Routing issues don’t always shout. One missing prefix leads you down a rabbit hole, only to find an old filter rule from years ago still quietly doing damage. No alert, no panic, just a puzzle waiting to be noticed.

bgpd on OpenBSD quietly gets it right. It’s fast, lean, and doesn’t surprise you, even when things get weird. When you're moving real Internet routes, that kind of reliability is exactly what you want.

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IETF work moves slowly, and that’s by design. When you’re changing how the Internet works, you can’t rush it. Building consensus is hard, but it’s what makes the standards actually stick.

I was debugging a routing loop and found a config block named TEMP_FIX from 2014. No comments, no clue what it was meant to do. But apparently it’s been critical for years.

There’s something really satisfying about a clean BGP session. No flaps, no weird updates, just steady state. Quiet stability is underrated.

Routing isn’t just about where packets go. It’s about making sure bad decisions never happen in the first place. Filters, limits, and validation are what keep things sane.

Most of the Internet keeps running because someone, somewhere, said “let’s make this slightly better” and followed through. That’s what the IETF is about. Quiet improvements at Internet scale.

OpenBSD’s approach to networking is one of the reasons I trust it in production. Clear code, strong defaults, and real security boundaries. When you're running BGP, that matters.

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Working on routing daemons in OpenBSD has taught me the value of simplicity. Fewer knobs, clearer behavior, better defaults. It’s amazing what you don’t need when the fundamentals are right.

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OpenBSD reminds me that software doesn’t have to be big to be powerful. It just needs to do the right thing, and do it well. Clean design still matters, especially in networking.

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The hardest part of network engineering? . It’s not the configs or the protocols, it’s the conversations. Like trying to explain that “the Internet is down” might actually be a route redistribution issue on a forgotten box buried three hops deep.

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There’s a special kind of joy in watching BGP converge cleanly after a link flap. It’s like a symphony, if the symphony involved timers, path selection, and just a little bit of fear.

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I love digging through old router configs. They're like a bit of archaeology, part forgotten documentation, part mystery, and sometimes a scribbled warning: “don’t touch this or it breaks everything.”.

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People often ask, “Why is BGP still like this?” The truth is, it’s not because no one’s working on it. The IETF moves slowly for a reason: consensus takes time, and edge cases are endless. But that’s also why the Internet keeps working.