BGP.guru

BGP.guru

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01 Aug 2015

Working with ARINs Route Registry

This blog post provides a general overview of Internet Routing Registries. If your network does not use IRR objects, you should have enough information to create your own after after reading this post.
12 Jun 2015

Removing Stubborn Trash Items

For one reason or another, I recently ended up with a draft blog post stuck in my OS X Yosemite Trash. I have no idea how this happened, but after reading 5 or 6 blogs and forum posts I was thoroughly frustrated with trying to find 'the Mac Way', and fired up the CLI:
31 May 2015

SSH Pubkeys with Cisco IOS 15

One of the new features of IOS 15 that I'm most excited about is the ability to use RSA public key authentication. This works on both switches and routers.
30 Apr 2015

Latency and Effects on TCP Performance

Have you ever used a download manager to download multiple threads, in order to max out or more fully utilize your connection? This is the effect of a small TCP receive window. How does latency factor into this?
12 Apr 2015

virtio NIC on OpenBSD under KVM

I've been running ciscodude.net at a new location for about a month now. My setup is a little different than it was previously. Instead of a 2nd physical server in front of my VM host as firewall/ACLs, I've now got a virtual machine doing the same thing. The setup is the same other than that, OpenBSD firewall in front of Linux service VMs.