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Technology Short Take 146

Scott Lowe

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Denise Fishburne has a 7-part series on IPv6. Julia Evans recently released a tool named dnspeep to help folks understand how DNS works. Servers/Hardware. But enough with the introduction—let’s get into the content!

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Technology Short Take 146

Scott Lowe

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Denise Fishburne has a 7-part series on IPv6. Julia Evans recently released a tool named dnspeep to help folks understand how DNS works. Servers/Hardware. But enough with the introduction—let’s get into the content!

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Beyond the Office: Securing Home Devices and Networks Against Corporate Breaches

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What Can You Get from an IP Address and Why is it Important?

Galido

For those who are scratching their heads, a good example of hardware that uses a data link layer is an ethernet cable. Now that we’ve got that down, a network layer is a tool that sends data across the Internet. Here’s how to tell apart the following IP addresses: IPv4 and IPv6. Dynamic and static.

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Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Ajeet Singh Raina shares a list of the top 200 Kubernetes tools for DevOps engineers. Networking.

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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

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PRTG Network Monitor is a solid infrastructure management tool and network monitor. It is a helpful tool for organizations of all sizes, from SMEs to large corporations, making networks more solid and reliable. IPv6 support. As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor.

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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. 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.

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