Re: large-scale wireless [was: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs]

2007-11-13 Thread Jeff Kell
Frank Bulk wrote: > Foundry OEMs from Meru, which also uses a single-channel approach. It does > not have an L1 requirement. Meru APs tunnel back to the controller, so any old L3 will do. We took an AP home (just for grins) and it still worked back to our controller through residential broadb

Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs

2007-11-08 Thread Jeff Kell
Darden, Patrick S. wrote: > > 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. NAT processing requirement thres

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-04 Thread Jeff Kell
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Verizon != VeriSign, despite what people think. A single provider doing this is not equivalent to the root servers doing it. You can change providers, you can't change "." in DNS. Charter has been doing this for quite some time. If you have security/network/diag

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-31 Thread Jeff Kell
Donald Stahl wrote: > As for the deaggregation- anyone deaggregating a /40 into 256 routes > should have there AS permanently blackholed :) I think you omitted an "S" there, Donald :-) Jeff

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-14 Thread Jeff Kell
Jay Hennigan wrote: This is as best I recall a direct quote. "We don't care. You can call yourself Supreme Imperial Grand Poo-Bah if you want as long as our network stays up." Nah, the proper term is "Network Czar" until you get into network security, then you become the "Network Nazi" o

Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers

2007-02-07 Thread Jeff Kell
Alexander Harrowell wrote: > > It was clear from the highly reliable index I call the "Nanogdex" that > nothing was seriously amiss. Yes, but it got so much bloody press that ambitious copycats can't be too far behind. Jeff

Re: Cisco Pix and MSS Question

2006-12-22 Thread Jeff Kell
joej wrote: > I have a client that is running a web server (Sun One) that cannot > be accessed by various folks. This just started happening about 2 months > ago. What I have found is that the users being affected are behind a > Cisco Pix that was recently upgraded to 7.0.1 Apparently, according t

Re: Yahoo! Mail Servers

2006-11-09 Thread Jeff Kell
chuck goolsbee wrote: > > I haven't heard a peep from any human being at Yahoo. Has anyone else > that filled in the placeb^X^X^X^X form heard back from them? Beuller? I filled it out with the same results. Jeff

Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up

2005-07-27 Thread Jeff Kell
Cisco's response thus far: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/about/security/intelligence/MySDN_CiscoIOS.html Jeff

Re: 'Call Before You Dig' Article

2005-05-15 Thread Jeff Kell
Robert E.Seastrom wrote: > > Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>But is it applicable to VOIP carriers? > > Call-Before-You-Dig is not applicable to users of dig(1). Not being > facilities-based, I don't believe VoIP carriers will be required to be > participating utilities in One Call. Nahhh,

Re: Blocking port udp/tcp 1433/1434

2005-05-12 Thread Jeff Kell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2005 12:23:19 CDT, John Kristoff said: >>I think there always has been some justification. Here is a very >>small sample of real traffic that I can assure is not Slammer traffic, >>but it is being filtered nonetheless (IP addresses removed): >> >> May 1

Re: Blocking port udp/tcp 1433/1434

2005-05-11 Thread Jeff Kell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chip Mefford wrote: > on my "at work" small network, slammer (or slammer like) traffic is > still around 2% of inbound blocked traffic. (just a dead end off > of asn 6467) Almost every time I update our border ingress ACL (which removes the ACL for

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Jeff Kell
While not "big" by any sense of the word, we NAT [almost] all of our internal network. It wasn't initially a matter of choice, but rather of necessity. We had a sprinklings of small netblocks in the old legacy C swamp, mostly in the old SURAnet/BBN allocation, and after the Genuity takeover they

Re: DNS cache poisoning attacks -- are they real?

2005-03-26 Thread Jeff Kell
Sean Donelan wrote: > Here is a link about how Cox Cable uses DNS to block phishing and certain > malicious sites. > > http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,12922412 If that manipulation is done on their internal servers, its their business; that isn't uncommon anymore, and in fact, is on

Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing

2004-12-18 Thread Jeff Kell
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Just asking .. any idea how many cable / dsl operators around the world - not just in the USA - provide hardware firewalls along with their CPE equipment - or perhaps provide CPE equipment that's capable of firewalling? Both regional cable providers in our area provide

Re: size of the routing table is a big deal, especially in IPv6

2004-11-29 Thread Jeff Kell
Tony Li wrote: If there was a way that these costs were reallocated to the site that decided to be multihomed, then the economics of the situation would balance. Imagine paying US $10K/yr to advertise a single prefix and you would get to a point where people would make some more rational decis

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Jeff Kell
Nicole wrote: Lovely, Just lovely. Just heard On CNN, Lou Dobbs. (but can't find it on their site) During a Beijing news conference John Chambers (Cisco CEO) Says "We believe in giving something back and truly becoming a Chineese company." "China will become the IT center or the world" "China will

Re: Multi-link Frame Relay OR Load Balancing

2004-09-16 Thread Jeff Kell
Scott McGrath wrote: In my experience the breakeven point for a Frame Relay DS3 is 6 DS1 circuits. DS3's tend to be more reliable than DS1's as the ILEC usually installs a MUX at your site instead of running to the nearest channel bank and running the T1's over copper with a few repeaters thrown

Re: Gb ethernet interface keeping dropping packet in ingress

2004-09-13 Thread Jeff Kell
Joe Johnson wrote: Now, we do try to monitor some things like that. We have several crons running checking the number of entries in the arp tables of our CPE devices at customer locations, as well as several crons dedicated to specific tell-tale signs of various worms and virii. Our list of cro

Re: Gb ethernet interface keeping dropping packet in ingress

2004-09-13 Thread Jeff Kell
If you're sniffing one gigabit port from a switch with much higher bandwidth, you're going to lose something. Our primary sensor sits on an aggregation switch just prior to hitting the net, and we have a 2Gb fast etherchannel span port defined and lose relatively little in terms of packet loss

Very peculiar Telnet probing (possibly spoofed?)

2004-09-08 Thread Jeff Kell
We're getting this more often than the SSHD scans. Jeff Kell Systems/Network Security

Re: ISP Policies

2004-09-08 Thread Jeff Kell
Tulip Rasputin wrote: So can you give me an example of why and when would an ISP *not* want its traffic to flow via some other AS(es). Is it a normal policy to have, and do most of the ISPs have such policies in place? If you don't have a transit agreement and aren't sitting in the top tier pee

Re: great networks

2004-08-13 Thread Jeff Kell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:00:30PM -0700, Network Guru wrote: Hello, I have the responsibility of buidling a great network team for international /domestic projects and I am looking for quality networking guys to work for me. If you are based out of India or in the US,

Re: OT: Re: Critters

2004-07-11 Thread Jeff Kell
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > And elephants have been known to crash into breweries, get drunk and go around uprooting telephone poles in some parts of the country (like the thickly forested north east). Sounds like our local Ma Bell spinoff linesmen. Jeff :-)

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-10 Thread Jeff Kell
james edwards wrote: Sean Donelan wrote: If you leave your lights on, the electric company will send you a bill. If the neighbor taps into your power lines after the meter...? Not a reasonable argument. It is expected that unpatched hosts will get infected and it has been well reported on how users

Re: SORBS Insanity

2004-04-14 Thread Jeff Kell
Jeremy Kister wrote: [... giant snip ...] We are a former user of SORBS. Our issue was not that of dynamic IPs, but rather their spamtrap listings. A few weeks ago, at least two of Comcast's legitimate mail servers was blacklisted. As Comcast has a majority of the cable service in our area, w

Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?

2004-01-25 Thread Jeff Kell
Will Hargrave wrote: The 'recommended max' number of SVIs for the 3550 is something low like 8. There is no limited stated in the datasheet for the 3750 - is anyone running more than 8 SVIs on a 3750? We're running 30 SVIs on a 3550-12 (only 10 active at the moment, we're in a transition). It i

Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?

2004-01-25 Thread Jeff Kell
Alexei Roudnev wrote: 1) Use Cisco 2924 or 3524 2) Redesign your network to fit into 1024 VLANs 3) Do not spend time with junk (non Cisco, for the switches). U1 switch have only 24 - 48 ports, so you never need to handle 2000 VLAN's on it. And I suspect, that the whole design is wrong. Do not buil

Re: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!

2004-01-06 Thread Jeff Kell
Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Never under any condition let anyone tell you that Juniper is perfect... But, as everyone that uses both will tell you, it is "better" (at most things). They tend to be (in our experience) a "set it and forget it" thing, while you can spend considerable time tweaking

Re: Most up to date packet size distribution info

2003-12-17 Thread Jeff Kell
Rob Healey wrote: I was wondering what the best sources for up to date info on current packet size distribution on the Internet might be? Here's a view from our edge: IP packet size distribution (6491M total packets): 1-32 64 96 128 160 192 224 256 288 320 352 384

Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets

2003-12-03 Thread Jeff Kell
't do that (well, maybe an IDS appliance with a custom signature). You can gain "some" additional protection by rate-limiting ICMP (in the Nachi ping case) and/or UDP (SQL Slammer, etc), and TCP intercept for synflooding. Not perfect, but every little bit helps. Jeff Kell University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Re: 24-port Gigabit + two 10Gb uplinks

2003-11-06 Thread Jeff Kell
Eric Kuhnke wrote: It looks like 24*1Gb + 2*10Gb switches will be showing up soon: Certainly not as cheap as a 2950 with two Gb ports, but this is the start of an entirely new generation of edge switches. Does anyone want to hazard a guess as how long it will be before 24+10Gb switches are se

Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned

2003-10-09 Thread Jeff Kell
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Margie Arbon wrote: With all due respect, we have a *problem*. End user machines on broadband connections are being misconfigured and/or compromised in frightening numbers. These machines are being used for everything from IRC flooder to spam engines, to DNS serve

Re: The impending DDoS storm

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Kell
Dan Hollis wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jason Frisvold wrote: If the blaster cannot get a proper DNS response, it continues to replicate via port 135... It then goes into a retry cycle and continues to try to get a good DNS lookup. has anyone tried tarpitting eg labrea to slow the worm? Oh yeah, La

Edge 1 Networks/Williams Communications Group

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Kell
the office it wasn't noticed and shutdown until Tuesday, after a little over a half million proxied spams. Are these people just totally off-the-wall? Google searches seem to concur. I am awaiting confirmation that ALL the proxies originated from Edge 1 (takes a while to churn through those gigs

Re: Humidity ranges?

2003-08-04 Thread Jeff Kell
Todd Mitchell - lists wrote: | and when I should | complain to the datacenter operators? (References I can point to would | be nice.) When your equipment starts to rust ;) I don't have any technical references, but I think that anything over 65% is probably too much. Most facilities I have equip

Re: Williams/UUNET/Sprint

2003-07-21 Thread Jeff Kell
Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:37:34PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: Has anyone had to deal with this in their BGP filter tables? 5 washdc5lce1-oc48.wcg.net (64.200.95.118) 4 ms 11 ms 4 ms 6 GigabitEthernet5-0.GW4.IAD8.ALTER.NET (157.130.30.245) 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 7 0.so

Re: Cisco IOS Vulnerability

2003-07-16 Thread Jeff Kell
The workaround for transit suggests permitting only tcp, udp, icmp, gre, esp, and ah protocols. Is this sufficient to protect the router itself, or do you have to get hard-nosed with specific ACLs (restricting access to all your possible interface addresses)? Jeff

Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port

2003-06-23 Thread Jeff Kell
The description by LURHQ is misleading. Messenger is an RPC service. Typical pop-up spammers queried 135 (Windows RPC portmapper) to find the port number of the messenger service, then send the message to that port. It turns out that messenger can "typically" be found on 1026. And as was note

Re: Abuse.cc ???

2003-04-04 Thread Jeff Kell
McBurnett, Jim wrote: I tell ya, what really gets me in a bad mood is when my PIX logs show the same IP address hitting port 80 on 25 different IP's and the time line is 2 seconds start to finish. Yesterday, I got word from a network operator that 50 entries was not sufficient. So I parsed 4 days

Re: FW: About your using mailer

2003-03-28 Thread Jeff Kell
Kris Foster wrote: Is anyone else getting this junk regarding the list? And can we put a stop to it? Got the same message. I think Miyoko's fight should be with the vendors, not the poor people who are subjected to the whims of an IS department. In the beginning, there was The Word. And The Wor

Re: Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic

2003-03-24 Thread Jeff Kell
james wrote: Sorry I was not clear. I ment someone was null routing this host way before I got close to the destination. Now that's interesting... the Cyber Defense Initiative at work? Jeff

Re: [Fwd: FC: Email a RoadRunner address, get scanned by their

2003-03-14 Thread Jeff Kell
From: Gunnar Hellekson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basically, RoadRunner tried to spam themselves using my server. I mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this, and received a canned response, enclosed. Under their logic, I feel entitled to poke and prod their customers, just to make sure they don't spam me