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Philip Homburg

Philip Homburg currently works on the measurement code and other firmware that runs on the RIPE Atlas probes and anchors. He received a PhD degree in computer science from the VU University, Amsterdam. During his PhD studies he designed a wide-area distributed system called Globe. He also worked on the security of mobile phones in the EU FP7 project WOMBAT, MINIX3 (device driver crash recovery), and an advanced disk abstraction layer in the Logical Disk project.

What’s the deal with IPv6 link-local addresses?

By Philip Homburg on 30 Mar 2020

Guest Post: Find out how how link-local addresses in IPv6, specifically the ‘%eth0’-part of link-local addresses, can have an impact on RIPE Atlas measurements.