peer/transit circuits

2003-10-29 Thread ning . shi
Hi folks, I am looking for some advice on how to place the peer/transit circuits on the edge routers. Would like to find the best practice that would provide enough diversity without having an operation nightmare. e.g. putting peer and transit circuits on different routers will make the routing

Re: Content filter (was - Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space)

2003-10-29 Thread Booth, Michael (ENG)
William, they might be rejecting your post for SPAM. Take a look at the link below: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=dns1.elan.net&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wg Michael Booth

Fed. Govt and IEEE ban contributions to/from Cuba, Libya, Iran, Syria

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Kuhnke
The only effect this will have is to further alienate many skilled engineers and promising students, who are already at a great disadvantage due to language barriers. http://listserv.utk.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0310&L=jesse&D=1&O=D&P=4946 http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/oct03/1003ofac.

London, England Connectivity

2003-10-29 Thread Ray Burkholder
Title: London, England Connectivity I'm looking for colo services, point to point E1's, and PSTN connectivity in the London, England area.  Would interested parties able to provide these services please get in touch with me off list. Thanx. Ray Burkholder [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.one

Content filter (was - Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space)

2003-10-29 Thread william
> Leave content filtering to the ES, and *force* ES to filter the content. And just to make sure we know what content filter is, this is what I received immedialy following my previous post to nanog. Whoever you are, that did not see my post, please at least configure your content filter to r

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread william
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Alex Yuriev wrote: > > > application traffic", and we should not do that. It should not be the goal > > > of IS to enforce the policy for the traffic that passes through it. That > > > type of enforcement should be left to ES. > > > > Well, that is nice thery, but I'd like t

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Crist Clark
Jack Bates wrote: > > David Raistrick wrote: > > > > > You seem to be arguing that NAT is the only way to prevent inbound access. > > While it's true that most commercial IPv4 firewalls bundle NAT with packet > > filtering, the NAT is not required..and less-so with IPv6. > > > > I think the poi

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread matt
> Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yuriev) wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Alex Yuriev wrote: > > > As the network operators, we move bits and that is what we should stick to > > > moving. > > > > > > We do not look into packets and see "oh look, this to me looks like an evil > > > application

Re: ISPs' willingness to take action

2003-10-29 Thread matt
> Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >* But customers of broadband ISP aren't going to want to pay more than > $40 a > >month for any such thing you add, > > You are right about the average customer. But this mythical beast is > composed of some less than average customers who just want plain

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Alex Yuriev
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Alex Yuriev wrote: > > As the network operators, we move bits and that is what we should stick to > > moving. > > > > We do not look into packets and see "oh look, this to me looks like an evil > > application traffic", and we should not do that. It should not be the goal

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread william
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Alex Yuriev wrote: > As the network operators, we move bits and that is what we should stick to > moving. > > We do not look into packets and see "oh look, this to me looks like an evil > application traffic", and we should not do that. It should not be the goal > of IS to e

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Alex Yuriev
> I think the other point that may be escaping some people, > is that as more and more connections take on this VPN-like > quality, as network operators we lose any visibility into > the validity of the traffic itself. As the network operators, we move bits and that is what we should stick to m

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread matt
> > In a message written on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:24:54PM -0600, Kuhtz, Chris= > tian wrote: > > Isn't that the whole point of running a VPN connection? > > Yes. What I'm saying is network operators are slowly forcing > everyone to run _everything_ over a VPN like service. That's fine, > but

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Crist Clark
Owen DeLong wrote: > > It's much the > same problem as FTP. The reason FTP doesn't BORK is because most NAT > gateways understand about the need to proxy FTP and because PASSIVE mode > FTP doesn't have the same call-setup problems. Passive mode has the same problems that PORT FTP does. It just

RE: The Evolution of the U.S. Peering Ecosystem

2003-10-29 Thread Wouter van Hulten
Hi Bill, I'd be happy to review your paper. Hope you're doing fine in the US, in these times of turmoil. Best regards, Wouter > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of William B. Norton > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:35 PM > To: [EMA

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Jack Bates
David Raistrick wrote: You seem to be arguing that NAT is the only way to prevent inbound access. While it's true that most commercial IPv4 firewalls bundle NAT with packet filtering, the NAT is not required..and less-so with IPv6. I think the point that was being made was that NAT allows the filt

RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Kuhtz, Christian
> In a message written on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:24:54PM > -0600, Kuhtz, Christian wrote: > > Isn't that the whole point of running a VPN connection? > > Yes. What I'm saying is network operators are slowly forcing > everyone to run _everything_ over a VPN like service. That's > fine, but

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread David Raistrick
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Scott McGrath wrote: > Life would be much simpler without NAT howver there are non-computer > devices which use the internet to get updates for their firmware that most > of us would prefer not to be globally reachable due to the human error > factor i.e. "Oops forgot a rule

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:24:54PM -0600, Kuhtz, Christian wrote: > Isn't that the whole point of running a VPN connection? Yes. What I'm saying is network operators are slowly forcing everyone to run _everything_ over a VPN like service. That's fine, but it makes network op

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Scott McGrath
Life would be much simpler without NAT howver there are non-computer devices which use the internet to get updates for their firmware that most of us would prefer not to be globally reachable due to the human error factor i.e. "Oops forgot a rule to protect X". The radar on your cruise ship use

RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Kuhtz, Christian
> In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > arvard.edu>, > Scott McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >And sometimes you use NAT because you really do not want the NAT'ed > >device to be globally addressible but it needs to have a link to the > >outside to download updates. Instrument controllers

RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Kuhtz, Christian
> The end result is that in the near future it will be much > harder, or impossible for network operators to collect > statistics based on traffic type or to filter particular > types of traffic without being able to dig into the payload > itself and see what type of traffic is passing. > > S

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And sometimes you use NAT because you really do not want the NAT'ed device >to be globally addressible but it needs to have a link to the outside to >download updates. Instrument controllers et.al. I don't understand. Wh

RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Michel Py
> Dave Howe wrote: > IPSec, SIP/VoIP or almost anything that relies on UDP borks > on NAT, doesn't it? I have multiple IPSEC tunnels and also multiple H.323 and SIP phones behind one IPv4 address. Never tried it, but I hear that some forms of e2e IPSEC works over NAT now. Michel.

The Evolution of the U.S. Peering Ecosystem

2003-10-29 Thread William B. Norton
Hi all - I've been working on documenting some of the significant disruption from and aftermath of the Telecom collapse of 1999/2000, focusing specifically on the operations community and the Peering Ecosystem in particular. I spent a lot of time speaking with Peering Coordinators to document t

MetroPAIX -- 55 Market San Jose

2003-10-29 Thread Matthew Kaufman
If anyone on the list is connected to PAIX via the MetroPAIX product from 55 Market St. in San Jose, I'd like to hear about your experience. Please contact me off-list. Matthew Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Scott McGrath
And sometimes you use NAT because you really do not want the NAT'ed device to be globally addressible but it needs to have a link to the outside to download updates. Instrument controllers et.al. The wisdom of the design decision to use the internet as the only method to provide software updat

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Owen DeLong
However, what is authenticated in the IPSEC datagrams is the addresses of the IKE gateways (the routers). The fact that an entire netblock exists within the tunnel is not especially relevant to the part that suffers from NAT breakage. Owen --On Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:14 AM -0800 Avleen Vig

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Owen DeLong
Right... Forgot about the SNMP breakage. SIP doesn't depend on knowing which host it's talking to from the source address, but, it does depend on being able to assign RTP session parameters based on IP addresses contained within the SIP payload. Thus, when the SIP payload goes through a NAT box a

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Owen DeLong
No. IPSEC and SIP break because their payloads include information that is dependent on the IP address header. In the case of IPSEC, this is to support end-to-end authentication and avoid certain kinds of man-in- the-middle attacks. In the case of SIP, it's because SIP is a call setup protocol w

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:35:13AM -0600, Kuhtz, Christian wrote: > Simply ignoring present reality isn't a globally wise solutions. Hence we > have broken VPN products incapable of dealing with NAT. Some are capable of > dealing with NAT just fine, and are readily available.

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Dave Howe
Kuhtz, Christian wrote: >> Kuhtz, Christian wrote: >>> Seems several commercial clients (such as Cisco's VPN client) offer >>> workaround for that (tunneling IPSEC in a TCP session). >> Works great. >> Yup. there are various proprietary solutions that require us >> to trash out an expensive and *w

RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Kuhtz, Christian
> Kuhtz, Christian wrote: > > Seems several commercial clients (such as Cisco's VPN client) offer > > workaround for that (tunneling IPSEC in a TCP session). > Works great. > Yup. there are various proprietary solutions that require us > to trash out an expensive and *working* VPN-1 solution,

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:10:18 GMT, Dave Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > but sucks if your cable or xDSL ISP decides NAT is the > way to go. (usually followed by a "well, you shouldn't need two or more > nodes there/want to run a server/care about SIP, a business should pay for >

RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Kuhtz, Christian
> The fact that something can be worked around with enough > footwork really doesn't make okay. Sure. Neither is it ok for VPN vendors to pretend as if NAT wasn't a part of daily life and reality. > Consider the congestion related behavior of TCP inside TCP. > Consider the additional perpacke

RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Greg Maxwell
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Kuhtz, Christian wrote: > Seems several commercial clients (such as Cisco's VPN client) offer > workaround for that (tunneling IPSEC in a TCP session). Works great. I'm sure I could also setup a PPPoEmail shim that would bypass most of these problems.. Who needs routers wi

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Dave Howe
Kuhtz, Christian wrote: > Seems several commercial clients (such as Cisco's VPN client) offer > workaround for that (tunneling IPSEC in a TCP session). Works great. Yup. there are various proprietary solutions that require us to trash out an expensive and *working* VPN-1 solution, buy an equally

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Jack Bates
Dave Howe wrote: Indeed so yes - however... A large and increasing segment of my users are VPN laptop users with ADSL at home. our accounts department looks a certain amount of askance at IT when they get a large phone bill in expenses for someone using a 33.6 modem right next to a nice shiny half

RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Kuhtz, Christian
Seems several commercial clients (such as Cisco's VPN client) offer workaround for that (tunneling IPSEC in a TCP session). Works great. > -Original Message- > From: Greg Maxwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 9:56 AM > To: Avleen Vig > Cc: Simon Lockhart

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Dave Howe
Kuhtz, Christian wrote: > And there are workarounds for all those. NAT-T for ipsec is really intended for endnodes only - which is fine if you are doing the NAT yourself (typical medium/large company scenario - internal users shouldn't be using IPSEC, that is done at the gateway/firewall) but suck

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Greg Maxwell
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Avleen Vig wrote: > Indeed, and IPSec tunnels are frequently done between routers on > networks, rather than individual hosts on networks (at least in most > multi-site enterprises i've seen). The most common use of VPN links is the roadwarrior. IPSEC in this context is brok

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Paul Timmins
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:28, Avleen Vig wrote: > > imagine a network without NAT. I stopped counting applications > > that are struggling/breaking with NAT... > > But many people still believe rfc1918 and NAT are a cool thing > > because they just got used to it... > > They're a cool thing for ot

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Dave Howe
Avleen Vig wrote: > Indeed, and IPSec tunnels are frequently done between routers on > networks, rather than individual hosts on networks (at least in most > multi-site enterprises i've seen). Indeed so yes - however... A large and increasing segment of my users are VPN laptop users with ADSL at h

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Dave Howe
Simon Lockhart wrote: > Anything that relies on knowing which host it is talking to by > looking at the source address of packets breaks. Indeed. Novell networking for example - or MS Exchange New Mail notification. of course, you shouldn't be doing either on the internet, but a common "small bra

Re[2]: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Welty
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 03:14:20 -0800 Avleen Vig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:03:11AM +, Simon Lockhart wrote: > > No. > > Anything that relies on knowing which host it is talking to by looking at > > the source address of packets breaks. > > Plenty of UDP based apps wo

RE: Anybody using GBICs?

2003-10-29 Thread Deepak Jain
> Lance; > > Having been on both sides of the fence, I know that it is hard > for router development engineers, especially at legacy vendors, to know > what is really going on in the market. But for ISPs operators, the > audience of this group, your question comes across as a "duh" moment.

Re: Anybody using GBICs?

2003-10-29 Thread fkittred
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:36:26 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To be more clear, I'm specifically referring to Gigabit Ethernet Converters and > not > SFPs for POS or SONET. So, to reprhase, where in your network topology, are yo > u > using Gigabit Ethernet, specifically GE interfaces using GBI

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Avleen Vig
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:03:11AM +, Simon Lockhart wrote: > No. > Anything that relies on knowing which host it is talking to by looking at > the source address of packets breaks. > Plenty of UDP based apps work over NAT. Indeed, and IPSec tunnels are frequently done between routers on netw

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Simon Lockhart
No. Anything that relies on knowing which host it is talking to by looking at the source address of packets breaks. Plenty of UDP based apps work over NAT. Simon On Wed Oct 29, 2003 at 10:57:35AM -, Dave Howe wrote: > > Avleen Vig wrote: > > If "more IP addresses" is the only motivation f

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Dave Howe
Avleen Vig wrote: > If "more IP addresses" is the only motivation for using IPv6, it's > really not enough. For environments where direct access to the > internet isn't required, NAT serves perfectly well. IPSec, SIP/VoIP or almost anything that relies on UDP borks on NAT, doesn't it?

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Avleen Vig
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:06:37AM +0100, Stefan Mink wrote: > > > Does anybody honestly think companies will commit the capex needed to > > > implement IPv6? > > Not without additional benefits. We need either applications that are > > working a lot better at ipv6 or we may yet have to see ipv4 s

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Stefan Mink
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:17:26PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anybody honestly think companies will commit the capex needed to > > implement IPv6? > Not without additional benefits. We need either applications that are > working a lot better at ipv6 or we may yet have to see ipv4 spac