Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

[niels=nanog at bakker.net (Niels Bakker)]

* randy at 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.