Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Servers/Hardware. John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. That prompted Cody Bunch to write this article on setting up a topology with BGP on Linux using the topology converter , which I’m now mentioning in this Technology Short Take. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. Servers/Hardware. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Welcome to Technology Short Take #57. I hope you find something useful here!

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Servers/Hardware. This article by Michael Gugino provides some details on getting GRE tunnels over IPv6 with Open vSwitch running on CentOS 7. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60