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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. Here’s how to tell apart the following IP addresses: IPv4 and IPv6. When it comes to IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, these are mainly used to find your location and identify who you are. Dynamic and static.

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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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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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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? I hope you’re able to find something useful here! Networking.

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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

Galido

IPv6 support. Windows and WMI performance counters. They also provide a Windows, Android and iOS app, enabling you to connect to more than one core server to retrieve monitoring data. As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor. Extensive event logging. Flexible Alerts.

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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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Technology Short Take #72

Scott Lowe

Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. Servers/Hardware. Full details are in this Docker blog post , but the gist—as I understand it—is that the commercially-supported variant of Docker Engine will be supplied with Windows Server 2016 and Microsoft will provide support. Networking. Virtualization.

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