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FW: Wireless LAN equipment
by Steven Perich 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

> Security, both physical and systems, is of utmost importance. The couch > might seem a perfect place to rack mount your equipment however it is by no > means secure. I would recommend mounting the switch and any other equipment > in a lockable cabinet, such as the oven (true geeks don't cook) and running > cable through a duct drilled through the back of it. Additionally, > electronic locking systems can be bolted to the hinged door and survelliance > installed throughout the kitchen. And the warmer drawer makes an ideal > place to store a change notebook, extra patch leads, etc. Oh! I almost forgot. After you've mounted your switch/router/firewall etc in your oven cum 19" rack, you can take advantage of the convenient Window Kit already installed. As well as being able to look in and watch the Pretty Blinking Lights(tm) at your convenience, you could install a neon light stick (such as http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/3738.shtml) and wire it up to the oven's light switch! Other enhancements; lining the inside of the oven with black speaker box carpet and buying a small tubular lava lamp and strategically place it for maximum effect. :-) BTW: What the hell's this? http://www.eurus.dti.ne.jp/~yoshi-w/audio/zoom2/auto9.jpg Reckon it might end up on our shores in about 5 years time? Steve --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: Wireless LAN equipment
by Sharpe, Russell 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

Hi Richard, If you only need 2Meg, rather than 11Meg, there are hundreds of 2M cards on the market cheap, which you could use in an "Ad Hoc" or Personal Area Network of about 20 metres. I have a couple that I could fire off to you if you so desire (I haven't the drivers, but I know that you are resourceful) Russell Sharpe -----Original Message----- From: Richard Stevenson [mailto:richard.stevenson(a)team.xtra.co.nz] Sent: Friday, 31 August 2001 17:02 To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Wireless LAN equipment Hi all In the interests of keeping my soon-to-be-landlord happy, I'm looking at building a wireless LAN rather than making holes in the 13-month-old house I'm about to move into. Can anyone recommend any particular equipment, suppliers, sources of information? It'll only be a small network to start with - five systems, though it'll grow; I have a nasty habit of accumulating junk :P Many thanks Richard -- Richard Stevenson, Systems Specialist, Xtra Limited Phone: +64 9 355 5231 Mobile: +64 25 290 3101 Pager: +64 26 100 155 "Visual $ANYTHING" just screams out "100% suckage or your money back". -- Tanuki the Raccoon-dog, in the Monastery --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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TSNZ international routes stuffed... again?
by Juha Saarinen 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

# ping www.above.net ping: unknown host www.above.net # ping www.mfnx.net ping: unknown host www.mfnx.net ... but, a few seconds later: # ping www.mfnx.net PING hs-d1.s.mfnx.net (64.125.31.9) from 192.168.1.1 : 56(84) bytes of data. --- hs-d1.s.mfnx.net ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss # ping www.above.net PING www.above.net (207.126.96.163) from 192.168.1.1 : 56(84) bytes of data. --- www.above.net ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Happens quite frequently these days. -- Juha Saarinen --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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TSNZ <-> Above.net stuffed...
by Juha Saarinen 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

AFAICT. Anyone else seeing this? -- Juha Saarinen --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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[msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com: Re: BGP Instability]
by Joe Abley 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

----- Forwarded message from "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa(a)samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com> ----- Delivered-To: jabley-nanog(a)automagic.org Delivered-To: nanog-outgoing(a)trapdoor.merit.edu Delivered-To: nanog(a)trapdoor.merit.edu Delivered-To: nanog(a)merit.edu Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:25:34 -0700 From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa(a)samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com> To: Mark Borchers <mborchers(a)splitrock.net> Cc: "'nanog(a)merit.edu'" <nanog(a)merit.edu> Subject: Re: BGP Instability User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <CA47B6D616C0D211B92E0008C7C5657C115C1757(a)hscmpxsrvcl01>; from mborchers(a)splitrock.net on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 04:47:50PM -0500 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing(a)merit.edu X-Loop: nanog On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 04:47:50PM -0500, Mark Borchers wrote: > Currently seeing unusually high numbers of routes being > dampened (~11K). The common denominator seems to be AS 4637 > in the as-path of most of the dampened prefixes. Is any > further information known? Yes. Telstra/4637 is leaking what appears to be a full table to many peers and at least two of their transit providers (that I've talked to). I called an engineer at Telstra and they expect to have this resolved soon. --msa ----- End forwarded message ----- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Speed of the list
by Dean Pemberton 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Is it just me or is the list taking REALLY long to deliver things lately? Here is the message that I sent [lines removed] Aug 28 18:25:00 wilbur qmail: 998979900.410497 new msg 113746 Aug 28 18:25:00 wilbur qmail: 998979900.416632 starting delivery 57885: msg 113746 to remote nj.lee(a)plumtree.co.nz Aug 28 18:25:00 wilbur qmail: 998979900.416792 starting delivery 57886: msg 113746 to remote juha(a)saarinen.org Aug 28 18:25:00 wilbur qmail: 998979900.416836 starting delivery 57887: msg 113746 to remote nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Aug 28 18:25:00 wilbur qmail: 998979900.832619 delivery 57887: success: 130.217.76.30_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_2.0.0_ f7S6P0Y23521_Message_accepted_for_delivery/ Aug 28 18:25:01 wilbur qmail: 998979901.629689 delivery 57885: success: 203.79.82.83_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_9989 79901_qp_8921/ Aug 28 18:25:01 wilbur qmail: 998979901.759181 delivery 57886: success: 203.79.82.14_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_OK_id=1 5bcJ3-0001YW-00/ Aug 28 18:25:01 wilbur qmail: 998979901.759326 end msg 113746 And here is when the list sent it out Aug 28 18:55:18 wilbur qmail: 998981718.390982 new msg 113746 Aug 28 18:55:18 wilbur qmail: 998981718.391126 info msg 113746: bytes 8254 from <owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> qp 26679 uid 64011 Aug 28 18:55:18 wilbur qmail: 998981718.392633 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Aug 28 18:55:18 wilbur qmail: 998981718.402411 new msg 115443 Aug 28 18:55:18 wilbur qmail: 998981718.402568 info msg 115443: bytes 8368 from <owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> qp 26682 uid 1004 Aug 28 18:55:18 wilbur qmail: 998981718.404193 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 Aug 28 18:55:18 wilbur qmail: 998981718.404215 delivery 57919: success: did_0+1+0/qp_26682/ Aug 28 18:55:18 wilbur qmail: 998981718.404236 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Aug 28 18:55:18 wilbur qmail: 998981718.404256 end msg 113746 Aug 28 18:55:18 wilbur qmail: 998981718.411992 delivery 57920: success: did_1+0+0/ Aug 28 18:55:18 wilbur qmail: 998981718.412124 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Aug 28 18:55:18 wilbur qmail: 998981718.412146 end msg 115443 That took a long time. Dean --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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www.jetstream.co.nz branding Xtra after Telecom Web Site Change
by Craig Whitmore 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Hi everyone... I've noticed after Telecom have revamped their new web site they are now pushing alot for Xtra on the Jetstream Web Site (http://www.jetstream.co.nz). Before the change.. it used to be "ISP Neutral", but now.. its Xtra, Xtra, Xtra :-( I don't know what other people (ISP's including) think.. but I think it should be back to how it was, not pushing any particular ISP, but explaining the service and then giving a list of ISP's to go to get Jetstream from. The First sentence "Get fast Internet access with JetStream. Join Xtra - New Zealand's leading Internet Service Provider." makes it look like Xtra is the only ISP who can offer the service. then "Get online with Xtra"... etc etc Even the links to order it.. make it look like Xtra only as it asks if you want as part of SkyFi as you can only get SkyFi by using Xtra as your ISP I talk for myself with these comments, not anyone I work with/for Thanks Craig Whitmore http://www.nzdsl.co.nz New Zealand DSL Information --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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fastnet... dns problems
by Chris Wedgwood 28 Aug '01

28 Aug '01

Sadly, I am still inflicted with Fastnet (ASB Bank's banking service) which by-and-large works most of the time except when I need it. Anyhow... I tried this a few minutes ago (www.asbank.co.nz) and couldn't get very very far, www.fastnet.co.nz works and closer examination shows the name-servers for asbbank.co.nz don't reply with anything useful for it... [1] So here is something fun... the name-servers are dead (or very lame at best), it's early in the morning (I tried this initially earlier this morning) and phones don't work... with no DNS, I can't email. Anyone know of a magic number to call? --cw [1] Insert standard rant, al la RFC2182 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Hotmail ?
by Simon Byrnand 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

Anybody else having problems reaching hotmail ? I've been getting a TTL exceeded from p1-1.akbr2.global-gateway.net.nz (or similar) for the last 20 minutes or so, and yet all the other international sites I can think of seem fine.... Regards, Simon --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Hmmm... a new one
by Juha Saarinen 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

I can only get to Xtra (from my Paradise ADSL connection) and then only barely: pts/0 juha(a)vimfuego:~$ ping www.xtra.co.nz PING xtra.co.nz (202.27.184.102) from 192.168.1.1 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 202.27.184.102: icmp_seq=0 ttl=246 time=30.164 msec 64 bytes from 202.27.184.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=246 time=29.964 msec 64 bytes from 202.27.184.102: icmp_seq=2 ttl=246 time=29.970 msec 64 bytes from 202.27.184.102: icmp_seq=3 ttl=246 time=29.963 msec 64 bytes from 202.27.184.102: icmp_seq=4 ttl=246 time=29.968 msec 64 bytes from 202.27.184.102: icmp_seq=5 ttl=246 time=29.965 msec 64 bytes from 202.27.184.102: icmp_seq=6 ttl=246 time=29.936 msec --- xtra.co.nz ping statistics --- 76 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 89% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 29.936/29.984/30.164/0.222 ms Can't see much of Paradise's network though: traceroute to 203.96.152.4 (203.96.152.4), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 router (192.168.1.254) 1.796 ms 1.217 ms 1.371 ms 2 203-79-82-254.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz (203.79.82.254) 22.081 ms 13.806 ms 16.697 ms 3 192.168.253.225 (192.168.253.225) 16.174 ms 16.354 ms 20.505 ms 4 kelly.ipnet2.paradise.net.nz (203.96.155.158) 22.172 ms 23.855 ms 19.808 ms 5 * * * 6 * * * 7 * * * pts/0 juha(a)vimfuego:~$ /usr/sbin/traceroute www.xtra.co.nz traceroute to xtra.co.nz (202.27.184.102), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 router (192.168.1.254) 1.692 ms 1.201 ms 1.299 ms 2 203-79-82-254.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz (203.79.82.254) 16.065 ms 14.954 ms 16.323 ms 3 192.168.253.225 (192.168.253.225) 16.985 ms 18.801 ms 20.093 ms 4 kelly.ipnet2.paradise.net.nz (203.96.155.158) 22.139 ms 18.807 ms 20.254 ms 5 203.96.152.3 (203.96.152.3) 20.158 ms 21.324 ms 20.173 ms 6 202.37.246.73 (202.37.246.73) 30.569 ms 31.820 ms 30.200 ms 7 202.50.245.105 (202.50.245.105) 31.149 ms 32.478 ms 30.773 ms 8 202.37.246.82 (202.37.246.82) 30.229 ms 33.314 ms 30.280 ms 9 202.37.245.46 (202.37.245.46) 31.539 ms 34.646 ms 30.416 ms 10 * * * 11 * * * Someone pulled the plugs out of Kelly? -- Juha Saarinen --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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