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Technology Short Take 146

Scott Lowe

Denise Fishburne has a 7-part series on IPv6. Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications. Operating Systems/Applications. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well.

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Technology Short Take 146

Scott Lowe

Denise Fishburne has a 7-part series on IPv6. Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications. Operating Systems/Applications. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well.

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BGP: What is border gateway protocol, and how does it work?

Network World

One comparison likens BGP to GPS applications on mobile phones. IPv6 crossed this milestone late last year. In late 2017, for example, traffic sent to and from Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft was briefly routed through an Internet service provider in Russia. What is Border Gateway Protocol?

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. There was a fair amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth when Apple updated the MacBook Pro line with the Touch Bar. Operating Systems/Applications. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications.

Linux 60
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Technology Short Take #57

Scott Lowe

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. Operating Systems/Applications. It appears that applications that were written for Nano Server may require some porting/modification, which in turn may negatively impact the adoption of Nano Server among Microsoft’s customers and ISVs. Networking.

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Technology Short Take #65

Scott Lowe

Operating Systems/Applications. Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? Psst, hey Frank: “Mac” is the hardware from Apple, “MAC” is an acronym that stands for Media Access Control (in networking circles, as in “MAC address”) or “Mandatory Access Control” (in security circles). on Kubernetes, which does make a fair amount of sense.

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Introduction to Networking: Part 1, The Basics

Scott Lowe

The first pertains to the Media Access Control sublayer of the OSI model; the second pertains to a line of computers made by Apple, Inc. You shouldn’t call an Apple computer a MAC, and you shouldn’t refer to a Media Access Control address as a Mac address. There’s a reason I’m mentioning all of this.

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