Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-24 Thread Sean Figgins
On 4/23/19 8:35 PM, Peter Beckman wrote: Get your own router if you're worried about your Wifi Password being known by Comcast. Or change to WPA2 Enterprise, but I'm guessing that isn't supported on the router... Original post seems to be someone that bought a used modem/router combo.  Since

Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

2009-03-24 Thread Sean Figgins
Jack Bates wrote: It works fine for large ISPs and colocation providers; especially those who run abacus to process large volumes of reports and keep their time well spent. If you spend 2 hours on a feedback loop without any actions having to be taken, you're definitely doing something wrong.

Re: [NANOG] Multihoming for small frys?

2008-05-21 Thread Sean Figgins
Seth Mattinen wrote: About two years ago, maybe less, Sprint was doing some maintenance in California and was moving stuff through an alternate path in Arizona. However, while the CA path was off, someone took a backhoe to the AZ path. Neither the planned outage, the cut, nor myself were in th

Re: [NANOG] Multihoming for small frys?

2008-05-21 Thread Sean Figgins
William Herrin wrote: I have a client who needs to multihome with multiple vendors for reliability purposes, currently in the Northern Virginia area and later on with a fail-over site, probably in Hawaii. They have only a very modest need for bandwidth and addresses (think: T1's and a few dozen

Re: [NANOG] fair warning: less than 1000 days left to IPv4 exhaustion

2008-05-02 Thread Sean Figgins
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Mike Leber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Since nobody mentioned it yet, there are now less than 1000 days projected >> until IPv4 exhaustion: No worries, the Internet is going to end in 2010, and the world ends on December 21, 2012. I don't think we'll be nee

Re: SMTP addresses in <>

2008-01-04 Thread Sean Figgins
Alexander Harrowell wrote: Becausewe wouldn't have e-mail? Consider the pain of getting worldwide interoperability for a "notmail" system that insisted on strict validation... The SMTP ship has already sailed, so trying to change the behavior of email would be difficult. I do, howeve

Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques

2007-10-22 Thread Sean Figgins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I'm being asked to verify my address because some malware found my address on a hard drive and stuck it in the From: field. I'm sorry, but if you're asking me to verify that, it *is* a burden - you are admittedly *starting off* assuming that it's bad and *needs* some

Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques

2007-10-22 Thread Sean Figgins
Dave Pooser wrote: I call BS. I ran sender-callout verification on my primary email server for a while (before I became convinced it was mildly abusive, and stopped) and typically blocked 2-3 spams per day. In fact, I had more FPs than legit spam blocked by that method. 2-3 spams a day? That

Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques

2007-10-22 Thread Sean Figgins
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Where did you get that 99% #? Statistics from my own mail server. Yours may vary. In the course of 6 months, on one honey-pot email address, I received about 10,000 spam messages that were classified as from forged addresses by spam assassin. I'm sure you are fa

Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques

2007-10-22 Thread Sean Figgins
Dave Pooser wrote: Whenever I get one of those, I go ahead and confirm the message so the spam gets through to the end user. I figure if they think I'm gonna filter their mail for free, well, they get what they pay for. :^) And that is probably just fine, as 99% of the true spam comes from e

Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

2007-10-19 Thread Sean Figgins
Frank Bulk wrote: 2) DSL and fiber have limitations, too. The modulation and spectrum width can vary, but most MSOs have their forward configured with a maximum of around 38 Mbps (256-QAM, 6 MHz wide) and the return in the 9 Mbps range (64-QAM, 3.2 MHz wide). Charts here: Forward: http://www.

Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

2007-10-19 Thread Sean Figgins
Martin Hannigan wrote: O&M, etc. We already know that the givens are that it's generally socially unacceptable to filter, but without Comcast's motivation being know, it's hard to speculate as to the "why" they did it. Let's not. It's not at all hard to imagine WHY. In fact, it's almost a gi

Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

2007-10-19 Thread Sean Figgins
Eric Spaeth wrote: It's worth noting that the traffic Comcast is filtering is called out in their Terms of Use in the "PROHIBITED USES AND ACTIVITIES" section, paragraph xiv. http://www.comcast.net/terms/use.jsp That section could be applied to every application that you would run on your

Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

2007-10-19 Thread Sean Figgins
Mike Lewinski wrote: I wonder what happens to these network police appliances (Sandvine, Packeteer etc) when the P2Ps implement encryption and tunnel it all over 443/tcp? Most vendors claim to be able to look into the payload and determine that it is p2p traffic instead of http/https traff

Cisco Interface configuration control

2007-08-01 Thread Sean Figgins
I'm looking to see if anyone has used the "privilege" configuration options on Cisco routers and switches to control interfaces that users are allowed to configure. I'm looking to allow a certain set of our users to only configure a set of interfaces, while allowing our top-level operations