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Wayne E. Bouchard
So I intended to provide a few short comments on this but got on a
roll. The below may be of more or less use to you but this is the way
I look at things.
Listening to music isn't all that bad a means of dealing with noise
for shorter periods such as the odd onsite engineers have to do
because
If you go the "molded to my ear" route, do not forget that your ears
will tend to change over time and these must be replaced periodically
or they'll become uncomfortable and less effective. (I forget what the
recommendation is but I think every 1-2 years at the outside.)
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Although not having been updated yet makes it one of the older
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On Mon,
On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 08:40:52AM -0600, John Kristoff wrote:
On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 19:21:34 -0500
Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Cisco as the basis of networking material? Does nobody use Comer,
Stallings, or Tannenbaum as basic texts anymore?
I currently use a Comer
I agree. There's nothing wrong with it at all unless you claim
you're not doing that and then do it secretly in order to forward an
agenda.
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 12:12:43PM -0600, Blake Hudson wrote:
If I were a Cogent customer I would like to have seen more transparency
(an announcement
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:23:46PM -0700, Keenan Tims wrote:
The question here is what is authorized and what is not. Was this to
protect their network from rogues, or protect revenue from captive
customers.
I can't imagine that any 'AP-squashing' packets are ever authorized,
My take here is that I'd rather the FCC just leave it alone and see if
the market doesn't work it out in some reasonable way. That is, to not
even address it in rules, whether accept or prohibit. Just step back
and make sure that all you see is dust rising and not smoke. These
things take a while
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:30:45PM +, Sholes, Joshua wrote:
http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm
This boooklet is now maybe ~5-10 years old so it doesn't reflect more
recent developments.
We *let* the monopolies (er, duopolies in some cases) get away with the
regulatory
The impact of competition was extensively questioned and researched
with respect to U.S. Government contracting rules in the early '80s.
This led to the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984. Since then
there's been the routine grumble about the lowest quality bidder and
the periodic scandal
The whole point behind the locking connectors (like the IEC
connectors) is to prevent you from plugging the wrong connectors
together. Not only are the different dimensions, but the prongs are
keyed differently as well.
If you put a L6-20P device into a L6-30R, then it was done by
physically
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 09:39:46PM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
There just aren't a whole lot of failure modes here that result in
fire short of one or the other breaker failing. And that results in
fire regardless of the amperage mismatch.
This, by the way, is why you're allowed to plug
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 08:08:47PM -0400, John R. Levine wrote:
The ITU is an agency of the United Nations.Which is an organization
created by treaty, of which various nations' governments are members.
Actually, the ITU is more than twice as old as the UN, and merged with the
UN in
Have we ascertained if there is a typical configuration adjustment
that can be made to reduce or eliminate the likelihood of impact?
(From the description it sounds as though this is not possible but it
doesn't hurt to ask.)
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 09:05:00AM -0700, Merike Kaeo wrote:
On Mar
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 08:01:27PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
I would actually like to ask for those folks to un-block NTP so there is
proper data on the number of hosts for those researching this. The right
thing to do is reconfigure them. I've seen a good trend line in NTP servers
being
Basic economics.
MM optics come with looser tolerances and are therefore easier to
produce. The wider core of the fiber and higher dispersion allowances
also mean that the fiber is easier to make. The fiber, though, is the
small end of this equation. The optics are the big one.
For those who are
Brocade MLXe with the XMR cards is a good choice, yes, but -1 for
What do you mean that this feature isn't fully implemented yet?? It's
been in common use among other vendors for better than 10 years!
They're a lot better than they were but still a bit lagging.
-Wayne
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at
There's a reason I use an email alias if I sign up to places like
that and why I do not place much information on these sites...
There's a reason I maintain somewhere approaching 20 passwords in my
head too and why the password I use for accessing my own systems will
never be the password I use
I met her briefly at the Phoenix NANOG back when. (I want to say she
was speaking with Guy Tal at the time and that's who introduced me but
not sure.) I was shocked to hear that she passed not all that long
afterwards. She was bright and full of energy and not someone you
would expect to see an
It's worth pointing out that many IPv6 networks are unavailable from
insert provider here.
Hardly something to hold against them until the rest of us can all get
our own houses in order...
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 01:41:48PM -0700, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
On 14 October 2013 12:57, Tri Tran
It's a good point to consider however that omits the probabilty that
Canada is doing exactly the same thing as the U.S. and thus this may
free you from certain legalities but does not actually ensure privacy.
The other fact of this is that we are well aware that the NSA's
database is being
*shrug*
Enh.. Looks pretty much like any colo site I've ever been in that's
been maintained by nothing but remote hands for the previous 4
years... (equinix, are you paying attention?)
-Wayne
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:04:17PM -0400, Tom Morris wrote:
Radio Free Asia, Washington DC.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 07:44:15PM -0400, Dorian Kim wrote:
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 06:39:48PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote:
On Jun 19, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote:
as someone who does not really buy the balanced traffic story, some are
eyeballs and some are eye
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 04:36:32PM -0700, Scott Weeks wrote:
NSA claims know-how to ensure no illegal spying:
http://thegardenisland.com/news/state-and-regional/nsa-claims-know-how-to-ensure-no-illegal-spying/article_ec623964-d23a-53c6-aeb0-14bf325a7f3c.html
scott
We're the government. Trust
You can keep a hacker out, true, but you cannot keep the government
out. When the force of law can be used to compell you to act against
your wishes or your own best interests, all bets are of. Hackers sneak
in through the back door. The govt just breaks the front door down and
demands entry and
I'm of the camp that says that, in large measure, the only beneficial
elements of international telecommunications agreements have been to
define an international band plan for the radio spectrum. That was,
afterall, the principal reason these treaties were signed, to prevent
chaos within the
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 07:53:26AM -0500, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:07:16 -0700, Wayne E Bouchard said:
They serve quite well until I get to a switch that some douchebag
mounted rear facing on the front posts of the rack with servers above
and below and I just
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:50:52AM -0600, Jimmy Hess wrote:
On 12/21/12, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.com wrote:
I have noticed that too. However it is not the RJ-45 connector's fault.
It is the morons that insist on recessing connectors in places where you
can't get your finger on the
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 03:48:04PM -0600, Jason Baugher wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.comwrote:
I have noticed that too. However it is not the RJ-45 connector's fault.
It is the morons that insist on recessing connectors in places where you
can't
There is also the factor that cat5 is the principle desktop to network
connection. That being the case, there's very strong motivation for
ensuring that construction of that cable can be done very easily by
barely trained folks. Otherwise, laying out an office or cube farm
becomes considerably
It presents no technical problem but has always been considered
politically inadvisable. I mean, there are multiple registries for a
reason that goes beyond mere oranization and load sharing.
Increasingly, governments are trying to take more control over packets
(there is ever the push for
To be fair, this sort of thing does happen from time to time in
perfectly legitimate situations. In some cases, parts need to be
acquired or maintenance schedules need to be arranged in order to do a
propper repair. So just because you see these, don't immediately think
it is bad techs rather than
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Alexandre Carmel-Veilleux wrote:
On 2012-06-09, at 10:56, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote:
How does having the CVV number prove the card is in my possession?
It doesn't, it merely proves you must have handled the card physically at
some point
Or more to the point, it is a misconception that traffic is
symetrical (the path out and the path back are the same) whereas in
the present network, symetrical paths are the exception rather than
the rule, especially as your radius increases.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 07:17:57PM -0500, Lee wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:48:05PM +, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 13:47, David Storandt dstora...@teljet.com wrote:
You can put a 3dB or 5dB optical pad on the link if the receiver can't
handle zero-distance optical power.
As I recall, the problem may not only be the
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:15:02PM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
Not entirely on-list-topic, but still relevant.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20116336-37/apple-co-founder-chairman-steve-jobs-dies/?tag=cnetRiver
In some circles, he's being compared to Thomas Edison. Apply your own
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 12:56:25PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Wayne E. Bouchard:
the users will screw themselves by flooding their uplinks in which
case they will know what they've done to themselves and will largely
accept the problems for the durration
With shared media networks
If you're worried about the problem of tens of thousands of users
simultaneously trying to upload files to a central point then I'm
not the slightest bit concerned about the network as a whole. In this
circumstance, one of two things will happen and possibly both,
depending: either a) the users
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 08:55:05AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
Let me see if I have that straight.
We're *admitting* in public that the result will be to make prices go
up for
customers? Wow... Justice is going to have a field day with that.
Cheers,
-- jra
I don't think it
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 02:07:51PM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
On 1/28/11, andrew.wallace andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com wrote:
We should be asking the Egyptians to stagger the return of services so that
infrastructure isn't affected, when connectivity is deemed to be allowed to
come back
Codes are usually defined in one of two ways... Either cannot be
above the building parapet or cannot be visible from the street
below (which allows you to position a stant at the center of the roof
so you can clear the parapet) but when talking to building management,
it can very easily be, can't
Okay, if we go down that road, that makes Starbucks, Borders, a number
of restaurants, and any other place that offers publically accessible
wifi (free or otherwise) an ISP. If they start to increase the burden
on these businesses, expect to see wifi hotspots diminish. IMO, that
classification
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 02:45:11PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
What I have to wonder about is how often hunter-inflicted damage is
intentional
and located at the insulator (which makes for a good story) and how often it's
a totally accidental stray bullet nicking the cable many
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 01:41:42PM -0500, William Herrin wrote:
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote:
Not sure about the purpose of a raised floor if it doesn't create a plenum,
but, the
step forward from raised-floor plenum is hot-aisle/cold-aisle which
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 02:54:42AM +0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
On Mar 6, 2010, at 2:41 AM, William Herrin wrote:
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote:
Not sure about the purpose of a raised floor if it doesn't create a
plenum, but, the
step forward from
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:18:23PM +0200, Jens Link wrote:
Brian Johnson bjohn...@drtel.com writes:
So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection
would be given 2^64 addresses?
I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That?s the IPv4
Internet^2 for a
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 03:55:02PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Barry Shein wrote:
Perhaps someone has said this but a potential implementation problem
in the US are anti-trust regulations. Sure, they may come around to
seeing it your way since the intent is so
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:16:33AM -0500, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
Tom Pipes wrote:
Greetings,
We obtained a direct assigned IP block 69.197.64.0/18 from ARIN in 2008.
This block has been cursed (for lack of a better word) since we obtained
it. It seems like every customer we have added
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 06:32:32PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
As for trying to determine where your inbound traffic is coming from by
looking at natural bgp, this is absolutely impossible to do correctly.
First off, your inbound is someone else's outbound, and the person
sending the traffic
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 01:44:53AM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
What does it say about these providers AUP that the FTC needed to go to court
to turn them off?
The AUP standard is usually written much, much lower.
Deepak
It says revenue trumps ethics in far too many instances. Virtually
Lets see... so that list of domain names and IP addresses will be out
of date, what, 3 weeks ago?
I don't see how something so terribly arbitary can be long lived.
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:41:55AM -0400, Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote:
With regard to the recent discussion...
Late last month the
While all the below is true, I would put forward that many of us
networking types, especially those who operate their own datacenters,
generally know how to do an approximation. Afterall, if you don't have
an idea of magnitude, if you haven't done your homework, your
conversation with that
I can't speak to specific upper level issues but I can confirm that
there was a slightly insane piece of network equipment yesterday
AM. We sat it down and had a good conversation about manners and
behavior in public and it shaped up.
-Wayne
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 01:52:35PM -0700, Ray Sanders
Meh...
Sure, it rehashes what we pretty well already know, If a bad guy can
get access to your network or your management tools, you're boned.
It's still worth reminding folks that they need to take appropriate
measures to defend and monitor these devices. Too many networks and
servers get
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:09:35AM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote:
The result is that if the vendor targeted 100ms of buffer you now
have 400ms of buffer, and really bad lag.
Well, this is one of the reasons why I hate the fact that we're
effectively stuck in a 1500 MTU world. My customers are
You haven't lived until you've lived through an epoch.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 06:54:54PM -0500, Ravi Pina wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 06:49:49PM -0500, Steve Church wrote:
Just in case you missed it.
date -d Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 UTC 2009 +%s
It's like a really geeky y2k without
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 03:31:40PM +0200, Colin Alston wrote:
Circuits seems worse, but they also don't seem to track their CPE at
all. We have boxes full of various teleco CPE, including some Cisco 800
and 1600 routers. I guess it costs more than it's worth to recover it,
but the irritating
Yes, pretty well everyone else. :-)
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 09:20:40AM -0800, Jay Hennigan wrote:
We're a regional ISP, about 80% SMB 20% residential. We're seeing
almost double our normal downstream traffic right now. Anyone else?
--
Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering -
That the old ILECs are having problems due to the fact that few if any
of them know how to run a decent business is not exactly news. IMO, it
might be best if some of them were finaly placed in the position of
figuring out how to come into the 21st century and actually compete
for business.
But I
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:59:09AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
You're very welcome. My previous career was as a broadcast chief operator.
Knowing 47 CFR Parts 1, 2, 73, 74, and 101 was part of that job (and a part I
do not miss). Radio (both amateur and professional) used to be, prior to the
To add to Michael's point, I will say that while US Laws cannot apply
to a company globally, it is perfectly reasonable for the US govt to
say If you wish to do business in this country, your operations
within the USA will follow these rules. This is how every other
industry is regulated. Just
Pretty much no matter who you use, this can easily be done in an hour
or so if people really want it to and the right techs are
available. If there's a pre-existing agreement, this can go to mere
minutes. The setup doesn't take long. it's usually the business stuff
that drags it out.
On Thu, Oct
This is about what I would expect but as others haev noted does not
include jumbos.
This says that the majority of packets are session control and
open/close sequences on the one side and big, fat, WRED eligible data
packets on the other side.
This is consistant with the trends of youtube, high
Oppinions vary. There really is no standard. Most important is picking
something meaningful to you.
Here, I use:
yellowgeneral ethernet
green serial connection
blue long distance ethernet (ie, going to another row)
black crossover
red T1s, etc
white permenant drops to
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