what's happening, if you don't mind me saying, is that a lot of the tricks used by NSA and professionals, via their less responsible overseas subcontractors, are poking at servers to get CC info and steal stuff. It's a serious problem. Bill On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
It's true. It should be legal to break their little fingers. I've never understood the appeal of destroying other peoples' property for kicks.
-Dave
On 06/27/2017 03:30 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Lately I have been doing a lot of security stuff. There are a lot of script kiddies out there playing where they should not be.
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Same here. :-)
-Dave
On 06/27/2017 03:16 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
lol. I am lost too. I am going to back to programming. Sometimes I come up for air and bite at the worm in these threads.
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
The first post in this thread could've been last year, as far as my brain is concerned today. ;) Was he planning to route between
hardware
interfaces that are reasonable to obtain on something other than a router?
-Dave
On 06/27/2017 03:05 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I was thinking the load was light enough for what the OP was looking to do. b
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> On 06/27/2017 02:55 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >> curious, but can't a VAX of even a modern box of some sort be rigged to > act >> as a router for this kind of thing? Admittedly just asking not >> knowledgeable enough to answer this question myself.. > > That depends on the type of interfaces you want to route between. > Some of the earliest routers were PDP-11s. > > If you need to route something like a T1 or T3 line, that's pretty > tough to do on anything but a purpose-built router due to support for > those types of hardware interfaces. Further, for more modern circuits > like OC192s, etc, there really aren't too many general-purpose computers > available that can move data that fast in any predictable or consistent > way, and nothing anywhere near as reliable or internally redundant as > something like a big Cisco or Juniper machine. They exist with their > six-figure price tags for a reason. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ > New Kensington, PA >
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-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA