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Poking at the connectX-4 Firmware

https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2024/12/connectx-4121c-firmware.html

Published: December 29, 2024 08:00

We’re coming up on three years now that [John, Warthog9] and I have been running the MicroMirror project, and I decided that it was about time to start working on the next generation of the MicroMirror appliance hardware design. Currently, our main…

Making Fastestmirror Less Awful

https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2024/10/fastestmirror-less-awful.html

Published: October 21, 2024 07:00

Fastestmirror is a configuration option for the yum and dnf package managers in the RPM ecosystem (i.e. Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, etc) that everyone loves to hate. The name of the option is so alluring; who wouldn’t want to use the fastest mirror…

Unlocking Third Party Transceivers on Older Arista Switches

https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2021/05/unlocking-third-party-transceivers-on.html

Published: May 5, 2021 17:00

Like many switch vendors, Arista switches running EOS only accept Arista branded optics by default. They accept any brand of passive direct attach copper cables, but since third party optics tend to cause a prohibitive number of support cases, it’s needed…

Validating BGP Prefixes using RPKI on Arista Switches

https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2020/04/validating-bgp-prefixes-using-rpki-on.html

Published: April 16, 2020 15:00

I’ve written another blog post for the Arista EOS blog. This time, it’s on how to use the brand new feature in EOS where it now supports RPKI via RTR. I walk through a simple example of how to enable Docker in EOS and spin up a Routinator instance on the…