Re: Comcast problems?

2008-04-05 Thread Michael Sinatra
Ted Fischer wrote: I didn't save any of my Wireshark traces, but this is what I observed (I'm behind Charter at home but visiting my brother in NJ - Comcast territory). All attempts to check my e-mail (neither Charter nor Comcast) showed the syns going out but no syn acks coming back. The

Re: Comcast problems?

2008-04-05 Thread Ted Fischer
I didn't save any of my Wireshark traces, but this is what I observed (I'm behind Charter at home but visiting my brother in NJ - Comcast territory). All attempts to check my e-mail (neither Charter nor Comcast) showed the syns going out but no syn acks coming back. Then, after a few minute

Re: Comcast problems?

2008-04-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Steven M. Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact that I get different behavior for different protocols makes me > suspect they're having trouble with equipment designed to control p2p > traffic. Their help phone line simply speaks of an outage. Service

Comcast problems?

2008-04-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
Anyone know what's going on with Comcast? From my house, I can reach a few sites with TCP (fortunately, that includes my office, so I could set up a web and email proxy). If I use traceroute, I can get more or less anywhere. If I use a UDP-based traceroute, I can get responses back from the firs

Re: Inventory and workflow management systems

2008-04-05 Thread Greg VILLAIN
On Apr 4, 2008, at 11:16 PM, vijay gill wrote: What software solution do people use for inventory management for things like riser/conduit drawdown, fiber inventory, physical topology store, CLR/DLR, x-connect, contracts, port inventory, etc. Any experiences in integrating workflow into those

Microsoft building container based datacenter

2008-04-05 Thread Simon Lyall
Just a followup to the previous conversations on power and rack density I see that Microsoft has announced that one floor of their new Chicago datacenter will be container based. Each 40 foot container will house 1,000 to 2,000 systems with between 150 and 220 containers on the first floor. Mai