IRC log for #gllug on 20090124

00:20.21*** join/#gllug Leeds (n=richardc@n219079208127.netvigator.com)
05:35.42morsingLeeds!
05:35.56morsingLeeds: How do I get a pound sign in pssh?
06:02.18morsingBeer
06:09.46an0keyBreakfast
06:09.58an0keyhmhmhm what will be open, in central london right now
06:12.01morsingSossidges?
06:12.09morsingan0key: 8-12?
06:12.55an0keymorsing: huh?
06:13.15morsing?
06:13.25morsingYou don't have any 8-12s around?
06:13.38an0keyNever heard of it
06:13.43morsingmm...
06:13.45morsinghmm
06:14.08z00daxbeer!
06:14.15z00daxits almost midday here :)
06:14.22morsingCawfy
06:14.25an0keyz00dax: where are you?
06:14.35an0keymorsing: no milk... remember :(
06:14.48morsingan0key: They have milk at 5-19
06:15.34z00daxan0key: India, since the lsat 16 hrs or so
06:15.43z00daxheads off for lunch
06:16.14morsingz00dax: ??  I thought you were always there?
06:16.49z00daxmorsing: I'd like to be
06:17.56morsing...
06:17.57morsingz00dax: ??  I thought you were always there?
07:06.40morsingCawfy
07:07.40morsingz00dax: Check it!
07:09.29morsingan0key: Where's z00dax?
07:11.12morsingPalle alene i verden...
07:14.00an0keyz00dax: hopefully getting me some milk
07:15.33morsingan0key: What are you doing?
07:17.54an0keymorsing: working
07:20.49morsing"Working"?
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07:23.07morsingj0nr_!
07:23.20morsingj0nr_: What's an0key working on?
07:26.46morsingLeeds: where did j0nr_ go?
07:28.35an0keymorsing: playing with mediawiki at this present time
07:45.34morsingan0key: How's your cawfy?
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07:49.01morsingj0nr_!
07:53.22morsingan0key: Where's Marina?
07:56.38morsingMohan: I'm bored...
08:08.06morsingI need sleep...
08:21.13morsingHello?
09:30.11an0keymorsing: back, no cawfy yet, but did go gym on route home :)
09:32.44morsing:)
09:33.06an0keyalthough was an epic fail, forgot headphones...
09:33.10morsingerm...
09:33.58an0keydid you find marina?
09:39.17morsingNo - in fact, just texted her but she hasn't responded. Texted her a goodnight last night that she never responded to. I'm getting paranoid :(
09:43.44an0keyJust chill, gotta play more mean
09:44.18morsingI know - I should really start beating her
09:44.24morsingWomen like that
09:45.06an0keyThey do
09:51.13morsingStill no response
09:56.33morsinghugs an0key :(
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10:01.26morsingboudiccas!
10:03.53an0keybeing hugged by morsing
10:04.05an0keymorsing: I warn you, still smelly from the gym
10:24.16morsing*sigh* :(
10:40.47an0keystraw pole, what do peeps use as their linux desktop os of choice
10:41.10boudiccaskde
10:41.18boudiccascentos
10:41.39an0keyboudiccas: why centos over fedora, for a desktop?
10:44.26boudiccasi dont like the constant updates and the rapid release cycle, so i go for an enterprise solution
10:44.50an0keyboudiccas: fair enough :)
10:55.52morsingan0key: Just phoned her
10:56.17morsingWoke her up! Very sleepy, barely spoke a word
10:56.27morsingShe's on her way
10:58.08morsingboudiccas: Where's an0key?
10:59.00jpdsan0key: Ubuntu.
11:00.16morsingjpds: Where's an0key?
11:02.16an0keyI am here, was making cawfy
11:02.27an0keywhoop morning loving for morsing!
11:02.35morsingan0key: :)
11:02.53morsingbites boudiccas' nose gently
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11:38.19morsingdick_turpin!
11:47.03an0keysomething you said :p
11:47.11morsingProbably...
11:47.21an0keylol
11:47.31an0keyI dont get why people love bitlbee, I find it crude
11:47.38morsingIt's great
11:48.03morsingExcept it can't understand people setting their MSN to "Show as offline"
11:49.17cpufreakdid you figure out how to type £ yet?
11:49.39morsingNope
11:50.00antiphase£
11:50.34morsingNo idea what wethrin wason about with digraph either
11:51.54morsingantiphase: I can actually switch to full keyboard and that has £ but it's very annoying to do
11:52.17antiphaseI only have £ because I mapped it specifically
11:52.27morsingHow did you do that?
11:52.28wethrinmorsing: ^A-v in screen
11:52.33antiphasexmodmap
11:52.36morsingwethrin!
11:52.37wethrinIt then asks you to enter a digraph
11:53.02morsingwethrin: And then?
11:53.13wethrin'Pd' will enter a pound sign
11:53.27wethrinYou can do accented characters there, too
11:53.35morsingPd
11:53.38wethrinIf you run vim, and type in ':digraph', it'll show you a list
11:53.40morsingNope - just types Pd
11:53.43wethrinAh,sorry
11:53.45wethrin^A-^V
11:53.50morsing£
11:53.52morsing:)
11:53.53wethrin^A-v just shows the version
11:53.57morsingwethrin: *kiss*
11:54.02morsingwethrin: I love you :)
11:55.18wethrinan0key: Bitlbee is well-liked because it allows IRC and IM conversations to take place in the same client
11:55.51morsingIt's just annoying it can't do file transfers or stuff
11:56.14wethrinYes, well, you can't have everything
11:56.18wethrinOr you could program it yourself :)
11:56.28morsingwethrin: Would be easy to do, surely?
11:56.30an0keywethrin: few of the chaps @ work rave about it... I think I'll stick to finch :P
11:56.39morsingfinch--
11:56.40wethrinmorsing: Would it?
11:56.44morsingYes
11:57.10wethrinDo it, then :)
11:57.19morsingIt gets the message, can see what the file name and everything is, surely a small step to actually accept the transfer?!
11:57.28morsingI'm not a programmer
11:57.41wethrinHarr. You then need to do various protocol fiddling
11:57.41morsingBut I've programmed worse stuff than that still...
11:57.59wethrinYou'd have to somehow convert the MSN file transfer protocol to DCC
11:58.09wethrinAnd, well, DCC is direct client to client
11:58.10morsingwethrin: If they can put in 11 different chat software protocaols, surely... Well, I'm repeating myself
11:58.21wethrinIt'll be harder than you think. Seriously.
11:58.40antiphaseNot much use to me either as I run bitlbee on a remote machine
11:58.59wethrinWell, you can always then download the file to your own machine
11:59.05morsingPeople always send my files, direct photos, icons, winks etc...
11:59.21morsingQuite annoying
11:59.37an0keyantiphase: me too, well finch on a remote machine
11:59.41antiphaseTEll them to fuck off and upload it to a web or FTP server, and if they can't to get off the Internet
11:59.51morsingantiphase: Idiot
12:00.18wethrinActually, asking them nicely does tend to work
12:00.40morsingwethrin: They don't understand why
12:00.42wethrinNormally, if people try and send me photos, I ask them to upload it somewhere else, and they do
12:00.56wethrinSure they do. "My MSN doesn't do file transfers. Sorry"
12:00.59morsingThey can't be bothered in my case, and wouldn't know how to
12:01.18wethrinintroduce them to flickr
12:01.21morsingwethrin: Believe me, they don't. They'll go Why? Mine does? What's wrong with you?
12:01.30morsingThey can't use flickr.
12:01.40morsingI actually chat to girls sometimes...
12:01.52an0keymorsing: that's not allowed
12:01.56morsingan0key: Well...
12:02.11wethrinYou clearly know different girls to what I do.
12:02.18morsingClearly...
12:02.44morsingI have no doubt Jenny and Ann can use Flickr, the girls I chat to can't
12:02.50wethrinthe ones I talk to don't have a problem uploading to flickr
12:03.01wethrinGiven the popularity of it, it's obviously not hard...
12:03.38cpufreakflickr rocks
12:04.03morsingwethrin: I suspect they can't be bothered just for sending a quick photo if they haven't got an account
12:04.12cpufreakhttp://flickr.com/photos/itwasntandy/sets/72157612868296088/
12:04.22cpufreakmorsing: it takes <5mins to set it up
12:04.42morsingMakes no difference...
12:04.50cpufreakso its a one time thing to do
12:05.05morsingcpufreak: You should get a haircut
12:05.14cpufreakI don't need one, thanks
12:05.28morsingYou look like a girl in those photos...
12:05.28cpufreakI aint no stinking hippie
12:05.37cpufreakmorsing: I was taking the photos, flid.
12:05.54morsingWTF?!  You took a photo of Euan?!
12:06.05morsinghttp://flickr.com/photos/itwasntandy/3217641693/in/set-72157612868296088/
12:06.11morsinghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3217641693_b7ce2a67bd.jpg?v=0
12:06.27wethrinaccuses bacon of being tasty
12:07.59morsingBeer
12:08.03an0keywethrin: it is indeed, guilty, and all gobled up
12:08.13morsingBacon...
12:08.56Nafallohttp://bacolicio.us/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3217641693_b7ce2a67bd.jpg?v=0
12:09.07cpufreakmorsing: thats guillame, he's the drumers in my sister's band
12:10.51morsingHe looks exactly like Euan
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12:37.40morsingjpds!
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22:03.46AndyMillaranyone here got a router they can run "sh ip bgp 209.190.85.1" on and get meaningful results?
22:19.52haliyes
22:20.00halii can see it from three as
22:20.13halihttp://pastebin.com/m21d4d1d7
22:20.43haliactually it just finds my default-originate... never mind
22:29.03hali209.190.0.0/17 is the best i can see, probably aggregated
22:39.11cpufreakPaths: (4 available, best #1) 10297
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23:03.14AndyMillarhali: aye, that /17 is as it should be
23:04.45AndyMillarso it looks like it works :)
23:09.42halithats a huge chunk of space you got there :)
23:13.52AndyMillarthat's not me, but we have stuff PA in there
23:14.10AndyMillarmmh, what's the "smallest" cisco thing I can get to play with bgp on?
23:14.24cpufreaka 2500
23:14.43cpufreakif you want a full table, then you need something with at least 512MB ram these days
23:15.20AndyMillar2600 > 2500?
23:15.24cpufreaksi
23:15.35AndyMillarty
23:15.35cpufreaktbh though if you want to learn, quagga on linux is almost the same syntax
23:16.27AndyMillaris there anything stopping me putting more ram in a really old 2500/2600?
23:16.54cpufreaka 2500 wont take more than about 16MB
23:17.25cpufreaka 2621 wont take more than about 64MB, or 128MB maybe for some models.
23:18.13AndyMillarah
23:18.26AndyMillari can see that being a problem for taking routes :p
23:19.04cpufreak# Standard Memory:   16MB removable
23:19.04cpufreak# Slots:   2 (2 banks of 1)
23:19.05cpufreak# Maximum Memory:   64MB
23:19.11cpufreakfor a 26xx
23:19.21AndyMillarthough that would take a default route (and not much else)
23:19.26cpufreakno.
23:19.29AndyMillarno?
23:19.51AndyMillaram I being a muppet wrt. bgp?
23:19.51cpufreakyou can still fill about 100K routes in 128MB
23:19.59AndyMillarah
23:20.09AndyMillarthe "not much else" bit was wrong \o/
23:20.37AndyMillarso you'd get partial + default route on 128mb?
23:20.52cpufreakindeed
23:21.15AndyMillarthroughput would probably be a little dire though
23:21.34cpufreakbut a 2600 or whatever isn't going to be very useful as you could only push maybe 30-40Mbit/sec from a top level 2600XM
23:22.03cpufreakif you want something to play with, I've got  7206/NPE225 lying about spare in london with 128MB ram in it.
23:22.42AndyMillarthat is strangely tempting :p
23:22.59AndyMillarmmh, a 2121 would probably do some decent throughput and takes 1gb
23:23.04AndyMillar2821*
23:23.25cpufreakno its still a heap of shit
23:23.48AndyMillarmmh, it'd take the routes but throughput would still be bad?
23:23.56cpufreakyes
23:24.14AndyMillarneeds to learn more about this whole networking stuff :p
23:24.20cpufreakserioulsy for anything less than an 7201/7301 out of cisco's current product line, you'd be better off with a PC router.
23:24.47AndyMillarmmh, they had some pdf of router throughputs somewhere
23:25.27AndyMillar2821 is ~60mbit
23:25.43haliimix, you get more with large packets
23:25.52AndyMillarhmm, "process switching vs fast/cef switching" ? :/
23:26.30haliyou _MUST_ use cef to get anything near that speed
23:26.32cpufreakAndyMillar: process switching means the CPU handles it.
23:26.34AndyMillarcpufreak: ah, looks like once you hit the 7200+ ones, you actually get throughout worth writing home abou
23:26.37halieven a 7206 can only do 2mbit without cef
23:26.39AndyMillarabout*
23:26.46AndyMillarwhat is cef?
23:26.49cpufreakfast/cef means its handled by asics
23:26.52cpufreakcisco express forwarding
23:26.53halicisco express forwarding
23:27.02AndyMillarah
23:27.22AndyMillarwhy wouldn't it always use cef if it's so much faster?
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23:27.26haliyes
23:27.30cpufreakbecause you can't always use CEF
23:27.43halisome features require process switching
23:27.44cpufreakdepending on features
23:27.47haliweird qos and filters etc
23:27.50AndyMillarah
23:28.01AndyMillarso "basic" bgp routing is fine with cef
23:28.05cpufreakoh no
23:28.13kraptvwhat did I do!
23:28.25cpufreakall proper routing will be trhough cef.
23:28.33cpufreakbut for example DNS through NAT will hit cpu.
23:28.37cpufreaks/cpu/process/
23:28.48AndyMillarah
23:29.22AndyMillarso if all it has is 2-3 bgp peers (and just forwards packets)... it'll be fine with cef and perform decently
23:31.20AndyMillarmmh, apart from one or two exceptions... anything under the mid end 7200s won't hit 100M
23:32.42cpufreaktbh though I don't know why you;d want to get involved with handling your own routing if you're not pushing more than a few hundred meg/second
23:32.59cpufreakas it adds extra hassle and ballache for little perceivable benefit
23:33.21AndyMillar"for fun" :/
23:33.53cpufreakfun should be confined to labs, and test environments
23:33.58antiphaseIf you have spare hardware sitting around, or some money burning a hole in your ass
23:34.51AndyMillarchrist, 7200s are expensive
23:35.19haliwith a decent sup yes
23:35.24haliand they are EOL'd
23:35.28hali7600 is more fun
23:35.44antiphaseYou're not going to get change from 10 years salary for anything worth having
23:36.00halidepends
23:36.13halii do partial bgp with 5 peers in a pair of 2811's
23:36.31AndyMillar:o
23:36.59AndyMillartbh, that's the sort of thing I'd play with doing
23:37.00haliit's a secondary site, not much traffic... it's just a lot easier to use cisco boxes cross the board
23:37.18halithey have 768megs of ram
23:37.45AndyMillarand max out around 60mbit?
23:37.58halihaven't pushed them to be honest
23:38.04halithey do about 4mbit average
23:38.06antiphasewonders why you bother
23:38.23haliwhats the alternative?
23:38.35AndyMillarmmh, 2801s still push 50mbit
23:38.38haliquagga?
23:38.38antiphaseBuy transit, and let someone else take the pain
23:38.52antiphaseA few Mbps is fuck all to risk on doing your own homebrew networking
23:39.32antiphaseIf you want redundancy, buy transit off two people
23:39.42halihave them announce my space?
23:39.45AndyMillarantiphase: how's that redundant?
23:40.02AndyMillarunless they do what hali just said
23:40.07AndyMillarbut surely that would break
23:40.13antiphaseIf you have your own AS, any provider will happily announce your spce
23:40.30haliyou can iBGP peer with them i guess, or set up ip sla trackers
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23:40.54AndyMillarbut then it becomes easier to do what hali has done :p
23:41.19antiphaseWhy complicate it?
23:41.29haliit's not like basic bgp is rocket science
23:41.42antiphaseYou just get a provider that has a full table, take a default route, and announce your space to them
23:42.03antiphaseThen you take 2 providers like that, and you are multi-homed like the big boys
23:42.05halithat's pretty much what im doing right?
23:42.10antiphaseThere's no "iBGP" about it
23:42.20cpufreakiBGP is where both ends have the same AS.
23:42.30cpufreakso you will never be doing iBGP with a provider
23:42.34haliim taking down the default route and directly connected routes, syncing between two routers
23:42.58cpufreakif you mean where you use a private AS (e.g. 65534) thats still eBGP, just the provider will mask it.
23:43.05cpufreakseriously, I've sites with 20gig of transit where I just take a default from a single provider
23:44.15AndyMillarmmh, a 1801 would take a full table by the sounds of it... but would have "fun" performance
23:44.30antiphasepmsls
23:44.30cpufreakoh fuck off seriously.
23:44.36cpufreakgo play in a lab, and learn
23:44.39AndyMillar:p
23:45.06halimy routing table is only about 8k entries so why not, it's not like the bgp process will kill the cpu
23:45.17AndyMillartakes it that he'd get shot for saying "why not an 800" ;)
23:45.27AndyMillarcan hide now :)
23:45.35antiphasebets they're all static routes that you tend to daily
23:46.06cpufreakhali: because people who don't know what they're doing shouldn't play on production systems..
23:46.15cpufreakI'm not saying you don't as you seem to run a fair amount of stuff
23:46.27cpufreakbut AndyMillar is wanting to learn, he should do that in a lab, not on the 'net
23:46.42AndyMillarheh, i wouldn't do it on anything that actually mattered :)
23:46.54AndyMillari'm not *that* stupuid
23:46.58AndyMillarstupid(
23:47.00AndyMillarargh
23:47.12AndyMillartyping fail*
23:47.33haliplaying with bgp should indeed be done in lab
23:47.41antiphaseI thin kwe understod firts time ;)
23:47.44halias you'll get dampened and kicked off
23:48.13antiphaseYou can't beat some damp flaps
23:48.25halibtw, speaking of routing, virgin broadband seems to be having a lot of routing issues this evening... i get disconnected every few mins
23:48.36AndyMillarhali: what, you mean I can't advertise google's PI? :p
23:48.47haliAndyMillar: sure you can, for a few hours
23:49.05halidepending on if the isp will import it or not, they probably have route-maps for noobs
23:49.24antiphaseThey're called prefix filters where I come from
23:49.41AndyMillaragain, not something i'm stupid enough to do
23:52.07halithere is always gns3, very handy
23:57.47AndyMillari've got some emulator thingy (mentioned in here a week or so ago) for playing with anyway :)
23:59.51halithere is one for juniper as well

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