Re: Wow, just when you though big government was someone else's problem

2009-04-05 Thread John Schnizlein
) Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 4/1/2009 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Marc -- Marc Sachs Director, SANS ISC -Original Message- From: John Schnizlein [mailto:schnizl...@isoc.org

Re: Wow, just when you though big government was someone else's problem

2009-04-04 Thread John Schnizlein
I suggest that we wait until the actual text of S.778 actually shows up at http://thomas.loc.gov before reacting to hyperbolic analysis of drafts not actually assigned to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Although I am concerned with what has been attributed to t

Re: TWC outage

2009-03-31 Thread John Schnizlein
are you just a little early for April Fools? :-) On 2009Mar31, at 5:43 PM, Adam Greene wrote: Based on a traceroute from a Webjogger customer, the loop was in Chicago.

Re: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?

2009-03-17 Thread John Schnizlein
Or use a transmission-layer protocol that optimizes delay end-to-end. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-shalunov-ledbat-congestion-00 On 2009Mar17, at 12:47 PM, Joe Maimon wrote: Leo Bicknell wrote: TCP needs drops to manage to the right speed. This is whats bad. TCP should be slightly more

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread John Schnizlein
On 2009Feb18, at 5:11 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 01:39:57PM -0800, Tony Hain wrote: No, the decision was to not blindly import all the excess crap from IPv4. If anyone has a reason to have a DHCPv6 option, all they need to do is specify it. The fac

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread John Schnizlein
Humor aside, the only practical answer is to show up at meetings and and on mailing lists and express your technical reasons. There are people there (in addition to me) who want the perspective of network operators. John On 2009Feb18, at 2:45 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 18/02/2009 19:39

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

2009-02-05 Thread John Schnizlein
On 2009Feb4, at 8:56 PM, TJ wrote: However, many do not "have" DHCPv6 ... WinXP, MacOS, etc. are not capable. Maybe upgrades, service packs and updates will make them capable of using DHCPv6 for useful functions such as finding the address of an available name server by the time IPv6-on

Re: 143.228.0.0/16 and house.gov

2008-10-02 Thread John Schnizlein
This will be my last response on this despite whatever spin follows. On 2008Oct2, at 4:08 PM, William Allen Simpson wrote: John Schnizlein wrote: I connected the internal network of the US House of Representatives to the Internet when I worked there, and operated it through both Democratic

Re: 143.228.0.0/16 and house.gov

2008-10-02 Thread John Schnizlein
Is this really technical discussion of operation of networks? I connected the internal network of the US House of Representatives to the Internet when I worked there, and operated it through both Democratic and Republican control. I never saw any snooping by either party of the network tr