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Open Source Asset Management Solutions
by Micah McNelly 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Nanog, I need an open source asset management system to track serial, location, hardware type etc. Something with a mysql backside would most likely be the best choice. Can you hit me up off list if you have any recommendations? Thanks! /micah

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Problems with .de abuse
by up＠3.am 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

over the past couple of days, at least two of our servers have been inundated with rather amateurish attempts to login as various priviledged users. We're talking at least hundreds of attempts, mostly from 62.104.92 and 62.104.82. I whois shows the /16 (which I finally null routed the whole thing) belongs to: role: Network Management address: freenet Cityline GmbH address: Network Managment Center address: Juri Gagarin Ring 88 address: 99084 Erfurt address: Germany phone: +49 361 594 2961 remarks: **************************************************** remarks: * please report spam/abuse mailto:abuse@pppool.de * remarks: * reports to other addresses will not be processed * remarks: **************************************************** I sent the abuse email 2 days ago and got no response. After 2 more days of this, I finally just tried to call that number, and it's bogus (or at least not working). Does anyone have a clue who this is and/or how to actually get ahold of someone there (preferably one who speaks or reads/writes English)? TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up(a)3.am http://3.am =========================================================================

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Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish
by Joe St Sauver 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Hi, #Powerpoint has its place, but it's not really a #format for the distribution of research information. The information #density just isn't there. That, and without the audio of the #presentation to go along with the slides, most of the actual content #is lost. That doesn't *have* to be the case. You *can* create presentations that are designed to be "stand alone" documents with persistent content value. Unfortunately, doing so generally requires creation of a quite detailed talk, which can be time consuming for the presenter (it is just like preparing a formal academic lesson plan or lecture), and which somewhat destroys the "illusion of spontaneity" that the best of non-technical speakers will strive to convey. Two examples of detailed powerpoint talks designed to have stand-alone usability are talks I've done for NLANR/Internet2 Joint Techs on open proxies (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/jt-proxies/open-proxy-joint-techs.ppt or pdf) and jumbo frames (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/jumbos/jumbo-frames.ppt or pdf). I believe it is worth doing this simply because you know that with limited travel budgets and parallel session tracks, your in-person audience will often be just a fraction of the total number of folks who might be trying to follow along online, or who might subsequently look at presentation materials via the web. Detailed presentation materials are also a tremendous help if you have audience members whose native language isn't english. Similarly, I'm a big believer in *printed* copies of presentations, either as collated proceedings or as individual papers, if only so you can easily mark up the parts you may want to investigate further, or to serve as a reminder when you eventually go to clean off your desk. Just my two cents... Regards, Joe St Sauver (joe(a)oregon.uoregon.edu) University of Oregon Computing Center

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Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish
by Matthew F. Ringel 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:01:56PM -0500, Daniel Golding wrote: > > Slightly off-topic... > > Most technical fields have standard journals that they use to publish > interesting findings and new ways of doing things. Everything from Nature to > the JAMA. Here's the question for the group: Do these sorts of publications > exist in the networking/carrier/internetworking space, and if not, should > they? > > Some possible examples (if anyone reads them): > SIGCOMM (http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/) > BCR (http://www.bcr.com/bcrmag/) > Cisco's IPJ (http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/759/) USENIX's ";login" (http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/) is another good example. > > I'm leaving off "news" publications like Light Reading and Network World. > Any thoughts? Have NANOG powerpoint presentations made these sorts of > journals obsolete? :) > I certainly hope not. Powerpoint has its place, but it's not really a format for the distribution of research information. The information density just isn't there. That, and without the audio of the presentation to go along with the slides, most of the actual content is lost. I believe that NANOG should have an actual journal of some kind, likely with issues on a thrice-yearly basis. I'd wager that most NANOG presentations have a paper's worth of information backing them. Writing out the information in publication form not only makes it a useful reference for later perusal, but gives something you can point to as part of a concrete body of work that you've created, the benefits of which I leave as an exercise for the reader. ....Matthew ------ Matthew F. Ringel Sr. Network Engineer Tufts University

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RADIUS/AAA packet generator
by Dean Bogdanovic 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Hi anyone knows of a free/opensource radius/aaa packet generator? Replies of list would be greatly appreciated. TIA Dean

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are we streaming email or did we die
by Henry Linneweh 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Now I am curious -Henry

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verizon contact
by Ron da Silva 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Anyone from Verizon on this list care to reply directly? thanks, -ron

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is anyone else having trouble posting to nanog?
by Janet Sullivan 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Is anyone else having trouble posting to nanog? My posts since Saturday haven't made it to the list, although the mail made it to merit.edu OK. Hopefully this email will make it through. :-)

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verizon.net postmaster
by PJ Gallagher 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

sorry to do this but: Phone calls to their noc and emails a person (who said to email them with the server addresses) on Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:04:43 -0800 (PST) and Mon, 8 Mar 2004 09:35:10 -0800 (PST) have gone unanswered and we're still being blocked.... Please contact me off-list..... Thanks, -PJ

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contact at sbcglobal?
by bill＠daze.net 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Looking for someone at sbcglobal that can help. DNSBL:To request removal ,send and E-mail to removeme(a)sbc.sbcglobal.net Getting no response from mail sent to removeme(a)sbc.sbcglobal.net and the people on the phone have no idea what we are talking about. They just refer us to the removeme(a)sbc.sbcglobal.net e-mail address. Regards, Bill Gerrard -- <=> ASK and you shall receive <=>

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