Re: URGENT - ISP/Telecom

2012-09-25 Thread John Mitchell
On 25/09/12 17:31, Joe Abley wrote: On 2012-09-25, at 11:49, Olivier CALVANO o.calv...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for an operator that can build a ADSL or SDSL in record time. I just pulled a 2-metre pair of copper between a modem and a DSLAM in the lab, and I can ping things. Total

IPv6 Address allocation best practises for sites.

2012-09-24 Thread John Mitchell
Question about what other service/network providers are doing in relation to allocation of addresses for websites. With IPv6 starting to trickle its way in, what is considered the industry best practise now for IP(v6) addresses bonded to websites. In the past the standard practise was to have

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread John Mitchell
I think people forget how humongous the v6 space is... Remember that the address space is 2^128 (or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses) to put the in perspective (and a great sample that explained to me how large it was, you will still get 667 quadrillion address

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread John Mitchell
can help mitigate this risk, which is something the upper blocks normally adhere too.. but with the lower blocks its in the hands of the smaller companies and consumers who don't *always* have the same rigorous standards. On 17/09/12 14:37, Adrian Bool wrote: On 17 Sep 2012, at 13:28, John

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread John Mitchell
There are some pretty impressive quotes there to take away .. We are totally convinced that the factors that made IPv4 run out of addresses will remanifest themselves once again and likely sooner than a lot of us might expect given the Reccomendations for Best Practice deployment. If I am

Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

2012-02-28 Thread John Mitchell
rant I would wholeheartedly agree with this, but I believe its worse than just that. I used to categorize myself as a full developer, now I'm slightly ashamed to be tainted with that brush since there's so many people using the term who don't know the first thing about programming. It used to