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Cybersecurity conferences aren't just for Vegas.

SNMP discovery and walks, CDP/LLDP decoding, built-in Nmap, and remote Cisco packet captures: a look at HopMatrix's network discovery toolkit.

My Eufy S4 NVR and its PoE cameras went in without a hitch.

iPerf, the tool of choice for throughput testing.

Need to prove a list of hosts was up before a change — and back up after?

Every network engineer knows the 2 AM problem: you're on a customer jump box, you can't install anything, and the tools you do have won't show you what's actually happening.

Twelve observability tools, one outage, zero shared truth.

At Networking Field Day 40, Alex Saroyan from Netris illustrated how their AI clusters automate networks without the need for config backups.

Like many geeks, I have a 3D printer, and I use it to print things that I find online.

The post critiques the marketing use of "AI-powered" in network tools, highlighting the gap between flashy demos and real enterprise needs.

The article discusses AI networking presentations, particularly Arista's, highlighting four AI fabrics: front-end, scale-out, scale-across, and scale-up.

Cisco is now the third-largest contributor to the SONiC project, following Microsoft and NVIDIA.

I’m sitting in the audience at Network Field Day watching Dennis Thankachan and Ryan Schrack from Lightyear demo what they call a “telecom operating system,” and my brain is doing that thing it does where it stops listening to the presenter and starts thi…

Mike Hoffman has been doing this longer than most of us.