Re: Email over v6

2010-07-08 Thread Tim Chown
On 8 Jul 2010, at 03:00, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Zaid Ali wrote: Are there any folks here who would be inclined to do SMTP over IPv6? I have a test v6 network with is ready to do email but getting some real world data to verify headers would be more helpful. Please send

Re: Email over v6

2010-07-08 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Tim Chown wrote: Received: from s0.nanog.org (s0.nanog.org = [2001:48a8:6880:95::20]) by crow.ecs.soton.ac.uk (crow.ecs.soton.ac.uk = [2001:630:d0:f110::25b]) envelope-from = nanog-bounces+tjc=3decs.soton.ac...@nanog.org with ESMTP id = m673381995435214jA

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Jason Lewis
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Michael Painter tvhaw...@shaka.com wrote: Have we all gone mad? I find it hard to understand that a nuclear power plant, air-traffic control network, or electrical grid would be 'linked' to the Internet in the interest of 'efficiency'.  Air gap them all and let

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Brandon Ross
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Michael Painter wrote: Have we all gone mad? I find it hard to understand that a nuclear power plant, air-traffic control network, or electrical grid would be 'linked' to the Internet in the interest of 'efficiency'. Air gap them all and let them apply for Inefficiency

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Joe Greco
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Michael Painter wrote: Have we all gone mad? I find it hard to understand that a nuclear power plant, air-traffic control network, or electrical grid would be 'linked' to the Internet in the interest of 'efficiency'. Air gap them all and let them apply for

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:16:27 -1000, Michael Painter said: I find it hard to understand that a nuclear power plant, air-traffic control network, or electrical grid would be 'linked' to the Internet in the interest of 'efficiency'. Air gap them all and let them apply for Inefficiency Relief

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jul 8, 2010, at 10:12 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: What's the going rate these days that you have to pay to make sure your fiber gets spliced first rather than that other customer's 10GE? And what's it cost to do it for all 2,397 links? And if your electrical-grid fiber is in the

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 8, 2010, at 10:12 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:16:27 -1000, Michael Painter said: I find it hard to understand that a nuclear power plant, air- traffic control network, or electrical grid would be 'linked' to the Internet in the interest of 'efficiency'.

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread JC Dill
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: What's the going rate these days that you have to pay to make sure your fiber gets spliced first rather than that other customer's 10GE? I'm not familiar with cable break splicing procedures, but is it even possible to pay extra to have your splice done

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Michael Holstein
I find it hard to understand that a nuclear power plant, air-traffic control network, or electrical grid would be 'linked' to the Internet in the interest of 'efficiency'. The Davis-Besse nuclear generating station computers were hit by the SQL Slammer / Saphire worm back in 2003.

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:12:29 PDT, JC Dill said: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: What's the going rate these days that you have to pay to make sure your fiber gets spliced first rather than that other customer's 10GE? I'm not familiar with cable break splicing procedures, but is it even

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:12:29AM -0700, JC Dill wrote: I'm not familiar with cable break splicing procedures, but is it even possible to pay extra to have your splice done first? I would think that the logistics of splicing are such that the guy down in the hole

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread J. Oquendo
Michael Painter wrote: Have we all gone mad? I find it hard to understand that a nuclear power plant, air-traffic control network, or electrical grid would be 'linked' to the Internet in the interest of 'efficiency'. Air gap them all and let them apply for Inefficiency Relief from the $100

Re: Email over v6

2010-07-08 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 7/8/10 1:20 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Tim Chown wrote: One other thing I also notice is that there is a high correlation between use of TLS and IPv6, I guess a lot of people with IPv6 clue also enable TLS: By default, at least on Debian, TLS and IPv6 (if available,

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Brandon Ross
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Joe Greco wrote: There's a happy medium in there somewhere; it's not clear that having (to use the examples given) air traffic control computers directly on the Internet has sufficient value to outweigh the risks. However, it seems that being able to securely gateway

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread bmanning
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:51:52AM -0400, Brandon Ross wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Michael Painter wrote: Have we all gone mad? Absolutely! For example, those thousands of flight plans filed every day by airlines across the globe, not to mention private flights, should be done manually

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread J. Oquendo
Brandon Ross wrote: Do people really think the guy in the airport control tower is really surfing Facebook while he's controlling aircraft on the same computer, or that capability is even what is under consideration? Air traffic controller suspended for allowing son to radio instructions to

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread bross
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, J. Oquendo wrote: Brandon Ross wrote: Do people really think the guy in the airport control tower is really surfing Facebook while he's controlling aircraft on the same computer, or that capability is even what is under consideration? Air traffic controller suspended for

Re: Email over v6

2010-07-08 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Brielle Bruns wrote: By default, at least on Debian, TLS and IPv6 (if available, even if only using link local addresses) are on by default, so there's not too much that needs to be done to use TLS on the SMTP side. TLS wasn't enabled on my Debian using Postfix, so I

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread JC Dill
andrew.wallace wrote: Article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704545004575352983850463108.html My opinion: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704545004575352983850463108.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments%26commentId%3D1330685 Politifact has an interesting article on

RE: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: Brandon Ross Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 6:52 AM To: Michael Painter Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Michael Painter wrote: Have we all gone mad? I find it hard to understand

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Brandon Ross wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Joe Greco wrote: There's a happy medium in there somewhere; it's not clear that having (to use the examples given) air traffic control computers directly on the Internet has sufficient value to outweigh the risks.

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Curtis Maurand
On 7/8/2010 9:51 AM, Brandon Ross wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Michael Painter wrote: Have we all gone mad? I find it hard to understand that a nuclear power plant, air-traffic control network, or electrical grid would be 'linked' to the Internet in the interest of 'efficiency'. Air gap them

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jul 8, 2010, at 10:13 AM, George Bonser wrote: -Original Message- From: Brandon Ross Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 6:52 AM To: Michael Painter Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Michael Painter wrote:

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Shrdlu
Owen DeLong wrote: [snip] I know this from being a pilot, and, also from having toured the following ATC facilities: Towers: TRACONs: ARTCCs: Ditto to absolutely EVERYTHING that Owen said, and I can guarantee this further, having had experience with various east coast and southeastern

Re: Email over v6

2010-07-08 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 7/8/10 11:04 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Brielle Bruns wrote: By default, at least on Debian, TLS and IPv6 (if available, even if only using link local addresses) are on by default, so there's not too much that needs to be done to use TLS on the SMTP side. TLS wasn't

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jul 8, 2010, at 11:56 AM, J. Oquendo wrote: @Jared's TSP link... Wonder how this will affect VoIP ITSP's etal, e.g., how many local NS/EP's have swapped over to VoIP. Logically, anyone with a network running a managed VoIP service, trunk, etc., could qualify. This certainly is a frequent

Re: Email over v6

2010-07-08 Thread Dan White
On 08/07/10 19:04 +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Brielle Bruns wrote: By default, at least on Debian, TLS and IPv6 (if available, even if only using link local addresses) are on by default, so there's not too much that needs to be done to use TLS on the SMTP side. TLS

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Joe Greco
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Joe Greco wrote: There's a happy medium in there somewhere; it's not clear that having (to use the examples given) air traffic control computers directly on the Internet has sufficient value to outweigh the risks. However, it seems that being able to securely gateway

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 7/8/2010 09:59, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I think that there needs to be a balance. I think it needs to be the purview of the custodian of the facility. Not some political wonk. -- Somebody should have said: A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom

Re: Email over v6

2010-07-08 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jul 8, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Dan White wrote: On 08/07/10 19:04 +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Brielle Bruns wrote: By default, at least on Debian, TLS and IPv6 (if available, even if only using link local addresses) are on by default, so there's not too much that

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-08 Thread Danny McPherson
On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:26 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: I'm not familiar with cable break splicing procedures, but is it even possible to pay extra to have your splice done first? I would think that the logistics of splicing are such that the guy down in the hole doesn't know whose

Re: Email over v6

2010-07-08 Thread Jared Mauch
A few people have sent private replies commenting on the email/IPv6 deployment stats I posted. I thought I would also share some nameserver statistics to give an idea of what I see (at least at puck.nether.net) for IPv6 vs IPv4 queries. I won't break down the numbers for everyone, just posting

Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Alan Bryant
Thanks again for all the responses to my previous post. We have a Cisco 7206VXR router with IOS of 12.4(12) and a PA-POS-1OC3 card ofr our OC3. The problem we have now is that we are only paying for 80 MB/s of the OC-3, and the ISP is leaving the capping of it up to us. I have googled and the

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Alan Bryant wrote: We have tried the rate-limit command with various parameters and we are unable to keep it at 80. I have read that this is not the correct way to do it, but I'm not sure what is. What burst parameters are you using? Try something along the lines of:

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Alan Bryant wrote: The problem we have now is that we are only paying for 80 MB/s of the OC-3, and the ISP is leaving the capping of it up to us. I have BTW, rate-limiting of traffic that the ISP router sends to your router is best done at the ISP router. Antonio

re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Nick Olsen
That's strange, Are you paying for a CIR of 80Mb/s? Normally they only leave the limiting up to you if its more of a burstable connection, Like you pay for 80Mb/s but its a full line rate interface and its billed per Mb/s over 80 on a 95th percentile scheme. If that is the case you can safely go

RE: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Murphy, Jay, DOH
traffic-shape rate 7500 9000 9000 1000 for example. Your rate limit will police your traffic and drop it all. Traffic shaping produces a queue, and does not completely junk a packet. It becomes q'd, and produces a smoother output. ~Jay Murphy IP Network Specialist NM State

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Kenny Sallee
I think if you try to traffic-shape 80Mbps on that platform you'll have problems. We have a 7200 with NPE-G1 (rate limited at 80Mbps) and it killed the CPU when the threshold was hit. I imagine that traffic-shaping would do the same to CPU and memory. I'd lab it first. Kenny On Thu, Jul 8,

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Bret Clark
Agree...when you rate limit verse shaping you can actually cause more traffic because the packets need to be retransmitted to deal with those that got dropped. On 07/08/2010 06:43 PM, Murphy, Jay, DOH wrote: traffic-shape rate 7500 9000 9000 1000 for example. Your rate limit

RE: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Murphy, Jay, DOH wrote: Traffic shaping produces a queue, and does not completely junk a packet. It becomes q'd, and produces a smoother output. Traffic-shaping 80Mb/s of traffic is probably not a good idea for your router cpu :) Antonio Querubin 808-545-5282 x3003

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Jack Bates
Antonio Querubin wrote: Traffic-shaping 80Mb/s of traffic is probably not a good idea for your router cpu :) Honestly, cpu overhead shouldn't be an issue with a traffic shape queue. If it is, probably a seriously underpowered router or poor code. Now if you applied extensive rules for

RE: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Brandon Kim
What about purchasing a low-end packetshaper to be used in between? I know this doesn't answer the question but could it be an option? Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:43:17 -1000 From: t...@lava.net To: jay.mur...@state.nm.us Subject: RE: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router CC: nanog@nanog.org On

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread gordon b slater
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:35 -0700, Kenny Sallee wrote: I think if you try to traffic-shape 80Mbps on that platform you'll have problems. We have a 7200 with NPE-G1 (rate limited at 80Mbps) and it killed the CPU when the threshold was hit. I imagine that traffic-shaping would do the same to

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread gordon b slater
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 18:54 -0500, Jack Bates wrote: underpowered router or poor code Agreed. So which is it? :) To be fair, some IOS versions were better than others at it in my limited experience of that chassis. Gord -- I hold you XAP

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Alan Bryant
So you guys would not recommend the traffic shaping route on a 7206 with a NPE-G1? Is it the processor or memory that would not be able to handle it? I don't necessarily plan on doing anything other than limiting it at 80Mbps or whatever it is that we are capping ourselves at at the time. On

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Alan Bryant
Also, are there any upgrades that can be done to this router to increase it's processing power? Is there something better for the 7206VXR than the NPE-G1? I see the NPE-G2, but even on ebay it is very costly. On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Alan Bryant a...@gtekcommunications.com wrote: So you

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/8/2010 18:40, Alan Bryant wrote: Also, are there any upgrades that can be done to this router to increase it's processing power? Is there something better for the 7206VXR than the NPE-G1? I see the NPE-G2, but even on ebay it is very costly. The NPE-G2 is the next step after the

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Christopher J. Pilkington
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 01:43:17PM -1000, Antonio Querubin wrote: Traffic-shaping 80Mb/s of traffic is probably not a good idea for your router cpu :) I concur, we shape a 100Mb/s ethernet down to 50Mb/s on a 3845, so that QoS is doable. The router gets brought to its knees around 40Mb/s.

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Danny McPherson
On Jul 8, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Alan Bryant wrote: Thanks again for all the responses to my previous post. We have a Cisco 7206VXR router with IOS of 12.4(12) and a PA-POS-1OC3 card ofr our OC3. The problem we have now is that we are only paying for 80 MB/s of the OC-3, and the ISP is

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Alan Bryant wrote: So you guys would not recommend the traffic shaping route on a 7206 with a NPE-G1? Is it the processor or memory that would not be able to handle it? With a G1 you'll be able to shape just fine, even do fancy stuff like fair-queue within those 80 megs.

RE: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread gordon b slater
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 20:01 -0400, Brandon Kim wrote: What about purchasing a low-end packetshaper to be used in between? If - 1/ budget is a problem and 2/ you have no BSD knowledge inhouse and 3/ the LAN side is all ethernet you could have a stab at using a PFsense box with two (and

Re: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

2010-07-08 Thread Jack Bates
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: With a G1 you'll be able to shape just fine, even do fancy stuff like fair-queue within those 80 megs. I've done this on a NPE-300, but only egress, and as long as packet sizes were fairly large (normal TCP sessions with mostly 1500 byte packets + ACKs) it coped