back from akl — Truman Boyes

Went up to Auckland today on AirNZ; next time I should use google maps to find exactly where the destination location exists. I paid a $25 cab fee to take me 5 minutes away (flat rate from airport) to a logistics depot. The purpose of the visit: check out some M10i’s that were dropped by a freight carrier. They were all good, so I headed down to Wellington.

The AirNZ Koru Club in the domestic terminal of Auckland is actually really nice. I was surprised because I have had some horrific service from AirNZ, but the place was a real treat, and it actually served as my lunch, as I had worked through my normal lunch time.

Tomorrow, meetings in Australia, then spending the weekend kicking around Sydney. Maybe we can book a trip on the Darling Harbour Bridge for the bridge walk. I hope to do something exciting …

On another thought of the day; it is possible to run IPsec SA’s in transport mode to protect OSPFv2. Impossible you say? OSPFv2 only supports no encryption, plain text, and md5? Sure, but on JUNOS you can also use IPSEC in a proprietary manner. And it even works on broadcast links / sham links, etc. The cool part of this feature is that with pre-shared keys on the core routers running OSPF with IPSEC is that you are not vulnerable to md5 collisions and the data is actually encrypted, not just hashed.

Originally published on truman.net. See the archived copy.