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How Analyzing External Attack Surface Data Boosts Your Security Strategy 

Tenable

Record types : It’s useful to know, for example, that a record type is an A record vs an AAAA record because the reason one user can see the content and another can’t see it might have everything to do with the fact that they aren’t able to connect to IPv6 from their house, while another user can.

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The (Net)Flow That Kentik Makes Go: Know Your Traffic Flow Data Protocols

Kentik

Some versions, but not all, support other data fields such as MAC address, VLAN ID, and IPv6. For example, NetFlow v9, IPFIX, and sFlow support IPv6 but NetFlow v5 and its equivalents don’t. Contact us and we’ll be happy to walk you through a demo. Flow Exporting Devices. Ready to learn more?

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Scaling BGP Peering in Kentik's SaaS Environment

Kentik

While we were able to scale connections and achieved a mostly uniform distribution among the peering nodes (example below), our setup was still not really IPv6 ready and needed full exaBGP restarts upon any topology modification, resulting in BGP flaps for customers. IPv6 peerings are starting to outgrow a single node.

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