So today (June 6 2011) was World IPv6 Day, the day on which several major players in the Internet field turn on, and enable IPv6 for testing for the day.…
The Future is Forever, with World IPv6 Launch Day
Dual Chipset Motherboards? It’s an expensive way of preparing for an upgrade.
Looking at the AnandTech article on Asus's Danshui Bay Concept motherboard, I'm impressed with the idea, but not sure that it's going to work in the execution. The idea is…
End-of-Life: Riverbed announces EOL for Shark Appliance Kits
Following on from the acquisition of CACE Technologies, Riverbed is announcing the withdrawal of the Shark Appliance Kits (software and network card) that allowed users to create their own appliances.…
This one time, when I found two identical MAC addresses…
So, this one time, I discovered two network cards with identical MAC addresses. During 1993, and a network transition from Token-Ring to 10-BaseT Ethernet, I had to deal with a…
RFC5984: Increasing Throughput in IP Networks with ESP-Based Forwarding: ESPBasedForwarding
The current incremental approach to lower latency and increase capacity will soon reach the end of the road. The reason for this has been known for some time and is…
Juniper QFabric Switches use Autonomic Ideas
So Juniper Networks have launched a new idea in switching, expanding the switching fabric across multiple chassis in their QFabric switch platform. In their launch video (it's 76 minutes long,…
Goodbye IPv4 Address Space?
So today marked an auspicious occasion in which the last 5 /8 IP addresses were handed to each of the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). This marks the last of the…