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by trout 8y ago
That feature requires you to use a private IP address, so if you have a VPN or Direct Connect to another location you could load balance across locations. In the case of the global load balancers those will be public addresses though. &quot
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by trout 8y ago
Mistake seems like a harsh word here. There are lots of partners that aren't in the competency tier that do perfectly fine work. But we try to highlight the ones we can somehow quantify as 'top tier', which is competency. It&
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by trout 8y ago
AWS keeps a list of vetted partners (business requirements, public references, case studies, good AWS relationship, etc) on the competency page. You can see the different sorts of competencies here, in case your solution has a specific vert
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by trout 11y ago
This link is basically what Socketplane was working on when they got acquired: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/8951 Basically integrating OVS APIs into Docker so it could use more mature networking co
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by trout 11y ago
I've been on break/fix and on the Sales Engineer side and know both - there's never a single side to these things. Sales Engineers in particular don't want to sell something dishonestly - it opens the company up to risk
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by trout 12y ago
Skype pulls in a lot of revenue in the OCS/Lync product set. Companies want still largely want to be able to IM MSN, Yahoo, Skype, and AOL users and they're the only ones that have access to all those user groups. They also levera
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by trout 13y ago
Not a flame - your perspective is very typical for people that don't have a lot of experience with networking past the host or server level. (Very little experience with networking in the core, provider, or putting together network ser
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by trout 13y ago
Here's a report you can see the current projects with a bit of history: http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html The potaroo site by Geoff Huston has been running for over a decade tracking address consum
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by trout 13y ago
If HN was on AWS, where would we go to discuss AWS outages?
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by trout 13y ago
It looks like the explain xkcd community finally cracked the codes: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1286:_Encryp... Check out the discussion - it took a while to find a solution to the last 3.
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by trout 13y ago
Interesting, I'm at 1084 days so I missed a chance at a round-number-blog-post. I would echo many of the same things. I graduated with a computer science degree (and computer systems engineering) but up until about a year ago I had not
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by trout 13y ago
For reference, this is an output of the Stanford startup engineering course (which I also signed up for after it hit the HN front page) In the homework, this is what they mention the goal of the 'bitstarter' page to be: "Choo
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by trout 13y ago
It applies if you want to switch schools. We used to call it "failing in".
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by trout 13y ago
I'm just hoping I'll be able to drink in a driverless car before I can use electronics in an airplane. If the same safety-at-all-costs model applies to driving these cars, they won't be nearly as fun as we dream.
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by trout 13y ago
How many of these P2P overlay networks could run without a centralized head/mapping server? BitTorrent has drastically reduced the size of theirs, but it still needs a mapping of other hosts somewhere. Same thing for Skype. I don'
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by trout 13y ago
When I played Everquest I did a very similar thing, except without the ship component. We found an obscure item that was not in any of the well-known databases, which is fairly difficult considering how far reaching they were. Then we adver
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by trout 14y ago
This is true - RADIUS and TACACS are the most secure way to access routers. I've found that nearly all routers in nearly all environments still have a local authentication. If you were to remove all network connections (or just the right on
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by trout 14y ago
The worst part about this is that there is no default password. It's marginally worse than doing nothing - people just voluntarily use cisco/cisco because they don't care about security. * technically on some of the newer routers and versio
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by trout 14y ago
It's not a 'switch' but rather failed implementation. As well, this is only protecting people that would have otherwise put their saved passwords into insecure locations - like posting to the internet or insecure internal file shares. For p
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by trout 14y ago
He's at least 10 years late on multicast networks. Here's the 1985 RFC that's considerably more detailed than his from 1996: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc966
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by trout 14y ago
Visualizing this conversation.. IT Director to Sales Guy: "We just got $20M in grant money for getting broadband across the state. Can you get me some numbers?" Sales guy to engineering team (partner or internal): "Hey I need lots of boxes.
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by trout 14y ago
I tend to vote against this type of security by opting out of the scanners. If even one quarter of the passengers opted out they would need to reexamine their security - one that would likely not include the expensive scanners or intrusive
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by trout 14y ago
For the curious, this is a small scale map of what they'll be viewing: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/ps5755/p... I would be really curious to what the wireless spectrum looks like at an event like that. Most football
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by trout 14y ago
Depending on the game (it's been 10 years for me) one 'hack' was to head in one direction, pull the network connection for 3-4 seconds, head in the opposite direction, and plug back in. This allowed you to escape or hide in the terrain fair
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by trout 14y ago
You're really fighting two mantras - 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' vs 'we must build against worst case everything'. The arguments generally come from IT support and legal, respectively. Realistically things are in the middle. This is
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by trout 14y ago
Haven't tested, but this says the opposite: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/10/facebook-chat-launches-xmpp...
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by trout 14y ago
There are some other ways to fix the problem. Last time with the Youtube problem, they advertised more specific routes. If Pakistan was advertising a /24 network (255 IP addresses) Youtube started advertising two /25 networks (2x 128 addres
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by trout 14y ago
I don't like how the pitch and the implementation instructions diverge. The pitch uses technology that read 'pop our Considerable Use policy when they connect', 'firewall users so they can't see each other', 'use a separate network so yours
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by trout 14y ago
disclaimer: I work for Cisco. I think there are some legitimate concerns. The other competitors aren't known to have the level of corporate espionage as Huawei has shown, the level of direct government influence, and telecom is gaining imp
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by trout 14y ago
I've got a thunderbolt on Verizon and I do 3G and voice as well as 4G and voice at the same time. Some googling seems to show that it uses two antennae to do this, but to me as an end user it works great.

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