Network Engineering Community News: May 2026

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May 31, 2026

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⚡️ Network Engineering Community News - from FastNetMon We’ve given the newsletter a bit of a fresh coat of paint, but the goal is the same: keeping you in the loop on what we’re building, sharing interesting DDoS and NetSec updates, and staying connected with the community. Let us know what you think!

In this edition of Network Engineering Community News, we’ve given the newsletter a bit of a fresh coat of paint, but the goal is the same: keeping you in the loop on what we’re building, sharing interesting DDoS and NetSec updates, and staying connected with the community. Let us know what you think!

Security Advisory: immediate upgrade recommended

Latest FastNetMon release 2.0.380 includes important security fixes addressing multiple vulnerabilities affecting BGP, Flow Spec, Netflow v9, IPFIX, and packet parsing components. 


Due to the nature of these issues, we strongly recommend that all FastNetMon users upgrade to the latest version immediately. Full details are available in the security advisory and release notes.

Release notes

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Live from NANOG 97!

Greetings from NANOG 97 in Bellevue, WA! We’re already on-site and looking forward to connecting with the community. Pavel Odintsov will be speaking in the Wednesday session on Monitoring 2,800 BGP Sessions using BMP protocol -- get the details, book a meeting, and follow the updates on our event page. 

NANOG 97 Event page

Worth reading

MAP-T in 2026: What operators debate in production networks

IPv6 adoption keeps growing, but IPv4 is still deeply embedded in production networks. MAP-T is one of the transition mechanisms helping operators bridge that gap by carrying IPv4 over an IPv6-only core using stateless translation. This article looks at how it works in practice and, more importantly, what operators are currently debating when it comes to real world deployments.

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What we’ve been up to

May was a busy month for the FastNetMon team, with events from Taipei to Europe to Washington. It was a great month of connecting with the networking and telecom community -- read the highlights below!

ITW 2026

ITW delivered as always --Washington was all about back-to-back meetings, reconnecting with partners, clients, and new conversations.

Read our recap

RIPE 92

RIPE week in beautiful Edinburgh in summary: routing security talks, operator discussions, coffees, pubs, and plenty of catching up with the community.

Read our recap

TWNOG

A busy week in Taipei with Pavel joining a Taiwan Internet Week panel on NIS2 resilience and presenting at TWNOG 7 about the realities of terabit-scale DDoS detection.

Read our recap

Datacenter Forum 2026

Virgil spent a great day in Bucharest talking with data centre and cloud teams about AI infrastructure, scaling challenges, and, of course, the latest in DDoS protection.

Read our Rrecap

DDoS News

KimWolf DDoS botnet operator arrested

Canadian authorities have arrested a 23-year-old man suspected of operating the KimWolf IoT DDoS-for-hire botnet. 

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Ubuntu and Canonical services disrupted by a DDoS attack

Ubuntu users experienced widespread service disruptions after a sustained DDoS attack.

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See you at these upcoming events!

THIS WEEK: NANOG 97

The team is already at Bellevue, and happy to meet! Also don't miss out Pavel's talk about monitoring 2800 BGP sessions.

More info

NetUK3

FastNetMon will be joining NetUK's third conference in July. If you're in London, let's catch up!

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