RE: Cisco to merge with Nabisco
Well, they already eat into your profits. -Original Message- From: Wayne E. Bouchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 April 2005 22:34 To: Fergie (Paul Ferguson) Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Cisco to merge with Nabisco Does this mean our routers will be edible? :-) On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 04:45:17PM +, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > > > Priceless. ;-) > > The Register: > Published Friday 1st April 2005 15:22 GMT > > "Cisco Systems and Kraft Foods shocked investors today > with an unlikely mega-acquisition that will see Cisco > buy Kraft's Nabisco unit for $15bn. Perhaps even more > surprising, former RJR Nabisco and IBM CEO Lou Gerstner > has come out of retirement to head the new firm > tentatively called NaCisco." > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/01/cisco_buys_nabisco/ > > - ferg > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Wayne Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/ Vodafone Group Services Limited Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No. 3802001 This e-mail is for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, you must not distribute, disclose, copy, use or rely on this e-mail or its contents, and you must immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all copies from your system. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged.
RE: Cisco to merge with Nabisco
It gives number crunching an entirely new meaning. -Original Message- From: Bill Nash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 April 2005 19:09 To: Church, Chuck Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Cisco to merge with Nabisco On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Church, Chuck wrote: > > Incorrectly chosen switching path can now result in lost packets AND > indigestion. > Is this mitigated by activating Nabisco Express Forwarding? Vodafone Group Services Limited Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No. 3802001 This e-mail is for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, you must not distribute, disclose, copy, use or rely on this e-mail or its contents, and you must immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all copies from your system. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged.
RE: sms messaging without a net?
We use kannel on a linux box and a GSM modem, it works very well for us. www.kannel.org Regards, Greg -Original Message- From: Dan Hollis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 August 2004 10:18 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: sms messaging without a net? Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet connection? Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins know their net has gone down. :-P AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year. The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS messaging capability. Has anyone done this? -Dan Vodafone Group Services Limited Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No. 3802001 This e-mail is for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, you must not distribute, disclose, copy, use or rely on this e-mail or its contents, and you must immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all copies from your system. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged.
RE: Google?
Some say it's a new version of mydoom: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?isc=d46940064182f61f40ca333bc3c2f439 -GP -Original Message- From: Marco Davids (SARA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 July 2004 16:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Google? Google seems to fail on every search containing the word 'mail' ? -- Marco Davids SARA High Performance Networking - Amsterdam Vodafone Group Services Limited Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No. 3802001 This e-mail is for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, you must not distribute, disclose, copy, use or rely on this e-mail or its contents, and you must immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all copies from your system. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged.
RE: Strange behavior of Catalyst4006
Hi Joe, It would be good to know the type (and software version) of firewall as it could be the firewall and not the switch that's the problem. For instance, there's a known bug with checkpoint and NAT where automatic arp entries "disappear". If you can ping it all from the catalyst but not from the rest of your network it could be that you have a problem with your dynamic routing protocols, or with a device connected to the catalyst. Check your adjacent routers, do you have a valid route to the catalyst for the 192.168.5.7 subnet? What does a traceroute show from your NOC? -GP -Original Message- From: Joe Shen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 June 2004 02:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Strange behavior of Catalyst4006 Hi, We met a strange problem with Catalyst 4006 when provideing leased line service to one of our customers. Catalyst4006 Customer's firewall ---Customer's Intranet The customer is allocated a Class C address block 192.168.5/24. And , they connect their network to our network by using a firewall. The Interface on Cata4006 is set up as "no switchport", and inter-connecting subnet is configured between Cata4006 and firewall interface(10.10.1.122/30). Static route is used on Catalyst4006 to designate route to customer's intranet address. ( ip route 192.168.5.0 255.255.255.0 10.10.1.124 ). Customer setup their email server at 192.168.5.7, dns server at 192.168.5.1, web server at 192.168.5.9. At the very begining all system works fine. After sometime they said they could not acces their email/web/dns server from host outside their company's network. But, when we telnet to Cata4006, we could 'ping' 192.168.5.7, but if we move to host in NOC ping failed all the time. ( ping to server is allowed on firewall). At the same time, their intranet host could access our network. We restart ( shut; noshut) the fastethernet interface on Catalyst4006, and then servers' network access recovered. The phenomon comes up frequently, and our customer said this is a bug with catalyst4006. But, to my understanding, if this is a bug to catos, it should not only affact only three servers. But, why it could be solved by restart catalyst interface? Would you please do some help? ( I attach system info below) Joe Shen ==-= 4006#sh version Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) Catalyst 4000 L3 Switch Software (cat4000-IS-M), Version 12.1(12c)EW1, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac Copyright (c) 1986-2002 by cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Thu 24- Oct-02 23:05 by eaarmas Image text-base: 0x, data-base: 0x00CA7368 ROM: 12.1(12r)EW Dagobah Revision 63, Swamp Revision 24 4006-wulin uptime is 41 weeks, 12 hours, 34 minutes System returned to ROM by power-on System restarted at 05:40:46 RPC Mon Sep 15 2003 System image file is "bootflash:cat4000-is-mz.121-12c.EW1.bin" cisco WS-C4006 (XPC8245) processor (revision 5) with 524288K bytes of memory. Processor board ID FOX05200BRH Last reset from PowerUp 144 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s) 2 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s) 403K bytes of non- volatile configuration memory. Configuration register is 0x2102 4006# 4006-wulin#sh run int f4/41 Building configuration... Current configuration : 141 bytes ! interface FastEthernet4/41 no switchport ip address 10.10.1.213 255.255.255.252 duplex full speed 100 end 4006# === Cool Things Happen When Mac Users Meet! Join the community in Boston this July: www.macworldexpo.com Vodafone Group Services Limited Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No. 3802001 This e-mail is for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, you must not distribute, disclose, copy, use or rely on this e-mail or its contents, and you must immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all copies from your system. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged.
RE: Power Failure
I'm in Telecity at 8/9 Harbour exchange and I lost 2 BGP sessions to Abovenet at about 10:50 BDT. I've been told there is a power failure there but I'm not sure if my problem is related. Greg Pendergrass --- Network and Security Manager Vodafone Global Services Limited -Original Message- From: Tom Daly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 May 2004 12:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Power Failure Anyone aware of or have details about a power failure within 8&9 Harbour Exchange, London, UK? Seems that some Telcos in this facility are having problems. -- Thomas J. Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Infrastructure Officer Dynamic Network Services, Inc. http://www.dyndns.org/ Vodafone Group Services Limited Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No. 3802001 This e-mail is for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, you must not distribute, disclose, copy, use or rely on this e-mail or its contents, and you must immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all copies from your system. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged.
RE: Counter DoS
By "The Art of War on the Internet" I didn't mean information warfare, that's been with us as long as there's been information and the internet is certainly going to be a major part of that. What I am against is anyone trying to popularize the idea of the internet as a battleground where one uses force and deception to "gain ground". It's just another case of people wrongly attempting to fit somthing that they don't understand into a framework that they do understand, thereby creating a fallacy. Trying to base a product off of a flawed idea is bound to fail but also likely be a major irritation before it does. GP -Original Message- From: Etaoin Shrdlu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 March 2004 14:58 To: Nanog Subject: Re: Counter DoS "Pendergrass, Greg" wrote: > > I can see now that it's only a matter of time before some nut writes "The > Art of War in the Internet". I read the whitepaper, it goes on a lot about > how defensive policies are ineffective but doesn't really say why active > response has never been tried: Ask, and ye shall receive. http://btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?us erid=2XH986JPUE&btob=Y&isbn=1581128576&TXT=Y&itm=1 I thought that someone mentioned that Mr. Forno was reputed to be on staff with these folk. > Their proposition is a terrible idea and their "rules of engagement" would > be funny instead of frightening if it wasn't serious I note that he also has a title from last year, which seems applicable here: Weapons of Mass Delusion (ISBN 15896X) I will point out that I cannot take seriously a company (Symbiot) that depends on a shockwave plugin to put up a web page. Pity that they came out so aggressively; it might have been an interesting product. Hype can kill as well as sell. -- It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine only I set my mind in motion. Vodafone Global Content Services Limited Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No. 4064873 This e-mail is for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, you must not distribute, disclose, copy, use or rely on this e-mail or its contents, and you must immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all copies from your system. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged.
RE: Counter DoS
I can see now that it's only a matter of time before some nut writes "The Art of War in the Internet". I read the whitepaper, it goes on a lot about how defensive policies are ineffective but doesn't really say why active response has never been tried: A. Most of the time dDOS traffic is from spoofed sources anyway so whichever machine you "return fire" on is probably not the one that attacked you. B. NAT translation means a hacker has a tailor-made defense against any active repsonse. C. Even if you can directly attack a machine being used against you it's almost certainly not the perpetrator's box, he/she is sitting half a world away. The box you intentionally destroy is likely some innocent family PC that was taken over using some unplugged windows security hole. D. Widely deployed active defense will give an attacker a new form of dDOS attack, spoof the source of the one you want to hit in attacking several "active defense" systems and watch them attack your target for you. Their proposition is a terrible idea and their "rules of engagement" would be funny instead of frightening if it wasn't serious GP -Original Message- From: Joshua Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 March 2004 01:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Counter DoS http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39148215,00.htm Comments? Vodafone Global Content Services Limited Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No. 4064873 This e-mail is for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, you must not distribute, disclose, copy, use or rely on this e-mail or its contents, and you must immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all copies from your system. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged.
RE: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefind er)
OT I know, but this has to be the quote of the week: "Working the ICANN process is like being nibbled to death by ducks, it takes forever, it doesn't make sense, and in the end we're still dead in the water." said Tom Galvin, VeriSign's vice president for government relations. With oratory like that how can they possibly loose? ;) GP -Original Message- From: Deepak Jain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 February 2004 21:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Since no one else has mentioned this: http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040226/tech_verisign_2.html > Vodafone Global Content Services Limited Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No. 4064873 This e-mail is for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, you must not distribute, disclose, copy, use or rely on this e-mail or its contents, and you must immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all copies from your system. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged.
RE: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat)
I think how reliable the internet needs to be depends on what you want to use it for: if you want to call an ambulance you DON'T use the internet, if you want to transfer money from one account to another you DO use the internet. In other words right now it's good for things that are important but not critical from an immediate action standpoint. If it can wait until tomorrow use the internet otherwise pick up the phone and dial. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had problems with my landline in my entire life but I can count on two hands the number of problems I've had with my internet connection in one year. If we ever want the internet to grow from being a handy medium for exchanging data to the converged, all-encompassing communications medium then it needs to go from "Mom, the internet's down again!" to "Dude, my internet connection went down yesterday, that ever happen to you before?". For that to happen there has to be more accountability in the industry. -GP -Original Message- From: Steve Gibbard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 February 2004 00:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat) Having woken up this morning and realized it was raining in my bedroom (last night was the biggest storm the Bay Area has had since my house got its new roof last summer), and then having moved from cleaning up that mess to vacuuming water out of the basement after the city's storm sewer overflowed (which seems to happen to everybody in my neighborhood a couple of times a year), I've spent lots of time today thinking about general expectations of reliability. In the telecommunications industry, where we tend to treat reliability as very important and any outage as a disaster, hopefully the questions I've been coming up with aren't career ending. ;) With that in mind, how much in the way of reliability problems is it reasonable to expect our users to accept? If the Internet is a utility, or more generally infrastructure our society depends on, it seems there are a bunch of different systems to compare it to. In general, if I pick up my landline phone, I expect to get a dialtone, and I expect to be able to make a call. If somebody calls my landline, I expect the phone to ring, and if I'm near the phone I expect to be able to answer. Yet, if I want somebody to actually get through to me reliably, I'll probably give them my cell phone number instead. If it rings, I'm far more likely to able to answer it easily than I am my landline, since the landline phone is in a fixed location. Yet some significant portion of calls to or from my cell phone come in when I'm in areas with bad reception, and the conversation becomes barely understandable. In many cases, the signal is too weak to make a call at all, and those who call me get sent straight to voicemail. Most of us put up with this, because we judge mobility to be more important than reliability. I don't think I've ever had a natural gas outage that I've noticed, but most of my gas appliances won't work without electric power. I seem to lose electric power at home for a few hours once a year or so, and after the interuption life tends to resume as it was before. When power outages were significantly more frequent, and due to rationing rather than to accidents, it caused major political problems for the California government. There must be some threshold for what people are willing to accept in terms of residential power outages, that's somewhere above 2-3 hours per year. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I grew up, the whole town tended to pretty much grind to a halt two or three days a year, when more snow fell than the city had the resources to deal with. That quantity of snow necessary to cause that was probably four or five inches. My understanding is that Minneapolis and Washington DC both grind to a halt due to snow with somewhat similar frequency, but the amount of snow requred is significantly more in Minneapolis and significantly less in DC. Again, there must be some threshold of interruptions due to exceptionally bad weather that are tolerated, which nobody wants to do worse than and nobody wants to spend the money to do better than. So, it appears that among general infrastructure we depend on, there are probably the following reliability thresholds: Employees not being able to get to work due to snow: two to three days per year. Berkeley storm sewers: overflow two to three days per year. Residential Electricity: out two to three hours per year. Cell phone service: Somewhat better than nine fives of reliability ;) Landline phone service: I haven't noticed an outage on my home lines in a few years. Natural gas: I've never noticed an outage. How Internet service fits into that of course depends on how you're accessing the Net. The T-Mobile GPRS card I got recently seems significantly less reliable than my cell phone. My SBC DSL line is almost
RE: dry pair
Neither do we. Could you include some more details? -Greg -Original Message- From: Austad, Jay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 August 2003 17:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dry pair Does anyone know to go about getting Qwest or a CLEC to patch through a dry pair between two buildings connected to the same CO? When I called to order one, no one knew what I was talking about. -jay Vodafone Global Content Services Limited Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No. 4064873 This e-mail is for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, you must not distribute, disclose, copy, use or rely on this e-mail or its contents, and you must immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all copies from your system. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged.
RE: How much longer..
I don't know if you've driven in the East End of London recently, but I assure you there those rules don't always apply! The computers as cars metaphor is perfectly correct in many aspects: 1. You don't have to know how a car works to drive it: If everyone had to be a qualified mechanic in order to drive safely then there'd be very few drivers. Also, if everyone had to study car mechanics to drive nobody would be able to study anything else. For the majority of people computers need to be simple enough that anyone can use it without advanced knowledge. The thought of teaching my mother to use a linux system makes me shudder. 2. Computers, like cars, need regular maintenance in order to function properly: Cars need oil changes, computers need regular updates. With cars there is a maintenance infrastructure to maintain them and, more importantly, there is a basic understanding throughout the population about what a car needs in order to function. When you have a problem with a car, there's no shortage of people who have at least a basic understanding of what to do. Plus everyone knows you can call a mechanic. Computers don't have this infrastructure or basic permeated understanding yet, to most people they are a magic box that flashes things on the screen-thingy. Most have no idea that windows-update exists and wouldn't understand what it does, and just as important doesn't know anyone who can tell them. Their question is: what do I need to click on to fix it? Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 August 2003 14:17 To: St. Clair, James Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Subject: RE: How much longer.. On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, St. Clair, James wrote: > Cars did not become more popular because owners had to learn how to swap > more parts. The good ole "computers as cars" metaphor. In the UK: 1) In order to drive a car, you have to have a license. 2) In order to have the car on the road, you have to have it taxed and have a qualified mechanic certify it for basic road worthiness. Neither of these rules currently apply to computers. Maybe they should. Rich Vodafone Global Content Services Limited Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No. 4064873 This e-mail is for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, you must not distribute, disclose, copy, use or rely on this e-mail or its contents, and you must immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all copies from your system. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged.
Blaster packet rates
Hello All, I am trying to get real figures on how much blaster scanning is going on to my network, but I don't have enough information. I am seeing 2200 packets per minute average (for TCP 135, 137-139) on my ingress points. As I'm advertising a /19 that's around .27 RCP and netbios packets per IP address per second being sent to my IP range. I haven't done a long-term look at RCP and netbios traffic on the web so I have no way to determine how much is blaster generated, does anyone have baseline information on the amount of RCP and netbios packets were on the web before blaster was propagated? Alternatively, has anyone worked out the % of blaster scan as opposed to "normal" background RCP and netbios traffic? Thanks, Greg Pendergrass -- Network Security Manager Vodafone Global Content Services Vodafone Global Content Services Limited Registered Office: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN Registered in England No. 4064873 This e-mail is for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, you must not distribute, disclose, copy, use or rely on this e-mail or its contents, and you must immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all copies from your system. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged.
