Note: 11 January 2018. We have updated the repository with Wireshark 2.6.6 This is the last version of 2.4 in the repository. This is a maintenance release of Wireshark 2.4. The…
Wireshark 2.4.6 on CentOS 7 available via repository
West African Internet Outage
Oracle's Dyn service have a research lab, who analyse information from the Internet. In the blog entry below, they look at the recent loss of connectivity on the ACE (Africa…
Cloudflare adds Secure DNS service on 1.1.1.1
Cloudflare has expanded the range of secure DNS services available. As well as Cisco's OpenDNS, Google's DNS service, Oracle's Dyn, and the recent Quad 9 service, Cloudflare now adds 1.1.1.1…
RFC8369: Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-bit Unicode
In a forward-looking RFC that presupposes an expansion of the Unicode address space to 128-bits, it is proposed that IPv6 addresses may instead of the standard notations proposed in RFC8600,…
RFC8367: Wrongful Termination of IP Packets
In a continuation of the serious consideration our standards bodies place on keeping the Internet relevant to society, today the IETF has issued RFC8267. IP packets are often terminated by…
OpenContrail becomes Tungsten Fabric
The Linux Foundation has recently obtained the OpenContrail source from Juniper. Having fully transitioned OpenContrail into the Linux Foundation, it is now rebranded as Tungsten Fabric. This move may appear…
Enabling Lua in Wireshark for custom dissectors
Joel has dropped me an email and asked if Lua (which should never, ever be LUA) could be enabled in the CentOS Wireshark builds. I wanted to thank you for…
Orange delivers SD-WAN for Siemens
Making a change to the usual SDN acronym, "Siemens Digitalisation Network" is provided by Orange Business Services. Covering 1500 sites, 94 countries and preparing Siemens for "Industry 4.0", the network…