A great room to learn and network with peers.
This guy!
Should I add “diktyomancer” to my collection of silly job titles or is too obscure? Decisions, decisions. #SundayMorningThoughts #NetEng
It's a week to go until #TORNOG here in #Toronto. Looking forward to meeting with the operators who show. I'm also hoping we get a mandate to setup a local full day conference in the near future.
I've learned so much from this organizing effort and I'm hoping everyone has a good time
P.S. , we have just a few tickets left after the ticket extension. Feel free to grab one at https://tornog.ca
please, oooh please, just tell me no..
It's 2am and I just want one thing
a strong, handsome, sexy pair of SFP+
in a 10G ethernet switch, RISC-V cores
mod'able, jtag'able, RTOS'able, oooh yes
... so... in all seriousness, there have been lustful hardware-acquisition eyes on this pretty little design since its pre-release marketing materials hit the English speaking OSS internet, and have been watching from afar as its reviews came through, patiently.
I'm not one to say that tonight is the right time to buy a pair, but it's not NOT the right time to buy a pair of Milk-V Vega switches.
Main:
- https://milkv.io/vega
Detailed Community Review:
- Getting an overview of Vega Basics
- https://community.milkv.io/t/getting-an-overview-of-vega-basics/1665
*note: I am particularly aware of its limitations, do not expect a production grade switch, mostly want more risc-v hardware to develop with, and general messing around
When troubleshooting, asking what changed since everything last worked is an important step. It’s also important to not fixate on this step because we don’t always •know• what changed. If it’s obvious, great. If it’s not, stay focused on what’s happening now rather than going down the rabbit hole of what might have happened. #NetEng #Troubleshooting
I don't think #NetworkEngineering is that popular on Mastodon, but I'm posting here anyway. I'm starting a local meetup here in #Toronto for Network Operators. A small NOG, in the vein of #NANOG
Feel free to join us -- for FREE -- in April
“Switches switch and routers route.” That’s a statement that isn’t as true as it used to be… or at least not without carefully defining context.
It’s time to go old school and stop using the word “switch” in this context. The first switches were hardware-accelerated bridges and have since evolved past bridging. If we switch to “bridges bridge and routers route” we’ll be more correct in our thinking, but we have to think of bridging and routing as functions rather than devices.
These days, most switches can accelerate both bridging and routing (L2 and L3) on their backplanes. Most routers have similar functions and are built on switching chips too. The whole line between switches and routers is becoming a very grey and fuzzy one.
Bridges bridge and routers route, and switches do either or both •very• quickly. Most of the other considerations are about product placement.