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Google has rolled out “Privacy Sandbox,” a Chrome feature first announced back in 2019 that, among other things, exchanges third-party cookies—the most common form of tracking technology—for what the company is now calling “Topics.”


By virtue of engineering pushing the acceptable boundaries of a system, failures occur. This is inevitable, and that’s also the joy and perils of engineering — discovering the acceptable limits of system resilience.


The resource-intensive inefficiencies inherent to telecom ordering, billing, and service level agreement (SLA) enforcement between carriers is an industry-wide problem that MEF and its member organizations have been working to solve for years.


Cybersecurity agencies from Japan and the U.S. have warned of attacks mounted by a state-backed hacking group from China to stealthily tamper with branch routers and use them as jumping-off points to access the networks of various companies in the two countries.


To help solve this problem, QUIC no longer relies (purely) on IP addresses to define connections. Instead, it assigns a number to each connection (a so-called Connection ID or CID).


You are a distributor that sells your supplier’s brands, so aside from worrying about your own company’s domains, you’ve got nothing else to worry about, right?


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Worth Reading: Introduction of EVPN at DE-CIX

Numerous Internet Exchange Points (IXP) started using VXLAN years ago to replace tradition layer-2 fabrics with routed networks. Many of them tried to avoid the complexities of EVPN and used VXLAN with statically-configured (and hopefully automated) ingress replication.

A few went a step further and decided to deploy EVPN, primarily to deploy Proxy ARP functionality on EVPN switches and reduce the ARP/ND traffic. Thomas King from DE-CIX described their experience on APNIC blog – well worth reading if you’re interested in layer-2 fabrics.

Worth Reading: Introduction of EVPN at DE-CIX

Numerous Internet Exchange Points (IXP) started using VXLAN years ago to replace tradition layer-2 fabrics with routed networks. Many of them tried to avoid the complexities of EVPN and used VXLAN with statically-configured (and hopefully automated) ingress replication.

A few went a step further and decided to deploy EVPN, primarily to deploy Proxy ARP functionality on EVPN switches and reduce the ARP/ND traffic. Thomas King from DE-CIX described their experience on APNIC blog – well worth reading if you’re interested in layer-2 fabrics.

Heavy Networking 704: Roundtable Redux: Blaming The Network; Containerlab Love; 400G Envy

Today's Heavy Networking is another roundtable episode. We've assembled a group of network engineers to talk about what's on their minds. Topics today include why other IT departments adn end users are quick to blame the network first, and what can be done about it; using Nokia's open-source Containerlab for testing and development work; and why you shouldn't feel left behind when you hear talk about 400G and 800G networks.

Heavy Networking 704: Roundtable Redux: Blaming The Network; Containerlab Love; 400G Envy

Today's Heavy Networking is another roundtable episode. We've assembled a group of network engineers to talk about what's on their minds. Topics today include why other IT departments adn end users are quick to blame the network first, and what can be done about it; using Nokia's open-source Containerlab for testing and development work; and why you shouldn't feel left behind when you hear talk about 400G and 800G networks.

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Calico monthly roundup: September 2023

Welcome to the Calico monthly roundup: September edition! From open source news to live events, we have exciting updates to share—let’s get into it!

 

 

Transforming Container Network Security with Calico Container Firewall

Discover how you can automate security, ensure consistency, and tightly align security with development practices in a microservices environment.

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The State of Calico Open Source: Usage & Adoption Report 2023

Get insights into Calico’s adoption across container and Kubernetes environments, in terms of platforms, data planes, and policies.

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IBM leans into AI for managed security services

IBM is rolling out AI-based managed services that promise to help network and security operations teams more quickly and effectively respond to enterprise cyber threats.Managed by the IBM Consulting group, the Threat Detection and Response (TDR) Services offering promises 24x7 monitoring, investigation, and automated remediation of security alerts from existing security tools as well as cloud, on-premises, and operational technology systems utilizing the enterprise network. The services can integrate information from more than 15 security event and incident management (SIEM) tools and multiple third-party endpoint and network detection and response packages, for example.To read this article in full, please click here

IBM leans into AI for managed security services

IBM is rolling out AI-based managed services that promise to help network and security operations teams more quickly and effectively respond to enterprise cyber threats.Managed by the IBM Consulting group, the Threat Detection and Response (TDR) Services offering promises 24x7 monitoring, investigation, and automated remediation of security alerts from existing security tools as well as cloud, on-premises, and operational technology systems utilizing the enterprise network. The services can integrate information from more than 15 security event and incident management (SIEM) tools and multiple third-party endpoint and network detection and response packages, for example.To read this article in full, please click here

Virtual networking 101: Bridging the gap to understanding TAP

Virtual networking 101: Bridging the gap to understanding TAP
Virtual networking 101: Bridging the gap to understanding TAP

It's a never-ending effort to improve the performance of our infrastructure. As part of that quest, we wanted to squeeze as much network oomph as possible from our virtual machines. Internally for some projects we use Firecracker, which is a KVM-based virtual machine manager (VMM) that runs light-weight “Micro-VM”s. Each Firecracker instance uses a tap device to communicate with a host system. Not knowing much about tap, I had to up my game, however, it wasn't easy — the documentation is messy and spread across the Internet.

Here are the notes that I wish someone had passed me when I started out on this journey!

A tap device is a virtual network interface that looks like an ethernet network card. Instead of having real wires plugged into it, it exposes a nice handy file descriptor to an application willing to send/receive packets. Historically tap devices were mostly used to implement VPN clients. The machine would route traffic towards a tap interface, and a VPN client application would pick them up and process accordingly. For example this is what our Cloudflare WARP Linux client does. Here's how it looks on my laptop:

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Video: What Is Software-Defined Data Center

A few years ago, I was asked to deliver a What Is SDDC presentation that later became a webinar. I forgot about that webinar until I received feedback from one of the viewers a week ago:

If you like to learn from the teachers with the “straight to the point” approach and complement the theory with many “real-life” scenarios, then ipSpace.net is the right place for you.

I haven’t realized people still find that webinar useful, so let’s make it viewable without registration, starting with What Problem Are We Trying to Solve and What Is SDDC.

You need at least free ipSpace.net subscription to watch videos in this webinar.

Video: What Is Software-Defined Data Center

A few years ago, I was asked to deliver a What Is SDDC presentation that later became a webinar. I forgot about that webinar until I received feedback from one of the viewers a week ago:

If you like to learn from the teachers with the “straight to the point” approach and complement the theory with many “real-life” scenarios, then ipSpace.net is the right place for you.

I haven’t realized people still find that webinar useful, so let’s make it viewable without registration, starting with What Problem Are We Trying to Solve and What Is SDDC.

You need at least free ipSpace.net subscription to watch videos in this webinar.

Juniper Networks to lay off 440 workers as part of $59M restructuring plan

Juniper Networks today said it is laying off 440 workers amidst a $59 million restructuring plan.The restructuring strategy is the result of a review of the company’s business objectives, and it is intended to focus on realigning resources and investments in long-term growth opportunities, the networking vendor wrote in an SEC 8K filing.“The company believes the plan will further allow it to continue to prudently manage operating expenses in order to deliver improved operating margin,” Juniper wrote. “Total costs currently estimated to be incurred in connection with the Plan are approximately $59 million, of which approximately $48 million are expected to result in cash expenditures.”To read this article in full, please click here

Juniper Networks to lay off 440 workers as part of $59M restructuring plan

Juniper Networks today said it is laying off 440 workers amidst a $59 million restructuring plan.The restructuring strategy is the result of a review of the company’s business objectives, and it is intended to focus on realigning resources and investments in long-term growth opportunities, the networking vendor wrote in an SEC 8K filing.“The company believes the plan will further allow it to continue to prudently manage operating expenses in order to deliver improved operating margin,” Juniper wrote. “Total costs currently estimated to be incurred in connection with the Plan are approximately $59 million, of which approximately $48 million are expected to result in cash expenditures.”To read this article in full, please click here

Hedge 197: Old Engineering Books (1)

It’s time for the October Roundtable! This month Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ are reading quotes from an engineering book published in 1911 and reacting to them. How much has engineering changed? How much has engineering stayed the same? How well can advice from a hundred years ago apply to modern engineering problems and life? It turns out that, in spite of their faults, there is a lot of great wisdom in these old books.

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Breaking Linux files into pieces with the split command

Linux systems provide a very easy-to-use command for breaking files into pieces. This is something that you might need to do prior to uploading your files to some storage site that limits file sizes or emailing them as attachments. To split a file into pieces, you simply use the split command.$ split bigfile By default, the split command uses a very simple naming scheme. The file chunks will be named xaa, xab, xac, etc., and, presumably, if you break up a file that is sufficiently large, you might even get chunks named xza and xzz.Unless you ask, the command runs without giving you any feedback. You can, however, use the --verbose option if you would like to see the file chunks as they are being created.To read this article in full, please click here

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