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Alternative to Running Cable down SH1
by Tikiri Wickramasingha 25 May '04

25 May '04

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 01:53, Craig Spiers wrote: <snip> > > > > We could all possibly grab every redundant 10mbit hub in NZ and connect them > down SH1 through the north island and call it CountryLink ? > > Add up all those offcuts of Cat5 plus these redundant hubs, we could start > our own national ISP with VoIP ;) > A bit more viable - has anyone checked out the Helios project. Granted it crashed but NASA is prototyping a few newer and better ones. NASA Helios - remotely piloted, solar powered, extreme high altitude aircraft capable of carying a payload simillar to a small satelite. Uses Fuel Cells to store power generated by solar panels. It is designed to stay in the air forever. Wing Span approximately the size of a B-52 Bomber. Cost if I rememebr right was a couple million dollars. But that is a fraction of what running fibre all the way down SH1 would cost. Here is the link http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/ > > _______________________________________________ > NZNOG mailing list > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog

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Peering.
by Simon Lyall 25 May '04

25 May '04

Little story here by Juha: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3568316&thesection=busin… Looks like Telecom and Telstra are trying to put on a squeeze in order to make a couple more thousand per month. I'm a little surprised at the timing, Telecom has a bit of an advantage right now since it's got a monopoly on ADSL bandwidth but bitstream is only a few months away (allegedly) so it's going to be a lot easier for ADSL customers to switch pretty soon. Telstra doesn't even have that sort of leverage. I'd advise companies that are currently not connected to WIX or APE and are instead replying on the two companies above to deliver their National bandwidth to keep close tabs on things. If it suddenly costs ISPs thousands of dollars to send traffic to your site then the ISP (or whatever) is going to start looking hard are their benefits in the relationship (and remember this thousands is going to Telecom/Telstra not you). People like TVNZ . The Herald, TV3 etc who want to deliver bandwidth intensive content should take note especially. ISPs won't be able to afford to let customers watch your content all day if they are paying real money for a Telecom or Telstra circuit. And the circuit they do buy will be as small as possible. And remember if you connect to APE or WIX you have the choice of additional International bandwidth suppliers which will at least give you the chance to negotiate your next International bill down a little even if you stay with your existing Telco. It's a shame that Telecom and Telstra are basicly telling the Xtra and Paradise customers that the customers access to fast National content is less important than making a few thousand extra ( $50,000 tops, maybe ) on National bandwidth charges. Much as some sites don't offer bandwidth intensive services to International users they might be soon forced to not offer them to some (or all) National users. -- Simon J. Lyall. | Very Busy | Mail: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.

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hfr
by Thomas 25 May '04

25 May '04

hope you've all got your orders in http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5763/index.html maybe citylink could buy a few for the collisionnet network. although the stm-256 modules only seem to have short-haul optics. bah humbug thomas

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Allied Telesys Media Converter
by Drew Broadley 25 May '04

25 May '04

Hi all, Does someone happen to have a used Allied Telesys twin-fibre (100base-FX) to rj45 (100base-TX) media converter for lend or sale? We are having issues with our telstraclear circuit link and telstraclear keep throwing us the same brand different model converter. We have had issues with two media converters now and I wish to experiment with another brand (specifically Allied Telesys, as word of advice from a technician at Inspire who solved their issues) Can you please contact me off list or onlist to discuss any others that have had the same problems with these Transition media convertors. Cheers, Drew

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Re: [nznog] Peering.
by Brian Gibbons 24 May '04

24 May '04

>From: "Drew Broadley" <drew(a)corrupt.co.nz> >We could all possibly grab every redundant 10mbit hub >in NZ and connect them down SH1 through the north island >and call it CountryLink ? OK, CityLink now runs CountryLink, and every NZ ISP is connected via a single peering exchange. CountyLink should then write to TelestraClear explaining the change in topology and how much it is going to cost TelstraClear to connect to CountryLink for "Domestic Peering", a per MB charge would seem appropriate. Cheers BG

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Re: [nznog] Peering.
by Richard Naylor 24 May '04

24 May '04

At 03:28 p.m. 25/05/2004 +1200, Paul Brislen wrote: >If you (Customer A) set up a video server in Invercargil >(JuhaDownCountry.com) that for whatever reason got a lot of traffic, the >telcos would have to install new capacity/servers/gear/etc to cope with the >demand and they would need to recoup that cost from you, Customer A. being the owner of several video servers I can reply on this one. If you use the model they mention then Peter Jackson would have to pay the Embassy to screen his movies as well as the Embassy charging the public to watch. To give you a very real example. LOTR-3 Premiere. We got paid nothing for webcasting the event. Based on the extra traffic that went to TCL, they earned $250,000 in 5 hours of webcast. Not small change. TCNZ would have earned around $500,000 had they peered properly. The others probably earned around another $250,000 Had we not anycast LOTR-3 we would have had to pay our ISP. We deliberately engineered it to avoid that possibility, having accidentally generated a huge bill the year before. Yes a telco would have to install capacity to my server, but if they peer properly its for the traffic requests generated by their customers that runs over that peering link. Its exactly why all my servers are at exchanges, so that ISPs can get to the content with the least effort and cost. rich

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Re: [nznog] Peering.
by Richard Naylor 24 May '04

24 May '04

At 05:16 p.m. 25/05/2004 +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: >You're kidding? no - its for real >Oh hang on, you mean that TCL charged their customers some $250k, etc, not >that you paid them to send the data to their customers? looking at the incremental traffic flows and using TCL traffic charges, we estimate they earned $250k in 5 hours. We didn't get paid. But the beer from TV3 was nice ;-) rich

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RE: [nznog] Peering.
by Regan Murphy 24 May '04

24 May '04

> Looks like Telecom and Telstra are trying to put on a squeeze > in order to make a couple more thousand per month. > > I'm a little surprised at the timing, Telecom has a bit of an > advantage right now since it's got a monopoly on ADSL > bandwidth but bitstream is only a few months away (allegedly) > so it's going to be a lot easier for ADSL customers to switch > pretty soon. > > Telstra doesn't even have that sort of leverage. If TelstraClear put a bit of time and effort into selling their services and retaining existing customers than putting all their fight into peering and local loop unbundling they would be a lot better off than they are now I'm sure. I have heard from several people who have had trouble buying products from them - both voice and data (business) - and have had endless troubles finding someone to return their calls. The unlucky ones to have actually bought their products from TelstraClear then have trouble getting service out of the Account Reps which seem to turnover several times a year... Clear was a great company but unfortunately they have been ruined. -- Regan

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RE: [nznog] Peering.
by Craig Spiers 24 May '04

24 May '04

Let's call it.. CollisionNet :) -----Original Message----- From: Drew Broadley [mailto:drew(a)corrupt.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 25 May 2004 1:51 p.m. To: Brian Gibbons Cc: Craig Spiers; 'Juha Saarinen'; 'Jeremy Brooking'; 'nznog' Subject: Re: [nznog] Peering. Brian Gibbons wrote: >>From: "Craig Spiers" <craig(a)concept.net.nz> If telstraclear, was to >>stop peering at APE, and remove 'ports and connections to there' >>wouldn't that limit them to only having 'domestic' data inside their >>own network? >> >> > >This looks more like an attempt to change NZ from a Peering model to a >Tiered model, perhaps Telstra think they have the best backbone in NZ >and might be able to monopolise on it :) > >I am not completely familiar with the WIX/APE Topology, is there a >dedicated circuit between the two to carry domestic traffic? > >If not, is it possible that domestic traffic could traverse both APE >and WIX via TCL peering circuits to each? > We could all possibly grab every redundant 10mbit hub in NZ and connect them down SH1 through the north island and call it CountryLink ? Add up all those offcuts of Cat5 plus these redundant hubs, we could start our own national ISP with VoIP ;)

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Re: [nznog] Peering.
by Jeremy Brooking 24 May '04

24 May '04

Craig Spiers wrote: > Let's call it.. CollisionNet :) > For SH1... Thats rather appropriate :)

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Xtra de-peering in Wellington.
by Simon Blake 20 May '04

20 May '04

Just an FYI, For those that may be wondering why they're getting increased load on links in and out of APE, Xtra withdrew all routes and dropped their BGP session to WIX at about 11am this morning. This left a few parties delivering content to Xtra customers high and dry, and does little for the stability of the Interweb in NZ, which is a shame. Hopefully, the folks at TCNZ will see the light shortly, and turn it back on. Cheers Si

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Port filtering by NZ ISPs?
by Neil Gardner 19 May '04

19 May '04

Hi guys - I'm trying to conduct some penetration testing on some networking equipment and I was finding that some ports were being filtered when someone else at the company was using an **** dialup account to try some things. A call to the **** helpdesk yielded exactly the results I expected so I was hoping someone here could give a more intelligent answer. I'd really like to find out what various ISPs are filtering from dialup or other pools - please email me directly if you have anything to offer. I am happy to sign and fax back NDAs if required and the info would be used for nothing but checking against our own test results or selecting ISPs for use during testing. Cheers - Neil G

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Spam Legislation Workshop
by David Farrar 18 May '04

18 May '04

Hi all, You may have seen that the Government has released a discussion document on anti-spam legislation for New Zealand. As part of the consultation on any legislation, InternetNZ has arranged with the Government for an industry workshop on Thursday 24 June in Wellington for interested members of the Internet, business, legal and educational communities. The aim is to help make any legislation as effective and useful as possible. A formal invite has gone out snail mail to ISPs and others. I thought I'd mention it here also, so people can pass it on informally to anyone appropriate within their organisation etc. The draft programme for the workshop, a registration form, and a link to the Government's discussion document are all on InternetNZ's website at www.internetnz.net.nz. Cheers DPF -- David Farrar e-mail: david(a)farrar.com blog: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz msn: dpf666(a)hotmail.com icq: 29964527

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As expected, Swain nixed unbundling
by Juha Saarinen 18 May '04

18 May '04

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3567355 Forgot to buy Telecom shares... arggh. -- Juha

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DalNet nodes in NZ?
by Simon Blake 18 May '04

18 May '04

The folks from Dalnet are pestering Citylink to provide free hosting for a server they'll provide. I couldn't find any list of nodes on dalnet, so I have no feeling for how many there may already be in NZ. So I guess my question is, are these folks legit, is it a worthwhile thing to be associated with, would anybody use it if we did set it up? I have vague recollections of IRC nodes in NZ attracting significant DOS traffic in the past - does that sort of thing still happen? Shuold I run screaming from the room? Cheers Si

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Lucent TNT Access Servers...
by Seeby Woodhouse 16 May '04

16 May '04

Apologies for the 'for sale' notice, but this really does seem like the most obvious forum that would have people interested in this sort of gear. Orcon currently has 6 x 480 Port Lucent TNT Access servers for sale, and we'll take the best offer over $12,000 + GST each (that's just $25 per port). You can still buy these new, and I have been told that current US$ list price is around US$181,000 Below is the current US$ list price of the components - each chassis has 10 x 48 port cards, 2 x E1 cards, and 1 of everything else. TNT-2DC-H 408078095 TNT Base, NCM3L20DRB $17,000.00 TNTV-SL-ADI-C 300076684 48-port MultiDSP NCD3BB0BAA $13,000.00 TNT-SL-CE1-C 300268471 Single-slot module (8) E1 interfaces IPI1GBABAA $4,000.00 TNT-SL-E100ND-C 300304193 4-Port, 10/100 Port Voice Ethernet Module IPI69D0CAA $10,000.00 TNT-OSLIC 300351004 Base TAOS RTU software license for the MAX TNT N/A $10,000.00 TNT-SO-R2 300071495 R2 tone-based support for most E1 countries. $5,000.00 TNT-SP-DRAM-32 407938745 32MB JEDEC DRAM Memory module. $1,000.00 Note: - The chassis in their current configuration won't do V.92. - The chassis also have the voice hash codes so that you can provide VOIP services on PRIs etc. Cheers Seeby Woodhouse Managing Director Orcon Internet Limited - www.orcon.net.nz Mob +64 (0) 21 366 666 / Wk +64 (9) 444 4414 ext 700

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possible jeopardy for F root server in Auckland tomorrow morning
by Joe Abley 16 May '04

16 May '04

I hear there will be power testing on all levels in the Sky Tower tomorrow (Tuesday) between 0630 and 0730 local time, and "short breaks" are to be expected on all levels. The F root node in Auckland lives on Level 48. The power to the F-root node is supplied through UPSes, but I do not know the list time those UPSes were called upon to supply service. Accordingly, it is at least possible that multiple components of the F-root node will reboot, in which case peers of ISC in Auckland may see transient re-routing towards some other F-root node (Brisbane, Hong Kong, Palo Alto or San Francisco, probably). If there's any persistent issue outside that window, please feel free to send mail to noc(a)isc.org as usual. If you're at the APE and not peering with us, and you'd like to, send mail to peering(a)isc.org. Joe

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NTP sources within NZ
by Russell Fulton 05 May '04

05 May '04

Hi, we have discovered that most of the off campus sources we had for our NTP service are no longer there. Anybody willing to let us connect to their servers? -- Russell Fulton /~\ The ASCII Network Security Officer \ / Ribbon Campaign The University of Auckland X Against HTML New Zealand / \ Email!

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RE: [nznog] Hikoi webcast - maybe
by Richard Naylor 04 May '04

04 May '04

At 12:16 p.m. 5/05/2004 +1200, David Robb wrote: >On Wed, 5 May 2004, Jonathan Brewer wrote: > > > Hey Richard, > > > > Nice webcast, but where's the 8mbps HDTV stream!? > >Or at least something a bit higher bandwidth than 128kbit. Sorry - the HDTV stuff is about 12 months away due to a CPU capacity crisis - we need the 64bitters and appropriate software. I chose 128k as the best single stream to do that would be usable by the max people. I was using my laptop so cpu was limited. WHile I could have done a higher bit rate, the audience would have been restricted. A number of contacts reported firewall blocks in place and so some resorted to dial-up !! I use protocol roll over to try and get around firewalls, so I'm supporting mms and rtsp. So sorry bout the 128, but it did get a good audience. A link to the stream was carried by Stuff.co.nz and we had a simultaneous peak of 92 viewers. The log files shows something like 1550 connections looking at VideoNow. I didn't have individual logging turned on, so its mixed with other traffic, but VideoNow was saturating the log file, so about 1500 odd connex. The next stage is to get the gear a little more portable (like a backpack, like our other portable units) and also get multi-bit rate. And yes, we are available for the beach volley-ball championship, but would insist on full coverage of the event, including all the lead up trials etc. Do I have any volunteers for the camera crew ? rich

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Re: [nznog] NTP sources within NZ
by Ewen McNeill 04 May '04

04 May '04

In message <2370.202.27.185.71.1083729519.squirrel(a)www.crypt.gen.nz>, "Kerry Tho mpson" writes: >Simon Blake said: >> Setting up a GPS NTP source has been on the list of things I've wanted >> to get done for a while now - I've got several rooftop mounted PC's that >> have stunning views of the heavens. [....] > >Dick Smiths have a usb GPS receiver ( http://www.dse.co.nz & search for >XH6831 ) which uses the standard NMEA protocol over what seems to be an >emulated serial port. IIRC that GPS receiver doesn't do PPS (pulse-per-second). Without pulse per second you can't get NTP-accurate time out of a GPS -- there's just too much jitter in the timing reports. (NMEA output is fairly slow (9600bps?) and in many GPSes they don't even treat the NMEA output as a high priority, so it's only "near the second" not on starting on the second.) >From what I remember most GPSes under about $400-$500 won't do PPS, and some of the more expensive ones don't either. I think there are some models around the $500-$600 range which will do PPS, but I don't recall which ones off hand. Ewen

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Re: [nznog] NTP sources within NZ
by John Rumsey 04 May '04

04 May '04

mark.harris(a)ssc.govt.nz wrote: > Russell Fulton wrote: > >> we have discovered that most of the off campus sources we had for our >> NTP service are no longer there. Anybody willing to let us connect >> to their servers? > > > > Industrial Research's Measurement Standards Laboratory (MSL)is now > providing a publicly accessible primary Network Time Protocol (NTP) > server for the synchronisation of computer time for connections within > New Zealand. More details are available on their website: http://www.irl.cri.nz/msl/services/time/ntpServer.html cheers, John Rumsey

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Hikoi webcast - maybe
by Richard Naylor 04 May '04

04 May '04

a "maybe" heads up. We have been developing a webcasting facility known as VideoNow. It is webcasting with the encoder over CafeNet, so you can roam around town. Last friday we drove the van around, which seems to have amused a few folks. I'll put some footage up later for a laugh. Tomorrow the Hokoi will parade/march thru town. There is a strong possibility that we will have a camera on Lambton Quay to catch the action. The VideoNow URL is http://www.r2.co.nz/20040414/ If the camera is live it will connect, if not you get a message. Keep trying - the stream will kick in as we get near an access point. The "maybe" part is how much sleep we get tonight. Camera batteries are already charging........ rich

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RE: [nznog] NTP sources within NZ
by mark.harris＠ssc.govt.nz 04 May '04

04 May '04

Russell Fulton wrote: > we have discovered that most of the off campus sources > we had for our NTP service are no longer there. Anybody > willing to let us connect to their servers? Industrial Research's Measurement Standards Laboratory (MSL)is now providing a publicly accessible primary Network Time Protocol (NTP) server for the synchronisation of computer time for connections within New Zealand. The Measurement Standards Laboratory (MSL) is the official disseminator of the time standard, UTC(MSL), for New Zealand. (Most people will be familiar with their time service disseminated as a series of "pips" broadcast by Radio New Zealand on the National Radio station. ) MSL is now providing a Network Time Protocol (NTP) stratum 1 server for connections within New Zealand. The server is referenced to UTC(MSL) by direct connection of a pulse per second signal from the master caesium atomic clock which is part of the New Zealand time standard. The time in the server is typically stable to around 1 microsecond with respect to the time in the caesium clock. Using the server The server is a publicly available server open to all connections from within NZ. Its address is msltime.irl.cri.nz (Note: this server only services NTP and 'Simple Network Time Protocol' (SNTP) requests. It does not respond to 'datetime' requests. Government agencies however, should register their use of the server with MSL by sending the IP address of their server (a static address is required) and a contact email address to time(a)irl.cri.nz . The reason for this requirement is that some servers overseas have been flooded with requests from devices such as routers and access to the server may have to be restricted at some time in the future. Agencies should limit their requests to come from at most three servers and then any additional server should connect to what will be the agency's three stratum 2 clocks. The best and most accurate way of using this service is to install the official NTP distribution from www.ntp.org. Versions are available for most versions of Unix. Windows versions are available for Windows NT, 2000 and XP. Please note that this message has been liberally pillaged from a fact sheet on the E-government website (http://www.e.govt.nz/programme/docs/Time.pdf) and further details are contained there (sorry, pdf only at present. I'm working on getting more accessible pages up there). Regards Mark Harris Manager Moderation and Web Standards State Services Commission PO Box 329, Wellington, NZ Tel: 64 4 495 2844 Email mailto:web.guidelines(a)ssc.govt.nz -- Caution: The content of this email is the property of the State Services Commission. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender immediately and delete.

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Heads Up - Webcast tomorrow - TUESDAY
by Richard Naylor 03 May '04

03 May '04

We have a webcast tomorrow - Tuesday 4 May 2004 NZ Wireless Data Forum conference at Te Papa. It appears that the organisers haven't put any URLS to the streams anywhere public, so I don't expect any traffic issues. But as usual Help Desks may get questions from users etc. Or you may have a few minutes free and want to see whats new in wireless stuff yourselves. http://www.r2.co.nz/20040504 If theres enough interest, we can use VideoNow (a camera and wireless laptop) to do a tour of the exhibition area to show what toys were on display. Need a time that suits. Theres no lunch break (S**T !!! when will we eat ? We're starting at 6:30am!) and the presentations go thru til 1630. May get someone else to drive that bit videonow is at http://www.r2.co.nz/20040414 rich

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Sasser Virus Information
by Nick MacKechnie (thenet) 03 May '04

03 May '04

Hi All, Sasser seems to be alive and well, here is some information that you may find useful. -- Based on the information at the Symantec link: - Blocking destination tcp ports 5554 and 9996 at the routers will stop the payload being transferred across network segments. (5554 appears to be the content transfer channel (FTP), 9996 is the remote shell used to run commands on a host). - Deploying an IPSec policy with filter actions for Block on port 5554 and 9996 can be used to block the transfer of the payload to or from individual hosts. Blocking inbound 445 is also possible, but may cause problems depending on your specific requirements re File and Print sharing on clients. NB This is a technique to limit the spread of the virus, not to mitigate the vulnerability. -- Group Policy deployment of the removal tool has not been tested to my knowledge, but: - When assigned to a computer, the package is executed using a Local System logon, so shouldn't encounter any permissions issues. - The cleanup tool fails if the MS04-011 hotfix is not installed. - Group Policy does not guarantee an order of completion for assigned packages. - If the package runs unsuccessfully, it may not be run again by the software deployment engine; instead, consider using MSI to get the cleanup tool onto the workstations and a computer startup script to execute the tool. - Our typical suggestion is to install MS04-011, reboot, then run the cleanup tool; GP software deployment may not be able to accomplish this in a single step.

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OT: Looking for 2nd hand 1U servers.
by Lin Nah 02 May '04

02 May '04

HI all I'm look for several ( more than 3 ) 1U machines for servers that I'm putting online. My budget is tight and I don't need high performance. Just realiable stuff. So if people have older boxes lying around ( that isn't broken) doing nothing that would be great. Minimum spec would be: 1U (2U might be okay but 1U prefered), 600MHz+ i386, IDE or SCSI disk (or ability to take a normal one) and 100Mb/s Ethernet. I'd prefer Auckland unless you have several to offset the cost of shipping. Anyway email me if you have any available or know where I can get hold of some. regards lin ps If you are interested in curry and beer this Thurs dinner, contact me if you are in Auckland or go to thursdaynightcurry.com for Wgtn.

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The New Zealand Network Operators' Group
by Donald Neal 02 May '04

02 May '04

The New Zealand Network Operators' Group The New Zealand Network Operators' Group (NZNOG) has no king, president or formal membership. At present it consists of the subscribers to this mailing list, which anyone is free to join. Meetings See http://www.nznog.org/ for details of the January 2004 conference. We are now working towards a similar gathering to be held in late January or early February 2005. Also see http://auckland.thursdaynightcurry.com/ if you live in or near Auckland. Operators' Contact List See http://www.usenet.net.nz/noc/ for operational contact details for most New Zealand ISP's. These are intended for use by other network operators rather than by most customers. Internet Exchanges See http://www.ape.net.nz/ for details of the Auckland Peering Exchange and those connected there. See http://www.wix.net.nz/ for the Wellington Internet Exchange. About This Mailing List This list has over six hundred addresses subscribed. You may only post to the list from a subscribed address. A number of people subscribe addresses which do not receive email purely to allow posting from them. The NZNOG mailing list is provided through a server at The University of Waikato, and is administered by employees of Alcatel NZ Ltd, Citylink and ihug Ltd. None of these organisations, nor any administrator, is responsible for its content. NZNOG Mailing List Acceptable Use Policy The NZNOG mailing list exists to provide a forum for the exchange of technical information and the discussion of implementation issues that require cooperation among New Zealand network service providers. In order to continue to provide a useful forum for discussion of relevant technical issues, users of the list are asked to respect the following guidelines. 1. Discussion will focus on Internet operational and technical issues. 2. Discussion related to meetings of network service providers is appropriate. 3. Discussion unrelated to these topics is not appropriate. 4. Postings to multiple mailing lists are discouraged. 5. Postings that include foul language, character assassination, and lack of respect for other participants are unacceptable. 6. Blatant product or service marketing is unacceptable. 7. Postings of a political, philosophical or legal nature are discouraged. 8. Postings to the list should be in ASCII or MIME encoded as text/plain. Attachments should not be sent to the list. To present a document, a suitable URL may be referred to. For documents of general interest, the use of proprietary file formats is discouraged. 9. Breaches of list etiquette should be dealt with privately with the offending list user, and should not result in complaints being sent to the list. 10. A person repeatedly breaching list etiquette shall receive warnings from the list administrator. A further breach after the second such warning within thirty days shall result in the offender being unsubscribed from the list. Other action may also be taken to block postings to the list by the offender. Any such unsubscription is to be immediately announced to the list. Mailing List Archives A full archive is available at http://list.waikato.ac.nz/archives/nznog/ Any message sent to the list will be archived and made available on the web automatically. Changes are not made to the archive on request, though the administrators remain happy to assist the Office of the Privacy Commissioner should any complaint be laid with that office. One way to search the archive is to use google and prefix your search with site:list.waikato.ac.nz . Subscribing to the List See http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog to subscribe. Donald Neal NZNOG Mailing List Owner/Administrator/Muggins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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go on - burn up some bandwidth
by Richard Naylor 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

http://www.r2.co.nz/xyzzy it will be gone shortly

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RE: [nznog] go on - burn up some bandwidth
by Regan Murphy 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

> > http://www.r2.co.nz/xyzzy > > it will be gone shortly > 384Kbps streams nicely over telstraclear 2mpbs dsl with 100KB/sec of downloads running in the background :D -- Regan

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WHOIS at ARIN.NET not responding.....
by Steve Withers 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

Anyone else unable to use the WHOIS at arin.net? I can't get a response when trying to check ownership of IP addresses. 15:24 2004 04 29 Steve

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RE: [nznog] WHOIS at ARIN.NET not responding.....
by Gordon Smith 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

You should really be raising this as a fault with your ISP then. > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Withers [mailto:swithers(a)mmp.org.nz] > Sent: Thursday, 29 April 2004 4:19 p.m. > To: nznog > Subject: RE: [nznog] WHOIS at ARIN.NET not responding..... > > > My IP is: 222.152.48.55 > > I'm on Jetstream (Orcon is the nominal ISP). > > Steve > >

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Also can't reach: thememoryhole.org / 69.50.191.178
by Steve Withers 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

This site has also been unreachable by me at any time of the day or night since i first tried to access it several days ago: 165.229.193.230 www.thememoryhole.org I'm on Jetstream Surf via Orcon steve(a)tbird:~$ traceroute www.thememoryhole.org traceroute to www.thememoryhole.org (69.50.191.178), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 * * * 2 210-55-64-32.adsl.netgate.net.nz (210.55.64.32) 52.484 ms 50.206 ms 51.823 ms 3 192.168.253.1 (192.168.253.1) 59.802 ms 58.922 ms 63.941 ms 4 p-c1.akbr1.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.245.237) 67.791 ms 80.210 ms 75.767 ms 5 ge-0-3-0-6.akbr3.global-gateway.net.nz (202.37.246.18) 57.844 ms 58.677 ms 57.849 ms 6 p1-3.sjbr1.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.116.178) 220.129 ms 216.446 ms 220.135 ms 7 so-1-3-0-0.pabr3.global-gateway.net.nz (202.37.245.230) 215.672 ms 216.760 ms 215.868 ms 8 sl-st20-pa-6-3.sprintlink.net (144.223.243.17) 226.198 ms 222.401 ms 227.933 ms 9 sl-bb20-sj-8-3.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.43) 237.942 ms 240.469 ms 239.977 ms 10 sl-bb21-sj-15-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.158) 219.841 ms 224.752 ms 219.945 ms 11 sl-st20-sj-13-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.58) 235.917 ms 238.727 ms 235.858 ms 12 sl-browing-21-0.sprintlink.net (144.223.242.10) 235.995 ms 234.561 ms 236.013 ms 13 g2-2-0.a1.hywr.broadwing.net (216.140.3.41) 221.734 ms 220.906 ms 219.880 ms 14 * * * 15 * * * 16 * * * 17 * * * ...etc....

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RE: [nznog] WHOIS at ARIN.NET not responding.....
by Gordon Smith 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

Working fine from here (via Sprint) I'm assuming you're trying from port-222-152-48-55.fastadsl.net.nz (www.mmp.org.nz) I'd suggest checking your connectivity from one of the route-servers A trace to that box dies: 10 g8-0-0-6.akbr1.global-gateway.net.nz (202.37.246.17) 84.608 ms 77.022 ms 89.586 ms 11 fid-int.akbr1.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.245.238) 90.192 ms 91.546 ms 90.002 ms 12 * * > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Withers [mailto:swithers(a)mmp.org.nz] > Sent: Thursday, 29 April 2004 3:25 p.m. > To: nznog > Subject: [nznog] WHOIS at ARIN.NET not responding..... > > > Anyone else unable to use the WHOIS at arin.net? > > I can't get a response when trying to check ownership of IP > addresses. > > 15:24 2004 04 29 > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > NZNOG mailing list > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog >

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IANA IPv4 allocations and bogon update: 58/8, 59/8
by Rob Thomas 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi, team. **NOTE WELL: Thanks to a donation from the RIPE NCC we have a new bogon prefix data offering. See below for the details. The numerous Team Cymru bogon projects have been updated as of 01 APR 2004 to reflect the following IANA allocation made on 01 APR 2004: 58/8 Apr 04 APNIC 59/8 Apr 04 APNIC IANA allocations change over time, so please check regularly to ensure you have the latest filters if you are not using the bogon BGP feed(s). We do announce updates to the bogon projects to sundry lists, such as the bogon-announce list. We can not stress this point strongly enough - these allocations change. If you do not adjust your filters, you will be unable to access perhaps large portions of the Internet. Worse yet, you may end up blocking access for people who transit through you. Please do not blindly apply any filters or blocks to your network without carefully considering the ramifications of doing so. As a point of reference, the Team Cymru master Bogon Reference Page can be found here: <http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/> A quick summary of the documents and projects that have been updated include the following: HTTP The Bogon List - <http://www.cymru.com/Documents/bogon-list.html> The Text Bogon Lists - <http://www.cymru.com/Documents/bogon-bn-nonagg.txt> - <http://www.cymru.com/Documents/bogon-bn-agg.txt> Secure BIND Template - <http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secure-bind-template.html> Secure IOS Template (Cisco) - <http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secure-ios-template.html> Secure BGP Template (Cisco) - <http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secure-bgp-template.html> Secure JUNOS Template (Juniper) - <http://www.qorbit.net/documents/junos-template.pdf> Secure JUNOS BGP Template (Juniper) - <http://www.qorbit.net/documents/junos-bgp-template.pdf> Ingress Prefix Filter Templates, Loose and Strict (Cisco) - <ftp://ftp-eng.cisco.com/cons/isp/security/Ingress-Prefix-Filter-Templates/> Ingress Prefix Filter Template, Loose (Juniper) - <http://www.qorbit.net/documents/junos-isp-prefix-filter-loose.pdf> Ingress Prefix Filter Template, Strict (Juniper) - <http://www.qorbit.net/documents/junos-isp-prefix-filter-strict.pdf> BGP Bogon route-server for AUTOMATED updates of bogon filters - All bogon route-server peers have already received the appropriate BGP prefix updates. - <http://www.cymru.com/BGP/bogon-rs.html> RADb fltr-unallocated fltr-martian fltr-bogons - <http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/index.html#radb> RIPE NCC fltr-unallocated fltr-martian fltr-bogons - <http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/index.html#ripe> DNS Bogon (bogons.cymru.com) zone - <http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/index.html#dns> Monitoring Bogon prefix monitoring - <http://www.cymru.com/BGP/robbgp-bogon.html> Please feel free to contact Team Cymru <team-cymru(a)cymru.com> with any comments, questions, or concerns. Thanks! Rob, for Team Cymru. - -- Rob Thomas http://www.cymru.com ASSERT(coffee != empty); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.2 iQCVAwUBQJApa1kX3QAo5sgJAQHypAP+NF/noJVKOCT8jfTviUyOvEUmr/UwcCwC XsomXcCp9/QAfaMElUaa34Jm4OY3eVUqIvwm/cF1Pg7EhfzjzgHzpru9EWMtMuju eHxGXZpETdVbh+YB3oZIqIP/jydO0UpwiEUHuq9behvTgM3FGjs/yMot/sIs1/dp /22VF+/QhOc= =Bmje -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: [nznog] Domainz issue
by Tim John - Domainz 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

> The ultimate gift from domainz and somebody complains about it. You just can't please some people :) Grant, please email me off list to discuss further. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Peter Mott [mailto:peter.mott(a)2day.com] Sent: Thursday, 29 April 2004 9:12 a.m. To: Grant Zanetti Cc: NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Domainz issue Grant Zanetti wrote: > Currently anyone using the staff proxy here at Iconz is being refused > access to the domainz website. Any and all attempts to contact > someone so find out why this is have been ignored. Strike me dead! The ultimate gift from domainz and somebody complains about it. > Can someone from Domainz drop me an email to explain why we are being > blocked? And you want to fix this? /me recommends a stiff drink -- Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2DAY INTERNET LIMITED http://www.2day.com "Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something!" Thomas A Edison _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog

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Domainz issue
by Grant Zanetti 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

Currently anyone using the staff proxy here at Iconz is being refused access to the domainz website. Any and all attempts to contact someone so find out why this is have been ignored. Can someone from Domainz drop me an email to explain why we are being blocked? Thanks. -- http://the.mani.ac.nz

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Telstra Clear routing 210.54.142.0/24 incorrectly
by Peter Simmons 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

Hi, Perhaps there is someone from Telstra Clear on this list that can help. We (Strongnet) own the 210.54.142.0/24 range it is hosted at United Networks datacentre in Northcoat, Auckland. For some reason or other the routers that Telstra Clear 'Tempest' customers go through is routing traffic to that ip range as over its international connection. This means that those customers have to pay international rates for traffic that goes to our network. Obviously they should only have to pay national traffic rates as it is national. Traffic going from our network to the Telstra Clear 'Tempest' customers is routed nationally. Only traffic coming from the Telstra Clear 'Tempest' customers to our network is being routed internationally. It seems that only Telstra Clear customers are having this problem. So if anyone knows how to fix it or is in a position to fix it please do. Regards, Pete

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"Domain Names Australia" banned from trading
by Matthew Poole 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

Not strictly related, but I know that a lot of people on here have had grief as a result of the little toad's actions. So, take a read of http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3563220, and gloat at the well-earned smack-down.

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TestraClear WLL
by Philip D'Ath 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

Could someone from TelstraClear who deals with the wireless local loop box's in a technical capacity please contact me off list. http://www.ifm.net.nz/ CCNP, BCMS Philip D'Ath.

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Re: NZNOG Digest, Vol 16, Issue 17
by Paul Gold 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

We started having problems more than a week ago, with queues of 10K and more building up over the day through to Xtra. At night, this was 2-3 times as bad. We managed to (finally) get through to CTSHelp, who advised us that Xtra had made a policy decision to only accept 2 connections per source IP/domain. This was effectively throttling our mail down to around 2-3 messages per second. Obviously an attempt to limit the impact of the recent Sober work and variants on xtra's part... Paul Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:33:12 +1200 From: jamesc(a)wave.co.nz (James Clark) Subject: Re: [nznog] Xtra To: Neil Gardner <NeilG(a)renaissance.co.nz> Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Message-ID: <20040423043312.GA27729(a)phoenix.wave.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:10:01PM +1200, Neil Gardner wrote: > Chuckle - I _KNOW_ it's just a coincidence, but less than 15 minutes after > lampooning Xtra's generally useless status page about never being updated, > they have managed to list the intermittent (!) email problem, only 26 hours > after it was first notied on this list! 26? Try more than 48 hrs, and apparently it was worse on Tuesday!

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RE: [nznog] Xtra's "No known problems line"
by Robert Purdy (DSL AK) 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Someone must have called Theresa - Current Status There is currently 1 known problem with the Xtra Network Unscheduled Event Products Affected: All Connections Areas Affected: Nationwide System(s) Affected: Receiving Email Sending Email System(s) Response: Intermittent Current Status: Investigating Resolution Expected: Unknown 1000+ messages queued here.... Rob -----Original Message----- From: Blair Harrison [mailto:nznog(a)jedi.school.nz] Sent: Friday, 23 April 2004 4:45 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Xtra's "No known problems line" On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:52:52 +1200 Neil Gardner <NeilG(a)renaissance.co.nz> wrote: > I'm not advocating anything illegal but... > > If anyone on here has the artistic skills, the access and the guts, > replacing that "No known problems" with a picture of an Ostrich with > it's head in the ground, and a speech bubble with "There are currently > no....".... Well, I'm not sure I could imagine anything funnier :-) > > N. > http://jedi.net.nz/~blair/xtra1.png Have a good friday laugh everyone, and stop worrying about your mail queues.. they'll sort themselves out eventually, they always do :) Cheers, Blair _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog

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Xtra's "No known problems line"
by Neil Gardner 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

I'm not advocating anything illegal but... If anyone on here has the artistic skills, the access and the guts, replacing that "No known problems" with a picture of an Ostrich with it's head in the ground, and a speech bubble with "There are currently no....".... Well, I'm not sure I could imagine anything funnier :-) N. -- Cheers - Neil Gardner Networking and Security Support Engineer Renaissance Brands (09) 968-3681 / (021) 746-345

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RE: [nznog] Xtra
by Neil Gardner 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Chuckle - I _KNOW_ it's just a coincidence, but less than 15 minutes after lampooning Xtra's generally useless status page about never being updated, they have managed to list the intermittent (!) email problem, only 26 hours after it was first notied on this list! -- Cheers - Neil Gardner Networking and Security Support Engineer Renaissance Brands (09) 968-3681 / (021) 746-345

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Xtra
by jamesc＠wave.co.nz 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Anyone else having a hard time getting email into Xtra? Cheers, James.

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RE: [nznog] Xtra
by Neil Gardner 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

>From: Simon Byrnand [mailto:simon(a)igrin.co.nz] >Besides, on the Help page: "There are currently no known problems with the Xtra Network." :) Yes, but as I _think_ Simon Lyall once said to my intense amusement, "I have a theory that Theresa Gattung has to personally approve anything that gets posted there" Cheers - N. (apologies for wrong attribution or quote :-) -- Cheers - Neil Gardner Networking and Security Support Engineer Renaissance Brands (09) 968-3681 / (021) 746-345

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Update to Ihug Time Servers.
by Simon Lyall 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

[ This email is being sent to NZNOG and Bcc'd to about 100 people who have notified me that they are using Ihug's Time Servers. Apologies for any duplicates or errors. ] Ihug has made a small change to it's NTP servers which may affect people using them, Specifically: tk4.ihug.co.nz is going to be eliminated on 1st May 2004 tk3.ihug.co.nz had it's IP permanently moved yesterday (to 203.109.252.5) tk1.ihug.co.nz and tk2.ihug.co.nz are unchanged. If you are using tk4 then you will need to update your configuration, if you are using tk3 then you will need to ensure your NTP daemon is using it's new IP. Please use DNS of these machines in the config rather than IPs where possible. Please email me if you have any further questions. Also, If you are running a NTP server on a permanently connected machine you might want to look at joining the pool.ntp.org project , See http://www.pool.ntp.org/ for details. Currently New Zealand has around 5 servers in the project. -- Simon Lyall, | System Admin | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Engineer, | Network Admin | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz Ihug Ltd, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz

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New Cisco Vulnerability - SNMP
by Gordon Smith 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

This came out today. Affected IOS's are 12.x series, including 12.3.6 http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20040420-snmp.shtml Page also lists which releases have been fixed - 12.3.x due mid May Cheers, Gordon

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SANOG IV, Kathmandu, Nepal, 23-30 July 2004
by Joe Abley 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

[forwarded on behalf of the organisers] --- SANOG IV 23-30 July, 2004 Kathmandu, Nepal SANOG IV Program and Registration Announcement South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG) IV program and agenda are now published on http://www.sanog.org/sanog4/. The registration has also now been opened. SANOG IV is being held at the Radisson Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal from 23-30 July, 2004. You can refer to www.sanog.org for details. Program and Agenda: SANOG IV program incorporates the following Three hands-on workshops: 23-27 July, 2004 - Open Source IP Services for ISP, by NSRC - ISP Routing Workshop, by Cisco - DNS / DNSSec Workshop, by APNIC Eight Tutorials 28-29 July, 2004 - Anti-SPAM tutorial - Juniper Routing Workshop - VOIP technology and SIP Deployment - Internet Routing Registry Tutorial - Internet Exchange Point - Exim Mail Server - PGP mini Tutorial - APNIC Internet Resource Management Four Birds-of-a-Feather : 28-20 July, 2004 - Internet Exchange Point - ISP/NSP Security - West Asia BoF - PGP Key-Signing Party Full Day Conference Program : 30 July, 2004 - Regional Updates - Routing Practices - Application Deployment - Security Additional Programs: (28-30 July, 2004) - APCAUCE tutorials and meeting - APNIC Regional policy update - APNIC and RIPE NCC hostmaster Consultation - Regional Telecom/Internet Policy Session We expect a huge turn out from the region at this SANOG meeting owing to the popularity at previous meets. We also welcome participants from West Asia, with the newly established collaboration with the RIPE NCC. With the co-hosting of APCAUCE meeting, we also expect a larger participation from the entire Asia Pacific region. We hope you would be able to make it to this meeting. The meeting is open to everyone from the operational community, and thus anyone who needed a reason to visit Kathmandu now has one. You can register for SANOG by sending in the form available at www.sanog.org/sanog4. Online registration will open in May.

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on the scrounge for a Cisco 3548 for APE.
by Simon Blake 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

Hi folks The active hardware at APE currently comprises a Cisco 3548 and 3508 pair. For the usual reasons, (and as part of some upcoming outages - more on this later), I'd like to replicate this. I have a spare 3508, but I'd really like a matching 3548 to go with it. So, the question, does anybody know of anybody in NZ who might have one they'd like to sell? They're no longer available from Cisco, so I thought I'd try the circle of friends first, before molesting the usual suspects (who'll doubtless try and sell me something newer and shinier). Cheers Si

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CheckPoint Software
by Tim John - Domainz 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Hi all, Can anyone recommend a reseller of Checkpoint software as I need a quote for upgrading. Also, does anyone have any experience between Checkpoint and PIX platforms ? I have very little experience of either so some 'pro' and 'con' arguments would be really helpful to me. Cheers, Tim

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