Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/31/2010 03:07 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: Yes and no. Many of the uber-cheap models simply don't have the processing power or memory to do IPv6 well. (Some would say they don't do IPv4 well. I'm one of them.) Pure here's-a-packet-here's-where-it-goes switching can be done in almost any model as l

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/02/2010 10:43 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: In short: less zealotry, more pragmatism and a realisation that each language has its own strengths and weaknesses. Bad code is bad code in any language. All true, but I'd still say there's a special rung in hell for bad perl. Mike

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Thomas
Larry Sheldon wrote: On 4/2/2010 19:25, Randy Bush wrote: IPv6 as effectively reindroduced classful addressing. but it's not gonna be a problem this time, right? after all, 32^h^h128^h^h^h64 bits is more than we will ever need, right? Just like last time. Oh brother. "Las

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/06/2010 11:05 AM, Marty Anstey wrote: that said, php is awesome otherwise, been using it for last 2 years strictly in 'enterprise' deployment.. id just say perl is faster and more efficient for batch scripts. I can't speak specifically to the performance differences for comparible operati

Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-09 Thread Michael Thomas
On 02/09/2011 12:08 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 2/9/2011 2:00 PM, david raistrick wrote: And at what point during that time did they have any vendor gear they could purchase that -would- support v6? At -best- during the last 5 years, but I'd put money on that even today they can't purchase gear

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 05:51 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "William Pitcock" That is the same market Vonage is now targeting in the US, basically. National calling in the US is basically bundled with most calling plans now. I'm not convinced that many people us

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 07:33 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Is IP running over an L2 with a SLA any less "IP" than one without a SLA? That's all the DOCSIS qos is: dynamically creating/tearing down enhanced L2 qos channels for rtp to run over. It's been quite a while since I've been involved, but what we were w

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 08:01 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Bret Palsson" VoN? Didn't know there was a difference. Same protocols, same RTP,RTCP, Codecs, DSCP values. Am I missing something? Well, you try to hold a conversation with someone while there's

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 07:51 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: As I said, this second channel doesn't exist in almost all cases (its not cost effective nor needed in almost all cases). Having said that over the top VOIP providers do suffer in comparison because they don't get the benefit of prioritization in the l

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/02/2011 06:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Michael Thomas" Yes, really. The only difference was which L2 channels the RTP packets were flowed onto, which was determined by the MGCP/SIP signalling and interaction with the telepho

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2011 11:50 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: It's worked out great for me in a number of places. OTOH, it was kind of dicey even without the torrents from other places. I found that bandwidth and jitter were the bigger issues than other applications I was sharing the link with. I even managed to

voip vs tdm fallout

2011-03-11 Thread Michael Thomas
Is it too soon to start to compare and contrast how voip held up vs. tdm? Back in the old days circa mid to late 90's, there was a lot of hand wringing about whether voip would be up to the task of dealing with a massive emergency. Well, we certainly have one now in Japan on almost every front im

paypal and ipv6

2011-03-25 Thread Michael Thomas
seems that ipv4 addresses are mandatory with paypal with a stingy 15 char limit so you can't even sneak a v6 address in. we've got a long way to go. https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_nvp_r_DoDirectPayment

Re: New tsunami advisory warning - Japan

2011-03-28 Thread Michael Thomas
Gavin Pearce wrote: *yawn*. A foot and a half isn't going to be all *that* bad Sorry to continue off topic: Try to imagine ... a temporary very high tide, rather than a cresting wave. In addition to the "height", it's the wave-length you have to take into account. Tsunami's rarely become towe

Re: Bubba is a 75 year old woman looking to make some extra cash

2011-04-07 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/07/2011 11:54 AM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: This is common in the Netherlands too nowadays and other countries too I am sure. Because copper has gone up in price considerably. In the Netherlands especially copper lines along railroad tracks are removed, disabling alert systems with obvious d

Re: gmail dropping mesages

2011-04-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/26/2011 05:08 PM, J.D. Falk wrote: On Apr 25, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote: If you trust the issued certificates(!) being used to sign the mail, you at least have a good indication that the spam is coming from the domain that it says it's coming from. This can make spam bl

Re: CGNAT growing pains

2024-10-08 Thread Michael Thomas
Hi Jon, So is this easier than what the mobile carriers are doing -- 464xlat, isn't it? Probably a sizeable portion of the traffic would be running native v6, right? Obviously it wouldn't run into these sorts of problems. Mike On 10/8/24 12:19 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: We started rolling out CGNA

Re: CGNAT growing pains

2024-10-08 Thread Michael Thomas
retty good chunk. Not sure about Amazon Prime. I was actually thinking about social media which i think it's pretty well supported. Mike On Tue, 8 Oct 2024, Michael Thomas wrote: Hi Jon, So is this easier than what the mobile carriers are doing -- 464xlat, isn't it? Probably a s

Re: NANOG List posts and DMARC

2022-08-02 Thread Michael Thomas via NANOG
On 8/2/22 11:18 AM, Chris Adams via NANOG wrote: Once upon a time, Chris Adams said: Once upon a time, Jared Mauch said: Can someone flip the option in Mailman for DMARC please, it’s problematic as if one posts and does DMARC and has feedback on, our messages are possibly rejected, and t

Re: NANOG List posts and DMARC

2022-08-02 Thread Michael Thomas via NANOG
On 8/2/22 12:30 PM, Jim Popovitch via NANOG wrote: On Tue, 2022-08-02 at 11:24 -0700, Michael Thomas via NANOG wrote: On 8/2/22 11:18 AM, Chris Adams via NANOG wrote: Once upon a time, Chris Adams said: Once upon a time, Jared Mauch said: Can someone flip the option in Mailman for DMARC

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