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Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 18:06:18 +0300 (IDT)
On Tue, 11 May 2010, Mmaad Dooog wrote:
Is anyone going to jump on the irony of the last two paragraphs? Having to use the excessively rigid, slow, static, boring expensive PSTN to fix the cool, fast, flexible cheap, cool, fun Internet? That'll work just fine, of course. Until, that is, one of the telcos in the path saves a few bucks and routes a call leg over the Internet.What will us network operators do when there is NO out of band management path to anything? What will happen when you can't even place a phone call?The PSTN ran about 80 years or so on in-band signaling until a very rational cost/benefit decision was made to remove signaling from the traffic path. Physically seperating signaling (SS7) and routing (LERG, etc) paths from the traffic (for all but the access link) was a large, expensive, difficult effort, but worth it. The PSTN is full of quasi-governmental central authorities for everything, and is all the better for it.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/89338/morse_code_leno/ -Hank
Current thread:
- Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire, (continued)
- Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire Larry Sheldon (May 09)
- Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire todd glassey (May 09)
- Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire Randy Bush (May 09)
- Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire Marshall Eubanks (May 09)
- Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire Jeroen van Aart (May 10)
- Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire Paul Bosworth (May 10)
- Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire Randy Bush (May 10)
- Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire Jeroen van Aart (May 12)
- Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire Leo Bicknell (May 11)
- BGP (in)security makes the AP wire Mmaad Dooog (May 11)
- Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire Hank Nussbacher (May 11)