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TELECOM Digest Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:03:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 445 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Katrina and BellSouth; Interview With Duane Ackerman (Reinhardt Krause) BellSouth New Business Service Center in Gulfport/Biloxi (Michael Walker) Cellular-News for Friday 30th September 2005 (Cellular-News) Bell Labs Details 100-Gbit Ethernet (USTelecom dailyLead ) VOIP Service Providers? (Dan) Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? (Gordon Burditt) Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? (Geo Mitchell) Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? (John Levine) Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? (Barry Margolin) Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? (Jim Hatfield) Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? (Robert Bonomi) Re: WEP Cracking Tools (jmeissen@aracnet.com) Re: WEP Cracking Tools (John McHarry) Re: WEP Cracking Tools (Gerard Bok) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. By using -any name or email address- included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the email. =========================== Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be sold or given away without explicit written consent. Chain letters, viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome. 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Another is wireless competition, even though BellSouth owns 40% of the nation's No. 1 wireless carrier, Cingular, while SBC owns the rest. Wireless growth reduces the need for wirelines, which can be more profitable. And BellSouth risks being dominated by the two bigger local Bells. SBC (SBC) is buying AT&T (T)and Verizon (VZ) is buying MCI. (MCIP) Those deals are expected to close soon. BellSouth Chief Executive Duane Ackerman recently spoke with IBD about all that's on his busy plate nowadays. Here are some excerpts from that interview: IBD: How well-prepared is the telecom industry to handle a national emergency such as Katrina? Ackerman: I don't know of a hardened architecture capable of withstanding a Category 4 or Cat 5 hurricane. There's going to be structural damage. Those are tornadic-force winds. That's going to twist towers, break bridges, knock down highways, put the lights out and damage communications. I don't think we can build an expectation in the public's mind that somehow that (damage) is not supposed to happen. That would be dangerous. We shouldn't expect that there'll be no infrastructure (damage). We've got to do the best we can to prepare and recover. Being in the Southeast, there's a great deal of preparation we always undertake. Last year we had four hurricanes. This year Katrina hit us twice, in Florida as a Category 1 and then again as a Cat 4 on the Gulf Coast. Year after year, we're involved in (natural disasters). I've been in this business 42 years. There's been something like 53 hurricanes that have hit the Southeast during that time. What's important is the ability to recover networks as fast as you can. IBD: Some BellSouth executives have talked about using a rebuilt New Orleans as a showcase for new technology. What's the business case for doing that? Ackerman: Everyone says (the city is) going to be rebuilt and I certainly wouldn't argue with that. I think whatever they do, and the way they do it, and the sequence in which they do it, is going to have an impact on our engineering. If you look at the network switching fabric, when Betsy hit New Orleans in '65, we had water but not to the extent of this time around. We learned from that. All of our switching fabric (this time) was on the second floor (of buildings) or higher. The switching fabric is in good shape; it's dry. From a switching point of view, the network looks recoverable. (Switches are devices used to route voice and data traffic.) Then, there are our interoffice links. We lost some 17% to 20% of interoffice facilities. But we believe that, too, is recoverable. If you look at the central business district of New Orleans, the French Quarter, a large part of Jefferson Parish, and the Garden District, a lot of it is in pretty good shape. But a lot of the city has been underwater. Will we replace everything in New Orleans? No. We'll fix what is fixable. In some cases, where the outside plant (wiring) is damaged or not recoverable, then surely our facility of choice would be fiber (optics, which transmits much faster than normal copper phone wiring). We will be looking at it from an economic point-of-view. When we do put in new (equipment), how can we further our agenda as it relates to building a broadband platform. It has to be done pragmatically and reasonably -- and it will be. IBD: Does eBay's (EBAY) purchase of Internet phone service provider Skype say anything about the long-term threat VoIP poses to phone companies? Ackerman: My sense of VoIP today is that I don't think the stand-alone VoIP provider -- and by that I mean the nonfacilities-based VoIP provider (companies such as Skype and Vonage that don't own DSL or cable modem broadband lines) -- is (going to destroy) the landline phone business. I think there are places where VoIP can help the eBay, Yahoo, (YHOO) Google (GOOG) search business. The cable companies are different because they have landline facilities. They're able to add it to their video package. When I look at competition, the first and most effective competitor I see is wireless. Second, I would say cable with VoIP. I would put stand-alone VoIP providers today at a fairly distant third. IBD: How will the competitive landscape change for BellSouth after SBC buys AT&T and Verizon buys MCI? Ackerman: I think about that. When I sit down today for a competitive bid, or RFP (request for proposals), from a business user, we have SBC at the table, Sprint's there, AT&T, BellSouth is there, MCI, and usually one of the third-party integrators. I suspect that at least two of those players won't be there the next time we sit down. We've been competing against AT&T and MCI for a long time in our territory. I believe they carry the specialized talents that address the high end of the market. I wouldn't expect that to change. Will we see more competition? I don't think so. We'll continue to bring what we have to offer to the table. Large businesses in our territory represents about 8% or 9% of our revenue. The high-high end of (the business market) is probably another half of that. We don't control (have) those accounts today. But we provide services to many of the state governments, hospitals, regional banks. There are portions of the market where we're well-positioned. IBD: Some analysts say that SBC's acquisition of AT&T will create a business conflict with BellSouth. They say SBC will try to sell Cingular's wireless services along with AT&T's products to business customers in BellSouth's region. Are you concerned about that? Ackerman: Let's talk about the wireless joint venture. Cingular is a big business. It has 53 million customers. If it were a stand-alone business, it would probably be in the Fortune 30, Fortune 35. That's too big a business for me to let fail. Given that scale, it's too big for SBC to want to fail. We're committed to making sure it succeeds. The governance of Cingular is 50-50. What we (SBC and BellSouth) have to say about how it's run is equal. We both have a significant interest in seeing to it that Cingular continues to grow and improve its margins. I don't see anything that would create an environment where we would let Cingular fail. That's not going to happen. Will there be conflicts at the enterprise (corporate) table? There are conflicts there today. SBC has been in our territory a couple a years now (competing for business customers). So has Verizon. In some cases, we work with other carriers or partner with them, depending on the customer. I think the industry is mature enough to realize there are places where you compete, and you compete like crazy, and there are places where it makes sense to partner. You do what makes sense and you don't go around getting mad. IBD: Lawmakers in Congress are introducing new telecom legislation. It's unclear what will pass or when. What would BellSouth like to see in telecom reform? Ackerman: We'd like to see less regulation. When I look at where we'd like to go -- whether it's video franchises or any aspect of this business -- if it doesn't need to be regulated, forbear. We've got cable out there competing. We've got the VoIP providers in this game. We've got all kinds of competition. We're losing (customer) lines to competition. Why in the world do we need to continue all these rules and regulations? Will it get done in 2006? I don't know. Based on what I've seen (in proposed bills), we've got a lot of work to do. IBD: There's plenty of talk about wireless broadband. BellSouth has some radio spectrum it could use for that. What are your plans? Ackerman: We're testing a version of wireless broadband in Athens, Ga. We're going to test it in a few more places, mostly rural, where you may not have (DSL, the phone companies' wireline broadband) available. I'm inclined to believe that if the costs are right, we could get a very effective (wireless broadband) capability in areas that don't have other forms of broadband. Whether it'll compete effectively with a DSL, a cable-modem (broadband) product or fiber connectivity is less clear to me. We'll have to see how the technology does in the marketplace in these tests. Copyright Investor's Business Daily, Inc. 2000-2005. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ From: Michael Walker <michael.walker@bellsouth.com) Subject: BellSouth Open Business Service Center in Gulport, MS Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:32:37 -0500 GULFPORT, Miss., Sep 28, 2005 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- BellSouth (BLS) announced today that in its ongoing effort to help businesses in the Gulfport/Biloxi area, a local service center tent has been opened to provide assistance to local business owners. Beginning today, BellSouth representatives are available in an open-air storefront where business customers can come and talk with BellSouth communication experts one-on-one. In the service center, business owners will be able to: Check specific locations where service is available Free phone, Internet, and Wi-Fi HotSpot Access Re-establish phone service, high-speed Internet service and more at a current, new or temporary location Purchase onsite routers, modems, handsets and other equipment Receive print and CD-rom copies of the Mississippi Gulf Coast area edition of The Real Yellow Pages The service center is located at Prime Factory Outlet Shops, 10000 Factory Shops Boulevard, Gulfport MS 39503 and is open from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday. "There is an enormous need to help small businesses in getting back up on their feet," says David Scobey, president-BellSouth Small Business Services. "In this service center, customers can access the communication tools they need to continue their business and stay in touch with their customers." About BellSouth Corporation BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth has joint control and 40 percent ownership of Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest wireless voice and data provider with 51.6 million customers. More information about BellSouth can be found at www.bellsouth.com. More information about BellSouth Small Business can be found via www.bellsouth.com/smallbusiness or by calling 1-866-620-6000. NOTE: For more information about BellSouth, visit the BellSouth Web page at http://www.bellsouth.com. CONTACT: Rick Stewart, Regional Manager Tel: +1 228 868 5009 e-mail: Rick.Stewart@bellsouth.com Mike Walker, Director of External Affairs Tel: +1 601 961 1160 e-mail: Michael.Walker@bellsouth.com M2 Communications Ltd disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. 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I believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner, in this instance, Market Watch. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ Subject: Cellular-News for Friday 30th September 2005 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:37:27 -0500 From: Cellular-News <dailydigest@cellular-news.com> Cellular-News - http://www.cellular-news.com Jordan Handset Imports Soar http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14246.php BIS Shrapnel has forecasted the number of handset shipped to Jordan by the end of 2005 to reach 1.5 million units (including re-export). The mobile handset market is expected to continue exhibiting phenomenal growth out ... Changing Times in the Smart Mobile Device Market http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14247.php Canalys research indicates that the trends observed within the EMEA mobile device market in 2004 have accelerated during the first half of 2005. Shipments of converged smart mobile devices, namely smart phones and wirele... Nigerian Operator Plans US$2 Billion Network Expansion Plan http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14248.php Nigeria's Vmobile has selected Ericsson as a strategic partner for its 'Roll Out Service Everywhere' (ROSE) project estimated at US$2 billion over the next 2 years. This initiative will see the Nigerian operator add 3,00... Buy ringtones on Skype http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14249.php Skype has signed an agreement with Qpass to start selling ringtones and other mobile content on the Skype web site. The Personalise Skype service allows Skype users with the latest version of Skype for Windows 1.4 to dow... 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Ericsson Signs 3-Year Contract With SeaMobile http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14245.php Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Telefon AB L.M Ericsson (ERICY) Thursday said it has signed a three-year contract with SeaMobile Inc. ... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:01:45 EDT From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com> Subject: Bell Labs Details 100-Gbit Ethernet Over Optical Fiber USTelecom dailyLead September 30, 2005 http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/uUvMatagCqqewhnTeu TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * Bell Labs details 100-Gbit Ethernet over optical fiber BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * BT sets 2006 launch date for IPTV * Marketing to mobile phones * Verizon inks Weather Channel for TV service * Report: Cingular to forge ahead with FMC * Liberty Global snaps up another European cable operator USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT * Reserve your TELECOM '05 room now! Deadline is today! TECHNOLOGY TRENDS * The future of the Web VOIP DOWNLOAD * Some VoIP customers run into number portability snag * Analysis: VoIP business model likely to change REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * Ebbers files appeal * Motorola exec calls for better emergency communications system Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/uUvMatagCqqewhnTeu ------------------------------ From: Dan <dan@nospam.com> Subject: VOIP Service Providers? Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:13:18 -0500 Hi, I currently have Vonage for the last 4 months and have noticed the quality degrade and problems increase. I am thinking of switching to Packet8, but would like to hear others' opinions. Thanks, Dan ------------------------------ From: gordonb.ian3f@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) Subject: Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:33:34 -0000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com > Is there any way to change the MAC address of a machine? Sometimes, depending on the network card and the OS software. For example, in FreeBSD you might use: ifconfig de0 ether 01:23:45:67:89:ab I understand Linux has a similar ability, and I think Windows XP can do it in a much more GUI-ish way. Some routers have a "clone MAC address" ability. This won't change the MAC address kept in the ROM, so the command has to be re-done every time the machine boots. > IP address is assigned by ISP. My understanding is that IP address > is based on the MAC address of a machine, is that correct concept? When using DHCP or BOOTP, the IP address may be assigned based on the MAC address due to the configuration of the DHCP server (or it might just take an available currently-unused one from the pool). Note that an unrecognized MAC address might be denied service entirely rather than given a different IP. This depends entirely on how your ISP set up the DHCP server. If a machine is manually assigned an IP address or it is being assigned an IP address from a DHCP server that YOU control, you may assign any IP address. There's no magic formula that you can use to calculate an IP address from a MAC address. Gordon L. Burditt ------------------------------ From: George Mitchell <george@m5p.com> Subject: Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:50:15 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com jrefactors@hotmail.com wrote: > Is there any way to change the MAC address of a machine? IP address is > assigned by ISP. My understanding is that IP address is based on the > MAC address of a machine, is that correct concept? > Please advise. Thanks!! At the lowest level, they are completely unrelated. In a practical sense, methods exist for assigning IP addresses based on MAC addresses, but your ISP almost certainly has assigned your IP address to your physical line, and changing your MAC address is unlikely to have any effect on your IP address. Changing your MAC address is as easy as buying another ethernet card and substituting it. For a PC, that makes it pretty trivial. For a router, it's as simple as buying another router. But neither of these will have any detectable effect outside your local net. -- George Mitchell (obfuscated email address) ------------------------------ Date: 29 Sep 2005 21:36:35 -0000 From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA > Is there any way to change the MAC address of a machine? IP address is > assigned by ISP. My understanding is that IP address is based on the > MAC address of a machine, is that correct concept? No. Your IP address has nothing whatsoever to do with your MAC address. Your ISP assigns it from their pool of available addresses. On my tiny network, when someone plugs in a new computer, it just assigns the lowest numbered unused IP address. R's, John ------------------------------ From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? Organization: Symantec Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:41:16 -0400 In article <telecom24.444.6@telecom-digest.org>, jrefactors@hotmail.com wrote: > Is there any way to change the MAC address of a machine? IP address is On Windows I think you may have to edit the registry to do it. On most home broadband routers, you can do it from their web-based configuration system. > assigned by ISP. My understanding is that IP address is based on the > MAC address of a machine, is that correct concept? Sort of. The ISP's DHCP server typically remembers the IP address that it previously assigned to a MAC address. When that MAC address requests an IP address later, it tries to give it the same address if it's still available. So on broadband ISPs, the IP address usually stays the same when the MAC address stays the same. Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** ------------------------------ From: Jim Hatfield <jim.hatfield@insignia.com> Subject: Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:10:01 +0100 Organization: Insignia Solutions Reply-To: jim.hatfield@insignia.com On 29 Sep 2005 08:10:37 -0700, jrefactors@hotmail.com wrote: > Is there any way to change the MAC address of a machine? IP address is > assigned by ISP. My understanding is that IP address is based on the > MAC address of a machine, is that correct concept? The Mac address is a property of the Ethernet interface, so if that is provided by a card such as a PCI or PCMCIA card, changing it for a different one will change the Mac address. The IP address is not necessarily based on the Mac address. If you get IP assignment by DHCP (and maybe PPPoE but I'm not familiar with that) you will get a free address from a pool assigned at random. You may then get to keep the same IP address so long as the Mac address of your PC does not change but this is not guaranteed. For example my girlfriend's PC will get a different IP address if she power cycles her cable modem, even though her PC's Mac address does not change. This is a pain because my firewall is set up to allow her IP address to connect to my POP3 server and so I have to change the setting whenever she does this. -- Jim Hatfield ------------------------------ From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) Subject: Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:51:54 -0000 Organization: Widgets, Inc. In article <telecom24.444.6@telecom-digest.org>, <jrefactors@hotmail.com> wrote: > Is there any way to change the MAC address of a machine? Yes. > IP address is assigned by ISP. My understanding is that IP address > is based on the MAC address of a machine, is that correct concept? Maybe. depends on the ISP. > Please advise. Don't mess with what you don't understand. :) ------------------------------ From: jmeissen@aracnet.com Subject: Re: WEP Cracking Tools Date: 29 Sep 2005 18:12:18 GMT Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com In article <telecom24.444.8@telecom-digest.org>, <apngss@yahoo.com> wrote: > Many people say WEP is not secure in wireless networking, and easy to > crack the WEP key. > Are there any tools out there to do the WEP cracking? Yes, there are. Are you asking us to help you crack someone else's secured network? John Meissen jmeissen@aracnet.com ------------------------------ From: John McHarry <jmcharry@comcast.net> Subject: Re: WEP Cracking Tools Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:22:12 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:25:40 -0700, apngss wrote: > Many people say WEP is not secure in wireless networking, and easy to > crack the WEP key. > Are there any tools out there to do the WEP cracking? Yes. Any other questions, grasshopper? ------------------------------ From: bok118@zonnet.nl (Gerard Bok) Subject: Re: WEP Cracking Tools Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:21:57 GMT On 28 Sep 2005 23:25:40 -0700, apngss@yahoo.com wrote: > Many people say WEP is not secure in wireless networking, and easy to > crack the WEP key. > Are there any tools out there to do the WEP cracking? Yes, there are. But it wouldn't be wise to point anyone to them :-) Kind regards, Gerard Bok [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Since no one wishes to help apngss on this question I am giving him three sources for him to review. These are all easily obtainable from Google. http://popupblocker/no-ip.info/wep/cracking/programs/ (and also) http://freevirusscan.hopto.org/wep/cracking/programs/ (and also) http://spamfilter.zapto.org/cracking/wep I hope these help you in your research on the topic. PAT] ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm- unications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational service offered to the Internet by Patrick Townson. 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