routerjockey

Every few years comes some variation of the same ticket.

Four XRd containers, a full room, and a BGP table with zero prefixes in it.

In Part 1 we got an Nginx container running, both with raw docker run and with a one service compose.yaml.

So, your runbook repo is now shared.

In 2015, Matt Griswold was fresh off launching United IX here in Chicago, his own gear, an investor behind him, and he spent that era arguing a commercial, privately owned exchange was the right way to build one.

Three months ago you ran a docker run command from a blog post and got Pi-hole working.

You finally caved and started using Claude.

Somebody asks in standup: “why did we change the ACL on edge-fw-02 last quarter?

192.168.10.37/26.

I’ve been listening to “you should care about IPv6” talks for two decades.

Doyle had just wrapped his automation-framework talk, and Tyler Conrad was up next.

I went into NFD40 thinking the AI networking pitches were going to be the marketing layer dressed up in new vocabulary, and I came out convinced it’s a different design problem.

This month RFC 10005 quietly became a Proposed Standard.

You’ve had git in your daily workflow for a few weeks.

Brad Gorman’s ARIN workshop laid out where routing security stands today, ROAs you can trust, ASPA shipping, BGPSec quietly retired.

Declared bias up front.

I sat in Brad Gorman’s RPKI workshop at CHI-NOG 13 with the kind of attention you give a talk when somebody on stage just admitted the security model has known holes.

“We haven’t announced any products yet.”

Last Tuesday you made changes to a playbook because the on-call engineer needed an ACL pushed in a hurry.

Most “AI-powered observability” pitches you sit through ask you to trust the model.

Somehow I’ve never made it to CHI-NOG, the Chicago Network Operators Group’s annual gathering.

Dr.

Alex Saroyan had about ninety seconds onstage before he made the architectural claim that the rest of the AI-networking conversation has been ducking.

Thomas Scheibe walked on stage and said the quiet part out loud.

Field Day vendors pay real money to get in front of a room full of independent engineers.

Halfway through Tom Emmons’ scale-out segment at NFD40, a fellow delegate looked at Arista’s load-balancing slide and said what most of us were thinking… this could have any vendor’s logo on it.

Your AirPods just connected to the wrong device.

So… the merch store is back.

Cisco showed up to NFD40 selling two different pitches in the same session, and nobody on stage reconciled them.

Anyone who has managed carrier circuits for a living knows the pain.

I’ve been building networks for nearly thirty years.

Every network engineer has that moment.

I’m Heading to Networking Field Day 40 I’m excited to announce that I’ve been selected as a delegate for Networking Field Day 40, taking place April 8–10, 2026 in Silicon Valley.

If you’re a contractor, consultant, or anyone who VPNs into multiple client networks, you’ve experienced the pain.

Yet another day brings another meeting about another security product recommending SSL Decryption at our network edge.

Routerjockey has transitioned to Hugo, a fast and flexible static site generator.

In 2012, we saw the launch of Viptela, a pioneer in SDWAN network solutions.

Gartner has been saying that “next big thing” in network security is the increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies for years now… Mainly because these technologies have the potential to revolutionize the way that…

As businesses continue to shift towards remote and distributed work environments, the need for secure and reliable network infrastructure has never been greater.

With the release of the new 9200 series switches many enterprise organizations are starting to look towards the future.

But how does all of this relate to IT Infrastructure and Operations?

In the past I have personally given a lot of flack towards Gartner, but that was when I was in a different stage of my career.

I made a couple changes to the RouterJockey store this week and I wanted to make sure I got the word out.

Founded by Kunihiro Ishiguro and Yoshinari Yoshikawa the founders of GNU Zebra, came together to form IP Infusion back in 1999 as a commercial-grade, hardware-independent networking software company.

At times I have trouble focusing on writing articles for some of the presentations I am exposed to at Tech Field Day.

Hey guys, I just wanted to drop a quick note to let you know that I’ve relaunched my teespring shirt campaigns with enough time that you should get your orders before Cisco Live US 2017.

During Networking Field Day 15 our friends from the Linux Foundation, including Lisa Caywood, briefed us on a recent “acquisition” from Cisco.

Yet again I find myself honored, and questioning their selection methods, by being selected for a Networking Field Day event.

Whenever I start talking about network visibility and aggreagation taps I can’t help but think of The Matrix.

Forward Networks has stepped out of the shadows to announce their Network Assurance platform, and I was fortunate enough to be a delegate for Networking Field Day 13 to see their first public briefing.