Wednesday February 22, 2006
Wednesday February 22, 2006
I'd written to some colleagues at Sun about this, and Alan suggested I write a blog entry. What a good idea, since I've been so delinquent about blogging.
So, here I am flying over Greenland and writing a blog. Not storing it away for submission after I land, but actually on the live website and posting it immediately, thanks to Lufthansa and Boeing (and I suppose I have to put in a plug for Airbus as well, since they built the plane - talk about strange bedfellows!).
Many other people have written about this, including Jonathan and some folks at Apple. The service has been running on some routes for a while. What makes my experience different, though, is that I'm using IPsec to tunnel into Sun's network, and writing this using Solaris. There probably aren't too many other people who've done that.
Evidence of that would be the fact that Lufthansa's on-line survey not only doesn't list Solaris as one of the possible operating system choices, it doesn't even have an "other" category. Not being willing to claim Solaris was either Linux or MacOS (there wasn't a generic UNIX category, either), I had to answer "I don't know" and put in a comment later on.
So, Lufthansa and Boeing: I know you're Sun customers. How about fixing this?
And speaking of fixing things, the Solaris IPsec technology I'm using is called "punchin." Unfortunately it's not available to the general public yet, but we're using it inside Sun for VPN connections on Solaris since our friends at Cisco haven't been willing to support their VPN solution on Solaris for x64. So, Cisco, how about you? 2.6 million Solaris on x86/x64 systems can't be wrong.
So, here I am flying over Greenland and writing a blog. Not storing it away for submission after I land, but actually on the live website and posting it immediately, thanks to Lufthansa and Boeing (and I suppose I have to put in a plug for Airbus as well, since they built the plane - talk about strange bedfellows!).
Many other people have written about this, including Jonathan and some folks at Apple. The service has been running on some routes for a while. What makes my experience different, though, is that I'm using IPsec to tunnel into Sun's network, and writing this using Solaris. There probably aren't too many other people who've done that.
Evidence of that would be the fact that Lufthansa's on-line survey not only doesn't list Solaris as one of the possible operating system choices, it doesn't even have an "other" category. Not being willing to claim Solaris was either Linux or MacOS (there wasn't a generic UNIX category, either), I had to answer "I don't know" and put in a comment later on.
So, Lufthansa and Boeing: I know you're Sun customers. How about fixing this?
And speaking of fixing things, the Solaris IPsec technology I'm using is called "punchin." Unfortunately it's not available to the general public yet, but we're using it inside Sun for VPN connections on Solaris since our friends at Cisco haven't been willing to support their VPN solution on Solaris for x64. So, Cisco, how about you? 2.6 million Solaris on x86/x64 systems can't be wrong.