Re: DDOS solution recommendation

2015-01-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
Also how are folks testing ddos protection? What lab gear,tools,methods are you using to determine effectiveness of the mitigation. On January 8, 2015 11:01:47 AM CST, "Manuel Marín" wrote: >Nanog group > >I was wondering what are are using for DDOS protection in your >networks. We >are current

Re: gamer "lag" dashboard

2015-01-19 Thread Charles N Wyble
SSL is no problem. We just had a whole thread about breaking it. :-) On January 19, 2015 5:16:43 PM CST, George Herbert wrote: >Emulating game traffic... Good luck with that. You'll probably have >to figure it out and build your own models per service, though a lot is >encapsulated in https.

Re: gamer "lag" dashboard

2015-01-19 Thread Charles N Wyble
As a zenoss plugin, I agree. On January 19, 2015 7:22:36 PM CST, Roland Dobbins wrote: > >On 20 Jan 2015, at 5:10, Michael O Holstein wrote: > >> I need something that emulates the actual game traffic as would be >> classified by all the network crap that endeavors to mess with it. > >That soun

Re: gamer "lag" dashboard

2015-01-19 Thread Charles N Wyble
Ixia is very very expensive and has its own sets of "fun", though it is a nice appliance for playing with packets. Though its more for protocol compliance testing and load generation. You'll find that protocol exploration and... h... exploitation is an incredibly mature field in floss. ht

Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations

2015-01-28 Thread Charles N Wyble
There is no free lunch. If you want " tools that end users can just use" then buy Cisco. Otherwise you need to roll up your sleeves and take the pieces and put them together. Or hire people like me to do it for you. It isn't overly complicated in my opinion. Also you'll find plenty of reason

Re: Intrusion Detection recommendations

2015-02-14 Thread Charles N Wyble
Checkout security onion. Its got a pretty nice suite of tools and can run a (or many) dedicated sensor system and communicate back to a central system. As for SSL MITM, see the recent nanog thread for a full layer 2 to layer 8 ramifications of that activity. For ssh mitm, I don't know of any t

Re: high latency on West Coast?

2015-09-18 Thread Charles van Niman
Hmmm, I am seeing about 20ms from a VPS in Seattle, do you happen to have a trace of the path with this issue? /Charles On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Florin Andrei wrote: > I'm seeing 250 ms between California and Oregon. Not just AWS, but also > between, say, Comcast and AWS.

Re: Huge latency/packet loss between Hibernia and NTT at New York

2015-09-23 Thread Charles van Niman
Do you happen to have a copy of the path going in the other direction? Based on this it seems that the issue starts after this leaves NTT. /Charles On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Paras wrote: > Hi all, > > Is anyone else seeing high latency and huge packet loss at NTT's

Latency in ATT DSL from Houston.

2016-03-19 Thread Charles van Niman
37.689 ms 1883.235 ms 3 12.83.37.205 (12.83.37.205) 1972.528 ms !X * * /Charles

Re: [OT] Looking for dhs / fbi contact

2015-02-26 Thread Charles N Wyble
They are in the phone book. Call them. Or walk into a field office near you. Don't bother nanog with such a generic / teasing question, its incredibly annoying. No one is going to provide you with a contact of any seriousness with such a generic query. On February 26, 2015 5:41:52 PM CST, jam

Re: What happened to Schprokits?

2015-03-14 Thread Charles N Wyble
Checkout trigger for what seems to be the most viable system: https://trigger.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ On March 13, 2015 7:59:13 PM CDT, Pablo Lucena wrote: >I have great hopes for Schprokits. The idea behind it is outstanding - >an >Ansible for networking. It must be tough though, integrat

Re: BCOP appeals numbering scheme -- feedback requested

2015-03-15 Thread Charles N Wyble
Use a git repository. Make tagged releases. This enables far easier distributed editing, translating, mirroring etc. And you can still do whatever release engineering you want. A wiki is a horrible solution for something like this. On March 15, 2015 8:24:49 AM CDT, Rob Seastrom wrote: > >Wi

Re: nanog.org Website down ?

2015-06-03 Thread Charles van Niman
Yeah, looks like this just made it to the list: >This morning we suffered a hardware failure in our production environment. >The outage affected nanog mail and web services. While mail services have >recovered, web services are still down. On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Bob Evans wrote: > Not s

Re: AS4788 Telecom Malaysia major route leak?

2015-06-12 Thread Charles van Niman
Does anyone at Level3 care to comment here about this event, and if there are any plans to push BGP prefix security? 2015-06-12 8:25 GMT-05:00 Jürgen Jaritsch : > http://www.bgpmon.net/massive-route-leak-cause-internet-slowdown/ > > > > Jürgen Jaritsch > Head of Network & Infrastructure > > ANEXIA

Re: 48V DC Terminal server recommendations

2013-07-24 Thread Charles N Wyble
I just use SSH to ip:portnum . Used the web ui for initial setup. Never used an applet. Didn't know one existed. This is on an acs48 model. I forget the pdu model (cyclades i something), they just daisychain off the acs and you can hit a key combo to powercycle. david peahi wrote: >We have u

RE: which firewall product?

2013-07-30 Thread Charles N Wyble
Not sure how bsd handles ipip connections. If it breaks them out as a dedicated interface (like it does for openvpn connections) , then rules can be applied and pfsense would be quite useful. The UI is very simple. Warren Bailey wrote: >Look into pfsense. It's rock solid and bad based, and can

Re: WaPo writes about vulnerabilities in Supermicro IPMIs

2013-08-25 Thread Charles N Wyble
If you are OK with USB ether net for one interface, check out the tplink wr703n. Its powered via USB, has a USB and rj45 jack. Runs OpenWrt. Leo Bicknell wrote: > >On Aug 15, 2013, at 9:18 PM, Brandon Martin >wrote: > >> As to why people wouldn't put them behind dedicated firewalls, >imagine

Re: Parsing Syslog and Acting on it, using other input too

2013-08-29 Thread Charles N Wyble
Yes. Logstash shipper on your syslog proxy, forward to elasticsearch. Graylog2 is very cool. Tried kibana and didn't care for it. Actually setting up graylog2 right now to do AD authentication. So workflow is End device -> syslog-ng vm -> graylog2/elasticsearch vm and other destinations (it

Re: subrate SFP?

2013-08-31 Thread Charles N Wyble
On hp proliant gen8 servers with management and ilo on same port, with the server off the ports show up as 100mbps. Jimmy Hess wrote: >On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Jamie Bowden wrote: > >> > From: Saku Ytti [mailto:s...@ytti.fi] >> Considering that Dell and HP at least are shipping brand n

Re: on network monitoring and security - req for monitoring tools

2010-08-23 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 08/23/2010 07:40 AM, Scott Berkman wrote: Are you looking only at Open Source tools? If not you are missing all of the most widely deployed tools out there (including): You will also need to look at separate security monitoring software if your goal is to cover that. Not including any comm

Re: Specifications for Internet services on public frequency

2010-09-18 Thread Charles n wyble
ploy a service at minimal cost, using mainly open source >software. > > >All comments, suggestions, recommendations, draft, success stories are well >come. > > >Feel free to contact me for additional information. > > > >Warms regards, >Georges-Keny PAUL -- from

Re: PPPoE over L2TP over GigE questions

2008-06-17 Thread Charles N Wyble
This has been a very informative thread. All sorts of acronyms to research and so forth. :) The mention of TR-101 took me down another rabbit hole, and I discovered http://www.dslforum.org/trlist/trlist.php. Very interesting info. Charles -- Charles N Wyble (818) 280-7059 http

Re: Building a BGP test network

2008-07-09 Thread Charles N Wyble
ning on looking into this problem in a few weeks anyway. I'm building a network test bed and having full BGP tables is a part of my testing. When I figure it out I'll post to the list unless its figured out before then. -- Charles N Wyble (818) 280-7059 http://charlesnw.blogspot.com

Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
g00g could decide to never leave the announce phase. - -- Charles N Wyble Linux Systems Engineer (818)280-7059 char...@knownelement.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozde

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jared Mauch wrote: > I think it's great! > > I've been preparing to float a similar idea locally. > > If this is how they use their market cap, I would love for them to do it in > my local market, which does seem to hold a near-and-dear place in the

Re: dark fiber

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
office. Your request is pretty vague :) What geographic area? What type (sea? land?) etc etc. There are a few companies who sell this data as well. After 9/11 it got really hard, but judicious use of search engines will find most stuff. - -- Charles N Wyble Linux Systems Engineer char...@knownel

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jared Mauch wrote: > On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Jared Mauch wrote: >>> I think it's great! >>> >>> I

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
st who recently announced a v6 beta, and impulse.net for folks in the SoCal region. Not sure of any other CLEC types offering v6, but if you are speak up! I guess the phrase innovate/catch up or get run over applies here. :) - -- Charles N Wyble Linux Systems Engineer char...@knowne

DNSSEC Readiness

2010-02-15 Thread Charles N Wyble
quick. :) Ideally the more we can stave off issues through proactive testing/fixing the better. - -- Charles N Wyble Linux Systems Engineer char...@knownelement.com (818)280-7059 http://www.knownelement.com Unless agreed upon, assume everything in this e-mail might be blogged. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: DNSSEC Readiness

2010-02-15 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Finch wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Charles N Wyble wrote: >> How are folks verifying DNSSEC readiness of their environments? Any >> existing testing methodologies / resources that folks are using? > > Here's my summary

Re: DNSSEC Readiness

2010-02-15 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Weimer wrote: > * Charles N. Wyble: > > >> It seems like this is something that will become a front and center >> issue for help desks everywhere pretty quick. :) > > Why do you think so? Would you even noti

Re: DNSSEC Readiness

2010-02-15 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Andrews wrote: > In message <4b798f1e.6080...@knownelement.com>, Charles N Wyble writes: >> All, >> >> How are folks verifying DNSSEC readiness of their environments? Any >> existing testing methodologies

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-03-02 Thread Charles N Wyble
p. The biggest problem is middle mile. That is where the money needs to go. You need something to back haul to the interwebz. There is a lot of fiber in the ground already, but there are numerous layer 8 issues with getting to it most of the time. Solving those is an exercise left for the reader

Re: OBESEUS - A new type of DDOS protector

2010-03-14 Thread Charles N Wyble
Guillaume FORTAINE wrote: > Misters, > > No comments ? > > http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.loud-fat-bloke.co.uk/obeseus2.pdf > > > http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/F012Interoute121109.pdf > > > http://barometer.interoute.com/barom_main.php Th

Re: anti-ddos test solutions ?

2010-03-17 Thread Charles N Wyble
bit gossip wrote: > Nessus is a vulnerability scanner: > > http://www.nessus.org/nessus/ > > Ixia provides a full Nessus implementation in one of its platform. > Well these days I would use http://www.openvas.org and http://www.metasploit.org for vulnerability scanning and analysis. However th

Re: anti-ddos test solutions ?

2010-03-17 Thread Charles N Wyble
Nathan Ward wrote: > Hire/buy what I know as a router tester. People call them different things. > It's a device that generates packets, Linux has a packet generator in the kernel as well. More info readily available from your local search engine. > and can normally simulate TCP etc. all the

Re: OpenLDAP and Active Directory

2010-03-22 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 03/22/2010 10:24 AM, Andrews Carl 448 wrote: I need to setup an OpenLDAP server for proxy authentication to Microsoft Active Directory. From what I have been able to determine this is completely possible but I am missing something. I have the O'Reilly LDAP book but it was written several yea

Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Charles N Wyble
Hopefully this e-mail is considered operational content :) The recent thread on the new linkys kit and ipv6 support got me thinking about CPE choice. What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the high end d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experiences with t

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 03/31/2010 05:04 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 31/03/2010 23:55, Charles N Wyble wrote: Some people have said that the Fritz!box is quite good. No idea if it's approved for use in the US. Nick, Thanks for posting this. I wasn't aware of this product. It looks pretty cool.

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 03/31/2010 04:03 PM, Jack Carrozzo wrote: Given a marked lack of $significant funding for home routing, I rock BSD boxen all over. Cool. I'm looking at pfsense to replace my cisco. I want to move the router to my lab for CCIE studies. Have you tried pfsense, or do you find the built in fun

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 03/31/2010 04:03 PM, Joe Johnson wrote: I have a small HP dummy terminal I installed a CFIDE card in with m0n0wall that has run beautifully for the past 3 years. No moving parts I take it? I think I've played with m0n0wall in the past. Barely has any power draw and cost me a whopping $1

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 03/31/2010 04:07 PM, William Warren wrote: I run Astaro on a p-4 celey i had lying around. Get far more than any little router you'll see..can't beat the price. Astaro looks cool. I hadn't heard of it before. Thanks for sharing.

Home CPE choice - summary

2010-04-01 Thread Charles N Wyble
Thank you everyone for your replies! :) It's been great having an operational type discussion. Here is my summary of the thread: Software: Linux: Vyatta IPCop Astaro BSD: pfSense m0n0wall (I didn't know this was the base for pfSense until I started researching it today) Appliances: Junipe

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Charles N Wyble
Hmmm... it is 2pm on a Friday afternoon. I guess it's the appropriate time for this thread. *grabs popcorn and sits back to watch the fun*

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 2/3/2011 7:43 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: An armed FBI special agent shows up at your facility and tells your ranking manager to "shut down the Internet". Let's look at this from a different perspective. What level of impairment would the feds face if they ordered wide spread net shut downs. D

Re: Top webhosters offering v6 too?

2011-02-06 Thread Charles N Wyble
or me, and I hope to be at parity with v4 by end of Q1. I'll probably do a separate "ipv6 for datacenter/application operators" presentation at some point in Q2. I know there will be one at SCALE this year, by one of our frequent v6 posters. :) - -- Charles N Wyble (char...@knownelement.c

Re: BGP Looking glass and monitoring

2011-02-07 Thread Charles N Wyble
ks for brining up a solid operational topic and giving us a break. :) - -- Charles N Wyble (char...@knownelement.com) Systems craftsman for the stars http://www.knownelement.com Mobile: 626 539 4344 Office: 310 929 8793 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Com

Re: IPv6 status

2011-02-09 Thread Charles N Wyble
on with the program and get to the bargaining phase? Isn't that CGNAT? :) - -- Charles N Wyble (char...@knownelement.com) Systems craftsman for the stars http://www.knownelement.com Mobile: 626 539 4344 Office: 310 929 8793 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GN

Re: Top webhosters offering v6 too?

2011-02-09 Thread Charles N Wyble
lysis site which says "warning: your > ipv6 is broken!". And give reasons ... point out misconfiguration > like your examples above, regardless of whether it's dns or global > load balancers. We'll see v6 adoption skyrocket overnight. ;) http://test-ipv6.com/ is

Re: Sunday Funnies: Using a smart phone as a diagnostic tool

2011-02-27 Thread Charles N Wyble
ubuntu on it (android os is quite nice on a phone. larger system i would prefer to have ubuntu). (before you sneer at me, i've been using linux for almost 15 years, and want something that just works :) - -- Charles N Wyble (char...@knownelement.com) Systems craftsman for the stars http:/

Re: Peering Traffic Volume

2011-03-24 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 3/24/2011 10:34 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Ravi Ramaswamy wrote: "Tier 1 ISP" is a nebulous term. Indeed it is. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network for more information. I'm guessing you are using Tier 1

Re: backtracking forged packets?

2020-03-16 Thread Charles Polisher via NANOG
On 2020-03-13 23:23, William Herrin wrote: > Can anyone suggest tools, techniques and helpful contacts for > backtracking spoofed packets? At the moment someone is forging TCP > syns from my address block. I'm getting the syn/ack and icmp > unreachable backscatter. Enough that my service provider b

BCP38 For BGP Customers

2022-11-07 Thread Charles Rumford via NANOG
raffic. I would like to hear what others are doing for BCP38 deployments for BGP customers. Are you taking the stance of "if you don't send us the prefix, then we don't accept the traffic"? Are you putting in some kind of fall back filter in based on something like IRR da

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