Dropbox's blog has a post from Haowei Yuan and colleagues, about engineering the Dropbox network to support IPv6 at the edge. Dropbox is serving about 15% of their requests via…
Expressif IoT platforms made safe from KRACK
The recent KRACK exploit has led to fears that this will allow further exploitation of IoT platforms, many of which use WiFi for their internet connection. One of the most…
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…
Tweaking WordPress – Adding new CSS classes highlighting updates
Quite a few of the pages on the CoherentLight website are updated over time, and I'd like to add a way of indicating that this has happened. Previously this has…
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…
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…