Pim van Pelt
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| Week 6, Thursday: *NOG Presentation | 2024-09-05T19:55:00+02:00 |
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In the morning, Dan from the [APNIC] webmaster team tags me on LinkedIn and Twitter - they have run the second of three contributed blog posts which describe Babel (part 1), Unnumbered IPv4 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 Brüttisellersack 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] 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:
- Code changes required for Babel in VPP, using IPv6 transit networks for IPv4 destinations
- Code changes required for IPv4 OSPFv3 in VPP, using Unnumbered transit networks
- Rollout to IPng's [AS8298] without downtime
- 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] 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] 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], 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 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 >}}
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