diff --git a/content/blog/wk4day7.md b/content/blog/wk4day7.md index 6478d7e..bafa96b 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk4day7.md +++ b/content/blog/wk4day7.md @@ -1,7 +1,78 @@ --- -title: "Week 4, Sunday:" +title: "Week 4, Sunday: Day of Rest?" date: 2024-08-25T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- {{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/deepbest.png" alt="Credit: Deep Best, Youtube" >}} + +In the morning I decided to make good on my promise-to-self that I'd clean up the basement every now +and again. I vacuumed the floor and mopped it with soapy water. The previous two times I've done +this, the water that came out of the bucket was as dark as a black hole; but this time it was merely +a darkish tint of grey. Yaay, progress! + +In the morning I had a chat with my buddy Antonis who is preparing some equipment to deploy in +Amsterdam. He's on a power budget and has found an EPYC 4464P aka _Raphael_ that runs ~20W idle despite +having 12 cores, 64MB L3 cache and DDR5 memory with NVME controllers. It looks like a really great +machine! He's also looking for an equally power-efficient switch, and I have a few older Mikrotik +CRS317s laying in storage. I measure their consumption and it's about 14.2 Watts - so he will be +taking one of these off my hands to deploy in NIKHEF. + +I myself also do some shopping. I've ordered a batch of 84 CWDM/Bidi 20km SFP+ modules with Starry +Optics (the same club I get those sweet, sweet, Centec switches from). I also through in 8pcs of +40G-to-4x10G breakout DACs, as my switches typically have unused 40G ports which I'd then rather +repurpose to 10G ports for local machines. Those optics are ordered, and Raphael gets on the +assembly and shipping for me. Nice work, Raphael! + +In the afternoon, I have a task! Yesterday I created a third link into IPng's switch+router in +_Plan-les-Ouates_ Stack GEN01 datacenter. I did this so that I could safely tinker with the other +two links (one to Paris, and another to Zurich). Fred meets me online - he's physically at the +datacenter, and will move my connections from the IP-Max ASR9k router ports, to more economical +switchports. And I will take the opportunity to reconfigure these leased lines to terminate in +Zurich on the new Aristas. Fred makes quick work of it (thanks again, buddy!) and I end up +completing the task without having to use an emergency OOB connection: the third link from Geneva to +Zurich takes all the traffic, and BGP sessions don't even notice, as traffic is rerouted. About 20 +minutes later, both the link Geneva-Paris and Geneva-Zurich are back online, and I have full +redundancy again. I love it when this stuff works as designed :-) This summer I hope to have a few +talks at NONOG, ITNOG(on-the-road), FRNOG, and possibly NLNOG, DENOG about this network which runs +mostly entirely on IPv6 linklocal despite carrying IPv4 traffic! + +With my darling `msw0.chplo0.net.ipng.ch` redundantly connected at N+2 to the rest of the _IPng Site +Local_ network, it's time for me to get drunk, I mean, it's time for me to have one drink. Marina +somehow is not keen on Gin today, so she drinks an &Tonic, while I drink a Gin&Tonic, it's with a +light gingerbeer, and I like it. We try on some white gloves, for reasons I am now completely +blanking on, and proceed to make dinner. + +I'm outside barbecueing 1000g of pork sausage, for which we've bought one of those cute clamps. +Marina is inside making _Luikse Salade_ (salad from _Liege_, Belgium), which is potatoes, string +beans, bacon, boiled egg and a mustard vinaigrette. The sausage rounds it off for some much loved +proteine, and overall the whole table falls silent while we all inhale the stuff. However, Marina +has had an accident! She poured the boiling water from the beans over her left hand, so she gets to +wear the white glove with burn cream for a little bit. Too bad, but she takes it in stride. + +After dinner, I do a visual inspection of Quinn's eyeball. It is still intact, and roughly in the +place where it's meant to be, and I take some photographic evidence. Then, Marina gets to choose the +movie, and she chooses one with the Nespresso guy (elsewhere known as George Clooney), and the +_breedbekkikker_ (roughly translated from Dutch: a frog with a very wide mouth -- a loving slur for +Julia Roberts). It's called _Money Monster_ and it's actually pretty good! + +After the movie I turn in for the night. Somehow, this day was full of interesting work - but I feel +somewhat relaxed and rested despite being so busy! + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0820.JPG" caption="I put on a Freddy Mercury impression, and I want to break free! ... and vacuum my room." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0821.JPG" caption="I have this really cool Rick and Morty tea-mug, which reveals a colorful diorama when it has hot liquid in it." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0822.JPG" caption="I test this Mikrotik CRS317 switch for Antonis, it's coming in at 14.2 Watts idle. Hoping he'll be able to put it at NIKHEF in October." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/vpp-ospf3.png" caption="I'm rolling out EoMPLS circuits for AS8298's IPng Site Local, between Geneva and Zurich, and Geneva and Paris. Shown here: reconfiguring the link chplo0 - frpar0, and pinging Paris VPP router on linklocal." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0823.JPG" caption="The Gin&Tonic today is with a gingerbeer tonic and a blackberry Gin which is completely colorless." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/whiteglove.png" caption="Marina and I give each other the white glove treatment." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0824.JPG" caption="Dinner: Luikse Salade with BBQ'd pork sausage. It tasted better than the picture gives it credit for :-)" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0825.JPG" caption="Marina is cooling down her hot-watter scorched hand, with the white glove, a chickenglove and a cold compress. She'll live, don't worry." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0826.JPG" caption="Quinn passes the eyeball inspection with flying colors. In the reflection you can see that he finished his plate of Luikse Salade." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0828.JPG" caption="George and Julia play another movie together; it's Money Monster, and I enjoy it." >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} + diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-25/IMG_0820.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-25/IMG_0820.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc9d4ef --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-25/IMG_0820.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:b6b4a86bb532510b181cddb632a8c5332f8bfa51e0b624c88970742a9d2552d9 +size 1219443 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-25/IMG_0821.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-25/IMG_0821.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..542d7da --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-25/IMG_0821.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid 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