Articles of general interest

[John Fields]

This thread is for posting and discussing news items that are on-topic about the problems that HFR are looking to solve.

[John Fields]

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/faster-smarter-and-even-sexy-routers-are-long-overdue/ 

I agree the time is ripe!  But the Turris Omnia is expensive hardware and with a crazy hodge podge of devices at that.  Making it everything to everyone...

[Pablo Piaggio]

Improving Linux networking performance: https://lwn.net/Articles/629155/

[Pablo Piaggio]

addrwatch: a tool similar to arpwatch for IPv4/IPv6 and ethernet address pairing monitoring.

https://github.com/fln/addrwatch

[John Fields]

https://davidwalsh.name/httpstat

httpstat is a python script to display for humans what curl already does.  The curl functionality would be good to automate performance enhancing options like discovering if DNS is slow compared to all your other sites.. 

[Jeff Burns]

I like it.

[John Fields]

http://m.slashdot.org/story/320783

Norton has announced the launch of a smart router designed to protect connected home devices from intrusions. The Symantec-owned company says the device aims to keep safe up to 20 devices connected to it, including Windows computers, Macs, phones, tablets or any internet-of-things devices, in real time. Norton Core, shaped a little like a geodesic dome, can isolate an infected device from the rest of your network to prevent the spread of any malware.

[Jeff Burns]

it is a lot underpowered for what its supposed to do.

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:29 PM, John Fields <wig...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://m.slashdot.org/story/320783

Norton has announced the launch of a smart router designed to protect connected home devices from intrusions. The Symantec-owned company says the device aims to keep safe up to 20 devices connected to it, including Windows computers, Macs, phones, tablets or any internet-of-things devices, in real time. Norton Core, shaped a little like a geodesic dome, can isolate an infected device from the rest of your network to prevent the spread of any malware.

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[Pablo Piaggio]

New project Upspin from Google: sharing software / global file system.

• Blog post
• Web site project
  
• Github repository

[John Fields]

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/09/how-i-made-my-own-vpn-server-in-15-minutes/

Core: AlgoVPN https://github.com/trailofbits/algo