It's easy to treat a silly slogan on a coffee mug as little more than just a few words designed to evoke a wry grin from a slightly antisocial co-worker. Sometimes it can take on a deeper meaning, if you let it.
Tag: network
I made a somewhat cryptic tweet a little while ago about how I spent a crazy-long period of time researching what was, I believed, the next-big-thing in DNS resolution for IPv6 (or so my 2002 edition of "IPv6 Essentials" told me). I could not work out why I saw nothing about A6 records in any … Continue reading Another IPv6 instalment (subtitled: Watch Your Tech Library Currency!)
Two of the four keynotes at LCA 2011 referenced the depletion of the IPv4 address space (and I reckon if I looked back through the other two I could find some reference in them as well). I think there's a good chance Geoff Huston was lobbying his APNIC colleagues to lodge the "final request" (for … Continue reading IPv6: SSDM?
I posted on my developerWorks blog about an experience I had sharing an OSA port in Layer 2 mode. Thrilling stuff. What's more thrilling is the context of where I had my OSA-port-sharing experience: my large-scale Linux on System z cloning experiment. One of these days I'll get around to writing that up.
I've been doing a lot of mucking around with KVM with libvirt (I keep promising an update here, don't I). In my desktop virtualisation requirements I had a need for presenting VLAN traffic to guests: simple enough, and I've done it before. You can do what I usually do, and configure all your VLANs against … Continue reading Network virtualisation
Crossed Wires 