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 ... 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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&