Unlike Europe, where Net Neutrality is defined and enshrined, America is different. ArsTechnica have an article on their web-site that covers the mess that the FCC have gotten into with…
Cisco extends ENCS platform with low-end ENCS5104
At CiscoLive 2017 in Las Vegas, the ENCS platform gained a new four core box. The ENCS5104 is now appearing on the Cisco website in the form of an updated…
There’s a problem with IPv6 route lookup speed in Linux
The challenge The great thing about IPv6 is its larger IP address space, but this is also its weakness. That larger IP address space needs routing, potentially creating larger routing…
SDxCentral: Physical SD-WAN appliances aren’t going anywhere
SDxCentral has a piece on the current state of SD-WAN appliances. It distinguishes the three different forms SD-WAN can take (or at least for the purposes of their article). They…
SEA-US cable ready for service, allowing trans-Pacific growth
Hawaiian Telcom has announced that the SEA-US cable system is ready for service. The cable was built and delivered in less than 3 years since its announcement. With traffic growth…
Explaining why the VMware update to v6.5U1 didn’t work
If you're looking previous posts on VMware updates on CoherentLight, you'll notice that the I had some problems upgrading to VMware ESXi 6.5 Update 1. Doing some further digging, it…
My challenges with upgrading VMware to 6.5u1
So in theory, a new VMware release is normally a doddle to upgrade to using the methods covered in Keeping VMware ESXi Updated: 6.5 Update 1. It's worked for the…
Adding a geolocation database to SiLK
Very quickly I've decided that having this is a good thing™. SiLK is great, but if you need to quickly discover where your traffic is coming from being able to…