www.worldnet.att.net routing problems

2002-06-07 Thread Sean Donelan
Does anyone have information why ATT's Worldnet portal is being routed through Splitrock, UIUC and NCSA? It seems to have pretty much taken the Worldnet site off the net. > nslookup www.worldnet.att.net Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name:www.worldnet.att

Re: ATT problems

2002-05-29 Thread Ian A Finlay
Hi, Shawn. > But I'm guessing the reference to imap means you aren't using ATT's mail > system. I'm not aware of any other problems in ATT's backbone. Thanks for the reply. I am not using ATT's mail system. Based on your reply, and replies from others,

Re: ATT problems

2002-05-29 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Ian A Finlay wrote: > I can't read a shared imap folder for Nanog right now, so could someone > please reply to me off list and let me know if they are seeing problems > with ATT's network, especially on the east coast? ATT Worldnet was having e-mail pro

ATT problems

2002-05-29 Thread Ian A Finlay
Hi, I can't read a shared imap folder for Nanog right now, so could someone please reply to me off list and let me know if they are seeing problems with ATT's network, especially on the east coast? Thanks, Ian

Re: list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Richard Irving wrote: > Router#Conf t > Router(config)# > << Scott Granados wrote: > >>And remember, Einstein probably wasn't right:). >> > % Invalid input detected at '^' marker. > Router(config)# > > What, God -does- play dice ? ;) Actually, yes, God does ;) (See Bell's theorum and

Re: list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Richard Irving
Router#Conf t Router(config)# << Scott Granados wrote: > And remember, Einstein probably wasn't right:). % Invalid input detected at '^' marker. Router(config)# What, God -does- play dice ? ;) > I also recall that the > popular myth that he failed math classes as a child is cincorrect. Li

RE: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Deepak Jain
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Ulevitch Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems? [deleted] As to being immune to explo

RE: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Rowland, Alan D wrote: > AFAIK standard (non-proprietary) CompactFlash, SmartCards, Memory Stick, et > al, are seen as (removable) storage with typical allowed attributes. I can > set a file/folder/card to 'locked' in my camera but when plugged into the > computer this will

Re: list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Scott Granados
And remember, Einstein probably wasn't right:). I also recall that the popular myth that he failed math classes as a child is cincorrect. Hmm, if we're not careful our list will degrade from operational to my relativistic mass is bigger than your pc based relativistic mass:). On Fri, 24 Ma

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Scott Granados
They did but when you mentioned this I went to look for it and haven't found it. . As I recall this was infact for the nsa but I don't remember the exact application. On Fri, 24 May 2002, Joseph T. Klein wrote: > Didn't National Semiconductor have a spec sheet for write only memory > back in

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Andrew Brown
>BSD enforces append-only when running proper securelevel. AFAIK, >Linux lacks this attribute, and root can disable the so-called >"immutable" attrib. bsd enforces append only or immutable when the flag is set, not depending on the securelevel. there are "user" and "system" flag sets. the "us

RE: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Rowland, Alan D
is; Steven J. Sobol; Vinny Abello; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems? JKS> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 17:34:29 -0400 (EDT) JKS> From: Jason K. Schechner JKS> > Why would you want to do this? JKS> JKS> Logging. If a h@xx0r c

RE: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Rowland, Alan D
right? Worked for Apple, oh, wait a minute... (/mnt asbestos underwear) Just my 2ยข. -Al -Original Message- From: Steven J. Sobol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 2:39 PM To: Dan Hollis Cc: E.B. Dreger; Vinny Abello; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Routers vs. PC's fo

Re: list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Richard Irving
If you hadn't clipped this, it would have been a non-issue: >> >> >>Is the above meta tag broken, or what ? :P "Petr M. Swedock" wrote: > > GAAH! #!$H$%#@!X&! > > This discussion has left the operational and entered the realm of > baleful minutia and noxious ego-gratification. Please stop, o

Re: list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Petr M. Swedock
: : Richard Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : : : Note the expression "-background- in Mathematics". : : While Einstein -later- graduated from SFP, please realize that : that Einstein had problems in School... "Wild Duck" comes to mind, : but the end res

Re: list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Richard Irving
Note the expression "-background- in Mathematics". While Einstein -later- graduated from SFP, please realize that that Einstein had problems in School... "Wild Duck" comes to mind, but the end result was that he then later -Taught Himself- Calculus and -then- Boot strap

Re: list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Robert Beverly
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:17:11AM -0500, Richard Irving wrote: > Einstein wouldn't have made it anywhere, without his > background in Mathematics that he got from a Prominent Ivy League... > > Oh.. Shoot, did it again. > > Have you ever heard the expression "Flat World Thinking" ? > > Ein

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread David Lesher
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Joseph T. Klein said: > > > > Didn't National Semiconductor have a spec sheet for write only memory > back in the late 70s or early 80s? > > I think they developed it for the NSA. Not exactly. As I recall, National or maybe Signetics had a run of

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Christopher E. Brown
Though I might lend a comment here. I have had alot of experience with PC based routers, starting around 96, and getting majorly into it around 98 or so. To give you an idea. No moving parts except cooling fans. Main drive is an IDE style SanDisk flash drive. System goes through a multista

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:54:57PM -0700, Scott Granados wrote: > As are f5 proeducts including bigip, 3dns and hmmm they make something > else I forget:). > > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Brian wrote: > > > bsd kernel eh? i believe netapp filers are based on that as well. Indeed - bigIP is BSDI aka

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread David Ulevitch
## On Friday, May 24, 2002 12:52 AM -0400 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've heard tell that a good way to secure a Linux box that's doing this is > to have it boot, set up the interfaces, set up iptables, and then do > a quick /sbin/halt - if you fail to 'ifconfig down' the interfaces on the

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, May 24, 2002 at 04:50:27 (-), Joseph T. Klein wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems? > > Didn't National Semiconductor have a spec sheet for write only memory > back in the late 70s or early 80s? > > I think they de

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Alexei Roudnev
unreasonable for USA. - Original Message - From: "Scott Granados" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vinny Abello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 11:22 AM Subject: Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list probl

Write Only was Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Joseph T. Klein
In a silly and useless off topic thread ... I found the reference. It was Signetics, not NS. http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/jargon300/write-onlymemory.html write-only memory: n. The obvious antonym to `read-only memory'. Out of frustration with the long and seemingly useless

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread E.B. Dreger
> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 00:52:14 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I've heard tell that a good way to secure a Linux box that's > doing this is to have it boot, set up the interfaces, set up > iptables, and then do a quick /sbin/halt - if you fail to > 'ifconfig down' the interfaces on the way

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 23 May 2002 18:01:03 EDT, "Steven J. Sobol" said: > The box I want to build is passing packets between the rest of my network > (and the public Internet) and one server that will hold sensitive data. > It'll be a Linux box with the TCP/IP stack running in bridged mode, with > two etherne

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Joseph T. Klein
Didn't National Semiconductor have a spec sheet for write only memory back in the late 70s or early 80s? I think they developed it for the NSA. --On Thursday, 23 May 2002 14:53 -0700 Dan Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jason K. Schechner wrote: >> On Thu, 23 May 2002,

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Steven J. Sobol
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Dave Israel wrote: > > Then why ot boot from a CD-ROM? Sure, it moves, but only for the > few minutes it takes to boot. Then it spins down and sits idle for > the n days/weeks/months until the next reboot. It would probably > last as long as the solid state drive, and wo

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Alex Rubenstein
Speaking of which: I have been looking for a reasonable priced hardware ramdisk. The ones I've seen (albeit expensive) are essentially a brick with DIMMs in them, and have either a IDE or SCSI interface. Some have a battery to back them up for a few hours. Anyone got some pointers? On Thu, 2

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Alex Rubenstein
> > True... unless going for 64 bit PCI at 66MHz... > > 64/66 PCI has 4 times as much bandwidth - about 4Gbit/s. Much better > than standard PCI, but hard to find on a PC-compatible motherboard, and > expensive when you do find it. Enough bandwidth for 10 line-rate 100M > Ethernet ports or six

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Scott Francis
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:04:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip] > I'm just throwing ideas out there. I could boot Linux off a floppy or > a bootable CD and create a ramdisk upon bootup - Linux has always had this > capability. I'm just a person who occasionally comes up with silly > hal

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Henry Yen
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:38:18AM +, E.B. Dreger wrote: > BSD enforces append-only when running proper securelevel. AFAIK, > Linux lacks this attribute, and root can disable the so-called > "immutable" attrib. i think that modern linuxes have both of these capabilities, but they need to be

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote: > Everything that you say one can do from a CDROM, one can do from > flash. CDROM technology gains you nothing. Depends on what flash you use. There's no way to write protect compactflash. CDROM technology gains you security in the case where m4d h4x0r

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread E.B. Dreger
DI> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 18:22:50 -0400 DI> From: Dave Israel DI> Then why ot boot from a CD-ROM? Sure, it moves, but only for DI> the few minutes it takes to boot. Then it spins down and DI> sits idle for the n days/weeks/months until the next DI> reboot. It would probably last as long as

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Dave Israel
Then why ot boot from a CD-ROM? Sure, it moves, but only for the few minutes it takes to boot. Then it spins down and sits idle for the n days/weeks/months until the next reboot. It would probably last as long as the solid state drive, and would be cheaper. The big problem here, of course,

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:47:40PM -0400, David Charlap wrote: > > 64/66 PCI has 4 times as much bandwidth - about 4Gbit/s. Much better > than standard PCI, but hard to find on a PC-compatible motherboard, and > expensive when you do find it. Enough bandwidth for 10 line-rate 100M > Ethernet p

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Steven J. Sobol
On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote: > SJS> a basic question, but the only EIDE mass-storage devices > SJS> I've used are more traditional drives. > > Why not partition wisely, then mount the desired partition as > read-only? Or I guess one _could_ mount each partition as RO... > > But why

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Steven J. Sobol
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jake Baillie wrote: > the config changed. Which means you'd need some sort of singular > configuration file. > > But I was wrong. :) He meant "read-only" I'm just throwing ideas out there. I could boot Linux off a floppy or a bootable CD and create a ramdisk upon bootup -

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jason K. Schechner wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Steven J. Sobol wrote: > > > Can you set flash drives to be write-only? > > Why would you want to do this? > Logging. If a h@xx0r cracks your box he can't erase anything that's > alre

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Jake Baillie
Let me elaborate. I thought Steve was concerned about the limited writablity of flash. My thought was to build something like a Linux router, you'd have to load the OS into a RAMdisk (or something similar), and only write to flash when the config changed. Which means you'd need some sort of

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jake Baillie wrote: > At 02:28 PM 5/23/2002 -0700, Dan wrote: > >Why would you want to do this? > Because flash has a limited number of writes. If you used it like a > traditional file system, it would go kaput in no time. And making it *write-only* as the original poster a

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread David Charlap
Vinny Abello wrote: >> >> First off, you're right about moving parts generally being a bad >> thing. However, it is not always necessary to eliminate the hard >> drive. Two drives in a RAID-0 configuration may be reliable >> enough. Especially if the failure of a single drive sets off >> suffic

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Jake Baillie
At 02:28 PM 5/23/2002 -0700, Dan wrote: >Why would you want to do this? Because flash has a limited number of writes. If you used it like a traditional file system, it would go kaput in no time. -- jb

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Steven J. Sobol
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Steven J. Sobol wrote: > > On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote: > > > EIDE-based flash drives have become very inexpensive. Some > > > embedded systems use CompactFlash boards. > > Can you set flash drives to be write-only? > >

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread E.B. Dreger
JKS> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 17:34:29 -0400 (EDT) JKS> From: Jason K. Schechner JKS> > Why would you want to do this? JKS> JKS> Logging. If a h@xx0r cracks your box he can't erase JKS> anything that's already been written there. Often it takes BSD enforces append-only when running proper sec

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread E.B. Dreger
SJS> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 17:23:43 -0400 (EDT) SJS> From: Steven J. Sobol SJS> Can you set flash drives to be write-only? Sorry if this is Depends on the drive, just like traditional HDDs. SJS> a basic question, but the only EIDE mass-storage devices SJS> I've used are more traditional dri

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Kevin Day
> > > On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote: > > > EIDE-based flash drives have become very inexpensive. Some > > embedded systems use CompactFlash boards. > > Can you set flash drives to be write-only? Sorry if this is a basic > question, but the only EIDE mass-storage devices I've used a

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Steven J. Sobol wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote: > > EIDE-based flash drives have become very inexpensive. Some > > embedded systems use CompactFlash boards. > Can you set flash drives to be write-only? Why would you want to do this? -Dan -- [-] Omae no su

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Steven J. Sobol
On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote: > EIDE-based flash drives have become very inexpensive. Some > embedded systems use CompactFlash boards. Can you set flash drives to be write-only? Sorry if this is a basic question, but the only EIDE mass-storage devices I've used are more traditional

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Vinny Abello
At 04:17 PM 5/23/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > I agree with you on that. Hot swapability for various interfaces is > > something routers obviously have over PC's. > >Hot swap PCI is old news. True, but not widely implemented in the standard PC market. If you want a server that has hot swap capabi

Re: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Henry Yen
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 03:00:20AM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > At 02:42 PM 5/23/2002 -0400, Henry Yen wrote: > >On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:22:50AM -0700, Rachel K. Warren wrote: > >> Of course, there are exceptions to every rule - I've had managers and > >> executive officers in the sam

Re[2]: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread E.B. Dreger
AR> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 16:17:16 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) AR> From: Alex Rubenstein AR> Yes, ipfw/dummy is very very cool. Like, inducing a few 100 AR> msecs of latency to folks who don't pay on time :) 1. Oh, come on, I know you're more creative than _that_. How about 30% packet l

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Dominic J. Eidson
On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote: > I'm trying to remember what "Buy It Now" was on that M20 on eBay > the other day... IIRC, it had 4x OC3 + 4x DS3 + 4x FE. $39,975 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2025155277 -- Dominic J. Eidson

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Alex Rubenstein
> I agree with you on that. Hot swapability for various interfaces is > something routers obviously have over PC's. Hot swap PCI is old news. > True... unless going for 64 bit PCI at 66MHz... still it's obvious that > routers are designed for one simple purpose and generally have larger > bac

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread E.B. Dreger
, with zebra on top. It worked well for a long time, JC> although it turned out getting deprecated because of some JC> zebra issues (with ospfd. They (the problems) weren't JC> confirmed by the zebra community but thats the only thing we JC> could narrow it down to. ospfd would di

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Scott Granados
As are f5 proeducts including bigip, 3dns and hmmm they make something else I forget:). On Thu, 23 May 2002, Brian wrote: > bsd kernel eh? i believe netapp filers are based on that as well. > > Bri > > > > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Anthony D Cennami wrote: > > > > > "Not to say you can'

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Brian
bsd kernel eh? i believe netapp filers are based on that as well. Bri On Thu, 23 May 2002, Anthony D Cennami wrote: > > "Not to say you can't route well with a linux or bsd system you can but > at the high-end probably not as well." > > Tell that to Juniper. > > > > Scott Granados w

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread James Cornman
ssues (with ospfd. They (the problems) weren't confirmed by the zebra community but thats the only thing we could narrow it down to. ospfd would die periodically.) The line cards were bought off of eBay. We did VLAN trunking through the 3com GBE card to a Catalyst 3548. Did any rate limiting wit

RE: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Daniel Golding
lding > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Vadim Antonov > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 4:11 AM > To: Andrew Dorsett > Cc: Kristian P. Jackson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Certification or College degre

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread E.B. Dreger
ADC> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 14:30:16 -0400 ADC> From: Anthony D Cennami ADC> "Not to say you can't route well with a linux or bsd system ADC> you can but at the high-end probably not as well." ADC> ADC> Tell that to Juniper. Where can I buy their line cards for my PC? -- Eddy Brotsman & Dr

Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Paul Vixie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The trouble is, often times I'd rather hire the world's smartest garbage > man. I never forget that when I got done interviewing for my first full > time programming job I went back to my job fixing cars and pumping gas, and > my fall

Re: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
At 02:42 PM 5/23/2002 -0400, Henry Yen wrote: > >On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:22:50AM -0700, Rachel K. Warren wrote: > >[ snip ] > >> Of course, there are exceptions to every rule - I've had managers and >> executive officers in the same companies I worked at who did not have >> degrees. B

Re: Who posts to the nanog list -- The top 59 players (Was not: Re: list problems?)

2002-05-23 Thread Scott Francis
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:16:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip] Nice list. Can we sort by helpful/clueful/relevant postings, and ask the top 10 to post more frequently? :) (OTOH, suspect I would quickly drop down out of the top 100 ... =\ ) -- Scott Francis darkuncle@

Re: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Henry Yen
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:22:50AM -0700, Rachel K. Warren wrote: [ snip ] > Of course, there are exceptions to every rule - I've had managers and > executive officers in the same companies I worked at who did not have > degrees. But more often than not, the degree was there. i was once taugh

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Randy Bush
> "Not to say you can't route well with a linux or bsd system you can but > at the high-end probably not as well." > > Tell that to Juniper. routing != forwarding routers have two jobs, both critical randy

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Vinny Abello
At 02:20 PM 5/23/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Vinny Abello wrote: > > > > I would have to say for any Linux/BSD platform to be a viable > > routing solution, you have to eliminate all moving parts or as much > > as possible, ie. no hard drives because hard drives will fail. Not > > much you can do abo

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Anthony D Cennami
"Not to say you can't route well with a linux or bsd system you can but at the high-end probably not as well." Tell that to Juniper. Scott Granados wrote: > Remember that a pc may have some certain functions that are "more > powerful" than a router but a pc is a much more general computer.

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Scott Granados
Remember that a pc may have some certain functions that are "more powerful" than a router but a pc is a much more general computer. Routers are supposed to be and usually designed to do one thing only, route, not play quake, balance your check book, browse the net, etc etc. So although for

Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Petr M. Swedock
: : Vadim Antonov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : : : > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kristian P. Jackson wrote: : > : >> Perhaps a bachelors in network : >> engineering is in order? : : I'm afraid there's not enough stuff one has to know to sucessfully : "design" networks to fill more than one-seme

Re: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Richard Irving
Have you ever heard the expression "Flat World Thinking" ? A long time ago the average person thought the world was flat. And, if you didn't agree...you didn't fit in. To the man who claimed Vixie "might as well teach kids that smoking doesn't cause cancer" -You- are a flat world thinker.

RE: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Randy Neals
Kristian P. Jackson, might have said: >Perhaps a bachelors in network engineering is in order? Masters Degree in Internetworking http://www.dal.ca/~eine/ -Randy

Re: list problems? + Certification or College degrees?

2002-05-23 Thread Mark Kent
>> "The fact that there are actually ways of knowing and >> characterizing the extent of one's ignorance, while still remaining >> ignorant, may ultimately be more interesting and useful to people >> than Yarkovsky" That's just a fancy way of saying a Clint Eastwood line from one of his movies (

Re: Who posts to the nanog list -- The top 59 players (Was not: Re: list problems?)

2002-05-23 Thread ren
Hey Martin, Humor the crew on a side-thread to this for us please... If you increase the number from 59 to 100 will there be a female on the list? Cheers, -ren At 03:16 PM 5/22/2002 -0700, Martin J. Levy wrote: >Hi all, > >Somewhat related to the previous subject, but bringing it much closer

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Neil J. McRae
> Good point, I also did this for cash reasons and would just buy hardware > on the used market today. As far as OS, I was using stripped down FreeBSD. > I started with Linux, but at the time they did not support radix trees so > routing tables killed the box. If I HAD to do it again I would s

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Neil J. McRae wrote: > I've done it in a production environment and unless money was > extremely tight I wouldn't consider doing it again. You will > save on capital expediture but you need an army of resources > to support it. When I did it, it was on NetBSD running GateD 3

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Daryl G. Jurbala wrote: > And that's MY real question. Who has actually done this in a production > environment that can speak with some real experience on the topic? What > can you replace with a linux box to route and run BGP for you in real > life? A 7200? Bigger. I

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Neil J. McRae
> And that's MY real question. Who has actually done this in a production > environment that can speak with some real experience on the topic? What > can you replace with a linux box to route and run BGP for you in real > life? A 7200? Bigger. > > I don't have the facilities to try these thi

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Daryl G. Jurbala
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 09:26, Vinny Abello wrote: common router. Otherwise, if you can get the functionality out of a PC, I > say go for it! The processing power of a modern PC is far beyond any router > I can think of. I suppose it would just be a matter of how efficient your > kernel, TCP/IP

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread E.B. Dreger
VA> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 09:26:41 -0400 VA> From: Vinny Abello VA> I would have to say for any Linux/BSD platform to be a viable I suppose it's been awhile since this thread has made the rounds, so I'll jump in for a moment... VA> routing solution, you have to eliminate all moving parts or

Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Vinny Abello
I would have to say for any Linux/BSD platform to be a viable routing solution, you have to eliminate all moving parts or as much as possible, ie. no hard drives because hard drives will fail. Not much you can do about the cooling fans in various parts of the machine though which routers also

Re: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Rachel K. Warren
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:07:25PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:20:08PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > > > What I firmly believe is that a college graduate is more likely to > > be sucessful and be promoted, particularly before they are 30. > > All that matt

Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Rick J Casarez
Andrew, The college I am attending, Strayer Univeristy, has a B.S. degree in Internetworking. While it is kinds geared towards Cisco the good part is that they will give credit for life experience etc. I am getting credit for 8 classes due to my work experience in the field. The also hav

Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Vadim Antonov
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kristian P. Jackson wrote: > >> Perhaps a bachelors in network >> engineering is in order? I'm afraid there's not enough stuff one has to know to sucessfully "design" networks to fill more than one-semester course. --vadim

Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Jim Hickstein wrote: > > When I see a resume with more degrees than a thermometer, but even minor > spelling, punctuation, or other such errors, I throw it out. Meticulous > attention to detail matters a lot in this business. I usually make a correction for nationality.

Re: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Andrew Dorsett wrote: > I have to say that the idea of requiring a degree for the IT industry is > obsurd. In my many years as network operator / software engineer / engineering manager I found that most "computer" guys (even the better ones) have very shallow understan

Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Paul Vixie
I guess I've got a little bit of a mad on about this topic. Hit "D" now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Paul A Flores") writes: > What you have to remember is that having a degree or certification allows > the non-clue full out in the 'real' world to easily tell the difference > between you an

RE: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Eric Germann
02 12:07 AM > To: Paul Vixie > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: list problems? > > > > no way... > > The option where you come out into "life" 35k in the hole, no experience, > and four years behind your "collegues" is obviously better. > >

Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread senthil ayyasamy
> >programs. It could be a mix between the CCIE, > Net+, etc. Because I know > >my Comp Engineering program doesn't touch on > anything related at all to > >networking, and never even mentions the idea of > security. So why not > >create a focused area for this? This is a two cent view fro

RE: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Christopher J. Wolff
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: list problems? no way... The option where you come out into "life" 35k in the hole, no experience, and four years behind your "collegues" is obviously better. And its hard to put a value on.. that bitterness you learned from spending the "best y

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Shawn Solomon
no way... The option where you come out into "life" 35k in the hole, no experience, and four years behind your "collegues" is obviously better. And its hard to put a value on.. that bitterness you learned from spending the "best years of your life" with a bunch of rich, drunken dumbasses. The

Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Bram Dov Abramson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Valdis is from VT, so I hope he's listening. Why >couldn't we as a networking community sit down and come up with a degree >program that goes from BS to PhD? Sure it can touch on basic programming >and basic processor design, but it would be more heavily weighted towards >ut

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread jlewis
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Andy Dills wrote: > > >From the number of personal replies I got about these topics, it seems > > like many people are interested in sharing information about how to do > > routing on a budget, or how to avoid getting shot in the foot with your > > Cisco box. > > Routing on

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:20:08PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > What I firmly believe is that a college graduate is more likely to > be sucessful and be promoted, particularly before they are 30. If > I had to advise someone coming out of high school, I would tell > them their best odds are t

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:00:27PM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leo Bicknell) writes: > > If you ever want to become a team leader, or a manger, or run a > > theoretical group you are going to need the math and English > > backgrounds that college provides.

RE: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
At 01:36 PM 5/22/2002 -0500, Paul A Flores wrote: >If your resume shows more than 4 jobs in the last 3 years (and you didn't >get laid off), what does THAT stay about your ability to 'stick with' >something? That you worked on the Internet in the late 90s? (Had to post to see if I could ove

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leo Bicknell) writes: > If you ever want to become a team leader, or a manger, or run a > theoretical group you are going to need the math and English > backgrounds that college provides. ... So what you're saying is, if I hadn't dropped out of high school during my 17th tri

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Leo Bicknell wrote: > So, do you need a degree to get a job? Absolutely not. Can you > make the same money initially without a degree, most likely. > However, I suspect you'll find more often than not without one in > 5 years you'll have gotten your 10% raise and still be

Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Andrew Dorsett
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kristian P. Jackson wrote: > running around acting like network engineers, just as a bunch of network > engineers are no more qualified to program. Perhaps a bachelors in network > engineering is in order? EXACTLY my conceptSo why can't we find some university and devel

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Craig Partridge
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Irving writes: > This PC and Internet revolution was founded by men with Advanced >Degree's from Prominent Ivy League Colleges... Well remember that the Internet revolution wasn't Bill's -- he's a follower. Now if he'd finished his Harvard degree in App

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Richard Irving
Yeah! This PC and Internet revolution was founded by men with Advanced Degree's from Prominent Ivy League Colleges... Like Bill Gates... Oh No, wait... :O [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > If you ever want to become a team leader, or a manger,

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