The Life of Kenneth
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The thoughts and projects of an engineer who likes to convert solder, firmware, and wire into all sorts of different forms of entertainment.
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Installing AlmaLinux Over the Network With No Hands
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18 Jan 2026
 As part of a broader project, I’ve been working on setting up the infrastructure to be able to power on
Poking at the connectX-4 Firmware
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29 Dec 2024
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
Making Fastestmirror Less Awful
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21 Oct 2024
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
Migration to Jekyll from Blogger
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29 Sep 2024
 I’ve been writing on this blog for something like 18 years now, which is just wild. When I originally fired up this blog as a
Building the Micro Mirror Free Software CDN
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9 May 2023
 As should surprise no one, based on my past projects of [running my own autonomous
Unlocking Third Party Transceivers on Older Arista Switches
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5 May 2021
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
Building an Anycast Secondary DNS Service
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19 Nov 2020
 Regular readers will remember how one of my friends offered to hold my beer while I went and [started my own
Validating BGP Prefixes using RPKI on Arista Switches
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16 Apr 2020
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