Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread sthaug
> This really should be a DHCP option which points to the authentification > server using ip addresses. This should be return to clients even > if they don't request it. Web browers could have a hot-spot button that > retrieves this option then connects using the value returned. Unfortunately, t

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Andrew Cox
Sounds like a great idea in theory but would require OS support or a dual-hotspot setup that provided for both options until support was expected. Until such time it's simply unworkable. That and as mentioned in my previous post, the setup we have *just works* for users who don't have the perm

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Joe Greco
> > > In message <200912080332.nb83wkso037...@aurora.sol.net>, Joe Greco writes: > > > IMHO there is no need for any sort of DNS redirection after user > > > authentication has taken place. > > > > It may be hazardous even before user authentication has taken place. > > Even given a very low TT

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Andrew Cox
Yeah the iPhone changes were a bit of a pain, we had to build a second iPhone specific version of our login page because the iPhone "auto-login" feature won't allow more than 1 page to be loaded. We would normally redirect users to the page they've originally requested after they click the log

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-08 Thread Jens Link
Jorge Amodio writes: > I guess Cisco's 800's are out of the "Consumer Grade" price range, but > any comments about v6 support on them and how they compare with other > options. Once you find the right IOS version they are working great. ;-) I had to upgrade my router @home in order to use IPv6

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-08 Thread Jens Link
Brandon Ewing writes: > Can you comment on what version you got it to work on? I haven't futzed > with it much, but with 12.4(24)T2, you can't put an ipv6 address directly on > the wireless subinterface. I tried putting it on a BVI interface, but > didn't have much luck. Version 12.4(20)T1 wo

Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Chris
Hi All, It would be appreciated if anyone using TC on Linux for shaping could please help with an intermittent problem on an egress interface. I'm seeing about ten per cent of packet loss for all classes at seemingly quiet times and random parts of the day using about forty classes and 250Mbps. I

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20091208.101453.74674743.sth...@nethelp.no>, sth...@nethelp.no writes: > > This really should be a DHCP option which points to the authentification > > server using ip addresses. This should be return to clients even > > if they don't request it. Web browers could have a hot-spot bu

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Bret Clark
Won't say I'm an expert with TC, but anytime I see packet loss on an interface I always check the interface itself...10% packet loss is pretty much what you would get if there was a duplex problem. I always try to hard set my interfaces on both the Linux machines and Switches. Bret Chris wro

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <200912080939.nb89dixn090...@aurora.sol.net>, Joe Greco writes: > > > > > > In message <200912080332.nb83wkso037...@aurora.sol.net>, Joe Greco writes: > > > > IMHO there is no need for any sort of DNS redirection after user > > > > authentication has taken place. > > > > > > It may

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread sthaug
> Won't say I'm an expert with TC, but anytime I see packet loss on an > interface I always check the interface itself...10% packet loss is > pretty much what you would get if there was a duplex problem. I always > try to hard set my interfaces on both the Linux machines and Switches. Used to s

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Joe Abley
On 2009-12-08, at 15:01, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: >> Won't say I'm an expert with TC, but anytime I see packet loss on an >> interface I always check the interface itself...10% packet loss is >> pretty much what you would get if there was a duplex problem. I always >> try to hard set my interf

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Chris
Thanks, Steiner and everyone for the input. It's good to see the list is still as friendly as ever. There are two paths I'm trying to get my head round after someone offlist helpfully suggested putting cburst and burst on all classes. My thoughts are that any dropped packets on the parent class i

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:18 AM, Andrew Cox wrote: > Sounds like a great idea in theory but would require OS support or a > dual-hotspot setup that provided for both options until support was expected. > Until such time it's simply unworkable. > > That and as mentioned in my previous post, the setup

RE: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Matlock, Kenneth L
The biggest problem with duplex had to do with 100mb. Cisco (and a lot of other companies) decided in their infinite wisdom that at 100mb if auto-negotiation fails, to use half duplex as the default. So if you have both sides at auto, or both sides hard-set it's all good. But if one side is hard-s

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Owen DeLong
> > I know what you're saying, but seriously, haven't we just repeated all > the same mistakes in IPv6? And of course it'd be a nightmare to cover > all the edge cases, this is why nobody tries to figure it out, so in > the end we end up with many really cruddy hatchet jobs. > Not exactly W

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Andrew Cox
Owen DeLong wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:18 AM, Andrew Cox wrote: Sounds like a great idea in theory but would require OS support or a dual-hotspot setup that provided for both options until support was expected. Until such time it's simply unworkable. That and as mentioned in my previous p

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Andrew Cox
Owen DeLong wrote: Almost all of these systems require you to call support to get a MAC authentication Exception if you don't have a web browser on your device. Most of them grant exceptions on a not to exceed 30 day basis, too. Alternatively it's possible to offer both web-based and pppoe a

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 01:52:49AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > What if I want to just use ssh? > > You still need to authenticate. It's better if we can reduce the > amount of collateral damage required to authenticate. The interception > is being done today because the

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Joe Abley wrote: > > I find there is a lot of hard-coded wisdom that hard-coded speed duplex > are the way to avoid pain. That was definitely true in the mid-to-late 1990s. > The last time I saw anybody do a modern survey of switches, routers and > hosts, however, it seemed li

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Shane Ronan
Juniper SSL VPN FTW! On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > On Dec 7, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > >> >> On Dec 7, 2009, at 5:29 PM, John Levine wrote: >> Will be interesting to see if ISPs respond to a large scale thing like this taking hold by blocking UDP

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread sthaug
> The biggest problem with duplex had to do with 100mb. > > Cisco (and a lot of other companies) decided in their infinite wisdom > that at 100mb if auto-negotiation fails, to use half duplex as the > default. No, that wasn't those companies deciding to do so in their infinite wisdom. That was th

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 12/8/09 8:13 AM, Joe Abley wrote: I've also heard people say that whatever you think about autoneg in Fast Ethernet, on Gigabit and 10GE interfaces it's pretty much never the right idea to turn autoneg off. From my own experience, turning off auto negotiate can lead to unusual behavior late

Re: SPF Configurations

2009-12-08 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > As for a university smarthost getting blocked you'd probably need to > look at one of two things - Three :-) > 1. Forwarding users on your campus - with mailboxes that accept a lot > of spam and then forward it over to student / alumni AOL, Co

Re: SPF Configurations

2009-12-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Absolutely #3 - far more of a threat than #1 and #2. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Tony Finch wrote: > Three :-) > >> 1. Forwarding users on your campus - with mailboxes that accept a lot >> of spam and then forward it over to student / alumni AOL, Comcast, >> Yahoo etc accounts >> 2. Spam gen

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Vixie
Steven Bellovin writes: > It's why I run an ssh server on 443 somewhere -- and as needed, I > ssh-tunnel http to a squid proxy, smtp, and as many IMAP/SSL connections > as I really need... me too, more or less. but steve, if we were only trying to build digital infrastructure for people who kno

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Michael Thomas
On 12/07/2009 09:39 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CN N) With 24 million sma

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Michael Holstein
> From my own experience, turning off auto negotiate can lead to unusual > behavior later on I too had this crop up in an unusual manner .. the hardware was HP with Intel Pro 1000 on one side, and Cisco 65xx on the other. Neither side saw errors, and (most) everything seemed to work .. however, o

Re: SPF Configurations

2009-12-08 Thread Michael Holstein
> 3. Spammers abusing your webmail and/or remote message submission service > using phished credentials. > I'll admit .. this has happened a few times too. Usually we see the incoming phish attempt and configure an outbound block for RE: (same subject) and it never fails .. we catch at least o

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Matlock, Kenneth L wrote: > These days at 1Gb+ Full-Duplex seems to be the 'default' for > auto-negotiation failures. > Thankfully it's even more than a "seems to be" - it's written into the IEEE spec that if duplex negotiation fails then the default is full duplex

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Joe Abley
On 2009-12-08, at 14:52, Mark Andrews wrote: >> Why would "web browsers" have a hot-spot button? > > Because that would be a easy way to implement this sort of thing. I once thought that PANA was the clean answer to this. Now the PANA effort has concluded, and documents have been published, bu

Re: SPF Configurations

2009-12-08 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Michael Holstein wrote: > > > 3. Spammers abusing your webmail and/or remote message submission service > > using phished credentials. > > I'll admit .. this has happened a few times too. Usually we see the > incoming phish attempt and configure an outbound block for RE: (same >

Earthlink SMTP Admin Contact?

2009-12-08 Thread Ryan Gelobter
Any chance there's someone from Earthlink on nanog or anyone that has contact information? We have a large IP block that is being listed as dynamic by Earthlink's mail servers causing mail to be returned and have gotten nowhere with the normal procedures or the abuse mailbox at (866) 525-8194.

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 8, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Andrew Cox wrote: Owen DeLong wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:18 AM, Andrew Cox wrote: Sounds like a great idea in theory but would require OS support or a dual-hotspot setup that provided for both options until support was expected. Until such time it's simply

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Nickola Kolev
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:13:03 + Chris wrote: > Hi All, > > It would be appreciated if anyone using TC on Linux for shaping could please > help with an intermittent problem on an egress interface. Well, it's unbelievable, but almost 5 hours and 11 mails later not even one of them has mentioned

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Nathan Ward
On 9/12/2009, at 4:47 AM, Tony Finch wrote: Autoneg is a required part of the gig E specification so you'd only be causing yourself trouble by turning it off. (I don't know if it'll also break automatic MDI/MDI-X (crossover) configuration, for an example of something that's nice to have.) Y

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Seth Mattinen
Leo Bicknell wrote: > > Most of the hotels I have used don't actually require authentication. > They require a click through indemnification agreement. No username, > no password, no room number, just a "click here to accept our terms > and conditions". > > I would much prefer this be added to t

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > Steven Bellovin writes: > >> It's why I run an ssh server on 443 somewhere -- and as needed, I >> ssh-tunnel http to a squid proxy, smtp, and as many IMAP/SSL connections >> as I really need... > > me too, more or less. but steve, if we were on

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Jorge Amodio
>  (Aside: my local library blocks everything but 80 and 443 outbound.  I > complained to the director; he cited "security".  I tried explaining that I > knew something about Internet security; he told me that the firm that had > installed the system had "done most of the libraries in the county

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Michael Thomas
On 12/08/2009 01:21 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: (Aside: my local library blocks everything but 80 and 443 outbound. I complained to the director; he cited "security". I tried explaining that I knew something about Internet security; he told me that the firm that had installed the system had "do

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Vixie
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:21:30 -0600 > From: Jorge Amodio > > Among the many wonderful things Internet has created in the past 2+ > decades, it gave birth to a countless number of "Internet Experts" ... for example, some of us got a chance to witness the following. i've removed all identifyin

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Joel Esler
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:21:30 -0600 > > From: Jorge Amodio > > > > Among the many wonderful things Internet has created in the past 2+ > > decades, it gave birth to a countless number of "Internet Experts" ... > > for example, some of us got

Re: news from Google

2009-12-08 Thread Tony Finch
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Chris Hills wrote: > > I maintain a list here [1], many of which are reachable with IPv6. > [1] http://www.chaz6.com/files/resolv.conf Not all of those are open resolvers, so I wonder what the cirteria for listing are. I'm especially surprised to see the IPv6 addresses of Cambr

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Joe Abley wrote: > > I once thought that PANA was the clean answer to this. Now the PANA > effort has concluded, and documents have been published, but reading > through them I can't tell whether PANA is in fact any kind of answer to > this. It'd be nice if there was a hotspot a

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Jorge Amodio
Did you assume that I was insulting Steve ? not at all, and apologies Steve if my comments were interpreted that way. When I said "Internet Experts" I was referring to the ones that setup the network on his county library. I agree 100% with Steve that we need a Good solution, both technical and o

Re: news from Google

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Hills
On 08/12/09 23:19, Tony Finch wrote: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Chris Hills wrote: >> >> I maintain a list here [1], many of which are reachable with IPv6. >> [1] http://www.chaz6.com/files/resolv.conf > > Not all of those are open resolvers, so I wonder what the cirteria for > listing are. I'm especia

RE: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Leigh Porter
All I can say to that is this: ?? ?? ? ?, ??? ? ??· ? ??? ?? ??’ ? ?? ?. ;-) -- Leigh Porter UK Broadband -Original Message- From: Paul Vixie [mailto:vi...@isc.org] Sent: Tue 12/8/2009 9:52 PM To: na...@merit.edu Sub

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-08 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: Having a DHCP option is better than the mess we have now. To go further requires agreement on how to present terms, pricing etc. in a standardised way. I hate to sound like a broken record, but PPPOE has had that option for a decade. Major operating sy

Re: Earthlink SMTP Admin Contact?

2009-12-08 Thread Jason Williams
Their NOC has an unlisted number: +1 404-815-0770 x22277 -J On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Ryan Gelobter wrote: > > Any chance there's someone from Earthlink on nanog or anyone that has contact > information? > > We have a large IP block that is being listed as dynamic by Earthlink's mail > se

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Simon Horman
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 03:14:01PM +, Chris wrote: > Thanks, Steiner and everyone for the input. It's good to see the list is > still as friendly as ever. > > There are two paths I'm trying to get my head round after someone offlist > helpfully suggested putting cburst and burst on all classes

Re: Earthlink SMTP Admin Contact?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Beckman
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Jason Williams wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Ryan Gelobter wrote: Any chance there's someone from Earthlink on nanog or anyone that has contact information? Their NOC has an unlisted number: +1 404-815-0770 x22277 Not anymore, it would seem. NANOG Archives FTW.

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread gordon b slater
Apologies to all on handheld devices. If you're not into BSD or Linux TC operationally, skip this post. Due to my usual rambling narrative style for "alternative" troubleshooting I was going to mail this direct to the OP but I was persuaded AMBJ by a co-conspirator to post this to list in full. #

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Bazy
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Chris wrote: > Thanks, Steiner and everyone for the input. It's good to see the list is > still as friendly as ever. > > There are two paths I'm trying to get my head round after someone offlist > helpfully suggested putting cburst and burst on all classes. > > My t

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread gordon b slater
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 08:02 +0200, Bazy wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Try setting txqueuelen to 1000 on the interfaces and see if you still > get a lot of packet loss. > Yes, good point and well worth a try. Rereading Chris's post about "250Mbps" and "forty queues", the "egress" could well be bumping

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread gordon b slater
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 06:38 +, gordon b slater wrote: > If 1000 is too high for your kit try pushing it upwards gradually from > the default of 100 meh! 6am+insomniac blues for a Gigeth it's more likely to be 1000 already, so push it up to 1 in stages - you get the idea.

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Nickola Kolev
На Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:38:31 + gordon b slater написа: > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 08:02 +0200, Bazy wrote: > > > Hi Chris, > > > > Try setting txqueuelen to 1000 on the interfaces and see if you > > still get a lot of packet loss. > > > > Yes, good point and well worth a try. Rereading Chris