Tag ipsec

IPv6 Security Myths

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag debunk, deploy360, encryption, firewall, Internet, internet society, ipsec, IPv4, IPv6, Linux, linux.com, myths, NAT, security, space

I've been reading an article on Linux.com on various IPv6 security myths. IPv6 was originally proposed with several in-built security features. Expectations have expanded over time to IPv6 to be…

Silver Peak updates SD-WAN with Packet-iQ to make choices from the first packet

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag BGP, change, Cloud, complexity, deployment, DNS, Ethernet, firewall, HTTP, Internet, ipsec, lightreading, local internet breakout, MPLS, office 365, packets, proxy, range, router, routing, SD-WAN, sdxcentral, servers, Silver Peak Systems, TCP, VPN, WAN, Zscaler

A press release from Silver Peak announces recent innovations for their SD-WAN product set. Enhancements to their EdgeConnect environment are Packet-iQ, a stateful firewall, firewall service chaining and Zscaler support.…

May 5, 2008

What is hybrid networking?

By John Dixon in Featured Tag backup, complexity, costsaving, Ethernet, firewall, hybrid, Internet, ipsec, MPLS, packets, routing, security, switch, upgrade, WAN, What Is?

You'll start to hear the term Hybrid Networking bandied around shortly. Whilst hybrid can mean many things, in this case we are talking about Hybrid Network Unification. In this article,…

October 10, 2007

More problems with acceleration

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag broken, HP, ipsec, Juniper, Maximum Transmission Unit, TCP, TCP Maximum Segment Size (MSS), transition, VPN

So the consultant from the inks company phoned again, and needs a little help. Seems that the HP JetDirect printing to some of their sites has broken, since the transition…