Avi Freedman's Home Page
(newer avi, older avi+gail, avi+"QL" brodie, old netaxs/mark thomas)
Newer Stuff
Apr 06 "Woman of Valor", posted in honor of my mother.
Aug 05 Started a collection of funny ISP stories
Jun/Jul 05 Played some poker at the World Series and the Ultimate Poker
Challenge. Came in 12th in the Pot Limit Omaha Rebuy
tournament, but they only paid 9 :(
Apr 05 My mother died in a tragic accident Tuesday night
4/5/05. We remember her and try to be better people in her honor.
Oct 04 A poker update of my poker travels
May 04 Here is a what-to-look-for-in-sushi page I am working on.
May 04 Netaxs Wyndmoor photo and MFS POP movie
What I'm up to...
- Chief Network Scientist for Akamai:
Working on new products & services around Internet monitoring and Application/Content Delivery Solutons
- Working with readnews.com:
Usenet outsourcing for Geeks & ISPs
- Martial Arts at Zhang-Sah Martial Arts School in Bridgeport, PA and schools in the Reston, VA area
- Advise Jacquette Consulting, a leading consulting company on the east coast that develops custom Documentum-based solutions, among other things
- Playing poker every so often (see my poker log here):
I came in 5th in Pot Limit Omaha at the World Series (aired on ESPN) and came in 2nd at a Ultimate Poker Challenge event which will air on Christmas day at 11pm.
- Atkins Diet - as you can see, with mild exercise + strict Atkins, I've lost quite a bit of weight.
- Playing with gadgets to enhance my connectivity. Currently, Treo 600, Clie UX-50, Fujitsu P5000 w/ EVDO, and EDGE bluetooth backup.
- BGP and Network Consulting: Network audit; Security training; Growth planning; General advice
- I split my time between Philadelphia, the DC area, Cambridge, and various other cities for Akamai, and some travel for poker as well.
What I used to do
I am no longer with Netaxs, the Philadelphia-area ISP I started in 1992, though I still say hello over there sometimes.
Before coming to Akamai in Oct 98, I was VP of Engineering at AboveNet from late 1998 to late 1999.
Before that, I started Netaxs in 1992, I hosted a number of of MUDs on my machine (bigboy.cis.temple.edu) and provided a safe Unix haven on my personal boxes for Temple students looking to escape the tyranny of VMS and Pascal.
Press & Pictures
Pictures:
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.
Miscellaneous Articles:
Security Architecture Rant in ACM Queue on the weakness of firewalls
An old Multi-Homing FAQ I wrote.
A newer Multi-Homing FAQ I wrote.
PPTs from NANOG/ISPCON/etc:
Choosing an upstream provider
How to Multi-Home
BGP 101
BGP 102
Engineering robust routers
Boardwatch Articles:
Mar97 -
Stopping The Flood
Apr97 -
Your Own Address Space
May97 -
Multi-Homing With and Without BGP4
Jun97 -
Where We Are In The "Routing Columns" Series
Jul97 -
Ethel the Aardvark Goes BGP Routing
Oct97 -
Usenet New Servers - the Simple Version
Dec97 -
Configuring a Cisco Router, Part 1 - Background
Apr98 -
Web Proxy Caches and Satellite-Based Bandwidth Augmentation
May98 -
Satellite-Based Bandwidth Augmentation
May98 -
IP Space Update, Free News Feeds, More on News, Basic IP Filtering
Jul98 -
DNS Servers and Provider - Independent Address Space
In Memoriam: George, Danny, Abha
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Where to find me
Midwest Grill
Sagami
Sushi Sasabune
NANOG
RIPE
IETF
Interesting Sites
Expansys
Dynamism
Mobile Planet
thinkgeek
the-gadgeteer
slashdot
theregister
The Web Wayback machine
Gadgets/Gear
HPA Twin Turbo R32s
Audi RS6
Lifebook P5010
Panasonic Y2
Inspiron 8100
Megalaser
Memory Watch
Nexio S160
Zaurus C700
Sigmarion III
Verizon EVDO
Treo 600
Blackberry
Selling: G1000, Sidekick, Treo 300
Sold: M3, M5, ibook, tibook, various other laptops
Cool Software
stripmime.pl -
for auto-unpacking those awful MIME attachments.
Wonderful for elm/pine/mutt users.
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