https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/isp/ Recent content in Isp on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/netbox/what-is-netbox/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/netbox/what-is-netbox/ A walk through NetBox 4.7.2 with a real rack in it: the elevation, the cable trace, the IPAM tree, and a cabinet reporting 90.7% power at 28.6% space. Then setup, the order you fill it in, per-customer access, config contexts, plugins, custom objects, validation rules, driving it from Ansible, and the fork that produced Nautobot. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/networking/we-never-ran-out-of-addresses/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/networking/we-never-ran-out-of-addresses/ The UK has spent twenty years bolting workarounds onto IPv4 rather than turning on IPv6. I counted every UK network in the routing table to see who has actually done it, and the answer says this was never about money.