wire@iwarpj.intel.com (Wire Moore) (11/03/87)
The reading getting a might thick for me, and others I suspect, who are green to this group. Would someone post a glossary of the slang this group favors? Thanks. [fuzzball? bogon? gong?]
JBVB@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("James B. VanBokkelen") (11/07/87)
A fuzzball is a gateway, or IP router, (running on PDP11s, I think) which Dave Mills authored. They are common, because the software is in the public domain, and they seem to have many desirable characteristics, particularly for tinkerers. A bogon is a particle (alias packet) that transmits bogosity. I guess it is also a happy accident that it rhymes with Vogon, because the bogus info is frequently offensive and/or destructive. Gong? I dunno. jbvb
hedrick@ARAMIS.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles Hedrick) (11/08/87)
fuzzball - the name of a kind of IP router. It is based on an LSI-11, and is used on the NSFnet backbone and various other critical places. The code is maintained by Dave Mills, and is often referred to by him as "fuzzware". swamp - a collection of networks. The implication is that they overall architecture is somewhat dubious (e.g. connected by a mixture of level 2 and level 3 things, with several networks numbers on a single cable). bogon - a bogus packet, often a packet that has escaped the net it is supposed to be on, e.g. a packet on the Arpanet addressed to 127.0.0.1 (the Unix loopback interface address), however it is also used to refer to packets with other kinds of errors. Martian - properly speaking, a packet addressed to net 126.0.0.0, which is reserved for the Central University of Mars. By extension, any packet addressed to an unallocated or reserved IP address, or to a broadcast address. (These packets could also be called bogons, of course.) A "Martian filter" is a pieces of code designed to discard Martians.
Mills@UDEL.EDU (11/09/87)
Wire, You have a wonderful treat in store for you. Don't worry about the slang, since after all it changes warp and woof as the seasons do go by. After a few months of delicious indifference it will all come clear to you in a flash: bogons are alien invaders, gong is the stuff outhouses sit on and fuzzballs are what dry-cleaning establishments remove for a living. Do I lie? Ask anybody. Dave
Mills@UDEL.EDU (11/11/87)
James, Gong (n). Medieval term for privvy, or what pased for them in that era. Today used whimsically to describe the aftermath of a bogon attack. Think of our community as the Galapagos of the English language. Dave
swb@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Scott Brim) (11/17/87)
>A bogon is a particle (alias packet) that transmits bogosity. I guess it is >also a happy accident that it rhymes with Vogon, because the bogus info is >frequently offensive and/or destructive. Happy accident? Absolutely intentional; the analogy with a particle came later. "Vogons may read you bad poetry, but bogons make you study obsolete RFCs." >Gong? I dunno. This is Dave Mills's, derived from "gongfermer". It's worth asking him to repost his explanation. Scott
kozel@SPAM.ISTC.SRI.COM.UUCP (11/19/87)
(This note really pertains to AWKing cisco gateway output) In an earlier note you mentioned some AWK filters you have to parse the cisco statistics dumps; could these be made available or mailed to me? We want to do the same thing; your effort would certainly save some time. thanks, Ed Kozel SRI International