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August 2015

  • “Tweetstorm on Seed/A Funding”

October 2013

  • “Future Blog Topics/Thoughts (will take requests)”

August 2013

  • Quick Mailman Search
  • Making Mistakes Fast

July 2013

  • Zagg iPad Mini Keyboard Quick Review

January 2011

  • Does Squeezing Network Costs Cut Revenue?
  • Teaching Others for Fun and (Likely) Profit

September 2010

  • New Diablo Header System
  • Sprint Epic 4G is Great!
  • Lenovo x21s is a No
  • New freedman.net Site, Based on Jekyll

August 2010

  • Stripmime (for Text Dinosaurs)

June 2010

  • Bubba and Zehda Passed Away (Eulogy)
  • Bubba Singing to Zehda

August 2005

  • Funny ISP Stories

April 2005

  • My Mother Died

February 2005

  • Script for Real-Time Bandwidth Monitoring
  • Woman of Valor

October 2004

  • Ultimate Poker Challenge $1000 NLH

June 2004

  • Commerce Casino $2500 No Limit Hold’em
  • Commerce Casino $1500 PLO Rebuy

May 2004

  • WSOP Main Event
  • What to Look for in Sushi
  • WSOP $10k PLO Final Table

July 1998

  • (BW) DNS servers + IP Space

April 1998

  • (BW) Web Caching and BW Augmentation

December 1997

  • (BW) Configuring a Cisco (part 1)

October 1997

  • (BW) Usenet News Servers

July 1997

  • (BW) BGP Article (Part 3)

June 1997

  • (BW) BGP Article (Part 2)

May 1997

  • (BW) BGP Article (Part 1)

April 1997

  • (BW) Your Own Address Space

March 1997

  • (BW) Stopping the Flood

About

Avi Freedman Avi Freedman Ex Internet plumber, now leading a fun team of tech and business wizards at Kentik as we bring a fresh approach to visibility into infrastructure performance, availability, and security issues. We’re hiring!

Contact Info

email: avi at freedman and .net
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Current Gadgets

2019 16" MBP 64G
Ipad Pro
Blackberry Key2 Red
S20 Ultra
Ipad mini + Logitech ultrathin
2004 HPA TT R32
2020 Tesla Model 3 P
Devon Tread 1 and misc other timepieces

Where to find me:

CEO at Kentik Technologies

SF and Seattle. Pre-COVID, was in and around SF mostly, and usually PHL, BOS, NovA, NY monthly.

Eating at Fogo de Chao, Eating at Midwest Grill, Eating at Sagami, Eating at Sushi Sasabune, and Eating at Craftsteak.

Deprecated Gadgets

Too many phones and laptops
Integra, Legend, 1992 325i, E39 M5, E43 M3, 2009 GT-R, 2003 RS6, 2009 Jeep SRT8

Old Old Press

A picture from a Forbes article, mostly about netaxs, from Dec 1995.
And the article(poorly formatted copy).
And an except from his December 1996 article.

PPTs/Tutorials

Securing the Edge: On the Weakness of Firewalls , ACM Queue
An old Multi-Homing FAQ I wrote.
A newer Multi-Homing FAQ I wrote.
Choosing an upstream provider
How to Multi-Home
BGP 101
BGP 102
Engineering robust routers

Boardwatch Articles

Stopping The Flood
Your Own Address Space
Multi-Homing With and Without BGP4
Where We Are In The “Routing Columns”
Ethel the Aardvark Goes BGP Routing
Usenet New Servers - the Simple Version
Configuring a Cisco Router, Part 1
Web Proxy Caches and BW Augment
Satellite-Based Bandwidth Augmentation
IP Space Update, Usenet, IP Filtering
DNS Servers and PI Space

Stuff I Used to Do

Started & Ran Netaxs (PHL’s first ISP) (1992-1999)
Ran AboveNet Engineering (1998-1999)
VP Network, Chief Network Architect, Chief Network Scientist, Distinguished (hah) Software Engineer, Akamai (1999-2009)
CTO at ServerCentral, 2009-2014

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Recent Posts

  • “Tweetstorm on Seed/A Funding”
  • “Future Blog Topics/Thoughts (will take requests)”
  • Quick Mailman Search
  • Making Mistakes Fast
  • Zagg iPad Mini Keyboard Quick Review
  • Does Squeezing Network Costs Cut Revenue?
  • Teaching Others for Fun and (Likely) Profit
  • New Diablo Header System
  • Sprint Epic 4G is Great!
  • Lenovo x21s is a No

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