Re: Comparison of freeware open source switch software?

2018-01-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:17:59 -0500, Hank Nussbacher wrote: so to clarify I am interested only in bare-metal or whitebox swicthes and freeware, open source software. It's my understanding that there simply is no such thing. Because none of the HARDWARE has open source code. Sure, anyone can

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 21:05:33 -0500, Owen DeLong wrote: If you want to make that argument, that we shouldn’t have SLAAC and we should use /96 prefixes, that wouldn’t double the space, it would multiply it by roughly 4 billion. I'm saying I should be able to use whatever size LAN I want. The

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 21:15:45 -0500, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: On Dec 28, 2017, at 6:11 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: If that's the case, it will be because there were few restrictions placed upon that address space. And if some genius comes up with something that burns through all the IPv6 addres

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:50:54 -0500, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: IPv6 prefixes are not databases. Coding this sort of thing into your address space is silly. And a 2^64 LAN, or ptp link, isn't? People have been doing this for decades. They did it before NAT! NAT just made it that much easier.

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:35:08 -0500, Owen DeLong wrote: Wasting 2^64 addresses was intentional because the original plan was for a 64-bit total address and the additional 64 bits was added to make universal 64-bit subnets a no-brainer. Incorrect. The original 128 address space was split 80+4

Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions?

2017-09-01 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:52:40 -0400, Rod Beck wrote: I don't think there is virtually any aerial in Europe. So given the cost difference why is virtually all fiber buried on this side of the Atlantic? Aerial is simple and fast... pull the cable through a stringer, move to the next pole an

Re: SHA1 collisions proven possisble

2017-02-23 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:21:19 -0500, wrote: We negotiate a contract with terms favorable to you. You sign it (or more correctly, sign the SHA-1 hash of the document). ... When you can do that in the timespan of weeks or days, get back to me. Today, it takes years to calculate a collision,

Re: SHA1 collisions proven possisble

2017-02-23 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:03:34 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: More seriously: The attack (or at least as much as we can glean from the blog post) cannot find a collision (file with same hash) from an arbitrary file. The attack creates two files which have the same hash, which is scary, but

Re: Arista unqualified SFP

2016-08-18 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:05:30 -0400, Tim Jackson wrote: "As I'm sure you know, Arista is not the only manufacturer that has made this choice. Unlike our competition, we work to make our optics pricing competitive, but we'll never be as low as the "Taiwan specials" that you see floating around. I

Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels

2016-06-14 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:47:18 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: NAT may not be security, yet it's the only thing securing billions of people. Nope… NAT Can’t be done without stateful inspection. Negative. - 1:1 NAT (inside address A == outside address B) requires no state of any kind. - Connectio

Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels

2016-06-10 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 23:57:08 -0400, Randy Bush wrote: zero interoperability, and no viable migration paths, it's a Forklift Upgrade(tm). You say that with such confidence! Doesn't make it true. https://archive.psg.com/120206.nanog-v4-life-extension.pdf randy, who works for the first isp to

Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels

2016-06-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:41:05 -0400, Baldur Norddahl wrote: Then he reads on NANOG that since he has IPv6 he can just connect to the camera with that. ... Only to find the built-in stateful firewall blocks unsolicited inbound connections. Now he has to figure out how to manipulate ACLs. Or

Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels

2016-06-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:17:37 -0400, Mark Andrews wrote: The average consumer wants a "internet connection". And sadly, they haven't a clue what that means. They plug the thing into the other thing, and they can click on things in their web browser. They're why we have boxes with color code

Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels

2016-06-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:32:24 -0400, Adam Rothschild wrote: How can we, as a community, help move the needle on v6 deployment on broadband networks, in cases where competitive forces and market pressure don't exist? You left out "consumer demand". And I would add consumer knowledge as well -

Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels

2016-06-08 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 17:24:48 -0400, Matthew Huff wrote: What does https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo show for your IPv6 prefix? If it is incorrect, try https://support.maxmind.com/geoip-data-correction-request/ HAH. Funny... 39.76,-98.5 for every HE address I enter. And it's not like

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-06 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 19:41:14 -0400, Mark Andrews wrote: What lie? Truly who is lying here. Not the end user. Not HE. There is no requirement to report physical location. The general lie that is IP Geolocation. HE only has what I tell them (100% unverified), and what MaxMind (et.al.) tell

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-06 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:44:14 -0400, wrote: And if Netflix can't be bothered to consult rwhois for the ownership (which could be used for other use cases as well), they certainly aren't going to do *new* code as a one-off. Said by someone who's never written (r)whois parsers. There's no standar

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-06 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:08:13 -0400, John Peach wrote: The whois information on the HE IPv6 address, does give the location. At least, it does on mine. It lists the location of the user's registration -- which could very well be a lie as they do nothing at all to verify it. AND that has zero

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-06 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 19:35:27 -0400, Mark Andrews wrote: It is a attack on HE. HE also provides stable user -> address mappings so you can do fine grained geo location based on HE IPv6 addresses. They may be "fine grained", but they are still lies. One's tunnel can be terminated from *anywhe

Re: craigslist.com admin

2016-06-02 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 02 Jun 2016 17:11:57 -0400, Todd Crane wrote: ... Curious as to what they use it for if not Web, MX, or DNS. Same thing as Earthlink, apparently. (answer: nothing. at. all.)

Re: Turning Off IPv6 for Good (was Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed)

2016-06-02 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 01 Jun 2016 23:47:59 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 There is an epic lesson here. I'm just not sure what it is. :-) - - ferg https://youtu.be/SlA9hmrC8DU?t=2m25s

Re: CALEA

2016-05-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 10 May 2016 17:00:54 -0400, Brian Mengel wrote: AFAIK being able to do a lawful intercept on a specific, named, individual's service has been a requirement for providers since 2007. It's been required for longer than that. The telco I worked for over a decade ago didn't build the in

Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

2016-04-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:55:11 -0400, Chris Boyd wrote: Interesting article. http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/ ... "Until you reached out to us, we were unaware that there were issues..." Bull! I can dig up dozens (if not hundreds) of emails from coworkers an

Re: Stop IPv6 Google traffic

2016-04-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:03:02 -0400, Rubens Kuhl wrote: If that were the case, they'd be seeing the same via IPv4. And apparently, they aren't. Nope. If you have both A and IP addresses in DNS responses and have both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, IPv6 will be preferred, with even a bit

Re: Stop IPv6 Google traffic

2016-04-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 20:09:04 -0400, Rubens Kuhl wrote: If your users are seeing captchas, one or a few or them are likely to be infected to the point of generating too much requests to Google. If that were the case, they'd be seeing the same via IPv4. And apparently, they aren't. This also po

Re: Cogent & Google IPv6

2016-02-24 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:48:22 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: And Ricky is wrong, the vast majority of prefixes Cogent routes have zero dollars behind them. Cogent gets paid by customers, not peers. (At least not the big ones.) Show me a single connection to Cogent for which Cogent isn't b

Re: Cogent & Google IPv6

2016-02-24 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:46:56 -0500, Matt Hoppes wrote: Isn't that how the Internet is suppose to work? Perhaps. But that's not how *Cogent* works. They have a very idiotic view of "Tier 1". They have no transit connections with anyone; someone is paying them for every prefix they accept.

Re: Another Big day for IPv6 - 10% native penetration

2016-01-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 19:42:45 -0500, Owen DeLong wrote: If you come from IPv4, in the first week that new content is posted, instead of the new content, you get a video explaining the need to get a better internet connection and that the content you want will be available to the legacy inter

Re: Another Big day for IPv6 - 10% native penetration

2016-01-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 11:21:14 -0500, Jon Lewis wrote: Just a reminder, that 10% is a global number. And it's not "native". A great many (myself included) have IPv6 *by choice* through various tunnels. And AT&T (Uverse) isn't "native" either -- it's a 6rd tunnel their gateways have been prog

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Re: /27 the new /24

2015-10-08 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 18:45:38 -0400, Mike wrote: WE DO NOT HAVE realistic choices. Or, apparently, realistic expectations. You, do, indeed, deserve public shaming for your complete lack of willingness to support IPv6. Your customers have no "realistic choices" either. How many other ISPs

Re: Synful Knock questions...

2015-09-15 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 14:35:44 -0400, Michael Douglas wrote: Does anyone have a sample of a backdoored IOS image? The IOS image isn't what gets modified. ROMMON is altered to patch IOS after decompression before passing control to it. I don't know WTF they're going on and on about "file si

Re: Working with Spamhaus

2015-07-31 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 17:28:34 -0400, Jaren Angerbauer wrote: I work for Proofpoint -- we acquired SORBS back in 2011. Hint: The Internet has a LONG memory. The liberal and numerous dropping of "for free" makes me laugh. "You" knew the tainted nature of what you were buying. Nobody, to this

Re: AT&T U-Verse Data Setup Convention

2015-07-30 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:02:06 -0400, Keith Stokes wrote: 1. Is it really accurate that the customer’s address is tied to the modem/router? To the 802.1x identity of the device, yes. That's the unit serial number, which (partial) contains the MAC. 2. For my curiosity, is this done through

Re: another tilt at the Verizon FIOS IPv6 windmill

2015-07-21 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:13:48 -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote: At least in Maine where I am, TWC does allow you to bring your own modem as long as it's DOCSIS 3 compliant and there's lots of those from motorola, netgear and others. You're not stuck with the Ubee. You are ignoring the "BUSINESS

Re: another tilt at the Verizon FIOS IPv6 windmill

2015-07-20 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 06:45:43 -0400, Seth Mos wrote: For now, all the customers with the Ubee in bridge mode are SOL. It's not clear what the reason is, but Ubee in bridge mode with IPv6 is listed on the road map. If that's intentional policy or that the firmware isn't ready yet is not clear

Re: another tilt at the Verizon FIOS IPv6 windmill

2015-07-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:25:26 -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: mean that your UBee has to do dhcpv6? (or the downstream thingy from the UBee has to do dhcpv6?) The Ubee "router" is in bridge mode. Customers have ZERO access to the thing, even when it is running in routed mode. So I have no i

Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"?

2015-07-16 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:32:19 -0400, Mark Andrews wrote: You can blame the religious zealots that insisted that everything DHCP does has to also be done via RA's. I blame the anti-DHCP crowd for a lot of things. RAs are just dumb. There's a reason IPv4 can do *everything* through DHCP -- hell

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-15 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:35:07 -0400, Joe Maimon wrote: So your point is that those who claimed it would not help managed to make it so? Would it have really hurt to remove experimental status and replace it with use at your own risk status? Even now? No. The point is it's been wired into e

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-15 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:34:13 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: That covers multicast and RFC-1918. Are there any other IPv4 segmentations that you can think of? ... Given that we came up with 3 total segmentations in IPv4 over the course #1-3,#4 RFC-1918 is 3 "segments" and we recently added a 4th

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-15 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:23:52 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: I will point out that nobody has said “what the F*** were they thinking” when they made it possible to use 4GB of RAM instead of just 640k, but lots of people have said “what the F*** were they thinking when they limited it to 640k.”

Re: another tilt at the Verizon FIOS IPv6 windmill

2015-07-15 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:20:11 -0400, Lee Howard wrote: Business Class DOCSIS customers get a prefix automatically (unless you provide your own gateway and DHCPv6 isn¹t enabled). I looked last night at the office in Cary, NC. NO RAs are seen on the link coming from the Ubee (bridged) providing

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-15 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:20:08 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: That's the big difference - IPv6 has been designed to provide abundant address space. There is no amount of fixed address space that can't be consumed with stupid allocation policies. True. However, are you making the argument that any

Re: another tilt at the Verizon FIOS IPv6 windmill

2015-07-13 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 17:32:33 -0400, Ca By wrote: Yes, move your business to TWC. TWC has a proven v6 deployment and is actively engaged in the community, as where vz Fios is not. Yes, because TWC-BC's IPv6 support is stellar. Sorry, I misspelled "non-existent". Their "DIA" (metro-e) stuff

Re: Also Facebook (was: Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion)

2015-07-10 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 06:14:16 -0400, John Curran wrote: If there are “holes” in the methodology, then they are quite consistent holes... They are mere statistics. They say only what they say without any measured margin of error. For Google, their numbers are collected via javascript embedd

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-10 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:06:03 -0400, Mel Beckman wrote: It's like going to a Starbucks as a homeless person with just pocket change, and ordering the cheapest coffee on the menu, and being told "Oh, that's for off-planet visitors only. It says so on our website under "Terms and Conditions."

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 21:15:57 -0400, Karl Auer wrote: Actually I was mentioning thousands. Dozens, millions, whatever. Pick something and get on with it already. What you personally don't foresee is pretty much irrelevant to what will actually happen... And planning for a future that doesn'

Re: Also Facebook (was: Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion)

2015-07-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 21:48:06 -0400, John Curran wrote: Both techniques indicate more than 20% of the US Internet users are connecting via IPv6. Interesting method that's full of holes (and they know it), but it's data nonetheless. Globally, it's still ~4.5%. Within my own pool of provider

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:08:56 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: the reality I’m trying to point out is that application developers make assumptions based on the commonly deployed environment that they expect in the world. Partially. It's also a matter of the software guys not having any clue what-s

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:23:29 -0400, Naslund, Steve wrote: That would be Tivo's fault wouldn't it. Partially, even mostly... it's based on Bonjour. That's why the shit doesn't work "over the internet". (It's just http/https, so it will, in fact, work, but their apps aren't designed to wo

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:05:00 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: Look again… IPv6 is already more than 20% of Google traffic in the US. 20% of *1* site's traffic does not equal 20% DEPLOYMENT. (read: 20% of internet DEVICES (CPE) connected by IPv6)

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 16:00:35 -0400, Naslund, Steve wrote: Now, if we assume that VLAN based security is weak and that most homes do not generate enough broadcast traffic to be an issue, what exactly is the reason that a residential customer needs a lot of VLANs? Answer, they probably don'

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 11:08:53 -0400, Marco Teixeira wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Harald Koch wrote: The "common man" is becoming much more sophisticated in their networking requirements, and they need this stuff to just work. Please don't place artificially small limits just because

Re: Possible Sudden Uptick in ASA DOS?

2015-07-09 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 07:27:16 -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: Really just people not patching their software after warnings more than six months ago: A lot goes into "updates". Not the least of which is *knowing* about the issue. Then getting the patched code, then lab testing, then regulatory

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-08 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:49:17 -0400, Karl Auer wrote: You, we, all of us have to stop using the present to limit the future. What IS should not be used to define what SHOULD BE. What people NOW HAVE in their homes should not be used to dictate to them what they CAN HAVE in their homes, which is

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-08 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:32:35 -0400, Mel Beckman wrote: You have to draw the limbs somewhere. Why not 512 bits? 1024? The IETF engineers that thought about this long and hard and discussed the topic we've just had, and a thousands of other topics, decided on 128. I'm inclined to give them th

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-08 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:13:24 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:19:52 -0500, Mike Hammett said: /56 even seems a bit excessive for a residential user, but *shrugs* It goes pretty quick when each WNDR3800 running CeroWRT will chew through 4 bits worth of subnets just by powering on, and even

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-08 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:19:52 -0400, Mike Hammett wrote: /56 even seems a bit excessive for a residential user, but *shrugs* That's why some hand out a /60, but only if you ask for it. Otherwise, you get only a single /64. Of course, HE will give you a /48 at the click of the mouse.

Re: Debian RWHOIS

2015-07-08 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:12:47 -0400, Jeff Walter wrote: he basically told me RWHOIS was dead It is most certainly NOT dead. It is, and always has been, a very small userbase. SWIP has always been a pain in the ass. Modern web-ized methods are more acceptable, but still an ugly mess. But, th

Re: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

2015-06-30 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:28:13 -0400, Justin M. Streiner wrote: There are still isolated pockets of devices out there speaking IPX, DECnet, Appletalk, etc Indeed. I'm one of them. (rarely) ... IPX managed print server. It speaks IP, but cannot be managed by IP. I'd throw it away, but it func

Re: How long will it take to completely get rid of IPv4 or will it happen at all?

2015-06-29 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:58:24 -0400, Alexander Maassen wrote: Before that will happen. Isp's will first try cgnat and the alikes. They already are. And, depending on the network, have for eons. Have you checked the IP used by your cellphone? (the last few times I bothered to look... somewh

Re: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

2015-06-29 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:23:27 -0400, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: IPX ruled the roost, very popularly, for a little while. How long did it take to die? It isn't dead yet, but it's certainly on the endangered list. Why did it die? The death of Novell NetWare (and their transitioned to IP) kill

Re: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

2015-06-29 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 08:35:34 -0400, Rafael Possamai wrote: How long do you think it will take to completely get rid of IPv4? Or is it even going to happen at all? Things like IPX and token-ring are still around. IPv4 isn't going anywhere for decades. (if ever) Mostly because there are thin

Re: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

2015-06-29 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 23:58:27 -0400, William Astle wrote: Like certain data centers attached to AS701 in Canada. Or their end customers all over the world. Of course, they're no different than most other carriers. At the time we moved into this office, TWC wasn't available [TWCBC] (but they

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:17:53 -0400, Ca By wrote: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilson-class-e-02 Proposed and denied. Please stop this line and spend your efforts on ipv6 By APNIC. Cisco did, too, btw. And they weren't first, either. Nor is this going to be the last time someone sugges

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:38:32 -0400, William Herrin wrote: You may be confused. ARIN never possessed class E; it's held in reserve by IETF. As much as I enjoy a good ARIN bashing, they and John Curran are quite faultless here. Quote-unquote, as in they didn't even bother *even proposing* to use

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:07:25 -0400, Luan Nguyen wrote: Is that safe to use internally? Anyone using it? Just for NATTING on Cisco gears... As you've already figured out, Class E space is still restricted on Cisco gear. I'll wait for Curran to pop up with various links to reasons why Class

Re: 2.4Ghz 40Mhz 802.11n wifi and Apple Macbook

2015-06-15 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:09:16 -0400, Steve Mikulasik wrote: Is this one of those requirements that gets ignored? I have seen plenty of 40Mhz SSIDs polluting spectrum in areas with lots of overlapping APs. It's not supposed to be. But what is (originally) submitted for testing and what you g

Re: 2.4Ghz 40Mhz 802.11n wifi and Apple Macbook

2015-06-15 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:17:52 -0400, Colton Conor wrote: So assuming you live in a decent sized house/lot, should you really care about squatting all over the entire band? I mean sure I can see my neighbors wifi signals... *DING* There's your problem. It doesn't matter if you can link and pass

Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

2015-06-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:42:07 -0400, Laszlo Hanyecz wrote: It looks to me like Lorenzo wants the same thing as most everyone here, It doesn't look like that from my chair. He doesn't want to implement DHCPv6 (and has REFUSED to do so for YEARS now) because he cannot find solutions for ever

Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

2015-06-10 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 00:58:06 -0400, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Jon Bane wrote: DHCPv6 - RFC3315 - Category: Standards Track 464XLAT - RFC6877 - Category: Informational Ooo, that's fun, can I play too? We aren't asking you to support BGP, or SNMP. We're DEMAND

Re: optical gear cooling requirements

2015-03-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:52:44 -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote: Remember the Ascend MAX TNT and the sideways left-right airflow? ... Indeed I do. I see you've heard the story of PSINet melting components as well. We used USR(3Com) TotalControl hardware: vertical venting. The chimney effect w

Re: Charter ARP Leak

2014-12-29 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:41:45 -0500, Corey Touchet wrote: We'll I would for one be very interested if the 8 ARP packets a second count against the caps. Depends on where and what counters they probe. I would assume they look at "unicast" fields, so it wouldn't counted. (of course, *I* wou

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

2014-12-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 19:33:03 -0500, Owen DeLong wrote: In short, the only thing really truly wrong with this scenario is that Comcast is using equipment that the subscriber should have exclusive control over (they are renting it, so while Comcast retains ownership, they have relinquished m

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

2014-12-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:46:24 -0500, Livingood, Jason wrote: By this logic they are all dumping gas on the fire as well. I'm not denying it's a big fire. But adding additional 2.4Ghz radios Is. Not. Helping. Because "everything else is" is not a reason for one of the largest companies in t

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

2014-12-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:32:06 -0500, Spencer Gaw wrote: Your reading comprehension could use some work: That was post *AFTER* my comment. And it doesn't say the xfinity service is running on its own dedicated radio, just that it has more than one radio in it -- which it would having ac (5gh

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

2014-12-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:08:51 -0500, Livingood, Jason wrote: ... Behavioral economics would suggest that opt-in rates are almost always lower than opt-out. There's two ways to look at it: a) Everyone knows about it. Few would bother to opt-in, many would bother to opt-out. b) Few ("no one")

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

2014-12-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:26:37 -0500, Josh Luthman wrote: Not correct. If it's on one radio it's using the same RF space it was before, just with a virtual SSID. Just like the atheros or Ruckus stuff it's the same RF space with an additional BSSID bridged to a different software bridge or ps

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

2014-12-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:41:24 -0500, Livingood, Jason wrote: ...But 2.4GHz was a bit of a mess before we came along with this service. So, knowing the house is on fire, you bring a can of gas to put it out. You aren't f'ing helping. Of course, since Comcast didn't spring for separate radi

Re: Kind of sad

2014-11-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:43:09 -0500, Joe wrote: Generally speaking its best you do what your good at and this is not it. Exposing there is a window open to a gov agency is not hacking, trust me. I would say go back to fathering children and once you have a few more years under your belt feel

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-22 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:31:02 -0400, Barry Shein wrote: Perhaps you don't remember the days when an fsck was basically mandatory and could take 15-20 minutes on a large disk. Journaling has all but done away with fsck. You'd have to go *way* back to have systems that ran a full fsck on every

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-21 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:29:44 -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: The thing that I don't understand about systemd is how it managed to get *EVERY SINGLE DISTRIBUTION'S RELEASE MANAGER* on board... It's spelled "Red Hat". Add in GNOME and debian (et. al.) is backed into a corner. Red Hat is soo f'ing

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-21 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 01:44:57 -0400, Randy Bush wrote: systemd is insanity. one would have hoped that deb and others would know better. sigh. This is exactly the type of shit one gets by letting non-technical people make technical decisions. systemd should never have even been on the tabl

Re: Marriott wifi blocking

2014-10-03 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:16:22 -0400, Nick Olsen wrote: Side question for those smarter than I. How does WPA encryption play into this? Would a client associated to a WPA2 AP take a non-encrypted deauth appearing from the same BSSID? It doesn't. The DEAUTH management frame is not encrypted and

Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion

2014-06-19 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:21:12 -0400, Justin M. Streiner wrote: How much IPv6 space would you propose an ISP provisions for each of its residential users? A single /64 would, currently, be sufficient for 99% of households. The link can be /128, /127, /64, whatever -- between ISP and CPE does

Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion

2014-06-19 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:35:55 -0400, John Curran wrote: Any suggestions on how ARIN should reach those CIO's in the meantime? Refuse additional IPv4 assignments to those who have not deployed IPv6. And not just been assigned a v6 block, but actually running IPv6 to every customer who asks

Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion

2014-06-19 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:17:29 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: Let's figure each person needs an end site for their place of business, their two cars, their home, their vacation home, and just for good measure, let's double that to be ultra-conservative. That's 10 end-sites per person or 101 billio

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:07:16 -0400, Laszlo Hanyecz wrote: One would hope that with IPv6 this would change, but the attitude of looking down on end subscribers has been around forever. And for damn good reasons (read: foolish and easy to trick into becoming a spam source.) Granted, "enterpr

Re: question about AS relationship

2014-02-20 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 03:14:59 -0500, Song Li wrote: I have one simple question: as for AS relationship, should customer tell its provider the AS# of its own customers, or the provider have the right to require its customers to do that? (Having been on both ends of this...) If you want me t

Re: turning on comcast v6

2014-01-06 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:03:21 -0500, Owen DeLong wrote: A router, yes. THE router, not unless the network is very stupidly put together. Like every win7 and win8 machine on the planet? (IPv6 is installed and enabled by default. Few places have IPv6 enabled on their LAN, so a single RA wou

Re: turning on comcast v6

2014-01-03 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 20:52:25 -0500, Owen DeLong wrote: Not entirely true, actually… If you’re willing to work hard enough at it, most hosts can be “encouraged” to renew early. Short of commandline access, no there isn't. (crashing or otherwise triggering a reboot, isn't a "renew"; that's a

Re: turning on comcast v6

2013-12-20 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:16:57 -0500, Doug Barton wrote: On 12/20/2013 05:25 AM, Lee Howard wrote: So there's an interesting question. You suggest there's a disagreement between enterprise network operators and protocol designers. Who should change? Rather obviously the protocol designers,

Re: AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO

2013-12-02 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:03:59 -0500, Owen DeLong wrote: Not counting MAC users, because they cannot do DHCPv6 without 3rd party software. My Macs seem to do DHCPv6 just fine here without third party software, so I'm not sure what you are talking about. I've heard many reports of apple not

Re: AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO

2013-12-02 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:02:39 -0500, Owen DeLong wrote: Not really... First of all, domain or other windows authentication could be used to validate the request. Most home networks aren't part of a domain. (unless they're using versions beyond "home", they can't) Second, if it's site-scope

Re: AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO

2013-12-02 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:56:13 -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: - A /56 is horribly wrong and the world will end if we don't fix it NOW. I'm reminded of the Comcast trial deployments. Wasn't their conclusion (with a collective thumbs up from the networking world) to go with /56? Yet, even they a

Re: AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO

2013-12-02 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:27:36 -0500, Owen DeLong wrote: They could be do much worse... if you throw out SLAAC, your network(s) can be smaller than /64. I don't want to give them any ideas, but Uverse could use their monopoly on routers to make your lan a DHCP only /120. I think if they di

Re: AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO

2013-12-02 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:18:08 -0500, Owen DeLong wrote: You don't, but it's easy enough for Windows to do discovery and/or negotiation for firewall holes with multicast and avoid making ... Actually, your process still makes a very dangerous assumption... you have to assume the address passe

Re: AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO

2013-12-02 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:07:40 -0500, Owen DeLong wrote: Whenever they split or combine a CMTS or head-end... Shouldn't matter unless they're moving things across DHCP servers. (which is likely from what I've heard about TWC, and seen from my own modems. In fact, the addresses in my office c

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