Re: Pointer for documentation on actually delivering IPv6

2010-12-05 Thread Mark Newton
ots and can respond accordingly. Layer 3 access networks could conceivably have an issue here, though. It's almost as if everyone ought to have been working on this a decade ago so that we'd have a workable solution by now! :-) - mark -- Mark Newton

Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

2011-08-02 Thread Mark Newton
ealing with any more of them than they do now. Widespread multihoming might be technically pure, but I reckon most customers would rather eat their firstborns than take up the option. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Netwo

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-10 Thread Mark Newton
s better than staying where we are. (which reminds me: http://www.internode.on.net/news/2011/08/238.php It ain't that hard) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.org (H)

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-10 Thread Mark Newton
t the usual time the next morning, it'll play an IVR out of your home PBX network to tell the boss you're too hungover to come to work. Owen's world has built in automated protection to help you through the fact that IPv6 subnetting will turn you to drink :-) - mark -- Mark Newto

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-10 Thread Mark Newton
ed to work when you can't predict an end-user's address?" have no good answer. If any systems folks want a nice meaty problem domain to focus their efforts on, DNS would be da shiznit. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@int

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-10 Thread Mark Newton
On 11/08/2011, at 12:41 PM, Mark Newton wrote: > > On 11/08/2011, at 12:30 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: >> Finally a useful post in this thread. Good work on the deployment of real >> ipv6! >> > > Thanks. And thanks to Vendor-C for helping us through it. The IPv6

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-10 Thread Mark Newton
ed for trigonometry. Another useful judgement call when you're flying is to understand that as long as you know where you are and where you want to be, any forward progress whatsoever is a positive when there's a growing thunderstorm behind you :-) - mark -- Mark Newton

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Newton
k for every device a customer places on their LAN. As a service provider, it's better to burn one TCAM slot per customer for the prefix you route to them, and leave adjacency relationships within their home to them. Think of MAC address table size limits on switches. Similar problem. - mark

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-20 Thread Mark Newton
ne of the things businesses are supposed to do, right? Regards, - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999

Re: Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?

2010-06-22 Thread Mark Newton
almost none of it will go anywhere at all, if not for the fact that Belinda Neal's entire political party seems to share her mastery of of the issue. ObNOG: Botnets are bad, n'kay? - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engine

Re: Telstra issues

2009-09-02 Thread Mark Newton
work. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,26021106-15306,00.html - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 &q

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Newton
comparison to a lab environment. Does the CCNA exam still ask questions about RIP and classful addressing? Just askin' :-) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.or

Re: spurring transition to ipv6 -- make it faster

2008-10-14 Thread Mark Newton
ngs? I think by the time we've put carrier NATs everywhere the users will notice that all by themselves, and we won't need to tell them anything. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email:

Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-09 Thread Mark Newton
tween those and the equivalent v6 ALGs will be the lack of v6 NAT. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-

Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-09 Thread Mark Newton
re is if you have a dual-stack device, your L4-and-above protocols are the same under v4 and v6, and you don't want to reinvent the ALG wheel. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email:

Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-09 Thread Mark Newton
ations are not being performed. On a commodity consumer CPE device, the ALG code doubles as a stateful inspection engine. So it _is_ required when address translations are not being performed. Is security something that gets thought about now, or post-deployment? - mark -- M

Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-21 Thread Mark Newton
So who's going to have standing to drag them into court over false declarations to ARIN? Will ARIN be suing their members? Not likely. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@a

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-07 Thread Mark Newton
very well either :-) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark N

Re: interger to I P address

2008-08-27 Thread Mark Newton
Set needs to be updated, which is probably an even worse proposition :-) I'm strongly in favour of ASPLAIN. I reckon the people who advocate using dots because they think 32-bit ASNs up to 4 billion are too long to remember are probably getting old :-) - mark -- Mark Newton

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Newton
est router vendor and being confronted with actual independently-developed working code for their hardware platforms, have the least excuse out of any of them. Years and years of talk, and no customer-visible action whatsoever. What an exceptionally ordinary performance. See you in Melbo

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Newton
On 03/12/2009, at 12:53 PM, Mehmet Akcin wrote: > Would you consider Juniper SSG5 as a Consumer Grade router? Depends. Can I get one at Frys for $69.95 and set it up with a web browser? - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engin

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Newton
products do 6to4 out of the box, but don't support v6 natively. Apple seems to have ideological objections to DHCPv6, so at the moment there's little hope at all that prefix delegation will work on any of their CPE products. - mark -- Mark Newton

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Newton
rd kernel panics if you turn on the net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv sysctl and start a PPPoE session which negotiates IP6CP. (I have a bug open with them, and I'm confident that it'll be fixed... but c'mon...!) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Newton
On 03/12/2009, at 22:46, "TJ" wrote: From: Mark Newton [mailto:new...@internode.com.au] On 03/12/2009, at 9:51 AM, Dave Temkin wrote: You're correct, out of the box there aren't many. The first couple that come to mind are the Apple Airport Express and Airport Ext

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-11 Thread Mark Newton
the firewall what should be accepted. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-11 Thread Mark Newton
rybody the effort. > > Not if the victim doesn't have rights on the firewall (e.g. enterprise). Would you be using "Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls" in the enterprise? 'cos if you would, I think I might have entered the wrong thread :) - ma

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-11 Thread Mark Newton
esn't include `lack of market demand' as a reason for not doing it.") Argh. Disillusionment, much? - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-11 Thread Mark Newton
on rules controlled by the SHIM6 protocol layers on the hosts... but we weren't allowed to call them NAT gateways, because IPv6 isn't supposed to have any NAT in it :) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-13 Thread Mark Newton
nd that if the vendors ever do actually manage to get around to shipping something it'll be so poorly thought out that it's impractical to use in a service provider environment until version 2 -- which, in the case of CGN, will be too late. - mark -- Mark Newton

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-13 Thread Mark Newton
if I tell them they'll have to spend a hundred bucks to restore the functionality I broke for them last week I'll have a revolt on my hands...) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Newton
x27;s not like we're talking about creating UPnP from whole cloth. We're discussing a replacement of like-for-like, updating existing capabilities to support IPv6. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer

Re: IP4 Space

2010-03-04 Thread Mark Newton
ving towards IPv6 dual stack on your > networks. ... and, unstated behind that, is the observation that pretty much any proposed effort to squeeze more time out of IPv4 will inevitably have the same answer :-) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com

Re: IP4 Space

2010-03-04 Thread Mark Newton
ds the cost of recovering space. There's sure to be an upper-bound on the cost of v4 space, limited by the magnitude of effort required to do whatever you want to do without v4. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (

Re: IP4 Space

2010-03-06 Thread Mark Newton
On 06/03/2010, at 1:06 AM, David Conrad wrote: > Mark, > > On Mar 4, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Mark Newton wrote: >> On 05/03/2010, at 2:50 PM, David Conrad wrote: >>> When the IPv4 free pool is exhausted, I have a sneaking suspicion you'll >>> quickly find that

Re: IP4 Space - the lie

2010-03-06 Thread Mark Newton
ten subscribers onto each NATted IPv4 addresses, then I only need 50,000 addresses to service them. Yet I have half a million addresses *right now*, which I won't be giving back to my RIR. So that turns into 450,000 saleable addresses for premium customers after the SP-NAT box is turned on,

Re: IP4 Space - the lie

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Newton
he same problem with the same array of available solutions with the same mixtures of cost, benefit and care-factor. Odds are that they'll probably make many of the same decisions. Sorry, perhaps I'm missing something here, but is there a general expectation that the v4-v6 transition

Re: IP4 Space

2010-03-22 Thread Mark Newton
smaller? There's currently social pressure against deaggregation, but given time why do you think the same drivers that lead to v4 deaggregation won't also lead to v6 deaggregation? (small multihomers means more discontiguous blocks of PI space too, right?

Re: IP4 Space

2010-03-23 Thread Mark Newton
eployment will stop dead. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223

Re: IP4 Space

2010-03-23 Thread Mark Newton
rms, and that we'll all see significant pressure from our CFOs and CTOs to get rid of it well before the ten-year estimate expires. ... and if we don't, our customers will. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-03 Thread Mark Newton
know the difference. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-03 Thread Mark Newton
On 04/02/2011, at 3:43 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Mark Newton > wrote: > >> >> On 04/02/2011, at 2:13 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> >>> An armed FBI special agent shows up at your facility and tells your >>&g

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-28 Thread Mark Newton
th IPv6. That's new, and (to my mind) threatening. We've not even begun to consider the attack vectors that'll open up. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.o

Re: IPv6 and RDNS

2011-05-19 Thread Mark Newton
On 19/05/2011, at 8:00 PM, Rodolfo (kix) wrote: > Hi! > > what is the status of the reverse DNS in IPv6? Rhymes with "muster duck." - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer