Charles N Wyble - Tempest in a teapot

[Fwd: RF performance of a AR2317 based SoC device - was: Re: Questions about the Mesh Potato]

2009-08-16T09:47:00.001-07:00

Interesting bit of info...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RF performance of a AR2317 based SoC device - was: Re:
Questions about the Mesh Potato
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:56:38 +0200
From: elektra <onelektra@gmx.net>
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To: village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com
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Hello Lew!

As the Mesh-Potato hasn't reached the state of its first mass production
design we don't have exact figures of transmitter and receiver performance
yet.

But let me show you some example calculations based on the D-Link DIR-300.

The Mesh-Potato is based on the Atheros AR2317 Wireless SoC (SoC =
System on
Chip) integrated circuit. The D-Link DIR-300 is a commodity product for
SOHO
(Small Office / Home Office) applications, which is using the same chip.
The
D-Link DIR-300 manual contains these specs regarding transmit (TX) and
receive (RX) performance:

TX power: 15 dBm +/- 2 dBm

RX sensitivity:
• 54 Mbit/s OFDM, 10 % PER, -68 dBm)
• 48 Mbit/s OFDM, 10 % PER, -68 dBm)
• 36 Mbit/s OFDM, 10 % PER, -75 dBm)
• 24 Mbit/s OFDM, 10 % PER, -79 dBm)
• 18 Mbit/s OFDM, 10 % PER, -82 dBm)
• 12 Mbit/s OFDM, 10 % PER, -84 dBm)
• 11 Mbit/s CCK, 8% PER, -82 dBm)
• 9 Mbit/s OFDM, 10 % PER, -87 dBm)
• 6 Mbit/s OFDM, 10 % PER, -88 dBm)
• 5,5 Mbit/s CCK, 8% PER, -85 dBm)
• 2 Mbit/s QPSK, 8% PER, -86 dBm)
• 1 Mbit/s BPSK, 8% PER, -89 dBm)

PER = Packet Error Rate

Let's do some simple and optimistic radio performance calculations based on
these figures.

The DIR-300 is shipped with a sleeve dipole antenna, which - if implemented
well - should have a gain of 2.15 dBi. It would be nitpicking to
mention the
0.2dB loss of the R-SMA antenna plug ;-) So we can just assume a antenna
gain
of 2dBi.

I guess the values given by D-Link refer to the performance measured at the
antenna socket, but I could be wrong.

Based on these figures one can make a quick range / data rate estimation
between two DIR-300 under ideal conditions (free fresnel zone, considering
attenuation caused by free space loss only, no interference on the radio
channel). If you want to make calculations with obstructions in the
propagation path I'd strongly recommend playing with the free "radio
mobile"
software, if you don't know that software already. It is a truly amazing
software.

A 1 km radio link under ideal conditions (clear fresnel zone) has a free
space
attenuation of ~100 dB @ 2.45 GHz, 2km attenuation is ~106 dB, 4 km
attenuation is ~112 dB, 8 km is ~118 dB and so on.

With 15 dBm effective radiated transmit power the signal after 1 km is down
at -85 dBm (subtracting 100 dB free space loss). Taking the gain of the
antennas into account (+2 dB when we transmit on one side, + 2 dB when we
receive on the other side) we should have a signal level at the antenna
port
of the RX side of -81 dBm, which should be good enough to decode 18
Mbit. If
we double the distance to 2km we can still operate at 6 or 9 Mbit (-87
dBm).
Increasing the distance by 50 % more would add 3 dB more free space
loss, so
we end up at -90 dBm signal level after 3km. This is now lower than the -89
dBm for the lowest bitrate of 1 Mbit. However at 1 Mbit the TX power is
slightly higher, so with a bit of luck the connectivity will be at its
absolute edge after 3 km, but still there.

Keep in mind these estimations are based under the assumption of ideal
conditions: No rain or hail storm. No interference from other radios. Low
noise floor. Absolutely no obstructions or reflections in the fresnel zone.
No birds sitting on the antennas. The specs provided are assumed to be
correct. The timing of the MAC layer must be adjusted with the athctrl
utility for distances greater than 1 km.

However the DIR-300 is just a commodity product intended to be used indoors
and not a reference design intended to show off with brilliant radio
performance. Its design goal is least cost with moderate radio
performance. I
can buy those devices for ~27 € per unit retail in Germany via mail-order
plus shipping, which is really cheap. Actually the AR2317 chipset can
perform
better than the specs of the DIR-300, but it is good enough for the market
and the application, given the price.

The MP is not a SOHO product. It will be primarily used outdoors in densely
and sparsely populated areas (and anything in between, of course). The
great
many will be used in densely populated areas, but it should be also capable
to make a difference in rural areas. For both applications good receiver
performance is critical. In densely populated areas the network should
operate at the highest possible bitrate - simply to keep the amount of
airtime consumed by each transmission low and the channel capacity high.
Good receiver performance helps to keep the data rate fast and allows to
keep
the TX power levels low. The radios need to detect and coordinate
channel use
to avoid collisions on the radio channels as well. Low receiver performance
will have a negative effect on channel capacity and increase the noise
floor.

The TX power of the MP can be adjusted to 8 different levels:

0 dBm (1 mW)
5 dBm (3 mW)
7 dBm (5 mW)
9 dBm (7 mW)
11 dBm (12 mW)
13 dBm (19 mW)
15 dBm (31 mW)
17 dBm (50 mW)

In densely populated areas where people live door by door a few mW TX power
can be enough.

In sparsely populated areas good RX performance helps to achieve good
range,
as we have seen before. Interference from other wireless networks is not so
critical, so if we put the devices high enough we can often work with
good RF
conditions. A internal antenna with a slight gain of 3 dBi would be
compliant
with the regulatory limit of 20 dBm effective radiated power present in
many
countries.

Cheers,
Elektra

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First socalwifi.net production deployment

2009-08-06T13:02:00.000-07:00

On June 16th, 2009 socalwifi.net received a request for service. We were asked to provide WiFI for the Tafesilafa'i 2009 Pacific Islanders festival, located on the front lawn of the Long Beach Aquarium.

On July 28th, 2009 socalwifi.net deployed the gear and provided wifi coverage for the duration of the festival.

In the time between request for service, and deployment of the gear we performed several tasks.

More details later.

Moving to the cloud

2009-07-27T09:34:00.000-07:00

Recently I have been thinking about moving 100% to the cloud.

I have the best DSL connection one can purchase from AT&T (business class 6mbps down/768k up), a very nice server hosting virtual machines (8 gigs ram, 4 core CPU).

How am I currently taking advantage of that?

I have a few sets of virtual machines:

1) A Ubuntu virtual machine that hosts things like trac and orangehrm and serves as a file server.

2) 4 Ubuntu virtual machines (dev,dev integration,qa, production) for freeswitch development. One of my VOIP engineers is developing on that set.

3) A Centos VM hosting openvz instances for freeswitch development. Another one of my VOIP engineers uses those.

4) 3 Ubuntu virtual machines (dev integration,qa, production) for socalwifi front end development. I have my primary software engineer using those.

So now I want to move my daily tasks into a virtual machine that I can access from any device. I have plenty of resources available via that server and want to take advantage of them as much as possible.

I like my MacBook pro, but it doesn't have the computing power to handle running Netbeans/Eclipse/gis tools/vista vm/ubuntu vm at the same time. I plan to move my dev/gis/linux stuff into the VM as I can give it the necessary resources to run everything comfortably. I'm looking into using NX for the access methodology.

I also plan to spin up a Vista VM and RDP to it.

Then I can be completely device independent. I hope to be able to use my ipod touch a lot more, as it has an RDP and VNC client. Need to see if I can find an NX client for it.

[Fwd: [Fwd: Achieved 10Gbit/s bidirectional routing]]

2009-07-22T18:52:00.001-07:00

Cisco..... be afraid. Be very afraid.

Vyata... send the sharks!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Fwd: Achieved 10Gbit/s bidirectional routing]
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:25:36 +0200
From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk>
Reply-To: jdb@comx.dk
Organization: ComX Networks A/S
To: Bifrost <bifrost@slu.se>

Realized that my mail to the bifrost list got blocked... here is a
forward of my mail...

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/16/108

--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Jesper Brouer
ComX Networks A/S
Linux Network developer
Cand. Scient Datalog / MSc.
Author of http://adsl-optimizer.dk
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

[Fwd: [WISPA] Does wireless have a chance or future?]

2009-07-22T09:35:00.001-07:00

Folks might dig this...

http://www.cable360.net/ct/news/thewire/ABI-20-Million-Wireless-TVs-To-Ship-in-2011_36713.html

http://www.cable360.net/ct/news/thewire/Frost-and-Sullivan-Fiber-is-the-Future_36722.html

http://www.cedmagazine.com/News-Research-worldwide-broadband-households-2013-072109.aspx

http://www.cedmagazine.com/News-Netgear-help-Internet-subscribers-measure-use-072109.aspx

(from the WISPA list)

[Fwd: Re: [WISPA] FW: Introducing Bullet M: 100+Mbps Real TCP/IP Throughput]

2009-07-22T08:46:00.001-07:00

UBNT.... there is something called capital financing. You should totally
look into it.

With the demand for your products, credit should be a cinch.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [WISPA] FW: Introducing Bullet M: 100+Mbps Real TCP/IP
Throughput
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:24:16 -0400
From: Robert West <robert.west@just-micro.com>
Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org>
To: 'WISPA General List' <wireless@wispa.org>
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Actually, I am forced to at times due to lack of availability. As I said in
an earlier post, in my opinion, Ubiquiti makes very good and reliable
equipment. Given a choice I would pick the NS2 and 5's for all CPEs, XR
cards for the Mikrotik and the bullets for quick, down and dirty installs on
the fly. However.......... I have found myself waiting 6 months or more
for things and it seems that the availability varies between vendors. For
instance, I have been on backorder for some 2.4ghz Ubiquiti Airview2s since
March with one vendor we use yet it's now available at many other vendors
with just a click. We also have a load of Ubiquiti cards and boards back
ordered with yet another vendor since February. That order I have since
given up on and replaced with product from Mikrotik (including radio cards)
and I have slowly ordered the same products that are on backorder with one
vendor from other vendors. And this is not always new products. (How many
posts have we seen from people begging for NS2s?) Now I know one is saying,
"Why use so many vendors?" but the reason is because we have to in order to
have a decent supply stream. In that respect, I guess it spreads the love
amongst the dealers.

My post, however, was tongue in cheek. Just because I have an issue with
the way a certain company operates doesn't mean I need to pack my bags and
take my business elsewhere. Not at all. Besides, I'm trying to keep our
equipment list simple, consistent and with quality equipment, not a
hodgepodge of whatever I can afford or what is available today. I was just
voicing my frustration, not trashing a company. "Love it or leave it" is no
way to be. There is no place in life where you can agree with everything
100%.

So to sum it up........

Chill.

Bob-
Just Micro Digital Services Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: wireless-bounces@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-bounces@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of Jayson Baker
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:45 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] FW: Introducing Bullet M: 100+Mbps Real TCP/IP
Throughput

If you don't like their marketing and distribution methods, you could always
buy someone elses equipment.
It's a known fact Ubiquiti announces new equipment long before they start
manufacturing it.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Robert West
<robert.west@just-micro.com>wrote:

> Is this the same reason they only make electricity available in Iraq for 2
> hours a day?
>
> Also.....
>
> I was thinking, if that sort of marketing makes good sense, I should raise
> my prices 50%, only give wireless access on every other day between the
> hours of 11:00am and 2:00pm and again at 6:45pm and 11:20pm. Porn sites
> will be given access only on a Wednesday and YouTube once a month. With
> this marketing idea, I just can't go wrong! :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireless-bounces@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-bounces@wispa.org] On
> Behalf Of Bradley D. Thornton
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 3:20 AM
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> Subject: Re: [WISPA] FW: Introducing Bullet M: 100+Mbps Real TCP/IP
> Throughput
>
> That's Datsun.
>
> the 240Z got everyone into a frenzy because, by design of Nissan, they
> made sure that everyone had to get on a waiting list for one. It's been
> a marketing tool ever since for desireable things.
>
>
> Robert West wrote:
> > I was looking at it myself. Everyone is negative stock-wise. At least
> > that's what I see. Just like Ubiquiti to release a product with zero
> stock.
> >
> > Darn good products but I swear, they must have got their marketing ideas
> > from the Nintendo, PlayStation and McRib sandwich. Create a demand by
> > having your products available sporadically.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wireless-bounces@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-bounces@wispa.org] On
> > Behalf Of Cameron Kilton
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:34 PM
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> > Subject: [WISPA] FW: Introducing Bullet M: 100+Mbps Real TCP/IP
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[Fwd: Re: Point to Point Ethernet]

2009-07-09T10:32:00.001-07:00

BEST NANOG POST EVER!

> History shows us that Layer 2 winds up being IEEE, and Layer 3 IETF.

mpls

[Fwd: Re: [outages] Verizon Southern California issues?]

2009-07-06T20:10:00.001-07:00

FYI

VERIZON CONFIDENTIAL
FLASH SUMMARY
</N.B.>

=====

VERIZON CONFIDENTIAL
FLASH SUMMARY

FLASH NUMBER <redacted>
RGANIZATION NSMC
SEVERITY LEVEL CATA
CRITERIA HSI - HSI outage impacting 2500 or more customers
IMPACT LOSS OF DATA AND/OR CONNECTIVITY
NETWORK HSI
SUBNETWORK ROUTER
SPECIAL SERVICES
STATE CA
CITY THOUSAND OAKS
COUNTRY USA

OUTAGE START DATE 07-06-2009
OUTAGE START TIME 17:10:00 GMT
OUTAGE END DATE 07-06-2009
OUTAGE END TIME 22:26:00 GMT
DURATION 5:16:00

EQUIPMENT N/A

CAUSE OF OUTAGE FIBER/CABLE OUTAGE - OUTSIDE
CORRECTIVE ACTION Fiber spliced.

TICKET SOURCE WHITEBOARD
TICKET NUMBER 92475
LEC/OCC TICKET
PVC/CKT Affected

WEBSITE oasis.vzbi.com

COMMENTS
07-06-2009 18:34 GMT
Thousand Oaks, CA - HSI - Informational Bridge: (517) 477-3482 pc
865-5190. NSMC reports 3500 HSI customers are down. There is a fiber
cut located 1.3 miles outside of the Camarillo Central Office on
Dawson Drive. Approximately 1000 feet of fiber has been damaged.
There is no estimated time of restoral. Number of Trouble Tickets =
107 -----------
07-06-2009 19:45 GMT
NSMC reports that there are 252 attached tickets. Construction is
currently prepping the fiber with an ETA of new fiber onsite at 1:23
PM PT.
07-06-2009 21:24 GMT
NSMC reports that there are 345 attached tickets. All fiber is onsite
and pulled through duct, splicing commencing in approximately 5
minutes.
07-06-2009 22:49 GMT
NSMC reports construction spliced the fiber. HSI service restored.
406 Attached tickets.
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[Fwd: [Ripple-protocol] [Fwd: [Finanzsystem] hackathon money]]

2009-07-03T10:02:00.000-07:00

ec30 keeps getting easier...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Ripple-protocol] [Fwd: [Finanzsystem] hackathon money]
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:11:02 +0200
From: Klaus Mueller <m@klml.de>
Reply-To: Ripple concept and protocol development
<ripple-protocol@lists.sourceforge.net>
To: Ripple concept and protocol development
<ripple-protocol@lists.sourceforge.net>

Hi folks,

fyi;)

hackathon money

In 48 hours a group of hackers and creative minds will create free, open
source software that allows anyone to issue and exchange money - Digital
Bearer Certificates that are the basis for free, decentralized currencies
in virtual worlds, social networks and real life.

What can be your contribution? Your skills and talent are valuable! We
need enhusiasts in the fields of coding, security, administration,
identity design, web design, blogging, video editing, photography, writing
...

hackathon money_ is a wonderful opportunity to get together with great
minds, have fun, do what you love and create something meaningful - in
other words, a perfect weekend :)

Gastgeber: metalab / Andreas Pizsa
Beginn: Freitag, 24. Juli 2009 um 19:00
Ende: Sonntag, 26. Juli 2009 um 19:00
Ort: metalab
Straße: Rathausstraße 6
Stadt/Ort: Vienna, Austria

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=94447637156
Metalab: http://metalab.at/

greetz
klml

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[Fwd: CE200 DSLAM observations]

2009-07-01T10:08:00.001-07:00

The OpenSDSL project lives on!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: CE200 DSLAM observations
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:10:45 GMT
From: msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG (Michael Sokolov)
Reply-To: opensdsl@ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG
To: opensdsl@ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG

Update on the bring-up of our test DSLAM: I have received the new fan
module from David at Routerspot and both fans are now running fine.
The DSLAM's Ethernet port is now connected to the Harhan shop network
and has an IP address assigned. The configuration save operation worked
fine as well (see below).

The next step is to bring out the DSL output and look at it with our
various hacky tools while configuring different encapsulations and
netmodels on the DSLAM. I want to determine experimentally exactly what
this DSLAM is able to serve out on the subscriber loops when it's being
used by itself without a Redback router on the other end of a DS3 ATM
pipe.

With Rhythms and NorthPoint being gone, it seems that the only remaining
network which operates CM DSLAMs with the luxury of DS3 backhaul and
Redback aggregation routers is MegaPath aka former DSL.net on the
Atlantic coast. (If there are any others, I would like to know who they
are!) All other remaining CM DSLAM operators seem to be small
independents like RRIC. If a network operator has a bunch of DSLAMs
deployed in different COs and has DS3 links connecting them to an even
more central "MegaPOP", they can afford to use each DSLAM as nothing
more than a Layer 2 device and provision each subscriber as a separate
PVC from the "MegaPOP" side. However, if you have a single DSLAM and
you want to serve a local contingent of customers from it, you would
simply want to feed raw upstream bandwidth to it and have the DSLAM do
the rest, right? Hence my desire to find out exactly what this DSLAM is
able to serve out when one can't use the Cross-Connect netmodel because
there's nothing to cross-connect to.

The CE200 DSLAM puts its subscriber loops out on 50-pin Amphenol
connectors commonly known as "female telcos". Tomorrow I'll be heading
to the local telco gear warehouse to pick up the right cable for that;
I already have an M66 block with Amphenol breakout.

I have also taken a little peek at the internals of this DSLAM. As I
had already observed a while back, it has two internal buses: CompactPCI
and a proprietary line card bus. The Buffer Control Module is basically
the bridge between these two buses. The line card bus interconnects all
line card slots and the two redundant BCM slots. There two cPCI buses,
one on each side of the chassis for the redundant configuration. Each
cPCI complex consists of the System Control Module, WAN modules and the
BCM which links it to the line card bus and manages the redundancy
feature. My CE200 has a single cPCI complex on the left side, the
redundant slots on the right are unpopulated - apparently not too many
of these DSLAMs were shipped with the redundancy feature. (I've been
told they are so reliable that the redundant cPCI complex isn't really
needed.)

The SCM is an off-the-shelf Pentium SBC (single board computer) made by
Ziatech. (CM's documentation mentions there being 3 different versions
of the CE200 SCM and mine appears to match the description of version 1.)
The system's main CPU being an off-the-shelf SBC obviously raises the
next question of hacker's curiosity: what OS is it running? Well, I now
have the answer: it's VxWorks.

One of my past bosses at an embedded software engineering company has
referred to VxWorks as the "Microsoft of the embedded world", but that
was referring mostly to their proprietary licensing model. Those issues
aside, in purely technical terms VxWorks doesn't seem to be all that bad
when one needs a very complex and very specialized embedded system with
functionality markedly different from general purpose computer OSes.
But then perhaps I make a poor judge in this matter as I'm not very
familiar with VxWorks beyond hearsay.

There are two DE9 serial ports on the SCM, labeled "craft" and
"diagnostic". (According to CM's docs on SCM version 3 they've been
replaced with RJ45s using Cisco pinout, but I've never seen one with my
own eyes.) CM's docs talk only about the craft port and tell you to
leave the other one alone. Well, connecting to the diagnostic port like
CM tells you not to, one sees that it's the console port for VxWorks
running on the CPU. One can interact with the boot ROM, tell it to boot
a different image, and once it's booted, interact with the VxWorks
kernel and see the debug output from various processes. The craft port
in contrast is fully sanitized, all you see there is exactly what you
see when you telnet to a running DSLAM, no low-level debug output of any
kind. Basically the craft port is a way to get to the management CLI
when the IP stack isn't up and usable.

There is one part of this DSLAM design that is likely suffering from a
blemish though, and that is the flash file system. Flash memory on the
SCM is used to store the software/firmware images for all the boards in
the system as well as the config.txt or config.tgz (DOS-ified config.txt.gz,
see below) file which contains all persistent configuration. My contact
at MegaPath has told me that just about the only failure mode seen on
these DSLAMs is that after a certain while the SCM loses the ability to
save its running configuration to persist across power cycles, and after
taking a peek at how its internal file system is implemented, I think I
have a guess as to why that happens.

The two file systems supported by VxWorks are DOS and RT-11. Well,
there is nothing fundamentally wrong with using either of these file
systems in an embedded system (I particularly like the RT-11 fs), except
one little problem: both file systems are designed for regular block
devices, not for flash.

The file system used by CM on the SCM is DOS, or at least it has all the
appearance of a DOS file system: drive letters, 8.3 filenames, backslash
as the path separator, DOS-looking directory listings, all filenames
converted to uppercase as the canonical form. SCM version 1 (the one I
have) has only one kind of flash on it (VxWorks drive letter P:) and it
appears to be NOR flash. According to CM's docs SCM version 2 adds an
IDE flash drive under letter Q:.

Well, as someone who does embedded system consulting for a living
outside of the telecom hobby, I can tell you that NOR flash is rather
delicate and that it's designed for directly executable code, not for
making a file system out of it. Implementing a reliable flash file
system on top of NOR flash is certainly possible (jffs2 in Linux is a
good example), but it takes certain care, and I have never heard of
anyone implementing a DOS file system on top of NOR flash.

Being designed for traditional disk devices with 512-byte sectors, the
DOS file system is totally unsuited for NOR flash. The only way to
implement such a thing would be to build a software emulation layer that
makes a virtual block device out of NOR flash, and that is tricky. If
one does the dumb thing of implementing writes of 512-byte "sectors" by
taking the much larger flash sector, stashing it away in RAM, erasing it
and reprogramming it in flash, the resulting system will not only wear
the flash out very very shortly, but will also be vulnerable to
catastrophic fs corruption should the power go out in the middle of that
operation. I sure hope that CM's implementation of their DOS fs isn't
*that* dumb, but given all those field reports with the symptoms of
flash wearing out prematurely, who knows... Even if it isn't super-dumb,
it sure seems very suboptimal. There is the FTL standard that tells you
how to do it "right", but I'm not familiar with the details off the top
of my head and I still don't know how good it is - I would choose jffs2
over FTL any day in any system I design.

I have a guess that the reason why CM had added an IDE flash drive to
version 2 of their SCM was not because they needed more room, but simply
to avoid the configuration save flash wear problem. (Apparently when
that IDE flash drive is present, only the SCM code image stays on P: and
all other images and the config file move to Q:.) But they could have
fixed it by improving their software instead of throwing in more
unnecessary hardware!

Well, it's getting late here and I'm heading to bed. I will post more
when I wire up the DSL output from the beastie and play with some
configurations.

[Fwd: A Few Random Thoughts...]

2009-06-26T19:57:00.000-07:00

Good thoughts

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: A Few Random Thoughts...
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:42:49 -0400
From: R.A. Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
To: Gold Silver Crypto <gold-silver-crypto@rayservers.com>, NANOG list
<nanog@nanog.org>, cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net, Cryptography
<cryptography@metzdowd.com>
References: <20090626134321.GH23524@leitl.org>

As with anonymous remailers, or any other anonymous system, the exit
node of an onion-routing system is the sin-eater for the rest of the
network.

And, without cash settlement, you get what you pay for. :-).

Cheers,
RAH
-------

Begin forwarded message:

From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
Date: June 26, 2009 9:43:21 AM GMT-04:00
To: tt@postbiota.org, info@postbiota.org, cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net
Subject: A Few Random Thoughts...

----- Forwarded message from Michael <cozzi@cozziconsulting.com> -----

From: Michael <cozzi@cozziconsulting.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:16:00 -0400
To: or-talk@seul.org
Subject: A Few Random Thoughts...
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605)
Reply-To: or-talk@freehaven.net

Hi all,

As one of those lucky souls with access to almost limitless
bandwidth and the skills (or stupidity) to use it, I suppose an apology
is in order:

I'm sorry- after reviewing what *could* be the consequences, I have
to whimp out based on professional risk factors... I can't run an exit
node. So I have to leave it to other folks who have a different
situation to do the heavy lifting.

What I *am* doing is deploying a couple of heavy iron closed relays
on OC3 or better bandwidth. The first is now deployed after a lot of up
and down testing, and I'll get to the second in due time.

I've been watching Tor for a long time and just recently decided to
get involved. The Iran situation cemented that decision.

Anyhow, here are some random thoughts:

On the "Who uses Tor?" section of the website, I see no mention of
IT people. I've used the Tor network for many practical uses as an IT
Director. These range from bypassing my own firewall to test incoming
connections, to helping my legal department do research on a pending
lawsuit without the opposition *knowing* we even looked at their
website. Having a random and easily accessible IP to initiate
connections from is a priceless testing tool. Especially when dealing
with niggling routing problems.

On one occasion my ISP was having routing/DNS problems, and Tor was
able to find an entrance node and allow me to work even though I
couldn't get to my remote servers directly. This saved my client a lot
of downtime, and might have saved me the account. Also, my employer's
R&D department sometimes needs to look at things they don't want anyone
to know they looked at (All quite legal mind you).

Quite frankly Tor is an undervalued IT tool and it's capabilities
should be trumpeted loudly on the web page. You might also find IT guys
like me throwing up some relays in exchange. After all- who has the
bandwidth anyway?

And before anyone accuses me of it, I'm not nearly stupid enough to
do a port scan over Tor. Phew.

One of the issues I ran into when looking into running an exit relay
had to do with not only the legalities, but identifying a server vendor
that was offshore from my home country and friendly to a Tor exit. In
order for me to run an exit node, I have to be completely shielded.

As it stands now, I can probably run an exit for instant messaging-
and that's it. However, if Tor itself had a relationship with someone
who rents hardware, perhaps a partnership, Tor could get the exit nodes
it needs, and the server vendor could get lots of cash. From my
standpoint, it doesn't matter whether I rent or colocate my hardware. So
if Tor as an organization had a partnership with a few server rental
whores (in multiple countries), it would simplify getting more exits. I
need servers, Tor runs with little impact on my server, I could care
less where my remote hardware is provisioned from. Bingo- more exits.

I read back about 6 months in the or-talk list and there were a
couple of suggestions inferring that *everyone* should be forced to be
an exit node. I think this is a very bad idea, and hurts the security of
the person trying to remain anonymous by causing an identifiable change
in bandwidth usage that could infer Tor usage (Information leakage).

Simply speaking, on a default Windows/Vidalia installation, outgoing
Tor traffic usually looks like https traffic, but on a forced exit, now
Tor is identified by relatively matched traffic on port 443 both in and
out of the client's connection (Unless it's entrance node is a *nix
variant). This could mean death (literal) for a political dissident who
is now identified as having an in/out matching traffic pattern assuming
his entrance node is on Windows. It is more likely, that a country
monitoring it's citizens would miss simple https traffic. But even
myself as a lowly IT director, would have alarm bells going off if https
was initiating in two directions from the same machine. Alternative
ports can also set off alarm bells. But given the nature of Onion
Routing, two way traffic needs to be avoided in the most sensitive
sensitive situations. Forcing exit nodes is a bad idea for users. It
will also drive away anyone who cannot provide an exit node.... that's
chasing away bandwidth as non exit relays run for the hills.

Long post. Too much coffee and too much time staring at routing
tables.

Michael

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[Fwd: Some initial investigation on GPRS support]

2009-06-26T19:53:00.001-07:00

Happy hacking indeed...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Some initial investigation on GPRS support
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:16:59 +0200
From: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
To: openbsc@lists.gnumonks.org

Hi!

I've started to analyze GPRS and was actually even starting to write
some code
for it, but then have given up for the time being - it's much more work than
anticipated.

Given the long todo list of OpenBSC right now, I think I'll have put
aside GPRS
for some time :(

Based on looking at protocol traces, I have figured out the nanoBTS
GPRS/EDGE
implementation roughly looks as follows:

* make sure we allow the BTS to activate the GPRS software components
in abis_nm / OML activation!
* BTS will use a UDP connection on port 23000 for the GPRS related frames.
The GSM specs will consider this type of connection between the PCU (part
of the nanoBTS) and the SGSN. The establishment/configuration of the
UDP port number and SGSN ip address has not yet been identified.
Probably
similar to how the RSL link is activated via OML.

The protocol stack looks like:

IP : UDP : NSIP : BSSGP : LLC : higher-layer

IP and UDP you should know and/or not care about ;)
NSIP is a IP-enabled version of NS as specified in TS 08.16
BSSGP is specified in TS 08.18
LLC is as specified in TS 04.64

the higher-layer depends on the SAPI value of the LLC and can be
* GMM (GPRS Mobility Management as specified in 04.08)
* User Data (actual IP packets, e.g.)
* SMS

So what is weird about this is that the GPRS MM is actually part of
04.08, but
it is not terminated at the BSC but rather at the SGSN. Also, the deep
stack
comprised of many headers is really weird. Furthermore, it seems that a lot
of the packet scheduling and timeslot allocation is happening inside the
nanoBTS - very unlike the GSM side of things.

I have not yet managed to figure out how to allocate/dedicate resources to
GPRS.. after all, the BTS needs to know how many timeslots it can use
for it,
etc.

If anyone wants to dig deeper, you're most welcome to do so. A list of
relevant specs:

01.61 GPRS cipher algorithm requirements
03.60 Overall GRPS logical architecture (above RL and MAC)
03.64 GPRS radio interface
04.60 RLC/MAC on PDCH
04.64 MS-SGSN LLC spec (on top of RLC/MAC)
04.65 SGSN SNDCP
08.14 BSS SGSN Gb Layer 1
08.16 BSS SGSN Gb Layer 2
08.18 BSS SGSN BSS GPRS protocol
09.95 Interworking between modified PLMN supporting legacy GPRS and GPRS
mobiles
22.060 GPRS Service Spec
23.060 GPRS Radio Service Spec
29.016 SGSN - VLR Interface Gs network interface spec
29.018 SGSN - VLR Interface Gs layer3 interface spec
29.060 GPRS Tunneling (GTP) over Gn and Gp

Happy hacking,
--
- Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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[Fwd: TechNet Plus Subscription Deactivation]

2009-06-12T12:44:00.001-07:00

Was fun while it lasted.

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All your ID belong to us

2009-06-12T12:14:00.000-07:00

So lately I've become something of a federal ID/clearance junkie.

I completed my CVI clearance process last night.

Now I'm obtaining TWIC.

Then NEXUS and FAST.

Fun stuff.

Will update this post as I complete the process etc.

[Fwd: Re: [Cabletv-list] Cabletv-list Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5]

2009-06-08T10:39:00.001-07:00

Television.... funny business...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Cabletv-list] Cabletv-list Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:16:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Steve Dyche <sdyche@npgco.com>
Reply-To: CableTV-List <cabletv-list@cabletv.org>
To: <cabletv-list@cabletv.org>
References: <mailman.1.1244480401.24012.cabletv-list@cabletv.org>

All my recent experience with the service indicates that it is alive and
well. That is dealing with that division of TV Guide/ Macrovision and
whatever their new name is.
We have had to deal with some interestng situations, the data source on
the VBI of one of our imported PBS stations did not keep the service when
they switched over to their DTV channel. Instead the service is available
on another network television station in town which we do not carry or
import.

We transport the data service which is on a another PBS station from a
remote site and the common carrier could not accommodate keeping the VBI
intact during the transport. We contacted TV Guide Plus and they provided
a data inserter, we provided a phone line. They download guide data
regularly via telephone, the data inserter puts it back onto the
transported but stripped VBI PBS channel.

We have quite a few elderly customers, non-converter that insist on having
the service.

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:36:48 -0500
From: "Matt Schonlau" <matt@pioncomm.net>
Subject: [Cabletv-list] Guide +
To: "SCTE-List" <SCTE-List@SCTE-LIST.ORG>, "CableTV-List"
<cabletv-list@cabletv.org>
Message-ID:

<D271DAC1E8DE4A439400EF8644EB314A015257FA@pionexch2003.pioncomm.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Can anyone direct me to more information on Guide+. How long will it be
supported?

Matt Schonlau, Switching & Transmission Mgr.
Pioneer Communications
120 W. Kansas
Ulysses, KS 67880
620-356-7146
http://www.pioncomm.net/

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Re: [WISPA] Electronic Signatures

2009-06-07T20:22:00.001-07:00

The big carriers don't require a signature on a contract. They also
don't do (free/near free) installs either. I don't know if there is a
signed contract if you pay for an install.

Yes I realize this is a very important differentiator that we can
provide, however I don't feel a signed contract is necessary. An AUP is
an excellent idea as a general rule, however if they are transiting bits
on your network, you have the right and obligation to defend that
network. If you don't, you risk other operators dropping traffic from
your IP rnage /AS.

Your free to enforce your AUP with impunity. Failure to do so is the
sole reason that "bits of evil" reach our border routers. A few simple
route filters, and spam/botnets would be stopped. Subscribe to the Don't
Route Or Peer List from Spamhaus
(http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/index.lasso), and monitor outbound traffic.

*sighs*

Martha Huizenga wrote:
> Exactly, we send the contract with the install and then get it back when
> the install is done. Works fine.
>
> Jason Hensley wrote:
>> Wow. Seems like a waste of time and resources. If I mailed contracts like
>> that here I'd lose half my install opportunities because they would never
>> send the contract back. Send a contract with the installer, get them to
>> sign it before they install, give one copy to customer, bring one back, done
>> deal. If nothing else, get an electronic as an initial confirmation, then
>> get an actual signature at install.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wireless-bounces@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-bounces@wispa.org] On
>> Behalf Of Scott Reed
>> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 6:42 AM
>> To: WISPA General List
>> Subject: [WISPA] Electronic Signatures
>>
>> We currently use a two-year contract for customers. Right now we gather
>> the information, generate a contract, USMail it to the customer and wait
>> for them to USMail it back after they sign it before we schedule an
>> installation. We would like to reduce the time from initial contact to
>> installation. One option we are looking at is "electronic signature" on
>> the contract. We have done some research into doing this, but thought it
>> would be good to get some other input.
>> If you do electronic signatures, how do you do it?
>> If you use a third party to "certify" the signatures, who do you use?
>> What is good about them? What is not so good?
>>
>>
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[Fwd: Re: [SGVLUG] Secure "one time" passwords -- oh really?]

2009-06-05T20:58:00.001-07:00

Folks might dig this...

Emerson, Tom (*IC) wrote:
> OK, now that I've got John busy reconfiguring his security system,

*snickers*

I've got a question for the rest of you: how "secure" do you think the
"safeword" password token generator is?

I haven't worked with this one in particular, but am familiar with the
RSA brand.

They are quite secure.

>
> [trick question, I know, because safeword was bought by McAfee]

Let me clarify my above statement. The theory is sound, and the
particular reduction to practice by RSA inc is considered to be quite
secure.

>
> On the surface, I'm not convinced (as you might guess, I've recently been assigned one of these) There are two models they talk about - one that you need only "push a button" to get the (next) "one-time" password token, and another where you need to enter a "pin" and it will generate the next token for that PIN. (and a third option is proprietary software loaded onto your system or blackberry/phone)

The ones from RSA automatically produce the next number, others have you
request it.

In some of the documents, they mention that the tokens can be either
"time based" or "event based". (and I presume "event" means "token
generated", since I don't see any way the fob you carry and back-end
"validating" server would otherwise agree on what an "event" is)

I would say this is a correct analysis, but am not familiar with the
particular reduction to practice used by your vendor.

>
> The card generates what appears to be a 6 (hexadecimal) digit value (i.e., 3 bytes) I have the one where you enter a 4 (decimal) digit PIN (and per related documents I've received, if you get the pin "wrong", it generates an invalid token) Just breaking it down on that aspect alone, the token generator can generate up to 2^24 tokens of which (for the PIN based ones) 1 in 10000 are legit -- someone please check my math, because I only come up with 1677 valid passwords for the life of the token generator! (2^24 / 10000) heavy use of the device (10 validations/day) would kill that in less than half a year! (though I suspect "typical use" might be twice a day/weekdays only/50 work-weeks per year, or about 3 years of useful life [2 * 5 * 50 = 500 uses/year])
>

They are reissued every N years as a matter of course. Your correct. I
didn't validate your math, but 3 to 5 years is par for the course. Again
your particular implementation should be verified by your organizations
security personnel against their specific policies.

> Then there is the challenge of tracking "use" of the tokens - I can think of two methods (and I have an idea as to which was used) The "validating" server can generate every valid token and store that as some form of list, "crossing off" each token as it is used [more realistically, a 16-million-bit bitmask with "1"'s set for each valid token; as they are used, they get reset to 0] OR you prepare a database with 1677 blank entries, filling in each one "as used" (and doing a search each time a token is presented to see if it's been used) Either would work because the entire range of "valid" tokens pretty much "has to be" generated programmatically (and possibly modulated based on the time-and-date that the token is generated, but this "complication" only makes it more difficult for a "human" -- see below)

To my knowledge the seed is site/time specific.

>
> Since the guy that was activating my card indicated "this next step takes some time", I imagine the list is pre-generated (if you use a "bitmask" it would only need to be 2 megabytes long -- years ago, that would be a showstopper, but in today's age of terabyte drives...) I don't know offhand if my card is also time-based (but that's easy to test...)
>
> In any case, I can see that the "push for a new token" card wouldn't be terribly secure (if it is only "event" based) as someone could copy a block of tokens should they get ahold of the card (and since there is no indication of how many tokens have been generated, the user wouldn't necessarily know that he'd been compromised) The pin-based one is a little better as a "random guess" only has a 1-in-10000 chance of getting the correct PIN (or to put it another way, for an attacker to store off potential tokens for later use, they would have to generate/store 9999 other tokens as well) Of course, should the PIN be compromised, the device is no more secure than the single-push version [though, a thought occurs -- if the "PIN" that you enter is used in some way to modify the token generated, and that "method" becomes known, it would be trivial to convert any given result to what it would be with a different PIN - the attacker need only store tokens generated for PIN 0000...]

>
> The "time based" ones are, again, only marginally more secure since (I imagine...) there has to be some set algorithm to convert a "good" token to "good at /this/ moment" token, and if that's the case, chances are pretty good this algorithm can be reversed, and again, someone could extract any number of tokens and "adjust" for the time of day (by first back-converting to the base token, then at the time you wish to break in, convert any base value token to a current-time version...)
>
> Oh well, food for thought for the weekend... Gotta go...
>

Thanks for the post.

I don't do a lot of security work anymore, as I got tired of the very
long audit sessions and stating my name/position/responsibilities etc
for the permanent record, as well as the in depth background checks
required. However I have been directly responsible for some very large,
high profile security implementations, and consulted for several others.
So I hope I answered your questions. Perhaps someone can do a
presentation on two factor VPN authentication with open source software
at SGVLUG?

Apologies for the formal nature of my response, but I take security and
the protection of privacy as very serious matters (even though some of
my previous posts to the list today, may have not seemed so.:)) I'm
guessing you and the organization issuing you the key fob do as well.

I don't know your particular situation beyond the details provided here,
and claim no responsibility for, or accuracy of anything said above.
Please please please onsult with your organizations security and legal
professionals on the security/legal/privacy/compliance implications of
your particular solution and it's reduction to practice.

I really really really care when I'm paid to care, and I take reasonable
precautions during online activity of a non employment related nature.

[Fwd: .ORG is signed]

2009-06-02T13:49:00.001-07:00

Huyah!!!!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: .ORG is signed
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:44:47 -0400
From: Dave Knight <dknight@ca.afilias.info>
To: nanog@nanog.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Colleagues,

On behalf of PIR Technical Support I would like to announce that as of
today, 2009-06-02, at 16:00 UTC .ORG is DNSSEC signed.

The following KSK is now valid for .ORG

org. IN DNSKEY 257 3 7 (
AwEAAYpYfj3aaRzzkxWQqMdl7YExY81NdYSv+qayuZDo
dnZ9IMh0bwMcYaVUdzNAbVeJ8gd6jq1sR3VvP/SR36mm
GssbV4Udl5ORDtqiZP2TDNDHxEnKKTX+jWfytZeT7d3A
bSzBKC0v7uZrM6M2eoJnl6id66rEUmQC2p9DrrDg9F6t
XC9CD/zC7/y+BNNpiOdnM5DXk7HhZm7ra9E7ltL13h2m
x7kEgU8e6npJlCoXjraIBgUDthYs48W/sdTDLu7N59rj
CG+bpil+c8oZ9f7NR3qmSTpTP1m86RqUQnVErifrH8Kj
DqL+3wzUdF5ACkYwt1XhPVPU+wSIlzbaAQN49PU=
) ; key id = 21366

Please note that due to the use of NSEC3 this key should not be used
with BIND versions less than 9.6.0.

Please refer to http://www.pir.org/dnssec for more information.

As always, please report operational concerns with any Afilias-hosted
zone to <noc@afilias-nst.info>

dave

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Director, Resolution Services
Afilias

PIR Technical Support
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[Fwd: [CAnet - news] Must read - radically new data transfer protocol - SNDTP]

2009-05-27T15:44:00.001-07:00

Cute...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [CAnet - news] Must read - radically new data transfer
protocol - SNDTP
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:01:58 -0400
From: Bill St. Arnaud <bill.st.arnaud@canarie.ca>
Reply-To: bill.st.arnaud@canarie.ca
Organization: CANARIE Inc
To: <news@canarie.ca>

For more information on this item please visit my blog at

http://green-broadband.blogspot.com/ or http://billstarnaud.blogspot.com

-------------------------------------------

From International Science Grid Week

http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001810

------------------------------------------------------------------------

<http://www.isgtw.org/images/2009/Snail_L.jpg>

The snail-based system in feed-forward action. /Image courtesy Herbert
Bishko. Photo on front page courtesy Lysanne Ooteman, stock.exchng /

If you think you have problems with the sometimes slow pace at which
information travels from one computer to another, then consider the
solution offered by this scientific paper: "Snail-based Data Transfer
Protocol
<http://improbable.com/pages/airchives/paperair/volume11/v11i4/sluggish-data-11-4.pdf>."

It describes an experiment in data transfer using real, genuine, live
snails, along with a "lettuce-based guidance system."

No lie.

The papers' authors, Shimon Schocken, dean of Efi Arazi School of
Computer Science <http://www.flatstories.com/arazi/arazi.htm> Herzliya,
and Revital Ben-David-Zaslow of the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv
University <http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/departments/zoology/>, Israel,
reported that their experiment delivered a 37 million bits-per-second
<http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001622#B> data transfer rate — faster than ADSL.

[….]

The paper does admit to a drawback: "In some regions, most notably
France, culinary habits may pose a denial-of-service (DOS) problem."

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Fw: First Phone call over MP Architecture

2009-05-23T18:23:00.000-07:00

Another first.

It joins other greats like the first time linux booted or the first time samba shared a file.

Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

-----Original Message-----
From: David Rowe <david@rowetel.com>

Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 06:34:47
To: <village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com>
Subject: First Phone call over MP Architecture

Hello,

A few days ago we made the first phone call over the Mesh Potato
Architecture - a mash up of various hardware components and drivers that
are very close to the prototype Mesh Potato hardware:

http://www.villagetelco.org/2009/05/first-phone-call-on-mp-architecture/

We are due to start testing the first MP prototype in a few weeks.

Cheers,

David

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[Fwd: Re: Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming]

2009-05-22T10:57:00.001-07:00

I love nanog!!!!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 04:29:06 -0500
From: jamie rishaw <j@arpa.com>
To: Raymond Dijkxhoorn <raymond@prolocation.net>
CC: ty chan <chanty_kh@yahoo.com>, nanog@nanog.org
References:
<1184640185-1242970936-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1583315332-@bxe1087.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>
<537479.73764.qm@web52308.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
<alpine.LFD.2.00.0905221054480.12708@control.prolocation.net>
<20090522090033.GG25561@besserwisser.org>
<alpine.LFD.2.00.0905221101060.12708@control.prolocation.net>

on issues like this :

[1] JFGI
-> if fail :
[2] man smartnet
-> if fail :
[3] go back to studying to get that A+ and consider perhaps a yob in redmond

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn <raymond@prolocation.net
> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Yes, i can get sample of configuration via Google search.
>>>> but i am looking for best practices and from experience people.
>>>>
>>>
> Then post your suggested config and ask for comments.
>>>
>>
> ...on a suitable list, dedicated to Cisco gear..
>>
>
> Sorry, yes. :-) Plenty of Cisco lists there to answer 'questions' :-)
>
> Bye,
> Raymond.
>
>

--
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[Impressive C-level Title Here], arpa / arpa labs

[Fwd: Introducing Monitoring, Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing for Amazon EC2]

2009-05-18T10:40:00.000-07:00

Is Rightscale and folks about to get squashed?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Introducing Monitoring, Auto Scaling and Elastic Load
Balancing for Amazon EC2
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 01:14:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Amazon Web Services <no-reply-aws@amazon.com>
To: charles@thewybles.com <charles@thewybles.com>

<http://www.amazon.com/gp/r.html?R=2RR2ERLLKZ3M3&C=395VUOR2S1USV&H=M3MNKZSLPIVG7WIBQJXBBSIEQYCA&T=C&U=http%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com>

Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,

We are excited to announce the public beta of several new features for
the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): Amazon CloudWatch, a web
service for monitoring AWS cloud resources, Auto Scaling for
automatically growing and shrinking Amazon EC2 capacity based on demand,
and Elastic Load Balancing for distributing incoming traffic across
Amazon EC2 compute instances. Together, these capabilities provide you
with visibility into the health and usage of your AWS compute resources,
enhance application performance, and lower costs.

*Monitoring*

Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that provides monitoring for AWS
cloud resources, starting with Amazon EC2. It provides customers with
visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and
overall demand patterns -- including metrics such as CPU utilization,
disk reads and writes, and network traffic. To use Amazon CloudWatch,
simply select the Amazon EC2 instances that you'd like to monitor;
within minutes, Amazon CloudWatch will begin aggregating and storing
monitoring data that can be accessed using web service APIs or Command
Line Tools.

*Auto Scaling*

Auto Scaling allows you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity
up or down according to conditions you define. With Auto Scaling, you
can ensure that the number of Amazon EC2 instances you're using scales
up seamlessly during demand spikes to maintain performance, and scales
down automatically during demand lulls to minimize costs. Auto Scaling
is particularly well suited for applications that experience hourly,
daily, or weekly variability in usage. Auto Scaling is enabled by Amazon
CloudWatch and available at no additional charge beyond Amazon
CloudWatch fees.

*Elastic Load Balancing*

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application
traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. It enables you to achieve
even greater fault tolerance in your applications, seamlessly providing
the amount of load balancing capacity needed in response to incoming
application traffic. Elastic Load Balancing detects unhealthy instances
within a pool and automatically reroutes traffic to healthy instances
until the unhealthy instances have been restored. Customers can enable
Elastic Load Balancing within a single Availability Zone or across
multiple zones for even more consistent application performance.

Like all Amazon Web Services and features, Amazon CloudWatch and Elastic
Load Balancing are available on a pay-as-you-go basis with no up-front
fee, minimum spend or long term commitment. Auto Scaling is free to
Amazon CloudWatch customers. Each instance launched by Auto Scaling is
automatically enabled for monitoring and the Amazon CloudWatch
monitoring charge will be applied.

For more information on these new features and details on how to start
using them, please see the resources listed below:

# Amazon EC2 Detail Page
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/r.html?R=2RR2ERLLKZ3M3&C=395VUOR2S1USV&H=RX1EAAZNZHUTBZWKAYEKMO3OIDGA&T=C&U=http%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fec2>

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[Fwd: [SCCUG] Cisco Solution Design Clinic - May 27th at the LA Cisco Office]

2009-05-14T13:12:00.001-07:00

I'm going. Looks like a good seminar. Encourage folks to sign up.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [SCCUG] Cisco Solution Design Clinic - May 27th at the LA Cisco
Office
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 02:02:44 -0000
From: ryee@bluespud.com <ryee@bluespud.com>
Reply-To: SCCUG@yahoogroups.com
To: SCCUG@yahoogroups.com

Hi All,

I wanted to invite you to come down the to the Cisco office for a
Solution Design Clinic focused on Catalyst featues.

Topics will include:

Architectural Design – Best Practices
- Leverage existing infrastructure, high availability and resilient
design approach
- Planning and design before adding services to the network
- Virtual Switching System (CORE – VSS)
- Supervisor Engines – Stateful Switch Over and Non-Stop Forwarding
(SSO/NSF)
- Smart Call Home feature
- 802.11N / PoE

Optimize and Simplify
- Leverage Cisco Catalyst switching advanced features to manage,
optimize, and simplify network events
- Using Embedded Event Manager (EEM) features, scripting
- SmartPorts
- Security features

Operations Management
- Network management, monitoring and application performance visibility
and management
- IP SLA – application aware and network monitoring
- Rogue wireless access points – switchport tracing

If you would liketo attend, you can register here:
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/sreg2/register/regdetail_private.pl?LANGUAGE=E&METHOD=E&TOPIC_CODE=10154&PRIORITY_CODE=165715_1

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[Fwd: IEEE, OCEN, 5-30 Event, Stimulus Money...]

2009-05-14T13:11:00.001-07:00

FYI

I'm signed up and plan to go. Looks interesting. Two stimulus seminars
in one month! :)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: IEEE, OCEN, 5-30 Event, Stimulus Money...
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 20:45:38 -0700
From: Dan Noël <Dan.Noel@ieee.org>
To: Dan Noel <dan.uu.noel@earthlink.net>

Dear OCEN member or supporter:

Do you have a *promising technical idea*? Would you like to develop it?
Are you *worried about financing*? What if the U.S. government's
*economic stimulus* was right there for you to pick off?

*If you like these ideas, here it is:*

* *What*: *Accessing Government Stimulus Funding..."Show me the
Money!"* presentations and Q&A's
* *Who*: a panel of experts
* *When*: Saturday 5-30, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon
* *Organized by*: IEEE's Orange County's Entrepreneurs' Network
* *Sponsored by*: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear; IEEE's Orange
County Consultants' Network; IEEE's Los Angeles Area Consultants'
Network
* *Where*: Irvine, near the 405 and McArthur
* *Cost*: $15 on the web, $25 at the door
* *Registration & Details*: conveniently, on the web, at
https://www.123signup.com/event?id=zrryg

*Program Description:*

The IEEE's Orange County Entrepreneurs' Network (OCEN) presents a panel
of experts who will review, for a *full 3 hours*, the *$789 Billion
*Government Stimulus Package intended to rebuild the U.S. economy and
attain national self-sufficiency and leadership in *renewable energy*.
Presentations will clarify funding available to scientists, engineers,
and entrepreneurs and provide *practical tips* to explore the websites
relevant to budding entrepreneurs. Several *interactive Q&A* sessions
will provide you with an opportunity to satisfy *your specific needs*.

*Expert Panel:*

* *Paul Donahue*: inventor, serial business grower, green entrepreneur
* *Ron Oglevie*: serial new hi-tech business grower and serial SBIR
[U.S. government process to fund hi-tech start-ups] contract winner
* *Perry Oldham*: sharp patent attorney with Knobbe, Martens, Olson
& Bear
* *Dennis Wonica*: serial entrepreneur, technical guru, Defense
contracting expert

*Schedule:*

8:30 a.m. –registration and informal contacts
9:00 a.m. –presentations and Q&A's
12 noon –end

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[Fwd: Re: RE: delays to google]

2009-05-14T10:36:00.001-07:00

When you don't pay good salaries to your operations people you get sub
standard personnel. :)

They had it coming to em. Google has made several networking mistakes
over the past couple of years.

Hire some people who know what they are doing already! Oh what's that?
You don't want to pay them what they are worth? Oh ok. Don't then.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: RE: delays to google
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:21:38 +0000
From: A2thaH@gmail.com
To: nanog@merit.edu

Google ack'da maintenance on their core network did not go as
planned-Forced traffic to one peer link that was unable to handle all the
traffic. Maintenance has been rolled back. Issue has been restored,

-Adam

On May 14, 2009 12:44pm, "Mullins, Douglas" <dmullins@covad.com> wrote:
> conficker?

> Doug

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Patrick Darden [mailto:darden@armc.org]

> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:13 PM

> To: nanog@merit.edu

> Subject: Re: delays to google

> Fixed?

> 5 mins ago:

> 1 gw1.armc.org (68.153.29.1) 0.571 ms 0.705 ms 0.732 ms

> 2 65.14.131.185 (65.14.131.185) 2.330 ms 2.318 ms 2.308 ms

> 3 axr00mia-7-0-0-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.237.92) 3.009 ms 3.001 ms 3.080

> ms

> 4 AXR00AEP-0-1-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.236.50) 2.384 ms 2.370 ms 2.499 ms

> 5 65.83.238.202 (65.83.238.202) 3.148 ms 3.136 ms *

> 6 cr1.attga.ip.att.net (12.122.141.22) 4.011 ms 3.769 ms 4.106 ms

> 7 12.123.22.5 (12.123.22.5) 3.735 ms 3.042 ms 3.033 ms

> 8 * * *

> 9 72.14.233.56 (72.14.233.56) 159.416 ms * *

> 10 72.14.232.213 (72.14.232.213) 163.622 ms 209.85.254.241

> (209.85.254.241) 165.287 ms 209.85.254.243 (209.85.254.243) 219.136 ms

> 11 209.85.254.6 (209.85.254.6) 170.937 ms 171.154 ms 209.85.254.10

> (209.85.254.10) 169.944 ms

> 12 * * *

> 13 * * *

> 14 * * *

> 15 * * *

> 16 * * *

> 17 * * *

> 18 * * *

> 19 * * *

> 20 * * *

> 21 * * *

> 22 * * *

> 23 * * *

> 24 * * *

> 25 * * *

> 26 * * *

> 27 * * *

> 28 * * *

> 29 * * *

> 30 * * *

> Now (12:11 eastern)

> [root@inetsec ~]# traceroute www.google.com

> traceroute to www.google.com (74.125.65.99), 30 hops max, 60 byte

> packets

> 1 gw1.armc.org (68.153.29.1) 0.760 ms 0.884 ms 0.908 ms

> 2 65.14.131.185 (65.14.131.185) 2.345 ms 2.342 ms 3.132 ms

> 3 axr01asm-7-1-0-1.bellsouth.net (65.83.237.90) 3.338 ms 3.331 ms 3.322

> ms

> 4 axr00msy-0-3-1.bellsouth.net (65.83.236.46) 3.112 ms 3.105 ms 3.095 ms

> 5 65.83.238.202 (65.83.238.202) 3.503 ms 3.654 ms *

> 6 cr2.attga.ip.att.net (12.122.140.22) 4.489 ms 3.823 ms 3.795 ms

> 7 12.123.22.129 (12.123.22.129) 3.591 ms 3.094 ms 3.079 ms

> 8 12.88.97.6 (12.88.97.6) 3.197 ms 3.172 ms 3.160 ms

> 9 72.14.233.56 (72.14.233.56) 3.322 ms 3.490 ms 72.14.233.54

> (72.14.233.54) 3.510 ms

> 10 209.85.254.249 (209.85.254.249) 16.887 ms 3.501 ms 72.14.239.127

> (72.14.239.127) 4.261 ms

> 11 209.85.253.214 (209.85.253.214) 12.987 ms 12.979 ms 209.85.253.218

> (209.85.253.218) 3.882 ms

> 12 gx-in-f99.google.com (74.125.65.99) 4.357 ms 4.740 ms 4.481 ms

> --Patrick Darden

[Fwd: [ijccr] new items published in IJCCR]

2009-05-13T10:45:00.001-07:00

FYI

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ijccr] new items published in IJCCR
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 13:23:26 +0100
From: Gill Seyfang <g.seyfang@uea.ac.uk>
To: ijccr@yahoogroups.com, ijccreditorial@yahoogroups.com

I'm pleased to announce two new items published in the 2009 volume of
the IJCCR (International Journal of Community Currency Research).

We hope you find the papers useful and interesting, and encourage you
to consider sending us reports, papers and reviews for the journal -
please visit the website for more information, thankyou.

www.uea.ac.uk/env/ijccr

best wishes,

Gill Seyfang, co-editor.

A book review:

'Seeds of Change: The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption' by
Gill Seyfang, reviewed by Jeppe Graugaard

and a research paper:

Social Economy and Central Banks: Legal and Regulatory Issues on
Social Currencies (Social Money) as a Public Policy Instrument
Consistent with Monetary Policy by Marusa Vasconcelos Freire

Abstract

In Brazil, the National Secretariat for Solidarity Economy has
encouraged the establishment of Community Development Banks that issue
"social currencies for local circulation", and has struggled to set up
a regulatory framework for the use of social currencies, by means of
public policies for solidarity finance, at the federal, state, and
municipal levels of governments. Can social currencies be regarded as
public policy instruments compatible with monetary policy under the
responsibility of central banks? With the aim of systematizing this
question and allowing the Central bank of Brazil to elaborate a
reference study on this subject, this essay defines social currencies
on the basis of constitutional precepts; identifies and examines legal
and regulatory issues and logistical and operational aspects relating
to social currency systems; and investigates why social currencies
should be regarded as public policy instruments for local development
compatible with monetary policy.

Resumé

Au Brésil, le Secrétariat d'État à l'Économie Solidaire stimule la
création de Banques Communautaires de Développement, en les permettant
d'émettre des « monnaies sociales pour la ciruclation locale » et
s'efforce d'établir un cadre réglementaire pour l'usage de monnaies
sociales au moyen de politiques publiques de finances solidaires sur
les trois niveaux de gouvernement : pouvoir central, des états et des
municipalités. Or, peut-on considérer que les monnaies sociales sont
des instruments de politiques publiques compatibles avec la politique
monétaire conduite par les banques centrales ? Pour systématiser cette
question et permettre à la Banque centrale du Brésil d'élaborer une
étude de référence sur ce sujet, cet essai commence par définir ce que
sont les monnaies sociales sur la base des précepts da la
constituition. Il identifie et examine ensuite les questions légales
et réglementaires et certains aspects logistiques et opérationnels
liés aux systèmes de monnaies sociales pour finalement montrer
pourquoi les monnaies sociales peuvent être considérées comme des
instruments de politiques publiques de développement local compatibles
avec la politique monétaire.

Resumen

En Brasil, la Secretaría Nacional de Economía Solidaria ha estado
incentivando la creación de Bancos Comunitarios de Desarrollo para la
emisión de "monedas sociales de circulación local" y está luchando por
el establecimiento de un hito regulatorio para el uso de monedas
sociales, mediante políticas públicas de finanzas solidarias en las
tres esferas de gobierno: federal, estatal y municipal. ¿Podrán las
monedas sociales ser consideradas como instrumentos de políticas
públicas compatibles con la política monetaria bajo la responsabilidad
de los bancos centrales? Con el objetivo de sistematizar la cuestión y
permitir al Banco Central de Brasil a elaborar una investigación de
referencia sobre este tema, este ensayo define lo que son monedas
sociales a partir de fundamentos constitucionales; identifica y
examina cuestiones legales y regulatorias y aspectos logísticos y
operacionales relacionados a los sistemas de monedas sociales; y
verifica por qué las monedas sociales pueden ser consideradas como
instrumentos de políticas públicas de desarrollo local compatibles con
la política monetaria.

---------------------------------------
Dr Gill Seyfang
RCUK Academic Fellow
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK

tel: +44 (0) 1603 592956
personal: www.uea.ac.uk/~e175/
department: www.uea.ac.uk/env/

*** NEW BOOK ***
The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption: Seeds of Change
by Gill Seyfang, 2009 (Palgrave Macmillan)

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[Fwd: Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Software: Is Cloud Computing Software's next Silver Lining?]

2009-05-12T14:05:00.001-07:00

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[Fwd: Re: Looking for DNS/Operational experience]

2009-05-11T10:18:00.001-07:00

Awk for the win.

Other folks posted perl solutions to the nanog list. I didn't like em. :)

This one I'll share.

Cause it's awk, and awk is cool.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Looking for DNS/Operational experience
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:24:52 +0300
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
To: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net>
CC: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>, ipv6-ops@lists.cluenet.de
References: <4A03B4E6.9070104@ibctech.ca>
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0905080519171.21527@nacho.alt.net>

On 8-May-2009, at 08:28, Chris Caputo wrote:

> Not a complete command-line tool, but one could easily be made using
> this
> function I wrote... (below)

Here's one I wrote a while back in awk. You know, for that other
person in the observable universe who still likes to use awk.

# dealing with IPv6 addresses in awk is, well, awkward
# take advil now

function v6ptr(address) {
n = split(address, a, /:/);
m = split(address, b, /::/);

if (m == 2) {
# normalise :: notation
address = b[1];
for (i = 0; i < 9 - n; i++)
address = address ":0";
address = address ":" b[2];
}

# produce a dot-separated list of nybbles
nybbles = "";
split(address, a, /:/);
for (i = 1; i < 9; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < 4 - length(a[i]); j++)
nybbles = "0" (nybbles ? "." nybbles : "");
for (j = 1; j < length(a[i]) + 1; j++)
nybbles = substr(a[i], j, 1) (nybbles ? "." nybbles : "");
}

return nybbles;
}

This function was wrapped in a script that produced a full set of PTR
records from configs retrieved by rancid (I wrote parsers for IOS and
JUNOS).

Joe

Fw: IEEE, OCEN, 5-30 Event, Stimulus Money...

2009-05-03T20:50:00.001-07:00

Considering going.

I'm in san Antonio this Thursday for another stimulus talk.

Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

From: Dan Noël
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 20:45:38 -0700
To: Dan Noel<dan.uu.noel@earthlink.net>
Subject: IEEE, OCEN, 5-30 Event, Stimulus Money...

Dear OCEN member or supporter:

Do you have a promising technical idea? Would you like to develop it? Are you worried about financing? What if the U.S. government’s economic stimulus was right there for you to pick off?

If you like these ideas, here it is:

What: Accessing Government Stimulus Funding..."Show me the Money!" presentations and Q&A’s
Who: a panel of experts
When: Saturday 5-30, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon
Organized by: IEEE’s Orange County’s Entrepreneurs’ Network
Sponsored by: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear; IEEE’s Orange County Consultants’ Network; IEEE’s Los Angeles Area Consultants’ Network
Where: Irvine, near the 405 and McArthur
Cost: $15 on the web, $25 at the door
Registration & Details: conveniently, on the web, at https://www.123signup.com/event?id=zrryg

Program Description:

The IEEE's Orange County Entrepreneurs' Network (OCEN) presents a panel of experts who will review, for a full 3 hours, the $789 Billion Government Stimulus Package intended to rebuild the U.S. economy and attain national self-sufficiency and leadership in renewable energy. Presentations will clarify funding available to scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs and provide practical tips to explore the websites relevant to budding entrepreneurs. Several interactive Q&A sessions will provide you with an opportunity to satisfy your specific needs.

Expert Panel:

Paul Donahue: inventor, serial business grower, green entrepreneur
Ron Oglevie: serial new hi-tech business grower and serial SBIR [U.S. government process to fund hi-tech start-ups] contract winner
Perry Oldham: sharp patent attorney with Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear
Dennis Wonica: serial entrepreneur, technical guru, Defense contracting expert

Schedule:

8:30 a.m. –registration and informal contacts
9:00 a.m. –presentations and Q&A's
12 noon –end

Dan Noël
OCEN secretary

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Fw: [quagga-users 10587] bgpd crash - apologies (fwd)

2009-05-03T19:56:00.001-07:00

Flap 0

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From: Ingo Flaschberger
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: [quagga-users 10587] bgpd crash - apologies (fwd)
Sent: May 3, 2009 4:45 PM

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Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 00:38:54 +0300
From: Geert Jan de Groot <GeertJan.deGroot@xs4all.nl>
To: quagga-users@lists.quagga.net
Subject: [quagga-users 10587] bgpd crash - apologies

Hello,

I learned today that a BGP announcement for which I am the tech-c,
is causing difficulties with Quagga. First of all, I apologise;
it's only today that I heard about these difficulties.

I arrived less than 20 hours ago in Cairo as part of a setup-team
for the upcoming AfNOG-10 meeting. We will be multi-homed this time,
and hence applied for (and obtained) an ASN. Per RIR-policy active since
1-1-2009, these ASNs are 32-bit ASNs so AS327686 (AS5.6) is what
is used.

Currently, the local host team is provisioning links etc
and hence you may have seen this problem come and go.
I do not know why they choose to do prepending, but suspect
it has to do with ability to set policy.

I have a very, very long list of things to set up for the conference
but will try any of the workarounds that have been suggested
to me today.
At the same time, I kindly but strongly ask to implement
the fix that has been posted on various lists.

One of the aims of this setup is to demonstrate that 32-bit ASNs
do work and people should not steer away from them, especially
since the pool of 16-bit ASNs is shrinking fast.
A showcase network goes a long way in this regard.
I do apologise for this unexpected, undesired side-effect.
This was obviously not intended, and I apologise.

It was 1996 when Paul Traina, at that time with Cisco, was
doing AS path prepending for the very first time.
This caused an assertion error with gated, which
(among others) ANS was using at that time.
I did administer AS3333 back then and my gated boxes, too,
did crash, so I have been "victimized" myself before.
It is perhaps ironic that 12 years later I'm again involved.

Again, my sincere apologies.

Geert Jan

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[Fwd: Linux Admin. Century City CA contract for entertainment company]

2009-04-29T15:24:00.001-07:00

Here ya go folks!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Linux Admin. Century City CA contract for entertainment company
Date: 29 Apr 2009 18:23:26 -0400
From: Jillian Parker <Jillian.Parker@Sapphire.com>
To: charles@thewybles.com

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Fw: [c-nsp] eBGP --> OSPF --> eBGP vs eBGP --> iBGP --> eBGP

2009-04-27T18:28:00.001-07:00

Full of fail ... Love it
------Original Message------
From: Joe Provo
Sender: cisco-nsp-bounces@puck.nether.net
To: Adam Greene
Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
ReplyTo: jzp-cnsp@rsuc.gweep.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] eBGP --> OSPF --> eBGP vs eBGP --> iBGP --> eBGP
Sent: Apr 27, 2009 6:05 PM

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:05:17PM -0400, Adam Greene wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We run BGP to our upstream providers and OSPF on our local backbone.
>
> We have a customer who will be multihomed and needs us to advertise his IP blocks to us via BGP.
>
> My question is how best to propagate his AS-PATH prepending to
> my upstream providers. Is it possible to inject this information
> into OSPF and then into the eBGP to my upstreams?

Possible yes, but full of fail.

> Or should I plan on establishing iBGP sessions between the backbone
> router that will be servicing the customer and the routers facing
> my upstream providers? I assume the latter ....

Yes. For maximal win along the axes (scalable,flexible,maintainable),
your OSPF should only carry only loopbacks and network edges (just
enough to enable next-hop processing of BGP) and your iBGP should
carry all the prefixes.

Cheers!

Joe

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Fw: [Openbts-discuss] about clocks

2009-04-26T13:05:00.001-07:00

FYI

Fw: There's a new IT Professional Meetup Group!

2009-04-25T06:31:00.001-07:00

Might be of interest to folks...

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From: New Meetup Group
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:20:16 -0400
To: <charles@thewybles.com>
Subject: There's a new IT Professional Meetup Group!

New IT Professional Meetup Group!

The Burbank LINUX Meetup Group

Our meetings will consist of a group of Linux enthusiast wanting to gain or trade their expertise to talk about the latest news and software releases related to (Ubuntu - Client & Server) With that said, each and every member or attendee should and will be active in coming together in assisting each other in setting up labs for hands-on exercises with migrating to Ubuntu client as their primary operating... [read more]

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[Fwd: radio]

2009-04-14T10:23:00.001-07:00

Might be of interest...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: radio
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:58:05 +0200
From: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>
To: bifrost@slu.se
CC: Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se

A bit off-topic maybe.. but an Indian radio researcher sent me some
interesting radio links.

http://www.elektronika.ba/629/cc1101-rf-modem-and-250mw-amplifier/

Amazing what you can solder with just a home iron. :)

It included some do-it-your-self links for antenna basics and design.

http://273k.net/gsm/designing-and-building-a-gsm-antenna/yagi/
http://273k.net/gsm/designing-and-building-a-gsm-antenna/monopole/

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[Fwd: [wsfii-discuss] Mesh networking with Nokia Web-Tablet N810]

2009-04-08T10:46:00.001-07:00

Mesh in your pocket. Muhahahah!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [wsfii-discuss] Mesh networking with Nokia Web-Tablet N810
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:27:48 +0200
From: elektra <onelektra@gmx.net>
Reply-To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information
Infrastructure <wsfii-discuss@lists.okfn.org>
To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructure
<wsfii-discuss@lists.okfn.org>

Hi!

A while ago there was a posting about the DUMBO project, which included
the idea to use Nokia Web Tablets in a mesh with Olsrd. I wrote that the
Web Tablets use a WiFi chipset from TI (Texas Instruments) which doesn't
support ad-hoc mode, because someone owning the old N770 told me so.

I have bought a Nokia Web Tablet N810 as an upgrade for my old Sharp
Zaurus SL-5000, since I refuse to use a PDA not running Linux. The N810
uses a Connexant chipset (Connexant bought Harris semiconductor a couple
of years ago, they are the manufacturer of the great Prism chipsets)
which does support ad-hoc mode without any issues. I was running it for
days in our local Freifunk mesh network, and I have experienced no
problems whatsoever.

So it makes a perfect mobile mesh device for surfing the web, Skype,
VOIP with SIP. Price in Germany is now 200€ from cheap retailers. The
WiFi range of the device is awesome. The only issue is that running
WiFi/mesh all the time will drain the battery in approximately 4 hours.

Currently I'm using Olsrd. Batman 0.3.X doesn't work yet because it
needs policy routing enabled in the kernel and the "tun" kernel module
which is missing in the web tablet Linux distribution. So I will need
some extra hacking to get a up-to-date batmand running.

cu elektra

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[Fwd: Re: Web of Debt]

2009-04-06T09:14:00.001-07:00

Some interesting material....

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Web of Debt
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:05:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: cjenscook@googlemail.com <cjenscook@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: rippleusers@googlegroups.com
To: Ripple users <rippleusers@googlegroups.com>
References:
<08340827-af36-475a-8113-ae92ad9992c6@c9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>
<db83b8d3-e37e-4161-bbd3-70f7757a7aaf@e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>
<fabb8b1e0904021101v57c2083w9911d2ac5600eb71@mail.gmail.com>
<ccfa6866-8f7f-46ac-9a3e-bc716b7718a1@l10g2000vba.googlegroups.com>
<fabb8b1e0904021315r66a7aa5ue2aa5ff3e26bb2de@mail.gmail.com>
<1238708962.31609.15.camel@chris-laptop>
<49D53676.1050804@thewybles.com>
<1238710769.31609.21.camel@chris-laptop>
<32cb4498-c030-4df8-8f44-de28351613f2@a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>
<c7cc22ed0904031803i1f242e8bvc6c4e836db1e6eae@mail.gmail.com>
<53d145ad-6100-42ef-8224-ba7bc08ffa2e@r15g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>
<28524f4c-daee-47f1-aaa7-46de4a7a8978@3g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>
<072f282a-ba52-4855-bbe4-11c18b31c2bf@f19g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>
<482eaa00-23ff-49ca-8a86-20155b4319b8@a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>

We are used to thinking that it is a question of "either" Public =
State or "Private" = "proprietary to an individual or the particular
legal protocol known as the 'For Profit' Corporation".

There is in fact another way of doing it which is for people to agree
among themselves - consensually - to the terms of an LLC agreement, or
in the UK, to an LLP agreement. If we do this, it really doesn't
matter much what the conventional statutory routes are - we may just
go ahead and do it.

The outcome is something which is both "open" and "closed" or Public
and Private. It is closed because only members may use it, but open,
because anyone who consents to the agreement may be a member.

Within such an LLC or LLP there is no profit and loss - merely mutual
creation and exchange of value in all its many forms.

These presentations may give you an idea.

http://www.slideshare.net/ChrisJCook/social-investment-mechanism-12-03-09

and

http://www.slideshare.net/ChrisJCook/equity-shares-a-solution-to-the-credit-crash-presentation

Within a partnership framework it is possible for communities to
achieve what Tom Greco refers to as Credit Clearing - and this is of
course where Ripple comes in as a methodology/tool, through its
capability to settle one obligation with another.

The partnership-based "Guarantee Society" (and provisions into a
default pool) provides the framework of trust which banks are no
longer able to provide, because of the shortage of capital on the one
hand and the absence of credit worthy people and projecst on the
other.

On which note you might find this of interest

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5269#more

Best Regards

Chris

On Apr 6, 8:39 am, matabele <matabele.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris - as I see it - the source of monopolized profit derives from
> limitation of liability (avoiding costs) - usually via the mechanism
> of rent seeking legislative lobbying (establishment of private
> privilege/public liability pair.)
>
> Until legislative reform either precludes, or apportions sufficient
> compensatory tax upon, such private privilege; how can open, co-
> operative enterprise compete?
>
> On Apr 6, 9:17 am, matabele <matabele.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > P.S.
>
> > There is much debate over the private versus public issue, on the
> > various forums. My take on the matter:
>
> > It appears that currency may be privately issued (in the form of an
> > I.O.U.) - but such issue is not public acknowledgment of such
> > obligation, and can not therefore be given full public (legal)
> > support.
>
> > If, however, an I.O.U. were issued according to the required
> > transparency rules (which would include a public statement of assets
> > pledged to meet such obligation, along with a statement detailing any
> > issue of currency against such assets) - then such I.O.U. could be
> > given full public (legal) support.
>
> > Any issue of currency, no matter whether private or public, can be
> > afforded equal public (legal) support - provided that such obligation
> > is publicly acknowledged according to the required transparency rules.
>
> > On Apr 6, 8:36 am, matabele <matabele.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I gather, from the above posts, that the main objection on this forum
> > > to the Greenback/Full Reserve Banking camp is:
>
> > > - that monopoly opens the opportunity of abuse and, therefore, any
> > > monopoly upon the supply of currency can and will be abused, and
> > > - that even in the case where this is a state monopoly upon the supply
> > > of currency, such 'money power' can and, therefore, will be usurped.
>
> > > The primary legislative/constitutional reform required, is therefore,
> > > to protect against the establishment of any monopoly upon the supply
> > > of currency (including a state monopoly). In a true 'free market',
> > > multiple currencies will, therefore, exist alongside one another in
> > > free competition with one another.
>
> > > In an attempt to clarify the issues and form a united currency reform
> > > camp - I propose the following guidelines for such legislative reform:
>
> > > 1. Clearly define the difference between money (anything accepted in
> > > payment), and currency (the token representing money), in all its
> > > forms.
> > > 2. State that money takes its existence from a lapse of time between
> > > two market transactions, and therefore, any issue of currency is in
> > > effect a token representing a loan to oneself from the future.
> > > 3. That no issue of currency may occur other than as a loan to oneself
> > > from the future (more specifically, therefore, no currency should be
> > > issued by virtue of a loan to another party.)
> > > 4. Establish transparency rules for any issue of currency.
> > > 5. Provide for equal legal backing for any currency issued according
> > > to these rules.
>
> > > This would, however, leave the problem of how government would finance
> > > itself.
>
> > > My suggestion:
> > > - That the legislature (by consent) can still pass to any governing
> > > authority the power to collect tax.
> > > - Any tax authority could, therefore issue currency against such
> > > future tax receipts (a loan to oneself.)
>
> > > To place limitation upon this process, I would suggest that any such
> > > issue should be limited by the simultaneous issue of an actual tax
> > > bill (in other words, currency issue by a taxing authority would be
> > > limited by an actual tax - not some hypothetical estimate of future
> > > tax.)
>
> > > On Apr 4, 4:01 pm, "cjensc...@googlemail.com"
>
> > > <cjensc...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > Some thought provoking and chewy material here.
>
> > > > I believe that our current position is that Humpty Dumpty is broken,
> > > > and cannot be put back together again.
>
> > > > The reason for this is that it doesn't matter how much credit = money
> > > > is created by credit institutions even when re-capitalised by States -
> > > > there are simply not enough creditworthy people left. The toxic
> > > > combination of the mathematics of compound interest on debt, and
> > > > absolute private property in land has done what it always has done
> > > > throughout history, and has concentrated wealth in the hands of the
> > > > few to such an extent that the system has collapsed.
>
> > > > As Chris W points out above, there isn't really any difference between
> > > > Public and Private - both are sets of legal protocols which connect
> > > > individuals together through the creation of institutional
> > > > Organisations which impose themselves "one way" through force of law -
> > > > (in France) contrats de mandat - upon the largely unwilling people. We
> > > > either suffer from the legal protocol of the State and central
> > > > planning, or from a legal overlay of "finance capital" consisting of
> > > > the Twin Peaks of Debt and Equity - two conflicting claims over the
> > > > same productive assets.
>
> > > > I believe that there is now emerging another - partnership-based -
> > > > approach involving consensual "two way" agreements or (in France)
> > > > "contrats de societe" . Our "Anglo" system is predicated upon imposed
> > > > contracts - French jurisprudence extends to the consensual agreements
> > > > with which many societies -eg the Japanese and Islam - are familiar.
>
> > > > I advocate Systemic Fiscal Reform. What I mean by this is the
> > > > abolition of all imposed taxes on earned income and their replacement
> > > > with consensual levies on privilege. Also the abolition of means-
> > > > tested or no benefits, and their replacement with a national Dividend
> > > > payable by right to all citizens from a National Equity.
>
> > > > Firstly, the privilege of exclusive private use of the Commons of land
> > > > - I agree wholeheartedly with Henry George's analysis here, and
> > > > advocate a levy on exclusive rights of use of location (as opposed to
> > > > money's worth invested in a location...)
>
> > > > Secondly, there is the privilege of exclusive rights of use of the
> > > > Commons of energy - whether renewable or non-renewable. Here I would
> > > > add an additional carbon levy to a levy on enclosure of renewable
> > > > energy.
>
> > > > Thirdly, I advocate a levy on the privilege of limitation of
> > > > liability. This would be made on the GROSS revenues of any "For
> > > > Profit" entity whose investors benefit from limiting their liability.
> > > > In many cases this would also act as a levy on "enclosed" Intellectual
> > > > Property, and the "Intellectual Capital" of individuals accumulated
> > > > knowledge and experience.
>
> > > > These mechanisms are all simple, inescapable, and (I would argue) fair
> > > > at a fundamental level. They apply a tax on unearned "rent" extracted
> > > > through privilege.
>
> > > > In this way we may rebase the tax system in a form to which most
> > > > people will consent, I think. These taxes and levies then form the
> > > > base for the direct issue by Treasuries of credit. There is no need
> > > > for Central Banks or any other banks as intermediaries, and there
> > > > never has been. But there is a need for banking as a service. ie the
> > > > management of bilateral creation of credit.
>
> > > > Credit costs nothing to create, but in order for a credit creation and
> > > > clearing mechanism to work it requires a framework of trust. In fact,
> > > > the economic value provided by banks IS trust - they provide an
> > > > implicit guarantee that the borrower's credit is good, and they back
> > > > this guarantee with a proprietary pool of capital and an interest
> > > > charge which covers their costs, defaults and (historically) a
> > > > handsome profit/rent which has been shamelessly and unsustainably
> > > > maximised.
>
> > > > I believe that the enabling mechanism for a new generation of finance
> > > > lies in a partnership-based framework or protocol which will enable
> > > > both direct Peer to Peer credit and direct Peer to Peer investment.
> > > > The Carnegie Institute recently published this article of mine on the
> > > > subject
>
> > > >http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/innovations/data/000085
>
> > > > The networked society I envisage has no more "organisations". Instead
> > > > it will consist of an organic network of consensual framework
> > > > agreements within which individuals will self organise to agreed
> > > > purposes.
>
> > > > Property will cease to be an "object" to be transacted, and instead
> > > > becomes a relationship within which individuals share the fruits of
> > > > mutual cooperation.
>
> > > > A partnership-based enterprise model is optimal, I believe. Capitalism
> > > > will be hoist by its own petard, because profits to rentiers are
> > > > actually INEFFICIENT, and those enterprises who pay them will be
> > > > outcompeted by cooperative enterprises (whether formerly private or
> > > > public) who do not,because they operate "Not for Loss" as what Dr
> > > > Yunus of Grameen Bank calls Social Businesses.
>
> > > > This recent presentation of mine in Bristol went down reasonably well
> > > > in that respect
>
> > > >http://www.slideshare.net/ChrisJCook/social-investment-mechanism-12-0...
>
> > > > In conclusion, I think that we are very close to a decentralised peer
> > > > to peer market operating system, and that this is capable of spreading
> > > > virally because the proposition to users is so compelling.
>
> > > > (a) Peer to Peer Credit - mutual risk sharing leading to interest free
> > > > but not cost free credit used for the circulation of value and the
> > > > craetion of productive assets;
>
> > > > (b) Peer to Peer investment - mutual revenue sharing leading to
> > > > reasonable and secure returns from productive assets in common
> > > > ownership but with private use.
>
> > > > Best
>
> ...
>
> read more »
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[Fwd: Re: Web of Debt]

2009-04-04T21:03:00.001-07:00

Might be of interest to my readers....

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Web of Debt
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 07:01:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: cjenscook@googlemail.com <cjenscook@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: rippleusers@googlegroups.com
To: Ripple users <rippleusers@googlegroups.com>
References:
<08340827-af36-475a-8113-ae92ad9992c6@c9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>
<9a0b86ed0903311258n3a2015fdo2d371b52c8ce59d4@mail.gmail.com>
<db83b8d3-e37e-4161-bbd3-70f7757a7aaf@e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>
<fabb8b1e0904021101v57c2083w9911d2ac5600eb71@mail.gmail.com>
<ccfa6866-8f7f-46ac-9a3e-bc716b7718a1@l10g2000vba.googlegroups.com>
<fabb8b1e0904021315r66a7aa5ue2aa5ff3e26bb2de@mail.gmail.com>
<1238708962.31609.15.camel@chris-laptop>
<49D53676.1050804@thewybles.com>
<1238710769.31609.21.camel@chris-laptop>
<32cb4498-c030-4df8-8f44-de28351613f2@a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>
<c7cc22ed0904031803i1f242e8bvc6c4e836db1e6eae@mail.gmail.com>

Some thought provoking and chewy material here.

I believe that our current position is that Humpty Dumpty is broken,
and cannot be put back together again.

The reason for this is that it doesn't matter how much credit = money
is created by credit institutions even when re-capitalised by States -
there are simply not enough creditworthy people left. The toxic
combination of the mathematics of compound interest on debt, and
absolute private property in land has done what it always has done
throughout history, and has concentrated wealth in the hands of the
few to such an extent that the system has collapsed.

As Chris W points out above, there isn't really any difference between
Public and Private - both are sets of legal protocols which connect
individuals together through the creation of institutional
Organisations which impose themselves "one way" through force of law -
(in France) contrats de mandat - upon the largely unwilling people. We
either suffer from the legal protocol of the State and central
planning, or from a legal overlay of "finance capital" consisting of
the Twin Peaks of Debt and Equity - two conflicting claims over the
same productive assets.

I believe that there is now emerging another - partnership-based -
approach involving consensual "two way" agreements or (in France)
"contrats de societe" . Our "Anglo" system is predicated upon imposed
contracts - French jurisprudence extends to the consensual agreements
with which many societies -eg the Japanese and Islam - are familiar.

I advocate Systemic Fiscal Reform. What I mean by this is the
abolition of all imposed taxes on earned income and their replacement
with consensual levies on privilege. Also the abolition of means-
tested or no benefits, and their replacement with a national Dividend
payable by right to all citizens from a National Equity.

Firstly, the privilege of exclusive private use of the Commons of land
- I agree wholeheartedly with Henry George's analysis here, and
advocate a levy on exclusive rights of use of location (as opposed to
money's worth invested in a location...)

Secondly, there is the privilege of exclusive rights of use of the
Commons of energy - whether renewable or non-renewable. Here I would
add an additional carbon levy to a levy on enclosure of renewable
energy.

Thirdly, I advocate a levy on the privilege of limitation of
liability. This would be made on the GROSS revenues of any "For
Profit" entity whose investors benefit from limiting their liability.
In many cases this would also act as a levy on "enclosed" Intellectual
Property, and the "Intellectual Capital" of individuals accumulated
knowledge and experience.

These mechanisms are all simple, inescapable, and (I would argue) fair
at a fundamental level. They apply a tax on unearned "rent" extracted
through privilege.

In this way we may rebase the tax system in a form to which most
people will consent, I think. These taxes and levies then form the
base for the direct issue by Treasuries of credit. There is no need
for Central Banks or any other banks as intermediaries, and there
never has been. But there is a need for banking as a service. ie the
management of bilateral creation of credit.

Credit costs nothing to create, but in order for a credit creation and
clearing mechanism to work it requires a framework of trust. In fact,
the economic value provided by banks IS trust - they provide an
implicit guarantee that the borrower's credit is good, and they back
this guarantee with a proprietary pool of capital and an interest
charge which covers their costs, defaults and (historically) a
handsome profit/rent which has been shamelessly and unsustainably
maximised.

I believe that the enabling mechanism for a new generation of finance
lies in a partnership-based framework or protocol which will enable
both direct Peer to Peer credit and direct Peer to Peer investment.
The Carnegie Institute recently published this article of mine on the
subject

http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/innovations/data/000085

The networked society I envisage has no more "organisations". Instead
it will consist of an organic network of consensual framework
agreements within which individuals will self organise to agreed
purposes.

Property will cease to be an "object" to be transacted, and instead
becomes a relationship within which individuals share the fruits of
mutual cooperation.

A partnership-based enterprise model is optimal, I believe. Capitalism
will be hoist by its own petard, because profits to rentiers are
actually INEFFICIENT, and those enterprises who pay them will be
outcompeted by cooperative enterprises (whether formerly private or
public) who do not,because they operate "Not for Loss" as what Dr
Yunus of Grameen Bank calls Social Businesses.

This recent presentation of mine in Bristol went down reasonably well
in that respect

http://www.slideshare.net/ChrisJCook/social-investment-mechanism-12-03-09

In conclusion, I think that we are very close to a decentralised peer
to peer market operating system, and that this is capable of spreading
virally because the proposition to users is so compelling.

(a) Peer to Peer Credit - mutual risk sharing leading to interest free
but not cost free credit used for the circulation of value and the
craetion of productive assets;

(b) Peer to Peer investment - mutual revenue sharing leading to
reasonable and secure returns from productive assets in common
ownership but with private use.

Best Regards

Chris Cook

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[Fwd: Prism Convention for classying currency designs]

2009-03-23T09:26:00.001-07:00

My readers might be interested in this....

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Prism Convention for classying currency designs
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:28:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: els <siosonel@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rippleusers@googlegroups.com
To: Ripple users <rippleusers@googlegroups.com>

Some people might find the Prism convention useful for presenting or
evaluating currency ideas.

See announcement at http://tyaga.org/2009/03/22/the-prism-convention/

and unfinished draft of document at http://tyaga.org/docs/Prism.pdf

The paper covers a bit of LETS and Ripple.

[Fwd: Outlook PST File Format]

2009-03-19T12:29:00.001-07:00

An old e-mail. Want to get this info out on the net...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Outlook PST File Format
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:19:43 -0700
From: Russell Mangel <russell@tymer.net>
To: <charles@thewybles.com>

_ <<0001C2C0_BLOCK_EC7C .htm>> _
I read most of your web site, and I know that you are familar with OLE2
Stuctured Storage, and are involved in OSER project. I have been
reversing the Microsoft Outlook PST file format, my intention is to
document this file database and build an API to read and write to the
PST file. I have spent approximately 6 months of time (over 3 years)
discovering information about the structure.

The purpose of this email is to Network with you to and find additional
people or information.

The Outlook PST file format uses at least two BTree indexes, and has
several leaf pages (keys/data) . Currently I am working on one of the
most difficult data pages, trying to recover the exact data and data
structures that Microsoft used to serialize the information to disk. I
have enclosed an html attachment that shows what I have learned. This
specific page is a MAPI Table *HierarchyTable*, and so we can identify
the data. I can not figure out how Microsoft references String data
types in the Hierarchy Table, PR_STRING8 property values do not have a
fixed length and so Microsoft uses some referencing scheme to point to
the starting address of the String. However when the value will fit in
32 bits or smaller, they just place the value directly.

Problem: How do I reference the String 0x24E "Deleted Items" from the
table at 0x00C2. You can see at: 0x00C2 the value of A0000000 somehow
this points to offset 0x24e.

There is a very important sequence of bytes starting at 0x0314 that must
be the beginning of building data structures to hold the serialized data.

Can you help?

Russell Mangel
Las Vegas, NV

PS
I am aware of libPst project which is also working on reversing the PST
format. _http://www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst/rn01re04.html_ I question
the authors algorithm used to recover the data (see->> Associated
Descriptor Item 0x7cec section), as it is trying to recover the same
data from a similar B-Tree page that I have enclosed as an attachment.
The libpst author seems to right shift 4 bits for many of the values. I
don't understand the data structure that the author has created. I don't
think the author understands that he is building a MAPI Hierarchy table
and therefore just trys anything to recover the data. This is not good
enough for me.

[Fwd: What is a Wall Wart?]

2009-03-19T09:17:00.001-07:00

New phising attack?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: What is a Wall Wart?
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:53:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: info@silkwise.com
To: charles@thewybles.com

Dear Sir/Madam,

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[Fwd: Re: [wsfii-discuss] Preflashed FOSS mesh router history ...]

2009-03-18T10:11:00.000-07:00

W00t! Finally an open competition environment against Meraki!!! :)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [wsfii-discuss] Preflashed FOSS mesh router history ...
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:06:21 +0100
From: wlanmac <wlan@mac.com>
Reply-To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information
Infrastructure <wsfii-discuss@lists.okfn.org>
To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructure
<wsfii-discuss@lists.okfn.org>
References:
<vmime.49be817c.244d.74370652c87ff17e@maraca.ergoservices.intern>
<49BEA67A.60100@spc.org> <49BF0C79.9070509@ilesansfil.org>

For those with Open-mesh nodes, and willing to test a bit more, contact
me off-line for directions on how to setup your Open-mesh network to use
the up-and-coming free service - described in the OM Roadmap:

http://www.open-mesh.com/activekb/questions/4/Open-Mesh+Roadmap

Highlights:

- Free! and zero-config for your open-mesh network. [A low annual fee
for those wishing to sell access with Paypal or Google Checkout].

- Full captive portal template customization.

- Give free access, with or without limitation, with a click of a
button.

- Authorize, with or without limitations, or block devices based on MAC
address.

- Manage users with or without access limitation.

- Set limitation (on free, paid, or user access) by capping time, data,
or bandwidth.

Best regards,
David

PS: I agree, Antonio has done some very impressive work.

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 21:35 -0500, Richard Lussier ISF wrote:
> I have been testing ROBIN nodes for almost a year now on 2 networks, and
> very happy about it.
> We have to mention the great work of Antonio Anselmi, and the other
> fellows on the ROBIN forum for making that happen
> http://robin.forumup.it/
> Richard Lussier
> Montreal
>
> james stevens wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > We have been using the open-mesh routers since may 2008 and have a nice
> > 40 node mesh going in London SE8.. thats Deptford for those familiar
> > with London. Its taken a lot of energy and patience to hold the network
> > together so far and we are very keen to find a stable solution to work
> > with throughout 2009.
> >
> > I heard from Mike the other day confirming delivery of 20 of the newest
> > router so we can test and report back on our experiences in the wild.
> >
> > If you are interested to see more and hear of our progress try
> > http://own.spc.org.
> >
> > Does anyone else here use Open-Mesh.. how are you getting on..?
> >
> > easy
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> > Juergen Neumann wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all, hi Ramon, hi people and friends at guifi.net,
> >>
> >> I just want to point you to https://www.open-mesh.com/store/products.php?product=Professional-Mini-Router.
> >>
> >> This is mainly what happenend after we had met at the wonderful WSFII at guifi.net [1] in Spain at SAX2007:
> >>
> >> We got to know Mike Burmeister-Brown (US) in Paris in Dec. 2007 at the initial OHI [2] meeting (thx Marek!). He and his team took a lot of inspiration from our specs [3] and have managed to build and sell FOSS preflashed routers with openWRT zero conf batman meshing, etc.
> >>
> >> The new gerenration is already quite close to what we wanted! Thanks again for all your input!
> >>
> >> Salut, Amor i Xarxa!
> >>
> >> We are always moving on ...
> >>
> >> Kindly,
> >>
> >> JuergeN
> >>
> >> [1] http://guifi.net/ca/SAX2007En
> >> [2] http://www.open-hw.org/index.php/Category:OpenHardwareInitiative
> >> [3] http://wiki.freifunk.net/OpenHardware
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> wsfii-discuss mailing list
> >> wsfii-discuss@lists.okfn.org
> >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > wsfii-discuss mailing list
> > wsfii-discuss@lists.okfn.org
> > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss
> >
>
>
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Re: Your SheebaPlug Order

2009-03-18T10:03:00.001-07:00

Henry Chiu wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> I was trying to keep tabs of your order, and because of your earlier
> complaint, "Customer Service" in their wisdom reversed your payment.

I appreciate the effort and responsiveness.

>
> Anyway, if you are still keen to be one of the first to have a unit,
> please place an order through our web-site. The first batch will be
> going out around March 23-25th.

Thank you. I may do so.

>
> Charles I am really sorry for the trouble we have caused and for this I
> apoligize on behalf of the company!

Not a problem. :)

[Fwd: Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report?]

2009-03-18T09:41:00.001-07:00

Cool stuff for us analyst junkies. :)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report?
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:16:17 -0400
From: K. Sriram <ksriram@nist.gov>
To: heather.schiller@verizonbusiness.com
CC: nanog@nanog.org

Heather:

This prior question from you (November 2008) was recently brought to our
attention.
Sorry about this delayed response, but we thought it would still be
worthwhile to share
pointers to some work that we are doing at NIST which relates closely to
your question.

Earlier Bill Woodcock provided you with a link where the actual
discrepancies
are listed. Our work at NIST focuses on the statistics of such anomalies,
with the intention of: (A) generating score cards for accuracy/consistency
of various registries, and (B) to glean the "good" data from what is
available so that
BGP robustness algorithms that rely on the data can work more effectively.

We have done an analysis of registry information (RIRs, IRRs, RADB) and
compared
it with that from trace data (RIBs, update history) from RIPE-RIS and
routeviews.
We generate a variety of statistics on a per RIR basis (ARIN, RIPE,
etc.) regarding
whether announced {prefix, origin AS} pairs in updates correspond with
those in the registries.
We also report on whether the registered objects (NetHandle and AShandle
in SWIP format
and inetnum, aut-num, and route in RPSL format) appear self-consistent
or not.
We also looked at the NetHandles in ARIN that contain origin AS
information, and have
performed comparisons of those with what was historically seen in BGP
updates for
prefixes belonging to the ARIN region.
A variety of results and discussion related to all this are presented in
this set of slides:
http://www.antd.nist.gov/bgp_security/publications/ARIN_NetHandle_OriginAS_Analysis.pdf

You may also look into a presentation we made in January at NANOG-45.
There the focus was on BGP robustness algorithms that make combined use of
filtered "good" data from registries as well as long-term trace data.
http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/abstracts.php?pt=MTE5NSZuYW5vZzQ1&nm=nanog45

Here is a link for a detailed published paper related our NANOG-45
presentation:
http://www.antd.nist.gov/pubs/NIST_BGP_Robustness.pdf
(This paper was published in the Proceedings of DHS S&T CATCH 2009
conference.)

Please let me know if you have any specific questions concerning the above.
We are very interested in receiving feedback on how this work can be made
more useful from the perspective of what ISP needs are.

Sriram

K. Sriram
+1 301 975 3973
http://www.antd.nist.gov/~ksriram/
-----------------------------------------------------

>From nanog-bounces@nanog.org Wed Nov 19 19:14:58 2008
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:16:43 -0500
From: Heather Schiller <heather.schiller@verizonbusiness.com>
Subject: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report?
To: gih@apnic.net, nanog <nanog@nanog.org>, info@BGPmon.net

I don't know if a report like this already exists, but I haven't been
able to find one. Can someone (CIDR Report? BGPMon? PCH?) offer a
report that shows the discrepencies in Origin ASN according to the whois
records, and routes in the [global/public] routing table? Publishing it
on some regular interval would be even better.

ARIN makes available a list of prefixes with OriginAS. I don't know if
other RIR's do.

ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/originAS/

To be clear. I want a list of the prefixes where the actual origin ASN
seen does not match the one in the whois record. Inconsistent Origin is
fair game here. As a transit provider I'm interested in seeing what
prefixes I am transiting for my customers that have this discrepancy, so
something that shows the full path as part of the results would be most
helpful.

Thanks,
--Heather

[Fwd: Re: help with connectivity check?]

2009-03-18T09:24:00.001-07:00

Now this is cool.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: help with connectivity check?
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:29:52 -0700
From: Azher Mughal <azher@hep.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: azher@hep.caltech.edu
Organization: Caltech
To: Jason Lewis <jlewis@packetnexus.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
References: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0903180009570.8190@pop.ict1.everquick.net>
<Pine.LNX.4.62.0903180038310.11525@pop.ict1.everquick.net>
<49C04521.2020405@packetnexus.com>

https://mgmt.hep.caltech.edu/routeproxy

Jason Lewis wrote:
> This brings up something I've been thinking about. Are there any free
> services that let you submit an IP and get traces back from multiple
> geographic locations?
>
> There are plenty of internet measurement projects, but none of them seem
> to let you do a live trace and get the data back in a parseable format.
>

[Fwd: Bifrost 6.0 rc1 (Release Candidate 1)]

2009-03-16T09:25:00.001-07:00

Download and pound on it folks!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Bifrost 6.0 rc1 (Release Candidate 1)
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:56:32 +0100
From: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>
To: bifrost@slu.se
CC: Jens.Laas@ITS.UU.SE, Emil.Pedersen@ITS.UU.SE, Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se

Bifrost 6.0 (Bifrost Software Distribution)

ftp://robur.slu.se:/pub/Linux/bifrost/v6/bifrost-6.0rc1.tgz

Some of the news.

Many utilities are updated and many are built with ulibc. There are new
/bin64 and /bin32 and PATH should be set correct accordingly kernel.
Scripts are clean up.

Kernel 2.6.29-r2 with many patches configured for 64-bit NUNA arch. Tested
with Opteron and Intel Duo. So far only we only support 64-bit kernel.

Kernel has multiqueue support for routing/forwarding. The driver supporting
multiqueue is ixgbe (Intel 10g 82598 chip) niu (SUN neptune 10g and 1g
board)
and the igb (Intel 82576 chip) drivers.

Automatic driver module loading via PCI probing. See /etc/eth-dectect.conf
(you can of course add needed tags). Modpobe follows eth-decect.conf order.

eth-affinity to setup IRQ affinity among multiqueue capable NIC's. Normally
run at start.

ifstat2 is improved and have defaults for 10g

zlile -- A new emacs like editor

Some emerging support for TCAM classifier support in the niu driver via
ethtool. (Note. A byte order bug for IP/Ports etc)

pktgen can be configured to use multiqueue NIC's.

An optional oprofile package can profile a running system at very little
cost.
Very useful for troubleshooting and network and performance understanding.

And bugs of course

Enjoy
Robert, Jens, Emil

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[Fwd: BackType News]

2009-03-16T09:22:00.001-07:00

Very cool....

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: BackType News
Date: 16 Mar 2009 09:23:33 +0000
From: Christopher Golda <chris@backtype.com>
Reply-To: Christopher Golda <chris@backtype.com>
To: charles@thewybles.com

Hello Everyone,

It's been over two months since our last newsletter; we have lots of
great news to share!

BackType Connect

Recently, we announced a new feature called, BackType Connect. It
lets you see all the conversation surrounding a specific article or
post, whether it happens on blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, or any
other social media. Add our bookmarklet for one-click connect when
you're viewing a web page of interest.

Here's an example of BackType Connect in action:
http://www.backtype.com/connect/www.nytimes.com%252f2009%252f02%252f22%252fopinion%252f22friedman.html

http://www.backtype.com/connect

BackTweets

While we were creating BackType Connect, we realized how incredibly
valuable all the tweets related to articles and posts that we were
surfacing really were. Over a million links are tweeted per day,
often obfuscated by URL shorteners with no way for bloggers and
other publishers to see who's talking about their content. BackType
Connect already shows tweets, but we thought it would be interesting
to use our Twitter support exclusively to create BackTweets. Simply
put, BackTweets lets you search for links on Twitter:

http://backtweets.com/

My Comments Wordpress Plugin

Wesley from ImprovingTheWeb.com created a Wordpress plugin that
allows you to display comments in a widget, as a paginated listing
(on a page), or as a daily/weekly digest post on your blog. The
plugin is also highly customizable both in function and appearance:

http://www.improvingtheweb.com/wordpress-plugins/my-comments-elsewhere/

Extended Support

We have continued to extend our support for more blogs and other
social media. Here's a list of publishing platforms and non-blog
services that we currently support:

* Publishing Platforms: Blogger, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Posterous
(New), TypePad, Vox, Wordpress
* Comment Systems: Disqus, Intense Debate
* Aggregators: FriendFeed (New)
* Answers: Mahalo Answers, Yedda (New)
* Social News: Digg, Hacker News, Reddit
* Social Networks: Twitter (New)

Make sure you've claimed all your comments. If there's a service or
platform you'd like us to support, please submit it to:

http://www.backtype.com/addblogs

[Fwd: OC Entrepreneurs' Network, 2 events coming up!]

2009-03-12T21:35:00.001-07:00

Good stuff!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: OC Entrepreneurs' Network, 2 events coming up!
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:08:13 -0700
From: Dan Noel <Dan.Noel@ieee.org>
To: Dan Noel <dan.uu.noel@earthlink.net>

*The OC IEEE Entrepreneurs' Network invites you*

*to the following two SBIR Programs:*

On Saturday, March 28, '09.

The IEEE San Fernando Valley Section Presents:

*/SBIR Commercialization Redux: /*

*/Ready – or not – for Prime Time?/*

A 3 hour Workshop By

Dr. Dennis Wonica,

LaserLight Networks

*/And,/*

On Saturday, 4 April, '09

The OC IEEE Entrepreneurs' Network Presents:

An Introduction to the

*/Small Business Innovation Research & STTR Programs –/*

*/Do These Programs Fit Your Business Objectives?/*

*/How to Capture these Awards/*

A One-Hour Presentation By

Ron Oglevie

Irvine Innovation Institute

The content of the two programs is complementary.

The first focuses on commercialization, and, the second on winning
strategies.

If you are seriously considering SBIR or STTR, you should attend them both.

*For more information and registration, see the attached files.***

--
Charles N Wyble charles@thewybles.com
(818)280-7059 http://charlesnw.blogspot.com
CTO SocalWiFI.net
Any sufficiently advanced NANOG conversation is indistinguishable from
Comcast-bashing. -Nanog thread 03/12/2009

Re: Moving to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

2009-03-08T15:24:00.001-07:00

Um.... small problem. You announce a major change like this 2 days
before it's scheduled to happen? I mean I realize this is an alpha/beta
product, but still I think it could have been slightly better
coordinated. :)

Azure Services Platform Team wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Currently, the time zone within Windows Azure is Pacific Standard Time
> (PST). Soon, we will be migrating to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
> This is potentially a breaking change for applications which rely on
> local time.
>
> *When will we make the change?*
> We will start rolling out this change starting Sunday, March 8 at 10:00
> AM GMT.
>
> *Why are we doing this?*
> Windows Azure is a global service. To ensure that applications behave
> the same way regardless of their physical location, it's important that
> Windows Azure have a consistent time zone across all geographies. UTC is
> a natural choice given our global customer base, and UTC is not subject
> to potentially disruptive changes in Daylight Savings Time.
>
> *What's the potential impact to you?*
> If your application running in Windows Azure relies on local time, you
> will be impacted by the migration to UTC. Here are a few examples of
> potential issues:
>
> * Gaps may occur in event logs if local timestamps are used.
> * User interfaces that depend on local timestamps may show different
> results.
> * Local timestamps stored by your application may be interpreted
> differently after the changeover.
>
> Many applications have already been designed to rely only on UTC time.
> These applications should be unaffected.
>
> *Questions or concerns?*
> Please don't hesitate to contact us on the Windows Azure Blog
> <http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure> or discuss this on the Windows
> Azure Forum
> <http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/threads>.
>
>
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(818)280-7059 http://charlesnw.blogspot.com
CTO SocalWiFI.net

[Fwd: [ijccr] NEW REPORT: Chiemgauer Regiomoney]

2009-03-08T15:23:00.001-07:00

Might be of interest to folks...

-------- Original Message --------
From: Gill Seyfang <g.seyfang@uea.ac.uk>
Subject: [ijccr] NEW REPORT: Chiemgauer Regiomoney
To: Christian Gelleri <gelleri@chiemgauer.info>,
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Announcing the publication of a new report in the 2009 volume of IJCCR:

CHIEMGAUER REGIOMONEY:
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF A LOCAL CURRENCY
Christian Gelleri

http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/ijccr/

best wishes,

Gill

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[Fwd: Re: brief intro invitation]

2009-03-08T15:22:00.001-07:00

Very cool contact to have.

-------- Original Message --------
From: Sjur Usken (gmail) <sjurusken@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: brief intro invitation
To: village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com

Alberto, missing your introduction :-) You're doing a great job!
I was waiting for his introduction before writing this, since I got
introduced into this through Alberto. Anyway, here it goes:

I've been doing WLAN since 1998 and VoIP since 2002.

Present I'm product manager in www.Phonect.no <http://www.Phonect.no>,
the largest VoIP provider in Norway for businesses. We have customers
(from 1 to 1000 employees each..) that runs their VoIP through us. This
makes downtime NOT an option (20 seconds unavailability is really really
bad...) Don't get put back by the product manager title, I do know how
to compile, configure Cisco gateways and read SIP fluently...

I really love the idea of combining mesh and VoIP, but I'm really afraid
of the QoS on this...

I can contribute with testing platforms and servers and local
installation help around in the world (if somebody preferably pays the
plane ticket).

I'm also involved in the Honeynet Project, running several VoIP
honeypots looking for VoIP specific attacks. There has mostly been form
the Piradius network down in Malaysia.

David Rowe, excellent presentation! What is the current status on the
mesh potato? When can we buy it? ;-)
Steve, let me know if you need any help! Hearing about what happened to
Dabba Telecom made me wanna ship all my equipment right down there now
to get it up and running again!

Using this for another project: A full pc for 269,- USD. With a SSD it
should be almost ready to run in Africa (uses only 20 watts..)
http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&l2=165&l3=0&l4=0&model=2289&modelmenu=1

<http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&l2=165&l3=0&l4=0&model=2289&modelmenu=1>

Great job everybody!!

Sjur Usken

Blogg: http://www.usken.no
Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/usken

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[Fwd: VillageTelco Wiki: How to use the software build environment]

2009-03-07T21:52:00.001-08:00

Some good resources.

-------- Original Message --------
From: Pascal Laurent <tipizo@gmail.com>
Subject: VillageTelco Wiki: How to use the software build environment
To: village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com

Hi,

Would someone address this issue please? I'm trying to follow the doc
(http://wiki.villagetelco.org/index.php/How_to_use_the_software_build_environment)

to setup my lab. The order and information provided is a bit confusing.
Any doc out there you would like to share with me to get my lab up and
running? I would like to setup a very simple environment to start with
(using nanostation2 and wrt54gl). This doc
(http://www.voip4d.org/wiki/images/3/33/IT46_VoIP4D_making_telephony_accessible.pdf)

is going in the right direction. My asterisk server/a2billing is all
set. I just need to get the Mesh network up.

This my be useful for many of us:

-- http://www.voip4d.org/wiki/Documentation
-- http://www.wireless-africa.org/resources/voip

Thanks a bunch,
--Tipizo

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Getting serious about skills development

2009-03-07T21:22:00.001-08:00

So I as I recently mentioned in another post, I have temporarily suspended my endless pursuit of creating a startup. I decided that in this down economy, my time is better invested in expanding my systems engineering skill set.

Here are the things I'm planning to do (in order). Expect detailed blog posts on each item over the next couple months.

~~1) Setup a VPN linking the resources of Known Element employees and partners.~~

This spans our physical presences in El Segundo, Anaheim, El Monte and various other places both inside and outside of Southern California. The public entry point is running on a VZ slice in the Uk, with native v6 connectivity! The lab and El Segundo facilities are linked already, with other sites being brought online regularly. It's never really "done" as new nodes will be added on a regular basis. However the infrastructure and methodology are complete.

~~2) Upgrade media server to latest Ubuntu version, hook up to wired network and setup streaming media.~~

Upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04. Works like a charm. Going to leave it on the LTS version. Will work on boxee and other media things later on. Deployed a front end on the vm server so TV can be watched in the office. Didn't hook up the backend to the wired network, works great over wireless.

3) Setup an Active Directory environment consisting of multiple forests (socalwifi.net and knownelement.com), domains (corporate, partner, development) and organizational units (linux boxes, cisco gear, production, ) and groups (production,development,.

Active Directory/DNS/DHCP deployed in production. Will add groups/domains/forests etc as time goes on.

4) Setup Excahnge 2007 complete with Unifed Messaging (integrated to Freeswitch of course) and with sync4j

5) Ensure all physical and virtual machines are backed up (locally and to s3), monitored and directly accessible, both over the local network and the VPN.

This is underway and should be complete by the end of March.

6) Setup all the Cisco gear to authenticate via TACACS+/Kerberos to the AD infrastructure.

7) Setup WPA2 Enterprise with Radius and one time passwords.

That should be enough to keep me busy for a month or so. Then I'll start blogging on how we are building a service prodiver lab. Stay tuned. Q2 is gonna be a lot of fun!

[Fwd: First Open Source Hardware Central Bank]

2009-03-06T08:57:00.001-08:00

Some very cool stuff.

-------- Original Message --------
From: Antoine van Gelder <antoine@7degrees.co.za>
Subject: First Open Source Hardware Central Bank
To: village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com

http://antipastohw.blogspot.com/2009/03/introducing-open-source-hardware.html

- a

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"Libré software for human education."

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[Fwd: [AusNOG] BGP Update Report]

2009-03-06T08:56:00.001-08:00

Whee... bgp.

-------- Original Message --------
From: cidr-report@potaroo.net
Subject: [AusNOG] BGP Update Report
To: cidr-report@potaroo.net
CC: nanog@merit.edu, routing-wg@ripe.net, ausnog@ausnog.net,
apops@apops.net, eof-list@ripe.net, afnog@afnog.org

BGP Update Report
Interval: 02-Feb-09 -to- 05-Mar-09 (32 days)
Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072

TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS
Rank ASN Upds % Upds/Pfx AS-Name
1 - AS9583 371772 7.9% 304.2 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
2 - AS7643 85782 1.8% 191.1 -- VNN-AS-AP Vietnam Posts
and Telecommunications (VNPT)
3 - AS3130 76761 1.6% 590.5 -- RGNET-3130 RGnet/PSGnet
4 - AS6629 48185 1.0% 741.3 -- NOAA-AS - NOAA
5 - AS30890 46688 1.0% 104.4 -- EVOLVA Evolva Telecom
6 - AS35805 46332 1.0% 122.6 -- UTG-AS United Telecom AS
7 - AS17974 33739 0.7% 65.6 -- TELKOMNET-AS2-AP PT
Telekomunikasi Indonesia
8 - AS5056 32081 0.7% 276.6 -- INS-NET-2 - Iowa
Network Services
9 - AS6458 31080 0.7% 83.5 -- Telgua
10 - AS27757 29317 0.6% 240.3 -- ANDINATEL S.A.
11 - AS30306 29166 0.6% 7291.5 -- AfOL-Sz-AS
12 - AS17488 26400 0.6% 16.1 -- HATHWAY-NET-AP Hathway
IP Over Cable Internet
13 - AS4771 25926 0.6% 97.5 -- NZTELECOM Netgate
14 - AS30969 24110 0.5% 3013.8 -- TAN-NET TransAfrica Networks
15 - AS5050 24045 0.5% 1849.6 -- PSC-EXT - Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center
16 - AS9829 22631 0.5% 35.4 -- BSNL-NIB National
Internet Backbone
17 - AS29372 20867 0.4% 254.5 -- SFR-NETWORK SFR
18 - AS4648 20817 0.4% 101.5 -- NZIX-2 Netgate
19 - AS8103 19963 0.4% 33.4 -- STATE-OF-FLA - Florida
Department of Management Services - Technology Program
20 - AS1785 19665 0.4% 10.4 -- AS-PAETEC-NET - PaeTec
Communications, Inc.

TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS (Updates per announced prefix)
Rank ASN Upds % Upds/Pfx AS-Name
1 - AS30306 29166 0.6% 7291.5 -- AfOL-Sz-AS
2 - AS30287 5633 0.1% 5633.0 -- ALON-USA - ALON USA, LP
3 - AS19017 4461 0.1% 4461.0 -- QUALCOMM-QWBS-LV -
Qualcomm, Inc.
4 - AS12500 14961 0.3% 3740.2 -- RCS-AS RCS Autonomus System
5 - AS30969 24110 0.5% 3013.8 -- TAN-NET TransAfrica
Networks
6 - AS41382 2953 0.1% 2953.0 -- TELEPORT-AS Teleport
LLC Network AS
7 - AS28194 5834 0.1% 2917.0 --
8 - AS35335 1896 0.0% 1896.0 -- ESSTU-AS East-Siberian
State Technological University AS
9 - AS5050 24045 0.5% 1849.6 -- PSC-EXT - Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center
10 - AS32398 11217 0.2% 1402.1 -- REALNET-ASN-1
11 - AS5033 11816 0.2% 1312.9 -- ISW - Internet
Specialties West Inc.
12 - AS35410 7322 0.1% 1220.3 -- RU-LVS-AS LVS AS Number
13 - AS39107 2262 0.1% 1131.0 -- INTERLAN-AS Asociatia
Interlan
14 - AS29224 2148 0.1% 1074.0 -- HELLMANN Hellmann
Worldwide Logistics GmbH & Co KG
15 - AS48144 1014 0.0% 1014.0 -- NETWORKTECH Network
Technology
16 - AS16559 19125 0.4% 1006.6 -- REALCONNECT-01 -
RealConnect, Inc
17 - AS46781 916 0.0% 916.0 -- ASN1 - White Nile Group,
Inc.
18 - AS46328 7720 0.2% 857.8 -- PTCNEBRASKA - PIERCE
TELEPHONE COMPANY, INCORPORATED
19 - AS5691 10194 0.2% 784.2 -- MITRE-AS-5 - The MITRE
Corporation
20 - AS41343 1505 0.0% 752.5 -- TRIUNFOTEL-ASN TRIUNFOTEL

TOP 20 Unstable Prefixes
Rank Prefix Upds % Origin AS -- AS Name
1 - 221.134.32.0/24 38589 0.7% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
2 - 210.214.177.0/24 27805 0.5% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
3 - 210.214.232.0/24 27574 0.5% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
4 - 210.214.132.0/24 27557 0.5% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
5 - 210.214.222.0/24 27505 0.5% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
6 - 210.214.146.0/24 27424 0.5% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
7 - 210.214.117.0/24 27140 0.5% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
8 - 210.214.184.0/24 26128 0.5% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
9 - 210.210.127.0/24 25305 0.5% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
10 - 221.135.105.0/24 25020 0.5% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
11 - 210.214.156.0/24 24565 0.5% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
12 - 72.23.246.0/24 23922 0.5% AS5050 -- PSC-EXT - Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center
13 - 192.35.129.0/24 16134 0.3% AS6629 -- NOAA-AS - NOAA
14 - 192.102.88.0/24 15940 0.3% AS6629 -- NOAA-AS - NOAA
15 - 198.77.177.0/24 15849 0.3% AS6629 -- NOAA-AS - NOAA
16 - 221.135.107.0/24 15322 0.3% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
17 - 212.85.223.0/24 14479 0.3% AS30306 -- AfOL-Sz-AS
18 - 212.85.220.0/24 14447 0.3% AS30306 -- AfOL-Sz-AS
19 - 190.152.100.0/24 14301 0.3% AS27757 -- ANDINATEL S.A.
20 - 190.152.103.0/24 13454 0.2% AS27757 -- ANDINATEL S.A.

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[Fwd: bifrost workshop: Uppsala 18/3 2009 hosted by Borderlight]

2009-03-06T08:54:00.001-08:00

I want to go to this. Anyone want to fund me?

-------- Original Message --------
From: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>
Subject: bifrost workshop: Uppsala 18/3 2009 hosted by Borderlight
To: bifrost@slu.se
CC: Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, sten.oscarsson@borderlight.net,
tom.johans@borderlight.net, sven@borderlight.net

We're planning for the workshop and have some preliminary sessions.

We've room some more sessions. Martin, Gunnar, Henrik, Patrik,
Johan and others feel free to contribute.

Bernt Sundström KTH Introduction to fiber optics

Björn Pehrson KTH A novel approach for cost-effective NREN's
and African infrastructure and fiber

Olof Hagsand/ IIS multiqueue project
Bengt Görden KTH
Robert Olsson UU/KTH

Jens Låås UU Hi-speed fairness. SFQ and multiQ etc

Andreas Wallin UU OpenWrt/Update

Robert Olsson UU/KTH Kernel/Hardware for hi-perf routing (bifrost)

Emil Pedersen UU iplogin2/netlogoncgi status

Sten Oscarsson Borderlight presentation/projects, IPTV demo etc
Tom Johans et al.

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[Fwd: Position of WebServer Administrator: BOULDER, CO]

2009-03-04T11:59:00.001-08:00

For readers who may want to relocate...

-------- Original Message --------
From: sonia_sharma@artechinfo.com
Subject: Position of WebServer Administrator: BOULDER, CO
To: charles@thewybles.com

Hello,

My name is Sonia and I'm a recruiter at Artech.

Artech has an urgent contract for one of our direct clients:

Job Title: WebServer Administrator
Location: BOULDER, CO

*Job Description:*
Project Description and Tasks:
Tomcat Application Server: Administration - build, configuration, and
administrative support experience is required. (No development
needed.)Apache Web Server w/Jikerta : Administration - build,
configuration, and administrative support experience is required. (No
development needed.) PHP skills needed as well.
IIS (All versions 4-7) : Build & Configuration - build, configuration,
and administrative support experience is required. (No development needed.)

If you are qualified, available, interested, planning to make a change,
or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and
interest, please Email me at sonia_sharma@artechinfo.com
<mailto:sonia_sharma@artechinfo.com> . If you do respond via e-mail
please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering
candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP.

Artech is a global IT Consulting company with over 30 Fortune 500
customers. You may visit our website at www.artechinfo.com
<http://www.artechinfo.com> to learn more about us.

Thank you.

Sincerely yours,
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[Fwd: Spring Survey]

2009-03-04T11:40:00.000-08:00

Oh now this is a new way to phish. I actually opened it and read it and
even hovered over the link. Not bad.

-------- Original Message --------
From: Chase<chasesurvey@chase.com>
Subject: Spring Survey
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

You have been selected to access the JPMorgan Chase & Co Spring Survey
and win a $100.00 in your account.

Please click here <http://www.aaphilippines.org/roadsafety/spring.htm>
and complete the form to claim your reward. Thank you.

This is an automated message. Please don't reply. Message
Id:0018212hhh2-jpmrgchs.

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[Fwd: [la-announce] Help Requested for Hollis Hawthorne]

2009-03-03T15:13:00.001-08:00

A bit of political grand standing just can't be avoided it's seemed. The
mention of lack of health care... almost capitalizes on the dire condition.

Tut tut.

-------- Original Message --------
From: patrick shearn <patrickshearn@gmail.com>
Subject: [la-announce] Help Requested for Hollis Hawthorne
To: la-announce@burningman.com

Help Requested for Hollis Hawthorne.

A good friend of our Los Angeles and SF burning man community and a
member of the DPW, Hollis Hawthorne, has been in a motorcycle accident
in India, and now is in a coma with a brain injury. She has recently
been moved from Pondicherry, to Chennai.

Like many Americans, she is without health insurance, and her friends
and family are working to get her the care she needs.

Stanford Medical Center in Northern California has agreed to accept her
as a patient free of charge, which is a huge relief to her family.

What we need now, is to get her transported on a stretcher from Chennai
India, to an airport in Northern California area, like San Franciso
Airport or Oakland.

In additional to Hollis, there are a number of other people that will
need to accompany her on the flight. We are estimating a medical team of
2-3 people as well as her mother, a family friend accompanying her
mother, and her boyfriend who actually kept her alive with CPR after the
accident and onto her trip into the original hospital. So including
Hollis on a stretcher, we are estimating needing travel for 6 to 7 people.

Current quotes for a medivac airflight range from $80,000-$150,000 which
her family simply cannot afford.

We are currently researching a number of options to get her back to the
states for the medical care she needs.

What we need from the burner community and it's resources.

1. A private or corporate jet and a pilot to transport Hollis, her
medical team and family from Chennai, India to SFO, Oakland, or San Jose
Airport.

2. Paypal donations to help with the cost of the medivac. Any amount
would be helpful.

There is a blogspot with some additional information and a paypal link
here: http://friendsofhollis.blogspot.com/

Thank you for your help and support in this difficult time.

donnarose@thirdeyefilms.com <mailto:donnarose@thirdeyefilms.com>

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Re: Fwd: Estimated 200+ guests tonight @ PinkSlipMixers.com in Beverly Hills

2009-03-03T12:14:00.001-08:00

There is also an event in westwood for startup pitches.... what happened
in the past couple weeks to suddenly open up the job and event scene?
Did we miss some massive stimulation in Los Angeles?

Ralf wrote:
> as if 2 events wsn't enough tonight.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *"Edwin Duterte via Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 (Groupsite)"
>> <notifier@collectivex.com <mailto:notifier@collectivex.com>>
>> *Date: *March 3, 2009 10:51:47 AM PST
>> *To: *Ralf Pieper <voiptux@gmail.com <mailto:voiptux@gmail.com>>
>> *Subject: **Estimated 200+ guests tonight @ PinkSlipMixers.com in
>> Beverly Hills*
>> *Reply-To: *DO NOT REPLY <notifier@collectivex.com
>> <mailto:notifier@collectivex.com>>
>>
>>
>> Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 <http://pinkslip.collectivex.com>
>>
>>
>> New Email Blast
>>
>> Update your notification preferences
>> <http://pinkslip.collectivex.com/my/prefs> *Think this email is off
>> topic?*
>> Tell the Manager
>> <http://pinkslip.collectivex.com/main/report_abuse/e0984-4dee-M1306f8-166ed2e-ON7WRUZ3I3EQ7KYA4YRTOWQXHA>
>> <http://pinkslip.collectivex.com/network/show_profile/166591?lpx=1>
>> Edwin Duterte wants you to know about the following
>> (View Edwin Duterte's profile)
>> <http://pinkslip.collectivex.com/network/show_profile/166591?lpx=1>
>>
>>
>> PinkSlipMixers.com in conjunction with the Crescent Hotel is
>> anticipating over 200 guests for our job networking event tonight
>> starting at 6 PM. Fox News featured the Crescent Hotel last night and
>> how they are supporting the community with the Pink Slip Mixers. I
>> talked to the General Manager this morning and the phone calls have
>> been off the hook. Make sure you get there early so you can have more
>> 'face time' with the recruiters.
>>
>> We will have at least 5 recruiters in the healthcare,
>> accounting/finance, and entertainment industries. In fact,
>> Showbizjobs.com is bringing 8 representatives to talk to our members.
>>
>> There are parking lots in the area. Street parking is available and
>> free after 6 PM.
>>
>> If you have not RSVP'ed to the event, please do so now by clicking
>> here. <http://pinkslip.collectivex.com/calendar/event/2009/3/3/98448>
>>
>> If you are in Northern California, please register to the March 23rd
>> event at uWink in Mountain View.
>> <http://pinkslip.collectivex.com/calendar/event/2009/3/23/97749>
>>
>> Again, please make sure you have a twitter account and know your
>> linkedin url. We want people to tweet out other jobs and member url's
>> to the online community. Its all about Pay It Forward.
>>
>> Please tell your friends about the PinkSlipMixers.com events and site.
>>
>> If you have any questions, please call me at 310-406-7992.
>>
>> See you at the mixers,
>>
>> Edwin Duterte
>>
>>
>>
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[Fwd: Skype offer SILK codec for free]

2009-03-03T11:27:00.001-08:00

Everything wants to be free....

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Skype offer SILK codec for free
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:15:44 +0200
From: Steve Song <steve.song@shuttleworthfoundation.org>
Reply-To: village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com
To: village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com

Interesting news from Skype

http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2009/03/silk_now_available_for_free.html

-Steve

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[Fwd: Payment refund from Globalscale Technologies, Inc.]

2009-03-03T10:42:00.001-08:00

Got my refund. :)

I won't be buying the SheevaPlug now that the startup idea utilizing it
has been shut down.

-------- Original Message --------
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[Fwd: Invite: "Scaling Your Startup in a Flash" Open Storage Event - March 10 @ El Segundo]

2009-03-03T09:53:00.000-08:00

This might be of interest to folks based in the west side with massive
need to scale.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Invite: "Scaling Your Startup in a Flash" Open Storage Event -
March 10 @ El Segundo
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:38:24 -0800
From: Jane Grafton <Jane.Grafton@sun.com>
Reply-To: lax@sun.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems
To: lax@sun.com

Greetings,

Are you a startup who is trying to control costs and scale big?
Does your business require large amounts of storage?
Are your trying to provide tiered services?
Do you think the cloud is the least expensive -- or only -- storage
solution?

We'd like to show you how Sun Unified Storage Solutions can:

* Double (or more) the number of MySQL TPS by integrating SSDs.
* Provide the lowest cost per GB, and integrate with cloud storage
* Help you deliver tiered web services.

We'll be at the *Sun office in El Segundo*, Martinique Conference Room
*on March 10*.
Registration opens at 10:30 am, and the seminar runs from 11am to 2 pm.
Light lunch will be served.

Please goto http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/events.jsp for
more information, the agenda, and to register to attend.

Hope to see you there,

Jagat Bhuyan
Sun Startup Essentials Program
Jagat.Bhuyan@sun.com
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Re: Your SheebaPlug Order

2009-03-02T18:23:00.001-08:00

Wow I just noticed you guys are in Anaheim.

Can I just come down and pick it up? If so when? (I'll still pay the
shipping charge for the convenience of pickup).

Thanks!

Henry Chiu wrote:
> Dear Charles,
>
> A copy of your email was forwarded to me.
>
> I apologize for any problem caused by the computer glitch. Regardless
> how much planning we do, glitches happen at the most unexpected
> times. We will however put your name near the top of the list, so when
> units arrive yours will be among the first batch that ship out.
>
> Regards,
>
> *Henry Chiu*
> VP - Sales and Marketing
> Globalscale Technologies Inc.
> 1200 N. Van Buren Street
> Unit #D
> Anaheim
> *CA 92807*
>
> *Phone:* (714) 632-9239 Ex 1201
> *Cell : *(909) 576-8849
> *Fax :* (714) 632-7550
>
> www.globalscaletechnologies.com <http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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Labbing it up....

2009-03-02T17:36:00.000-08:00

In a previous post I talked about building out a hacker space/lab for folks to develop systems and network engineering skills. The initial goal is to build a small scale service provider network and then scale it out. The access portion of the network will be wireless (in support of socalwifi.net).

Here is what I currently have in the lab:

1) High powered white box system running Ubunt Linux (4 gigs of ram, dual core amd64 bit cpu 500gb disk). Currently running KVM with about 20 virtual machine instances.

2) Moderately powerful white box with 16 network ports (4 PCI cards with 4 slots each)

3) A cobalt raq4 with two network ports. Plan to use this along with the 16 port machine to test a Linux routing setup (quagga and xorp).

4) Couple random white box systems. I plan to use one for malware research, and the other as a generic Linux node that can be used for any number of application serving tasks.

5) Wireless kit:
Ubiquity Nanostation 2
wrt54gp2a-at
WRT54GL v1.1
WRT54G v8
WRT54G-3G
Model: wrt160n

6) Cisco kit:
cisco catalyst 5505
cisco catalyst 5002
cisco catalyst 2924 (x2)
linksys gigabit layer2 switch
cisco isr 1841
cisco 2600
cisco 4000

For more details on the setup/configuration of the kit please see my previous blog post on the subject.

7) Lots and lots of cisco documentation manauls/configuration guides/labs etc.

Is this a good setup? Is this useful to folks?

[Fwd: Facebook online - Find Your Friends]

2009-03-02T12:57:00.001-08:00

Appears to be a facebook wrom in the wild. Notice the
.scanerdownload.com domain.

Be advised.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Facebook online - Find Your Friends
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 17:56:00 -0300
From: Facebook Update Center <support@facebook.com>
To: <charles@thewybles.com>

Personal Message To You From your friends at facebook video server:
Subject: " Review - My family invite you out for lunch, don't hesitate!"

Read Description for a link to part 1 Original Video added by group member.
You will see a link to Open Your Personal Message Manager.
Selecting this link will take you to the log in page where you can
browse new messages.

Proceed to open full message text:

http://login.facebook.logon.videomessageid-pa6620rhy.scanerdownload.com/home.htm?/content/LOGIN=o7vdwxemob71yuc

Sincerely, Reyna Proctor.
Facebook 2009 Message Center.

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CTO SocalWiFI.net

Getting back in the groove

2009-03-02T12:30:00.000-08:00

So I essentially took all of February off from extra curricular activities, in order to complete all the various projects that needed to be done around the house. I am very pleased with the results.

Now we are in a new month and it's time for me to get back into the groove. I have been pondering over the best method to move socalwifi.net and economy3.0 forward. I was in talks with a few people to put together a formal start up around the wireless/voip/iptv portions, but have abandoned that approach because I don't want the pressure. I am very well paid at my day job and want to focus on skill development when I spend time in front of a computer outside work. I don't want to replicate the experience of a day job (don't get me wrong I am very passionate about my job and the team I work with.)

So I have decided to take the approach of opening up a hacker space that focuses on developing system and network engineering skills. I will be taking some time this month to get things up and running in terms equipment, lab scheduling etc. Expect some blog posts on that over the next few days. I want to acquire skills, have fun and give others something productive to do during this economic down turn. Maybe I'll even host some Jelly sessions. I think that this is an excellent time for folks to study toward RHCE, CCIE certs.

[Fwd: Re: [announce] Afrimesh Dashboard]

2009-03-02T10:41:00.001-08:00

An interesting project to watch.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [announce] Afrimesh Dashboard
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 20:31:48 +0200
From: Antoine van Gelder <antoine@7degrees.co.za>
Reply-To: village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com
To: village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com
CC: Wireless Africa <wireless-africa@googlegroups.com>
References: <AFEB1097-C5E3-4CEA-97EB-FA002F24BA97@7degrees.co.za>
<49ABF9C1.2080308@shuttleworthfoundation.org>

On 02 Mar 2009, at 17:22 , Steve Song wrote:
> Sorry for the delayed reply. Have been on leave for a week. I have
> had
> a look at the latest Afrimesh dashboard and it looks very cool.
>
> Now I have a bunch of questions.
> 1) First, just to confirm, this is all running on a Linksys WRT or
> similar?

The particular instance you're looking at on the web is installed on
an Inveneo box running FreeBSD but the systems in the development
testbed include:

. Linksys WRT54's (both older and newer versions of the hardware)
. A large cardboard box full of Meraki Minis
. A couple of Open-Mesh.com routers
. A 5ghz and a 2.4ghz Ubiquity Nanostation
. A couple of Macintoshes running OSX
. Various virtualized Linux & FreeBSD instances

The officially supported build targets will be OpenWRT, FreeBSD and
Ubuntu.

> 2) How is network authentication managed? If I have a 10 node network
> with Afrimesh running on each one, how do I add nodes to the network?
> Would the Afrimesh software just pick up on the BATMAN routing table?
> How would that all work? Is there admin and user level authentication
> for Afrimesh?

A mouthful of a question! Let me try to break it down into two chunks:

Adding nodes
------------

Network nodes and routes are picked up automatically by polling the
BATMAN visualization daemon.

Nodes can be positioned on the map either by the user as part of the
initial installation procedure or on the Network->Map by a mesh
administrator.

The way configuration information is managed also allows for initial
location and/or live location updates to occur via an embedded GPS
device.

Also, information about network routers & routes from sources _other_
than a BATMAN vis daemon can be transparently incorporated into the
system.

This allow us the option to, for example, add support for mapping an
OLSR mesh network or even non-mesh networks.

Authentication
--------------

There are two kinds of authentication we can talk about:

* Authorization to use the mesh management interface - currently I
have no access control configured on the demo page but unless anyone
wants to twist my rubber arm with a set of use-cases to support a more
complex schema I reckon we just use the built in authentication
mechanisms offered by the web server.

* Authorization for mesh clients to access the network and/or any
Internet gateways. This is currently managed by a standard Radius [1]
server which allows pretty much any kind of authentication schema you
can imagine as well as some you would rather not. I have also spoken
to Alberto about the possibility of writing a Radius authentication
module that would allow mesh nodes to authenticate against A2Billing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS

> 3) How modular is Afrimesh? For the Village Telco, we will want to
> add
> in node information related to telephone calls, numbers, usage, etc.
> How open is Afrimesh design to adding on things like this?

The short answer to your question is: Highly and very.

The long answer is this:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
WARNING WARNING - Hairy technical details ahead - WARNING WARNING

Step 1: Configure/hack the system you want to interface with to output
data in XML or JSON [2] format. These days this is not as
hard as
it used to be.

Step 2: Tell Afrimesh what the data looks like, where it lives on the
network and how it relates to the other data it knows about.
This is all done in Javascript.

Step 3: Implement any views you wish on that data in standard
HTML/Javascript. (The Map view is also implemented as HTML &
Javascript so there is no special magic or server-side
mangling required to extend the range of information that
can be overlaid.)

[2] http://www.json.org/

----------------------------------------------------------------------

The converse also applies where Afrimesh can itself act as a data
source and serve any of the information it aggregates about the
network in real-time.

> 4) For me the gold standard in mesh management interfaces is still
> OpenMesh/Meraki. I think Afrimesh comes pretty close in terms of how
> the map interface is evolving but the network graphing is obviously
> not
> there at least on a graphical level. Are there plans to integrate
> some
> graphical representations of bandwidth use?

There is a plan to integrate more graphing but there is also still a
conversation about whether it will be easier to rely on existing
software such as Nagios [3] or to build our own flashy Ajax-y ones [4]
or maybe even some kind of middle way which gives us a delicious user
experience without having to spend a lot of time re-inventing wheels.

One thing I would like to point out though is that if you look at the
Network->Health page you will see a live graph displaying Internet
traffic which is being pulled directly from my gateway router using
the standard SNMP [5] protocol.

So to give some perspective to our conversation, using afrimesh.js as
a foundation boils the implementation of that graph down to less than
twenty lines of very simple Javascript.

This holds true for any other data source on the network (SNMP or
otherwise)

Most importantly, the same technique which places the graph you're
looking at on a web page can also be used to embed it in the popups
from the Network->Map view.

Maybe a good pair of constructive questions to ask to help this
conversation along are:

1. Specifically, what kind of graphs would everyone like to see?
2. What, specifically, will being able to see each of those graphs
help you to do?

[3] http://www.nagios.org/
[4] See for e.g. http://code.google.com/p/flot/
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNMP

> I have more questions but this seems like a good start. Looking
> forward
> to more. Awesome work!

Thank you Steve :)

- antoine

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"Libré software for human education."

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Re: Your SheebaPlug Order

2009-02-27T15:47:00.001-08:00

Thank you so much. That goes a very long way toward making me happy. :)
------Original Message------
From: Henry Chiu
To: Charles Wyble
Cc: nliou@globalscaletechnologies.com
ReplyTo: hchiu@globalscaletechnologies.com
Subject: Your SheebaPlug Order
Sent: Feb 27, 2009 3:40 PM

Dear Charles,

A copy of your email was forwarded to me.

I apologize for any problem caused by the computer glitch. Regardless how much planning we do, glitches happen at the most unexpected times. We will however put your name near the top of the list, so when units arrive yours will be among the first batch that ship out.

Regards,

Henry Chiu
VP - Sales and Marketing
Globalscale Technologies Inc.
1200 N. Van Buren Street
Unit #D
Anaheim
CA 92807

Phone: (714) 632-9239 Ex 1201
Cell : (909) 576-8849
Fax : (714) 632-7550

www.globalscaletechnologies.com <http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/>

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[Fwd: Cable Operators Turning to Fiber to Compete With Telcos, Heavy Reading Finds]

2009-02-27T11:25:00.001-08:00

Fiber for all... :)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Cable Operators Turning to Fiber to Compete With Telcos, Heavy
Reading Finds
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:02:46 +0000
From: Light Reading <unsubscribe-7469237-55176@responses.lightreading.com>
To: Light Reading <charles@thewybles.com>

<http://www.heavyreading.com>

Dear Colleague,

Cable network operators around the world are now investigating
technology options that will enable them to compete more effectively
with telco rivals by driving fiber-based offerings deeper into their
networks, but significant issues are emerging that may affect the extent
and timing of cable fiber deployments, according to a major new report
from /Heavy Reading/ (www.heavyreading.com
<http://www.heavyreading.com>), the market research division of Light
Reading (www.lightreading.com <http://www.lightreading.com>).

*Next-Gen Cable Networks: Opportunities for Fiber-Based Technologies*
explores the cable industry's initiatives in the fiber-to-the-premises
(FTTP) sector, examining the prospects for MSOs as they seek to extend
fiber lines to customer sites. The study analyzes the opportunities for
cable operators to capture greater portions of the residential and
commercial markets through targeted plant extensions to master planned
communities, other new housing developments, apartment building
complexes, business locations, rural areas, and other demographic
segments. It evaluates the significant obstacles that cable providers
must overcome to transform themselves into major players in the FTTP
arena, and it measures how well cable's technology stacks up against
competing telco delivery systems.

The 50-page report provides a detailed competitive analysis of 15
technology, equipment, and service suppliers in this emerging sector,
assessing their products, strategies, strengths, and weaknesses.
Technology initiatives assessed and analyzed include the emerging radio
frequency over glass (RFoG) standard, as well as related passive optical
network (PON) technologies.

For a complete list of technology suppliers reviewed and analyzed in
this report, click here
<http://img.lightreading.com/heavyreading/pdf/hr20090227_vendors.pdf>.

"By extending fiber deeper into their networks, cable operators could
support the more reliable delivery of greater downstream spectrum and
services to residential and commercial subscribers," notes Alan
Breznick, Senior Analyst at /Heavy Reading/ and author of the report.
"Because RFoG supports the delivery of up to 1 GHz of spectrum to the
customer premises, MSOs could more easily upgrade their system capacity
to carry more digital video channels, HDTV services, VoD choices,
higher-speed data signals, VoIP services, and other offerings."

Despite RFoG's apparent benefits, cable operators are increasingly
concerned about the actual performance of RFoG-based networks compared
with competing fiber-based telco initiatives, Breznick says. "Unlike the
various PON technologies that the phone companies are increasingly
deploying, RFoG doesn't actually produce any more bandwidth or faster
transmission speeds on its own," he explains. "While RFoG systems can
support cable networks with up to 1GHz capacity, they don't provide any
extra capacity for the industry's typical 750MHz systems. Cable
operators must still upgrade the rest of their plant to increase their
overall bandwidth capacity."

Other key findings of *Next-Gen Cable Networks: Opportunities for
Fiber-Based Technologies* include the following:

*At least two dozen cable operators around the world are exploring,
testing, or building FTTP systems or extensions.* MSOs investigating
fiber-based deployments in North America include Time Warner Cable, Cox
Communications, Bright House Networks, Rogers Communications, and
CableOne. In Europe and Asia, the growing list features Virgin Media in
the U.K., Ziggo in the Netherlands, ZON Multimedia in Portugal, and
Jupiter Telecommunications in Japan.

*In the past year, two major, influential U.S. MSOs – Time Warner and
Cox – have issued wide-ranging requests for information regarding cable
FTTP architectures.* The two RFIs, issued separately about six months
apart, also seek information about related PON technologies from
equipment vendors. Other MSOs are expected to follow their lead this year.

*Cable operators are showing genuine interest in FTTP architecture and
related PON technologies for the first time because they see promising
markets for the solutions.* MSOs are eyeing such key niche segments as
master planned communities, new housing developments, multiple dwelling
units (MDUs), rural areas, and business services. Cable providers are
also exploring fiber network builds in response to stiffer competition
from telco fiber network initiatives, such as Verizon's FiOS and AT&T's
U-verse projects.

*More than a dozen equipment suppliers have begun offering or are
planning to offer fiber, optical, and electrical gear for cable
operators to use in FTTP deployments.* Large, well-established equipment
vendors from both the cable and telecom sectors are involved, including
Arris, Calix Networks, Corning Cable Systems, Cisco, Harmonic, Hitachi
Telecom, Motorola, and Tellabs. But the vendor lineup also includes
smaller and/or newer firms such as Alloptic, Aurora Networks, Salira
Systems, and SMC Networks.

*Next-Gen Cable Networks: Opportunities for Fiber-Based Technologies* is
essential reading for a wide range of industry participants, including
the following:

* *Cable technology suppliers:* How will the development of
fiber-based network deployments affect cable MSO technology plans?
When is the market for deep-fiber cable likely to develop, and
what's the most likely timeframe for rollouts? How will the
emergence of RFoG and other fiber technologies and standards
affect other technologies that are being proposed to increase
bandwidth efficiency for cable MSO networks? Where are the
opportunities for market growth? Are your products and marketing
messages in line with cable MSO plans and expectations?
* *Cable network operators:* How do the current options for
deploying fiber-based technologies compare with one another in
terms of cost and effectiveness? How are other cable MSOs
approaching the fiber deployment issue? Are their plans and
expectations in line with your company's approach? Which
technology suppliers are best positioned to meet your company's
requirements regarding next-gen cable network deployments?
* *Investors:* Which technologies are emerging as the winning
solutions for deep-fiber cable network deployments, and which
companies are the leading providers of those solutions? How will
the need for new technology and infrastructure affect
profitability for the cable MSO sector in the coming months and
years?

*Next-Gen Cable Networks: Opportunities for Fiber-Based Technologies*
costs $3,995 and is published in PDF format. The price includes an
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For additional information, or to request a free executive summary of
this report, please contact:

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[Fwd: [AusNOG] Weekly Routing Table Report]

2009-02-27T10:48:00.001-08:00

More routing info...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [AusNOG] Weekly Routing Table Report
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:15:17 +1000 (EST)
From: Routing Analysis Role Account <cscora@apnic.net>
Reply-To: pfs@cisco.com
To: apops@apops.net, nanog@nanog.org, routing-wg@ripe.net,
afnog@afnog.org, ausnog@ausnog.net, sanog@sanog.org

This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet
Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan.
Daily listings are sent to bgp-stats@lists.apnic.net

For historical data, please see http://thyme.apnic.net.

If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith <pfs@cisco.com>.

Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 28 Feb, 2009

Report Website: http://thyme.apnic.net
Detailed Analysis: http://thyme.apnic.net/current/

Analysis Summary
----------------

BGP routing table entries examined: 281421
Prefixes after maximum aggregation: 133739
Deaggregation factor: 2.10
Unique aggregates announced to Internet: 137854
Total ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 30695
Prefixes per ASN: 9.17
Origin-only ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 26717
Origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 12993
Transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 3978
Transit-only ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 95
Average AS path length visible in the Internet Routing Table: 3.6
Max AS path length visible: 25
Max AS path prepend of ASN (18678) 21
Prefixes from unregistered ASNs in the Routing Table: 501
Unregistered ASNs in the Routing Table: 171
Number of 32-bit ASNs allocated by the RIRs: 115
Prefixes from 32-bit ASNs in the Routing Table: 17
Special use prefixes present in the Routing Table: 0
Prefixes being announced from unallocated address space: 213
Number of addresses announced to Internet: 2009268672
Equivalent to 119 /8s, 195 /16s and 1 /24s
Percentage of available address space announced: 54.2
Percentage of allocated address space announced: 63.4
Percentage of available address space allocated: 85.5
Percentage of address space in use by end-sites: 75.9
Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 138384

APNIC Region Analysis Summary
-----------------------------

Prefixes being announced by APNIC Region ASes: 65010
Total APNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 23348
APNIC Deaggregation factor: 2.78
Prefixes being announced from the APNIC address blocks: 61875
Unique aggregates announced from the APNIC address blocks: 28193
APNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 3541
APNIC Prefixes per ASN: 17.47
APNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 957
APNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 542
Average APNIC Region AS path length visible: 3.5
Max APNIC Region AS path length visible: 19
Number of APNIC addresses announced to Internet: 403835552
Equivalent to 24 /8s, 18 /16s and 10 /24s
Percentage of available APNIC address space announced: 80.2

APNIC AS Blocks 4608-4864, 7467-7722, 9216-10239, 17408-18431
(pre-ERX allocations) 23552-24575, 37888-38911, 45056-46079
APNIC Address Blocks 58/8, 59/8, 60/8, 61/8, 110/8, 111/8, 112/8,
113/8, 114/8, 115/8, 116/8, 117/8, 118/8, 119/8,
120/8, 121/8, 122/8, 123/8, 124/8, 125/8, 126/8,
202/8, 203/8, 210/8, 211/8, 218/8, 219/8, 220/8,
221/8, 222/8,

ARIN Region Analysis Summary
----------------------------

Prefixes being announced by ARIN Region ASes: 123979
Total ARIN prefixes after maximum aggregation: 65438
ARIN Deaggregation factor: 1.89
Prefixes being announced from the ARIN address blocks: 93416
Unique aggregates announced from the ARIN address blocks: 35786
ARIN Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 12813
ARIN Prefixes per ASN: 7.29
ARIN Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 4929
ARIN Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 1238
Average ARIN Region AS path length visible: 3.3
Max ARIN Region AS path length visible: 20
Number of ARIN addresses announced to Internet: 416285760
Equivalent to 24 /8s, 208 /16s and 4 /24s
Percentage of available ARIN address space announced: 80.0

ARIN AS Blocks 1-1876, 1902-2042, 2044-2046, 2048-2106
(pre-ERX allocations) 2138-2584, 2615-2772, 2823-2829, 2880-3153
3354-4607, 4865-5119, 5632-6655, 6912-7466
7723-8191, 10240-12287, 13312-15359, 16384-17407
18432-20479, 21504-23551, 25600-26591,
26624-27647, 29696-30719, 31744-33791
35840-36863, 39936-40959, 46080-47103
ARIN Address Blocks 24/8, 63/8, 64/8, 65/8, 66/8, 67/8, 68/8,
69/8, 70/8, 71/8, 72/8, 73/8, 74/8, 75/8,
76/8, 96/8, 97/8, 98/8, 99/8, 108/8, 173/8,
174/8, 184/8, 199/8, 204/8, 205/8, 206/8, 207/8,
208/8, 209/8, 216/8,

RIPE Region Analysis Summary
----------------------------

Prefixes being announced by RIPE Region ASes: 64023
Total RIPE prefixes after maximum aggregation: 37503
RIPE Deaggregation factor: 1.71
Prefixes being announced from the RIPE address blocks: 58568
Unique aggregates announced from the RIPE address blocks: 38936
RIPE Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 12729
RIPE Prefixes per ASN: 4.60
RIPE Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 6677
RIPE Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 1919
Average RIPE Region AS path length visible: 4.0
Max RIPE Region AS path length visible: 22
Number of RIPE addresses announced to Internet: 389934048
Equivalent to 23 /8s, 61 /16s and 235 /24s
Percentage of available RIPE address space announced: 83.0

RIPE AS Blocks 1877-1901, 2043, 2047, 2107-2136, 2585-2614
(pre-ERX allocations) 2773-2822, 2830-2879, 3154-3353, 5377-5631
6656-6911, 8192-9215, 12288-13311, 15360-16383
20480-21503, 24576-25599, 28672-29695
30720-31743, 33792-35839, 38912-39935
40960-45055, 47104-49151
RIPE Address Blocks 62/8, 77/8, 78/8, 79/8, 80/8, 81/8, 82/8,
83/8, 84/8, 85/8, 86/8, 87/8, 88/8, 89/8,
90/8, 91/8, 92/8, 93/8, 94/8, 95/8, 109/8,
178/8, 193/8, 194/8, 195/8, 212/8, 213/8, 217/8,

LACNIC Region Analysis Summary
------------------------------

Prefixes being announced by LACNIC Region ASes: 23356
Total LACNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 5679
LACNIC Deaggregation factor: 4.11
Prefixes being announced from the LACNIC address blocks: 21538
Unique aggregates announced from the LACNIC address blocks: 11822
LACNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 1070
LACNIC Prefixes per ASN: 20.13
LACNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 344
LACNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 178
Average LACNIC Region AS path length visible: 4.0
Max LACNIC Region AS path length visible: 25
Number of LACNIC addresses announced to Internet: 61102208
Equivalent to 3 /8s, 164 /16s and 88 /24s
Percentage of available LACNIC address space announced: 60.7

LACNIC AS Blocks 26592-26623, 27648-28671, plus ERX transfers
LACNIC Address Blocks 186/8, 187/8, 189/8, 190/8, 200/8, 201/8,

AfriNIC Region Analysis Summary
-------------------------------

Prefixes being announced by AfriNIC Region ASes: 4584
Total AfriNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 1383
AfriNIC Deaggregation factor: 3.31
Prefixes being announced from the AfriNIC address blocks: 4313
Unique aggregates announced from the AfriNIC address blocks: 1394
AfriNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 286
AfriNIC Prefixes per ASN: 15.08
AfriNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 86
AfriNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 54
Average AfriNIC Region AS path length visible: 4.0
Max AfriNIC Region AS path length visible: 15
Number of AfriNIC addresses announced to Internet: 10050048
Equivalent to 0 /8s, 153 /16s and 90 /24s
Percentage of available AfriNIC address space announced: 30.0

AfriNIC AS Blocks 36864-37887 & ERX transfers
AfriNIC Address Blocks 41/8, 197/8,

APNIC Region per AS prefix count summary
----------------------------------------

ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description
4766 1684 6928 395 Korea Telecom (KIX)
17488 1517 118 101 Hathway IP Over Cable Interne
4755 1215 430 181 TATA Communications formerly
9583 1090 86 519 Sify Limited
4134 927 16239 367 CHINANET-BACKBONE
18101 754 198 28 Reliance Infocom Ltd Internet
7545 730 158 100 TPG Internet Pty Ltd
9498 691 297 53 BHARTI BT INTERNET LTD.
24560 675 228 174 Bharti Airtel Ltd.
9829 631 491 18 BSNL National Internet Backbo

Complete listing at http://thyme.apnic.net/current/data-ASnet-APNIC

ARIN Region per AS prefix count summary
---------------------------------------

ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description
6389 4364 3688 342 bellsouth.net, inc.
209 2832 4147 615 Qwest
4323 1771 1081 377 Time Warner Telecom
1785 1752 733 139 PaeTec Communications, Inc.
20115 1608 1427 720 Charter Communications
7018 1440 5878 1003 AT&T WorldNet Services
2386 1261 681 900 AT&T Data Communications Serv
6478 1254 296 529 AT&T Worldnet Services
11492 1201 192 12 Cable One
3356 1137 10976 439 Level 3 Communications, LLC

Complete listing at http://thyme.apnic.net/current/data-ASnet-ARIN

RIPE Region per AS prefix count summary
---------------------------------------

ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description
8452 1233 188 7 TEDATA
30890 445 88 202 SC Kappa Invexim SRL
3292 444 1762 389 TDC Tele Danmark
12479 397 578 6 Uni2 Autonomous System
3320 350 7081 293 Deutsche Telekom AG
3301 340 1669 305 TeliaNet Sweden
8866 337 109 22 Bulgarian Telecommunication C
3215 334 2978 103 France Telecom Transpac
29049 328 26 3 AzerSat LLC.
8551 313 288 40 Bezeq International

Complete listing at http://thyme.apnic.net/current/data-ASnet-RIPE

LACNIC Region per AS prefix count summary
-----------------------------------------

ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description
8151 1441 2831 230 UniNet S.A. de C.V.
10620 791 174 98 TVCABLE BOGOTA
11830 694 299 9 Instituto Costarricense de El
22047 606 302 14 VTR PUNTO NET S.A.
7303 513 256 80 Telecom Argentina Stet-France
6471 438 95 32 ENTEL CHILE S.A.
16814 427 27 11 NSS, S.A.
11172 404 118 74 Servicios Alestra S.A de C.V
7738 397 794 28 Telecomunicacoes da Bahia S.A
28573 373 506 23 NET Servicos de Comunicao S.A

Complete listing at http://thyme.apnic.net/current/data-ASnet-LACNIC

AfriNIC Region per AS prefix count summary
------------------------------------------

ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description
24863 665 75 29 LINKdotNET AS number
20858 292 34 3 This AS will be used to conne
3741 271 857 229 The Internet Solution
2018 242 215 142 Tertiary Education Network
33783 150 10 8 EEPAD TISP TELECOM & INTERNET
6713 144 135 11 Itissalat Al-MAGHRIB
29571 130 15 8 Ci Telecom Autonomous system
5536 119 7 20 Internet Egypt Network
33776 118 6 3 Starcomms Nigeria Limited
5713 117 523 65 Telkom SA Ltd

Complete listing at http://thyme.apnic.net/current/data-ASnet-AFRINIC

Global Per AS prefix count summary
----------------------------------

ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description
6389 4364 3688 342 bellsouth.net, inc.
209 2832 4147 615 Qwest
4323 1771 1081 377 Time Warner Telecom
1785 1752 733 139 PaeTec Communications, Inc.
4766 1684 6928 395 Korea Telecom (KIX)
20115 1608 1427 720 Charter Communications
17488 1517 118 101 Hathway IP Over Cable Interne
8151 1441 2831 230 UniNet S.A. de C.V.
7018 1440 5878 1003 AT&T WorldNet Services
2386 1261 681 900 AT&T Data Communications Serv

Complete listing at http://thyme.apnic.net/current/data-ASnet

Global Per AS Maximum Aggr summary
----------------------------------

ASN No of nets Net Savings Description
209 2832 2217 Qwest
1785 1752 1613 PaeTec Communications, Inc.
17488 1517 1416 Hathway IP Over Cable Interne
4323 1771 1394 Time Warner Telecom
4766 1684 1289 Korea Telecom (KIX)
8452 1233 1226 TEDATA
8151 1441 1211 UniNet S.A. de C.V.
11492 1201 1189 Cable One
18566 1061 1051 Covad Communications
4755 1215 1034 TATA Communications formerly

Complete listing at http://thyme.apnic.net/current/data-CIDRnet

List of Unregistered Origin ASNs (Global)
-----------------------------------------

Bad AS Designation Network Transit AS Description
16927 UNALLOCATED 12.0.252.0/23 7018 AT&T WorldNet Servic
15132 UNALLOCATED 12.9.150.0/24 7018 AT&T WorldNet Servic
32567 UNALLOCATED 12.14.170.0/24 7018 AT&T WorldNet Servic
13746 UNALLOCATED 12.24.56.0/24 7018 AT&T WorldNet Servic
32567 UNALLOCATED 12.25.107.0/24 7018 AT&T WorldNet Servic
26973 UNALLOCATED 12.39.152.0/24 7018 AT&T WorldNet Servic
26973 UNALLOCATED 12.39.154.0/23 7018 AT&T WorldNet Servic
26973 UNALLOCATED 12.39.159.0/24 7018 AT&T WorldNet Servic
32326 UNALLOCATED 12.40.49.0/24 7018 AT&T WorldNet Servic
25639 UNALLOCATED 12.41.169.0/24 7018 AT&T WorldNet Servic

Complete listing at http://thyme.apnic.net/current/data-badAS

Advertised Unallocated Addresses
--------------------------------

Network Origin AS Description
24.75.116.0/22 10796 ServiceCo LLC - Road Runner
24.75.160.0/19 7843 Adelphia Corp.
24.246.0.0/17 7018 AT&T WorldNet Services
24.246.128.0/18 7018 AT&T WorldNet Services
41.220.16.0/20 8668 TelOne Zimbabwe P/L
41.223.112.0/22 5713 Telkom SA Ltd
41.223.188.0/24 22351 Intelsat
41.223.189.0/24 26452 Local Communications Networks
62.61.220.0/24 24974 Tachyon Europe BV - Wireless
62.61.221.0/24 24974 Tachyon Europe BV - Wireless

Complete listing at http://thyme.apnic.net/current/data-add-IANA

Number of prefixes announced per prefix length (Global)
-------------------------------------------------------

/1:0 /2:0 /3:0 /4:0 /5:0 /6:0
/7:0 /8:19 /9:10 /10:20 /11:55 /12:162
/13:317 /14:578 /15:1130 /16:10345 /17:4598 /18:7913
/19:16926 /20:19940 /21:19668 /22:24922 /23:25170 /24:147378
/25:710 /26:853 /27:586 /28:103 /29:8 /30:3
/31:0 /32:7

Advertised prefixes smaller than registry allocations
-----------------------------------------------------

ASN No of nets Total ann. Description
6389 2843 4364 bellsouth.net, inc.
209 1571 2832 Qwest
4766 1391 1684 Korea Telecom (KIX)
17488 1296 1517 Hathway IP Over Cable Interne
8452 1212 1233 TEDATA
11492 1161 1201 Cable One
1785 1158 1752 PaeTec Communications, Inc.
18566 1042 1061 Covad Communications
2386 954 1261 AT&T Data Communications Serv
9583 942 1090 Sify Limited

Complete listing at http://thyme.apnic.net/current/data/sXXas-nos

Number of /24s announced per /8 block (Global)
----------------------------------------------

4:13 8:170 12:2203 13:2 15:20 16:3
17:4 20:35 24:1120 32:51 38:544 40:96
41:1962 43:1 44:2 47:19 52:3 55:2
56:3 57:25 58:535 59:620 60:458 61:1098
62:1108 63:2014 64:3529 65:2423 66:3548 67:1448
68:661 69:2481 70:506 71:158 72:1618 73:2
74:1429 75:201 76:311 77:786 78:559 79:325
80:971 81:834 82:548 83:415 84:586 85:1010
86:398 87:626 88:349 89:1411 90:42 91:2011
92:271 93:1128 94:1127 95:463 96:92 97:181
98:192 99:16 109:1 112:71 113:78 114:196
115:229 116:1125 117:491 118:286 119:636 120:133
121:710 122:962 123:523 124:936 125:1289 128:221
129:222 130:135 131:412 132:73 133:9 134:336
135:38 136:222 137:139 138:145 139:79 140:413
141:105 142:384 143:329 144:319 145:40 146:373
147:152 148:537 149:230 150:141 151:199 152:151
153:133 154:10 155:260 156:170 157:294 158:128
159:242 160:282 161:138 162:269 163:140 164:517
165:504 166:274 167:357 168:678 169:163 170:472
171:39 172:10 173:231 174:84 178:1 186:9
187:43 188:6 189:300 190:2614 192:5819 193:4215
194:3323 195:2716 196:1057 198:3705 199:3285 200:5497
201:1503 202:7836 203:8006 204:3943 205:2164 206:2350
207:2826 208:3850 209:3475 210:2644 211:1124 212:1504
213:1700 214:69 215:26 216:4554 217:1218 218:366
219:409 220:1217 221:453 222:319

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[Fwd: [AusNOG] BGP Update Report]

2009-02-27T10:19:00.001-08:00

Love reading the BGP update report. Fascinating stuff. I think I'll post
it every week.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [AusNOG] BGP Update Report
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:00:05 +1100 (EST)
From: cidr-report@potaroo.net
To: cidr-report@potaroo.net
CC: nanog@merit.edu, routing-wg@ripe.net, ausnog@ausnog.net,
apops@apops.net, eof-list@ripe.net, afnog@afnog.org

BGP Update Report
Interval: 26-Jan-09 -to- 26-Feb-09 (32 days)
Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072

TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS
Rank ASN Upds % Upds/Pfx AS-Name
1 - AS9583 304975 6.6% 237.3 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
2 - AS7643 131673 2.9% 209.3 -- VNN-AS-AP Vietnam Posts
and Telecommunications (VNPT)
3 - AS30890 50431 1.1% 113.1 -- EVOLVA Evolva Telecom
4 - AS6629 49010 1.1% 754.0 -- NOAA-AS - NOAA
5 - AS17974 34251 0.7% 67.3 -- TELKOMNET-AS2-AP PT
Telekomunikasi Indonesia
6 - AS35805 33756 0.7% 90.0 -- UTG-AS United Telecom AS
7 - AS27757 33625 0.7% 275.6 -- ANDINATEL S.A.
8 - AS3130 33494 0.7% 257.6 -- RGNET-3130 RGnet/PSGnet
9 - AS6458 30997 0.7% 77.1 -- Telgua
10 - AS30306 29623 0.6% 7405.8 -- AfOL-Sz-AS
11 - AS17488 27653 0.6% 16.9 -- HATHWAY-NET-AP Hathway
IP Over Cable Internet
12 - AS5056 26401 0.6% 227.6 -- INS-NET-2 - Iowa Network
Services
13 - AS30969 25108 0.5% 3138.5 -- TAN-NET TransAfrica Networks
14 - AS5050 24017 0.5% 407.1 -- PSC-EXT - Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center
15 - AS16559 22988 0.5% 2554.2 -- REALCONNECT-01 -
RealConnect, Inc
16 - AS8452 22311 0.5% 15.1 -- TEDATA TEDATA
17 - AS1785 22016 0.5% 11.6 -- AS-PAETEC-NET - PaeTec
Communications, Inc.
18 - AS9829 21264 0.5% 33.3 -- BSNL-NIB National
Internet Backbone
19 - AS23966 19534 0.4% 52.9 -- LDN-AS-AP LINKdotNET
Telecom Limited
20 - AS8103 19354 0.4% 30.3 -- STATE-OF-FLA - Florida
Department of Management Services - Technology Program

TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS (Updates per announced prefix)
Rank ASN Upds % Upds/Pfx AS-Name
1 - AS30287 8019 0.2% 8019.0 -- ALON-USA - ALON USA, LP
2 - AS30306 29623 0.6% 7405.8 -- AfOL-Sz-AS
3 - AS12500 19258 0.4% 4814.5 -- RCS-AS RCS Autonomus System
4 - AS19017 3584 0.1% 3584.0 -- QUALCOMM-QWBS-LV -
Qualcomm, Inc.
5 - AS30969 25108 0.5% 3138.5 -- TAN-NET TransAfrica
Networks
6 - AS41382 3011 0.1% 3011.0 -- TELEPORT-AS Teleport
LLC Network AS
7 - AS16559 22988 0.5% 2554.2 -- REALCONNECT-01 -
RealConnect, Inc
8 - AS28194 6840 0.1% 2280.0 --
9 - AS32398 11112 0.2% 1587.4 -- REALNET-ASN-1
10 - AS5033 13944 0.3% 1549.3 -- ISW - Internet
Specialties West Inc.
11 - AS25970 7572 0.2% 1262.0 -- IAC - IAC Services LLC
12 - AS46328 9254 0.2% 1028.2 -- PTCNEBRASKA - PIERCE
TELEPHONE COMPANY, INCORPORATED
13 - AS23917 1013 0.0% 1013.0 -- BRIBIE-NET-AS-AP Bribie
Island Net Multihomed, Brisbane
14 - AS29224 1964 0.0% 982.0 -- HELLMANN Hellmann
Worldwide Logistics GmbH & Co KG
15 - AS46781 914 0.0% 914.0 -- ASN1 - White Nile Group,
Inc.
16 - AS35335 878 0.0% 878.0 -- ESSTU-AS East-Siberian
State Technological University AS
17 - AS39107 1754 0.0% 877.0 -- INTERLAN-AS Asociatia
Interlan
18 - AS48144 867 0.0% 867.0 -- NETWORKTECH Network
Technology
19 - AS9796 2550 0.1% 850.0 -- WIPRO Internet Service
Providers
20 - AS35410 5512 0.1% 787.4 -- RU-LVS-AS LVS AS Number

TOP 20 Unstable Prefixes
Rank Prefix Upds % Origin AS -- AS Name
1 - 221.134.32.0/24 33591 0.7% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
2 - 72.23.246.0/24 23792 0.5% AS5050 -- PSC-EXT - Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center
3 - 210.214.177.0/24 21373 0.4% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
4 - 210.214.232.0/24 21083 0.4% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
5 - 210.214.132.0/24 21078 0.4% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
6 - 210.214.146.0/24 21041 0.4% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
7 - 210.214.222.0/24 20842 0.4% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
8 - 210.214.117.0/24 20824 0.4% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
9 - 210.214.184.0/24 19707 0.4% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
10 - 210.210.127.0/24 19020 0.4% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
11 - 221.135.105.0/24 18475 0.4% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
12 - 210.214.156.0/24 18223 0.3% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
13 - 190.152.103.0/24 17936 0.3% AS27757 -- ANDINATEL S.A.
14 - 192.35.129.0/24 16419 0.3% AS6629 -- NOAA-AS - NOAA
15 - 192.102.88.0/24 16235 0.3% AS6629 -- NOAA-AS - NOAA
16 - 198.77.177.0/24 16104 0.3% AS6629 -- NOAA-AS - NOAA
17 - 221.135.107.0/24 15320 0.3% AS9583 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited
18 - 212.85.223.0/24 14721 0.3% AS30306 -- AfOL-Sz-AS
19 - 212.85.220.0/24 14682 0.3% AS30306 -- AfOL-Sz-AS
20 - 190.152.100.0/24 14231 0.3% AS27757 -- ANDINATEL S.A.

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[Fwd: [AusNOG] Time Warner Cable]

2009-02-26T16:13:00.001-08:00

Folks might be interested in this.... looks like TWC has been under a
DDOS...

Kudos to TWC for being open.

http://adjix.com/cz9i

[Fwd: Thank you for your order!]

2009-02-26T15:50:00.001-08:00

Not very happy about this. I sent a response registering my
dissatisfaction. Will see how it turns out.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Thank you for your order!
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:39:35 -0800
From: Support of GTI (Globalscale Technologies, Inc.)
<support@globalscaletechnologies.com>
Reply-To: <support@globalscaletechnologies.com>
Organization: Globalscale Technologies, Inc.
To: <charles@thewybles.com>

Dear Charles Wyble,

Thank you for your order!

We estimate we will be shipping your order towards the end of March
2009. However, because of a computer glitch, the shipping costs were not
accounted for on the web-site. Our price of $99 per unit is exclusive of
all shipping and handleling cost, duties and sales tax (California
resident needs to add 8.75% Sales Tax).

For shipping inside the United States please see shipping charge below:

FedEx Next Day: $41.95

FedEx 2^ND Day: $21.95

FedEx Ground: $11.95

If you prefer to use your own freight account, please email us the
account details and we will ship "Freight Collect".

Thank-you once again for your order, and we apologize for any
inconvenience we may have caused.

Regards,

/////Support 1103/

Globalscale Technologies, Inc.

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[Fwd: Hey Charles, ResumeBucket.com is now Live. Empower yourself]

2009-02-26T11:53:00.001-08:00

Very cool.... hope it helps some of my readers.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Hey Charles, ResumeBucket.com is now Live. Empower yourself
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:24:48 -0800
From: Josh Stomel <josh@neohire.com>
To: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>

Hey Charles, wanted to let you know that we have launched a startup;
Http://ResumeBucket.com/ <http://ResumeBucket.com/partners/maxhire>

Due to the economy, we decided to build a startup that would help
consumers put their resumes online, provide them the social tools to
share it, distribute it, track it, and manage multiple versions online;
Plus provide them a unique url like; http://resumebucket.com/
<http://resumebucket.com/partners/maxhire> Charles

We figured we would let this product be completely free and open for
anyone to use. Both consumers and employers to search resumes.

We even have the ability to search resumes & jobs all for free, check it
out; Http://search.resumebucket.com <http://search.resumebucket.com>

We are trying to encourage consumers to build an online brand, search
for like minded individuals, and colloborate.

Whether your looking for a job, or not, it's a great product to put your
resume / bio online, start building a personal brand for yourself and
potentially line up a pipeline for potential opportunites for you
(Consulting, Full time or more)

We launched the site Dec 14th of 2008, and have been seeing fantastic
growth.

Anyways, just wanted to share this with you Charles. If you have any
friends out there, or if you have twitter, please share this with your
network, as we are here to help people get jobs and grow.

NeoHire.com has some open positions as well, so, please let us know if
your looking for a job.

*Josh Stomel*
Josh@neohire.com <mailto:Josh@neohire.com>
tel:310.425.3980

Twitter: @resumebucket

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[Fwd: Newsletter: January/February 2009]

2009-02-26T08:54:00.001-08:00

Might be of interest to my readers.... I'm still liking the sheevaplug
better though...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Newsletter: January/February 2009
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:20:16 +0100 (GMT-1)
From: The FON Team <noreply@fon.com>
Reply-To: [noreply] <noreply@fon.com>
To: charles@thewybles.com

FON Newsletter

* fon.com <http://fon.com>
* Tips and tricks <http://wiki.fon.com/wiki/Software>
* *FON* Wiki <http://wiki.fon.com>
* *FON* Shop <https://shop.fon.com>
* *FON* Maps <http://maps.fon.com/>

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Big city blogger offers thanks to unknown Fonero in small town

Richard Allan, Head of Government Affairs for UK and Ireland, and
political blogger, offered thanks on his blog to a Fonero in the small
town of Bejar, Spain whose FON WiFi signal allowed Richard to finish
some urgent business and get back to enjoying his holiday. According to
Richard, "the blog underestimates my desperation at needing to access my
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the La Fonera 2.0 will let you control data streaming without even
having to turn on your computer. While the La Fonera 2.0 manages uploads
and downloads at home, you and your laptop will be free to do anything
and go anywhere else. The La Fonera 2.0 will also allow you to share
printers, scanners, webcams and other USB devices. And, as with all FON
routers, the La Fonera 2.0 will allow you to make money and roam the
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CTO SocalWiFI.net

[Fwd: OT: Cisco, Sun Solaris, Red Hat, Juniper Networks, PERL, Linux, Microsoft Materials]

2009-02-25T13:53:00.001-08:00

Wow.... would love to purchase this. Anyone interested in going in with
me on shipping it? Or driving to the bay area and picking it up?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: OT: Cisco, Sun Solaris, Red Hat, Juniper Networks, PERL,
Linux, Microsoft Materials
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:32:20 -0800
From: Eric Rogers <epr02@rexglobal.com>
To: <svcug@external.cisco.com>
CC: <epr002@gmail.com>

These Are Materials That I Used For My Studies and Certifications i.e.
Cisco CCIE, CCNP, CCNA, Red Hat RHCE, Microsoft MCSE, PERL Scripting,
Check Point Firewall CCSA, CCSE, Juniper Networks JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP, JNCIE

I'm moving and need to sell the following items as one group as I need
to lighten my load. I'm not looking to part it out and you will need to
pick up the items in the East Bay and it's a lot of stuff. I have
everything packed in 8 good size boxes, so as to make it easier. I can
also give you two medium book cases if you like. Looking to sell for
$300 O.B.O.

Pic's and full details here : h**p://208.101.49.248/~w3inet/
<http://208.101.49.248/~w3inet/>

83 Hard Copy Technical Books - mostly Cisco

2 Dell PC's (Good for Learning Linux, PERL, Windows, Cisco Softwares),

Approx 100 of Cisco, Linux, Check Point, Red Hat, Juniper e-Books, Docs,
and Tests,

8 Sun Solaris CBT's,

6 PERL Programming Videos,

8 Microsoft Windows Active Directory Videos,

8 Red Hat Certified Engineer RHCE Videos,

IPExpert Cisco CCIE Audio Bootcamp,

Variety of (Hard & eBook) Cisco CCIE Routing and Swithing Lab Workbooks,

37 Cisco Branded Cables, Kentrox DataSmart 680 T1 CSU/DSU,

Red Hat Server Softwares,

Thanks,

Eric 415-623-6066

<http://www.rexglobal.com/>

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Charles N Wyble charles@thewybles.com
(818)280-7059 http://charlesnw.blogspot.com
CTO SocalWiFI.net

[Fwd: [SCCUG] Contract-to-perm in Pasadena]

2009-02-25T11:01:00.001-08:00

An interesting job opportunity in Pasadena.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [SCCUG] Contract-to-perm in Pasadena
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:19:10 -0000
From: fridaberyl03 <fridaberyl03@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: SCCUG@yahoogroups.com
To: SCCUG@yahoogroups.com

This is a referral, please contact me directly and I will hook you
up :)

Enterprise Network Services (ENS), Network Carrier Infrastructure
Engineer Senior
Job Family
Network/Telephony Services

Position Title
ENS Network Carrier Infrastructure Engineer Lead

Position Description

This position reports to the ENS Manager of Data Engineering Design
& Planning, National Operations Enterprise Network Services (ENS)
and will be located in Southern California. This high level
engineering position will serve as a technical leader both inside
and to outside organizations. Primary assignments will involve
planning, design, engineering, configuration, of carrier
infrastructure networks. Position Description: Position will be
responsible for planning, design, network analysis, configuration,
and engineering of new MPOE and access facilities for the
enterprise. Work closely with clients, vendors, carriers, and other
technical staff to analyze business and technical requirements.
Develop options, recommendations and associated cost benefits, and
provide engineering design for implementation. Research, evaluate,
and recommend new carrier upgrades technologies for voice, data and
video networks. Assess emerging technologies and make
recommendations to information technology management. Oversee,
certify and assist in implementation and support of the enterprise
wide network.
Job Responsibilities

Be the single point of contact for various data carrier activities
within the Enterprise National Network Infrastructure.

Provide direction to our client's vendors to insure that standards
and service levels are being met.

Coordinate, implement and prioritize service requests for service
area activity. This may require after hour and weekend work.

Provide recommendations to manager for improving existing systems
and identify potential carrier issues for escalation and resolution.

Provide assistance and support to the data and carrier engineering
planning group as required. This may require after hours support.

Work closely with other NOPS organizations to insure smooth delivery
of NOPS services to the customer.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience. 8+ years
of experience in planning, designing and implementing new carrier
infrastructure and access points. Past Telco carrier experiences a
must.
Required Skills: Extensive large enterprise WAN environment or
telecommunications company experience. Must have extensive Frame
Relay Switching systems, Carrier Networks and T1 & T3 experience, as
well as experience with ATM, SONET, and new Ethernet WAN services.
Preferred Skills; Experience with WAN and LAN Technologies: ATM,
Frame Relay, T1&T3, DS3, OPT-E MAN, SONET, ISDN, xDSL, SMDS, MPLS,
Cisco Routers and Switches, Routing protocols: OSPF, BGP, EIGRP and
IP and various data protocols; MUST BE ABLE TO TRAVEL AND WORK AFTER
HOURS AND WEEKEND WORK AS REQUIRED.

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[Fwd: [announce] Afrimesh Dashboard]

2009-02-24T14:54:00.001-08:00

W00t! An open source mesh dash board!!! Very cool stuff.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [announce] Afrimesh Dashboard
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:42:18 +0200
From: Antoine van Gelder <antoine@7degrees.co.za>
Reply-To: village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com
To: village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com, Wireless Africa
<wireless-africa@googlegroups.com>, afrimesh@googlegroups.com

Dear mesh networkers,

It is with great pleasure that I get to make the initial announcement
of the Afrimesh dashboard project!
The ability to easily create an IP network in rural areas, developing
countries and disaster zones can significantly contribute to the
ability of people to communicate with each other.

Afrimesh builds on top of the most excellent B.A.T.M.A.N. project to
provide a simple management dashboard which enables network operators
to create and sustain a resilient communications network with a
minimum of fuss.

For the first release we are working hard towards simplifying common
tasks such as managing clients, maintaining network maps, monitoring
the network and managing bandwidth.

A live demo, managing the Afrimesh development testbed, can be viewed
at:

http://afrimesh.7degrees.co.za [1]

The current status of the software should still be considered pre-
alpha and it is only recommended that you check out the source code if
you are comfortable with a unix shell, know your way around a text
editor and are able to find and follow the badly written directions on
the wiki.

Binary packages are coming and will support the following environments:

* FreeBSD

* OpenWRT

* OpenWRT + R.O.B.I.N.

* Ubuntu

Future development direction will be largely determined by demand from
users but some ideas that have already come up include customer
billing management, telephony integration and support for building
social apps that connect mesh users with each other.

The source code is licensed under the New BSD License and is hosted at:

http://code.google.com/p/afrimesh

Finally, a very big thank you to each of Ajay, Chris, George & Kobus
from the Meraka Institute of the CSIR, Sebastian from wire.less.dk and
Steve from the Shuttleworth Foundation for the many contributions that
have made this project possible.

- antoine

[1] Yes, my routers have stickers on them. No, they are not at the
mapped locations but are in fact all on the same property. Yes,
transmitter power has been attenuated to a fraction of legally
permissible power output. No, you may not have my routers nor come
onto my property unless you have all of your paperwork in order!

--
http://7degrees.co.za
"Libré software for human education."

--
Charles N Wyble charles@thewybles.com
(818)280-7059 http://charlesnw.blogspot.com
CTO SocalWiFI.net

[Fwd: Mesh Potato Presentation Video and Slides]

2009-02-24T10:31:00.001-08:00

Might be of interest to my readers...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Mesh Potato Presentation Video and Slides
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:38:47 +1030
From: David Rowe <david@rowetel.com>
Reply-To: village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com
To: village-telco-dev@googlegroups.com
References: <499EB4E0.3030603@shuttleworthfoundation.org>
<b57b34530902200631w144c3289k22c488db86ab5e21@mail.gmail.com>
<499EC12F.1000401@shuttleworthfoundation.org>
<b57b34530902200747t3d1844c4sfb6cbcc9dfc94c7f@mail.gmail.com>
<b57b34530902202245x59b0023bh86968887db0e5a1a@mail.gmail.com>
<b57b34530902230921i2cf1cc00yedd6c7117dc319a4@mail.gmail.com>
<1235426825.49a31e09e8d25@196.7.147.5>

The video has just been posted on a Mesh Potato Talk I gave last month
at Linux Conf AU 2009:

http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2009/Friday/46.ogg

Here are the slides:

http://www.rowetel.com/downloads/lca_2009_mesh_potato.pdf

The slides contains links that explain how you can set up a BATMAN mesh
network on your x86 Linux machine in just a few minutes - during the
presentation the audience built a 12 node mesh while I was speaking!

Thanks to Elektra and Kim Hawtin in helping me set up the BATMAN demo.

Cheers,

David

--
Free Telephony Project
open embedded IP-PBX hardware and software
http://www.rowetel.com/ucasterisk

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(818)280-7059 http://charlesnw.blogspot.com
CTO SocalWiFI.net

Fw: [AusNOG] Interesting - How a Router's Missed Range Check NearlyCrashed the Internet

2009-02-22T09:31:00.001-08:00

Interesting....

socalwifi.net first node update

2009-02-20T15:57:00.000-08:00

So we have had a node deployed at Havannas Sandwich for a few months now. Here is a snapshot of it's usage:

havana1 192.168.0.102 00:22:b0:62:9e:ba 0 days 23:26:29 (Linux desktop we setup cyber cafe style)

iPod-2 192.168.0.117 00:22:41:88:54:f3 0 days 19:49:32
iPhone 192.168.0.104 00:1f:5b:44:bc:84 0 days 21:43:44
iPod-touch 192.168.0.109 00:22:41:84:e3:86 0 days 17:45:28
iPhone 192.168.0.101 00:23:32:f8:a9:fa 0 days 20:22:16
BLACKBERRY-5C91 192.168.0.110 00:24:9f:ac:03:f0 0 days 4:48:27
tay-s-touch 192.168.0.114 00:23:32:6a:b7:17 0 days 2:32:17

NintendoDS 192.168.0.116 00:21:47:6e:6e:0f 0 days 0:23:58

unknown 192.168.0.115 00:23:12:e6:82:ff 0 days 18:17:18
god-5e27c3d29b3 192.168.0.106 00:16:6f:47:f7:d3 0 days 23:46:51
D-Knock 192.168.0.100 00:23:df:30:5a:25 0 days 23:6:33
digi04 192.168.0.121 00:90:4b:4d:d4:8c 0 days 23:24:27

Cool stuff. Lots of mobile devices using the AP, in particular several Apple devices.

2009 Guding Principle

2008-12-25T07:12:00.000-08:00

Any people or projects that don't have a clear and understandable value proposition won't get approved. Any current projects or personnel without a demonstrable return on investment will be downsized.

I call this VPROI.

Known Element Enterprises - Year end wrap up

2008-12-25T07:05:00.000-08:00

First let's start with the mission of Known Element Enterprises. I created the company to serve as an incubation firm to take ideas that various people in my social network had and (with the proper analysis/planning/connections/funding) turn them into cash for the members of that social network, based on the amount of effort put into developing the idea.

Let's start off by taking a look at the various ideas that have been tossed around by members of my social network in the past year (Q3/Q4 2007 and Q1/Q2/Q3/Q4 2008).

SiliconValleySouth - Cyber Cafe

The first idea was for a brick and mortar business called SiliconValleySouth, which would have been a cyber cafe. (Patti and I came up with this idea). After a detailed analysis it was determined the idea wasn't feasible and has been abandoned.

More info can be found at the below blog posts:
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/09/bit-about-svs.html
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/09/brainstorming.html
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/09/things-you-can-do-with-small-space.html
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/09/some-thoughts-on-printing.html
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/09/free-wifi.html
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/10/pay-at-pump.html
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/10/another-photo-idea.html

ClickItNoTicket - Web 2.0 project

The next idea that got put out there was ClickItNoTicket (this was co developed at MobileCampLA and won the Entrepreneurial Improv contest. ). After a detailed analysis
it was concluded that the idea had significant issues but could most likely be overcome with funding and a dedicated product team. We didn't pursue turning this idea into a formal business plan, but anyone is welcome to do so.

More info can be found at the below blog posts:
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/11/clickitnoticketcom.html
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/11/brain-dump-on-clickitnoticket.html
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/11/license-plates.html
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/11/another-thought-on-stickers-and.html

OpenSrcLearn.org/OpenSrcLearn.com and OpenSourceDelivery Systems - Educational and professional services

The next idea was OpenSrcLearn.org and OpenSrcLearn.com. After a detailed analysis and various false starts (venue not being available even though it was promised to us, certain people with the project falling through and promising us things that were not quite true) as well as a very competitive market with some large established players, we didn't proceed with the educational idea. The educational idea was tied pretty heavily to the SiliconValleySouth idea as well. A blended revenue stream if you will.

More info can be found at the below blog posts:
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/11/opensrclearnorg.html
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/11/opensrclearncom.html
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2007/11/opensrclearncom-coming-together.html

Infrasbox - IT Automation

The next idea was an IT automation product. After a detailed analysis we discovered a very powerful product called ControlTier which did everything our analysis / product plan wanted.

More info can be found at the below blog posts:

http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2008/02/infrasboxcom-swot.html
http://siliconvs.blogspot.com/2008/03/infrasbox-is-hiring.html

Whew. Late Q3/Q4 2007 and Q1/Q2 2008 was a whirlwind of ideas which on the surface seemed good but after analysis turned out to:

1)Not be feasible (due to problems with the business model or not being able to differentiate from the existing players (SiliconValleySouth, OpenSrcLearn, OpenSourceDeliverySystems,InfrasBox)

2)Not be feasible without VC funding and a product team (ClickItNoTicket)

The staff of Known Element Enterprises has certainly learned a lot about the beginning of the product development lifecycle and how to write really good business/operations/product plans :)

BizzPlat

We have abandoned this idea as well, as it requires substantial development and sales/marketing resources.

Unwinding and realining - the year in review

2008-12-16T09:46:00.001-08:00

2008 has been an exciting year.

Major highlights:

1) Weathered out the initial economic downturn. I ended a contract gig in February, and went to a system engineering position at an entertainment company and got laid off due to internal politics and a weak outlook for entertainment. I then took a position with an internet advertising company and got laid off after the 777 dow drop. I am now at a digital signage / advertising company.

2) Attended several conferences (BarCampLA/BarCampSanDiego/MerbCamp/Interop). I'm sure there were others. I also was much more active at the local lugs then I was in 2007.

3) Actively participated in numerous mailing lists, including AFNOG/SANOG/NANOG,WISPA,local lugs, various open source projects.

4) Tried my hand at various ventures, and really learned a lot about the product development life cycle.

5) Became laser beam focused on building out the socal wifi network and localization, as a way to get out of the recession.

I also realized that in order to stay focused on leading the socal wifi project I need to start operating at a more strategic level. In support of this I have unsubscribed from numerous mailing lists:

1) Operations lists: AFNOG/SANOG/NANOG/WISPA
2) Project lists:
ath5k/ath9k/linux-wimax
click/quagga/liberouter/xorp
mogilefs
mpls-linux
v6ops/ec2ubuntu
olsr-dev/olsr-user/open80211s

Yeah.... I was tracking a lot of projects.

Why did I unsubscribe from the project lists? While they are very interesting, they're just too much information. I don't need to track the development of them, and thus far I haven't run into any issues with usage of an open source project that hasn't been answered via a quick net search.

The group lists? There is way too much noise and not nearly enough signal. I have found much more valuable information from google alerts/blogs etc.

For now I am staying on several of the regional mailing lists.

I'll do another post later on my plans and directons for 2009.