Episodes

  • Hedge 258: pyATS and Testing Through Automation

    Hedge 258: pyATS and Testing Through Automation
    Feb 7 2025
    We often think of network automation as a configuration tool, but automation can also be used for one-off, integration, and even continuous testing. Dan Wade joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to talk about pyATS and the concept of automated testing.
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    36 mins
  • Hedge 257: Gaining Experience in IT

    Hedge 257: Gaining Experience in IT
    Jan 31 2025
    Every recruiter and hiring manager wants people with five years of experience, but you cannot get experience without being hired into a position. How can you break this conundrum? Daniel Dib joins Tom and Russ to talk about how folks just coming into IT, or even those with lots of experience who are trying to shift their focus, can gain experience.
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    41 mins
  • Hedge 256: The Impact of Your First Language

    Hedge 256: The Impact of Your First Language
    Jan 24 2025
    Richard Wexelblat published an article in 1980 titled: "The consequences of one's first programming language." We've all seen C code written like Python, or Python code written like C, so it's obvious a coder's first language has a long lasting effect on their style. What about network engineers? Are there times and places where the first of anything a network engineers encounters has a long lasting impact on the way they think and work? In this roundtable, Tom, Eyvonne, and Russ consider different ways this might apply to network engineering.
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    38 mins
  • Hedge 255: Open Multi-perspective Issuance

    Hedge 255: Open Multi-perspective Issuance
    Jan 17 2025
    One of the various attack surfaces in encryption is insuring the certificates used to share the initial set of private keys are not somehow replaced by an attacker. In systems where a single server or source is used to get the initial certificates, however, it is fairly easy for an attacker to hijack the certificate distribution process. Henry Birge-Lee joins us on this episode of the Hedge to talk about extensions to existing certificate systems where a certificate is pulled from more than one source. You can find his article here.
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    48 mins
  • Hedge 254: Should you /64?

    Hedge 254: Should you /64?
    Jan 10 2025
    One of the big questions about IPv6 is: "Should you use /64's for subnets?" Tom Coffeen joins Eyvonne Sharp, Rick Graziani, and Russ as we discuss the various questions surrounding IPv6 addressing, planning, waste, and ... should you /64?
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    50 mins
  • Hedge 253: Touch Grass!

    Hedge 253: Touch Grass!
    Dec 13 2024
    In this episode of the Hedge, Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ talk about whether Intel will survive, centralization and industrial spying, and why you need to go touch grass and read a book.
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    28 mins
  • Hedge 252: The African IXP Association

    Hedge 252: The African IXP Association
    Dec 6 2024
    Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) are one of the key centers of Internet infrastructure. How do IXPs work together to build this critical infrastructure? Through ICP associations, such as the African IXP Association. Ricardo Simba joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to talk about a recent meeting of the African IXP Association.
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    41 mins
  • Hedge 251: Regulating Local Data Centers

    Hedge 251: Regulating Local Data Centers
    Nov 22 2024
    What impact do local regulations have on our ability to build and operate new data centers in the United States? What impact do these regulations have on local economies? Juan Londoño, from the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, joins Ned Bellavance and Russ White to discuss yet another part of the network engineering world.
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    32 mins