2025-09-30 –, Zaal
Studenten Net Twente turned 30!
To celebrate, we hosted an exciting event where nearly 100 participants used billions of ICMPv6 pings to "draw" on a shared, publicly streamed, canvas.
In this talk, we’ll dive into the technical setup that made it all possible. From 100G networking to DPDK software and real-time video processing, we will share the funny, unexpected, and occasionally catastrophic moments along the way.
Studenten Net Twente turned 30!
To celebrate, we hosted an exciting event where nearly 100 participants used billions of ICMPv6 pings to "draw" on a shared, publicly streamed, canvas.
In this talk, we’ll dive into the technical setup that made it all possible. From 100G networking to DPDK software and real-time video processing, we will share the funny, unexpected, and occasionally catastrophic moments along the way.
Some things that will come by in this presentation:
- Breaking the University Wifi (Thank you Fortigate)
- Crashing a P4 switch
- The troubles of livestreaming "noise"
- Building software that handles tens of millions of packets per second
- Reaching more than 50Mpps of ICMPv6 pings (Or at least, that's what the network could handle ;))
- Plans for more! (Using GPUs? FPGA?)
Webpage: https://pings.utwente.io
Timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS2XjYaQBok
I'm a student at the University of Twente with an interest in IT and business.
Most people know me for running one of the bigger Dutch gamehosting companies, Ferox Hosting.
Since 2023, I run the Studenten Net Twente association at the university, which brings together technical students to connect and maintain the IT infrastructure for close to a hundred associations at the university, together with the largest FTP and IRC servers in the region.