From ccee2316dafb2efdd03cff743bf25c07790559f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pim van Pelt Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 13:41:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note on Sandro and Andrew's visit --- content/blog/wk6day3.md | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/blog/wk6day3.md b/content/blog/wk6day3.md index ca4a2ae..8becc3c 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk6day3.md +++ b/content/blog/wk6day3.md @@ -85,9 +85,26 @@ The bikeride home was uneventful, thank goodness. Back home, I 'made' dinner, w yeeted some potato / rösti croquettes and a few _Schwyzer Güggeli_ (rotissery chickens) into the oven and exercised patience for thirty minutes. -After dinner, we watched a few episodes of _V Wars_ on Netflix, after which I went downstairs to -enjoy the smell of molten PLA and PETG, paired nicely with a dram of _Grappa Di Vinaccia_ from -distillery _Vergnano_. You know this stuff is serious when it ships in a one liter bottle. +After dinner, we watched a few episodes of _V Wars_ on Netflix, and at 20:00 or so the doorbell +rang. My buddy Sandro and the very popular Andrew (in my house at least, Quinn is a huge fan!) stop +by to pick up a few Celestica DX010 switches. We go downstairs, and talk about the switches a little +bit what to run on them. Sandro thinks maybe +[[OcNOS](https://www.ipinfusion.com/documentation/ocnos-hardware-compatibility-list/)], but I'm thinking +likely [[SONiC](https://github.com/sonic-net/SONiC)], or possibly +[[Cumulus](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/ethernet-switching/cumulus-linux/)]. I still +haven't found a spare moment to dive into these switches, being on sabbatical is hard work! It turns +out, Andrew is also an avid 3D printer and we catch up on the print quality and speed of his Prusa +Mini versus this new MK4S. I wipe the drool off of the table, as Sandro packs up his switches. +That's another three large boxes less for the IPng Lab :) + +After Sandro and Andrew leave I stay downstairs to enjoy the smell of molten PLA and PETG, paired +nicely with a dram of _Grappa Di Vinaccia_ from distillery _Vergnano_. You know this stuff is +serious when it ships in a one liter bottle. I get good news from the Netherlands - my talk for +NLNOG in October has been accepted; so I puzzle my calendar for a flight to Amsterdam on Monday +21st, and a flight back in the late morning of the 23rd, as I already have plane tickets from Zurich +to Barcelona in the late afternoon of the 23rd. It's tight, but it'll work :) + +Tomorrow, I should probably start making the materials for these talks ... ## Pictures of the Day