Comment Re:MikroTik (Score 1) 241
Alright, yeah I suppose mikrotik routers could be pretty common at WISPs, that is true.
Comment Re:MikroTik (Score 1) 241
I... what? Never ever worked with an ISP using MikroTik routers. Or are you talking about small like collage student ISPs or something?
Comment Re:Neat idea. (Score 1) 76
I don't really see the need, any switch capable of Dot1q will solve the problem for you anyhow...
Comment Re:yep, i do this all the time (Score 1) 90
You can easily see what networks the phone has saved as it probes for them even if it is connected to a network already.
There are application which just listens to what networks phones and other devices probes for and then automatically broadcast a SSID that matches to make them connect. By this method you could get just any phone in the area to connect to you at the same time.
Comment Re:It's the providers fault... (Score 1) 246
actually, Comcast is offering a very good 6RD service to its customers.
6RD is my favorite IPv6 tunneling technology as it is more or less as good as native. It gives you your own globaly routed /64 v6 prefixes from you ISPs v6-pool and if configured correctly it is as effective as native v6 would be.
I work at a major ISP in Sweden and we are currently looking in to deploying 6RD to be able to deliver IPv6 to all of our customers within the near future.
More about Comcasts 6RD here: http://www.comcast6.net/index.php/6rd-config
Submission + - Apple devices leaving the store insecurely configured (troyhunt.com) 1
troyhunt writes: It seems that Apple, as part of their demo and support processes, are connecting new Macs and iOS devices to an in-store Wi-Fi network without any encryption. Whilst not necessarily transferring any sensitive data at the time, the devices have been found to then willingly connect to rogue access points such as a Wi-Fi Pineapple as soon as they leave the store. Is Apple’s in-store process putting customers at risk?
Submission + - Man arrested for Spamhaus DDoS attack (washingtonpost.com)
ZerXes writes: Washington Post reports that a Dutch citizen was arrested in northeast Spain on suspicion of launching what is described as the biggest cyberattack in Internet history operated from a bunker and had a van capable of hacking into networks anywhere in the country.
Submission + - Facebook hits One Billion users (fb.com) 1
ZerXes writes: Facebook has officially reached one billion active users, Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced in a official blog post.
'This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month.
If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you.
Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.
I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too.'
'This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month.
If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you.
Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.
I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too.'
Comment Religious Freedom (Score 3, Informative) 358
This might be interesting, due to some Swedish laws on religious freedom the Swedish police might have problems trying to seize the servers and computers of this followers as they are only practising their religion.
Comment Re:Connectivity (Score 1) 199
Not a problem at all, very few use their bandwith at the full rate.
All the participants had 100Mbit accessports, except a few at a Telia VIP table.
Still the max bandwith peaked at about 24Gbit/s when highest.
Comment Internet back up (Score 1) 3
Most of the problems seems to be fixed by now.
Official Level3 statement is expected within a few hours
http://status.vr.org/2011-11-07-level3-global-failure/
Submission + - Global BGP issues due to Juniper bug (phyber.com) 3
FST777 writes: "Many folks around the globe report Level 3 was down, however, the cause might be even more global. Apparently, a firmware bug in JunOS 10.3 (and possibly also 10.2) caused many, many Juniper routers to reboot upon an incoming BGP update (which might have been crafted to do just that).
Needless to say, all Juniper routers disappearing from the global BGP tables has quite an impact."
Needless to say, all Juniper routers disappearing from the global BGP tables has quite an impact."
Comment Re:..and the UK? (Score 1) 2288
They have switched but some are still using the old system of course.
-"The metric system is in official use within the United Kingdom; however, use of Imperial unit is widespread in many cases."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_system#Current_use_of_imperial_units
Submission + - Asia runs out of IPv4 (zdnet.com)
ZerXes writes: It seems that APNIC has just released the last block of IPv4 addresses and are now completely out, a lot faster then expected. Even tough APNIC recived 3 /8 blocks in February the high growth of mobile devices made the addresses to run out even before the summer.
“From this day onwards, IPv6 is mandatory for building new Internet networks and services.” says APNIC Director General Paul Wilson.
“From this day onwards, IPv6 is mandatory for building new Internet networks and services.” says APNIC Director General Paul Wilson.
Submission + - Asia out of IPv4 addresses (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has run out of all but a handful of IPv4 addresses that it is holding in reserve for start-up network operators and plans to make an announcement about it later today. APNIC is the first of the Internet's five regional Internet registries to deplete its free pool of IPv4 address space. "For anybody who hasn't figured out that it's time to do IPv6, this is another wake-up call for them," says Owen DeLong, an IPv6 evangelist at Hurricane Electric and a member of the board of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the North American counterpart to APNIC.
