The Unglamorous Work: Hardening an eBPF BNG for Production

A month ago I wrote about building an eBPF-accelerated BNG and the infrastructure repo that lets you run it locally. The response was better than I expected — the post hit 94 points on Hacker News and sparked some good discussion. It also sparked some fair criticism. One commenter called the code &ldquo;vibe coded.&rdquo; Another wrote a detailed comment about why distributed BNG has never…