Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2015

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. These protections are also expensive to implement in hardware.

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IPv6 Firewall Network Mobile 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Servers/Hardware. Who would have thought that one day you’d refer to a Microsoft web site for instructions on configuring something in Linux? John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk. Read this post.)

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. Servers/Hardware. 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. It’s pretty cool stuff. followed by a quick 2.4.1

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

I’m not sure if this falls here or into the “Cloud Computing/Cloud Computing” category, but Shannon McFarland—fellow co-conspirator with the Denver OpenStack Meetup group—has a nice article describing some design and deployment considerations for IPv6 in the OpenStack Kilo release. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #57. I hope you find something useful here! Networking. Larry Smith Jr. has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!”

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Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60