Edge Cloud

Edge Cloud is a personal blog about various technical subjects, especially data centers, virtualization, networking and cloud computing.

IPv6 deployment: Using IPv6 link-local addresses as default gateway

August 7, 2013 8 minute read #IPv6, #Network

Using the simple to remember IPv6 link-local address fe80::1 as the default gateway.

Terminating a 6in4 tunnel on an Arista switch

July 18, 2013 5 minute read #Arista, #Network

Using Arista’s underlying Linux OS to configure a 6in4 tunnel for IPv6 connectivity.

TCP Throughput tests between Amazon AWS regions

June 28, 2013 1 minute read #AWS, #Performance

Looking at Single TCP session throughput performance between Amazon AWS regions and comparing it to the throughput between a similar setup across the Internet.

Network troubleshooting via Arista EOS shell

June 24, 2013 4 minute read #Arista, #Network, #Performance

Arista EOS is based on a Linux kernel and provides full and open access to a Linux shell, allowing installation and use of Linux based management and trouble...

“Breaking” Amazon AWS S3

June 21, 2013 3 minute read #AWS

While working with Amazon AWS S3 it turned out, that it allows users to specify S3 bucket names in the “US Standard” regions that are not allowed like this i...