Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

* randy () psg com (Randy Bush) [Sun 02 Aug 2015, 13:37 CEST]:
> ietf, >1k people, easily fits in 10g, but tries to have two for 
> redundancy.  also no nat, no firewall, and even ipv6.  but absorbing 
> or combatting scans and other attacks cause complexity one would 
> prefer to avoid.  in praha, there was even a tkip attack, or so it 
> is believed; turned off tkip.

Didn't the IETF already deprecate TKIP?


> the quakecon net was explained very poorly.  what in particular 
> provides game-quality latency, or lack thereof?  with only 2g, i 
> guess i can understand the cache.  decent bandwidth would reduce 
> complexity.  and the network is flat?

Cabling up 4,400 ports does take a lot of effort, though.

The QuakeCon video was typical for a server guy talking about network: 
with a focus on the network periphery, i.e. some servers supporting 
the network.  I guess a tale of punching 300-odd patchpanels is not 
that captivating to everybody out there.


        -- Niels.