From a46c5aa7362b6c4a7dfad87d99d189bb8a561034 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pim van Pelt Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:52:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Monday of the last week --- content/blog/wk13day7.md | 2 +- content/blog/wk14day1.md | 66 ++++++++++++++++++- static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/IMG_2247.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/IMG_2248.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/akvorado.png | 3 + static/img/headline/dreamscape-03.png | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/IMG_2247.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/IMG_2248.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/akvorado.png | 3 + 9 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/IMG_2247.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/IMG_2248.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/akvorado.png create mode 100644 static/img/headline/dreamscape-03.png create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/IMG_2247.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/IMG_2248.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/akvorado.png diff --git a/content/blog/wk13day7.md b/content/blog/wk13day7.md index 4fb2dcc..7278b9f 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk13day7.md +++ b/content/blog/wk13day7.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: "Week 13, Sunday: Padel!" date: 2024-10-27T21:55:00+02:00 --- -{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/noraenpure-11.png" alt="Credit: Nora en Pure, YouTube" >}} +{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/kasger-02.png" alt="Credit: Kasger, YouTube" >}} I woke up at 08:30 after a tremendous sleep. I love sleeping in my own bed, the difference between its comfort is most apparent just after I return from a trip abroad. This morning I have a sportsing diff --git a/content/blog/wk14day1.md b/content/blog/wk14day1.md index 47fc3aa..9f8b94a 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk14day1.md +++ b/content/blog/wk14day1.md @@ -1,7 +1,67 @@ --- -title: "Week 14, Monday:" +title: "Week 14, Monday: Last Week!" date: 2024-10-28T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- -{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}} +{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/noraenpure-12.png" alt="Credit: Nora en Pure, YouTube" >}} + +I have to say I'm a little bit melancholic seeing that today, week fourteen of my sabbatical, has +started. My journal is going to be perhaps a bit of an anti climax because I have promised myself +that in the last week I would not do very many things, but just recompress after having been able to +let my mind roam free for so many days. + +In all my years as an adult, I've never had a vacation longer than three weeks. Ever since working +at Google, and I started in 2006 mind you, I have mostly spent school vacations traveling with my +family - in the before times this was to the San Francisco Bay Area, sometimes as well to Sydney +Australia. I would work mostly, and in the weekends we'd do fun stuff together as a family. + +I'm now looking back at the time I spent off-corp, and it's difficult to overstate how valuable it +has been for me. I've gotten to finish a few projects that have been quietly and patiently waiting +for my attention in the dusty corner of my work room. I've traveled quite a bit and enjoyed the +company of many friends, family and network engineers. I also finally cleaned my room™, and I +got a Roomba vacuum robot called _Suckel_ to help me keep my room tidy. I played wiht lego, although +not as much as I would've liked. Marina and I drank many martini's in the back yard while the Summer +was blessing us with good weather, but I did not get to re-design and work on our garden. Tim helped +me, as an emotional support animal and subject matter expert, to get my flight simulator up and +running, and I've clocked 20hrs or so of flight time in it. Yesterday I ordered two 31.5" screens +which will serve as the left and right window. I find VFR difficult without having a lateral view +out the window of my little simplane. Would you believe those screens were only CHF 120,- apiece? +Unbelievable! + +In the morning I cut a new release of my KVM image for VPP, Bird2 and FRR 10.1. I've included the +`sFlow` plugin, a working `hsflowd` and some tools like `psampletest` and `sflowtool` in the image. +While testing, I started an [[Akvorado](https://github.com/akvorado/akvorado)] instance to validate +that things work. I think there's still a few small things we need to take care of, notably around +SNMP information and perhaps a few fields in the sFlow counters (such as interface state and speed). +And for the Akvorado data model, I'll want to feed it some BGP information using +[[BMP](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7854)] so that things like prefixes and +source/destination AS numbers are known. But, it's a start, and it works. + +In the afternoon I spent some time with the simulator. My buddy Luuk pinged me on Signal, and he'll +be renting a plane this week, intending to fly it up from Lugano where he lives, to Wangen-Lachen, +airport [[LSPV](https://www.flugplatzwangen.ch/)]. All we need is a bit of good weather, and today +it's gorgeous out! In the sim, I'm doing attitude control, controlled turns and flying patterns. I +find it very difficult to keep my altitude, perhaps also because there is no motion feedback in the +simulator (ie, I don't feel myself going up or down). But I'll get the hang of it, eventually. + +There's still a flurry of requests for FreeIX Remote. Lancom in Greece has offered capacity on their +100G wave from Thessaloniki to Amsterdam, and will be giving all of their local FreeIX Greece +members (there are half a dozen for the moment), free access to the NIKHEF exchanges. FreeIX Remote +is slowly growing, with currently 210K IPv4 prefixes and 64K IPv6 prefixes. Not bad for a peer :) + +Marina makes a non-typical but delicious meal! She takes butternut squash and onions roasted in the +oven, with goat's cheese and cured ham on a bed of arugula with a light vinaigrette. She asks me if +I can fry a beef _Limousin_ steak, which I happily oblige. Together, this makes for a very tasty +dinner indeed! After dinner, we watch some news and settle down on the couch for a few episodes of +Lilyhammer. + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-28/akvorado.png" caption="Akvorado on a testbed with four VPP machines" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-28/IMG_2247.JPG" caption="Marina's delicious dinner: ham, goat cheese, squasch and rocket" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-28/IMG_2248.JPG" caption="To accompany Marina's salad: Limousin filet mignon with Chicago rub" >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/IMG_2247.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/IMG_2247.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e3e553 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/IMG_2247.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:87d28069b6bca27b7eb0b7da94d234c9a8d9e63bc31a2a0970264c82f962d10e +size 1370673 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/IMG_2248.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/IMG_2248.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6cb48f --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/IMG_2248.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:cf8e1a0a4bcf730eb40fbd9b11eda6f9c1fa10b9c4009d2b5be317037f811765 +size 1379211 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/akvorado.png b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/akvorado.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..453abc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-28/akvorado.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:9855057a70fe6cc15c268054daec0efdf7a32f04af91081665d3166bcff28436 +size 569566 diff --git a/static/img/headline/dreamscape-03.png b/static/img/headline/dreamscape-03.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a0cb749 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/headline/dreamscape-03.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:a408a9153b4f56cce6c7686c5de4040ed7fd149ad6150a15fbf24ea28b4a221b +size 143761 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/IMG_2247.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/IMG_2247.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd7ecbc --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/IMG_2247.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:7581a2dd83e2dfbba2aed212b4c2d445331b360046fa6174aed75d292fc282d7 +size 53060 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/IMG_2248.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/IMG_2248.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..12f4874 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/IMG_2248.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:d3d16e31bf91975c09985e3fda9796f3368f601effe42ea2456199480f403832 +size 47970 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/akvorado.png b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/akvorado.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84ef6ce --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-28/akvorado.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:ed60881bb30aed4ad732d4621bea5f8273664ba6da6b5bee2d0ea128d6c872e5 +size 35133