Another one of those silly ideas again. Pretty sure me and my friend are the first to use BGP to play. battleships.

New blog post!. Off the back of a NetUK talk I did, I've written up about the work I did for LONAP to help monitor latency/loss and detect problems on modern day internet exchange fabrics!.

Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?. What about burning a disk?. I'm surveying modern day awareness of optical media, so if you know what a CD/DVD is please help me out by answering some 10 questions here. and then please RT for better visibility!

New post!. After spending a while with the new switch/router that I use, I wrote down all of the notes I wish existed, and a general review of the Mellanox spectrum/switchdev support!. ---. Sysadmin friendly high speed ethernet switching.

New blog post!. "Signed but not secure" covers the Jan 3 outage that happened to Orange Spain due to malicious creation of RPKI ROA's.

is finally on SP! Something that impressed me with is their (novel?) automated quarantine LAN tests, So I wrote about it!. ---. Appreciation of automated IX Quarantine LAN testing.

For those with bluesky accounts and not Masto/fediverse accounts, you can now actually follow to get semi automated reports from stuff I post on fedi. The account is basically write only, but it's better than nothing!.

New blog post, maybe the most painful/scary one yet. ---. "Grave flaws in BGP Error handling".

RT @netldn: @Benjojo12 ruining everyone's day

New blog post (in over a year!). Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam. In where I refuse to accept that a webcam that I remember from my childhood won't work anymore for Google Meet, and write a userspace USB driver to bring it back from the obsolete dead:.

Some folks may find this useful:. Ever had a tcpdump rule that you could just turn into a iptables rule? But you misplaced your nfbpf_compile ?. No worries, will do it for you so you don't have to compile stuff in a pinch

This twitter account is considered deprecated, To use RFC2119 language:. Users MAY instead use @benjojo@benjojo.co.uk, this account SHOULD only now be used for important announcements that need to go out to anyone else still left here.

*Taps sign*. I've actually found myself posting a lot more on the 'verse because honk doesn't show me who/how/what people like, or how many followers I have. Regardless. If you like my occasional musings. You can find me below.

For those playing along at home, I've made a handy tracker

I'm at #LINX117 , Got questions/requests for me for @bgptools ? Come say hi!

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"I turned off all of these other routers, less than 50% of them are actually needed for the backbone to work!".

re1@cr1.fra1.twttr.com is feeling pretty nervous at the movement.

Not predicting that I will abandon twitter anytime soon, but since a remarkable amount of my livelyhood has come via twitter and my blog, I'd like to have backup paths!. So!. If you have fediverse, give me a follow there. If you have RSS

I've now got something fediverse-aligned!. You can follow me there on:.@benjojo@benjojo.co.uk. I've basically forked "honk" ( and added the stuff I wanted back :), and added my website's static file server on top.

My father is a home assistant enthusiast. Ages ago I bought them a HP SFF desktop to run all of their stuff to avoid constantly debugging broken raspberry pi's. Today I learned the NVMe included in it is rated for 10TBW. Yes, 10. 10 Terabytes written and it's over. e-waste.