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Open vSwitch Day at OpenStack Summit 2017

Scott Lowe

This is a “liveblog” (not quite live, but you get the idea) of the Open vSwitch Open Source Day happening at the OpenStack Summit in Boston. Feature parity and user interface parity between OVS/OVN on Hyper-V is really close to OVS/OVN on Linux, which should make it easier for Linux sysadmins to use OVS/OVN on Hyper-V as well.

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Open vSwitch Day at OpenStack Summit 2017

Scott Lowe

This is a “liveblog” (not quite live, but you get the idea) of the Open vSwitch Open Source Day happening at the OpenStack Summit in Boston. Feature parity and user interface parity between OVS/OVN on Hyper-V is really close to OVS/OVN on Linux, which should make it easier for Linux sysadmins to use OVS/OVN on Hyper-V as well.

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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. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Networking.

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All About BIND DNS: Who, How, & Why

Linux Academy

Originally written in the 1980s at the University of California’s Berkeley campus, BIND is a free and open-source software package. Typically, the people who manage BIND DNS servers day to day are network administrators or system administrators who are comfortable in Linux/UNIX. Benefits of Using BIND. BIND is customizable.

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Technology Short Take #57

Scott Lowe

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Ed Haletky shares some pain he experienced recently with a KVM host running Open vSwitch (OVS).

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Technology Short Take #65

Scott Lowe

Although it’s not feature-complete (by a long shot), VMware recently open-sourced version 0.1 Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? This Yelp Engineering blog post talks about one of these unintended side effects (processes running as PID 1 are treated differently by the Linux kernel). Operating Systems/Applications.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Scanning the Internet

ForAllSecure

So we have far less users for Mac and Linux than we have on Windows. Vamosi: Most antivirus products are found on Windows, much less so on Mac and Linux. Vamosi: Zmap is a very fast open source, TCP, UDP and ICMP scanner. ipv6 is designed to overcome the problems of ipv4 address exhaustion.