My father is a home assistant enthusiast. Ages ago I bought them a HP SFF desktop to run all of their stuff to avoid constantly debugging broken raspberry pi's. Today I learned the NVMe included in it is rated for 10TBW. Yes, 10. 10 Terabytes written and it's over. e-waste...

We strongly recommend using BGP.Tools for #BGP #Monitoring services. The service offers similar features to #TrackBGP & has a strong development leader behind the project. Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) Thanks for the support from all the TrackBGP users we hope to build on this in future products.

I'm at #LINX117 , Got questions/requests for me for BGP.Tools ? Come say hi!

For those playing along at home, I've made a handy tracker is2000slash12announcedagain.com

*Taps sign* I've actually found myself posting a lot more on the 'verse because honk doesn't show me who/how/what people like, or how many followers I have Regardless. If you like my occasional musings. You can find me below.

This twitter account is considered deprecated, To use RFC2119 language: Users MAY instead use @[email protected], this account SHOULD only now be used for important announcements that need to go out to anyone else still left here.

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, tcpdump-to-bpf.benjojo.co.uk will do it for you so you don't have to compile stuff in a pinch

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: blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/quickcam-…

Ben Cox (EOL @[email protected]) ruining everyone's day

New blog post, maybe the most painful/scary one yet. --- "Grave flaws in BGP Error handling" blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-path-…

For those with bluesky accounts and not Masto/fediverse accounts, you can now actually follow bsky.app/profile/benjoj… to get semi automated reports from stuff I post on fedi. The account is basically write only, but it's better than nothing!

bgp.tools is finally on IX.BR SP! Something that impressed me with IX.BR is their (novel?) automated quarantine LAN tests, So I wrote about it! --- Appreciation of automated IX Quarantine LAN testing blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ixbr-auto…

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 blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/rpki-sign…

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! --- Sysadmin friendly high speed ethernet switching blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/sn2010-li…

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 optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk and then please RT for better visibility!

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! blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ixp-xping…