You'd be hard pressed to find a Cisco box that doesn't support IPv6. This is integrated into IOS 12.3 and that runs on everything clear back to the 2500s. The only thing I have that I want current code for is a 4700 I use as a frame relay switch, but that is archaic lab gear and you won't find many in production. It does have an IPv6 capable image available, it just lacks some of the new stuff like OSPF support that the 12.3 images provide.
I've been playing with IPv6 off and on since 2000. My current IPv6 plant incarnation is a Cisco 2610XM tunneling traffic from btexact (best tunnel broker if you want to play), a Cisco 1605 that is sometimes online, and a FreeBSD box. I don't have a site up this time, just taking it slow and playing, doing this mostly because the CCIE lab has started requiring IPv6.
The transport works just fine, the application support is still a hassle. If its a barrier for me after five years of dinking and nothing left to do Cisco wise except complete my CCIE... well... Joe MCSE is probably going to get chewed up by it.
Moving to IPv6 from IPv4 is as much a change in mindset as moving from IPX to IPv4 was...
You'll need a brick wall to bang your head and a baseball bat might help with federal officials. I volunteered, I rounded up some donated equipment for wireless ISPs who flocked to the area, and they totally got the run around from FEMA. A group of twenty five traveled to Kelly AFB on their own dime to lay in a phone system for evacuees and SBC had done the deed two days before they got there. FEMA coordination indeed!
If you're doing bricks & mortar stuff you'll probably get a lot further, but the technology relief stuff is just a joke - its going to be total pork barrel for the Haliburton sized companies of the world.
Each moment arises out of the moment before - call it 'dependent arising'. No object exists in perpetuity - even black holes evaporate over long time spans.
This being said, our digital storage systems, in a collective sense, are becoming more like a brain and less like an archive. 'Memories' of some importance are in multiple locations and accessible via different search methods. They're also being changed, just as memories of our pasts acquire a patina as we age. Someone took something I wrote in the early 90s on Usenet and added it to their humor site. My flickr content is spreading if the hits are any indication, as are my contributions to YouTube.
Public records are an important thing, but understand the other, positive things that are happening in the background as the the internet acts less like a database and more like a neural net with each passing day.
I was a presenter at one of the Wispcons a few yeasr back and I've got four skill sets they can't do without - I just talked with Michael, then filled out the form.
I was in lower Manhattan for telecom type cleanup about four years ago but this is going to be a bit different - sounds like we'll saddle up and head out immediately. This means shots and maybe finding bodies during installs *gulp*.
If you're related to Susan, Wayne, Michael, Molly, and Pete Catalano please drop me a line - they were last heard from at their home in Chalmette on Monday. They were on the second floor of the house with water rising fast and they've not been heard from since.
Sissy, Pat, David, and Leslie Durnin made it safely to Omaha and they're very worried about the rest of the family.
bliss at ignorant dot org if these people are at all connected to you...
I hold the Cisco Network and Design Professional certifications as well as the wireless service and field engineer specializations. I'm one exam away from the Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional and one exam away from the Call Manager Express product specialization.
I like the certifications because its a way to incrementally approach the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert. You can roll your eyes about certifications all you want but there were 8,851 active CCIEs last time I looked and that cert still commands $100k+ here in the wilds of Nebraska.
If you work for a reseller Cisco makes it worth your while to be certified. My company gets an additional 7% discount on wireless gear because of my skills in the area. You can't even sell the Call Manager Express product until you have demonstrated that you have the skills to support it. Once you achieve Cisco Premier Partner Status you can buy your Cisco toys for 70% off instead of the 50% that a basic Registered Partner gets.
There are a lot of certifications out there that are fairly meaningless (*COUGH* MCSE *COUGH*) but Cisco provides plenty of incentive for someone employed by a reseller to keep up their studies.
I've had a real job since about the time that the internet got DNS servers. Hint: long before Linux even existed. I probably have Usenet posts that are older than you are.
It is far better to have it say something like 'President' on your business card, or, if you're truly elite (like me) it says 'network architect' and you get to act as president.
My girlfriend has her business in her home as well, five blocks away from here. Fridays can be kinda slow. While you were typing your grammatically challenged reply we were, uh, busy. Does this count as 'getting out of the house'?
I've been doing that Cisco thing since 1998. CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP, wireless specialization, one exam away from CCIP, one exam away from Call Manager Express specialization - before you make a farting noise with your mouth understand that I'm sitting at home in my underwear at 9:00 AM and I may not get dressed until lunch:-) I like the dress code at my job.
My customers have a mix of FBSD 4.11/5.4 and some OpenBSD 3.4 on wireless bridges. My customers are uniformly mid sized shops with need for a serious network engineer but not enough work to justify a full time person. Its very easy to slip BSD into these environments - "Hey, you have an old PC we can use for (X)?" Resistance *is* futile once this process starts.
BSD certification would mean that the big shops in town currently seeking people with Red Hat certifications, because their management can't poor piss out of a Knoppix CD, let alone assess an admin's skill level, will start seeking BSD certified people. This is a good thing for me personally, for BSD as a whole, and the competitive pressure from the BSD source/ports based aerobics instructors is something the Linux distro binary package fatladies desperately need.
Yes, I said fatladies. I've got SuSe 9.2 on the machine I'm using to type this and 9.3 on my lappie. I'm looking into it because I think it might be marketable... but I'd sure rather have BSD for almost everything I do. Don't you shoot your mouth off, you little fanboy you, until you've typed a mile at the console of a FreeBSD box.
It'd be just ducky if we could get reliable USB drives. No, I'm not talking flash reliability, I'm talking replacing the cheap plastic case that won't last more than two weeks on my crowded keyring before eroding away. I killed three of them in two months, then gave up on the USB flash always with me concept. I even tried the USB necklace idea - what a godawful nuisance.
I'd like to see an aluminum case USB to xD flash or similar device that is no larger than my car security fob... any marketing weasels listening out there?
Linux is a kernel, BSD is a kernel + userland + ports. When people say Linux they mean GNU/Linux - the kernel *and* the associated userland stuff. So when I say 'Linux' I mean Linux kernel and one of the more popular userland implementations along with a packaging system.
I've done a lot with Redhat, some with SuSe recently, and in ancient days I've had my hands on Caldera, Mandrake, and Slackware.
Uh, Yuck Foo on the habitual self handler AC who said I wasn't cool enough for Gentoo - I have WORK to do every single day, and BSD gets it done better than anything else. When you get out of mom and dad's basement your view might change...
Culture is key. BSD's culture is one of discipline, Linux, in general, one of 'perfect is the enemy of good' experimentation. Perhaps there are some distros that are getting away from that, but in 2000 when my disgust with Redhat became overwhelming FreeBSD was the only game in town. Now FreeBSD ain't broke and I haven't lived at chez mom & dad for twenty years, so who has time to do the distro fiddle? Not me.
I also have to look at marketability - I *sell* the FreeBSD stuff I implement. I'm still disgusted with Redhat (tried 9.0 a while back) but I'm running into SuSe in the field so I've had 9.1 and 9.2 on lappie and desktop. Its *not* stable. I've done the updates, I've got really vanilla hardware, I'm not pushing it hard, and I have troubles. Maybe this doesn't show with a server install but this is what I am seeing.
Feh. Lots more to say, but I need to get going... troll away, ACs, troll away...
I'll get beaten down for posting this again, but having used FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Redhat, and SuSe extensively over the last ten years:
The Linux distro cloud is like an English garden - wild stuff going on all over the place, very easy for someone with a new idea to break in and produce a distro, and in general there is a frenetic level of innovation.
The BSD systems are more like the lawn of the base commander at Camp Pendleton - each blade named, serial numbered, and rarely do they get out of line.
I'm running FreeBSD most everywhere because I don't have to jack with it. I've got SuSe on my desktop because I've got a captive Windows thingy with accounting data and people around here pay me to touch SuSe, so its worthwhile to be up to speed.
Each has their place - I love the massive amount of GPL stuff in/usr/ports, but I'm really glad I'm no longer stuck in RH binary dependency hell.
Yes, I've heard of portage, no, I haven't touched it yet - consider enlightening without flaming if you're a guru...
There are two views on SCOX's value being at $4.00 or so.
The first says look at the treasury - divide cash on hand by number of shares and that is what its worth. This strikes me as foolish.
The second says look at the value of the Unix revenue streams. Laugh at OpenServer all you want, but there are lots and lots of IVR apps out there that work just fine. This also apparently produces a value of about $4/share.
I hear there are M&A brokerages taking positions in the company - these are the vultures that will pick the bones.
Go to Yahoo, search for symbol SCOX, and read the board - stats_for_all probably has the best handle on what is happening, but you have to be a soopergenius to digest it all...
These are examples of what one would do on a 'real' computer. This place, it has a goodly portion of Linux heretics, and I suggest you pay them no mind...
Firewall sounds all dignified and techie, when you're really saying "TCP stack incontinence appliance'. Use the short form of this, 'network diaper', in coversations with management, and perhaps you'll get to use a real operating system.
If you canna go bare, why you even gonna go there?
The short DVD life is for the ones that get used. If its in a safe deposit box in a black jewel box I can't understand what might happen to it - chemical breakdown due to air interaction?
Europe is not the U.S. they have one currency, but many geographic areas, and people can't just pick up and move the way the do in the U.S. when an area gets bad.
Go to economist.com and see if the article on this is still up - it was an interesting read.
Well, AC, I'm just not as disciplined as the OS I use - my posts are more mood dependent, and right now I'm actually astroturding my dumbfuck.org auction more than anything.
Those who cut are generally no more suicidal than anyone else who is depressed - they're just so out of touch with their feelings that physical pain is the only way 'the pain' gets out. Had a friend that did this in college - its been twenty years, he is still whacky, but not in the least bit dead.
Its real hard for a teenage boy to get in trouble for statutory rape, unless he is 19 and 3/4ths and she is fourteen. I know about this because it pops up here periodically - its normal for a college sophomore and a highschool freshman to hook up in Mexico, and the trouble comes when they're north of the border.
The law goes to great lengths to protect the innocent. If someone gets tagged sex offender... well... we have an epidemic of that sort of thing in the last two generations, so you'd best straighten up and don't even think about being in a situation that isn't straight up in the eyes of the law.
Linux and the associated cloud of distros are like an English garden - mad experiments in all corners, and a mostly clear middle.
FreeBSD is like the lawn of the commanding officer at Camp Pendleton. Each blade the same distance from the blades around it, all the same height, and if one should slip out of place someone comes and corrects this quickly.
I love the flow of cool GPL stuff ending up in/usr/ports, but the FreeBSD crew keeps my grounds in order so I've got time to play.
If the bands for WiMax are the same three ring circus we've seen in the 802.11b range for metro areas there is just no point to even trying - the noise floor for 2402-2483MHz in metro Omaha is so thick you can walk on it, and the 5.2 - 5.8GHz stuff is headed that way.
I don't pay much attention to this stuff any more, since its a miserable waste of time and money here, but I hear tell of some sort of frequency allocation scheme for some of the new spectrum that has been opened... that is the only hope for making that stuff behave.
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You'd be hard pressed to find a Cisco box that doesn't support IPv6. This is integrated into IOS 12.3 and that runs on everything clear back to the 2500s. The only thing I have that I want current code for is a 4700 I use as a frame relay switch, but that is archaic lab gear and you won't find many in production. It does have an IPv6 capable image available, it just lacks some of the new stuff like OSPF support that the 12.3 images provide.
I've been playing with IPv6 off and on since 2000. My current IPv6 plant incarnation is a Cisco 2610XM tunneling traffic from btexact (best tunnel broker if you want to play), a Cisco 1605 that is sometimes online, and a FreeBSD box. I don't have a site up this time, just taking it slow and playing, doing this mostly because the CCIE lab has started requiring IPv6.
The transport works just fine, the application support is still a hassle. If its a barrier for me after five years of dinking and nothing left to do Cisco wise except complete my CCIE
Moving to IPv6 from IPv4 is as much a change in mindset as moving from IPX to IPv4 was
You'll need a brick wall to bang your head and a baseball bat might help with federal officials. I volunteered, I rounded up some donated equipment for wireless ISPs who flocked to the area, and they totally got the run around from FEMA. A group of twenty five traveled to Kelly AFB on their own dime to lay in a phone system for evacuees and SBC had done the deed two days before they got there. FEMA coordination indeed!
If you're doing bricks & mortar stuff you'll probably get a lot further, but the technology relief stuff is just a joke - its going to be total pork barrel for the Haliburton sized companies of the world.
Good luck!
Buying Soyuz when SpaceX is here? Oh, wait, can't actually admit that commercial is 7% the cost of NASA efforts, now can we.
http://www.spacex.com/
I'm going to assume this is more bozorific NASA politics unless someone can explain why they won't use SpaceX for this job.
Each moment arises out of the moment before - call it 'dependent arising'. No object exists in perpetuity - even black holes evaporate over long time spans.
This being said, our digital storage systems, in a collective sense, are becoming more like a brain and less like an archive. 'Memories' of some importance are in multiple locations and accessible via different search methods. They're also being changed, just as memories of our pasts acquire a patina as we age. Someone took something I wrote in the early 90s on Usenet and added it to their humor site. My flickr content is spreading if the hits are any indication, as are my contributions to YouTube.
Public records are an important thing, but understand the other, positive things that are happening in the background as the the internet acts less like a database and more like a neural net with each passing day.
You run GNU Emacs you're getting the fat lady, use vi and you've got her crazy sister.
MicroEmacs loads as quickly as vi and it is very powerful. I've tried others, but I keep coming back to what has always worked the best.
Finding climbers is always a problem. Mail me bliss at ignorant dot org and I'll see if there is a slot open for you.
I was a presenter at one of the Wispcons a few yeasr back and I've got four skill sets they can't do without - I just talked with Michael, then filled out the form.
I was in lower Manhattan for telecom type cleanup about four years ago but this is going to be a bit different - sounds like we'll saddle up and head out immediately. This means shots and maybe finding bodies during installs *gulp*.
What am I getting myself into?
Nick,
If you're related to Susan, Wayne, Michael, Molly, and Pete Catalano please drop me a line - they were last heard from at their home in Chalmette on Monday. They were on the second floor of the house with water rising fast and they've not been heard from since.
Sissy, Pat, David, and Leslie Durnin made it safely to Omaha and they're very worried about the rest of the family.
bliss at ignorant dot org if these people are at all connected to you
I hold the Cisco Network and Design Professional certifications as well as the wireless service and field engineer specializations. I'm one exam away from the Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional and one exam away from the Call Manager Express product specialization.
I like the certifications because its a way to incrementally approach the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert. You can roll your eyes about certifications all you want but there were 8,851 active CCIEs last time I looked and that cert still commands $100k+ here in the wilds of Nebraska.
If you work for a reseller Cisco makes it worth your while to be certified. My company gets an additional 7% discount on wireless gear because of my skills in the area. You can't even sell the Call Manager Express product until you have demonstrated that you have the skills to support it. Once you achieve Cisco Premier Partner Status
you can buy your Cisco toys for 70% off instead of the 50% that a basic Registered Partner gets.
There are a lot of certifications out there that are fairly meaningless (*COUGH* MCSE *COUGH*) but Cisco provides plenty of incentive for someone employed by a reseller to keep up their studies.
I've had a real job since about the time that the internet got DNS servers. Hint: long before Linux even existed. I probably have Usenet posts that are older than you are.
It is far better to have it say something like 'President' on your business card, or, if you're truly elite (like me) it says 'network architect' and you get to act as president.
My girlfriend has her business in her home as well, five blocks away from here. Fridays can be kinda slow. While you were typing your grammatically challenged reply we were, uh, busy. Does this count as 'getting out of the house'?
I've been doing that Cisco thing since 1998. CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP, wireless specialization, one exam away from CCIP, one exam away from Call Manager Express specialization - before you make a farting noise with your mouth understand that I'm sitting at home in my underwear at 9:00 AM and I may not get dressed until lunch
My customers have a mix of FBSD 4.11/5.4 and some OpenBSD 3.4 on wireless bridges. My customers are uniformly mid sized shops with need for a serious network engineer but not enough work to justify a full time person. Its very easy to slip BSD into these environments - "Hey, you have an old PC we can use for (X)?" Resistance *is* futile once this process starts.
BSD certification would mean that the big shops in town currently seeking people with Red Hat certifications, because their management can't poor piss out of a Knoppix CD, let alone assess an admin's skill level, will start seeking BSD certified people. This is a good thing for me personally, for BSD as a whole, and the competitive pressure from the BSD source/ports based aerobics instructors is something the Linux distro binary package fatladies desperately need.
Yes, I said fatladies. I've got SuSe 9.2 on the machine I'm using to type this and 9.3 on my lappie. I'm looking into it because I think it might be marketable
It'd be just ducky if we could get reliable USB drives. No, I'm not talking flash reliability, I'm talking replacing the cheap plastic case that won't last more than two weeks on my crowded keyring before eroding away. I killed three of them in two months, then gave up on the USB flash always with me concept. I even tried the USB necklace idea - what a godawful nuisance.
I'd like to see an aluminum case USB to xD flash or similar device that is no larger than my car security fob
Ut oh. Time to discuss perspective.
Linux is a kernel, BSD is a kernel + userland + ports. When people say Linux they mean GNU/Linux - the kernel *and* the associated userland stuff. So when I say 'Linux' I mean Linux kernel and one of the more popular userland implementations along with a packaging system.
I've done a lot with Redhat, some with SuSe recently, and in ancient days I've had my hands on Caldera, Mandrake, and Slackware.
Uh, Yuck Foo on the habitual self handler AC who said I wasn't cool enough for Gentoo - I have WORK to do every single day, and BSD gets it done better than anything else. When you get out of mom and dad's basement your view might change
Culture is key. BSD's culture is one of discipline, Linux, in general, one of 'perfect is the enemy of good' experimentation. Perhaps there are some distros that are getting away from that, but in 2000 when my disgust with Redhat became overwhelming FreeBSD was the only game in town. Now FreeBSD ain't broke and I haven't lived at chez mom & dad for twenty years, so who has time to do the distro fiddle? Not me.
I also have to look at marketability - I *sell* the FreeBSD stuff I implement. I'm still disgusted with Redhat (tried 9.0 a while back) but I'm running into SuSe in the field so I've had 9.1 and 9.2 on lappie and desktop. Its *not* stable. I've done the updates, I've got really vanilla hardware, I'm not pushing it hard, and I have troubles. Maybe this doesn't show with a server install but this is what I am seeing.
Feh. Lots more to say, but I need to get going
I'll get beaten down for posting this again, but having used FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Redhat, and SuSe extensively over the last ten years:
The Linux distro cloud is like an English garden - wild stuff going on all over the place, very easy for someone with a new idea to break in and produce a distro, and in general there is a frenetic level of innovation.
The BSD systems are more like the lawn of the base commander at Camp Pendleton - each blade named, serial numbered, and rarely do they get out of line.
I'm running FreeBSD most everywhere because I don't have to jack with it. I've got SuSe on my desktop because I've got a captive Windows thingy with accounting data and people around here pay me to touch SuSe, so its worthwhile to be up to speed.
Each has their place - I love the massive amount of GPL stuff in
Yes, I've heard of portage, no, I haven't touched it yet - consider enlightening without flaming if you're a guru
There are two views on SCOX's value being at $4.00 or so.
The first says look at the treasury - divide cash on hand by number of shares and that is what its worth. This strikes me as foolish.
The second says look at the value of the Unix revenue streams. Laugh at OpenServer all you want, but there are lots and lots of IVR apps out there that work just fine. This also apparently produces a value of about $4/share.
I hear there are M&A brokerages taking positions in the company - these are the vultures that will pick the bones.
Go to Yahoo, search for symbol SCOX, and read the board - stats_for_all probably has the best handle on what is happening, but you have to be a soopergenius to digest it all
ipf -Fa -f
pfctl -Fa -f
These are examples of what one would do on a 'real' computer. This place, it has a goodly portion of Linux heretics, and I suggest you pay them no mind
Firewall sounds all dignified and techie, when you're really saying "TCP stack incontinence appliance'. Use the short form of this, 'network diaper', in coversations with management, and perhaps you'll get to use a real operating system.
If you canna go bare, why you even gonna go there?
The short DVD life is for the ones that get used. If its in a safe deposit box in a black jewel box I can't understand what might happen to it - chemical breakdown due to air interaction?
Europe is not the U.S. they have one currency, but many geographic areas, and people can't just pick up and move the way the do in the U.S. when an area gets bad.
Go to economist.com and see if the article on this is still up - it was an interesting read.
Well, AC, I'm just not as disciplined as the OS I use - my posts are more mood dependent, and right now I'm actually astroturding my dumbfuck.org auction more than anything.
Those who cut are generally no more suicidal than anyone else who is depressed - they're just so out of touch with their feelings that physical pain is the only way 'the pain' gets out. Had a friend that did this in college - its been twenty years, he is still whacky, but not in the least bit dead.
Its real hard for a teenage boy to get in trouble for statutory rape, unless he is 19 and 3/4ths and she is fourteen. I know about this because it pops up here periodically - its normal for a college sophomore and a highschool freshman to hook up in Mexico, and the trouble comes when they're north of the border.
The law goes to great lengths to protect the innocent. If someone gets tagged sex offender
Linux and the associated cloud of distros are like an English garden - mad experiments in all corners, and a mostly clear middle.
FreeBSD is like the lawn of the commanding officer at Camp Pendleton. Each blade the same distance from the blades around it, all the same height, and if one should slip out of place someone comes and corrects this quickly.
I love the flow of cool GPL stuff ending up in
If the bands for WiMax are the same three ring circus we've seen in the 802.11b range for metro areas there is just no point to even trying - the noise floor for 2402-2483MHz in metro Omaha is so thick you can walk on it, and the 5.2 - 5.8GHz stuff is headed that way.
I don't pay much attention to this stuff any more, since its a miserable waste of time and money here, but I hear tell of some sort of frequency allocation scheme for some of the new spectrum that has been opened