Pets, Not Cattle

Jason Healy, Director of Technology, Suffield Academy

Welcome to my work blog, where I talk about some of the projects we take on at a residential high school. We’re not totally in the cloud, and still maintain several services locally on campus. Thus, we have experience with running a wired network, wireless network, local VM cluster, and network services. We also support a 1:1 laptop program for our students.

We’re a small shop so we aren’t always able to benefit from tools that are geared towards larger organizations (hence the name of the blog). That said, we love trying out new things (especially open source) and enjoy creating custom solutions that work best for our school.

I’m definitely a “web 1.0” kind of a guy, sometimes cautious to try new things until the hype dies down. That said, I do push newer tech like IPv6, and try to prioritize privacy and security for my users.

Check out some of the latest posts below, or use the links at the top for more info.

Recent Posts (see all)

• Building a Binary TTL Menorah: Instructions to make your own digital circuit menorah using only transistor-transistor logic
• Transitioning to IPv6 as a Preferred Network Protocol: Summary and resources from a talk I delivered on going IPv6-mostly
• Stateless Packet Generation with VPP: How to create a cheap machine that can DoS your own network.
• Automatic CLAT on macOS: Discovering that macOS includes a built-in 464XLAT
• NAT64 With Jool: An overview of our implementation of a NAT64 gateway using Jool.
• The IPv6 Manifesto: A discussion of why I prefer IPv6 and support adoption of using it as our primary network protocol.
• A New Blog: A discussion of my new blog and the software used to support it.