Posts by kraduk

IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4, argues APNIC's chief scientist

Re: He should keep quiet and be thought a fool rather than open his mouth and prove it

At first glance I thought his comment about cdns didn't make sense, but with a little more thought it made much more sense. What hie is saying is that in theory each cdn provider only needs a handful of public addresses. All of these cdn addresses would then be anycasted that the primary dge network. As more and more sites and services move onto said cdn providers more and more of the internet becomes hidden inside the cdn network, hence freeing lots of up space. Remember the routing on a cdn is don't at layer 7 mostly not layer 3

Vodafone: Yes, we slurp data on customers' network setups, but we do it for their own good

PPPoe credentials are fairly easy to extract from nearly all locked down CPEs. Most of them have ppp on default config, so there is a PAP fallback mode. So all that is needed is to fire up a PPPoE server that doesnt off chap authentication. Next plug the wan port of the CPE into the nic running the PPPoE server. Not long after you will have the details in your ppp logs, or failing that wireshark