Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Operating Systems/Applications. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. I won’t steal Matt’s thunder; go have a look at the post yourself to see if you agree with his assessment.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). Diego Crespo talks about PowerShell on Linux and his experience with it. Rob Novak shares his experience in replacing Meraki with TP-Link Omada. Anton Kuliashov writes about why Palark uses Cilium for Kubernetes networking. This time I’m including two of his articles.

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IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Aside from a Windows VM I maintain for the occasional thing I can’t do effectively on Linux or OS X, I haven’t worked with Windows in any significant capacity in quite a while.

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Vmware Windows 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Aside from a Windows VM I maintain for the occasional thing I can’t do effectively on Linux or OS X, I haven’t worked with Windows in any significant capacity in quite a while.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Wireguard, if you’re not familiar, is a relatively new solution that is baked into recent Linux kernels. Since the configuration of the clients and the servers is largely the same (especially since both client and server are Linux), I haven’t separated out the two configurations. There is also support for other OSes.)

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Linux Network IPv6 Tools 78

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. Here’s one way , using Ravello Systems. Flavio Leitner has a nice article comparing OVS internal ports with Linux veth devices.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Want/need to better understand IPv6? Operating Systems/Applications. Via TecMint, James Kiarie explains how to use VirtualBox VMs on KVM in Linux. If you work with TextFSM templates (see here for more information), then you might also like this post on writing a vim syntax plugin for TextFSM templates. Virtualization.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. This article by Michael Gugino provides some details on getting GRE tunnels over IPv6 with Open vSwitch running on CentOS 7.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Windows 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. 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). on Kubernetes, which does make a fair amount of sense. of vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 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). Operating Systems/Applications. Andrew Montalenti discusses the state of Linux on the desktop by examining his own journey with various Lenovo-branded laptops. Networking. RIP Solaris.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Operating Systems/Applications. You’re welcome.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #57. Networking.

Linux 60

Linux Firewall Windows Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. That prompted Cody Bunch to write this article on setting up a topology with BGP on Linux using the topology converter , which I’m now mentioning in this Technology Short Take. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60