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Using Rust for Kentik’s New Synthetic Network Monitoring Agent

Kentik

We recently launched Kentik Synthetic Monitoring , a major new product feature that combines synthetic network testing with real-time traffic monitoring to provide thorough insight into network performance and reliability. Managing agents in Kentik Synthetic Monitoring. IPv4 traceroute probes each hop by setting the Time to Live field.

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Bogons: Do not let them in or through your networks

CTOvision

But bogon’s can be used to launch TCP SYN attacks and are used in about 10% of DDoS attacks on the net. But filtering the full bogon list requires about 5000 rules for IPv4 and about 70,000 rules for IPv6. Additionally, IPv4 networks are not safe from an IPv6 bogon bandwidth flooding attack.

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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. For more details on some of these variations check out our Knowledge Base topic on Flow Protocols. Flow Exporting Devices. Ready to learn more?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018

High Scalability

@GossiTheDog : This is wild - the White House are rolling back cybersecurity baseline standards for government (saying they will issue new ones in the future), and ditching deployment of DNSSEC and IPv6 (as mandated under Obama admin) saying they are already in place (they aren’t). nicolefv : Outsourcing is a bad idea.