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Liveblog: IPv6 in the Cloud - Protocol and Service Overview

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of an AWS re:Invent 2017 breakout session titled “IPv6 in the Cloud: Protocol and Service Overview.” Global IPv6 adoption is currently around 22%, and is expected to hit 25% by the end of the year. T-Mobile, for example, now has 89% of their infrastructure running on IPv6.

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Interop Liveblog: IPv6 Microsegmentation

Scott Lowe

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. All of these messages derive from the assumption that one subnet = one security zone, and therefore intra-subnet communications are not secured.

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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. Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications. Virtualization. Networking. ” Who will be correct?

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

Galido

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. However, using it an IPv6 address has 128 bits makes the number of individual addresses that can be created exponentially larger.

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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. Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications. Virtualization. Networking. ” Who will be correct?

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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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Technology Short Take #84

Scott Lowe

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. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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