Summary: Today’s Heavy Networking episode dives into gaming networks. Our guest is Tim Raphael. He volunteers for <a href="https://www.rflan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Red Flag LAN Fest(Rflan)</a>, a non-profit that runs Bring Your Own PC (BYOPC) gaming events.<br> Players show up with a computer, and Tim and his team provide the desk, chair, power and network. It’s like your college LAN parties of old, but way bigger.<br> The event has hosted up to 800 to 900 people at a single event.<br> Tim and Ethan discuss how Rflan builds networks for these events and why automation is essential to make it feasible.<br> They dive into details on the core network gear, what they monitor during games (capacity, link quality, uptime, service monitoring, and more) and how they troubleshoot.<br> In his day job, Tim is a peering engineer at the Internet Association of Australia.<br> Sponsor: ExtraHop<br> Today’s episode is brought to you in part by ExtraHop. ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. Visit <a href="https://www.extrahop.com/packetpushers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extrahop.com/packetpushers</a> for an interactive demo to find out more.<br> Show Links:<br> <a href="https://www.rflan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rflan.org</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/TimRaphael215" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Raphael on Twitter</a><br> <a href="https://www.timraphael.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Timraphael.com</a><br>
