The next New Hampshire Networking User Group (NH)NUG is happening on April 16, 2025 in Manchester. Venue TBD, but probably Stark Brewing. CFP! We want to mix up format with lightning talks. You got ~15 minutes to share something? LMK!

With the advent of AI doing ever-deeper analysis of network traffic and providing actionable insights, do network engineers need to do packet analysis anymore? This & more are discussed by me and Chris Greer in this episode of Heavy Networking.

In this week's N Is For Networking (a podcast for new networkers), we discuss the default gateway. How does a host know when a destination is local & when it needs a gateway to forward traffic on instead? We keep the answer simple without dumbing it down.

Spent my afternoon working on a lab environment that will be a foundation for YouTube content. It's a mix of an Ubuntu server I'm running Ivan Pepelnjak's netlab on, plus a couple of older physical switches and routers I picked up cheap on eBay. 3560X-24 + 4948 switches, 2951 + ISR4321 routers.

A friend of mine at a company I think highly of is hiring for a developer evangelist role. The right person (you?) is excellent in a public-facing role and deeply knowledgable about network automation. If you’d like to know more, DM me. The role is not being publicly advertised.

Hey, VMware Fusion & Workstation users. So, it's free now. Are you still using it, or have you moved on, because Broadcom? If you've moved on, what are you using instead, and what's your use case? blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...

I wrote a thing. For saying so little, I'm not sure why it took several hours of fussy editing before I finally hit publish and sent it into the void. packetpushers.net/blog/the-pro...

When Uncle Tim releases the M4 MBPs today, I'm thinking of a 16" M4 Max. I'm currently rocking an M1 Pro. I don't *need* a Max. I rarely do video rendering. Not much of a gamer these days. But from what I'm reading, the battery hit isn't that bad. Anyone with a 16" Max got a comment on battery?