Category: Net.working
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So why are the big ISPs fighting against Title II now?
I’m going to reuse acronyms and “framework” described in my Jul 15th article – ISP, CP, NSP. The claim by many on the side of 17-108 is that Title II (keeping the current 2015 final order in place) represents chafing regulation. From the side of the ISPs like Verizon and Comcast the regulation basically requires […]
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Net Neutrality – What is it about?
There’s been more talk lately about net neutrality. In large part due to the neutrality day thing… Many people are (rightfully) confused. There’s good arguments on both sides. I’m very much for net neutrality and having sensible regulation to make all players play fair. I’ll go into why, what the past looked like, what’s going […]
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Internet of Shit, No It’s Not Sophisticated
Dyn, “media”, everyone, please stop calling what happened on October 21st a “sophisticated attack.” It’s the Internet equivalent of driving a semi truck through a house at 75MPH. That’s how sophisticated it was. Damaging, absolutely, impressive…Yeah probably. Sophisticated? Hardly. It’d be sophisticated to see that same tractor turning donuts. The Hoonigan‘s are sophisticated. These attackers […]
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Your Future Internet – Comcast, Verizon, TimeWarner style
This is what they all want the internet to look like, in one picture. Seriously. Do not believe them when they say things like “data caps will be set to ensure they don’t affect a majority of users” – they might mean it literally, they’ll make sure 49% are affected by the caps so that […]
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Why the US Government can’t, and shouldn’t, try to govern the Internet.
There’s been an alarming amount of “cybersecurity” legislation here in the US lately in the same fear mongering, and ill advised tune that got us the entire DHS and almost universally loathed TSA. The problem, as I see it, is members of congress trying to govern something that they firstly do not understand, and secondly, […]
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ASN.1, or how to make a binary protocol definition the easy way…
Most people aren’t familiar at all with ASN.1, and some that are, have NO clue they’re looking at ASN.1 – SNMP MIBs are all written as ASN.1 definitions. I’m embarking on a new project and need to define a client/server protocol. I could build my own binary protocol, which I’ve done in the past. I […]
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So close to exhaustion!
No, I’m not talking about physical exhaustion….I’m talking about IPv4 address space! IPv4 (32-bit addressing) has been on the ‘endangered species’ list for a long time now. And almost everyone agrees we’ve got until about 2011 or maybe 2012 (depending on where you live) before there will be NO more free IPv4 addresses. IPv6 (128-bit […]
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Pogoplug[ged]
So I recently bought a Pogoplug device, sort of on a whim. I needed a NAS device, and the fact that the Pogoplug had HFS+ (OS/X filesystem) support made it a clear winner for me. I’ve been living with mine for about a week now, mostly with single 320GB HFS+ formatted drive. The $130 device […]
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An attempt to explain IPv6 and IP Routing to the layperson
Me again, yup. Been a while eh? Well, I’ve been busy. Rebuilding a pretty big site essentially from scratch. Trust me, I have plenty of things to rant about! This post though I hope to be another informative, less ranting, post about IPv6. I keep seeing a LOT of well meaning but mis-informed or mis-understood […]