Archive for the 'Network' Category
I’ve anxiously been waiting for this update email to say the snv_105 changes are now available for OpenSolaris.
Now I can get playing with the cool new Project Crossbow networking functionality as Ben did here and here.
I could have played with this when it first came out, except I took the decision to move 100% across [...]
HMRC: Ideal Candidate for Sunray
Following the most recent data loss by HMRC, they and other companies should seriously start considering dumping laptops in favour of Sun’s Sunray technology for their “Work from home” users, and maybe even all of their normal desktop users.
For those who don’t know, Sunray is a secure, truly stateless device that effectively presents a working [...]
Solaris is another step closer to the complete implementation of Project Crossbow. On 19 January, the IP Instance project was integrated into Nevada with the intentions of making IP Instances available through S10U4.
From the “IP Instances Interface Document“:
IP instances introduces the ability to have separate zones connected to separate LANs or VLANs without introducing [...]
A new WiFi architecture has been integrated into Nevada Build 54 which will pave the way for some pretty cool features in the future, and also will start to bring Solaris inline with (and dare I say, overtake) the likes of Linux on the WiFi front.
With the recent outages and performance issues I’ve been having, I decided to find a tool that I can use to monitor the status of my websites that doesn’t actually rely on these sites. The idea being that I can gather enough stats to take back to Site5 showing them how poor things have [...]
More Project Blackbox
The more I read about it, the more I like the idea of Project Blackbox.
Being a predominantly OS and Comms engineer, I get a lot of network calls. One very common issue is duplex mis-match. People are happy and eager to adopt new technology and constantly demand better performance from the kit they have, however they still insist on following archaic administration practices, like forcing switch settings and then [...]
Top 100 Network Security Tools
22Jun06Fyodor (writer of nmap) has done it again. He’s asked the members of the nmap-hackers mail list to share their favourite security tools. This year Fyodor has devoted a whole site to the 2006 results. It’s a very interesting read and has some pretty cool tools, some of which I’ve never heard of before.
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