Putting a nappy on the screaming baby - dealing with incidents in a telco using workarounds

People put nappies on babies because the longer term solution of teaching them to use the loo isn't going to work immediately and often neither in the not too distant future. Sooner or later they will be potty trained but it is not viable to deal with a screaming and wet baby who does not have a nappy until they are potty trained. The nappy is the workaround. This analogy applies to telcos and incidents that occur in that environment because although there are viable long term solutions to an incident, it will take too long to implement and services are required by the client almost immediately.

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easywall - Web interface for easy use of the IPTables firewall on Linux systems written in Python3.

Firewalls are becoming increasingly important in today’s world. Hackers and automated scripts are constantly trying to invade your system and use it for Bitcoin mining, botnets or other things. To prevent these attacks, you can use a firewall on your system. IPTables is the strongest firewall in Linux because it can filter packets in the kernel before they reach the application. Using IPTables is not very easy for Linux beginners. We have created easywall - the simple IPTables web interface . The focus of the software is on easy installation and use. Access this neat software over on github: easywall

No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach. Read the post of at Cloudflare's blog: N o Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

LDWin: Link Discovery for Windows

LDWin supports the following methods of link discovery: CDP - Cisco Discovery Protocol LLDP - Link Layer Discovery Protocol Download LDWin from here.

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