Posts tagged with: network

Why don't you spend the day investigating how ready you are for IPv6 (you WILL have to embrace it sooner rather than later) and take part in the 24 hour "test flight" being offered by some of the big organisations like Google, Facebook and Yahoo!.  Continue reading ►

It's amazing what you discover whilst working a weekend shift with a bit of time to spare. Whilst perusing through the shell scripts used as part of the Sun in-house built VPN solution (Oracle are giving it the chop in favour of Cisco SSL AnyConnect client which doesn't officially work on Solaris x86 - it does with the help of openconnect though ;-) ), I discovered a little easter egg in ping(1M).  Continue reading ►

Is it just me or has NWAM lost the "M", ie the magic, in snv_135? I've recently updated and whilst the NWAM functionality has apparently been enhanced (there's way more configuration stuff now) and a more functional GUI implemented, for the life of me I can't get it to reliably connect to my home wifi network. I need to poke and prod it to come to life on each boot. Time to go digging to see if I can work out why.  Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 28 Aug 2009 - 1 Sep 2009:  Continue reading ►

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Just a quick heads up - Sun has issued a Security Alert about a vulnerability in IPv6 in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris builds 101 - 107:  Continue reading ►

I've anxiously been waiting for this update email to say the snv_105 changes are now available for OpenSolaris.  Continue reading ►

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Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008:  Continue reading ►