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BNG Blaster Hands-On Training#

NetUK2 (The Brewery) digest Program Adjacent pick The Brewery · 7–8 July 2025

Abstract

Alex Le Heux, Christian Giese

  • Why: Automated, reproducible control-plane testing of access/routing gear is something most operators hand-roll badly. BNG Blaster is open-source, CICD-friendly, and this is a hands-on session with a pre-configured DUT — the kind of adoptable tooling an operator-focused program should surface.
  • What: A practical workshop on BNG Blaster, an open-source testing tool, covering access protocols (PPPoE, L2TP) and routing (ISIS, BGP) against a provided device under test, with exercises attendees can customise or extend (from abstract only).
  • How: Each participant SSHes into a pre-configured test environment with a DUT and works through provided or self-built test scenarios; prior familiarity via previous DKNOG/DENOG talks is recommended.
  • Where applicable: Primarily for operators of subscriber/edge infrastructure (BNGs, access concentrators) and vendors testing such gear; the general pattern — open-source protocol-level test harness in CI — transfers to any environment doing conformance/regression testing of network gear.