mercutio: I know I have asked before, but could you remind me of that site that gives you a score based on your ssl certificate?
was it https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
More than likely, yes
(Since you mentioned scoring)
yeh it would have been
whats an elastic interconnect ?
isn't that an amazon thing?
I tried searching and the term didnt come up as an amazon thing, although someone was mentioning it as an Amazon related service provided by Megaport
https://www.megaport.com/services/features
good morning everyone
could someone point me in the right direction to cancel a service please?
Gazby, support@arpnetworks.com
thanks mkb
is that standard, i couldn't even find any documentation indicating how to cancel a service
after i started getting invoice overdue reminders when my CC expired, I went to cancel it and couldn't find how, figured i would eventually get cut off
it's still running five months later
spoke to garry, all sorted, thanks again
what letter will ubuntu 18.04  start with?
mnathani_: did you figure out the interconnect thing?
@google ubuntu 18.04
11,700 total results returned for 'ubuntu 18.04', here's 3
Download Ubuntu Server | Download | Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server) The Long Term Support version of Ubuntu Server, including the Icehouse release  of OpenStack and support guaranteed until April 2019 — 64-bit only.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to Be Fully in Sync with Debian, Without Ubuntu ... (https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/45ep1p/ubuntu_1804_lts_to_be_fully_in_sync_with_debian/) Feb 12, 2016 ... inaccurateUbuntu 18.04 LTS to Be Fully in Sync with Debian, Without Ubuntu  Specific Patches (plus.google.com). submitted 19 days ago by ...
Release end of life | Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life) When an Ubuntu release reaches its end of life it receives no further  maintenance updates, including critical security upgrades. It is highly  recommended that ...
well that was less useful than I would have liked...
heh
i was just thinking they were going to run out of letters
well before ubuntu 18.04; but lts i was more curious about
oh ubuntu 18.04 may be called ballsy baboon
or busy beaver
so yeah they're going back to the start
Aw I was hoping they'd wrap into numbers, base-36 style
mercutio: the link brycec posted describes it using a bunch of other keywords I dont understand - but yea its an amazon or cloud based SDN Networking thing :-)
lol
mnathani_: i've heard of megaport
mnathani_: Are you familiar with datacenter interconnects?
their idea is bandwidth capacity on demand
(typically other cabinets, other POP's in the datacenter, etc)
well dedicated bandwidth capacity on demand
is that like a dedicated link or vpn between datacenters
so like say arp wanted to get gigabit to ams-ix
they could just fire it up,
then say they want to upgrade to 2 gigabit they could just raise it
then 3 ..
Well the idea of an "Elastic Interconnect" is just that, but "cloud scale" (they have the infrastructure and turn on the right switches to bring you traffic)
yeah it's like mpls
ahh, that makes more sense
It's really nothing new, what they're selling, just buzz-wordier
so there'll just be /30 at each
And possibly using fancy new tech like SDN
err at each end, and you won't see the inbetween hops
potentially bryce
but not necessarily.
mercutio: "And *possibly* using..."
yeh
i'm agreeing with you but rewording, sorry :)
Whether or not they use the tech and buzzwords they throw around on their website, who really knows (besides them)
it's not meant to matter
you the consumer are meant to just eat what they serve
Unless you're the type of customer that wants to be using the hippest new thing.
i'm not a huge fan of sdn yet :)
In which case yeah you go with the provider that uses $HipThing
but i am thinking that having open source switches is a wonderful idea
someone does linux based switches/routers already
cant remember the name
mnathani_: a few do
most are vxworks though
so you can install apps and do like gigabit captures eetc
Anyone can, you can start with just openvswitch and a grapload of NICs
*crapload
brycec: you run out of pci-e lanes quickly
you can't do 48 10gbe ports on a pc :)
Depends on the scale of switch you're looking to do :p
I think it was arista: https://eos.arista.com/linux-as-a-switch-operating-system-five-lessons-learned/
and if want to do gbe why bother?
For that matter, I have come across quad-NIC cards that can switch on-board, simply controlled by the host
yeah that's a good way to go
So you can have 40GBps fabric among 5 ports, but if you have to packet switch to another card, you chew up host bus bandwidth
But I'm not in that world, these days, nor do I need anything truly fancy like SDN. So meh.
40gbe is actually a little hard
100gbe i think you'd really struggle to do on anything right now
pci-e3 x16 would be kind of near it's limits
pci-e 3.0
well i mean to really push it to it's limits :)
*its
true
40gbe is coming down in cost though
what do you do with 40gbe if your disks (ssd based) can't support that throughput
then you buy more disks
nvme ssd's do like 2 gigabytes/sec read
but right now 40gbe is usually used for aggregation
pushing over 10gbe isn't that hard, but running 40gbe to it's limit is a bit harder
http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=201&