Seasoned Network operator & hobbyist Sysadmin. Dog dad. Beer lover. Aspiring Greybeard. Strong believer in community action.

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  • This release has such bangers. Was so excited to read it in my RSS feed today & comment here.

    • IPv6 segment routing (SRv6) support
    • BGP monitoring (BMP) suppor
    • Firewall flowtable offload functionality

    And the ultimate biggie: The long-awaited ability to rollback configuration without having to reboot is finally here (T5249).

    Thanks so much to the VyOS team for an awesome RC.











  • I’d say they’re comparable and have similar problems experienced in different ways.

    On mastodon, a big name becomes the stress on the server. It’s like people showing up to a small coffee shop to hear a politician speak about something. If the politician becomes more renowned / popular, eventually they have rallies. Eventually those rallies are broadcasted and licestreamed… All that means more infra and more $

    Lemmy has the problem of communities. Communities sometimes gather in small places like a person’s house or a bar. If that community grows large, maybe they need to have a conference / convention (like an anime or tech community). That means the instance that hosts that community has to has a conference sized instance, to host all the lads/lasses/etc of the fediverse.

    More eyeballs / more discussion = more demand. Simple as that.

    edit: I will add that there is one difference. You might have your own little small fragmented community, here on sh.itjust … like for skateboards. More intimate discussion, etc. This would potentially prevent c/skateboards on an instance from growing too large…

    But there is only one @gargron that most people will follow.



  • This, and their other CC books, is a great starting place. Especially because it has a hands-on section you can build upon:

    https://5g.systemsapproach.org/README.html

    Maybe take a larger forest view of convergence & orchestration of a provides core… from access to fabric.

    Other than that, lots is being said about the true meaning of network source of truth. Check some NANOG talks for free on their YouTube channel. Check out Jeremy Stretch’s fairly recent blog post on Netbox (packetlife.net).

    If you’re looking for more greybeard Inspiration, check out some great analysis from Geoff Huston on potaroo.net and think of interesting software defined ways to demonstrate his analysis (maybe become the next Kentik etc.)

    Russ White & Ivan Pepnelnjak are also great grey beard thinkers.

    Best of luck with your thesis.