As I was writing another post I realized it’s been a while since a 2 year old could count he number of CCIEs in my country.
Jeriel Atienza and André Malungo were for a long time the only Angolan CCIEs, but today the numbers are quite different.
I do not plan to make this the Angolan version of the CCIE Hall of Fame page but you can find below the current list of Angolan CCIEs that I could find: Continue reading
In March 2014 I was a team lead for a small networking team in an Angolan ISP. After 5 years contributing the best I could to get the company of it’s feet, the time was coming for the progression many wished in their professional careers. I was invited to be the head of IT. Niiice!!! Continue reading
During one of my training sessions someone asked me:
Why is it that none of our providers can give us a ping shorter than 150ms to the “internet”?
And the simple answer is: We can’t beat the physics!!
Let me explain:
2 months ago I got myself into a very uncommon professional situation (that’s reserved for another post) and decided to take 3 months “sabbatical” to focus on some personal and out of line professional projects. Little did I know I would come into some old friends, Appy and the Appy Saúde project. Continue reading
Well… seems I have been sleeping for a while. Draft BGP Large Communities about which I wrote a little while ago here already go to it’s final stage about a month ago. RFC 8092 was published mid February/2017.
Looking at the differences between draft 06 (published October/2016) and RFC 8092 little was changed except for small language corrections and the “Reserved Large BGP Community values” section.
Will you be able to play with Cisco routers? Not yet! The “big ones” like Cisco and Juniper have not implemented any draft or the RFC. But if you want to stay updated please keep looking at the implementations page. IXPs (Internet Exchange Point) thatfrequently use servers running opensource routing software can already upgrade their code and start testing and defining policies and community values. This Internet Draft is a good start.
To better understand what this new BGP attribute is, have a look at my post from 2016: Large BGP Communities (Internet Draft).
This week I was mindlessly going around “the internet” and stumbled upon an interesting IETF RFC draft from the Inter Domain Routing Working Group (IDR WG). The draft is for Large BGP Communities and is currently its 6th version.
You probably heard of BGP communities. This BGP attribute is defined in RFC 1997 is one of the most used attributes to help service providers apply specific routing policies to a group of prefixes sharing some common property.
BGP Communities are 4 Byte (32bit) values represented as A:B, where A is the decimal representation of the first 2 Bytes and B the decimal representation of the lower 2 Bytes. It is common practice to use the first 2 Bytes as an AS number and the last 2 Bytes to convey information to upstream routers (such as a Local Preference value to be set).
But there is a problem with this. RFC 1997 has been in use since 1996 and since then a lot has changed. One of these changes is the RFC6793 which defined the capability of BGP speakers to use 4 Byte (32bit) AS numbers instead of the shorter 2 Byte (16 bit) AS numbers. Continue reading
An IXP (Internet Exchange Point) is a place that allows the interconnection of autonomous networks, and the exchange of data and content between them.
It’s a Friday afternoon, Friday the 13th actually, but the scenario has nothing to do with bad luck. In “Ilha de Luanda” (Luanda island), sitting by the sea, feeling the breeze and listening to the relaxing sound of the waves and a “fresh one” very close by, I came to meet Hudson Cruz…
Alcides Cabral its an angolan citizen that recently got the coveted PMP – Project Management Professional. I was lucky and had the pleasure to work with him for 2 years. I’ve never seen so much competence and craziness in only one person! 🙂 Continue reading