Re: last call comments for draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-06

2013-04-25 Thread Andrew McGregor
Further to that, ifindexes of tunnels and PPP sessions can change dynamically as the bearer connection goes up and down, even if the interface has the same name and authenticated identity. That raises the interesting question of whether even the interface name is stable, as on many systems it is

Re: Time zones in IETF agenda

2013-03-10 Thread Andrew McGregor
Heh. NZDT is UTC+13... Having just moved to Australia from New Zealand... NZ has better airline connections, especially for flying eastward across the Pacific. As for being far away... well, you get used to that. My personal definition of 'long flight' starts at 9 hours... 'short flight' would

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Andrew McGregor
On 29/03/2006, at 5:10 AM, Scott Leibrand wrote: On 03/28/06 at 7:00am +0200, Anthony G. Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed, but they reduce the amount of money you must pay to your ISP each month by a factor of ten or more. Your ISP charges you 9 times as much for IPv4 addresses

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-24 Thread Andrew McGregor
On 24/03/2006, at 9:52 AM, Yu-Shun Wang wrote: Just another me-too data point about the Mac. It'll be good to know why that happened. Mine is a 15 Powerbook. I also brought a Cisco 11a NIC, and used it about 3-4 times w/out any problems. yushun The problem also occurs with Broadcom radios

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew McGregor
On 20/10/2005, at 11:25 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: It's very hard to get those data. We've tried looking at how many local first-time attendees from (say) Korea later became regular attendees but the data are hard to state in any meaningful way and the time constants are long (years). There

Re: Solving the right problems ...

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew McGregor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- - --On Thursday, August 28, 2003 07:05:19 PM +0200 Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On woensdag, aug 27, 2003, at 19:51 Europe/Amsterdam, Fred Templin wrote: The hard part is coming up with a way to do the host/location mapping in a way that

Re: Netmeeting - NAT issue

2002-03-17 Thread Andrew McGregor
Or, get a NAT which *does* connection-track H.323. They do exist, open-source and not, and work just fine. Better, get a proper H.323 gateway (which will work behind an H.323 aware NAT if done properly) so people can call in as well as out. However, NAT is still brokenness. (and so is H.323)

RE: Netmeeting - NAT issue

2002-03-17 Thread Andrew McGregor
to be hard to secure, but I guess that's what makes it interesting. Regards, peter -Original Message- From: Andrew McGregor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 5:34 PM To: Joe Touch; Vivek Gupta Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Netmeeting - NAT issue

Re: PPP

2002-03-09 Thread Andrew McGregor
That top-layer-calls-next-layer etc ad-nauseam model seems to have been one of the original ideas for how to implement a stack. Actual current implementations do all kinds of wierd stuff, but mostly pass around accumulating collections of buffers; so the payload buffer doesn't get copied to