100M packets per second! or 100Gb/s at Imix. No problem, see video for demo. Wrote a a neat packet generator on top of the go-afxdp library Ive been hacking on. Check out the video! Sending packets at line rate is easy with this 🤓💯 No more DPDK + Trex needed, Just a small 14MB binary and a xdp nic

Claude Code is now regularly working on tasks for an hour at a time. That's really impressive. Ask it the right question + guidance and constraints and it will run to completion at surprisingly high quality. And with that, everything is going back to Test Driven Development 🤓

So many interesting sessions at @netdevconf.bsky.social Can't wait for the recordings to be available 🤓

Having way too much fun with go-afxdp 😁🤓 Spun up two 100G boxes on latitude.sh with Mellanox mlx5 NICs and sent 64-byte packets between them. Result: 140M pps ~99% of 100G line rate, all using a simple Go program. Not bad 🚀🔥

Bypassing the kernel with AF_XDP means packets leave at true line rate and suddenly I'm rediscovering pacing & policers (bufferbloat's cousins). Same avg Mbps, but 128 packet line rate bursts trip token buckets that kernel-shaped traffic never touches. Always be learning. 🤓

Been geeking out on packet processing in Go lately. Result: go-afxdp, a Go library for AF_XDP. Send and receive at ~14M packets/sec (10G line rate) in just a few lines of Go. No DPDK, no C, and you don't lose your NIC. Blog toonk.io/line-rate-pa... and the code github.com/atoonk/go-af...

Line-rate packet processing in Go with AF_XDP

If you've been following my blog for a while, you know I have a soft spot for making packets go fast in software. I'm a network guy at heart, raised on routing and switching, but these days most of th...

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These growth numbers are crazy. Some AI traffic is growing remarkably fast: we are seeing a massive growth in Claude traffic, with more than 555% growth over its January baseline. www.fastly.com/blog/ai-traf...

AI Traffic Grew 6.5x Faster Than Human Traffic This Year | Fastly

Fastly data shows AI traffic grew 30% from January to May 2026, with autonomous systems nearing half of internet requests and reshaping web infrastructure.

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Some changes in the number of active IP addresses in Iran as of a few hours ago. Responding IP's increased from ~400k active IPs to ~500k. Also see iranmon.com

Ahh, my old nemesis… softirqs. Hello old friend 😅 🤓

Cleaning up some stuff today. A bit of nostalgia 🤓Probably don’t need this anymore. Last time I opened it was well over a decade ago.

Interesting trend change visible in the active probing of the Internet in Iran. Looks like something changed over the weekend.

Love seeing identity federation in more places! It's a great trend!

ClaudeDevs [UNOFFICIAL]@claudedevs-mirr.selfhosted.social · 3mo ago

Managing API keys is one of the top security concerns we hear from customers. Today we’re introducing keyless auth for Claude Platform: authenticate via browser with the CLI, or let workloads use their existing cloud identity (AWS, GCP, Azure, or any OIDC token provider).

Listening to infosec people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.

quote from the write up: "I was just curious if you could put HTML in weird places. I did not expect to end up compromising RPKI." This (1 year!) timeline isn't exactly reassuring...

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I found a chain of vulnerabilities at RIPE NCC, one of five RPKI trust anchors. One click on an innocuous link could disconnect a network from the internet. Entry points: debugging fields in DNS and crafted TLS certificates, escalating to RPKI Dashboard and RIPE Database mxsasha.eu/posts/ripe-n...

I found a chain of vulnerabilities at RIPE NCC, one of five RPKI trust anchors. One click on an innocuous link could disconnect a network from the internet. Entry points: debugging fields in DNS and crafted TLS certificates, escalating to RPKI Dashboard and RIPE Database mxsasha.eu/posts/ripe-n...

Taking down a European network with a TLS certificate: my RIPE NCC RPKI exploit chain

One click on a malicious, but not suspicious, link. That is all it could take for a network operator to get disconnected from the internet, through a chain of …

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Tailscale on UEFI ... who needs an OS, really? (using github.com/usbarmory/ta...) And yes, clearly putting a bootloader in here is an obvious next step 😉 This week is Hack Week at Tailscale. This is one of the 4 weird new places I got Tailscale running. #golang #tamago #tailscale #hackweek

This week was Hackathon Week at #tailscale We had so much fun, so many awesome demos. Stoked!

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True! 😀🤓

Internet in Iran still mostly shut down, but seeing some some minor change in pattern as of April 8th. Visual is number of reachable IP addresses in Iran. Also see www.iranmon.com

Awesome growing list of network automation enthusiasts go.bsky.app/N9nHqzg

6am, Rise and shine! Nothing like starting the day by making sure the Border0 packet parser handles fragmented IP packets correctly 🤓 #NetworkingGeek

I'm heading to AWS re:Invent next week! 🚀 If you're attending, swing by our Booth 1768 to meet the Border0 team (and me!) in person. We're showcasing the World’s First Application-Aware VPN! Stop by for a demo, a chat, or just to say hello! 👋 📍 Find us at Booth 1768 #Reinvent2024

Wow, just wow! These Orcas came to visit right in front of our place. A mother Orca and her three "little" ones. They're so majestic! 😍 #Vancouver www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYBX...

‘One in a million’: Pod of orcas glide through Vancouver’s False Creek

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Was talking about exactly this yesterday with someone, a common response after an outage: “Be mindful of the knee-jerk management response: “We need more change management process!” Unless you’re a real YOLO shop, this is rarely the answer.” toonk.io/navigating-i...

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Ooh man, bummed to hear Equinix Metal is shutting down. I loved the original Packet service and later the Equinix version. Ran many of my network perf testings and BGP anycast pet projects on their amazing infra. End of an era. 😔

Yesterday, while Netflix was grappling with the live streams covering Iron Mike, I got curious and decided to poke around a bit, specifically checking where my caching server was located.

According to @kentik.bsky.social's OTT Service Tracking, Netflix traffic volume is currently up almost 3x normal. #TysonPaul Are you experiencing any buffering? www.kentik.com/product/subs...

Twitter is depressing ;) giving bsky a try. Let's see. here it is, my first post :)

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