Russ White

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Router Forwarding Engines: Part 5 - eBPF

2 weeks ago | packetpushers.net | Russ White

Let’s take one final look at forwarding planes and accelerated forwarding planes before we leave this topic. What if you wanted to develop a device specializing in processing and switching packets, but the capabilities you need to develop are unavailable in any commercial hardware forwarding engine? While one option would certainly be DPDK, discussed in the previous post in this series, there is another, more recent option: Extended Berkeley Packet Filters (eBPF).
Podcast: Meet the co-chairs of MSU’s Green and White Council

2 months ago | msutoday.msu.edu | Russ White

Welcome to another episode of Kevin’s Conversations on MSU Today. Kevin is Michigan State University President Kevin Guskiewicz, who joins me occasionally to elaborate on key initiatives he’s leading to guide MSU into its vibrant future. Today, Kevin welcomes the co-chairs of his newly created Green and White Council.
Podcast: Colorful painting by MSU artist commemorates inaugural Spartan Bus Tour

2 months ago | msutoday.msu.edu | Russ White

Teresa Dunn is a Mexican American artist raised in rural Southern Illinois. Her identity, life and art are influenced by her racial and cultural heritages and the complexities of being a brown woman in the Midwest. She came to MSU in 2006 and is a professor of painting and drawing in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design in MSU’s College of Arts and Letters. On this episode of MSU Today, she talks about her path to MSU and what inspires and motivates her art.
Router Forwarding Engines: Part 2 - OpenFlow and I2RS as Possible Solutions

Oct 29, 2024 | packetpushers.net | Russ White

In part 1 of this series, I discussed general problems with router Forwarding Engine (FEs). This post looks at possible solutions. Before diving into internal interfaces between the Forwarding Table (FIB) and FE, let’s look at a few attempts to build an interface between external processes and forwarding state: the Interface to the Routing System (I2RS) and OpenFlow. The illustration below shows the difference between these two. The first difference is where they inject forwarding information.
Podcast: Inaugural Spartan Bus Tour highlights MSU’s statewide impact

Oct 24, 2024 | msutoday.msu.edu | Russ White

Following his Sept. 29 investiture, Michigan State University President Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Ph.D., announced one of his first initiatives was to bring “MSU to Michigan,” and he did so by leading MSU’s inaugural Spartan Bus Tour. We set out from campus Monday morning Oct. 21 from the Kellogg Center. (0:20) President Guskiewicz opens the tour. (1:14) Our first stop was in Mount Pleasant to visit the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways.
Podcast: WKAR is a City of East Lansing Early Voting Center for the 2024 General Election

Oct 15, 2024 | msutoday.msu.edu | Russ White

The presidential election is right around the corner and Michigan is going to play a crucial role in the election results. For MSU Today’s 2024 Election Spotlight Series, I’m talking with MSU researchers and experts who can discuss all things elections and politics. Each guest brings a unique perspective on research and work they’re doing that relates to the 2024 Election. For today’s episode, we are not talking with faculty.
Podcast: President Kevin Guskiewicz and Coach Tom Izzo on the future of college athletics and more at MSU

Sep 23, 2024 | msutoday.msu.edu | Russ White

In the inaugural episode of Kevin’s Conversations, Michigan State University President Kevin Guskiewicz talks with Hall of Fame Spartan Basketball Coach Tom Izzo. Tom tells Kevin about the value of grind week and the team’s recent trip to Spain. And he tells the president about taking his team “back home” to Northern Michigan University for a game. They talk about the changing world of college athletics and challenges and opportunities on the academic side of the house.
What The CrowdStrike Outage Can Teach Us about Testing and Failure Modes

Aug 28, 2024 | packetpushers.net | Russ White

We can—and should—learn many lessons from the CrowdStrike outage. For instance:We should care more about, and pay more attention to, our processesBecause we live in a world where software doesn’t work without hardware, we need to be more careful about software updatesFuzz testing and other forms of chaos engineering are actually importantBut the outage reveals another lesson we need to consider. To get there, consider this illustration of latent failures versus testing.
Obfuscation and Network Security

Jun 24, 2024 | packetpushers.net | Russ White

I can already hear the objections to claiming that hiding information—obfuscation—is a good technique to increase security: “Obscurity is not security!”It is true that obscurity, by itself, is not security. It is also true, however, that just about all security involves obfuscation in some way. Further, it is also true that no security technique is complete or can stand alone.
MSU joins Indy Autonomous Challenge, partners with Milan team

Jun 10, 2024 | msutoday.msu.edu | Russ White

Skip navigation links Michigan State University is racing into the future by participating in the Indy Autonomous Challenge, which officially launched in 2019 and brings together academic institutions and public-private partnerships to challenge university students from across the globe to invent and test a new generation of automated vehicle software to operate fully autonomous race cars.