Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. It provides the basics behind X.509v3

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SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.)

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #70!

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here’s a good source. Servers/Hardware. If you’re looking for more information on how all the various pieces fit together, I definitely recommend reading this—it’s worth your time. While written for OS X, most of these tips apply to Linux or other Unix-like operating systems as well. Any thoughts?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.)

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

This is, of course, just one way of handling subnets within a VPC, but some of the principles outlined in Christopher’s article are definitely sound. Servers/Hardware. I’ll keep an eye open for links to include next time around. Christopher Davis has an article discussing a recommended VPC subnet configuration.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Servers/Hardware. Definitely worth reading, in my view. Only a true geek would be interested in this, but here’s some information on running OpenBSD in KVM on Linux. Given my past interest in OpenBSD and my present interest in KVM on Linux, this might be something I’ll be trying myself soon.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

Servers/Hardware. ” While the post is clearly Sysdig-oriented (as would be fully expected), it’s also cool to see how powerful the assembly of various open source projects can be. Thomas Graf explains why the Linux kernel community is replacing iptables with BPF. Sorry, I don’t have anything for you.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

It would be great to see Docker get support for connecting containers directly to Open vSwitch (OVS), which is generally considered the de facto standard for networking on Linux hosts. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, but I’ll keep my eyes open for more content to include next time.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

with the Floodlight open source controller. Servers/Hardware. Both of these are definitely worth reading if you want a bit more detail on how one of VMware’s newest technologies, VSAN, is going to impact the end-user computing (EUC) space. on flow table explosion with OpenFlow. Technology Short Take #30.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Vamosi: Beau and Paulino are two of the five authors of Practical IoT Hacking: The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things , a new book from no starch press available from Amazon and other fine booksellers. When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Vamosi: Beau and Paulino are two of the five authors of Practical IoT Hacking: The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things , a new book from no starch press available from Amazon and other fine booksellers. When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Bird , by the way, is an open source routing daemon for Linux, *BSD, and other UNIX-like operating systems.). Servers/Hardware. It’s definitely worth having a look if you are a Mac user and in need of mastering some Docker basics. No problem, Ravello Systems has a blog (and a blueprint) to help you set all this up.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It manages all the hardware and all the software on a system. So what do we mean by managing all the hardware? That program, then, handled all the issues of hardware and software. And now, what has happened is we've got much more massive hardware, much more massive memory, much more massive applications. And software?

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Alban Crequy has a post on using Linux queueing disciplines (qdiscs, for short) to help with testing application behavior under degraded network conditions. Cumulus Networks has added another hardware partner to its list of supported hardware partners; this time it’s Mellanox, as outlined in this SDx Central article. Good stuff.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason! I didn’t think that OpenFlow itself was actually open source (even though there are multiple open source implementations of various OpenFlow products).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In part 2 Larry walks through the node definitions in Vagrant , and in part 3 he reviews the Vagrantfile and turns up the environment. Servers/Hardware. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

These aren’t the features that set the keyboard apart however; what really makes this keyboard special are the customization options and how receptive it is to modding, thanks to its open-source software, hot-swap PCB, and its small but enthusiastic community. This software is available for PC, Mac, and Linux.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

More and more criminals are identified through open source intelligence (OSINT). Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. And they did, relatively quickly, using something known as Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT. You find clues.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Extend Intel’s reach with non-IA hardware (FM6000 series, QuickAssist Server Acceleration Card [QASAC]. Use software, especially open source software, to drive more development toward Intel-based solutions. As others have said, an definitely an interesting time to be in technology.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And in this episode, I'm going to be discussing the world of reverse engineering hardware. It's not network security where you can download a spec or code and analyze it on your Linux box. Vamosi: And then there's the small matter of hardware itself. Hard and hardware hack with no hardware. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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