Why Wireshark Shows Large Packets on One Computer but Not the Other: Understanding TCP, IP and UDP Offloading

If you have ever used Wireshark to troubleshoot a network issue and wondered why one computer appears to transmit enormous packets while the receiving computer sees normal-sized Ethernet frames, you are not alone. At first glance, it can look like packets are being lost, fragmented, or mysteriously changed somewhere along the network. Before replacing cables, blaming a switch, or spending the afternoon chasing a problem that does not exist, there is an important question to ask: **Are you looking at actual network traffic, or are you seeing the effects of network interface offloading?** Features such as TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO), Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO), Large Send Offload (LSO), and checksum offloading can change what Wireshark displays, depending on where the capture takes place.

Beyond Port Speed: How Cisco’s New Technology Could Shape AI Data Center Networking

Why high-speed connections are only part of the equation—and how packet analysis helps engineers keep AI workloads moving.

AI Is Changing the Network

Artificial intelligence is changing the way data centers are designed, built and operated. Training large AI models requires thousands of accelerators to exchange enormous volumes of data, while inference services must deliver results with predictable latency and high availability.

Welcome Aukua! A New Sponsor Joins the Lovemytool.com Family

If you’ve been following Lovemytool.com, you already know we enjoy exploring the tools, technologies, and troubleshooting tricks that make life a little easier for IT professionals. We also enjoy meeting people who are just as passionate about technology as we are. That’s why I’m pleased to welcome Aukua Systems (https://www.aukua.com/ ) as a new sponsor of the Lovemytool.com blog! It’s great to have another technology company joining us on our continuing adventure through the wonderful world of networking, monitoring, and figuring out why something that worked perfectly yesterday has decided to take the day off today.

Is Mandatory Cellphone Registration A Privacy Warning ?

Imagine waking up one morning, picking up your cellphone and discovering that it no longer connects to the mobile network. You haven't missed a payment, damaged your phone or exceeded your data allowance. The problem is that you haven't completed a government-mandated registration process. Your phone still works perfectly, but your ability to communicate has been restricted.

SingleFile Review: Save Complete Web Pages for Offline Reading and Research

When you find a useful technical article, troubleshooting guide, or networking reference online, there is always a chance it will disappear or change the next time you need it. SingleFile is an open-source browser extension designed to solve this problem by saving an entire web page as a single HTML file. Developed by Gildas Lormeau, the project is available on GitHub and supports popular browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Brave, and Opera. Rather than saving only the text or creating a collection of separate files for images and stylesheets, SingleFile attempts to preserve the original page's appearance and content in one convenient file. For anyone who regularly researches technical problems or maintains a personal library of useful online resources, this is a practical utility worth investigating.