Re: Link capacity upgrade threshold

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Jakma
to make sure that when there is congestion, it is handled semi-sensibly. Or some enterprising vendor could start recording utilisation stats? regards, -- Paul Jakma p...@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you.

Re: DNS hardening, was Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Jakma
they are restarted. Stubs on Unix systems can have long-lived processes that handle the actual lookups, the stub component in the process that calls into the resolver then accesses it via IPC. I.e. the NSCD style approach. regards, -- Paul Jakma p...@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: As Zeus

RE: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-30 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Gregory Boehnlein wrote: It is a common misconception that the ESX Hypervisor is Linux based, but that is an urban legend. Is the ESX Hypervisor useful without the Linux layer? Then, to what extent do based on and depends on differ in the context of software? --paulj

Re: one shot remote root for linux?

2009-04-30 Thread Paul Jakma
into touch by the moderators.. regards, -- Paul Jakma p...@clubi.ie p...@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A

Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Jakma
is highly rare). Think of IPv6 as a 64bit network address + host address. At least for now. regards, -- Paul Jakma p...@clubi.ie p...@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter. -- Freeman Dyson

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-08-01 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Paul Jakma wrote: GigE is PtP at the physical-layer by the IEEE 802.3ad specification. It's Gah, I meant 802.3ab, of course. just not possible to have a dumb, GigE hub. You have to have a switch that can be told to L2-forward everything to one or more ports (e.g. through

Re: Hardware capture platforms

2008-08-01 Thread Paul Jakma
rather than forward them (e.g. consuming all or certain kinds of ISO frames). regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: lisp, v.: To call a spade a thpade.