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Latest Episodes

Hedge 291: The Assault on Standards
December 18, 2025

 As the Internet centralizes and gets "big," standards are often being sidelined or consumed. What are the possible results of abandoning standards? Is there anything "normal network engineers" can do about it?

Hedge 290: The Amoeba and the Mathematician
December 12, 2025

 In this Hedge roundtable, Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ discuss The Amoeba and the Mathematician

Best of the Hedge: Hedge 6 on DoH (Part 2)
December 05, 2025

 In this episode of the Hedge, Geoff Huston joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to finish the discussion on the ideas behind DNS over HTTPS (DoH), and to consider the implications of its widespread adoption. Is it time to bow to our new overlords?

Best of the Hedge: Episode 5 on DoH (Part 1)
November 28, 2025

In this episode of the Hedge, Geoff Huston joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss the ideas behind DNS over HTTPS (DoH), and to consider the implications of its widespread adoption. Is it time to bow to our new overlords?

Hedge 289: Containerlab
November 21, 2025

If you are struggling with building labs on lighter weight systems--or if you're just interested in what Containerlab is and does--join Rick, Roman, and Russ for this discussion of what Containerlab is, what it does, and where its going.

Hedge 288: Loneliness
November 13, 2025

Sometimes we just like to talk about "life issues" as they relate to network engineering and technology career fields. Loneliness seems to especially plague network engineering and other "small" IT fi

Hedge 287: IPv6 in Planned Economies
November 07, 2025

Do planned economies, like China, have an advantage in deploying IPv6? What do the numbers on the DFZ show? George Michaelson joins Russ and Tom to discuss.

Hedge 286: Roundtable
October 31, 2025

It's time again for Tom, Eyvonne, and Russ to talk about current articles they've run across in their day-to-day reading. This time we talk about WiFi in the home, how often users think a global probl

Hedge 285: Post Quantum Crypto
October 24, 2025

Is quantum really an immediate and dangerous threat to current cryptography systems, or are we pushing to hastily adopt new technologies we won't necessarily need for a few more years? Should we allow

Hedge 284: Netops and Corporate Culture
October 17, 2025

We all know netops, NRE, and devops can increase productivity, increase Mean Time Between Mistakes (MTBM), and decrease MTTR--but how do we deploy and use these tools? We often think of the technical