Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Linux may be coming to the Apple M1 chip. Linux may be coming to the Apple M1 chip. Thinking of buying an M1-powered Mac?

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Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Patrick Ogenstad outlines what’s involved with managing Cisco IOS upgrades with Ansible.

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. There was a fair amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth when Apple updated the MacBook Pro line with the Touch Bar. Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Operating Systems/Applications. Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Read more about it here.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting read: the story of some security researchers who hacked on Apple for three months. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. Servers/Hardware. Howard Oakley of The Eclectic Light Company discusses some details on Apple’s M1 chip and what it does differently than other chips. Networking.

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Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. ” Get ready to get nerdy! Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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