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RSSOne of the biggest advantages of IPv6 is the ease of renumbering thanks to SLAAC and DHCPv6. Easy renumbering of IPv6 addresses should, in theory, make some privacy protection methods…
READ MOREIf there’s an IPv6 netblock you’d like your host to stop responding to, one tactic is to blackhole the traffic. That is, send any traffic from your host destined to…
READ MOREIt seems to me that point of SRv6 from a vendor perspective is to move metal and create a new platform ecosystem. Cisco and Juniper (and all of them) always…
READ MORESo you went through the trouble to dual-stack your AWS VPC and get everything talking over native IPv6, only to find out that the AWS managed VPC VPN service doesn’t…
READ MOREIn this 45 minute presentation made during the Packet Pushers Virtual Design Clinic 4 held on March 14, 2019, Tom Coffeen, Co-founder of HexaBuild, presents the do’s and don’t of…
READ MOREI think it is safe to say that most of IT professionals have some kind of lab environment and many of us have some kind of lab at home. Sometimes…
READ MOREIf you are a network engineer in this day and age, then you are probably familiar with and regularly using IPv6 (at least on your home lab network). I personally…
READ MOREPart 2: The Solution Ready for part 2? Have you read part 1 w/ the facts and clues? If not, go read that now before you continue. Part 1: The…
READ MOREPart #1 – I give you the facts and the clues. Part #2 – I give you what the problem ended up being. Ready to play? This is the IPv6…
READ MOREAs many of you may know, I used to move packets around for a living. I’m not doing that any more, but I’m still administering my own little home network…
READ MOREThis is the write-up of a recent event we experienced on our network. This will be combination of a journal of symptoms, troubleshooting steps taken, and a brief overview of…
READ MOREAs an avid reader of RFCs and RFC drafts, I’m always running across little bits of knowledge I either already knew and forgot (I forget a lot of things), or…
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