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Comment Re:Common? (Score 1) 348

For years I worked for a global company - almost all servers run by a certain BU are on public addresses with little or no ACL / firewall protection. I periodically tried to get at least ACL's set up, but the team responsible for adding those to the router configs couldn't be bothered, no matter how clear I was about our exposure. I had to disable network IPMI on servers to remove that intrusion vector. After a number of years of trying I'd started to get some traction on setting up a private management network for the netmgmt and other embedded interfaces, but again disinterest from those in the deployment path stalled implementation. I'm astounded that we never got pwned in a serious way.

Comment Re:Could be a different route involved for the VPN (Score 1) 398

Verizon is choosing not to upgrade it's peering points with Level-3 because they are no longer evenly sharing traffic up/down as all free peering arrangements have ALWAYS required, yet Level-3 doesn't want to pay for the imbalance, and Netflix doesn't want to shift some of their Verizon traffic to a different transit provider than Level-3.

That's been clear to me for some time, but so few seem to get it.

Considering the huge imbalance in download and upload speeds, how exactly is anybody supposed to peer with Verizon?

Not everyone offers such imbalance traffic.

Verizon knowingly set up a situation in which it is impossible for any peer to be on traffic parity with Verizon. Furthermore, traffic parity is almost impossible from a business perspective. Verizon and the last-mile providers have consumers and creators at one end, everyone else has pretty much only creators. The only way for corps like Level 3 to achieve traffic parity is to offer last-mile services,

No, they could pay Verizon for transit, as is the customary practice, rather than expecting Verizon to give them service for free, because you know all the other links in Verizon's networks cost $0/month and Juniper/Cisco give them M20's and 9922's for free.

Comment Re:And government has a responsibility too. (Score 1) 390

by cthulhu11 (#47503265) Attached to: Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa
An NSP can only control bandwidth between themselves and their customers. Bandwidth on other people's networks and from other people's servers are not under their control. The problem there is widespread ignorance of how the net works. As for TFA, Verizon doesn't want to do L3's and Netflix's work for free, how is that outrageous? If L3 wants VZN to carry substantially asymmetrical traffic, they need only enter into a transit agreement. A couple of XE cards are beans compared to that.

Comment Re: Really now (Score 1) 145

Back around 1987 I set up MX's et al for the company where I worked to be able to send/receive email from the outside. A certain exec there asked me what use it was other than "coolness". He's now Dean of CS at the local prominent university. And why I hate people who drive Saabs. But re TFA -- please let's stop mistaking clusters of blades for supercomputers.

Comment Re:We can thank corporate America (Score 1) 282

by cthulhu11 (#47403827) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Often Should You Change Jobs?
During my recent job search, the length I'd been with my employer was often a detriment. Through acquisitions I was there for ~18 years, and more often than not the recruiters or tech people made a big annoying fuss about it. It got to the point that I was cringing when they asked about it. The irony is that I was pushed out by a job-hopper.

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