Twinax – Cheap, Cheerful and Annoyingly Chubby
What’s not to love about twinax? Formerly the exclusive domain of IBM systems, twinax has seen itself reborn in the last few years in the form of the Direct Attach Cable (DAC) used to connect […]
2017
Microburst: PSIRT Notifications – Are They Good Or Bad?
If your hardware or software vendor issues a lot of PSIRT (Product Security Incident Response Team) notifications, is that a good thing or a bad thing? After all, a PSIRT bulletin means that there’s a […]
One Little Thing Can Break All Your Automation
I’ve been doing some work automating A10 Networks load balancers recently, and while testing I discovered a bug which broke my scripts. As hard as I try to code my scripts to cope with both […]
Unifi US-8 PoE Passthrough With The Cisco 3560CX
As part of my “everything should be on a UPS” strategy, I recently replaced a regular 8-port gigabit switch with a Ubiquiti Unifi US-8 Ethernet switch because the US-8 can be powered using POE (Power […]
How To Access Devices with Unsupported SSL Ciphers
With the HeartBleed bug effectively killing off SSLv3 and vulnerabilities in cipher block chaining ruling out another whole swathe of SSL ciphers, network engineers may have found themselves trying to connect to a device and […]
Hive Mind, Help Me Out with A10 AXAPI?
Dear Internet, I am writing some automation code in Go to create client-ssl templates on an A10 load balancer running AXAPI version 2. It’s going as swimmingly as it can with the v2 API, but one […]