Welcome to the August edition of Network Engineering Community News! This month, we’re covering key FastNetMon product updates, the recent launch of Netomics, DDoS simulation at 100GbE, the latest botnet research, and a look back at the history of the first transatlantic cable. Plus, find out where you can meet the FastNetMon team at upcoming events. |
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On the product side, we’ve released FastNetMon Advanced 2.0.383, a mandatory upgrade for all FastNetMon Advanced customers using online licensing following a CA certificate rotation in our licensing infrastructure. Customers need to upgrade to ensure continued automatic license renewal, and Ubuntu and Debian users should also check that they are using the current FastNetMon APT repository. Additionally, we’ve made FastNetMon Community easier to install through the Ubuntu Snap Store and introduced a new tool called sFlowgen, a lightweight sFlow traffic generator for generating realistic traffic samples and simplifying DDoS testing.
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Simulating DDoS Attacks at 100GbE Line Rate with TRex |
How can you realistically simulate DDoS traffic at high packet rates? We explore how TRex stateless mode can generate DDoS traffic at 100GbE line rate, covering UDP, SYN, ACK, ICMP and fragment floods, along with carpet-bombing and multi-vector scenarios. The article by Denys Haryachyy, walks through the setup and practical examples for generating high-volume attack traffic in a controlled environment. |
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About Route Leaks, BGP Hijacks - and Netomics |
BGP hijacks and route leaks remain a serious operational risk, and detecting them quickly requires more than simply watching routing updates. A recent LinuxSecurity article looks at how RPKI, routing history, ownership data, and real-time BGP visibility can help operators identify suspicious announcements — and explores how Netomics, our new self-hosted routing intelligence platform, brings that context together while keeping routing data within your own infrastructure. |
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Worth Reading | | DDoS News: Inside The New Linux Botnet |
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A closer look at Evooo1Bot, a new Linux botnet targeting routers, firewalls, cameras, and other edge devices — combining DDoS capabilities with proxy relaying, credential sniffing, and automated exploitation. |
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| Internet History: How Victorian Engineers Wired an Ocean |
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A trip back to the first transatlantic telegraph cable and the remarkable engineering challenges involved in connecting Europe and North America across the Atlantic. |
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