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Red Hat Enterprise Linux arrives in Oracle’s cloud

Red Hat and Oracle announced jointly Tuesday that they have partnered to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, broadening Oracle’s available public cloud options and creating a measure of détente between two long-standing competitors.The announcement couched the news as step one in a broader partnership between Red Hat and Oracle, but provided details mostly of the OCI integration. RHEL will be available on Oracle’s VMs, ranging in size from 1 to 80 CPU cores and from 1GB of memory up to 1024GB. Initial support will be limited to the newer OCI virtual machine shapes, which use AMD, Intel and Arm processors.To read this article in full, please click here

What is hybrid cloud computing? The benefits of mixing private and public cloud services

A hybrid cloud is a computing platform built from both private and public cloud components. A public cloud is what usually comes to mind when we talk about cloud computing: storage and compute resources offered by a vendor to customers who pay on a metered basis and don't have to worry about provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure.One drawback to using public cloud resources is that they often run in virtualized environments, and customers share hardware and other resources.  As an alternative, a customer could set up a private cloud themselves on their own infrastructure, offering the same sort of flexible access to compute resources to internal users.To read this article in full, please click here

Design Clinic: Small-Site IPv6 Multihoming

I decided to stop caring about IPv6 when the protocol became old enough to buy its own beer (now even in US), but its second-system effects keep coming back to haunt us. Here’s a question I got for the February 2023 ipSpace.net Design Clinic:

How can we do IPv6 networking in a small/medium enterprise if we’re using multiple ISPs and don’t have our own IPv6 Provider Independent IPv6 allocation. I’ve brainstormed this with people far more knowledgeable than me on IPv6, and listened to IPv6 Buzz episodes discussing it, but I still can’t figure it out.

Design Clinic: Small-Site IPv6 Multihoming

I decided to stop caring about IPv6 when the protocol became old enough to buy its own beer (now even in US), but its second-system effects keep coming back to haunt us. Here’s a question I got for the February 2023 ipSpace.net Design Clinic:

How can we do IPv6 networking in a small/medium enterprise if we’re using multiple ISPs and don’t have our own IPv6 Provider Independent IPv6 allocation. I’ve brainstormed this with people far more knowledgeable than me on IPv6, and listened to IPv6 Buzz episodes discussing it, but I still can’t figure it out.

Global Microsoft cloud-service outage traced to rapid BGP router updates

Outages that made Microsoft Azure and multiple Microsoft cloud services widely unavailable for 90 minutes on Jan. 25 can be traced to the cascading effects of repeated, rapid readvertising of BGP router prefixes, according to a ThousandEyes analysis of the incident.The Cisco-owned network intelligence company traced the Microsoft outage to an external BGP change by Microsoft that affected service providers. (Read more about network and infrastructure outages in our top 10 outages of 2022 recap.)Multiple Microsoft BGP prefixes were withdrawn completely and then almost immediately readvertised, ThousandEyes said. Border gateway protocol (BGP) tells Internet traffic what route to take, and the BGP best-path selection algorithm determines the optimal routes to use for traffic forwarding.To read this article in full, please click here

Tech Bytes: Fortinet’s FortiRecon Customizes Digital Risk Protection (Sponsored)

On today's Tech Bytes podcast we discuss security reconnaissance with sponsor Fortinet. We drill into FortiRecon, a service that can provide critical information, personalized for your organization, about potential threats to company assets, employees, and customers.

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MacOS Ventura 13.1 Breaks Wireshark

If you recently updated your Mac to Ventura 13.1 or 13.2, and you had installed Wireshark previously, then you may be having some trouble. If you open Wireshark, you will likey see the message “You don’t have permission to capture on local interfaces” and “You can fix this by installing ChmodBPF“. Even after installing this […]

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Network Break 415: WAN Update Severs Microsoft Cloud Services; Intel To Wind Down Network ASIC Biz

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss new capabilities in Juniper's Astra data center automation software; a major Microsoft outage that affected Outlook, Teams, and more; reports that Intel will discontinue selling the Tofino programmable ASIC; a heap of financial results; and more.

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Response: Free College Algebra Course (with Python Code!)

It’s been a long time since I was using mathematics in my daily life. I’d like to think I managed to retaine much of the basic principles but I not easily able to apply it. For example, having some knowledge of Fourier Transforms and Antenna Physics has been hugely useful in understanding wireless propagation in […]

netlab Release 1.5.0: Larger Lab Topologies

netlab release 1.5.0 includes features that will help you start very large lab topologies (someone managed to run over 90 Mikrotik routers on a 24-core server):

To get more details and learn about additional features included in release 1.5.0, read the release notes. To upgrade, execute pip3 install --upgrade networklab.

New to netlab? Start with the Getting Started document and the installation guide.

netlab Release 1.5.0: Larger Lab Topologies

netlab release 1.5.0 includes features that will help you start very large lab topologies (someone managed to run over 90 Mikrotik routers on a 24-core server):

To get more details and learn about additional features included in release 1.5.0, read the release notes. To upgrade, execute pip3 install --upgrade networklab.

New to netlab? Start with the Getting Started document and the installation guide.