If you thing that IPv6 traffic isn't taking off, think again. Linkedin has seen IPv6 traffic reach more than 50% of the volume received. In their blog post, they state…
SDxCentral: CenturyLink Releases New Flavours of SD-WAN connectivity
SDxCentral are reporting the CenturyLink have launched new flavours of their SD-WAN service. This continues the Versa Networks service originally deployed. It now looks like they have optimised the bundling…
Wireshark on CentOS 7 (TL;DR version)
You need to get a copy of a later Wireshark (version 2.4) on your CentOS 7 system, without needing to follow all the instructions in Building Wireshark 2.4.0 for Centos…
Building Wireshark 2.4.0 for CentOS 7
Some of you might have found the earlier post on Building a Wireshark for CentOS 7. Since then several releases of Wireshark have passed, and now Wireshark has released version…
BBR improves Google Cloud Platform performance
Google has developed a new TCP congestion control mechanism. This has now been applied to the Google Compute Platform, having previously been added to YouTube and Google.com. This BBR (Bandwidth…
RFC8200: IPv6 reaches official Standard milestone
The Deploy360 group within the Internet Society report that at IETF99 in Prague, Czech Republic, the IPv6 protocol has reached Standard status after RFC8200 was published on 17 July 2017.…
MDSec produce PowerShell delivery via DNS
Remember a few months ago, I posted a piece via Engadget about Cisco's Talos team finding bot control traffic in DNS data. Now MDSec have produced and published a proof…
Creating an Identity Management Server with Free-IPA
So it's time to upgrade some of the devices within the network here. But it would be really good to do it in the right order. Identity and access management…