Extreme has announced that they have closed a deal direct with Brocade , rather than wait for the Broadcom acquisition. (Extreme Networks Completes Acquisition of Brocade's Data Center Networking Business). This…
Wi-Fi encryption KRACK-ed with re-keying injection
On Monday, a coordinated disclosure announcement revealed that WiFi networks are at risk. The disclosure was found early with the discovery of the GitHub repository for the talking points on the…
Wireshark 2.2.10 on CentOS 7 available via repository
An update of Wireshark to 2.2.10 has been added to the repository. This is the maintenance release of Wireshark 2.2. This is the last version of 2.2 that I'll maintain in…
One step beyond VMware 6.5U1
VMware has updated their ESXi platform again, so we're now one step beyond the 6.5U1 upgrade. It comprises mostly with VSAN improvements and a set of patches for kernel forking…
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…
Now we have SiLK, let’s get it set up..
So Installation of SiLK from the ground up on Centos 7 is only part of the story. You need to configure it to actually collect some data, and then to…