Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:55 AM, George Bonser wrote: > multicast. How do I encrypt something in a way that anyone can decrypt > but nobody can duplicate?  If I have a separate stream per user, that is Have you ever seen a CableCARD? That's pretty much what it does, except not "anyone" can decryp

RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread George Bonser
> > There is a security aspect to such things, though, as how do you know > > the content is from a trusted source? That is the bugaboo with > > multicast. It needs to be information that isn't going to hurt > anything > > if it is bogus. Also, it opens up a DoS possibility with noise > traffic

Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes

2011-05-04 Thread Yaoqing(Joey) Liu
Hi NANOG, I manually extracted the origins and their org info for the announced block of prefixes. All these prefixes were observed being originated by at most four ASNs simultaneously. I suspect they provide anycast or IXP service, but not positive. Please confirm my conjecture if you know them.

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Jeremy Parr
On 4 May 2011 04:43, Robert Lusby wrote: > Sorry to start the day OT, but I'm sure you lovely lot will have some > tips/experience! ;) > > We have a HP Server Cabinet (42U 10842 G2), that we've stripped down to the > bare-bones chassis. It now measures 750mm wide. > > We have a door-way that said

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > No business is entitled to protection of its business model. > > Unless it has a market monopoly, deep pockets, and lobbyist friends. That does not mean they're *entitled* to it... just that they can *get* it

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Tim Durack
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > No business is entitled to protection of its business model. Unless it has a market monopoly, deep pockets, and lobbyist friends. -- Tim:>

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 04 May 2011 18:20:09 EDT, William Herrin said: > And of course such a cache system could work well for popular > non-streamed content as well. > > Never quite linked up with someone interested in seeing an > implementation though... I suspect to generate interest, it would have to be dem

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Daniel Staal" > --As of May 4, 2011 5:43:04 PM -0400, Jay Ashworth is alleged to have > said: > > You know what would make this work *well*? If IAPs *didn't include mcast > > traffic in your cap*. Since the reason for their caps is, in the final > > analysis

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Tim Durack wrote: > Multicast is a great technical solution in search of a good business problem. It's a useful replacement for broadcast on a local link. It's of limited utility elsewhere. On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:21 PM, George Bonser wrote: > Multicast is p

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jeff Young
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/05/2011, at 2:53 AM, Scott Helms wrote: > On 5/4/2011 12:26 PM, Tim Franklin wrote: >>> I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the >>> world shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is >>> amenable to multicas

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 4, 2011 5:43:04 PM -0400, Jay Ashworth is alleged to have said: You know what would make this work *well*? If IAPs *didn't include mcast traffic in your cap*. Since the reason for their caps is, in the final analysis *to limit THEIR transit costs*, multicast would seem to be a real

Re: Rwhois not serving all records - it is almost working though.

2011-05-04 Thread Larry Smith
Landon, By no means an expert in rwhoisd, but my net directory has the following: atrribute_defs directory data directory schema file soa file and the DATA directory contains the following: network directory org directory referral directory From what you describe it sounds like things might

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Jeff Wheeler" > The potential savings is limited by the over-speed of the mcast stream > vs real-time, and the density of mcast listener groups. Given that > access network speeds continue to increase, yet ISPs are really not > increasing "bandwidth caps," it

RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Wed, 4 May 2011, George Bonser wrote: There is a security aspect to such things, though, as how do you know the content is from a trusted source? That is the bugaboo with multicast. It needs to be information that isn't going to hurt anything if it is bogus. Also, it opens up a DoS possibi

Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes

2011-05-04 Thread Yaoqing(Joey) Liu
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Joe Abley wrote: > > On 2011-05-04, at 23:11, Yaoqing(Joey) Liu wrote: > > > Thanks for clarifying this, actually I have a few more blocks with four > origin ASNs that I'm not positive if they are anycast prefixes. Please help > distinguish them if the provide anyc

Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes

2011-05-04 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-05-04, at 23:11, Yaoqing(Joey) Liu wrote: > Thanks for clarifying this, actually I have a few more blocks with four > origin ASNs that I'm not positive if they are anycast prefixes. Please help > distinguish them if the provide anycast service. You could probably get a good distance to

Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes

2011-05-04 Thread Yaoqing(Joey) Liu
Thanks for clarifying this, actually I have a few more blocks with four origin ASNs that I'm not positive if they are anycast prefixes. Please help distinguish them if the provide anycast service. 27.130.0.0/16 58.147.0.0/20 58.147.0.0/17 58.147.16.0/20 58.147.64.0/20 58.147.80.0/20 58.147.96.0/2

Tech writer in Seattle

2011-05-04 Thread Raj Singh
Do anyone know of any good technical writer in Seattle/Bellevue area that we can contract for a month? Thanks Raj Please NOTE: This electronic message, including any attachments, may include privileged, confidential and/or inside information owned by Demand Me

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Steven Bellovin
On May 4, 2011, at 3:37 48PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Scott Helms wrote: >> Local caching is MUCH more efficient than having the same traffic running in >> streams and depending on everyone's PC to try and update in the same time > > This only works, of course, if

Rwhois not serving all records - it is almost working though.

2011-05-04 Thread Landon Stewart
Hello NANOG, I sent this information to the rwhoisd mailing list originally but I've been informed that the mailing list is mostly dead now. I hope this is not too far off-topic for NANOG. One person replied to me off-list from the rwhois mailing list and had some help but I haven't found a solu

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Scott Helms wrote: > Local caching is MUCH more efficient than having the same traffic running in > streams and depending on everyone's PC to try and update in the same time This only works, of course, if there is a local cache which PCs are aware of. > Same issue

Re: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Ken Chase
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RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread George Bonser
> > I disagree with the general notion that multicast is not useful except > for live content. Oh, there are all SORTS of things it would be well-suited for. Live content is just the lowest hanging fruit. > WINDOWS UPDATES > Most of us have some number of Windows machines on our networks, > pr

RE: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Alex Rubenstein
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Re: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
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Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Scott Helms
On 5/4/2011 2:07 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: Agreed, it seems the only demand really for this live viewing is sport, news and background programming like the mentioned breakfast television. I disagree with the general notion that multicast is n

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: > Agreed, it seems the only demand really for this live viewing is sport, news > and background programming like the mentioned breakfast television. I disagree with the general notion that multicast is not useful except for live content. Allow

RE: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Barry Shein
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Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Scott Helms
On 5/4/2011 12:26 PM, Tim Franklin wrote: I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the world shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is amenable to multicast, and not well served by unicast, is likely to grow, and it would be a Good Idea to be ready for that situat

RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Leigh Porter
> > > I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the > > world shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is > > amenable to multicast, and not well served by unicast, is likely > > to grow, and it would be a Good Idea to be ready for that > > situation already when it a

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Tim Franklin
> I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the > world shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is > amenable to multicast, and not well served by unicast, is likely > to grow, and it would be a Good Idea to be ready for that > situation already when it arrives. Real

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Chaim Rieger" > Do you have any kids ? > If yes ask them to do it, leave and come back a few hours later And the Webby for Best Short Answer to a NANOG Question goes ... to. What's your 5 word acceptance speech, Chaim? Cheers, -- jra

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Jeffrey S. Young" > I think it's elegant, in think Deering did an incredible job to > create it and some many years ago I played a role to bring > multicast to the Internet at large. I believed that multicast > would play a huge role in the delivery of conten

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Jason Baugher
On 5/4/2011 10:07 AM, Chaim Rieger wrote: Do you have any kids ? If yes ask them to do it, leave and come back a few hours later At last, a helpful answer! Seriously, disregarding all the helpful comments from everyone questioning your judgment in trying to move a large cabinet through a sma

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Chaim Rieger
Do you have any kids ? If yes ask them to do it, leave and come back a few hours later

Re: [c-nsp] 7600 SXF and IPv6

2011-05-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 03, 2011 01:54:00 PM Jay Ford wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2011, vince anton wrote: > > Anyone has experiemces to share or known v6 issues with SXF (or v4 issues > > with v6 enabled for that matter), or should I be looking at SRC/SRD/SRE for > > 7600 ? > I have 9 6500+SUP720-3BXL boxes w

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Jameel Akari
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Joe Greco wrote: If you have a need for a 4-post rack, do not accomplish that by using 2 2-po= st racks. You will likely find that rack rails that are designed for a 4-pos= t rack will not fit. Possibly, though you can usually order "universal" rails to fit tapped-hole ra

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Joe Greco
> Once upon a time, Joe Greco said: > > Now of course we have no idea what's going to be mounted in this, but > > it's an HP rack so I assume maybe HP servers, which tend towards the > > heavy. > > One thing about using a 2-post rack for servers that can be a problem is > that most 2-post racks I

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joe Greco said: > Now of course we have no idea what's going to be mounted in this, but > it's an HP rack so I assume maybe HP servers, which tend towards the > heavy. One thing about using a 2-post rack for servers that can be a problem is that most 2-post racks I've seen have

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:09:33AM +0100, Robert Lusby wrote: > And, no other entrance points. Room is below ground level, with a stupidly > narrow door frame. Old client building, with a room not originally designed > for purpose. I think folks can help you find a bolt toget

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Joe Greco
> If you have a need for a 4-post rack, do not accomplish that by using 2 2-po= > st racks. You will likely find that rack rails that are designed for a 4-pos= > t rack will not fit. Why? With *any* rack, there are always scenarios where the rack rails for some random item don't end up fitting ri

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Robert Lusby wrote: >We have a HP Server Cabinet (42U 10842 G2), that we've stripped down to the >bare-bones chassis. It now measures 750mm wide. > > We have a door-way that said server cabinet must fit through, measuring up > at 620mm. Hi Rob, My first reaction o

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Joe Greco wrote: Good comments so far. I didn't see this one though: It's admittedly far from ideal in some ways, but a great way to deal with this sort of situation can be to get a pair of two-post open frame relay racks; most of them bolt together and can be put just abou

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Randy Carpenter
If you have a need for a 4-post rack, do not accomplish that by using 2 2-post racks. You will likely find that rack rails that are designed for a 4-post rack will not fit. Get an open-frame 4-post rack. It will come unassembled. It will also likely be no more costly that 2 2-post racks. -Ran

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Dorn Hetzel
> > It's admittedly far from ideal in some ways, but a great way to deal > with this sort of situation can be to get a pair of two-post open > frame relay racks; most of them bolt together and can be put just > about anywhere. Many times we forget that these can be used as the > front and back of

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Joe Greco
> > Can you see where this is leading yet? Three obvious questions: > > > > 1) Have you ever had to fit a cabinet through a doorway that's too small? > > 2) How did you do it? Cut cabinet, demolish wall ...? > > 3) If you cut the cabinet, any tips? > > Comment: you need to recognize that you are

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 09:43:53 +0100 > Subject: OT: Server Cabinet > From: Robert Lusby > > Sorry to start the day OT, but I'm sure you lovely lot will have some > tips/experience! ;) > > We have a HP Server Cabinet (42U 10842 G2), that we've stripped down to the > bare-bones chassis. It now me

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-04 Thread Jeffrey S. Young
On 04/05/2011, at 1:54 AM, George Bonser wrote: >> >> Multicast is an elegant solution to a dwindling problem set. > > And that is fundamentally where we disagree. I see this as not > "elegant" at all. It is a fundamental part of the protocol suite. It > is no more "elegant" than unicast

Re: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread TR Shaw
On May 4, 2011, at 5:06 AM, James Aldridge wrote: > On 04/05/2011 10:53, Leigh Porter wrote: >> This may be a silly question but.. How did it get in there? > > I'm assuming that it's not yet "in there" :-) > > I'd probably knock the wall down and fit a more reasonably sized door - > 620mm (2')

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Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article , Robert Lusby writes Short of scrapping this cabinet If you have no other use for it - sell on eBay! That's where my spare cabinet went last year. -- Roland Perry

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article , Robert Lusby writes 1) Have you ever had to fit a cabinet through a doorway that's too small? Yes, but it was height not width 2) How did you do it? Cut cabinet, demolish wall ...? by taking the fan tray off the top and the wheels off the bottom (I realise you've already stri

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Robert Lusby
Not a silly question my fault for not making clear - cabinet is still outside the room ... yet to go in. And, no other entrance points. Room is below ground level, with a stupidly narrow door frame. Old client building, with a room not originally designed for purpose. Short of scrapping this cabi

Re: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Bill Woodcock
I've removed the doorframe before, and usually replaced with a wider doorframe later. -Bill On May 4, 2011, at 11:07, James Aldridge wrote: > On 04/05/2011 10:53, Leigh Porter wrote: >> This may be a silly question but.. How did it get in there? > > I'm assuming that it

Re: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread James Aldridge
On 04/05/2011 10:53, Leigh Porter wrote: > This may be a silly question but.. How did it get in there? I'm assuming that it's not yet "in there" :-) I'd probably knock the wall down and fit a more reasonably sized door - 620mm (2') seems a bit narrow for a door anyway. One could of course get a

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Tom Hill
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 09:43 +0100, Robert Lusby wrote: > > Can you see where this is leading yet? Is there no other entrance that's wider, perhaps a window/skylight? Cutting-up a cabinet (only to find that it's pretty impossible to make it sturdy again) or demolishing the wall may well be more

RE: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Leigh Porter
This may be a silly question but.. How did it get in there? -- Leigh Porter -Original Message- From: Robert Lusby [mailto:nano...@gmail.com] Sent: Wed 5/4/2011 9:43 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: OT: Server Cabinet Sorry to start the day OT, but I'm sure you lovely lot will have some

OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Robert Lusby
Sorry to start the day OT, but I'm sure you lovely lot will have some tips/experience! ;) We have a HP Server Cabinet (42U 10842 G2), that we've stripped down to the bare-bones chassis. It now measures 750mm wide. We have a door-way that said server cabinet must fit through, measuring up at 620mm