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saphalpdyl

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About saphalpdyl

Systems & Infrastructure + a touch of networking

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47711488

    Working towards building a network fault attribution system oriented towards NaaS platforms that manage their own hardware. In the experimentation phase with existing monitoring fr…

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    Comment #47360192

    I reached out to the maintainer of osvbng, and he was really receptive about it. I may contribute to the project in a few months. Meanwhile, I also found another project that works…

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    Comment #47355378

    Thank you for the context. I did start out with mininet, then moved to containernet->containerlab. Mininet could not model subscriber session lifecycle in how I wanted it. P4/Openf…

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    Comment #47345104

    That is awesome! I was walking almost blind folded here, making decisions based on observations, intuition, some blogs, and RFC. These projects give me something to look against as…

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    Comment #47345073

    Thank you. I'm exploring more on this. Getting feedback from people here has hyped me up even more for the next step.

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    Comment #47345061

    I appreciate the compliment. I wish this type of knowledge was more easily available for the general public since it represents an integral part of modern day internet. A comment o…

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    Comment #47345027

    Thank you! That answers my question. I appreciate your feedback.

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    Comment #47341817

    My access edge is injecting DHCP Option 82, and I'm mapping customers based on (bng_id + circuit_id + remote_id ). Say, a customer on Oakwood Drive ABC wants a service. What is the…

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    Comment #47341227

    Subscribed! I am very new to things here since it's barely been a 1.5 months since I touched this area, so many of my questions have probably been answered. I will search around an…

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    Comment #47341038

    Thank you for the comment. Mininet did help me a lot during the initial phases. The main reason I made the switch to containernet(mininet-fork with containers ) and then to contain…

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    Comment #47340489

    Hello. Containerlab gives me the virtual network topology ( links through veth pairs, containers etc.). The actual BNG's Control plane ( authentication, authorization, session hand…

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    Comment #47338758

    I recently found out about Apache Netbox that would act as the authoritative source of truth for the network topology and replace majority of aether.config.yaml. In Splynx, I did n…

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    Show HN: I built an ISP infrastructure emulator from scratch with a custom vBNG

    Demo: https://aether.saphal.me GitHub: https://github.com/saphalpdyl/Aether Aether is a multi-BNG (Broadband Network Gateway) ISP infrastructure lab built almost from scratch that …