Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected])

Hope you never notice the outages I cause. Knows where the RFC2616 bodies are buried. @recursecenter SP'2 18

Also @[email protected]

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

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

https://t.co/vaUxQpUTJK

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

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!

https://t.co/iiR6jrzEkw

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

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

https://t.co/Wx4hn4rMWw and then please RT for better visibility!

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

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!

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Sysadmin friendly high speed ethernet switching

https://t.co/0Oy2yr3Nsn

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

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

https://t.co/06x3OHqBKQ

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

https://t.co/SzrSKATAfo is finally on https://t.co/Lf8KHtnCrJ SP! Something that impressed me with https://t.co/Lf8KHtnCrJ is their (novel?) automated quarantine LAN tests, So I wrote about it!

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Appreciation of automated IX Quarantine LAN testing

https://t.co/sAhBKUWoZR

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

@etlabaume @networkservice Funnily enough, I joked about this last year at NLNOG https://t.co/g6quVBDXmv I didn't know it had already been done!

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

@DrPeering I'll have to pick one up while in SAN to get xray'd later :)

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

For those with bluesky accounts and not Masto/fediverse accounts, you can now actually follow https://t.co/ATfFaGZd5U to get semi automated reports from stuff I post on fedi.

The account is basically write only, but it's better than nothing!

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

@marenamat I (and others) would extremely appreciate that feature!

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

New blog post, maybe the most painful/scary one yet.

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"Grave flaws in BGP Error handling"

https://t.co/9yrcmef0Od

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

@marenamat > "Bird drops all valid routes and keeps only invalid ones"

Not quite right, bird just does not support many attributes, meaning it is the most neutral implementation that support 7606, and has "barebones" attribute support. Making it perfect as a simple mesh filter :)

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

@DrPeering @netldn The findings are not fully public yet. They should be public by the no later than the 29th

[NetLdn @netldn]

@Benjojo12 ruining everyone's day

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

@fatred @netldn I'm nothing to do with the recent JunOS public CVE

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

@katie_panda Yeah I've been tempted to implement the I2C comms stuff for auto brightness! I may take a crack at it when I have another moment

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

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:

https://t.co/RIyUtZ0KBK

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

@sparkkeh Thanks, there is always /that one/ URL I don't test that ends up being the actual problem!

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

@ryancdotorg @Cloudhunter Oh? Can I email/IRC you? Curious to know, but it is ultimately a hack/last resort :)

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

@n00py1 @HackingLZ Glad you liked it! You may also enjoy the voice over version I commissioned for it https://t.co/s6xi8Df0Rd

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

STOP DOING IPv6 - Now in video form (sound on)!

Thanks to @Lexil for commissioning the one and only @GetGianni to do this masterpiece

[Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) @Benjojo12]

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, https://t.co/Cc6GBq2qp3 will do it for you so you don't have to compile stuff in a pinch