Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Ray Soucy wrote: (I'm just waiting for Apple's lawyers to try an get names out of me...) But yes, it does appear that Apple is addressing the issue: 8 cat /etc/ip6addrctl.conf # default policy table based on RFC 3484. # usage: ip6addrctl install

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 05:55:53PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: The lack of NTP and certain other options in SLAAC is still a disappointment and I would argue that a fully matured SLAAC process would include a mechanism for specifying extensible choices of things. That's O=1 and stateless DHCPv6.

Re: Sunday Funnies: Using a smart phone as a diagnostic tool

2011-02-28 Thread Mans Nilsson
Subject: Sunday Funnies: Using a smart phone as a diagnostic tool Date: Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 09:00:18PM -0500 Quoting Jay Ashworth (j...@baylink.com): Do you have a smartphone? Blackberry? iPhone? Android? Do you use it as a technical tool in your work, either for accessing devices or

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 1298850835.2109.33.camel@karl, Karl Auer writes: On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 09:39 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: DHCP kills privacy addresses. DHCP kills CGAs. For temporary addresses couldn't a client clamp the upper limits of its received lifetimes to the desired lifetimes, then

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Tony Finch
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Owen DeLong wrote: But the ND messages don't tell you anything other than the Mac address about which host it actually is. In theory, at least, snooping the DHCP messages might include a hostname or some other useful identifier. It ought to be possible to look at SMB or

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 28, 2011, at 7:35 PM, Tony Finch wrote: It ought to be possible to look at SMB or mDNS messages to get more information about what the host claims to be... We can't trust those, they're easily manipulated and/or situationally-irrelevant. Or not present at all, if the endpoint

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Feb 28, 2011, at 1:10 21AM, Randy Bush wrote: I'm not saying there are no uses for DHCPv6, though I suspect that some of the reasons proposed are more people wanting to do things the way they always do, rather than making small changes and ending up with equivalent effort. add noc and

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Jim Gettys
On 02/28/2011 08:25 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 1:10 21AM, Randy Bush wrote: I'm not saying there are no uses for DHCPv6, though I suspect that some of the reasons proposed are more people wanting to do things the way they always do, rather than making small changes and

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: Again, having a permanently known identifier being broadcast all the time is a potentially a serious security/safety issue. We already have this with MAC addresses, unless folks bother to periodically change them, do we not?

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Ray Soucy
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Franck Martin fra...@genius.com wrote: Oh... did not know about the heavy baggage... No, when I first played with IPv6 only network, I found out that RD was silly, it gives an IP adddress but no DNS, and you have to rely on IPv4 to do that. silly, so my

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:52 PM, Ray Soucy wrote: IPv6 is simple, elegant, and flexible. This is the first time I've ever seen 'IPv6' in the same sentence with 'simple', 'elegant', or 'flexible', unless preceded by 'not'. ;

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Jim Gettys
On 02/28/2011 08:44 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: Again, having a permanently known identifier being broadcast all the time is a potentially a serious security/safety issue. We already have this with MAC addresses, unless folks bother to

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-02-28, at 08:44, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: Again, having a permanently known identifier being broadcast all the time is a potentially a serious security/safety issue. We already have this with MAC addresses, unless folks bother to

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 28, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Joe Abley wrote: By embedding the MAC into the layer-3 address, the concern is that the information becomes accessible Internet-wide. Given the the toxicity of hotel networks alone, my guess is that it already is pretty much available Internet-wide, at least to

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Jeff Kell
On 2/28/2011 8:44 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: Again, having a permanently known identifier being broadcast all the time is a potentially a serious security/safety issue. We already have this with MAC addresses, unless folks bother to periodically

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 28/02/2011 13:52, Ray Soucy wrote: The real point, initially at least, for stateless addressing was to make the Link-Local scope work. It's brilliantly elegant. It allows all IPv6 configuration to be made over IPv6 (and thus use sane constructs like multicast to do it). Wonderful,

Re: Sunday Funnies: Using a smart phone as a diagnostic tool

2011-02-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Joshua William Klubi joshua.kl...@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Do you have a smartphone? Blackberry? iPhone? Android? Try a Nokia N900 Maemo device, I've had an n800 for about 3 years now. Original

RE: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Brian Johnson
-Original Message- From: Jeff Kell [mailto:jeff-k...@utc.edu] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:49 AM To: Dobbins, Roland Cc: nanog group Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 On 2/28/2011 8:44 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: Again,

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-02-28, at 09:51, Nick Hilliard wrote: I will be a lot more sympathetic about listening to arguments / explanations about this insanity the day that the IETF filters out arp and ipv4 packets from the conference network and depends entirely on ipv6 for connectivity for the entire

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-02-28, at 09:53, Brian Johnson wrote: Can someone explain what exactly the security threat is? The threat model relates to the ability for a third party to be able to identify what subnets a single device has moved between, which is possible with MAC-embedded IPv6 addresses but not

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 28, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Joe Abley wrote: There's no point worrying about v6-only operations if we can't get dual-stack working reliably. I think this is the most insightful, cogent, and pertinent comment made regarding IPv6 in just about any medium at any time. [Yes, I know that

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 28/02/2011 14:59, Joe Abley wrote: I'm not sure why people keep fixating on that as an end goal. The future we ought to be working towards is a consistent, reliable, dual-stack environment. There's no point worrying about v6-only operations if we can't get dual-stack working reliably.

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 28, 2011, at 5:44 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: Again, having a permanently known identifier being broadcast all the time is a potentially a serious security/safety issue. We already have this with MAC addresses, unless folks

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-02-28, at 10:27, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 28/02/2011 14:59, Joe Abley wrote: I'm not sure why people keep fixating on that as an end goal. The future we ought to be working towards is a consistent, reliable, dual-stack environment. There's no point worrying about v6-only operations

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 28, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Having a MAC address as a permanent identifier is a very different problem from having that MAC address go into a layer 3 protocol field. Given the plethora of identifiable information already frothing around in our data wakes, I'm unsure

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 28, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: We haven't got there because I can't plug in my laptop into any arbitrary ipv6-only network and expect to be able to load up ipv6.google.com. - One day a master from another monastery came upon Abley as he was watching a young child

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
Really, if you look back at the archives of this list these arguments are starting to get silly as you put it. Yes and no... It seems that every few months, as people discover that IPv6 isn't going away and they should brush up on it, people go through this process of debating the way IPv6

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 28/02/2011 15:45, Dobbins, Roland wrote: At that moment, the master was enlightened. One day a master from another monastery came upon Dobbins and Abley as they were watching a 14 year-old cripple learning how to fly. I do not believe we should waste time teaching children to walk, said

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 28, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 2011-02-28, at 09:51, Nick Hilliard wrote: I will be a lot more sympathetic about listening to arguments / explanations about this insanity the day that the IETF filters out arp and ipv4 packets from the conference network and depends

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Ray Soucy
1. Multiple subnets on the same media that are intended for different hosts and have different routers are no longer feasible. (Yes, you can argue they're less than desirable in IPv4 and I would agree, but, they exist in the real world

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 28, 2011, at 11:14 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: IPv6-only viability is the real goal. This is, in the long run, a transition from v4 to v6. Dual-stack is an interim stop-gap, not an end solution. I think most everyone agrees with this. However, getting experience with dual-stack is

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 28, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: At that moment, Dobbins and Abley were enlightened. hahaha ; Hey, I think dual-stack is pretty ugly - just that it's less ugly than getting no operational experience with IPv6 at all on production networks until some point in the

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 28, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 2011-02-28, at 10:27, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 28/02/2011 14:59, Joe Abley wrote: I'm not sure why people keep fixating on that as an end goal. The future we ought to be working towards is a consistent, reliable, dual-stack environment.

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:04:23 EST, Joe Abley said: I don't think this has ever been cited as a global, general threat that must be eliminated (just as people are generally happy to use the same credit card as they move around the planet and don't generally stress about the implications). It's

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Leigh Porter
On 28 Feb 2011, at 16:57, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:04:23 EST, Joe Abley said: I don't think this has ever been cited as a global, general threat that must be eliminated (just as people are generally happy to use the same credit card as they move around the planet

OT: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
OT, but NANOG is almost always good for quick clue ... For those who have residential VoIP, what provider {features | bugs} are most vexing? For those who provision residential VoIP, what subscriber {expectations | behaviors} are most vexing? Thanks in advance, Eric

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Some provider woes: FAX over VOIP is a PITA. I've not yet seen an ATA or softswitch that handled it reliably. E911 for mobile devices sucks. Regulations, and the E911 system, do not seem to have the flexibility for handling this in a seamless way. Call routing (on a more global scale)

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Feb 28, 2011 8:45 AM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 2011-02-28, at 10:27, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 28/02/2011 14:59, Joe Abley wrote: I'm not sure why people keep fixating on that as an end goal. The future we ought to be

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread nanog
Power supply! Old POTS is remote-power-suplied, so the phone will work for hours, days or even weeks from remote battery power. In my area, one mobile network was off after 4h, the other after 10h, but my good-old analogue telefone did work all the time during an 40h power outage (it was 11

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Leigh Porter
Simplicity. POTS lets me plug almost anything in from the past who-knows-how-many-years and it just works. When it breaks, I can go next door and borrow a telephone. When I can pick up an automagically configured VoIP device from a huge selection down at the local electronics shop and when

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Clark
On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on this list, not my mother. -- Leigh Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be whining about POT's lines decreasing exponentially year over year!

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST, Bret Clark said: On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on this list, not my mother. Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be whining about POT's lines

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Helms
On 2/28/2011 1:29 PM, Bret Clark wrote: On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on this list, not my mother. -- Leigh Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be whining about POT's lines

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Leigh Porter
On 28 Feb 2011, at 18:29, Bret Clark wrote: On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on this list, not my mother. -- Leigh Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be whining about

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Leigh Porter
On 28 Feb 2011, at 18:37, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST, Bret Clark said: On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on this list, not my mother. Baloney...if that was the case, then

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Helms
They are in the US. Comcast tallies 8.6 million household telephone service accounts, making it the United States' third-largest telephone provider. As of February 16, 2011 Comcast has 8.610 million voice customers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Home_telephone People are not,

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jameel Akari
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Leigh Porter wrote: On 28 Feb 2011, at 18:37, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST, Bret Clark said: On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on this list, not my

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Palsson
Since our company is a VoIP company, I will chime in to this topic. Let's start off with the definitions so everyone is on the same page: vex |veks| verb [ trans. ] make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, esp. with trivial matters : the memory of the conversation still vexed him |

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Leigh Porter
On 28 Feb 2011, at 19:03, Jameel Akari wrote: Sounds very different indeed. In the US, it's basically your local Ma Bell derivative, or something not-POTs. Anecodtally, as of this morning we just dropped one of our POTS lines for the cable company's alternative. Cost dropped from $69/mo

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
Another vexation for VOIP in the SMB environment is that it rarely works particularly well (if at all) in light of a multiple-external-address NAT pool. You simply have to map all of your VOIP phones in such a way that they consistently get the same external IP every time or shit breaks badly.

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Palsson
We haven't run into that issue and have very large clients. I'm interested to find out where you may have run into that issue? -Bret On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Another vexation for VOIP in the SMB environment is that it rarely works particularly well (if at all) in

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Palsson
Sorry I didn't include this in the last email... We have large clients who have phones registered on multiples of public IPs from the same location. Works no problem. We do some trickery on our side to make that happen, but I thought all VoIP companies would do that. -Bret On Feb 28, 2011, at

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Odd - do the phones just randomly egress from different IPs in the pool if you don't? Is this perhaps a too-long registration interval issue? Short registration timers seem to deal with keeping the state table appeased on most firewalls. Any chance the NAT device has some god-forsaken ALG

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Bret Palsson
Ahhh yes... ALG... Turn it off. -Bret On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: Any chance the NAT device has some god-forsaken ALG agent installed that's trying to proxy the SIP traffic?

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Randy Bush
It's hard to see v6-only networks as a viable, general-purpose solution to anything in the foreseeable future. I'm not sure why people keep fixating on that as an end goal. The future we ought to be working towards is a consistent, reliable, dual-stack environment. There's no point worrying

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-02-28, at 15:27, Randy Bush wrote: o if ipv6 can not operate as the only protocol, and we will be out of ipv4 space and have to deploy 6-only networks, it damned well better be able to stand on its own. Do you think I was suggesting that IPv6 as a protocol doesn't need to be

Re: What If....

2011-02-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-02-26 10:34, bill manning wrote: The IANA function was split? RFC 2860 already did that. It seems to work well. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2011/fr_ianafunctionsnoi_02252011.pdf I'm glad to see they are up to date: Paper submissions should include a three and one-half inch

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Randy Bush
o if ipv6 can not operate as the only protocol, and we will be out of ipv4 space and have to deploy 6-only networks, it damned well better be able to stand on its own. Do you think I was suggesting that IPv6 as a protocol doesn't need to be able to stand on its own two feet? you may

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Jeff Kell
On 2/27/2011 11:53 PM, Franck Martin wrote: No, when I first played with IPv6 only network, I found out that RD was silly, it gives an IP adddress but no DNS, and you have to rely on IPv4 to do that. silly, so my understanding is then people saw the mistake, and added some DNS resolution...

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-02-28, at 15:38, Randy Bush wrote: you may want to read your words and the thread which followed. The phrase you apparently missed (or which was not sufficient for me to explain myself clearly) was viable, general-purpose solution. Joe

RE: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread George Bonser
From: Randy Bush Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 12:27 PM To: Joe Abley Cc: NANOG Operators' Group Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 It's hard to see v6-only networks as a viable, general-purpose solution to anything in the foreseeable future. I'm not sure why people keep

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jared Mauch
Any idea how to workaround the uverse broken alg? I've had to do some fun hacks to work around it. Sometimes I can reboot or crash them with the cisco notify for config check. Jared Mauch On Feb 28, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Bret Palsson b...@getjive.com wrote: Ahhh yes... ALG... Turn it off.

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 06:49:36PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote: I do think though, that assuming DHCP is the way to get some of these things might be shooting from the hip. Perhaps there is a better way, with IPv6? DHCP is a terrible protocol for 2011, and will be an old school

Re: What If....

2011-02-28 Thread Michael Hallgren
Le lundi 28 février 2011 à 15:50 -0500, Edward Lewis a écrit : At 9:35 +1300 3/1/11, Brian E Carpenter wrote: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2011/fr_ianafunctionsnoi_02252011.pdf I'm glad to see they are up to date: Paper submissions should include a three and one-half inch computer

Re: What If....

2011-02-28 Thread Leigh Porter
On 28 Feb 2011, at 20:50, Edward Lewis wrote: At 9:35 +1300 3/1/11, Brian E Carpenter wrote: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2011/fr_ianafunctionsnoi_02252011.pdf I'm glad to see they are up to date: Paper submissions should include a three and one-half inch computer diskette in

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Cutler James R
On Feb 28, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Bret Clark wrote: On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on this list, not my mother. -- Leigh Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be whining about

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 28d10d13-988b-4c7d-833b-eba6e1bc1...@hopcount.ca, Joe Abley writes : On 2011-02-28, at 09:51, Nick Hilliard wrote: I will be a lot more sympathetic about listening to arguments / = explanations about this insanity the day that the IETF filters out arp = and ipv4 packets from

Re: What If....

2011-02-28 Thread David Conrad
On Feb 28, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Michael Hallgren wrote: I'm glad to see they are up to date: Paper submissions should include a three and one-half inch computer diskette in HTML, ASCII, Word or WordPerfect format (please specify version). Any problem with Postscript or PDF? Somewhat less

Hughesnet outage - where can I ask?

2011-02-28 Thread Greg Ihnen
I run a small network in the jungle of Venezuela which is fed by a rebranded Hughesnet connection. We just had a four day failure where the only protocol that worked was ICMP and we were completely without communication. Traceroutes all failed in a bizarre way when using UDP, TCP or GRE packets

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 2011-02-28, at 15:27, Randy Bush wrote: o if ipv6 can not operate as the only protocol, and we will be out of ipv4 space and have to deploy 6-only networks, it damned well better be able to stand on its own. Do you think I was

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
They are in the US. Comcast tallies 8.6 million household telephone service accounts, making it the United States' third-largest telephone provider. As of February 16, 2011 Comcast has 8.610 million voice customers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Home_telephone People are not,

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
It's only an issue if you have a single gateway which is serving up multiple public addresses. SIP is not the only traversal that breaks in this environment, but, it does choose to break in some of the most interesting (especially to troubleshoot when you don't know that's what is causing the

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Helms
On 2/28/2011 5:19 PM, Joe Greco wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Home_telephone People are not, en-masse, going away from POTS and towards plugging a VoIP device into the back of their router. Twenty bucks says the first poster is correct; I'm willing to bet that most of the

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 28, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Cutler James R wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Bret Clark wrote: On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on this list, not my mother. -- Leigh Baloney...if that was the

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread David Barak
From: Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net I have no idea why anyone would be paying Ma Bell $69/month for a phone line, unless you like giving them your money or something. In my neck of the woods (Washington DC), the POTS line is the one that works during a bad power outage, and has qualitatively

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
On 2/28/2011 5:19 PM, Joe Greco wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Home_telephone People are not, en-masse, going away from POTS and towards plugging a VoIP device into the back of their router. Twenty bucks says the first poster is correct; I'm willing to bet that most of the

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
From: Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net=0AI have no idea why anyone would be = paying Ma Bell $69/month for a phone=0Aline, unless you like giving them y= our money or something.=0A=0AIn my neck of the woods (Washington DC), the P= OTS line is the one that works =0Aduring a=A0bad=A0power outage, and

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-02-28, at 17:04, Owen DeLong wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 2011-02-28, at 15:27, Randy Bush wrote: o if ipv6 can not operate as the only protocol, and we will be out of ipv4 space and have to deploy 6-only networks, it damned well better be able to

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Helms
So then let's argue that ILEC-delivered POTS is digital too, because it went on fiber to the local SLC hut... It is, at least in some cases, and its even VOIP in a few (Occam BLC's for example). Having said that its almost never derived voice of any type into the home because of life line

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net With end-to-end digital, you can have reliable call supervision and status, OOB Caller-ID delivery, crystal clear call quality, probably the ability to handle multiple calls intelligently, no hook race conditions, etc. When

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Owen DeLong o...@delong.com Pretty soon, cell phones will, essentially, be VOIP devices. In fact, some already are. In fact, one could argue that LTE cell phones are in essence what VOIP will be when it grows up. TTBOMK, that isn't *quite* true, yet,

Re: SLA for voice and video over IP/MPLS

2011-02-28 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Anton Kapela tkap...@gmail.com wrote: One won't find many, but a common rule of thumb is most apps will be 'fine' with networks that provide 10E-6 BER or lower loss rates. Anton, Who uses BER to measure packet switched networks? Is it even possible to measure a

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
So let's look for a rational comparison instead. Take your CD player's analog audio output and run it fifty feet, making sure to route it along some nice fluorescent lights. Even with a good shielded cable, analog signal is notorious for picking up noise. Now take your CD player's

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Leigh Porter
On 28 Feb 2011, at 23:15, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net With end-to-end digital, you can have reliable call supervision and status, OOB Caller-ID delivery, crystal clear call quality, probably the ability to handle multiple calls

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Feb 28, 2011 12:28 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: It's hard to see v6-only networks as a viable, general-purpose solution to anything in the foreseeable future. I'm not sure why people keep fixating on that as an end goal. The future we ought to be working towards is a consistent,

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/28/2011 15:35, Joe Greco wrote: There may be no compelling reason to do so, at least. However, digital gear offers benefits, and some people want them. Others, like me, live in bad RF environments where POTS picks up too much noise unless you very carefully select your gear and

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
Small (say, under 50,000 customer) ISPs in my experience have a planning horizon which is less than five years from now. Anything further out than that is not foreseeable in the sense that I meant it. I have much less first-hand experience with large, carrier-sized ISPs and what I have is a

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
- Original Message - From: Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net With end-to-end digital, you can have reliable call supervision and status, OOB Caller-ID delivery, crystal clear call quality, probably the ability to handle multiple calls intelligently, no hook race conditions, etc.

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Owen DeLong o...@delong.com This no intermediate gear term, it does not mean what you think it means... Loading coils, Bridge-Taps, WDFs, Protection Blocks, etc. all could be classified as intermediate gear. Many of these things have been the bane of DSL

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net Yeah, um, well, hate to ruin that glorious illusion of the legacy physical plant, but Ma Bell mostly doesn't run copper all the way back to a real CO with a real battery room these days when they're deploying new copper. So if

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Owen DeLong o...@delong.com TTBOMK, that isn't *quite* true, yet, Owen. The only US carrier with LTE deployed is VZW, and their only *handset* with LTE is the not-yet-quite-shipped HTC Thunderbolt... That's the US market. We are, as usual,

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread TR Shaw
On Feb 28, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net Yeah, um, well, hate to ruin that glorious illusion of the legacy physical plant, but Ma Bell mostly doesn't run copper all the way back to a real CO with a real battery room

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Owen DeLong o...@delong.com Sad. There are definitely LTE-data-only VOIP handsets in other deployments. Of course. Silly me. :-) Couldn't fine Owens original post, so I'll ask here. Which are these handsets?

Re: Switch with 10 Gig and GRE support in hardware.

2011-02-28 Thread Jeff Hartley
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:15 PM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: On 2/18/11 6:30 AM, Matt Newsom matt.new...@rackspace.com wrote:                I am looking for a switch with a minimum of 12  X 10GE ports on it, that can has routing protocol support and can do GRE in hardware. Does

Re: Hughesnet outage - where can I ask?

2011-02-28 Thread denys
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:27:31 -0430, Greg Ihnen wrote: I run a small network in the jungle of Venezuela which is fed by a rebranded Hughesnet connection. We just had a four day failure where the only protocol that worked was ICMP and we were completely without communication. Traceroutes all

Re: [v6z] Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: In my neck of the woods, you can get a basic POTS line for $15/month if it's important to you, local calls billed by the number of calls and the normal LD charges. Add a basic DSL service to that ($20) AND add a basic

Re: Switch with 10 Gig and GRE support in hardware.

2011-02-28 Thread Theo Sison
Jeff, I would try the 4900M http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps6021/ps9310/Data_Sheet_Cat_4900M.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps6021/ps9310/Data_Sheet_Cat_4900M.html Theo On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Jeff Hartley

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Feb 28, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: Those who designed IPv6 appear to have ignored the problem space. This is true of many, many aspects of IPv6. And those of us who didn't get involved in the process to try and address (pardon the pun, heh) those problems bear a burden of the

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Mar 1, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: In five years we should be just about ready to start deprecating IPv4, if not already beginning to do so. That's been said about so many things, from various legacy OSes to other protocols such as SNA and SMB/CIFS. None of those things are

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:00:16PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: Ready or not, IPv6-only (or reasonably IPv6-only) residential customers are less than 2 years out, so, well within your 5-year planning horizon, whether those ISPs see that or not. Denial is an impressive human phenomenon.

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