Scott Lowe

JUNE 28, 2024

I’m back with another set of links to articles on various data center- and IT-related topics. Need more than 24 hours in a day… Timothy Ham created a GitHub Gist-based short IPv6 guide for home IPv4 admins. Hat tip to Ivan Pepelnjak, who shared a link to Roman Pomazanov’s article on various network lab tools.

IPv6 113

IPv6 Network Virtualization Tools 113

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

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.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). This time I’m including two of his articles. Security Jeff Warren discusses a potential way for malicious players to bypass multi-factor authentication, aka the “Pass the Cookie” attack. Do you need Argo CD?

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Denise Fishburne has a 7-part series on IPv6. As Alec shares in the article, it turns out that adding Tor to a “standard” DoH configuration doesn’t significantly impact performance (as measured by latency).

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Vmware Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

As usual, I gathered an odd collection of links and articles from around the web on key data center technologies and trends. 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. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Want/need to better understand IPv6? I recently came across this series on AWS security by ScaleSec. This is truly an information-dense article, and if working with the AWS API Gateway falls into your job responsibilities then this is probably a good post to read. Denise Fishburne has you covered. There’s a lot here!

IPv6 60

IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. 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. Servers/Hardware.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. 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. Servers/Hardware.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I’ve got a new collection of links and articles from around the Web on various data center-focused technologies. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

I’m not sure if this falls here or into the “Cloud Computing/Cloud Computing” category, but Shannon McFarland—fellow co-conspirator with the Denver OpenStack Meetup group—has a nice article describing some design and deployment considerations for IPv6 in the OpenStack Kilo release. VXLAN overlay networks between AWS and GCE?

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. 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. Servers/Hardware.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. Servers/Hardware.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. Kirk Byers has a helpful article that provides some suggestions and guidelines for how to make your network automation/network scripts become more than just your own personal hobby at work. I highly recommend this article. Networking.

Firewall 60

Firewall Linux Windows Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

As usual, here’s my random collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. Someone pointed me toward this article on using Sophos UTM for remote access to their home lab. Networking. Pete Lumbis shows you how. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

Anthony Spiteri, who works at an Australian service provider running NSX, has some in-depth articles discussing vShield Edge and NSX Edge ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 ). Here’s a nice article on using Ansible with Arista EOS. If you haven’t read Brent’s article on building network tools with Docker , I highly recommend it.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I have here for your reading pleasure an eclectic collection of links and articles from around the web, focusing on data center-related technologies. His article also provides a quick look at some of the configuration commands involved. It’s a pretty detailed article with lots of useful information. Bring on the content!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Consider this article a living FAQ on all things related to Matter; how this new smart home standard will work and which products it will work with. As new information comes out, we’ll keep this article updated. Is Matter going to keep my smart home private and secure? Table of contents: Which platforms will work with Matter?

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Apple Security Google Network 71

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Modify the security group(s) to allow UDP port 51280 to the instance(s) that will have defined Wireguard interfaces. Most of the Wireguard tutorials I saw focused only on this approach, so you’re likely to find other articles out there that share similar (or the same) information. Using a Configuration File from the CLI.

Linux 78

Linux Network IPv6 Tools 78

Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The author of this article is publishing a workaround, not setting expectations. The address listed is actually your ipv6 ip address. Apparently, Lion disables a security protocol this depended on. You expect home users to do these convoluted steps while your software is broken? Whats going on here? 2/11/2011 10:37 AM.

Backup 82

Backup How To Windows Small Business 82

Sean Daniel

JUNE 29, 2011

Sean, Your DNS article does not discuss how SBSe sets the DNS forwarders entries in the Server's DNS properties. This article does help me to configure my SBSe DNS. Thanks for the very informative article. Installation of the DHCP role is straightforward enough until the question of IPv6 is raised. 7/19/2011 3:45 PM.

Small Business 58

Small Business LAN Windows IPv6 58

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

I have used senses to report on vulnerable open SSL implementations for my Heartbleed articles. ipv6 is designed to overcome the problems of ipv4 address exhaustion. So it would be very, very hard to scan for all the ipv6 addresses. So this was a business doing security and their main website and back into real compromise.

Internet 52

Internet Malware Research Linux 52