RE: Google contact?

2008-04-17 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Thanks everyone! Several people from Google responded very quickly, and the issue was resolved faster than I can believe. --Patrick Darden --ARMC

Google contact?

2008-04-17 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Having a bit of diffculty with a Google matter. Was hoping to get pointed in the right direction by someone from Google. --Patrick Darden [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Mitigating HTTP DDoS attacks?

2008-03-25 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Hi Mike, Depending upon the type of DDOS, there are five things you should do in order: 1. immediate response: set your host based security to mitigate the attack. E.g. mod_security for Apache web server, IPTables for host firewall. This will keep the hard drives from filling up, the cpu f

US Gvt ipv6 change, associated agencies

2008-03-18 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
I'm looking for documentation on how the US Government IPv6 mandate affects associated agencies--e.g. healthcare providers, non-profits, or any company that depends on US Gvt. funding, record keeping, or financial reimbursement for services rendered (e.g. via Medicare). Over the past 5 years

RE: load balancing and fault tolerance without load balancer

2008-03-17 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
I understand you have no budget for a comercial load balancer; however, you should consider setting up two inexpensive servers or PCs as load balancers. You could do it with one, but that would itself be a single point of failure. The OS and software are all free. Two old PCs would be next

RE: Routing Loop

2008-03-14 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
If it continues for any length of time then contact above.net. To find their contact information, check their registrar. e.g. whois above.net gets you Technical Contact: AboveNet Communications, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] AboveNet Communications, Inc. 50 W SAN FER

RE: Tools to measure TCP connection speed

2008-03-10 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
Best way to do it is right after the SYN just count "one one thousand, two one thousand" until you get the ACK. This works best for RFC 1149 traffic, but is applicable for certain others as well. I don't know of any automated tool, per se. You really couldn't do it *well* on the software si

RE: NANOG website unreachable?

2008-01-15 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
I see the site, not the error. --Patrick Darden -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniele Arena Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:48 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: NANOG website unreachable? Hi, Am I the only one to get a 403 on http://

RE: Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate

2008-01-14 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
I'm not sure I understand. If a routing protocol such as BGP is being used, this is considered normal behavior, and the routing determination is made usually wrt either best route or best bandwidth. In the first case, a return packet would usually follow on the same interface. In the second

RE: General question on rfc1918

2007-11-13 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
They do. What you are seeing are probably forged packets. Nmap etc. all let you forge SIP, in fact they automate it. One Nmap mode actually actively obfuscates network scans by doing random SIPs--e.g. 10,000 random SIPs and one real one--this makes it hard to figure out who is actually scan

RE: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs

2007-11-08 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
>From my experience, a fast P4 linux box with 2 good NICs can NAT 45Mbps >easily. I am NAT/PATing >4,000 desktops with extensive access control lists >and no speed issues. This isn't over a 45Mb T3--this is over 100 Mb Ethernet. --Patrick Darden --ARMC, Internetworking Manager -Origin