Re: SPF Loses Mindshare?

2005-08-02 Thread John Levine

>There's an article by John Levine "SUBJ: line is the title)
>over on CircleID that might be intersting some folks in the
>e-mail authentication jihad:
>
>http://www.circleid.com/article/1157_0_1_0_C/
>
>For your perusal.

Don't miss the comments from Suresh (the postmaster at Outblaze, who
yanked his SPF records quite a while ago) and Wayne (the deputy high
priest of the SPF cabal who apparently thinks that lots of piddly
little domains publishing SPF records is more important than Earthlink
and Outblaze deleting theirs.)

By the way, CircleID mirrored it from the original in my blog
at http://weblog.taugh.com/

R's,
John


SPF Loses Mindshare?

2005-08-02 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)

I don't want to seed a flaming napalm-laden e-mail exchange
on the list with this, but I fugured the folks running
networks who haven't seen this, probably should.

There's an article by John Levine "SUBJ: line is the title)
over on CircleID that might be intersting some folks in the
e-mail authentication jihad:

http://www.circleid.com/article/1157_0_1_0_C/

For your perusal.

- ferg

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Telecoms Struggle As FCC e911 Compliance Deadline Nears

2005-08-02 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)

Operationally relevent, methinks.

W. David Gardner writes in TechWeb News:

[snip]

In the race to meet FCC emergency 911 (e911) requirements, two firms log some 
progress, while another seeks a waiver.

Under pressure to meet the FCC mandate to activate 911 service by the end of 
the year, Vonage and Telecommunication Systems (TCS) said Tuesday they will 
send VoIP E911 kits to provide vital communication information to thousands of 
Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) beginning in mid-August.

At the same time, Nextel has informed the FCC that it would seek a waiver from 
the FCC mandate that 95 percent of handsets be in compliance with location 
pinpointing regulations by Dec. 31, the Reuters news agency reported Monday. 
Nextel said 70 percent of its customers’ phone will be in compliance by the 
deadline, but it could take as much as two more years for the FCC goal to be 
fully met.

[snip]

http://www.techweb.com/wire/networking/167100209

- ferg


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RE: "Cisco gate" - Payload Versus Vector

2005-08-02 Thread Jim Popovitch

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:29 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
> > even without stiffling the heap check via crashing_already (i.e. a
> > 'fix' is developed for that weakness), is the 30-60 second window
> > sufficient to do serious operational damage.  i.e. what could an
> > attacker do with a code injection with a mean life as short as
> > 15-30 seconds?
> 
> change the passwords and write to nvram, and come back later?

some more that come to mind as ssh/enable pw changes wouldn't go
unnoticed for too long.

change snmptrap dest
change snmp r/w comstrs (most monitoring would only use r/o comstrs)
change ACLs on snmp access to allow public IPs
change the ip address of the host that is used for tftp boots

lots of things can be done in a 1/10 of the 30-60 second window.

-Jim P.





RE: "Cisco gate" - Payload Versus Vector

2005-08-02 Thread Dan Hollis

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
> even without stiffling the heap check via crashing_already (i.e. a
> 'fix' is developed for that weakness), is the 30-60 second window
> sufficient to do serious operational damage.  i.e. what could an
> attacker do with a code injection with a mean life as short as
> 15-30 seconds?

change the passwords and write to nvram, and come back later?

-Dan



Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Jeff Rosowski


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no, but I'd like to... since I'm upgrading and all (for security reasons
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It has quality of service, too! Let's not forget that!


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RE: "Cisco gate" - Payload Versus Vector

2005-08-02 Thread Randy Bush

very helpful analysis.  some questions:

even without stiffling the heap check via crashing_already (i.e. a
'fix' is developed for that weakness), is the 30-60 second window
sufficient to do serious operational damage.  i.e. what could an
attacker do with a code injection with a mean life as short as
15-30 seconds?  that seems a bit short for a direct routing
injection of much worth.  but how about a damping attack (flap the
victim's route enough to cause everyone to damp them), or would
mrai stiffle that?  could it be used to cascade to a neighbor?  i
suppose that diverting the just the right 15-30 seconds of traffic
could be profitable.

secondly, is there reason not to believe that the attack vectors
might be at layer two, mpls, as well as layer three, ip?  i.e. the
"internet-free core" gambit does not reduce exposure to this one?

> The "bad guys" are discussing the issues and we should think long
> and hard before we muzzle the "good guys".

http://rip.psg.com/~randy/draft-ymbk-obscurity-00.txt is a bit old,
but seems relevant.

randy



RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Randy Bush

> The "nanog problem" was clearly stated.  It had nothing to do with the
> specific discussion, but more that the discussion contained instances
> where folks were being insulting and crude.

then address the insults and crudeness.

randy



Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Randy Bush

> I forget who suggested it

actually, i was first, but others have followed

> but I like the request to move this to cisco-nsp.  Any reason
> that isn't a better place than NANOG at this stage?

i would guess that, if useful discussion is started on cisco-nsp,
that the momentum will move there and attenuate here.  but, imiho,
shutting folk down here first is not a useful social path.

randy



RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread trainier

The "nanog problem" was clearly stated.  It had nothing to do with the 
specific discussion, but more that the discussion contained
instances where folks were being insulting and crude. 

Tim Rainier




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Subject
RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon







> But the vulnerability applies for only ipv6-enabled devices...
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050729-ipv6.shtml

the general problem is definitely wider than the v6 hole.  i
believe, but of course could be wrong, that the april fix was a
bit wider than v6.

the blackhat/nanog problem is that, if we are not allowed to
discuss these things openly, all is conjecturbation.

randy





RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Randy Bush

> But the vulnerability applies for only ipv6-enabled devices...
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050729-ipv6.shtml

the general problem is definitely wider than the v6 hole.  i
believe, but of course could be wrong, that the april fix was a
bit wider than v6.

the blackhat/nanog problem is that, if we are not allowed to
discuss these things openly, all is conjecturbation.

randy



RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Randy Bush

>> no, but I'd like to... since I'm upgrading and all (for 
>> security reasons and ipv6 is so much better for security, right? :) )
> ok so your issue is totally irrelvant to the recent "ciscogate"
> paranoia? 

see the smiley?

randy



RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Chris Ranch

Hi Randy,

> > I might be wrong, but I thought an image with IPv6 support required
> > 16 MB flash on the 2500?
> 
> could be.  don't care.  don't need ipv6 on terminal servers 
> for oob access.

But the vulnerability applies for only ipv6-enabled devices...  
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050729-ipv6.shtml

Why don't you care?

Chris


Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Randy Bush

> I might be wrong, but I thought an image with IPv6 support required 
> 16 MB flash on the 2500?

could be.  don't care.  don't need ipv6 on terminal servers for oob
access.

> Anyway, the upgrade path is there

not really.

randy



Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Randy Bush

> note image size of 11/12/16 mb... note that many (most?) 2500's don't have
> 16M flash :( many, many referenced before (term servers for instance) are
> 2mb flash boxes. It's possible that Randy's referring to this sort of
> 2500. Kindly using himself for a whipping boy instead of the rest of us
> with 2500 term servers with 2mb flash :) I suspect the same thing goes for
> the 1700's as well in many cases.

bingo!  though i have 8mb in the term server.

randy



Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Randy Bush

> Current remote directory is /cisco.
> ncftp /cisco > dir ios/12.3/12.3.15a/2500/ 
> -rw-rw-r--1 518 11013444   Jul 25 14:50   c2500-c-l.123-15a.bin
> -rw-rw-r--1 518 12303148   Jul 25 15:17   c2500-i-l.123-15a.bin
> -rw-rw-r--1 518 16191744   Jul 25 14:34   c2500-is-l.123-15a.bin
> ncftp /cisco > dir ios2.3.15a/1700/
> -rw-rw-r--1 518  9779944   Jul 25 15:03   c1700-bnr2sy7-mz.123-15a.bin
> -rw-rw-r--1 518  9186836   Jul 25 14:56   c1700-entbase-mz.123-15a.bin
> -rw-rw-r--1 518  7758064   Jul 25 14:46   c1700-ipbase-mz.123-15a.bin
> -rw-rw-r--1 518 12504136   Jul 25 14:32   c1700-ipvoice-mz.123-15a.bin
> -rw-rw-r--1 518 10068088   Jul 25 15:05   c1700-sv3y-mz.123-15a.bin
> -rw-rw-r--1 518 12826128   Jul 25 15:05   c1700-sv8y7-mz.123-15a.bin
> -rw-rw-r--1 518  8568756   Jul 25 15:06   c1700-sy7-mz.123-15a.bin
> -rw-rw-r--1 518  6992208   Jul 25 15:13   c1700-y7-mz.123-15a.bin
> -rw-rw-r--1 518  5911432   Jul 25 14:49   c1700-y-mz.123-15a.bin

those of us who are not suicidal need crypto/ssh, e.g. upgrades to

c2500-k4p-l.120-21.S1
c1700-k9sv8y7-mz.122-15.T5.bin

and they have to fit in 8mb flash for 2511s etc.

but perhaps this part of the discussion should move to cisco-nsp?

randy



Re: [Administrivia]: Please end this Thread: RE: "Cisco gate" and "Me et the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Daniel Golding


I suspect the problem is not the operation aspects of the discussion, but
rather the nasty and sometimes personal invectives flying around. They were
particularly prevalent in the "Cisco gate" thread, and generally absent in
the other threads.

Just my 2 cents. YMMV

- Dan

On 8/2/05 11:28 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 08:28:58 CDT, "Malayter, Christopher" said:
>> Perhaps Susan was not clear enough yesterday.  The mailing list
>> administrative committee would request that you allow this thread to stop.
>> It has certainly outlived its operational usefulness.  I am now reiterating
>> that request.
> 
> Unfortunately, there's enough places where this touches on operational issues
> (such as getting enough information about a new release of router software so
> you
> can make informed decisions affecting your customers).  And obviously, a
> number
> of people think this is an important subject.
> 
> I suspect that adding a "This would be more on-topic/relevant on the XYZ list"
> would help kill it here...
> 
> Any suggestions where it would be more relevant?



Lynn Interview

2005-08-02 Thread Crist Clark


Haven't seen Furgie post this one yet (may have missed it deleting some
of the noise in those threads, though). Wired's interview with Mike Lynn.
His side of the story, timeline, and motives for the rather climatic
ending for what should have been a rather routine Black Hat presentation:

  http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68365,00.html

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Globalstar Communications(408) 933-4387


Re: NETGEAR in the core...

2005-08-02 Thread Andy Davidson

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 09:41:54PM -0400, Robert E.Seastrom wrote:
 > "Cisco 1700 series" or "Cisco 2600XM" would be nice answers if their
 > price had the decimal point moved one place to the left.

Looks like a Cisco 1760 is $1086.65 'on the street' (well, online
actually).

Whereas the Cisco 837 is $448.96 'on the street'.  Supports both NAT and
DMZ interface (if you're running a new enough IOS), access-lists, easy
to administer VPNs; in fact everything that we'd like them to at our 
smaller branch offices...

Sadly not a decimal point shift, but much more affordable.

-a


Re: [Administrivia]: Please end this Thread: RE: "Cisco gate" and "Me et the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Jon Lewis


On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I suspect that adding a "This would be more on-topic/relevant on the XYZ list"
would help kill it here...

Any suggestions where it would be more relevant?


how about cisco-nsp?

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Re: [Administrivia]: Please end this Thread: RE: "Cisco gate" and "Me et the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 08:28:58 CDT, "Malayter, Christopher" said:
> Perhaps Susan was not clear enough yesterday.  The mailing list
> administrative committee would request that you allow this thread to stop.
> It has certainly outlived its operational usefulness.  I am now reiterating
> that request.

Unfortunately, there's enough places where this touches on operational issues
(such as getting enough information about a new release of router software so 
you
can make informed decisions affecting your customers).  And obviously, a number
of people think this is an important subject.

I suspect that adding a "This would be more on-topic/relevant on the XYZ list"
would help kill it here...

Any suggestions where it would be more relevant?


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Re: VOIP provider

2005-08-02 Thread Peter Dambier


Shane Owens wrote:

 Not really an operational question, but an engineering question non-the-less.  
This may also not be the most suitable
forum, but there is a large brain trust here that can probably answer my 
questions.



Oh, it does. It probably is the only way you get all those ip-phones distrubuted
all over the globe into working.


We are looking at a business plan to launch a large VOIP carrier globally.  My 
questions are:

1: Does it make sense to scatter nodes around the globe to limit latency on 
intraregional calls? If so how many? We were
thinking about 7 placed at strategic points around the globe.


The atlantic ocean is a problem. May be it is because my ISP throws in an 
artificial
delay of about 80 msec to keep us from P2P or to sell us a more expensive rate.
Maybe it is the delay or the contention around the "ferry ports". My forward 
from

http://www.ipkall.com/

stopped working as soon as my ip-phone moved from Newyork to Frankfurt.

With traceroute I have seen packets summersalting in London. The third
packed arrived before the first. So you would need a node in London and
another one in Amsterdam.

DTAG.de has routing problems between Amsterdam and Frankfurt or Darmstadt
so you might need another node in Frankfurt. I dont know about the rest
of Europe. Within germany nobody noticed a difference between my ISDN and
my Grandstream ATA-486.

Here my traceroute when it routes:

traceroute to p54a7f56f.dip.t-dialin.net (84.167.245.111), 30 hops max, 38 byte 
packets
 1  gw1.cyberbunker.net (84.22.100.1)  0.949 ms  0.765 ms  0.639 ms
 2  cb-sr1-e0.cb3rob.net (84.22.96.245)  36.322 ms  34.720 ms  37.676 ms
 3  ams-tr2-t0.cb3rob.net (84.22.96.249)  9.817 ms  11.200 ms  13.317 ms
 4  gate1.deltaland.nl (213.201.229.1)  24.710 ms  15.491 ms  14.228 ms
 5  amx-gw2.nl.dtag.de (195.69.145.211)  41.802 ms  12.689 ms  15.209 ms
 6  da-ea1.DA.DE.net.DTAG.DE (62.153.179.54)  22.044 ms  19.521 ms  21.177 ms
 7  217.0.67.97 (217.0.67.97)  20.324 ms  20.462 ms  30.761 ms
 8  p54A7F56F.dip.t-dialin.net (84.167.245.111)  76.950 ms  74.830 ms  73.890 ms

and here when it does not:

traceroute to p54a7f56f.dip.t-dialin.net (84.167.245.111), 30 hops max, 40 byte 
packets
 1  gw1.cyberbunker.net (84.22.100.1)  0.198 ms   0.186 ms   0.158 ms
 2  cb-sr1-e0.cb3rob.net (84.22.96.245)  115.892 ms   117.430 ms   116.859 ms
 3  ams-tr2-t0.cb3rob.net (84.22.96.249)  44.379 ms   42.748 ms   41.447 ms
 4  gate1.deltaland.nl (213.201.229.1)  40.069 ms   38.394 ms   36.923 ms
 5  amx-gw2.nl.dtag.de (195.69.145.211)  37.144 ms   35.848 ms   35.178 ms
 6  da-ea1.DA.DE.net.DTAG.DE (62.153.179.54)  40.176 ms   38.547 ms   39.933 ms
 7  217.0.67.105  54.372 ms   54.171 ms   52.435 ms
 8  * * *

The problem is DTAG.DE using ip addresses from 84.xxx.xxx.xxx and at the same
time believing them to be bogons.



2: Is a softswitch architecture preferred to a proxy server/Media Gateway 
(Vonage) only type architecture?

3: What protocols should be used for firmware upgrades to ATA devices? We are 
thinking HTTPS or SFTP, or HTTP if those
aren't available on selected devices.  I am trying to stay away from TFTP for 
security reasons.


TFTP is no problem with linux people running their own server locally. But
never let it be seen from the outside. There a TFTP servers for windows too

My Grandstream uses TFTP but I have never seen an update.

I guess HTTP to get the software to your customers should do.
HTTPS is fine. Who knows SFTP?



4: Anyone have any vendor recommendations? We currently use Metaswitch for our 
Softswitch, but I'm not sure it would be
the best choice for a large scale deployment although I am going to research it.



They are very popular in Germany. Dont ask me the other countries:

http://www.avm.de/en/


5: Should I work with large wholesalers (L3, GX, etc) or try to penetrate 
markets in some other way?



There are a lot of VoIP providers in Germany. Many of them have their networks
interconnected to offer free calls between the networks. Some providers operate
in more than one european countries. It seems like a jungle. Europe is even
more complicated:

There are things like 110 or 112 or some other funny number for emergency calls.

There are geographic phonenumbers that must reflect where your ip-phone is
located.

Do you really want to know :)

DTAG AG wants to move all their pots and isdn phones to VoIP in the long run
and without any benefit for their customers. Maybe you should talk to them.


6: Are there any wholesalers (DID Origination) outside of the US that anyone 
knows of?



Have a look at them:

http://www.united-internet.com/

Maybe they are not a wholesaler but they are moderately big.
They provide both VoIP and aDSL but they still depend on
the DTAG.DE network mostly.


Sorry to have so many questions.  Many of these I already have ideas on the 
answers however I acknowledge there are far
smarter people than myself in the world.  So I figure it's a good idea to ask 
and get opinions

RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Neil J. McRae

So yes then.

> no... not really, not originally, it got morphed into 
> something different :( So, the ciscogate paranoia, as near as 
> I saw, got down to: "cisco wont tell people about vulns as 
> soon as they know about them" (or some version of I don't get 
> to know fast enough about vulns from a vendor, while we 
> currently bash on cisco)
> 
> With that in mind, the example 2500 above is a cisco box, 
> running old code because it can't be upgraded to current 
> code. Cisco is reluctant to tell folks in public about 
> vulnerabilities without there beig fixes for the problem in 
> as much running code as possible.
> 
> -Chris
> 



[Administrivia]: Please end this Thread: RE: "Cisco gate" and "Me et the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Malayter, Christopher

Good Morning,

Perhaps Susan was not clear enough yesterday.  The mailing list
administrative committee would request that you allow this thread to stop.
It has certainly outlived its operational usefulness.  I am now reiterating
that request.

Regards,

Chris Malayter
NANOG Mailing List Administration Team

> -Original Message-
> From: Geo. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:10 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon
> 
> 
> 
> >> ok so your issue is totally irrelvant to the recent "ciscogate" 
> >> paranoia?
> 
> That would depend on what other exploits cisco has slipstream 
> patched wouldn't it? (honest question as I don't know but it 
> would be nice if cisco would clarify the situation)
> 
> Geo.
> 
> George Roettger
> Netlink Services
> 


Re: NETGEAR in the core...

2005-08-02 Thread Jerry B. Altzman


On 7/31/2005 9:06 AM, Janet Sullivan wrote:
Does anyone here have experiences to share (good/bad) about m0n0wall on 
soekris devices?


I've used m0n0wall to great effect, and with pleasure, but alas not on a 
soekris box -- just on an old dell hanging out in the office. It worked 
like a champ.


//jbaltz
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RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Geo.

>> ok so your issue is totally irrelvant to the recent "ciscogate"
>> paranoia?

That would depend on what other exploits cisco has slipstream patched
wouldn't it? (honest question as I don't know but it would be nice if cisco
would clarify the situation)

Geo.

George Roettger
Netlink Services



RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Christopher L. Morrow



On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Neil J. McRae wrote:

>
> > no, but I'd like to... since I'm upgrading and all (for
> > security reasons and ipv6 is so much better for security, right? :) )
>
> ok so your issue is totally irrelvant to the recent "ciscogate"
> paranoia?

no... not really, not originally, it got morphed into something different
:( So, the ciscogate paranoia, as near as I saw, got down to: "cisco wont
tell people about vulns as soon as they know about them" (or some version
of I don't get to know fast enough about vulns from a vendor, while we
currently bash on cisco)

With that in mind, the example 2500 above is a cisco box, running old code
because it can't be upgraded to current code. Cisco is reluctant to tell
folks in public about vulnerabilities without there beig fixes for the
problem in as much running code as possible.

-Chris


Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Joe Abley



On 2 Aug 2005, at 08:24, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

no, but I'd like to... since I'm upgrading and all (for security 
reasons

and ipv6 is so much better for security, right? :) )


It has quality of service, too! Let's not forget that!



RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Neil J. McRae


> no, but I'd like to... since I'm upgrading and all (for 
> security reasons and ipv6 is so much better for security, right? :) )

ok so your issue is totally irrelvant to the recent "ciscogate"
paranoia? 

Neil.



RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Christopher L. Morrow


On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Neil J. McRae wrote:

>
> >
> > cons uptime is 1 week, 10 hours, 42 minutes System restarted
> > by power-on System image file is "flash:igs-i-l.111-9",
> > booted via flash
> >
> > cisco 2511 (68030) processor (revision D) with 2048K/2048K
> > bytes of memory.
> >
> >
> > lather/rinse/repeat... where are the images that fit in my
> > 2501's 2mb ram/2mbflash? (current, non-vulnerable, ipv6 capable even)
>
> So are you running IPV6 code on this box now?

no, but I'd like to... since I'm upgrading and all (for security reasons
and ipv6 is so much better for security, right? :) )


VOIP provider

2005-08-02 Thread Shane Owens

 Not really an operational question, but an engineering question non-the-less.  
This may also not be the most suitable
forum, but there is a large brain trust here that can probably answer my 
questions.

We are looking at a business plan to launch a large VOIP carrier globally.  My 
questions are:

1: Does it make sense to scatter nodes around the globe to limit latency on 
intraregional calls? If so how many? We were
thinking about 7 placed at strategic points around the globe.

2: Is a softswitch architecture preferred to a proxy server/Media Gateway 
(Vonage) only type architecture?

3: What protocols should be used for firmware upgrades to ATA devices? We are 
thinking HTTPS or SFTP, or HTTP if those
aren't available on selected devices.  I am trying to stay away from TFTP for 
security reasons.

4: Anyone have any vendor recommendations? We currently use Metaswitch for our 
Softswitch, but I'm not sure it would be
the best choice for a large scale deployment although I am going to research it.

5: Should I work with large wholesalers (L3, GX, etc) or try to penetrate 
markets in some other way?

6: Are there any wholesalers (DID Origination) outside of the US that anyone 
knows of?


Sorry to have so many questions.  Many of these I already have ideas on the 
answers however I acknowledge there are far
smarter people than myself in the world.  So I figure it's a good idea to ask 
and get opinions from others before I make
a final decision.


Shane 
Shaneowensdna-communications.com




Re: Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?

2005-08-02 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox


On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> 
> > The poor guy/gal at the other end of the line will need a really good
> > answer.  Does anyone here have one?
> 
> to avoid being technical i guess the only answer would be to say this is a 
> private service offered to tiscali users and is not available to any non 
> tiscali 
> users (you might want to point out this is 99.9% of the world in case $cust 
> feels like switching)
> 
> > Not to mention the answers we need for the market droids...
> > 
> > "Hey, I heard that Tiscali is offering more Internet than us at no
> > extra cost, and they make a lot of money on it too.  How soon can we
> > start doing the same?"
> 
> tell them you've been able to do it all along, its your network and you can 
> provide any unique content that you like, providing they understand this is 
> unique for your custs only .. think intranet
> 
> > This puts a lot of pressure on other European ISPs, and eventually also 
> > North
> > American ISPs (to make this on-topic :-) I hope the rest of us can stand
> > together against it.  A good start would be to come up with a common 
> > response
> > to the two pressure groups outlined above.
> 
> a better worded explanation on a webpage would be good i guess...
> 
> anyway, i'm off the the UNIDT website, i hear '.tiscali' hasnt been 
> registered 
> yet ;p

replying to myself. bad :)

had this pointed out.. these are "official" according to inaic
http://inaic.com/index.php?p=faq006

and resolving "all known tlds" seems a bit of a stretch, i think they've missed 
my '.foobar' tld on my local nameservers..

http://inaic.com/index.php?p=faq014


also for added humour, from the press release
http://inaic.com/index.php?p=tiscali-introduces

following the link: http://home.tiscali/

doesnt seem to work for me, hmm.. not great to have a broken link in a public 
press release ;)

Steve



RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Neil J. McRae

 
> 
> cons uptime is 1 week, 10 hours, 42 minutes System restarted 
> by power-on System image file is "flash:igs-i-l.111-9", 
> booted via flash
> 
> cisco 2511 (68030) processor (revision D) with 2048K/2048K 
> bytes of memory.
> 
> 
> lather/rinse/repeat... where are the images that fit in my 
> 2501's 2mb ram/2mbflash? (current, non-vulnerable, ipv6 capable even)

So are you running IPV6 code on this box now?



Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Christopher L. Morrow


On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, [iso-8859-1] Bjørn Mork wrote:

> "Christopher L. Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, [iso-8859-1] Bjørn Mork wrote:
> >> Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> > fred, seeing as there is not now, and likely never will be fixed
> >> > versions for many of our routers (25xx, 17xx, ..., and i can't
> >>
> >> No?
> >>
> >> Logged in to ftp.cisco.com.
> >> Current remote directory is /cisco.
> >> ncftp /cisco > dir ios/12.3/12.3.15a/2500/
> >> -rw-rw-r--1 518  1 11013444   Jul 25 14:50   
> >> c2500-c-l.123-15a.bin
> >> -rw-rw-r--1 518  1 12303148   Jul 25 15:17   
> >> c2500-i-l.123-15a.bin
> >> -rw-rw-r--1 518  1 16191744   Jul 25 14:34   
> >> c2500-is-l.123-15a.bin
> >
> > note image size of 11/12/16 mb... note that many (most?) 2500's don't have
> > 16M flash :( many, many referenced before (term servers for instance) are
> > 2mb flash boxes. It's possible that Randy's referring to this sort of
> > 2500.
>
> I might be wrong, but I thought an image with IPv6 support required
> 16 MB flash on the 2500?  Anyway, the upgrade path is there although

and in order to get 30k devices (more actually) upgraded I'll have to
spend 30k+X dollars? I'm fairly certain that's not going to happen. This
gets back to 2 things:
1) no (practical) upgrade path under security vulnerabilities (hence
reluctance of vendors to release info without fix)
2) possibly unhappy customers and vulnerabilities silently fixed in other
code trains.

Oh well...


RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Christopher L. Morrow


On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Neil J. McRae wrote:

>
> > note image size of 11/12/16 mb... note that many (most?)
> > 2500's don't have 16M flash :( many, many referenced before
> > (term servers for instance) are 2mb flash boxes. It's
> > possible that Randy's referring to this sort of 2500. Kindly
> > using himself for a whipping boy instead of the rest of us
> > with 2500 term servers with 2mb flash :) I suspect the same
> > thing goes for the 1700's as well in many cases.
>
> IIRC the 2500 has an end of support date of 2009 so I expect images
> to be available.

cons uptime is 1 week, 10 hours, 42 minutes
System restarted by power-on
System image file is "flash:igs-i-l.111-9", booted via flash

cisco 2511 (68030) processor (revision D) with 2048K/2048K bytes of
memory.


lather/rinse/repeat... where are the images that fit in my 2501's 2mb
ram/2mbflash? (current, non-vulnerable, ipv6 capable even)


RIPE NCC to begin allocating from new IPv4 range

2005-08-02 Thread leo vegoda


Dear Colleagues,

This announcement is being sent to multiple lists. I apologise for  
duplicates.


The RIPE NCC received the IPv4 address range 89.0.0.0 -  
91.255.255.255 (89.0.0.0/8 and 90.0.0.0/7) from the IANA in June  
2005. We expect to start making allocations from this range in the  
near future.


We have started announcing two prefixes from each /8, which originate  
in AS12654. They are:


89.192.0.0/16
89.255.248.0/21
90.192.0.0/16
90.255.248.0/21
91.192.0.0/16
91.255.248.0/21

Details of target names and addresses, reachability tools and other  
information are available on our web site at:


http://www.ris.ripe.net/debogon/debogon.html

You may want to update any filters you have in place.

Kind regards,

--
leo vegoda
Registration Services Manager
RIPE NCC



Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Bjørn Mork

"Christopher L. Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, [iso-8859-1] Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > fred, seeing as there is not now, and likely never will be fixed
>> > versions for many of our routers (25xx, 17xx, ..., and i can't
>>
>> No?
>>
>> Logged in to ftp.cisco.com.
>> Current remote directory is /cisco.
>> ncftp /cisco > dir ios/12.3/12.3.15a/2500/
>> -rw-rw-r--1 518  1 11013444   Jul 25 14:50   
>> c2500-c-l.123-15a.bin
>> -rw-rw-r--1 518  1 12303148   Jul 25 15:17   
>> c2500-i-l.123-15a.bin
>> -rw-rw-r--1 518  1 16191744   Jul 25 14:34   
>> c2500-is-l.123-15a.bin
>
> note image size of 11/12/16 mb... note that many (most?) 2500's don't have
> 16M flash :( many, many referenced before (term servers for instance) are
> 2mb flash boxes. It's possible that Randy's referring to this sort of
> 2500. 

I might be wrong, but I thought an image with IPv6 support required 
16 MB flash on the 2500?  Anyway, the upgrade path is there although
it may include a flash (and possibly boot prom) upgrade. 


Bjørn


RE: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Neil J. McRae


> note image size of 11/12/16 mb... note that many (most?) 
> 2500's don't have 16M flash :( many, many referenced before 
> (term servers for instance) are 2mb flash boxes. It's 
> possible that Randy's referring to this sort of 2500. Kindly 
> using himself for a whipping boy instead of the rest of us 
> with 2500 term servers with 2mb flash :) I suspect the same 
> thing goes for the 1700's as well in many cases.

IIRC the 2500 has an end of support date of 2009 so I expect images
to be available. 


Regards,
Neil.



Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Christopher L. Morrow


On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, [iso-8859-1] Bjørn Mork wrote:

>
> Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > fred, seeing as there is not now, and likely never will be fixed
> > versions for many of our routers (25xx, 17xx, ..., and i can't
>
> No?
>
> Logged in to ftp.cisco.com.
> Current remote directory is /cisco.
> ncftp /cisco > dir ios/12.3/12.3.15a/2500/
> -rw-rw-r--1 518  1 11013444   Jul 25 14:50   c2500-c-l.123-15a.bin
> -rw-rw-r--1 518  1 12303148   Jul 25 15:17   c2500-i-l.123-15a.bin
> -rw-rw-r--1 518  1 16191744   Jul 25 14:34   
> c2500-is-l.123-15a.bin

note image size of 11/12/16 mb... note that many (most?) 2500's don't have
16M flash :( many, many referenced before (term servers for instance) are
2mb flash boxes. It's possible that Randy's referring to this sort of
2500. Kindly using himself for a whipping boy instead of the rest of us
with 2500 term servers with 2mb flash :) I suspect the same thing goes for
the 1700's as well in many cases.


Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

2005-08-02 Thread Bjørn Mork

Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> fred, seeing as there is not now, and likely never will be fixed
> versions for many of our routers (25xx, 17xx, ..., and i can't

No?

Logged in to ftp.cisco.com. 

  
Current remote directory is /cisco.
ncftp /cisco > dir ios/12.3/12.3.15a/2500/ 
-rw-rw-r--1 518  1 11013444   Jul 25 14:50   c2500-c-l.123-15a.bin
-rw-rw-r--1 518  1 12303148   Jul 25 15:17   c2500-i-l.123-15a.bin
-rw-rw-r--1 518  1 16191744   Jul 25 14:34   c2500-is-l.123-15a.bin
ncftp /cisco > dir ios/12.3/12.3.15a/1700/
-rw-rw-r--1 518  1  9779944   Jul 25 15:03   
c1700-bnr2sy7-mz.123-15a.bin
-rw-rw-r--1 518  1  9186836   Jul 25 14:56   
c1700-entbase-mz.123-15a.bin
-rw-rw-r--1 518  1  7758064   Jul 25 14:46   
c1700-ipbase-mz.123-15a.bin
-rw-rw-r--1 518  1 12504136   Jul 25 14:32   
c1700-ipvoice-mz.123-15a.bin
-rw-rw-r--1 518  1 10068088   Jul 25 15:05   
c1700-sv3y-mz.123-15a.bin
-rw-rw-r--1 518  1 12826128   Jul 25 15:05   
c1700-sv8y7-mz.123-15a.bin
-rw-rw-r--1 518  1  8568756   Jul 25 15:06   
c1700-sy7-mz.123-15a.bin
-rw-rw-r--1 518  1  6992208   Jul 25 15:13   c1700-y7-mz.123-15a.bin
-rw-rw-r--1 518  1  5911432   Jul 25 14:49   c1700-y-mz.123-15a.bin


Bjørn