RE: BGP support on ASA5585-X

2010-10-29 Thread khatfield
None of the ASA's support BGP. I didn't think so but I went ahead and did the research for you: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa80/configuration/guide/glossary.html#wp1027964 he security appliance does not support BGP. -Kevin -Original Message- From: "David DiGiacomo" S

Re: BGP support on ASA5585-X

2010-11-05 Thread khatfield
They could make it out of the box but this is why Dylan made his statement. The platform simply doesn't perform well enough enough to support all of that functionality on the current ASA models. I know first-hand from much of our testing the ASA's rarely meet the box specs for PPS/throughput sim

Re: OSS Systems

2012-01-15 Thread khatfield
My personal opinion has been that we have seen great success in large environments with FreeRadius and using radrelay for mysql synchronization then an OpenLDAP-backend. We used FreeBSD/CARP and/or FreeVRRPd for failover but this can be accomplished in other methods. FreeRadius has a built-in C

Re: Monitoring Tool

2010-06-14 Thread khatfield
When you say monitoring... Do you mean servers and network gear or just network? What type of gear? What kind of information are looking to get? (How detailed?) What kind of budget do you have? Really all of those are needed to make a recommendation. I'm guessing this is a small network? How m

Re: Micro-allocation needed?

2010-06-21 Thread khatfield
Are you considering doing SNTP or regular NTP? If regular NTP... I once read some excellent advice on AnyCast: "It often doesn't make sense to go through the extra complexity in deploying a service with AnyCast addressing if it doesn't justify the benefit." In this sense, I really don't understa

Very Strange - TCP SWEEP Alerts / Inconsistent with traffic on system

2010-06-27 Thread khatfield
Folks, We have a strange situation occurring lately where we are getting some reports of TCP Sweeps from some one of our IP's, yet the IP is one of many specifically configured for inbound traffic and do not emit outbound traffic unless for response. Specifically, these are ddos mitigation IP's

Re: Very Strange - TCP SWEEP Alerts / Inconsistent with traffic on system

2010-06-27 Thread khatfield
Thanks Matt, That's what we believe we're seeing at this point but we're trying to convince our upstream. :) We have seen this in the past but proving it is occurring seems to be the primary issue we're running into at this point. -Kevin -Original Message- From: "Matt Hite" Sent: Sund

Re: Very Strange - TCP SWEEP Alerts / Inconsistent with traffic onsystem

2010-06-27 Thread khatfield
Excellent! Thanks John. We have seen this sort of signature before but we couldn't find the reference source in our library. I don't believe this is one we had. Thanks! Kevin --Original Message-- From: John Kristoff To: Kevin Hatfield Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Very Strange - TCP S

Re: ASR vs 7604 for BGP border router?

2010-06-30 Thread khatfield
What kind of budget do you have? I think it really depends on what you're going after. Both would work... Is there something specific you want to do? Honestly, your current bandwidth utilization and need could be handled by an OpenBSD system. I think I may be missing your exact question. Are y

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-13 Thread khatfield
My comment would be: That is simply matter of opinion and opinions may be swayed depending on the market that signs your check? :) There have been a fair share of appliance bugs/sec vulnerabilities over the years as well. I agree software-based deployments have their flaws but I do not agree t

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-13 Thread khatfield
I haven't done real world testing with Vyatta but we consistently pass 750KPPS+ without the slightest hiccup on our FreeBSD routing systems. Correct hardware with the right configuration can make all of the difference. -Original Message- From: "Dobbins, Roland" Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 1

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-13 Thread khatfield
Routing. We can route that. If it were targeting the box itself it would depend if the attack were getting through. Certainly iptables can't handle something like that but pf does well with high PPS rates. If it were all 'DROP' traffic then likely higher. If it were hitting the box directly a

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-13 Thread khatfield
In that case you are entirely accurate. If you were to use Vyatta (linux-based) systems for this then you would likely need additional infrastructure to firewall or zone it to ensure it can't be hit directly. Depending on what all it has running and the configuration it could be firewalled off

Re: NOC Best Practices

2010-07-17 Thread khatfield
I have to agree that this is all good information. Your question on ITIL: My personal opinion is that ITIL best practices are great to apply to all environments. It makes sense, specifically in the change control systems. However, as stated, it's also highly dependent on how many devices being

Re: NOC Best Practices

2010-07-17 Thread khatfield
eTOM is best regarded as a companion to ITIL practices. It has additional layers not covered by ITIL and vice versa. I think a combination of practices from both is the best method. -Kevin -Original Message- From: "Xavier Banchon" Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:20:26 To: ; Kasper Adel Repl

Re: IPv4 Exhaustion...

2010-07-23 Thread khatfield
Hello, From our past experience this can be accomplished without issue as long as you have good log records and tracking in place. Ensure you have long-term retention for the logs to cover yourself. Many ISP's are moving to this sort of environment simply due to the reasoning stated. -Kevin

Re: North Korea conflict with US and South Korea could spark cyber war

2010-07-24 Thread khatfield
/agree Looks like a stunt to drive traffic to his blog unless he actually has something to back this up. Mr. Wallace: I think I speak for a majority of the members on this list when I say that we are busy enough dealing with real business. Please do not sacrifice the professionalism of this l

Re: Recycling old cabling?

2010-08-17 Thread khatfield
It's pretty standard for any company to terminate upon taking something without permission. I worked with a company that threw away / recycled nearly an entire 100k sq. foot datacenter. All of the gear still in working order. It's just one those things... Your employer tells you to throw it aw

Re: Looking for suggestions for an internet content filteringappliance

2010-08-23 Thread khatfield
(Excuse me if I missed part of the email chain. This may have already been mentioned) It could be a bit of an annoyance for configuration but the one method you could use is to force a proxy internally. I am a bit unsure why most don't do this already but it has it's flaws. 1) Lack of static/dy

Re: Looking for Fiber Plant Management software

2010-08-27 Thread khatfield
Most of the ones I have seen (2 out of 3) were inhouse/home-grown solutions. I believe the other was provided by SA (Scientific Atlanta). I tried to do a quick search on it and it appears that product may now be provided by Cisco in partnership with SA. Best of luck -Original Message-

Re: IPv4 squatters on the move again?

2010-09-07 Thread khatfield
Kind of funny how they intend to do enough 'WholesaleVoIP" on a 10Mbps connection/1GB RAM for a /20 :) That is a giveaway in itself. -Original Message- From: Tero Toikkanen Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:24:05 To: NANOG list Subject: IPv4 squatters on the move again? Anyone hear of the Sun

Re: NOC Automation / Best Practices

2010-09-08 Thread khatfield
We run a *free* WISP and block 25 but I'm not sure why you would want to force all traffic through it. That's a touchy argument but it would really bother me as a paying subscriber. We use customized squid to haproxy (custom) to route traffic. Our main business is ddos protection and we use dat

Re: Copyright Enforcement DoS/DDoS Attacks

2010-09-08 Thread khatfield
No matter how they spin it, it isn't legal. Likely he won't be touched in India but in the U.S. he and the industry paying him would be facing a judge. The guy is a moron. Wanna be elitist. --Original Message-- From: Michael Painter To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Copyright Enforcement D

Re: Copyright Enforcement DoS/DDoS Attacks

2010-09-09 Thread khatfield
He mentioned doing work (for hire) in AU and such. I think he may be in for a rude awakening since our past experience with the Australian authorities is they are more active chasing ddos/cyber-crimes than the U.S. Those guys pull out all the stops to prosecute. (Which I am happy to see) Sadly,

Re: List of Teredo servers and teredo relays

2010-09-11 Thread khatfield
I may be missing the point here completely but to me Teredo just seems like a glorified hack/workaround for a bigger problem. Isn't is better (yes less cost-effective) to just upgrade equipment? I really don't see the advantage here. Maybe someone can explain away my ignorance to the concept? -

Re: List of Teredo servers and teredo relays

2010-09-11 Thread khatfield
Thanks for the explanation. And Owen: thanks, I just thought most networks/facilities (colo/private) should be close to ipv6 now days. At least capable, maybe not configured. I think I was just making an assumption so thanks for the info. --Original Message-- From: Jeff Kell To: Kevin Ha

Re: List of Teredo servers and teredo relays

2010-09-12 Thread khatfield
2350 is about an accurate date considering how quickly migration is happening in most places :) -Original Message- From: Nathan Eisenberg Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:54:49 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: List of Teredo servers and teredo relays > While I would agree in principle, in prac

Re: Online games stealing your bandwidth

2010-09-25 Thread khatfield
Speaking to your example with Blizzard: The Blizzard downloader does provide an option to disable P2P transfers which then downloads direct via http from Blizzard. Yes, the update software defaults to allow P2P but it isn't like they are forcing it upon their users. I have seen Sony do the sam

Re: Software-based Border Router

2010-09-26 Thread khatfield
I do agree here. If you are not moving a lot of data then something like BSD or Vyatta may be a good alternative. You do still have possible reboots required and things you would not see as often with a hardware-appliance model. However, for cheaper than the cost of 1 appliance you could build

Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked?

2010-09-28 Thread khatfield
Now that's some paranoia ;) -Original Message- From: "Heath Jones" Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 4:05pm To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked? He blocked google mail? WTF? -- Forwarded message -- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Date: 28 September 2010