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Intro As a packet slinger by trade, a network admin, and also a bit of a programmer, I lately embarked on a quest for better throughput – to find a way to get more packets to pass through a rather small footprint low-cost device running a VPN tunnel.

Intro A part of the project I’ve been working on requires the use of a virtual network device.

Intro Key to transporting anything over the internet these days, is encryption. For a tunnel, this involved encrypting the whole packet that would be your payload.

Intro There are many ways to implement the UDP handling. Since I’m primarily interested in using UDP to tunnel traffic from a client to a server, both of which are known and controlled by me, I’m going to implement a udp_tunnel.

Intro In the last post, I mentioned the /proc system but never got much further. We’ll delve a little deeper in this post.

I know that, like me, you’re getting inundated with emails from people you don’t normally hear about, as to what they are doing with Covid 19.

The global circumstances around the Covid-19 outbreak, which the World Health Organization is now calling a pandemic, continue to rapidly evolve.

The culture in many companies (not just technology) is to blame an employee for mistakes, not doing a good enough job, being sloppy, being slower than expected, etc.

So you’ve just hired an A player in a technical role – young, super “green,” and with all the potential in the world.

Today we received the following impromptu and unsoliciated testimonial from one of our clients. “Also, I can’t stress enough how thankful I am that last year went so well.

As announced in a previous blog post, Richard and myself presented at the BC Tech Association several months ago. We shared our story on how we repurposed DevOps, software development, and system monitoring tools (like Grafana) to transform our business by visualizing the key drivers to our business model.

We recently sent out our first newsletter in the mail and have received positive feedback on it. The goal is to share some of the content we’ve written in our blog post, educate our readers, and give a peek into the world of the Crafty Penguins.