Meet Kenny :-)

Everything on my network is named after a character from South Park, and Kenny seemed like an appropriate name for this little fella because he died many, many horrible deaths along the way to getting this right.

After making all that fuss about missing those big boxes with shiny logos, I decided that Kenny deserved his very own piece of flair. Strangely, no one seems to make OpenWRT badges, so I got him the next best thing - a brushed aluminum Tux badge...

Network Monitoring at Home for Fun and Profit (Part I)

Who says you can't have professional, enterprise-grade network monitoring capabilities over your home or small office network for less than $100 worth of commodity off-the-shelf hardware? Not me! Often times, the surest way to get something difficult accomplished is to try to convince me that it can't be done. Impossible you say? That's crazy talk.

Recently I left a position that had afforded me the opportunity to play around with all kinds of fancy, expensive toys - the kind you might see sporting flashy logos with big names like Cisco and Gigamon and NetOptics. It wasn't very long after parting ways with my beloved magical boxes of networking tricks before I started getting that itch to tinker. Bad. I wanted my lab back, dammit.