Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

2020-03-13 Thread Ahmed Borno
Its already happening in Italy, and now that schools are shutting down here as well, its going to get interesting: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/housebound-italian-kids-strain-network-with-fortnite-marathon The ultimate traffic test is coming, looking forward to hearing

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-02-13 Thread Ahmed Borno
Strictly out of interest, I wanted to ask earlier if this irresponsible way of causing insane, instant, bandwidth demands is breaking anything on the ISP/CDN side or even the console owner ?! Or is it just an interesting phenomenon that is handled without a sweat. Does it break the buck in anyway?

Re: CISCO 0-day exploits

2020-02-11 Thread Ahmed Borno
nature of protocols. P.S: How many junior network engineers care to turn on authentication on L2 segments. ~A On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 6:24 AM Saku Ytti wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 16:09, Ahmed Borno wrote: > > > Sorry for the sad tone, i just wish network operators woul

Re: CISCO 0-day exploits

2020-02-11 Thread Ahmed Borno
. ~A On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 2:05 AM Saku Ytti wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 09:09, Ahmed Borno wrote: > > > So yeah iACLs, CoPP and all sorts of basic precautions are needed, but > I'm thinking something more needs to be done, specially if these ancient > code stacks are being imp

Re: CISCO 0-day exploits

2020-02-10 Thread Ahmed Borno
Disclaimer, I do not work for any vendor right now, and I don't sell any product that might benefit from scaring anyone, so this is just some whining for a real issue that someone needs to do something about. I've worked for the CDP vendor for a long time, and I do concur to what Saku is

Re: DiViNetworks

2020-02-06 Thread Ahmed Borno
How is it technically possible that they reuse unused bandwidth without some funky AS/Route announcement fun?! Anyone can explain that ? ~A On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:09 PM Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I mention in passing also that at the present time, DiViNetworks has > a grand total of some

Re: abrupt speed changes and TCP

2020-01-30 Thread Ahmed Borno
I am only guessing here, but I think the Apps of today would have their own built in mechanisms to work around lower layers, starting with DB query timeouts, load balancers performance based resets. CDN segmentation, QUIC, HTTP2etc But it is a valid question and I'd like to know from people

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-23 Thread Ahmed Borno
Bezos phone sending Videos to MBS :) What a S Show. On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 7:22 AM Jared Mauch wrote: > > > > > On Jan 23, 2020, at 10:16 AM, Kaiser, Erich wrote: > > > > Yeah we saw that as well. Must be a game release or something. > > Yes, that’s my understanding as well. > > - Jared