Thanks for reporting back. Every time I looked at it’s features, I came to roughly the same conclusions. Glad you actually did the work to try it, though.

Looks cool. Adding to my linkding. Thanks!

This release has such bangers. Was so excited to read it in my RSS feed today & comment here.

• IPv6 segment routing (SRv6) support
• BGP monitoring (BMP) suppor
• Firewall flowtable offload functionality

And the ultimate biggie: The long-awaited ability to rollback configuration without having to reboot is finally here (T5249).

Thanks so much to the VyOS team for an awesome RC.

Okay.

Yet another reason to love VyOS

Yep, mainly because it’s targetting DC/SP operators, rather than just the home

This is somehow worse than “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four”

You just hurt Huawei & Arista’s feelings. /s

Cool project. Saving it for future reference, once I get a better handle on Rust.

Another vote for LibreNMS. I’ve been using it for a long time and it’s just great for most small - relatively large orgs (you have to work a bit harder to deploy it properly / distributed, if you’re going for a larger build).

I’ve also had Zabbix data piped into grafana and that was rock solid… I just find that Zabbix requires quite a bit more finessing to get going, if you’re not a seasoned sysadmin.

This, and their other CC books, is a great starting place. Especially because it has a hands-on section you can build upon:

https://5g.systemsapproach.org/README.html

Maybe take a larger forest view of convergence & orchestration of a provides core… from access to fabric.

Other than that, lots is being said about the true meaning of network source of truth. Check some NANOG talks for free on their YouTube channel. Check out Jeremy Stretch’s fairly recent blog post on Netbox (packetlife.net).

If you’re looking for more greybeard Inspiration, check out some great analysis from Geoff Huston on potaroo.net and think of interesting software defined ways to demonstrate his analysis (maybe become the next Kentik etc.)

Russ White & Ivan Pepnelnjak are also great grey beard thinkers.

Best of luck with your thesis.

Pretty good suggestions here. Can’t remember the last time I saw such quality replies on r/networking .

Great job, everyone. Hoping this community becomes a lot more engaged & less superficial than the r/networking one.

Very dumb move by IBM Redhat

Jeff Geerling’s take was good:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/dear-red-hat-are-you-dumb