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Interop Liveblog: IPv6 Microsegmentation

Scott Lowe

This session was titled “IPv6 Microsegmentation,” and the speaker was Ivan Pepelnjak. The session starts with a discussion of the problems found in Layer 2 IPv6 networks. Note that some of these attacks are also common to IPv4 and are not necessarily unique to IPv6. Can we use shared Layer 3 IPv6 subnets?

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. I won’t steal Matt’s thunder; go have a look at the post yourself to see if you agree with his assessment.

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Technology Short Take #51

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful in this collection! Networking. Pretty painless, to be honest.

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Technology Short Take #84

Scott Lowe

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. This post by Jason Valentino describing the move of Capital One’s largest customer-facing applications to AWS is a really good read. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take #84

Scott Lowe

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. This post by Jason Valentino describing the move of Capital One’s largest customer-facing applications to AWS is a really good read. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take #72

Scott Lowe

Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. Operating Systems/Applications. One of the big news items from this past week was the announcement at MS Ignite of the commercial partnership between Microsoft and Docker. Enough of that, though…bring on the content! Networking. followed by a quick 2.4.1

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