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Pim van Pelt

Pim van Pelt (PBVP1-RIPE) began his career as a network engineer in the Netherlands, where he worked for Intouch, Freeler, and BIT. He helped raise awareness for IPv6, for example by launching it at AMS-IX back in 2001. He also operated SixXS, a global IPv6 tunnel broker, from 2001 through to its sunset in 2017. Since 2006, Pim works as a Distinguished SRE at Google in Zurich, Switzerland.

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VPP with loopback-only OSPFv3: Part 2

By Pim van Pelt on 5 Sep 2024

Guest Post: Using Vector Packet Processing and Bird2 to eliminate IPv4 point-to-point networks, freeing up IPv4 addresses.

VPP with loopback-only OSPFv3: Part 1

By Pim van Pelt on 28 Aug 2024

Guest Post: With a small change to OSPFv3 it may be possible to avoid using IPv4 P2P transit networks.

VPP with Babel

By Pim van Pelt on 21 Aug 2024

Guest Post: How to conserve IPv4 addresses with IGP Babel.

FreeIX Remote

By Pim van Pelt on 17 Jun 2024

Guest Post: The FreeIX Remote project offers an outreach infrastructure that connects to IXPs and PNIs, and is entirely free.