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For the last few days, there has been a buzzing news in the community, following the recent discovery of a so-called information leak in the skype SDK. zhovner@github, published a python code sample “exploiting this vulnerability” https://github.com/zhovner/Skype-iplookup/ using a de-obfuscated SDK and published a demo site @http://skype-ip-finder.tk/. More related information on the skype-open-source project can [...]
DCB – Data Center Bridging is set of standard which defines 4 set of independent technologies/concepts to pretty much make Ethernet lossless, hence to support storage traffic. We will not go into a debate over FCoE, whether you should consider a single fabric for both storage and “standard/Ethernet” traffic in your data center design strategy [...]
If you are not familiar with the Mathis Equation, I recommend you quickly go over my post article Mathis Equation and TCP Performance. This is necessary since the Padhye et. al. Equation is an extension to the Mathis Equation for accuracy of TCP throughput calculation over multiple scenario of packet loss. As simply put, the Padhye [...]
If you are familiar with CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol), then FDP from Brocade is just as the same. FDP allows each Foundry/Brocade devices to advertise themselves to MAC Address 01-E0-52-CC-CC-CC. FDP packets contain information such as hostname/device ID, software version, product platform and capability, vlan and layer 3 protocol address of the port sending the [...]
MP-BGP is simply an extended/enhanced BGP that primarily allows unicast routes for multicast routing to be carried in interconnect-networks – To this extend, MP-BGP allows protocols other than IPv4 to be carried (IPv6, CNLS, MPLS VPN etc…). This is of course different to native BGP which only allows unicast routes for IP Forwarding to be carried. Having [...]