Leaving AS5413

         imported      Work · Me · ISP

For information, and because it means that I have revoked a bunch of UIDs from my GPG Key I am no longer working at AS5413 (Vialtus, Daisy, GX Networks etc.) as of June 18th, 2010. It's been a good two years, but the company direction no longer co-incides with the direction in which I would like to go. I've enjoyed the projects I've worked on, been in contact with a lot of great people, and learnt a lot!

Ride Report: Paris-Roubaix

         imported      Cycling · Route · Grupetto

"L'Enfer du Nord" ("The Hell of the North"), "The Queen of the Classics", "A Sunday in Hell" - call it what you will, Paris-Roubaix is legendary for being a tough classic race. It stands at 255km in length, with 52.8 km of rough, French pavé (cobblestones) - starting in Compiègne (60km from Paris), and ending in the velodrome in Roubaix. A long, tough day in the saddle with endless dust when it's dry, an epic, iconic mud-bath when the weather turns bad.

Paris-Roubaix Sportive 2010

         imported      Cycling · Grupetto

I’m planning to write a ride report up for this, but here’s some preliminary photos, and a link to some ride data.

Digital Economy Bill YouTube Questions

         imported      Tech · ISP · UK

So, if we take a moment to look at the following responses to questions that the leaders of the three parties involved in the “Digital Debate” on YouTube gave, concerning the Digital Economy Bill: Sure, we get some tired old rhetoric, as expected. However, the key point here is that both Labour and the Conservatives appear to believe that they’ve done the right thing with this bill.

Tour of Flanders Photo

         imported      Cycling · Me · Photography · Grupetto

After ordering from the official Tour of Flanders Sportive photographers, I got a photo of me on the Bosberg. Feel the burn!

UKNOF 16: Enhancing BGP

         imported      Tech · Work · BGP · IETF · UKNOF · Presentations

After a late programme committee request, I presented on “Enhancing BGP” at UKNOF 16. The presentation was intended to be an update on the current drafts in the IDR working group, and give some encouragement to operators to get involved, and contribute. I’ll put the video up when the Tom at PortFast and Brandon of Bogons have done their excellent job on it. For the meantime, the slides are linked below.

Error Handling in BGP (Again!)

         imported      Code · Work · BGP

It looks like, once again, there's another attribute flying around the global BGP table causing Quagga instances to crash (if based on 0.99.9 - I believe the bug is fixed in 0.99.10). This relates to the 2007 draft that introduced AS_PATHLIMIT - see ietf.org - draft-ietf-idr-as-pathlimit. This attribute is actually relatively interesting, from an operator's point of view, where control that is more granular than setting the common no-export or no-advertise communities does not suffice.

Pictures from the Ronde Van Vlaanderen

         imported      Cycling · Grupetto

A couple of weekends ago, CS Grupetto rolled out to Flanders for the Ronde van Vlaanderen sportive, and to catch the race live. The sportive was brutal, lots of “power climbs” (although I’m not so sure that I can say I ‘powered’ up most of them - the Muur and Koppenberg and I have unfinished business), in rain, hail, and gusty winds. The pavé brings a new definition to bike control, and in the wet it’s quite an experience.

CV Update

         imported      Work · Me

I am currently actively interested in new opportunities due to changing circumstances with my current role. I’ve therefore uploaded a current curriculum vitae to this site.

Juniper PSN-2010-01-626 (AS4 Again!)

         imported      Tech · ISP · Cisco · JunOSe · BGP · IOS · JunOS

I’ve had a couple of mails relating to this PSN, which again references the research that Andy Davidson, Jonathan Oddy and I did last year. It seems that some of the sources of the initial mailing list posts we made are gone (particularly the merit.edu one that is referenced from both Juniper’s site and most other places). For that reason, I’ve included both the mails that we sent to NANOG/C-NSP/J-NSP last year here.