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Chris Parker Network Fun-Times Sep 17, 2024

The IETF working group for IPv6 maintenance is called 6man.

Despite my repeated emails, they REFUSE to acknowledge whether 6man is related to Five Guys.

Reader, I promise you: I will not let them dodge this question.

Chris Parker Network Fun-Times Sep 16, 2024

NEW POST: After many months of work, my four-day instructor-led SR-MPLS course is now live! Plus, Krzysztof Szarkowicz has written some great blogs introducing SRv6.

Want to find out more? Clicky-click: https://www.networkfuntimes.com/my-new-sr-mpls-course-and-krzysztofs-srv6-blogs/

My New SR-MPLS Course, and Krzysztof's SRv6 Blogs

My new four-day instructor-led SR-MPLS course is now live! In addition, my colleague Krzysztof Szarkowicz has written many free blog posts on SRv6. Click this post to find out all about it.

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Chris Parker Network Fun-Times Sep 15, 2024

If anyone writes an RFC, plz can u thank me in it. I might not have contributed directly, but I still think it would be very cool & good if you could thank me anyway, as an acknowledgement of how nice I am (which is very nice indeed).

Chris Parker Network Fun-Times Sep 14, 2024

Catching up on half a year of Ivan Pepelnjak's blog (partly in research for an upcoming post of my own), and found this gem:

https://blog.ipspace.net/2024/04/ipv6-slaac-unintended-consequences/

...where he explains why someone's IPv6 neighbor cache was artificially filling up. Well worth a read.

Unintended Consequences of IPv6 SLAAC « ipSpace.net blog

One of my friends is running a large IPv6 network and has already experienced a shortage of IPv6 neighbor cache on some of his switches. Digging deeper into the root causes, he discovered: In my larger environments, I see significant neighbor table cache entries, especially on network segments with hosts that make many long-term connections. These hosts have 10 to 20 addresses that maintain state over days or weeks to accomplish their processes. What’s going on? A perfect storm of numerous unrelated annoyances:

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Chris Parker Network Fun-Times Sep 10, 2024

To be clear - the new option might well be an excellent and much-needed replacement for the current choice. Nothing wrong with that.

But when people use "legacy" to refer to something currently in use, it always feels like a marketing trick. If the new option is good, then show us why it's good on its own terms. Don't play tricks with language.

Chris Parker Network Fun-Times Sep 10, 2024

PROTIP: Want to convince people that your tech is good? Simply call the alternatives "legacy" - even if people are still using it perfectly happily.

IPv6 is a replacement for legacy IPv4.

SD-WAN is a replacement for legacy MPLS (never mind that this isn't what MPLS means).

Our monitoring system is a replacement for your legacy monitoring system.

Coffee is a replacement for legacy tea. Dogs are a replacement for legacy cats. Try it yourself. It's a fun hobby, and it's free for you to try!

Chris Parker Network Fun-Times Sep 6, 2024

Today I Learned that IPv7 was proposed in 1993 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1475.html

(It's not a successor to IPv6 - there were just a few "next gen" protocols proposed at the time. Still, it's funny to call it IPv7!)

RFC 1475: TP/IX: The Next Internet

Chris Parker Network Fun-Times Aug 4, 2024

bit101 Jul 30, 2024

I have to admit, AI has saved me a lot of time. Every time I start reading about some interesting new app or service or product and see that it has "AI", I immediately stop reading and don't waste any more time on that thing.

Chris Parker Network Fun-Times Jul 24, 2024

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Kevin Beaumont Jul 22, 2024

Funniest org save so far

Chris Parker Network Fun-Times Jun 24, 2024

🌸Jun 12, 2024

when i’m asked to perform 1 task