RE: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat)

2004-02-26 Thread Brian Knoblauch
I don't post much as I'm mostly on here to learn and have little I can contribute, but... While following all the discussions, I wonder if there's too many people here that work at large highly redundant facilities and live in expensive areas with new circuits. I don't believe

Re: routing invalid IP addresses

2004-02-21 Thread Brian Knoblauch
Anyway, I'm currently investigating to see if it's possible the traffic was coming from another local machine. The machine's admin mentioned a few things that sounded to me like there were 2 way connections from this IP involved instead of just spoofed UDP. Anybody hook up a new

RE: Bandwidth Control Question

2003-12-19 Thread Brian Knoblauch
Interestingly enough, sometimes it's cheaper to buy a small unmanaged switch with a fiber uplink port than to buy a media converter... -Original Message- Media converters are much cheaper than specialized FX cards like these. A 10Mbps converters are just $99 each and

RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

2003-10-24 Thread Brian Knoblauch
-Original Message- How many other ISPs intend to follow AOL's practice and use their connection support software to fix the defaults on their customer's Windows computers? I've already seen an interesting side effect from a disabled messenger service... With one of those