Tag: Networking
All the articles with the tag "Networking".
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Can You Know the Location of an IPv6 Address?
Example IPv6: 2600:100e:b0c7:7403:f88c:92d0:bc41:46ff Short answer: only approximately , and with significant limitations. This article explains what can and cannot be inferred from an IPv6 address,
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How Network Topology Shapes Distributed Computing and Big Data Systems
When discussing distributed systems and Big Data, people often focus on storage, processing frameworks, and scalability—but one foundational concept underlies it all: network topology . It’s the
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Enabling Internet Access for Resources in a Public Subnet
When deploying resources in a public subnet within an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), you need to configure several components to allow them to communicate with the internet. Below are the essential
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Network Address Translation (NAT): Overcoming IPv4 Shortages
Introduction Network Address Translation (NAT) is a technology designed to mitigate the shortage of IPv4 addresses by allowing multiple devices on a private network to share a limited number of public
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Understanding MAC Addresses: Hexadecimal, Binary, and Decimal Representations
In this post, we'll explore what a MAC address is, how it's represented in hexadecimal notation, and how to convert it to binary and decimal formats. We'll use the MAC address 88-B2-2F-54-1A-0F as an
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Route Summarization and Subnetting
We will walk through the process of subnetting a network and performing route summarization using an example. Subnetting Example Let's consider the following four subnets: 192.168.0.0/22
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FTP and SFTP - Running through a Container
Running an FTP server using docker is really easy. In fact, you can use it running the following image: atmoz/sftp - But, at the end we want to know what is and FTP and why is it worth to know a