This week marks the death of Sir Charles Kuen Kao, one of modern networking's pioneers. He died on Sunday 23 September 2018, aged 84. Born in Shanghai in 1933, Charles…
Microsoft acquires GitHub for $7.5bn
Microsoft has splashed out again. They have just acquired open-source source code management and sharing platform GitHub for $7.5bn. GitHub has a community of 28 million developers and hosts 85…
How to enter that VMware BIOS Setup Prompt
Using virtualised systems and dev-ops processes means that most of the time it is easier to build something afresh using templates and tools than to make changes to an existing…
Wireshark 2.4.6 on CentOS 7 available via repository
Note: 11 January 2018. We have updated the repository with Wireshark 2.6.6 This is the last version of 2.4 in the repository. This is a maintenance release of Wireshark 2.4. The…
Cloudflare adds Secure DNS service on 1.1.1.1
Cloudflare has expanded the range of secure DNS services available. As well as Cisco's OpenDNS, Google's DNS service, Oracle's Dyn, and the recent Quad 9 service, Cloudflare now adds 1.1.1.1…
RFC8369: Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-bit Unicode
In a forward-looking RFC that presupposes an expansion of the Unicode address space to 128-bits, it is proposed that IPv6 addresses may instead of the standard notations proposed in RFC8600,…
RFC8367: Wrongful Termination of IP Packets
In a continuation of the serious consideration our standards bodies place on keeping the Internet relevant to society, today the IETF has issued RFC8267. IP packets are often terminated by…
Enabling Lua in Wireshark for custom dissectors
Joel has dropped me an email and asked if Lua (which should never, ever be LUA) could be enabled in the CentOS Wireshark builds. I wanted to thank you for…