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BIRD mentions (13)

• Automatic BGP traffic engineering

  At one of my previous employers we wrote some custom software to interface with Quagga. Seems like Quagga has fallen out of favor for things like BIRD. We use our software to monitor for various things and dynamically adjust the path prepends to "shape" the traffic and cause the multihomed traffic to push to different datacenters around the globe. Source: about 1 year ago

• Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab

  * [1] https://bird.network.cz/ I'd actually love "enterprise raspberry", some small machine that we could shove 3-6 of them in 1RU, but once you add enterprise tax and all of the doodas to make it manageable (OOB management), it gets expensive enough to rival "just an old server". - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• I can't decide on my router/firewall platform. Which one do you think is the most stable and future proof?

  Currently Wireguard handles all of my VPN connections, but I used OpenVPN and IPsec in the past. I run multiple paths through my VPN network and use BGP to handle the preference and failover between them. I am using BIRD instead of the included OpenBGPD, because I also have some Ubuntu machines that also run it and wanted consistent configs between them but OpenBGPD should also work well. I have not done... Source: over 1 year ago

• Identity Management for WireGuard

  You can run dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF or iBGP over Wireguard. It's not built in, but that's a feature, not a bug—do one thing and do it well. I have a full mesh of Wireguard tunnels configured between home/office/datacenters/laptop, and run bird[0] on the VPN endpoints to direct traffic between them. [0] https://bird.network.cz/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• How deeply are you able to understand your work?

  I've spent a lot of hours these past few weeks in the docs and codebases for Cilium, Calico, BIRD, MetalLB, PureLB, Longhorn, CephFS, and Rook. Do I understand 100% top-to-bottom how those systems work? No. Do I understand "enough" of how those systems work to produce a good solution to the core business problem we're trying to address? Yes. Source: over 1 year ago

Mastodon mentions (613)

• The Forged Apple Employee Badge

  Did you miss the part where Chris Espinosa said "That’s not Sherry Livingston"? Chris also has a follow-up post not shown in Cabel's blog where he says there aren't any photos of Sherry online: https://mastodon.social/@Cdespinosa/112391173495267599. - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

• Google Blog: things we announced at I/O 2024

  Personally, I really like this summary: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112444973228241564. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• Attempt to bring a cinematic experience in 256 bytes (WASM)

  Just a follow up to all downvoters: developers care, and are working on improving performance, take a look at one of hopefully many to come, examples - https://mastodon.social/@tdp_org/112440017216320486. - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago

• StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in protest against OpenAI

  Here's a cached copy of the linked post on a server with more capacity: https://mastodon.social/@ben@m.benui.ca/112396505994216742. - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago

• Apple Introduces M4 Chip

  Today’s Xcode 15.4 RC suggests that “Donan” is the M4 core codename, and that it may support ARM’s SME instructions. https://mastodon.social/@bshanks/112401605018159567. - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago