Re: Backup DC power standardization with Photovoltiac battery systems?

2023-04-14 Thread Joe Greco
On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 07:17:23PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > All these darn wall warts are almost, but slightly different (5v, 12v, > 24v). No -48v CPE? Ubiquiti EdgeRouter PoE 5 can use 48VDC. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "

Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-05 Thread Joe Greco
but without a clear mechanism to continue to be in compliance. This could become a full time job, if the defendants want to play the game right. "israel.tv"? "1srael.tv" (with a "1" or "L" for the first letter, etc). Is anybody here considering recov

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-04-04 Thread Joe Greco
tribution. Doesn't even begin to touch on pwnage issues. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false

Re: Cogent ...

2022-03-31 Thread Joe Greco
w cheap it was sold to some other party? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means th

Re: PoE, Comcast Modems, and Service Outages

2022-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
27;t about general problems. This is about a tech claiming it's due to PoE, and that he's seen it often before. I certainly have a lot of sympathy for cable techs, but that doesn't mean I want to swallow any random garbage they want to blame issues on. Please just tell me it's the

Re: PoE, Comcast Modems, and Service Outages

2022-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
ng to resolve a real issue. So if you want the $100 test to eliminate PoE electrical effects, get a pair of media converters and run fiber between them. Put the CPE on the far end. Optimize as appropriate if you have SFP-capable switches. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee,

Re: PoE, Comcast Modems, and Service Outages

2022-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
g with an open mind, but I draw the line at crazy. Given that so much of the world works on PoE, it seems like the other potential resolution would be to note that there's an implication here by the tech that Comcast's hardware is standards noncompliant and ask them what they plan to re

Re: PoE, Comcast Modems, and Service Outages

2022-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
d-up"? What crontab is there that would clear out such buildups in the router's daily run? What capacitor would store up juice for precisely 24 hours? What's the mechanism here? CURIOUS MINDS WANT TO KNOW! Been doing PoE everywhere for years and this is the stupidest thing I'

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-26 Thread Joe Greco
much more productive, if you're going to be touching gear, to move towards IPv6. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurt

Re: ISP data collection from home routers

2022-03-24 Thread Joe Greco
ked does not mean that everyone is fine with it. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democr

Re: "Permanent" DST

2022-03-15 Thread Joe Greco
ability hours, rather than giving someone hours AND a timezone and making them do the math. If I say that I'm available for an hour at 22:00 UTC, that works out anywhere on the globe. But do you know what timezone "CDT" is? When's "17:00 CDT"? ... JG -- Joe Gre

Re: V6 still not supported (was Re: CC: s to Non List Members (was Re: 202203080924.AYC Re: 202203071610.AYC Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock))

2022-03-10 Thread Joe Greco
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 09:55:42AM +0200, Saku Ytti wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 21:00, Joe Greco wrote: > > I really never thought it'd be 2022 and my networks would be still > > heavily v4. Mind boggling. > > Same. And if we don't voluntarily agree to do somet

Re: V6 still not supported (was Re: CC: s to Non List Members (was Re: 202203080924.AYC Re: 202203071610.AYC Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock))

2022-03-09 Thread Joe Greco
differences feel like arrogant protocol developers who know what's best for you and are going to make you comply with their idea of how the world should work, complexity be damned. I really never thought it'd be 2022 and my networks would be still heavily v4. Mind boggling. ... JG --

Re: Is soliciting money/rewards for 'responsible' security disclosures when none is stated a thing now?

2022-03-04 Thread Joe Greco
within your organization. These could be used to target those people with malware, or to forge legitimate-looking e-mails "from" your security department to your other employees. It is likely that no good can come of engaging with these. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services

Re: Russian aligned ASNs?

2022-02-24 Thread Joe Greco
lware. But this has to include service providers giving a damn about what they let their customers spew out onto the network, and it's been many years since it became clear that profit margin won out over being a decent netizen. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee,

Re: Russian aligned ASNs?

2022-02-24 Thread Joe Greco
alternative DNS or even network, etc., are given encouragement if you cut them off. It may be best to focus on things that are less IP-centric and more of a problem-solving variety. Running a good Tor node, by any chance? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http:

Re: LEC copper removal from commercial properties

2022-02-16 Thread Joe Greco
. Pity I didn't know that when I removed it while cleaning up the huge mess. And yes of course I checked that all the pairs were dead. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread w

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-11 Thread Joe Greco
the opportunity for DNSSEC to reduce the chance of an ISP to muck with the intended result. We could even call it the Enhanced Link Verification Internet Service. "ping elvis" :-P ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-09 Thread Joe Greco
On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 11:21:26PM +, Mark Delany wrote: > On 09Feb22, Joe Greco allegedly wrote: > > > So what people really want is to be able to "ping internet" and so far > > the easiest thing people have been able to find is "ping 8.8.8.8" or

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-09 Thread Joe Greco
atively simple thing complicated, and we'll end up needing a special non-ping client and some trainwreck of names and other hard-to-grok garbage, and then we're perilously close to coming back to the current situation where people are using arbitrary targets out on the Internet for conne

Re: Log4j mitigation

2021-12-13 Thread Joe Greco
s there for, after all. Right? I don't care if it misses 9% or 99% or 99.997%. If I can generate some cheap and easy hits, without finding out about problems the Equifax way, I don't see the harm in that. Sometimes we do things "just in case." ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net

Re: Log4j mitigation

2021-12-13 Thread Joe Greco
Of course, then again, we also have two AC sump pumps and one that is battery backup, all protected by generator and ATS. I prefer to know. You, of course, are free to disregard as you see fit. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of

Re: Log4j mitigation

2021-12-13 Thread Joe Greco
In my experience, this tends to reveal issues that might have been forgotten or never known about to begin with. Most organizations have a variety of zombie legacy systems that were set up by people on staff several generations ago. The more tools at your disposal to identify breached systems, the

Re: Log4j mitigation

2021-12-13 Thread Joe Greco
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:39:58PM +0100, J??rg Kost wrote: > You can't see it. I think you meant "you can't reliably see it". This doesn't mean that it isn't worth looking for obvious cases where you CAN see it. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Networ

Re: Facebook post-mortems...

2021-10-05 Thread Joe Greco
that the problem is on Facebook's side quickly and easily. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notio

Re: Facebook post-mortems...

2021-10-05 Thread Joe Greco
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 02:57:42PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 10/5/21 14:52, Joe Greco wrote: > > >That's not quite true. It still gives much better clue as to what is > >going on; if a host resolves to an IP but isn't pingable/traceroutable, > &g

Re: Facebook post-mortems...

2021-10-05 Thread Joe Greco
't magically get you service back, of course, but it leaves a better story behind than simply vanishing from the network. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its

Re: Rack rails on network equipment

2021-09-25 Thread Joe Greco
ing up a TON of space. A full "pod" could be reduced to 3x USR TC's, so two whole pods could be replaced with a single rack of gear. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread

Re: Rack rails on network equipment

2021-09-24 Thread Joe Greco
e, but the best part of having rails is having the support on the back end. > Also, I hate 0U power, for that very reason, there's never room to > move devices in and out of the rack if you do rear-mount networking. Very true. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee

Re: Carriers need to independently verify LOAs

2021-04-19 Thread Joe Greco
gling a company with a hundred thousand employees, calling their contact number on the Web, and getting through to anybody who knows anything at all about IT, well, you can spend a day at it and still have gotten nowhere. It's too bad that this information is so frequently redacted for privacy.

Re: more bad lawyering about Parler

2021-01-11 Thread Joe Greco
. Are there examples that do not conflate other areas of the law? Given the subject here, it seems relevant to want examples closer to what Parler and service providers providing them services or connectivity might need to consider. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwau

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Joe Greco
istressing, but I am not so libertarian as to insist that others pay for this stuff with their lives. I don't have any idea what the correct answer is, though. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Joe Greco
en rid of it? > > c = 186,282 miles/second > 2742 miles from Seattle to Washington DC mainly driving I-90 > > 2742/186282 ~= 0.015 seconds Speed of light in a fiber is more like 124K miles per second. It depends on the refractive index. And of course amplifiers and stuff. ...

Re: Partial vs Full tables

2020-06-08 Thread Joe Greco
Yes, it is. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is

Re: Curious Cloudflare DNS behavior

2020-05-31 Thread Joe Greco
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:07:41AM -0600, Keith Medcalf wrote: > On Saturday, 30 May, 2020 13:18, Joe Greco wrote: > > >The Internet didn't evolve in the way its designers expected. Early > >mistakes and errors required terrible remediation. As an example, look > >

Re: Curious Cloudflare DNS behavior

2020-05-30 Thread Joe Greco
trend of sending your workloads onto someone else's cloud. It seems easy -- right up until it isn't working the way you want it to. But for most people, even those frequenting NANOG, maybe they just don't want to go set up their own recursion nameservice. I'm not sayin

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Joe Greco
isco hardware let me do this for less money > then I would pay for a buggy ubiquiti router. [assuming that was supposed to be "Used Cisco hardware"] Veering way off topic here, I wasn't aware that there were layer 3 stackable Cisco switches that could handle full BGP tables.

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Joe Greco
IPv6 support. And this is their high end 10G full BGP tables router. Buyer beware. The wifi side of things? Yes, the Ubiquiti stuff is very inexpensive and it provides better value-per-dollar than just about anything else out there. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI

Don't forget RFG (was: Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election)

2020-05-15 Thread Joe Greco
e the charter of the list, but on the other hand, it isn't clear that there's a better place. These things are not operational or technical issues, but eventually do come to have an impact on operations. Regards, ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - htt

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Joe Greco
ine, not "anon". Whatever happened to the good old days of Jim Fleming? sigh. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life

Re: Abuse Desks

2020-04-29 Thread Joe Greco
SSH servers to the Internet. A well-defended SSH server can do things such as allow other parties access to your server. I run a number of bastion SSH servers for various purposes. You do not need to do so in an obvious manner. That doesn't mean I'm inviting unauthorized parties to try

Re: Abuse Desks

2020-04-29 Thread Joe Greco
also a lot of room for computers to be doing the hard work of detecting and reporting, and helping to analyze, while letting a human look at what's actually transpired and see if it feels problematic. However, the general solution that seems to have been adopted by the majority of the i

Re: free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

2020-03-31 Thread Joe Greco
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 01:46:09PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > Joe Greco wrote on 29/03/2020 23:14: > >>>>Flood often works fine until you attempt to scale it. Then it breaks, > >>>>just like Bj??rn admitted. Flooding is inherently problematic at scale. > >

Re: free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

2020-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
tage. As are a bunch of other things pointed out earlier today. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false noti

Re: free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

2020-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 04:18:51PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote: > > On 3/29/20 1:46 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:46:28PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > >>Joe Greco wrote on 29/03/2020 15:56: > >> > >>The concept of flooding isn't

Re: free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

2020-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:46:28PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > Joe Greco wrote on 29/03/2020 15:56: > >On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 03:01:04PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > >>because it uses flooding and can't guarantee reliable message > >>distribution, parti

Re: free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

2020-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
capability that really instigated retention competition, and a number of optimizations that I made helped make it practical. The problem for smaller sites is simply the immense traffic volume. If you want to carry binaries, you need double digits Gbps. If you filter them out, the load is actually

Re: free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

2020-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:31:50PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > Joe Greco wrote on 29/03/2020 21:46: > >On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:46:28PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > >>>That's so hideously wrong. It's like claiming web forums don't > >>&g

Re: How to wish you hadn't forced ipv6 adoption (was "How to force

2015-10-02 Thread Joe Greco
ould that not be easier then trying to > create and maintain new blacklists? That hasn't worked spectacularly well even under IPv4. There's no reason to think it'd magically work better under v6. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.n

Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero

2015-09-25 Thread Joe Greco
7;s probably a losing game in the long run. > > Let=E2=80=99s hope (that it=E2=80=99s a losing game). Just because something is a losing game doesn't mean people won't play that game. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net &qu

Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero

2015-09-25 Thread Joe Greco
e 1MB of flash and 2MB RAM (it's been a decade so the particulars may be wrong). Only in the relatively rare cases where a manufacturer left a lot of extra room (WRT54GL, etc) are you likely to have sufficient extra space to do updates to gear. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Servi

Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero

2015-09-24 Thread Joe Greco
you $2560/month just for the IP space (at $10/IP)? That'd be an incentive to look seriously at IPv6 I *think*. Switching hosting providers will probably become a popular game for the early depletion era, as providers attempt to rob each other of customers. That's probably a losin

Re: Ear protection

2015-09-24 Thread Joe Greco
> > On Sep 23, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > >=20 > > Passive cooling typically translates to lower performance but also can > > be more expensive. > > $DAYJOB uses an immersion cooling system so it=E2=80=99s higher = > performance and much quieter. T

Re: Ear protection

2015-09-23 Thread Joe Greco
al is less tolerable, so I've taken to always keeping a pair of earplugs with me. It makes being around loud music, etc., much more enjoyable. Long term exposure to noise is widely considered to be a hazard, but walking into an average data center for an hour once a month is probably not that

Re: Ear protection

2015-09-23 Thread Joe Greco
> Why not just build a Datacenter that is quiet? Because the cost differential to do so is a lot greater than the $10 to get some hearing protection? Passive cooling typically translates to lower performance but also can be more expensive. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Servi

Re: Ear protection

2015-09-23 Thread Joe Greco
because they fold up really nicely. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000U439KO About the same dB reduction (21) as the above. You can of course use both of these products together for a much higher degree of noise reduction but I rarely find myself needing that. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol

Re: RES: Exploits start against flaw that could hamstring huge swaths

2015-08-04 Thread Joe Greco
nt products cooperatively providing a service are likely to have a higher uptime in a well-designed environment. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won'

Re: RES: Exploits start against flaw that could hamstring huge swaths of

2015-08-04 Thread Joe Greco
etty much THE only option for some functionality). ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n

Re: Exploits start against flaw that could hamstring huge swaths of

2015-08-04 Thread Joe Greco
and instead moving to a heterogeneous environment where possible. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass

Re: Windows 10 Release

2015-07-30 Thread Joe Greco
the option being hidden away, because it is in Microsoft's interest to get everyone using the Windows cloud magic. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I wo

Re: Windows 10 Release

2015-07-30 Thread Joe Greco
a Microsoft Account or linking to their existing one. You have to trawl around a little to get the better (IMHO) behaviour. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] the

Re: Windows 10 Release

2015-07-29 Thread Joe Greco
apocalypse. People have willingly been exchanging their privacy for free services on the Internet for many years. Those of us who prefer not to rely on those services are also able to navigate that maze. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "

Re: Windows 10 Release

2015-07-29 Thread Joe Greco
> You can download an ISO and burn it to install... Guessing if your > upgrading multiple machines, that would be the way to go... You don't even need to burn it to install. Just mount the ISO and run setup.exe ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://

Re: Windows 10 Release

2015-07-29 Thread Joe Greco
o more work to undo the decisions made at this step on their behalf. I do think it is rotten that the defaults for the options are all "on." ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple'

Re: SIP trunking providers

2015-07-20 Thread Joe Greco
POTS or T1 gatewaying. In general, it isn't practical to do on a small scale any more, especially as one looks forward a few years to the inevitable dismantling of the legacy POTS network. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the &

Re: Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with

2015-07-08 Thread Joe Greco
> On 7/7/2015 5:39 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > > Unclear at best. The way it is implemented, the user has the potential > > to go either way. A network might not want the user to have the > > choice, clearly, but there is certainly a subset of users who will opt > > out

Re: Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with

2015-07-07 Thread Joe Greco
> On 06/07/15 19:12, Joe Greco wrote: > >> Terrible idea. These are the kind of features that should be opt in, and > >> Microsoft could have done that instead. > > > > It *is* an option. > > Opt-in and opt-out are two models of having an option. > &g

Re: Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with

2015-07-07 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 21:12:55 -0500, Joe Greco said: > > > http://winaero.com/blog/windows-10-build-10074-features-a-reworked-setup-experience/ > > > > Anyways, if you look on the first page of "Customize settings", yes > > there's an option for &q

Re: Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with

2015-07-07 Thread Joe Greco
"Sean Donelan" writes: > On Mon, 6 Jul 2015, Joe Greco wrote: > > Anyways, if you look on the first page of "Customize settings", yes > > there's an option for "Automatically connect to networks shared by my > > contacts" and it CAN be

Re: Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with

2015-07-06 Thread Joe Greco
at 50 of my best friends on NANOG are suddenly (and unexpectedly) populating WiFi passwords at me. I suppose I could be wrong, but it's amazing how many LinkedIn invites I get from people I've never heard of, who seem to only have a mailing list in common, etc. ... JG -- Joe Greco

Re: Low Cost 10G Router

2015-05-19 Thread Joe Greco
that does not eat lots of space. > Also: 1.4Mpps per 10G link doesnt seem like the minimum packetsize one wants > for > handling DOS attacks, but I might be bad at math. Always an issue. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We c

Re: Low Cost 10G Router

2015-05-19 Thread Joe Greco
The edge you get there is the higher clock on the CPU. Only six cores and only 15M cache, but 3.5GHz. The E5-2643v3 is three times the cost for very similar performance specs. Costwise, E5 single socket is the way to go unless you *need* more. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Mil

Re: Optic Vendor Coding Question

2015-03-05 Thread Joe Greco
27;re pleased with the 8132F, but we're not doing anything too awful stressy with them. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Joe Greco
his a reasonable point. Remember that the National Information Infrastructure was supposed to deliver 45Mbps symmetric connections to the end user back in the '90's, a visionary goal but one that was ultimately subverted in the name of telco profits. http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/arti

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
antly more than the expected peak rate," then there is no longer incentive for customers to buy more than the most basic tier of service. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-27 Thread Joe Greco
Just try uploading a DVD ISO image for VM deployment from home to work ... The current service offerings generally seem to avoid offering high upstream speeds entirely, and so effectively eliminate even the potential to explore the problem on a somewhat less-rigged basis. ... JG -- Joe Greco -

Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations

2015-01-26 Thread Joe Greco
;ll note that Ubiquiti has some remarkable low-power gear capable of 1Mpps+. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - D

Re: Got a call at 4am - RAID Gurus Please Read

2014-12-10 Thread Joe Greco
to fix pool corruption with ZFS. Ideally use RAIDZ2 or RAIDZ3 to provide more appropriate levels of protection. Errors introduced into a pool can cause substantial unrecoverable damage to the pool, so you really want the bitrot detection and correction mechanisms to be working "as designed.

Re: Equinix Virginia - Ethernet OOB suggestions

2014-11-10 Thread Joe Greco
shburn and could do it, and that this is basically a nonstarter for us. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-11-02 Thread Joe Greco
y kinda expect that they can shovel 100Mbps down that circuit. No amount of "but you should expect that there's packaging and you should just /knoow/ (whine added for emphasis) that means only 80Mbps usable" is really going to change that. That's why I designed an analogy that is m

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-31 Thread Joe Greco
it is fine to count the number of gallons pulled out of their tank instead of the amount given to the customer. > Like I mentioned before, this is not unique to networking, it's a broader > concern in the design of any system or process. Finding new ways to give the customer less

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread Joe Greco
k out (IP header overhead, etc). If not, I'm at a bit of a loss. As a customer, how do I identify that my traffic is actually going over an ATM-over-MPLS-over-VPN-over-whatever- other-bitrobbing-tech circuit and that I should only expect to see 60% of the speed advertised? ... JG -- Joe Gr

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-22 Thread Joe Greco
D as "not host(ing) virtualization" when so much effort has been put into that very issue, specifically so that we could gain the advantages of a BSD hypervisor that supported ZFS natively... ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-22 Thread Joe Greco
It is a bit immature compared to Xen+Ganeti or something like that. > would love it if debian ditched this systemd > monstrosity and provided solid zfs. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple&#

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Joe Greco
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > > But to make a long story short, and my memory's perhaps a bit rusty > > now, but my recollection is that shorter URL's looked nicer and there > > was significant money to be had running the registry, so th

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Joe Greco
rusty now, but my recollection is that shorter URL's looked nicer and there was significant money to be had running the registry, so there was some heavy lobbying against retiring .GOV in favor of .FED.US (and other .US locality domains). ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milw

Re: Marriott wifi blocking

2014-10-06 Thread Joe Greco
more subtle radio shenanigans, and they have the authority to sort it all out, so what we should really be hoping for is that the FCC doesn't do something onerous like mandate registration of access point MAC's and SSID's if and when it gets to a point where it is considered a true prob

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)

2014-05-15 Thread Joe Greco
> That link is broken and insists that I install a windows upgrade for = > Flash on my Mac. Try http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/fcc-votes-for-internet-fast-lanes-but-could-change-its-mind-later/ ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.n

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP

2014-05-15 Thread Joe Greco
d I agree to buy a car together and agree to sw= > itch off who uses it every other day, can I just say "forget our agreement = > =96 I=92m just going to drive the car myself every single day =96 its all m= > ine=94? Seems like a poor analogy since I'm pretty sure both parties on

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP

2014-05-15 Thread Joe Greco
od connectivity to there, then that's dumb. Perhaps you should figure out how to arrange peering with sites where there's obviously going to be an unrectifiable traffic imbalance. You're a service provider. What should your goal be? I would have thought it obvious: Provid

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)

2014-05-15 Thread Joe Greco
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Ryan Brooks wrote: > > On 5/15/14, 11:58 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> 2) Netflix purchases 5Mbps "fast lane" > > > > I appreciate Joe's use of quotation marks here.A lot of the dialog has > > included this &#x

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)

2014-05-15 Thread Joe Greco
ut how you've managed to acquire transit customers, that feels like the start of a dishonest discussion because basically most of us here wouldn't buy transit from a cable company unless it was the only available option, or there was some other distorting reason - such as congestion - th

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)

2014-05-15 Thread Joe Greco
mand-for-fiber-gigabit-internet Wow. What a load! But it basically serves to highlight my point. I guess some of us are just tired of watching the Internet that we helped to build and helped to grow get taken over by interests who are simply looking to suck as much money out of as many poc

Re: Residential CPE suggestions

2014-05-07 Thread Joe Greco
ience the ERL works really well for a $99 device.=20 I sent them an inquiry and they sent a friendly but fact-free response so it is probably safe to assume that it is relatively good at basic packet forwarding but the services will kill it. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwa

Re: Residential CPE suggestions

2014-05-06 Thread Joe Greco
hings suffer if you load them down with a full table? Or a handful of firewall rules? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again."

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-24 Thread Joe Greco
> it involves two layers of heterogeneous firewalls (protecting multiple ^ Ugh. Knew I was forgetting something. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple'

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-24 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> all successful security is about _defense in depth_. > >> If it is inaccessible, unrouted, unroutable and unaddressable then you > >> have four layers of security. If it is merely inaccessible and > >>

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-24 Thread Joe Greco
uate horrid IPv4 hacks that were necessary for specific reasons into IPv6 where those hacks are no longer needed. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-24 Thread Joe Greco
s and other folly. This is overall a bad thing for the Internet, and for the development of future protocols and applications. Time to give up two layers of meaningless security for the riches offered by the vastness of the new address space. If this job were easy, anyone could do it. ... JG -- Joe

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-24 Thread Joe Greco
e. So guess what. In this case, we actually spent the money to do it already and in return we got shafted with U-Verse. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won&#

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