Just a heads up #Ansible folks. It's not you... Ansible Galaxy seems to be down right now. Happy Friday! 🤖🔥 forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-gala…

Work-in-progress sneak peek from an upcoming Pluralsight course I'm developing on analyzing network protocols in Wireshark! This course includes a 3-minute speedrun refresher on how Ethernet works, with this GIF'd slideware summarizing multicast communication.

Here's another teaser from the upcoming course! This GIF'd slideware walks through how Gratuitous ARP (GARP) works using a practical, everyday example involving hypervisors and virtual machines. If you use VMware/Nutanix/etc. or HSRP/VRRP, you've likely seen this in action!

#YesterdaysCCNAQuestion The answer is Management Plane Data plane deals with traffic as it traverses the network. Control plane handles processes destined for the network device. Christopher Hart has a great post on it. tinyurl.com/yd8dtzs7

People on reddit capturing career advice I’ve offered:

A while back I asked you why we didn't have anycast gateways before #VXLAN I received a lot of great responses. Here's my take on it. Happy reading! lostintransit.se/2024/06/25/why…

Sounds like Intel has realized it's in trouble. Never underestimate The Innovator's Dilemma. apenwarr.ca/log/20201227

🛠️ Wireshark Tip: Make a Button for That!🛠️ 🔍Create display filter buttons 📚Organize them under headings ✅Improve your workflow instantly Check out the step-by-step guide and start enhancing your Wireshark toolset! chappell-university.com/post/done-wire… #Wireshark #NetworkingTools

Great, quick article from Packet Coders on how to use Python's itertools.product() function to make nested for loops in #Python easier to read! packetcoders.io/how-to-flatten…

pyATS Tip: Customize SSH directly within the pyATS testbed using ssh_options. Ideal when needing to alter the algorithms used when connecting to older devices. Here is an example 👇

Massive News! Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) has a FREE tier! Download for free here: davidbombal.wiki/freecml #SponsoredbyCisco #ccna #ccnp #ccie #cisco #network #router #switch #firewall #study #career #Motivation Cisco Learn with Cisco

It took us a while to deliver this (and, you guessed it, this was not entirely a technical problem). But we finally made it. Free CML tier, available w/ the 2.8 release. I am super glad and proud of the entire team for pulling this off! #ciscomodelinglabs #networksimulation 🍻