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-title: "Week 8, Wednesday:"
+title: "Week 8, Wednesday: Stollen - Day 1"
 date: 2024-09-18T21:55:00+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/yeahyouradio.png" alt="Credit: Yeah You Radio, YouTube" >}}
+
+This is the start of one of the things I have really been looking forward to for this sabbatical.
+It's a bit of a backstory though - a few years ago, a large customer of IP-Max wanted to have a
+second location, and after a few tours, one of which I helped organize, a few months ago they signed
+with a local Swiss datacenter owned by the cantonal utility company in Lucerne:
+[[EWL](https://ewl.ch/)].
+
+I've been in this facility before and as datacenters go, this one is very slick. It pumps up water
+from the _Vierwaltst&auml;dtersee_ lake, uses it for cooling the rooms, and then resells the heater
+water to the city for industrial and residential heating purposes. It's a really nice facility, and
+one of the things that immediately struck me as _an asset_ is that it's owned by the Canton, so it's
+near impossible that it gets sold to a large datacenter operator from the United States. And I like
+that.
+
+So, the customer signed for a modestly sized cage with about 14 racks and room for a large tape
+robot. IP-Max will be delivering the telecom links - 20Gbit to Zurich and 20Gbit to Geneva (via
+Lausanne). It's a perfect match, **and I get to build it**!! Fred and I have planned three days for
+the deploy - and about half the equipment is at my place (taken from service out of the Equinexit
+project), while the other half is in Geneva. So we'll meet in the middle, and while Fred is underway
+from Geneva, I'll leave a bit later from Br&uuml;ttisellen to meet him there. 
+
+In the morning, I finish grabbing all the stuff that I need. Yesterday I took care of the IP-Max
+equipment, and this morning I finish the install of the IPng footprint: a Centec MPLS switch, a VPP
+router and a hypervisor. A surprising amount of optics and DACs go into my bag, and I try not to
+forget anything; although I can always bring some more stuff tomorrow if we forget, as this deploy
+will take more than one day to complete.
+
+I drive over to Luzern after lunch and the weather is nice, the drive easy. I beat Fred there and
+get to the datacenter at around 14:00 or so, while Fred's ETA is 14:30. Since IP-Max already has a
+few customers in this place, there's already a microscopic footprint (just two switches at the
+moment), but that also means that I already have autonomous access with biometrics. I'm pleasantly
+surprised that my access has already been prepared / extended to the new room. Yes, you read that
+right: this is a private suite :-)
+
+I open the door to the room and see the racks completely empty and the airconditioner still powered
+off. It's *so nice* to walk into such a room when it's not yet in use. I don't know what it is,
+maybe it's that new-cage-smell, but I am incredibly happy and grateful to be able to play a part in
+this wonderful story.
+
+Building colocations itself is not super exciting, but perhaps as a juxtaposition with my day-job,
+being able to go into a room like this, completely build it up with power, links, routers, switches,
+fiber trays, PDUs, and so on, gives me this inmense feeling of accomplishment. I put my
+trolly-o-stuff in the room and hang out a little bit in the microkitchen until Fred arrives. I do
+bump into Marco, the facility director, and we have a chat about the goings-on, the plans, and the
+3x10G wavelengths that we'll take into service to add to the fourth one that's already live.
+
+Not to bore you with details too much (as chances are, you're in this line of business if you're
+reading my journal!), but here's a few things that Fred and I do on this day:
+
+1.   Two racks will be the _telcorack_ which carry the wavelengths to Zurich and Lausanne
+respectively. These racks will each have an ASR9k router, a Nexus customer switch, a Cisco
+management switch, and a Cisco terminalserver.
+1.   The _telcorack_ will have a few customer connections and a few supplier connections. These
+cross connects have to be picked up from the datacenter staff, tested, and together with a long-haul
+fiber provider, this brings us to Zurich and Lausanne.
+1.   The _telcorack_ will be interconnected with 24xSMF, and each rack down the line with have a
+24xSMF patch panel at the top that connects to the telcoracks. That means we have to pull *a lot* of
+fibers.
+1.   IPng's stuff gets to live in the first shared rack, with power and 4x10G to IP-Max for the
+backbone, and 1x 1G to IP-Max for an out-of-band [[PC Engines](https://pcengines.ch/)] APU6 with
+WiFi. I'll get to that tomorrow.
+
+All the cabling has to be cleaned, carefully administrated, Cisco / Nexus configs created, LACP
+bundles created, OSPF/OSPFv3 and LDP/MPLS enabled, and once we're ready, we can reroute two active
+wavelengths that used to go ZRH-LSN, to become ZRH-LUC and LUC-LSN instead. Of course, customer
+downtime must be minimized, but the mission is to finish this infratructure using the new three
+waves, move the customer load onto those, and then reconfigure the first wave to become a part of
+the LAG. Sounds easy, right?
+
+We spent the whole day and most of the evening doing the physical work. Racking the machines,
+guiding the fibers through yellow plastic trays overhead the racks, and taking notes of what fiber
+got plugged into which port. At the end of the afternoon, we've used north of fourty optics and
+fibers, and except for one wavelength (to Zurich), we're in working shape. There's also an issue
+with copper SFPs, god I hate those things, and we took a few of "the wrong ones" which do not
+provide link, so we bin them after Fred finds a few more in his bag.
+
+Several times during the afternoon, Marco drops by to take a look and ask if we need something. It's
+good that he did, because the patch panels were advertised to us as LC/PC (which is quite normal for
+intra-building cabling), but they turned out to be LC/APC (which is actually better with less
+reflection on the coupling), except we do not have LC/PC - LC/APC cables with us. Luckily, Marco has
+a bunch in his stash, and he's thinking of opening a _Hofladen_ so that other customers can
+pick-and-place some optics, fiber, UTP and power cables, velcro, and so on. Smart!
+
+At 20:30, our blood sugar starts to become dangerously low, and the oxygen level in this facility is
+quite low at 17%. The extinguisher in this facility is a so-called _oxyreduct_ which pushes out the
+oxygen making it impossible for fire to sustain. It also makes people light headed if they've been
+doing physical labor for six hours straight. Since we still don't have the network up yet, we use a
+4G router, paired with my APU6 consoleserver, which we connect via WireGuard to the IP-Max
+out-of-band router in Paris. This allows us to SSH to the APU6 remotely, and from there join the
+internal managment network to further configure things.
+
+We know just the remedy! In Fred's hotel there is a nice bistro, and they serve one of my favorites:
+_Fleisch auf heissem Stein_ (English: Meat on a hotstone). Fred takes a candid camera picture of me
+liberally using the pepper mill to season my sirloin of beef. He goes for something a bit more
+classy: Kanguru. To each their own, but I inform him that my choice was the superior one.
+
+We finish dinner at 22:00 and I drive home from Luzern to Br&uuml;ttisellen in completely clear
+driving conditions. Not many cars on the road at this hour, so it's only a fifty minute commute. As
+I pull into our driveway, Fred reports that the waves to Lausanne are up and running, but he has not
+managed to get the wave to Zurich up, yet. However, all we need is one leg, so the first router
+(`er01.luc01.ip-max.net`) has joined the IGP, iBGP and LDP. The management network can now be
+announced using its own VRF and MPLS/L3VPN into AS25091, so we no longer need the APU-4G-Wireguard
+construction. By the way, if you followed that last sentence, you're a nerd and I love you.
+
+Tomorrow we will complete the job. The link(s) to Zurich needs to be configured, the customers need
+to be moved to the new wavelength, and then the old wavelength needs to be added to the 20Gig LAG to
+Zurich. Also, and I'm quite excited about that, IPng's AS8298 gets to make a landing tomorrow. The
+priority of course is IP-Max's network. With that up, I can simply hook the APU6 into an OOB network
+provided by IP-Max, and configure my whole kit via IPMI.
+
+For now, I'm bushed and really excited. I hope I have a good night's sleep...
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1360.JPG" caption="Driving from Zurich to Luzern in the afternoon, it's gorgeous weather, and the drive is about 50 minutes.." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1362.JPG" caption="I'm the first in the room! It's completely switched off, with only empty racks and no IT equipment, not even the airconditioning has been turned on yet. I love it." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1364.JPG" caption="A selfie of me in the new cage with 14 racks that will be taken into service over the next few weeks. First order of business: get the IT and telecom equipment installed and configured." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1368.JPG" caption="The rear of the racks is against a curved wall. In German, Stollen are underground straight tunnels. Yes, this facility is built into a hillside along the Vierwaltst&auml;dtersee" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1377.JPG" caption="IP-Max is a diamond partner of this facility, and I can see great service for the new and prospect customers in this datacenter." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1378.JPG" caption="A view of the top of the racks with the cold aisle roof in front of us, and a bright yellow fibertray that will carry the fiber trunks between the racks." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1382.JPG" caption="I order a Farmer's Size (350g) beef filet, and it smells godly. Also: R&ouml;stikroketten, just sayin'" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1383.JPG" caption="Fred took a candid camera shot of me seasoning my steak. I'm in a happy place, clearly" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
+{{< gallery-modal >}}
+{{< gallery-script >}}
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   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-01/IMG_1080.JPG" caption="After dinner, we all got some liquor to celebrate the day" >}}
   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-01/IMG_1081.JPG" caption="On the way back to the station, I saw this nice bike." >}}
   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-01/IMG_1084.JPG" caption="While walking home, the skies darkened and a lightning storm formed, which was quite the sight!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1085.JPG" caption="The Prusa MK4S package arrived, and I'm wiggling on my seat to get it built." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1089.JPG" caption="I put on IP-Max socks today, as I'll be lighting a second 100G wave to Frankfurt." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1090.JPG" caption="The sad news of the Stromer display: cannot find the torque sensor, bah." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1091.JPG" caption="At the datacenter, the 100G link immediately comes up, yaay! Redundant 100G link from Zurich to Frankfurt achieved for IP-Max." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1092.JPG" caption="The Prusa MK4S kit in a disassembled state. All of these boxes and bags somehow fit together to make a full functioning 3D printer." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1096.JPG" caption="Marina is hanging out with a Venusaur pokemon, but for the moment he's friendly." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1098.JPG" caption="The broken part (Y idler) with the stuck screw, and a newly printed part (left) with two screws that cleanly go in/out of the part. Yaay for open hardware designs, you can just download these parts of the Prusa website!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1100.JPG" caption="The sliced black truffle (left) and chopped truffle (right) for our Pasta tonight." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1101.JPG" caption="A snapshot of our absolutely fantabulous tagliatelli with black truffle and aged parmesan cheese." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-03/IMG_1102.JPG" caption="After dropping off my bike at the shop, I grabbed a Bolt scooter to transport myself to Oerlikon station. The scooter doesn't go very fast, so I manage to take a scooting-selfie." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-03/IMG_1105.JPG" caption="The Prusa MK4S printer is halfway done. The Z and X carriage and the bottom parts are done. This is about 1/3 of the way through the build." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-03/IMG_1106.JPG" caption="For lunch I treat myself to a Smos Gezone (a healthy sandwich) with cheese, ham, lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, a bit of mayo and mustard." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-03/IMG_1111.JPG" caption="The electronics part of the Prusa MK4S showing its xBuddy board and lots of wires for sensors and stepper motors." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-03/xbelt.png" caption="The Audio Sensing application on my cellphone allows me to get perfect belt tension by measuring the frequency. Such a clever idea!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-03/ybelt.png" caption="The Y belt tension is perfect when it hums at 94Hz. OK then!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-03/IMG_1115.JPG" caption="The printer is done and booting for the first time. Literally 3 minutes later, I printed the Benchy in the videoclip on this journal. I don't think I've ever been up and running so quickly. So cool :)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-03/IMG_1117.JPG" caption="The (modified) Benchy is printed in 14 minutes instead of 60+ on my Prusa MK3. There's a bit of trickery going on, but the end result is actually really good!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-04/IMG_1119.JPG" caption="The new case for MK3S is printing - it'll contain a special cavity for a Raspberry Pi Zero which will hook up this printer to PrusaLink." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-04/IMG_1120.JPG" caption="The finished parts for the new MK3 case on the MK4S printer." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-04/IMG_1121.JPG" caption="The MK3 case is retrofitted, the Raspberry Pi is installed and the display helpfully shows 'PrusaLink' is being started." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-04/IMG_1122.JPG" caption="I think of my buddy Pascal Bovet who goes by @bopa - he enjoys seeing the picture when I send him a DM on LinkedIn" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-04/IMG_1124.JPG" caption="The Vecchia Torre that I could've sworn we have in the basement, but Marina says we do not. She was right - damnit she's always right!!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-04/prusaslicer.png" caption="A screenshot of the PrusaSlicer showing the printer stats and directly communicating with it over The Cloud (eg. somebody elses computer)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-04/IMG_1125.JPG" caption="I added a little tube to our faucet in the basement - it somehow reminds me of a mosquitto that's ready to have dinner" >}}
+  {{< 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-photo fn="2024-09-06/IMG_1131.JPG" caption="The (loaner) Stromer bike en route from my house to the Interxion datacenter in Glattbrugg. I can't stop loving the views in scenic Zurich, and that I get to live here 🥰" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-06/IMG_1133.JPG" caption="A tasty bowl of Beef Udon with sesame seeds on top. Super delish lunch!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-06/IMG_1134.JPG" caption="We drink a very nice - swiss - ice wine from Maison Gillard. This stuff is almost perfect to our palet!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-06/IMG_1135.JPG" caption="A screenshot of Han 'I have no family: Solo' alongside Lando Calrissian and the love of his life, L3-37. I enjoyed the backstory of Han Solo and Chewbacca!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-07/IMG_1136.JPG" caption="DDLN: One of IPng's racks at this beautiful office building with good power, great connectivity, and a raised floor." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-07/IMG_1137.JPG" caption="DDLN: A rack full of diskfulls - I have this very machine (st0.*.ipng.ch) but these are not mine." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-07/IMG_1139.JPG" caption="DDLN: IPng @ DDLN, the sticker on the side of my two racks at this place. If you want to host a private server in Switzerland, ping me!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-07/IMG_1144.JPG" caption="Two dual-100G network cards, normally in IPng's hypervisors, currently swapped out for 8x10G instead." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-07/IMG_1146.JPG" caption="The Dell R730s in the IPng laboratory have vinyl badges - I didn't buy that Cameo v5 for nothing!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-07/loadtest.png" caption="Loadtests are fun! This is a screenshot of a losttest with and without sflow sampling enabled in its prototype from Neil McKee from Inmon.  There's work to do, but so far: functionally complete!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-07/IMG_1147.JPG" caption="Outside, we finish that beautiful white wine from yesterday." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-07/IMG_1148.JPG" caption="A weird stink-bug with white legs shows up on my chair. He is a cutie!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-07/IMG_1150.JPG" caption="Marina wants moar: I bike over to Coop on my own (!) Stromer and get eight more bottles. 50% off! Yaay!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-07/IMG_1151.JPG" caption="Our salami-and-gurkin, and cheese-and-onion. So Dutch!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-08/IMG_1158.JPG" caption="Stromer Drama continues: after charging to only 58%, it refused to drive with this obscure error. Bah." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-08/IMG_1159.JPG" caption="I developed a strong headache behind my left eye socket, and steaming with this Vicks pellet did help a little bit, overall: half the day lost sleeping it off." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-08/IMG_1161.JPG" caption="Quinn is making garlic bread, and wants you to see it." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-08/IMG_1162.JPG" caption="The finished product: garlic bread with cafe de paris, and pasta with green pesto." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-08/IMG_1164.JPG" caption="The movie for tonight: Interceptor" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-07/IMG_1143.JPG" caption="The gift Liv brought - a giant zucchini, or as the Swiss say: Zucchetti" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-09/IMG_1165.JPG" caption="I've sliced this zucchini length wise, and it's about 2kg or so. Lots of it has to be disposed of though - it looks a bit like a pumpkin in here!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-09/IMG_1166.JPG" caption="Marina thinks that maybe the atmospheric pressure differential is what gave my sinuses the heebie-jeebies. She may be right, there was a 10mBar dip the day before... hmmm." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-09/IMG_1167.JPG" caption="The Douglas is full of powders, potions, Eyes of Newt, Gillyweed, and so on. All Marina bought was some sunscreen and parfume, though :(" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-09/IMG_1169.JPG" caption="The Coop however is full of wine. And I like wine. And baking bread. And computers." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-09/IMG_1172.JPG" caption="I write a default piss-off post-it note to PostFinance AG who are vulgar spammers. One Franc well spent!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-09/IMG_1173.JPG" caption="The corp laptop is completely dead. Also, its screen is gross, so I clean it up while it charges. I then send Phreak an e-mail." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-09/frysix.png" caption="May I present to you: the all new and improved Frys-IX website!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-09/IMG_1174.JPG" caption="Simple cheese melt toastie and zucchini soup (with balls!)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-09/IMG_1176.JPG" caption="The singing that 'freed' this character Abi in Black Mirror. But because it's Black Mirror, she was not freed but got entirely messed up. No spoilers here :)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-10/IMG_1177.JPG" caption="Cutting the Oracal vinyl IPng logos - in Grey because that's what the Twitter and Mastodon survey suggested." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-10/IMG_1180.JPG" caption="I don't know why I took this picture, as it has nothing to do with today. But: An ASR9001 router and three Celestica DX010 switches." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-10/IMG_1182.JPG" caption="We are listening to some music on my fancy bluetooth speaker; we do this while drinking a lovely white wine." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-10/IMG_1183.JPG" caption="Marina and I tended to our Hortensia cuttings, and ended up potting them. Wish us luck! We're both absolutely terrible at gardening." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-10/IMG_1184.JPG" caption="Dinner - meatloaf, boiled new potatoes, saurkraut and red cabbage. ALSO: gravy." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-11/20240911_062910.jpg" caption="My luggage which is also a temporary holding place for our alien friends: Uhi (left) and Hey (right)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-11/IMG_1189.JPG" caption="At 06:50, the sun is starting to rise as we start our 720km (450mi) drive of the day." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-11/IMG_1190.JPG" caption="Just over the German border, I am writing my story for yesterday. It reminds me of the mobile blogging I have done quite often with WEiRD on roadtrips." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-11/IMG_1193.JPG" caption="At the first supercharger they have a kiosk with a Nintendo Switch - I play a few rounds of Mario Kart, which is fun!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-11/IMG_1194.JPG" caption="These are the v4 Superchargers, and they're quiet, nice and fast. I'm just very happy that a few years ago, WEiRD and I had the CCS charger retrofitted in this old Mennekes car. But: free charging, hellyeahb" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-11/IMG_1195.JPG" caption="We completely stopped crying and almost fell asleep when sucking on these two pacifiers." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-11/IMG_1196.JPG" caption="Hearty filled salad and Gulasch soup for lunch in Germany. For me at least: this is roadtrip pitstop food, and mandatory on a successful commute from CH to NL." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-11/IMG_1200.JPG" caption="At Van der Valk in Eindhoven, this statue is a Pokestop." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-11/route.png" caption="The route we took from CH, through DE and to NL." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-11/IMG_1207.JPG" caption="Friet met Snacks. Posted without further comment." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-11/IMG_1209.JPG" caption="The trusty rusty server hvn0.nlehv0.ipng.ch, a Pentium G630 @ 2.70GHz, 16GB DDS3, 3x1TB (new since last Christmas) Samsung EVO SSD.  I've had this server for about 12 years, and still works a treat!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-11/IMG_1211.JPG" caption="The sign at my parent's frontdoor." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/IMG_1213.JPG" caption="The Odulphus Church in Best, the Netherlands" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/IMG_1214.JPG" caption="We see a Harryyyyyyy Vos, except I can't yell at it because that would break the rules" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/IMG_1215.JPG" caption="Marina and I take a selfie at the Best train station" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/IMG_1216.JPG" caption="The trains in the Netherlands sure are better (Sprinter) than they used to be (Hondekop)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/bowling.png" caption="The bowling pin statues at the corner of the TU/Eindhoven campus" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/IMG_1218.JPG" caption="Sint Katerijne Church in Stratum's Eind, Eindhoven." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/IMG_1221.JPG" caption="The beginning of Stratum's Eind, Eindhoven. I have spent many a night in this street as a youngling." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/IMG_1222.JPG" caption="We share a beautiful broodje filet americain from Bakker Bart" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/IMG_1223.JPG" caption="Although it's raining, we still humor ourselves with a selfie on the Grote Markt of Eindhoven" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/IMG_1226.JPG" caption="I am attacking our car with a vaccuum wand. It's a very powerful wand. I wonder what else I could do with it ..." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/IMG_1228.JPG" caption="We have stuck an IPng logo onto the side of the car. That Cameo v5 is cool :-)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/IMG_1229.JPG" caption="The opening salvo for our family feast: Burrata!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-12/IMG_1232.JPG" caption="I am performing my loadtests for the VPP sflow plugins to give feedback on this iterattion to Neil and colleagues" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1238.JPG" caption="In the morning, Marins thinks its a good idea to try on my sunglasses. She looks like a state trooper cop, just as much as I do." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1239.JPG" caption="For lunch, we have a frikandellenbroodje from Bakker Bart. I did not like it as much, but I did not hear complaints from Marina!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1241.JPG" caption="Here's our route from Best, NL to Jubbega, FRL" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1242.JPG" caption="The 'Wolkom in Frysl&acirc;n' sign when entering Friesland" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1243.JPG" caption="The meadow around the Van Der Valk in Wolvega is super nice today" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1244.JPG" caption="We take a walk around the pond at the hotel in Wolvega" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1248.JPG" caption="The tea selection at Van Der Valk is tasty! And well prepared/served." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1251.JPG" caption="An overview picture of the three Pipowagens, we're in the green one in the middle." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1252.JPG" caption="The inside of our green and cozy Pipowagen in Jubbega, Friesland" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1256.JPG" caption="Our aperitif today is a selection of olives, meats and cheese; paired perfectly with a good glass of tawny port." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1258.JPG" caption="A half-selfie of us enjoying the last sunrays of the day and our port and charcuterie" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1260.JPG" caption="The Pannenkoekenhuis at De Koppenjan has all sorts of sweet and savory pancakes." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1262.JPG" caption="After dinner, the PubQuiz is the place to be - it's very competitive and the questions are in the theme 'Back to School'" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1264.JPG" caption="A question in the PubQuiz: Which canal connects Amsterdam with the North Sea. NO SPOILERS!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-13/IMG_1265.JPG" caption="My treat for the evening - a Rochefort 10, trappiste beer" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1270.JPG" caption="The breakfast we made for ourselves in the Pipowagen at De Koppenjan." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1275.JPG" caption="The car is well at home in Franeker, Friesland." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1276.JPG" caption="The waterways around Franeker are serene and beautiful." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1277.JPG" caption="The planetarium is just across the road from the old townhall in Franeker, Fryslan." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1281.JPG" caption="The Martini Church, but I don't think it's that specific Martini ... " >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1292.JPG" caption="An overview of Eise Eisinga's beautiful hand-made mechanical planetarium" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1294.JPG" caption="We visited Zurich, Friesland specifically so we could say: 'yeah, we drive from Zurich to here, it was 45min'." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1296.JPG" caption="Our not-kroketten, but declicious broodje gezond and broodje geitenkaas in Zurich, Friesland" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1299.JPG" caption="Back at Jubbega, our Pipowagen is as beautiful as ever" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1301.JPG" caption="I hand over 72pcs of 3TB hard disk to Tim, for a project he's working on. Second life!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1307.JPG" caption="The recording in the Fusix studio with Niels and Yulia. Such fun talking to these guys!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1310.JPG" caption="Arend had conjured up (hehe) a magician. Even though we were still sober, and we could see he was indeed fidgetting with ropes, he *sill* managed to confuse us with his trickery. Chapeau!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1311.JPG" caption="Arend takes the stage for a semi-rehearsed speech (with notes and everything!)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1314.JPG" caption="Marina and I are a little bit jealous of the Frys-IX logo on Arend's car. All I got was a picture of a fox in a mountain." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1316.JPG" caption="FrysIX was gifted this 32x100G nokia switch by Niek. Thank you so much on behalf of all new and upcoming members!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1317.JPG" caption="A Proost in the IPng.ch steins, we had quite a few of these cheers-moments." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1318.JPG" caption="Marina does her best Nora en Pure impression, in the hoodie with the beautiful blonde locks over her shoulder. 💜 💜 💜" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1319.JPG" caption="A collection of congratularoty cards, signed by the FrysIX community" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1320.JPG" caption="Joran does what he does best: enthuse an audience about Open 5G and telephony" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1322.JPG" caption="Niels and I are amazed at this conversation which is chock full of technology which feels 'similar, but adjacent' for us IP and Ethernet nerds." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1323.JPG" caption="After midnight, this stolen F16 afterburner was used, and the tent was toasty shortly after." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1325.JPG" caption="Arend's cute kitty came to stop by - he and I are besties now." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1328.JPG" caption="And just like that, the beautiful party was over and the tent was empty. Byebye, friends, until next time!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1329.JPG" caption="We enjoy a few bitterballen at the supercharger in Breda, well deserved" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1332.JPG" caption="The view from Andrew's pad in smack middle of Brussels" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1336.JPG" caption="@yourtch is clearly an omnivore, and devours a pork knuckle" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1339.JPG" caption="At the Cercueil we drink a few beers - it's weird because we're the only ones here (and I don't personally recall that ever happening to me before)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-16/IMG_1342.JPG" caption="We walk back through beautiful Gallerie Royale." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-16/IMG_1343.JPG" caption="I bump into this very huggable biker bunny. Not drunk." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-16/IMG_1345.JPG" caption="Andrew and Pim hang out on the couch at @yourtch's place" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-16/IMG_1346.JPG" caption="We offer Andrew and Eimear a lunch at Pee Klak in Grimbergen (Stroombeek-Bever). Eimear stole it from us and paid while Marina was on the toilet - thanks again!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-16/IMG_1347.JPG" caption="Pee Klak is well known in Brussels for his Spaghetti Bolognaise" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-16/IMG_1348.JPG" caption="We are chipper in the car driving down south through Belgium to Luxembourg" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-16/IMG_1349.JPG" caption="Arrived in Luxo city, there's a mall with a huge battery (heh) of v4 chargers. We get 110kW here, booyah" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-16/IMG_1352.JPG" caption="Driving from Luxembourg to Nancy there's a bit more traffic due to roadworks" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-16/IMG_1354.JPG" caption="Our spread for the evening - cheese, sausage, bread, tomato, olives. We watch the presidential debate. I'm thankful there will be only one of these ..." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-17/IMG_1359.JPG" caption="Marina bought these totes adorbs Pav&eacute; d'Affinois Mini (but I think they're rather Micro)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-17/IMG_1357.JPG" caption="The totallu cute micro Pav&eacute; d'Affinois that Marina used for breakfast" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-17/IMG_1359.JPG" caption="The very last picture of the car with IPng sticker - it's coming off before we hit the Swiss border!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1360.JPG" caption="Driving from Zurich to Luzern in the afternoon, it's gorgeous weather, and the drive is about 50 minutes.." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1362.JPG" caption="I'm the first in the room! It's completely switched off, with only empty racks and no IT equipment, not even the airconditioning has been turned on yet. I love it." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1364.JPG" caption="A selfie of me in the new cage with 14 racks that will be taken into service over the next few weeks. First order of business: get the IT and telecom equipment installed and configured." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1368.JPG" caption="The rear of the racks is against a curved wall. In German, Stollen are underground straight tunnels. Yes, this facility is built into a hillside along the Vierwaltst&auml;dtersee" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1377.JPG" caption="IP-Max is a diamond partner of this facility, and I can see great service for the new and prospect customers in this datacenter." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1378.JPG" caption="A view of the top of the racks with the cold aisle roof in front of us, and a bright yellow fibertray that will carry the fiber trunks between the racks." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1382.JPG" caption="I order a Farmer's Size (350g) beef filet, and it smells godly. Also: R&ouml;stikroketten, just sayin'" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-18/IMG_1383.JPG" caption="Fred took a candid camera shot of me seasoning my steak. I'm in a happy place, clearly" >}}
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