Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "NetworkChuck" channel.

  1. There is a major mystery and secret to IT. Coffee. Slapped this puppy together in no time at all. Ran into some trouble with the VPN, turned out to be a combination of insufficient coffee and needing to put my fingers on a diet, as I fat fingered my username, which my VPN provider hashes first.
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  2. I slapped one of these together around six months back, works like a charm. I did run into some trouble with configuring my VPN provider in, but that was due to two major technical issues. Coffee and needing to put my fingers on a diet, as I fat fingered my hashed username, running me in circles for 20 minutes before the coffee opened my eyes. ;)
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  3. One of our worst failures was a C6509 supervisor engine fail. Fortunately, there was a second supervisor installed and all we got was an error report. The most laughable failure? A flood of the manholes where the fiber came in from the campus - in a desert. A broken water service pipe allowed water to flow along a shallow calcium carbonate layer and straight into the manhole, drowning fiber and POTS cable terminations. Two weeks later, a power transformer failed and out primary backup generator failed - due to that same leak displacing the fuel in the underground tank. Boy, did we have some emergency and normal SOP rewrites!
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  4. I dunno. I have a C4006 in the basement of my home. ;) Might bump it up to a C6509, given the volume of IOT these days. And a couple of vlan's fro my RPi's...
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  5. Here's a bit of fun. The US government utilizes extensive dark nets. SIPRnet, JWICS, each tunneled under their dim-ish NIPRnet, which to most would be the DOD internet. SIPR gets tunneled under the already tunneled NIPRnet, that going through loggers and filters from hell. JWICS, the top secret network goes under SIPRnet. Each level being tunneled under encryption devices twice, before meeting other networks. Oh, nuclear wargames shit, totally segregated and not at all internet accessible, despite any tunneling. TOR was designed by a US State Department grant, undermined by the NSA, now fully open source. Not seeing FreeNet or other dark nets. Dark is not available to the internet, your bank's network is darknet under that definition, as is any defense network or well, your desired home network. Home networks, well, how much do you want to spend, effort and money to protect everything? On my end, after hundreds of hours of effort, my family information and PII are protected, my porn collection, not so much. I can delete securely and replace those few gigs trivially enough. PII and family, not so much. TOR, like any network of such construction, relies on exit nodes. That's how it got broken by the NSA. Capture exit nodes, you've got the heart and soul of the network and the puzzle palace is good at that. So, go ahead with seeking red mercury. No such thing, it was a Russian invention to find idiots.
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