Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

--On June 20, 2007 1:02:05 AM +0100 Leigh Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do Pilosoft supply such a product? All the ones I tried so far suck soo much that I could never use them. Right now we manage address space with mysql and perl scripts... Carnegie Mellon's NetReg

Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, William Allen Simpson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Neither 'show ip route' or 'have a text file' scale beyond a hundred > > customers. > > > Hogwash. Used text file allocation for ~3,000 customers. After all, it > is *REQUIRED* to exist (for bind). You need

Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neither 'show ip route' or 'have a text file' scale beyond a hundred customers. Hogwash. Used text file allocation for ~3,000 customers. After all, it is *REQUIRED* to exist (for bind). You need *a* canonical place that is authoritative for all others. Existing to

Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Leigh Porter wrote: > Do Pilosoft supply such a product? All the ones I tried so far suck soo > much that I could never use them. > > Right now we manage address space with mysql and perl scripts... It is very much an internal system, designed to meet our needs, as such it

Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, William Allen Simpson wrote: Drew Weaver wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation of any software products either commercial or freeware which will import the ip routing table from one of my routers/switches and display it in a sor

Re: Quarantining infected hosts (Was: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help)

Douglas Otis wrote: On Jun 19, 2007, at 8:35 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On 6/19/07, Leigh Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Agreed, SMTP is not really a special vector, other than it's obvious commercial spam use. So just block all the usual virus vector ports, block 25 and force peo

Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

William Allen Simpson wrote: Drew Weaver wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation of any software products either commercial or freeware which will import the ip routing table from one of my routers/switches and display it in a sorted manner? We just need an easier distributed method

Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, William Allen Simpson wrote: > > Drew Weaver wrote: > > Does anyone have a recommendation of any software products > > either commercial or freeware which will import the ip routing table > > from one of my routers/switches and display it in a sorted manner? We > > j

Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

Many years ago I worked for a small Mom-and-Pop type ISP in New York state (I was the only network / technical person there) -- it was a very free wheeling place and I built the network by doing whatever made sense at the time. One of my "favorite" customers (Joe somebody) was somehow rel

Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:18:06 BST, Leigh Porter said: > Just out of interest, why are you looking at routing tables to find an > available subnet? If your predecessor wasn't quite as careful documenting allocations, it can be useful to see if your paperwork says a /28 is dark, but you're in fact r

Re: Quarantining infected hosts (Was: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help)

On Jun 19, 2007, at 8:35 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On 6/19/07, Leigh Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Agreed, SMTP is not really a special vector, other than it's obvious commercial spam use. So just block all the usual virus vector ports, block 25 and force people to use your own

Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

Drew Weaver wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation of any software products either commercial or freeware which will import the ip routing table from one of my routers/switches and display it in a sorted manner? We just need an easier distributed method than logging into our Black D

Straw Poll - Multipoint Ethernet Connections Best Practices

Hello All: As more and more providers move towards Ethernet as a common connection type in Data Centers, Metro Areas and beyond, I am curious to know what people are using for Best Practices regarding customer connectivity into your Layer 2 networks. Most importantly, how do you handle customers