Network World

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

If portions of enterprise data-center networks have no need to communicate directly with the internet, then why do we configure routers so every system on the network winds up with internet access by default? Also on Network World: IPv6 deployment guide ; What is edge computing and how it’s changing the network? +

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IPv6 Security Firewall How To 83

CTOvision

APRIL 3, 2014

They are: Axon Ghost Sentinel – Hugh Brooks, President, Harrisonburg, VA – Inspired by natural self-organizing systems, Axon Ghost Sentinel’s cyber security products provide lightweight, adaptive, scalable, and decentralized security for mobile and traditional devices, and enterprise networks. Fast Orientation, Inc.

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Company IPv6 Enterprise Enterprise 258

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) helps thousands of organizations around the world to better understand and improve their information security posture. It recently announced it is making new, bold pushes relating to information security and privacy for 2021 and beyond. Trustworthy networks. Securing emerging technologies.

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IPv6 Information Security Education Security 71

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Networking. Denise Fishburne has a 7-part series on IPv6. Russ White shares Russ' rules for network design. Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

Network World

DECEMBER 14, 2016

While the Internet of Things has started to become useful, many are still freaked out about devices not working well together and becoming security liabilities. Test services will apply to devices for homes, industrial networks, smart cities and connected cars, according to UNH-IOL.

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IPv6 Internet Security Network 60

Galido

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Along with Transmission Control Protocol, a person’s IP address is what lets their computer communicate with their Wi-Fi network. First of all, your Internet network is composed of four distinct parts, including something called a data link layer. Here’s how to tell apart the following IP addresses: IPv4 and IPv6.

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IPv6 Internet Network Virtualization 105

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Networking. Denise Fishburne has a 7-part series on IPv6. Russ White shares Russ' rules for network design. Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

CTOvision

APRIL 25, 2017

The operator played a critical function in establishing a global telephone network where any phone could talk to any phone. And when you authorize any device to join your home network, your network and your device are smart enough to automatically configure themselves to use your ISP's DNS service. But guess what? They get data.

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Fashion Examples Internet Network 177

CTOvision

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

If IoT devices supporting IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) are introduced, the potential for larger DDoS attacks compounds. These sensors would be deployed in a Machine to Machine (M2M) network, but could utilize 6LoWPAN to connect to the internet. After all, there is strength in numbers.

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Internet IPv6 Malware Wireless 150

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Networking. Isovalent, the folks behind Cilium, recently unveiled the Network Policy Editor, a graphical way of editing Kubernetes Network Policies. Ivan Pepelnjak, the font of all networking knowledge, has been discussing cloud networking in some detail for a good while now. Want/need to better understand IPv6?

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Networking. 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. Want to understand kube-proxy , a key part of Kubernetes networking, a bit better? I hope you’re able to find something useful here!

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 8, 2017

IPv4 and IPv6 networking. Minor areas of focus included resiliency, manageability, security, and the overall user experience (UX). A few Queens enhancements that were called out on the slides include: Support Kubernetes Network Policy semantics by mapping to Neutron security groups. Modularity. Interoperability.

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IPv6 Network Examples Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2017

The second part of the session showed using OVN under Kubernetes to provide networking between Windows containers on Windows hosts and Linux containers on Linux hosts, including networking across multiple cloud providers. OVN Gateway and IPv6 Support. Lightning Talks. OVN Tutorial.

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IPv6 Linux Open Source Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2017

The second part of the session showed using OVN under Kubernetes to provide networking between Windows containers on Windows hosts and Linux containers on Linux hosts, including networking across multiple cloud providers. OVN Gateway and IPv6 Support. Lightning Talks. OVN Tutorial.

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IPv6 Linux Open Source Windows 60

Galido

JANUARY 20, 2019

5G networks will also diffuse intelligence across the entire network, from the device to the data center. In 5G networks, applications can also be hosted in mobile edge computing nodes such as “cloudlets.” Reduce energy consumption in the network by up to 90%. 99% network availability.

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Network Mobile Virtualization Wireless 96

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Networking. Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Ivan Pepelnjak has a great article that tries to get to the kernel of truth in the middle of the intent-based networking hype. The company is VirTool Networks (catchy, eh?), Servers/Hardware.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Galido

JANUARY 20, 2019

5G networks will also diffuse intelligence across the entire network, from the device to the data center. In 5G networks, applications can also be hosted in mobile edge computing nodes such as “cloudlets.” Reduce energy consumption in the network by up to 90%. 99% network availability.

Network 84

Network Mobile Virtualization Wireless 84

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Networking. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Good advice.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Welcome to Technology Short Take #84! OK, bring on the links!

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Welcome to Technology Short Take #84! OK, bring on the links!

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Networking. Rick Sherman has an article on using Jinja2 templates for network automation , including a practical example.

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Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

We also are moving away from our old 123456 temporary passwords and are randomly generating one on demand for additional security (you do have the ability to reset your password as well). IPv6 is another major addition to the platform, reflecting the next generation of networking. Upgraded interface and server logs.

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Training Cloud Linux Course 60

Linux Academy

JANUARY 14, 2020

For small or uncomplicated networks, BIND by itself is well suited to provide all DNS-related service functions. Typically, the people who manage BIND DNS servers day to day are network administrators or system administrators who are comfortable in Linux/UNIX. Who Uses BIND? BIND also gives you very granular control over a DNS server.

IPv6 22

IPv6 Open Source Linux Network 22

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Welcome to Technology Short Take #84! Servers/Hardware.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Networking. Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? Are you a network engineer who wants to expand his or her automation skills, but doesn’t have the equipment? Jason Edelman recently announced self-service and on-demand network infrastructure.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Networking. I love this post from Matt Oswalt on five next-gen skills for networking pros. Not everyone agrees, though—here’s Steven Noble’s take on the introduction of 6-pack and why this is pushing the networking industry forward. Here’s hoping you find something useful. Bring on the content!

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

These customers are satisfied with the general security controls and procedures in AWS but in these more sensitive cases they often need assurances that only personnel that meet certain requirements, e.g. citizenship or permanent residency, can access their data. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

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Government Cloud Big Data Resources 113

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The naming system that we are all most familiar with in the internet is the Domain Name System (DNS) that manages the naming of the many different entities in our global network; its most common use is to map a name to an IP address, but it also provides facilities for aliases, finding mail servers, managing security keys, and much more.

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Cloud Internet System Applications 117

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Networking Kevin Jin’s post on the APNIC blog about network automation tools is a great read. He discusses Netmiko, NAPALM, and Nornir in some detail, and provides some guidance around which network automation tool may be right for you. Anton Kuliashov writes about why Palark uses Cilium for Kubernetes networking.

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IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

Digital infrastructure, of course, includes communications network infrastructure — including 5G, Fifth-Generation Fixed Network (F5G), Internet Protocol version 6+ (IPv6+), the Internet of Things (IoT), and the Industrial Internet — alongside computing infrastructure, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), storage, computing, and data centers.

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Network Transportation Storage Industry 105

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If you want or need to use multiple Wireguard interfaces, you’ll need either separate network interfaces or use multiple ports. Modify the security group(s) to allow UDP port 51280 to the instance(s) that will have defined Wireguard interfaces. You may not need this (but I suspect many people will).

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Linux Network IPv6 Tools 78

The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Is Matter going to keep my smart home private and secure? Thread is a primary protocol used by Matter and a border router is a bridge between a Thread network and a Wi-Fi network, the other protocol used by Matter. Amazon’s mesh Wi-Fi network company Eero has committed to supporting Matter , too. Image: Apple. Door locks.

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Apple Security Google Network 71

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Networking. Michael Ryom has a nice (but short) article on using Log Insight along with a NetFlow proxy to help provide more detailed visibility into traffic flows between VMs on NSX logical networks. BGP seems to be emerging as an early front-runner for a standards-based control plane for software networking. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

Coupled with the advent of the Internet and the development of new technologies such as IPv6, VOIP, IoT, and 5G, companies are suddenly awash in more data than ever before. That’s because companies didn’t have sufficient computing power, storage capabilities, or enough data to make an investment in developing ML and AI models worthwhile.

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Enterprise Enterprise IPv6 Storage 98

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Networking. Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Perhaps there was a bulletin board behind it, or perhaps there was a corporate network. We try to understand as much as possible about the network protocol and the malicious activity that this particular malware does. Vamosi: ISPs don't like their users scanning from their network for various good reasons. Vamosi: In many cases.

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Internet Malware Research Linux 52

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Networking. If you haven’t read Brent’s article on building network tools with Docker , I highly recommend it. Welcome to Technology Short Take #53. Thanks Mike!

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60