Stressing the network when it’s already down

Stressing the network when it’s already down

[Impact by Eric Wienke, edits by Ben Cartwright-

How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet

How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet

Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices

Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices

You cannot cURL under pressure

You cannot cURL under pressure

cURL. The wonderful HTTP plumbing tool that powers both a lot of command line debugging and bash scripts, but also exists as a strong foundation in our applications in the form of libcurl.

The year of RPKI on the control plane

The year of RPKI on the control plane

This post is a textual version of the talk I gave at NLNOG 2019, You can watch the recording of the talk on youtube below if that’s your preferred medium:

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Teaching a cheap ethernet switch new tricks

Teaching a cheap ethernet switch new tricks

Ethernet rules everything around us, a large proportion of our systems communicate to each other with ethernet somewhere in the line. And the fast pac

The speed of BGP network propagation

The speed of BGP network propagation