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-title: "Week 6, Thursday:"
-date: 2024-09-05T21:55:00+02:00
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+title: "Week 6, Thursday: *NOG Presentation"
+date: 2024-09-05T19:55:00+02:00
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-{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}}
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/kushsessions-05.png" alt="Credit: KushSessions, YouTube" >}}
+
+In the morning, Dan from the [[APNIC](https://apnic.net/)] webmaster team tags me on LinkedIn and
+Twitter - they have run the second of three contributed blog posts which describe Babel (part 1),
+Unnumbered IPv3 OSPFv3 (part 2) and rolling this out in VPP at IPng Networks (part 3, yet to come).
+LinkedIn and Twitter buzz a little bit, and I spend some time answering questions and fending off
+that one guy (you know, there's always _that one guy_) who finds this all incredibly boring and
+basic, and needs to actually bother me by making sure I know, that _he_ has been doing all of this
+for 20 years already. Except, he has no idea, because 20 years ago, VPP didn't exist :)
+
+Yesterday, Sandro picked up his switches, all right, but not the packaging. So I sacrificed one
+official green _Br&uuml;ttisellersack_ trashbag and stuffed a cubic meter of protective foam into
+it. I was quite proud as I yeeted it into the trash container in the driveway.
+
+With that small chore out of the way, I took to my e-mail and I am reminded of yesterday's Good
+News. The [[NLNOG](https://nlnog.net/)] program committee has accepted my proposal to come talk
+about that IPv4-less backbone I've created, and detail the changes to Bird2 and VPP and LinuxCP that
+were needed to facilitate that. Seeing as next week I'll be out and about in Friesland, I think I
+should get going.
+
+My presentation will have four pieces:
+1.    Code changes required for Babel in VPP, using IPv6 transit networks for IPv4 destinations
+1.    Code changes required for IPv4 OSPFv3 in VPP, using Unnumbered transit networks 
+1.    Rollout to IPng's [[AS8298](https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/02/27/ipng-network/)] without
+      downtime
+1.    A reminder: VPP does 100Mpps and 100Gbps without breaking a sweat, on commodity hardware
+
+I'm doing a bit of a roadshow with this (Oslo, Amsterdam, Piacenza, Paris, possibly Berlin if the
+DENOG program committee is favorable on my submission), but each talk will be different - they are
+different length timeslot and different requested emphasis by the respective program committees.
+It's nice that [[APNIC](https://blog.apnic.net/2024/09/05/vpp-with-loopback-only-ospfv3-part-2/)] is
+already making a bit of noise for me!
+
+Today I finished the intro, the first piece and a part of the second piece. But at 17:00 or so, my
+stomach informed me that it was empty and needed filling. Luckily, tonight I get to cook -- and
+since it was my choice, I chose a Dutch classic _Biefstuk Friet_ (English: beef filet with fries). I
+started preparing the salad, chopping tomatoes, cucumber, onions and washing the salad. I had
+already taken out three fabulous _Limousine_ pieces from the freezer yesterday, and they are now
+room temperature. I ask Quinn to help with the french fries, and he's super motivated because the
+reward is that he gets to eat french fries.
+
+It's raining unfortunately, but only a drizzle. I heat up the barbecue and at around 18:05 or so I
+put the well seasoned steaks on a searing hot griddle. I give them three times three minutes, so
+that one side has a nice diamond and the other one stripes. This makes them somewhere between medium
+rare and medium, and as they are sizzling I can already tell this is gonna be good.
+
+Meanwhile, inside, Quinn and Marina are gob-smacked at just ... how ... LONG it is. Sometimes, the
+That's-What-She-Said jokes write themselves in this household. They decide to eat _the_ french fry.
+[[Eliza Shlesinger](https://youtu.be/akHSlA-WUB0?si=H_D1-AdpetfPPiw4&t=157)] would be proud.
+
+We do the dishes and plop onto our respective couches to watch an episode of _V Wars_. I fall asleep
+halfway through it, and at 20:30 when Quinn goes upstairs, I briefly hesitate and want to curl into
+a ball also. But it's 20:30 and this will mess up the rest of my week, so I _person up_, and grab
+myself a glass of Grappa, and offer to watch _Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer_, a documentary
+about a US soccer player, [[Hope Solo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Solo)], whom I personally
+have never heard of, but apparently is a world famous female soccer player and goalie, and her story
+of accomplishments, and controversies. I thought it was a pretty cool story, a little bit David and
+Goliath. Although probably embellished a little bit, for the largest part believable: Wage Pay
+Gaps, they are real, and women all over the world get shafted, all the time. 
+
+Finally at 22:30 or so I go downstairs, where
+[[Adalinda](https://www.printables.com/model/25225-adalinda-the-singing-serpent) is about 90% done,
+and the next set of parts for the MK3S+ upgrade are ready to be scheduled. I clean the plate and
+launch what I think is the last of the parts, and just as the printer starts, I hear a loud *snap*
+behind me and feel something touch my leg. Adalinda's left wing has snapped off!
+
+Oh well, you win some you lose some -- even with the Prusa MK4S it seems. Since the other printer
+has finished its first two layers, and I've finished my glass, I'm also happy to report that for the
+first time this week, I've written my journal in the evening before going to bed, rather than
+sheepishly retrofitting it the next morning (which, believe you me, will happen plenty in the next
+few weeks, as I scurry around Europe on a set of trips). Good night!
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-05/IMG_1126.JPG" caption="A municipal trash bag with three boxes worth of packing foam from Sandro's switches in it. I'm quite proud on how I made that all fit. It's packed so densely that one more piece of foam and I would've created a black hole." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-05/preso.png" caption="I'm working on my presentation for *NOGs around Europe this fall." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-05/IMG_1127.JPG" caption="I cook up a set of pretty delicious Limousin filet steaks." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-05/wow.png" caption="Quinn and Marina are just in awe with how long it was!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-05/IMG_1128.JPG" caption="We watch Hope Solo vs US Soccer, a documentary on Netflix about gender pay inequality" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-05/IMG_1129.JPG" caption="The printers have been productive, in the background, Adalinda is printing." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-05/IMG_1130.JPG" caption="Oops! Adalinda has lost her left wing. That sucks! This print goes to the bin, unfortunately, and at 94% finished!" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
+{{< gallery-modal >}}
+{{< gallery-script >}}