Coprocessing with a passive loopback cable

This rather ugly, but dramatically lit little fellow is a passive loopback cable (I connected only two pairs, so it can do only 100MB). Here it is installed in port 11 on this OpenFlow switch. But why? What possible use is this beyond testing that the physical interface works? Some OpenFlow switch implementations are based …

Network devices are just computers.

Obligatory XKCD. In this post, I thought it would be efficient to describe my own personal motivations for contributing to SDN generally and FAUCET specifically, and why I personally believe they’re both good things. You could say in the New Zealand vernacular, that these are my “reckons.” I’m responsible solely for them – I do …