History of GateD

17 September 2019

Sue Hares, cochair of the IDR and I2RS working groups in the IETF, joins Donald Sharp and Russ White to talk about the origins of one of the first open source routing stacks, GateD. Sue was involved in MERIT and the university programs that originated this open source software, and managed its transition to a commercial offering.

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Autonomic, Automated, and Reality

16 September 2019

Once the shipping department drops the box off with that new switch, router, or “firewall,” what happens next? You rack it, cable it up, turn it on, and start configuring, right? There are access to controls to configure—SSH, keys, disabling standard accounts, disabling telnet—interface addresses to configure, routing adjacencies to configure, local policies to configure, and… After configuring all of this, you can adjust routing in the network to route around the new device, and then either canary the device “in production” (if you run your network the way it should be run), or find some prearranged maintenance time to bring the new device online and test things out. After all of this, you can leave the new device up and running in the network, and move on to the next task.

Until it breaks.

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Worth Reading: The Internet of the future

We have recently seen accelerating development of Internet usage on the user side. Whether it is online shopping’s expansion or the greater distribution of mobile devices or streaming services — there isn’t much that could not somehow be connected to the Internet. On the “backend” of the Internet though, the developments, like switching from copper to fiber optics, might seem unspectacular. —Christoph Dietzel

Worth Reading: Making the most of spectrum

The spectrum is limited in the sense that there is only one and we cannot produce more of it. However, it is also an inexhaustible resource in that, no matter how many radio signals we send, we can always send more. —Stan Adams

Worth Reading: The utility formerly known as WHOIS

If you wanted to see who owned a domain, you’d simply do a WHOIS search. I’ve probably done hundreds of thousands of them during my time in the industry. Well as of this week, a major step in the retirement of WHOIS officially took place. —Matt Serlin

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