@Jacob, do you have a reference for your BGP/AS requirement? Some pages I saw lead me to believe that it could work with other routing protocols, or if you just statically assigned routes.
But then I am assuming private use for the static/non-bgp.
Right, but lets say I am a school district, responsible for lots of schools. I could assign the same address space to each school, and assign shared services to each.
Or maybe for a web server that serves a wpad.dat for auto-proxy configuration
This was the article I was looking at. aharp.ittns.northwestern.edu/papers/k5-anycast/index.html -- Anycast addressing is nothing more than assigning a common IP address to multiple instances of the same service, which are located at strategic points in the overal network topology.
My point was that I don't think you necessarily need an AS or BGP for internal use, and the first point in your answer #1 Yes, you need a AS to run anycast, seems not entirely correct. But it may just be the way you have written that. It seems like you are saying that an AS is required, but you'll only need BGP for the Internet.
BGP is a tool for automatically distributing routes. I can statically define routes on my routers and mostly get the same results as what you would get with BGP.
I can also use other routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, etc... I am not sure all of them will work with anycast, but I did see a article mention using OSPF for distributing anycast internally.
OSPF and RIP are the most common ones to use in internal networks... OSPF is much more efficient with larger networks; small networks they both work fine.
BGP needs an AS, but there are "internal" AS numbers for isolated systems or special purposes (something akin to 1918 IPs).
@hobodave that's hilarious. Why don't you buy the hardware and then do something cheap like spray paint the case black? Or just put it somewhere not seen...
Oh, darn. I was looking for something that could be transferred to a job (I'm still young and need a decent resumé lol). I don't know of any companies that use HP for switches.
That's very true. I could always be broad when I say I have router/switch experience. I suppose it won't matter if it was all Cisco/Linux based. Maybe they'll see I have the ability to learn?
in my experience both interviewing people and being interviewed, it matters a lot more that you have a deep understanding of networking theory and implementation than it does if you know, say, CatOS inside and out.
Ok, I won't lie that little switch is pretty sexy. Found a price on it yet?
That's pretty awesome then. I've always done good at knowing the fundamentals and knowing the answer... I sometimes just don't know how to implement that answer on a given OS (I'm usually the backseat driver... we get more accomplished that way).
@Vert Note that the "Web Managed" ProCurve switches are glorified SOHO gear. It's a very different interface from their other stuff, most of which has a very similar interface.
Maybe I should back that down to 'they have somewhat different interfaces, but the concepts and naming conventions are the same'. The lower end gear is also missing a lot of the nicer features (not sure about that particular unit but things like LACP/bonding and other link management protocols are commonly missing).
@WesleyDavid I got my 2524 (home unit) for $20 shipped. The liquidation company I got it from knew it was password protected but apparently couldn't find the manual on HP's site (believable) to find the reset procedure.
$300 isn't too bad (with the addition that I'd get the experience of course). Would an actual ProCurve Switch be useful in SoHo environment? Or just overkill?
ProCurve equipment doesn't get super cheap normally because it comes with a transferable lifetime warranty and firmware updates (fixes only normally, no new features). Live Support and faster than ship-in repair cost extra and are available.
I'm revamping the home network when I get back so I'm hoping to upgrade everything to either Wireless-N or 1Gbps cat6. I also want to add in a firewall and managed switch so I can switch to Voip home phone without any issues on other traffic. Overkill? For now :D
Oh right, and I don't have cable so I'm adding in a Boxee Box as well.
Overkill yes, fun yes. I've got Cat5e, 1Gbps runs fine. No QoS needed for VoIP unless the network is very heavily used. Also run HTPCs over the network and don't have any issues.
Actually I do have kind of an offbeat question if nobody minds me asking. How are Professional Certs (CISSP, CCNA, etc) looked at vs a B.S. in CompSci?
@Vert Both prove you know enough to pass tests. The BS proves you can stick with something for the long haul. Neither are a substitute for experience though. Both will generally get you past HR, but experience is what the hiring manager is going to want to hear about. Each business will have it's own preferences for BS vs Degree (or both).
@ChrisS Ok, I'm hoping my five years in military will help give me the experience part. I just wasn't sure if getting Professional Certs would be worth my time in the eye's of an employer.
@voretaq7 NOONNONOONNOONNON I just run everything at a Nuclear Power station on one XP box with zero Antivirus and NO Firewall... It'll be ok..... Oh and I left root PW on my desktop....
@voretaq7 I'm moving to like an Island due to that one
@voretaq7 NOONNONOONNOONNON I just run everything at a Nuclear Power station on one XP box with zero Antivirus and NO Firewall... It'll be ok..... Oh and I left root PW on my desktop....
@voretaq7 NOONNONOONNOONNON I just run everything at a Nuclear Power station on one XP box with zero Antivirus and NO Firewall... It'll be ok..... Oh and I left root PW on my desktop....
Unless for some reason you've run some "setup script" installing a mod or something like that... sounds like tampering if you're the only one with access to it.
Ouch. I'm looking around for tips and such since I don't know too much about how Joomla works. So... I'm coming from a generic standpoint. (so far the only thing I've found is the plugin jHackGaurd... but I haven't found any independent reviews yet; slow net)
Is this on a *Nix machine? If you run backups of your startup files, I would diff those to a back up too just to be sure they didn't privilege escalate.
and I'm the point of contact for customers so. He's the brainstormer, I tend the guts so while he's thinking at 30,000 foot level, I'm dealing with this grime. ;)
Don't worry, I think I'm about to go have to go down that road with rent-a-coder or something similar.
Unless you alert your host and they determine that privilege escalation or something equally dire happened... that's about the only time they'll do something that affects more than one customer (with something like changing ports, enabling port knocking or something along those lines).
It all depends on your host, of course. Who knows, they could be cool people.
I'm all for rent-a-coder and all that. All for paying a good price for good work... it's just you need currency up front for that. ;) I've learned my lesson vicariously. My friend thought he could get a humdinger of a site for $700.
Ohh, it's a humdinger alright. Keeps me up at night. >:-(
Lol. I keep my stuff client-side. I've never been very good at network programming while maintaining security and I won't tell customers "Yeah, yeah... it's secure!"... because I can't know it. So I just skip the headache and keep my stuff client-side.
Having actual customers won't start until I go the contracting through the web route though. Everyone needs a starting point... I figure that's how I'll get mine.
That's the worst part, I think. I've only had to do it twice... but I hated both of them (mine weren't too bad, but if we even suspect something we send out an email alerting to change passwords).
Hm... looks like all browsers where an exploit was attempted at pwn2own fell this year.
