SLA Tool

2004-10-01 Thread Fisher, Shawn
Is there any decent opensource tools that can be used to monitor SLA's? We have several customers requesting SLA's but not enough to warrant a flown blown Concord type solution. TIA Shawn Fisher

RE: SLA Tool

2004-10-01 Thread Fisher, Shawn
Looking at www.cacti.net also, seems pretty decent. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 3:04 PM To: Fisher, Shawn; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: SLA Tool JFFNMS (http://www.jffnms.org) seems to have a decent SLA

Surge Protection

2004-07-22 Thread Fisher, Shawn
Have anyone experienced hardware failure related to electrical spikes coming into your datacenters or equipment locations via the telco facilities? I am referring specifically to copper facilities for DS1's, etc. I know that the telco must maintain good grounding, but sometimes when you get

Interesting news story - Cisco Training Manual

2004-07-06 Thread Fisher, Shawn
http://www.lulu.com/items/59000/59202/print/Basham-whole-text.pdf Interesting story about some professor that wrote a Cisco training manual and made it available for free. The site hosting it is getting crushed a bit today.

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Fisher, Shawn
Hmm, so your on earth? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Walter Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 5:03 PM To: nanog Subject: RE: Even you can be hacked Now you are just getting silly, we know Flux Capacitors don't work on earth. Mike Walter

Looking for a FiberNet Contact (ftgx.com)

2004-01-10 Thread Fisher, Shawn
Could someone from FiberNet contact me offlist? TIA

RE: Bandwidth Control Question

2003-12-19 Thread Fisher, Shawn
Curiouos, you have success buying on Ebay? No one send you a box of rocks? What about Cisco SPAR for TAC support? -Original Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 1:24 PM To: Stephen Sprunk Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes

Re: Reachability problems for www.listen-to.com

2003-11-13 Thread Fisher, Shawn
We received a 69.144/16 from ARIN and spent the following few months requesting numerous operators to take that space out of their filters. Apparently for various historical reasons many operators filter the entire 69. Block. That could be part of the problem. -- Sent

Re: This may be stupid but

2003-11-13 Thread Fisher, Shawn
I created a test of my own that I typically give to candidates. This has proved very helpful in determining if the prospective hire has strengths in the areas I need. Everytime I have skipped using the test I get burned. That being said I am still looking for attitude and work ethic as being a

Portable Cooling

2003-11-12 Thread Fisher, Shawn
I searched the archives and couldn't find anything about a portable cooling units so am resorting to posting, sorry if its redundant. I am setting up a development lab and need additional cooling on a temporary basis. I recall a product called, move n kool? It looked like the robot on lost in

RE: [Re: This may be stupid but.. ]

2003-11-10 Thread Fisher, Shawn
I agree certifications are overated at best. Give me someone with the right attitude and I'll teach him anything. Showing the ability to get things done is the greatest skill imo. -Original Message- From: Timothy R. McKee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 11:48

This may be stupid but..

2003-11-08 Thread Fisher, Shawn
If this question is inappropriate for this list I apoligize in advance. I have several open engineering positions that I am trying to fill without the use of a recruiter. My thoughts on using a recruiter is they end up extracting a fee from the employer that would be better put to the future

Datacenter Spec's

2003-11-08 Thread Fisher, Shawn
Can anyone point me to a good resource for datacenter spec's or best practices? Looking for specs related to: Powering Racking Cablemanagement Grounding Raised Floors etc. TIA

Openwave Opinions

2003-11-08 Thread Fisher, Shawn
Anyone have any openwave mail MX opinions or experience good or bad? Design question: Is it better to have integrated or seperate Anti-spam and Anti-virus built into the mail platform? Thanks, Shawn

BMITU

2003-09-04 Thread Fisher, Shawn
This is my first post so please be gentle. I would like to get some opinions on the Best Mailserver in the Universe. Is there a more appropriate list for this question? I have looked at Communigate Pro, IMAIL, and others. I am interested in integrated solution that can scale to handle 500k

RE: BMITU

2003-09-04 Thread Fisher, Shawn
You didn't specify operating system but for 500,000 users I wouldn't even go near Windows. thanks for the feedback..we are a SUN shop so solarius is our OS of choice. I use a healthy mix of Postfix as the mail server and Courier-IMAP for POP3/IMAP delivery. They both work extremely well.

RE: BMITU

2003-09-04 Thread Fisher, Shawn
that nothing can equal, much less beat, sendmail. This is especially true when you start talking about filtering for spam or viruses via the milter interface. What are people using for network based anti-virus? A friend of mine started a company www.raeinterent.com/rav and claims to have an