There always comes a time when vendors move their support resources from your slightly aged product to their brand-spanking new products. The hardware is fine and capable of doing so much more, but is ...

To draw conclusions about Linux's packet forwarding performance (or features, or security, or correctness) from any SDN usage would be about as fair as basing FreeBSD's performance on how fast a ...

i have a linux router that has been faithfully serving IPv4 for quite some time. my ISP is now offering IPv6 and i am looking to get my hands dirty with some newness. being that this topic is mostly ...

Users have been pondering the idea of Cisco-routers-turned-Linux-app-servers and have found the idea wanting. Last week, Cisco set tongues a-waggin’ with its announcement that its Integrated Services ...

Admittedly, Cisco probably isn’t (nor should it be) shaking in its boots over Linux router startups. Still another such player, ImageStream, is impressively strutting its stuff at Interop New York ...

Firmware is the low-level software programmed into a device's read-only memory, responsible for controlling its hardware functions. In the context of routers and networking equipment, firmware ...

Although it's true that I tend to focus mostly on Linux in systems administration (after all, that is my day job), I've always had a secondary interest in security, whether it's hardening systems, ...

I didn’t need Wi-Fi 7 — I needed this.

If you're reading this article from home, it’s likely that you're connected to a consumer-grade Wi-Fi router, either wirelessly or via hard wired Ethernet. And if that's the case, you should probably ...