Running and building a regional provider network is a challenging proposition. When your network is your profit center, every decision is made through a different lens. Add a global pandemic on top and you’re certainly going to walk away with a few lessons learned. In this episode we talk with Marek Isalski about his experiences building and operating a regional provider network in the UK.

Show Notes

• • Faelix Overview 
    • How did Faelix get started?
    • What services does Faelix offer?
    • How many people are on your team?
  • Move from Mikrotik to VyOS
    • Motivated by a few factors, including CVE-2018-19299
  • Using NetBox as a single source of truth
    • How do we do logical topology stuff, like OSPF, BGP, in netbox?
    • Have open-sourced our project for mixing saltstack + netbox + vyos
  • Recent bugs encountered:
    • FRR (RPKI crash in early 2020)
    • FRR (ospfv3 crash in late 2020)
    • Intel i40e NIC drivers (late 2020)
  • Standing up three new POPs in the height of travel restrictions of 2020
  • Presentations/Recordings
    • UKNOF:
    • NetMCR: Networkers in & around the Manchester
    • etc…

Links

• https://www.uknof.org.uk/
• https://www.netmcr.uk/
• https://twitter.com/maznu

Marek Isalski Guest Tony Efantis Host Jordan Martin Host

Outro Music: Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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