OPERATING SYSTEMSOS Linux

Down With The Sickness [22]

Down With The Sickness

Episode: 22
Published: 08/23/2022

Stories

Because you wanted to know more about SmartNICs right? RIGHT????

• Network Interface Controller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_interface_controller)

• To further enhance that interaction, the Data Plane Development Kit project was created (https://www.dpdk.org/)

• Open Programmable Infrastructure project to try and set an open standard for how these DPUs work (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/linux-foundation-announces-open-programmable-infrastructure-project/)

• OpenStack has drivers for using Neutron with Open Virtual Networking (https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/admin/ovn/smartnic_dpu.html)

• VMware Project Monterey (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2021/10/project-monterey-updates.html)

• ROCE and iWARP (https://blogs.marvell.com/2019/04/roce-or-iwarp-for-low-latency/)

Lightning Round

• ProtonMail Suffers Second Outage in 8 Weeks, Users are Not Amused (https://protonstatus.com/incidents/201)

• Why is Ethereum always preparing? Just Merge already. (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/the-merge-the-biggest-change-in-ethereum-history-explained/)

• 2 year old iOS bug that renders VPNs unreliable still not fixed, says researcher (https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.iOS.are.scam.php)

• Beware the unused account says Mandiant (https://petri.com/mandiant-hackers-bypass-mfa/)

• In the early 2000���s, Janet Jackson���s video for Rhythm Nation would crash computers (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/janet-jacksons-rhythm-nation-is-officially-a-security-threat-for-some-old-laptops/)

• Sun Engineer Brendan Gregg causing observable latency in a disk array by shouting at them (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4)

• Google Cloud Armor fends off 46M Requests Per Second DDoS Attack (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-google-cloud-blocked-largest-layer-7-ddos-attack-at-46-million-rps)

Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022

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by Ned in the Cloud

linux foundation