OS scan, should light up any

RE: whoi modify question

2011-06-17 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
The short answer is you can't. ARIN only cares about /24s or bigger. If the network were a /24 or larger, then your customer would need to get an ASN (autonomous system number) and then you could register the network to them. More info here: https://www.arin.net --Patrick Darden

RE: VPN over slow Internet connections

2011-04-21 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
There's not that much overhead--your certs should be ok. TCP for SQL would just make sense. I personally wouldn't want to do what you are contemplating. Here's some stuff to think about: 1. your modems will not be able to do compression. You can't easily compress random data (e.g.

Google Op Plz

2010-05-25 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Could a Google Op get in touch with me off-list please? I have a fairly stupid situation --p

RE: ATT Metro E in Atlanta

2010-02-09 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
It's been up and down since maybe 11am eastern. We have a ticket in with them, but no response as of yet. --Patrick Darden Athens Regional Medical Center -Original Message- From: Raleigh Apple [mailto:rap...@rapidlink.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 3:14 PM To: nanog@nanog.org

RE: facebook DNS

2009-05-21 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
I noticed this as well around 11:50 eastern. --Patrick Darden -Original Message- From: Maria Iano [mailto:ma...@iano.org] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:56 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: facebook DNS It looks like facebook is having DNS troubles. The www.facebook.com subdomain is

ATT Having Difficulties--anybody know what they are?

2009-05-01 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Athens GA, tried to call in a ticket (Metro Ethernet) and was told a master ticket was already in place for my circuits. Other than the ticket # they wouldn't give me any details. Anybody know anything? --p

RE: Dynamic IP log retention = 0?

2009-03-11 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
I think your next step is your lawyer. Put all your missives, your email, your phone conversations, your logs, your auditing results, your detection troubleshooting and sleuthing trails etc. in a folder, create a one page summary including any damages you feel might have been caused (e.g. time,

RE: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-17 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
I don't think you will have any troubles with industry standard hardware for the rates you are quoting. When you get in excess of 300Mbps you have to start worrying about PPS. When you are looking at 600Mbps then you should pick out your system more carefully (tcpoe nics, pcie(X), cpu at over

RE: EIGRP question...

2008-12-01 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
My first thought for this was: route filtering. My second thought was: use different AS#s. Then I reread your question and thought of something far simpler. It seems to me if you are migrating from provider A to provider B then you should set everything up for B, then shut down the interface

RE: How do dialup ISPs allow multiple clients under one access number?

2008-11-24 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
You can do it multiple ways: 1. old fashioned hunt groups for multiple analog lines. 2. getting a PRI with one outward facing number. 3. talk to your local Bell about what would best suit your needs (digital calls? 56K? 64k? 128K? ISDN? Analog? dialout capability, or just dialin? etc.

RE: confusing packet data

2008-09-16 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Or his DSL is set to bridging. --p -Original Message- From: Nathan Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:47 AM To: nanog list Subject: Re: confusing packet data On 16/09/2008, at 4:43 PM, Hank Nussbacher wrote: Are you running Skype? Have you become a

RE: duplicate packet

2008-09-10 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Check your ARP tables, local and on intervening switches/routers. Make sure there are no duplicate entries for that IP. If you note the response time, the second packet is always higher which might be indicative. I would also check for a botched MITM a la CA. Even if there is no obvious

RE: interger to I P address

2008-08-27 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Somebody's going to bring in Emacs now. Then somebody else will claim VI can do it faster and using less memory Argh. ;-) --p -Original Message- From: Joe Greco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject:

RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-19 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
1. I think ARP is effectively a ping for a mac. It verifies connectivity on level 2 between two hosts. You have to be on the same segment though To make it work, you would have to know the mac address of the remote host, clear the arp table the local host, then send the ARP request

RE: maybe a dumb idea on how to fix the dns problems i don't know....

2008-08-11 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Joe makes some good points here. I'd have to add one caveat though: it depends. It depends on the server. Busy email servers definitely depend on having fast DNS, and benefit *greatly* from a caching DNS server using local sockets instead. Web servers generally don't. Centralized logging

RE: maybe a dumb idea on how to fix the dns problems i don't know....

2008-08-11 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
I think Colin just said everything I said, but in 1/10'th the words. And he posted before me. Drats. --Patrick Darden -Original Message- From: Colin Alston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 8:38 AM To: Joe Greco Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: maybe a dumb

RE: was bogon filters, now Brief Segue on 1918

2008-08-07 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Hi Jay, Jay Ashworth: Sure. And he's not always right either; none of us are. But he gave cogent arguments to support his point, and you gave us He gave good arguments. You, however, did not. None of which amounts to wants to hurt people, which is what you accused him of. I was out of

RE: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-06 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Yes. 1918 (10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16), D, E, reflective (outgoing mirroring), and as always individual discretion. --Patrick Darden -Original Message- From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:10 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Is it time to

was bogon filters, now Brief Segue on 1918

2008-08-06 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
start at the bottom and work up: 192.168.0.X++, 10.0.0.X++, etc. This makes any internetworking (ptp, vpn, etc.) ridiculously difficult. I've seen a lot of hack jobs using NAT to get around this. Ugly. --Patrick Darden -Original Message- From: Darden, Patrick S. Sent: Wednesday

RE: was bogon filters, now Brief Segue on 1918

2008-08-06 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
it to work this way (imho). --p -Original Message- From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:21 AM To: Darden, Patrick S. Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: was bogon filters, now Brief Segue on 1918 Darden, Patrick S. wrote: *randomly* from

RE: was bogon filters, now Brief Segue on 1918

2008-08-06 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
PM To: Darden, Patrick S. Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: was bogon filters, now Brief Segue on 1918 Darden, Patrick S. wrote: Most organizations that would be doing this would not randomly pick out subnets, if I understand you. They would randomly pick out a subnet, then they would sub

RE: was bogon filters, now Brief Segue on 1918

2008-08-06 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Actually, rereading this, I agree. My experience is large companies take it all, using huge swathes inefficiently, instead of doing it right. In my previous post I was answering the question I thought you were asking, not your real question. I agree with you both. I think that RFC1918

RE: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-06 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
1. DOS of Cymru (as noted below). 2. False Positives. Your network is suddenly stranded. Maybe on purpose. (DOS of a network, e.g. China or Youtube). 3. False Negatives. A bogus network is suddenly centrally rubber-stamped. Could happen. We've seen a lot of shenanigans with the domain