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Some quick notes and screenshots from the OpenGear Resilience Gateway https://opengear.com/products/acm7000-resilience-gateway . The model I am working with is the ACM7004-2-L. It has 4 serial Cisco Straight pinout, Dual 1 GbE Ethernet, Global 4G LTE-A Pro cellular, 2 DIO, and 2 output ports. So what does this thing do and what can it do for … Read more
https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-us-minuteman-si-1473483587 Those in the U.S. that had been fitted with the devices, such as ones in the Minuteman Silos, were installed under the close scrutiny of Robert McNamara, JFK’s Secretary of Defence. However, The Strategic Air Command greatly resented McNamara’s presence and almost as soon as he left, the code to launch the missile’s, all … Read more
The following is from http://routing.he.net/algorithm.html . This outlines the criteria HE.NET uses for filtering routes from peers and customers. This is the route filtering algorithm for customers and peers that have explicit filtering: 1. Attempt to find an as-set to use for this network.1.1 Inspect the aut-num for this ASN to see if we can … Read more
A little bit of deviation from techie stuff. For those of you looking to make life better here are some “hacks” I totally agree with. What are you life hacks? What are soem things you do which are related to your tech field? https://medium.com/the-ascent/the-9-best-life-hacks-to-become-unstoppable-87b9587992ac Life-hacking is ridiculously fun when you see what it can do … Read more
For those of you implementing Syslog triggers and such the following list will be helpful in filtering and classifying Syslog entries. 0 – Emergency 1 – Alert 2 – Critical 3 – Error 4 – Warning 5 – Notice 6 – Informational 7 – Debug
https://radar.qrator.net/blog/as10990-routing-optimization-taleConclusion? Do not try to optimize the routes with automated software – BGP is a distance-vector routing protocol that has proved, throughout the years, its ability to handle the traffic. Software, wanting to “optimize” the system involving thousands of members would never be smart enough to compute all the possible outcomes of such manipulation.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/announcing-googles-grace-hopper-subsea-cable-system …We’re excited to announce a new subsea cable—Grace Hopper—which will run between the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain, providing better resilience for the network that underpins Google’s consumer and enterprise products.
John Lovell interviews professional hacker on cyber security, privacy on the internet, cyber terrorism, penetration testing, information / data security, confidentiality, phishing, the dark / deep web, and hacking in Hollywood movies such as James Bond Skyfall, Hackers, Swordfish, the Net, Mr. Robot, and other movies.
Anyone who follows me knows I am a big fan of switch centric designs. This usually involves a router on a stick paired with a high port count switch. Recently I had a client that installed a Preseem appliance in their network. Equipment used in this setup-Dell R710 with a 4 Port SFP+ card running … Read more
