Alex Ankers

Just got 10 Meg Half Duplex'd The ultimate office network punishment

Never have I ever... set anyone's switch access port to 10 Mbps Half Duplex as a punishment 🫣

#networks:

🤖 AI RAG system for Cisco Docs
💥 RoCE networks at scale
💪 Subnet peering on ExpressRoute
🤨 NSX platforms today
🤪 Not SSHing it
📝 Diataxis to write docs fast

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New Year Network Resolutions Not just DNS doing the hard work resolving stuff

At the CNAME DNS gym, sticking to your New Year's resolution is easy 🥁

#networks:

🤖 AI Networks fail with...
😎 Vibe Code an IPv6 Planner
🇰🇵 Fibre cables in North Korea
☎️ Integrate NetBox with DNS
🌱 Creativity without drugs
🤖 GenAI in Enterprise
🇪🇺 Lost Internet in EU

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🎶 "He knows when you've been sleeping; he beeps your on call phone..." 🎶

#networks:

🔌 Power an AP from USB-C
📝 Simplify SR-TE mesh templates
📍 Fix GeoIP databases with RFC9092
🌏 Internet 2025 Tier 1 Report
🐿️ Beads extra vibe coding memory
🥷 TOWASP AI pen testing tools

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Latte to the AI vibe coding party Mocha of that what you will

Beach Boys had it right all along; it's giving me excitations 😎

#networks:

🔒 PCAP all the encrypted DNS
🕊️ Flock9 from AutoCon 4
🕰️ Traceroute breaks time
✨ Don't need Wi-Fi 7
🌊 Visualise MIMO gains
🔀 Azure Route Server and Infoblox
🚛 Design Network Automation at scale
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When the CDN flares up, you go down Is there an ointment for that?

Acronyms that give pain: CDN, DNS, NTP, MTU 😔

#networking:

🐍 SQM to fight your home QoS
💥 Track Starlink’s growth
🔪 Cluedo with Zscaler, GRE and MTU
🤖 Gemini AI to test in EVE-NG
🧐 How to think like a Developer
👷 Your AI is a Senior Engineer
💼 AI broke interviews

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Malbec makes a fruity subsea cable Not just wine in that glass

Does the Malbec subsea cable have FEC and HEC errors before a glass or two? 🍷

#networks:

🤑 25 free Cisco CE credits
🍽️ Escape Linux Network stack
🤖 Network Engineers obsolete?
💥 Solve Tailscale CGNAT
🔓 Tinker with NetBird
🎹 6x JetKVMs into 1RU
😴 Microshifting the 9-5

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GeoIP your Out of Office at work Yes, MaxMind, this Cable ISP /32 is really based at Office HQ...

Are Kirstie and Phil are spare to present GeoLocation, GeoLocation...? 📍

#networking:

🐞 Test Public DNS malware
🧗 Routing in Google GCP
🤔 Containerlab as an anti-pattern
🧑‍🎓 IPv6 Certification to prove knowledge
🤒 Calculating raw SLAs
🍱 Smuggle data out with emojiis

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The "B" in BGP is for Baking? Must be a bout a dozen ASNs in the Doughfault-Free Zone

I can name more Carriers than I can doughnuts, the shame... 🍩

#networking

🛜 Wi-Fi is down?
🍩 Baker’s Dozen on the Tier 1 Carriers
🥽 Down with the “W” of Optical Networks
🏋️ ISE Upgrade day at the gym
✍️ Terramaid for Terraform diagrams
🤖 See the Business like an LLM

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Depends on what you mean by "hands on", in my experience it tends to be more as a Starter or "Prover" of a thing (Proof of Concept, Pilot, MVP...) than a Finisher/Completer, or in doing bits to give guidance rather than doing the entire thing end to end

TODO.md + AGENTS.md = Out of Office on You look like you need some serious Markdowntime

The only thing more weekly than Reload in 10 is another vendor CVE announcement 🩹...

#networking:

🪄 Magic 168.63.129.16 Azure IP
🫷 Shrink the VPC in AWS
🆓 Accelerate DDI Migration
😎 Secrets to keep up
🌈 Back to basics on Optical
😱 Why Over-Engineering happens

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I think you'll find that guy who's Dad was in Spandau Ballet said it's the most reliable UK Network, which I think we must all agree, that much is true. Uh-ohh. Uh-ohhh

Paddington eBPF filters from pwru No, that isn't a typo

"He's a double-d, i-n-g... eBPF bear"...🐻

#networks:

🇵🇪 pwru to eBPF filter packets
📡 Dual-5 GHz Radios on Wi-Fi
⚖️ Anycast IPs with Azure Global Load Balancer
💥 How fragile the DNS root is
👍 32 free Cisco CE Credits
🛰️ Packets in Space
🦯 Host a website on a Vape stick

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Co-Hi, Co-Lo, Co-Co Do-Re-Mi never looked so Fa

This week in #networks:

📍 Wi-Fi 6 GHz improves high density
🐍 Journey to CCIE Network Automation
💥 Avoid Azure Private Subnet IPageddon
🛣️ Broadband with <0.1 dBm/km
🎥 Replay historical BGP Events
🤖 Compare MCP vs RAG for AI work
🚗 How Apple’s CarPlay actually works

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Epochalypse now... later? No time like the present

Unix Epoch? Sure, but Network Engineers really fear 1 March 1993... 😳

#networking:

🦸 Avoid the Hero Trap in Networks
🦾 Automate a Network Lab with MCP
🧙 Peer into Google's future AI Network
😊 13 Software Engineering Laws
🧑‍🔬 LLM Course
✉️ You can't validate an email

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Same A Record (or AAAA if you're rocking IPv6) to the same 1x VPS, and let the vhosts magic do it's thing and work out which directory/web server the user wanted from HTTP GET request

Episode 100 The one where we're too lazy to do a proper title

In Reload in 10's 100th Episode 🎉:

🚕 Uber test-drive the benefits of SD-WAN
📖 Arista CloudVision in 40 pages
⛓️‍💥 Roleplay with BGP in RFC9234
🥞 Dual-stack your DNS NS for IPv6
⏰ Your parents advice is outdated
🐙 Production MCP Servers at scale
👾 Meganaut 1000 DC Speed Run

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2.4 Wi-Fi's and counting Flick the switch or scratch the 6 GHz itch?

There's 2.4 reasons you should only use 5 or 6 GHz in your Wi-Fi:

#networking:

🧐 Cisco Live network and NOC
🤔 2.4 GHz in the Enterprise
👀 CDN coup in Italy
🤪 No need for a CCIE...
😏 Malware in DNS TXT records
🤖 Rethink CLI interfaces for AI
🪑 Make stand-ups useful

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QoSake: Rack Rail Gun Where's the BFD when you need it?

Interviewing a Network Engineer? Ditch the CCIE questions - get them to setup Quake III in LAN mode to actually work 😰.

#networking:

🚰 Flow Control in networks
🔥 NAT on OCI Firewall
💊 BFD help
🤑 59 free Cisco CE Credits
🧐 Spot Base64 instantly
🧑‍💻 Don’t review Vibe Code

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You've got mail The DCI is 25 years old with AOL

Remember the "You've got mail!" noise? Soz, afkbbl

#networking:

👵 DCI back in AOL’s day
✅ Solve TCP issues with eBPF
🌟 GCP Cloud Network exam gold
🤼 somo as an alternative to netstat
📉 Await the AI Crash
🐧 History of BIRD routing
🥧 WLAN Pi Go for Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi 7

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Flatlining the Network Graph When 95th percentile is the lower bounds

Normally flat lines on a graph are bad...

#networking:

🎻 MCP Servers for Junos and NetBox
📉 Perfect 95% flat line on a link
🤿 Dive into Ansible AWX
🤔 FE80::1 is valid IPv6
🫣 tcpulse to stress the WAN
🧐 Compression culture is stupid
🏃 Fear about OpenAI Agents

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This is "grass vs grass" all over again, but I'll go - it definitely rhymes with a 🔑

Pi-Fi 7 is 2 Gbps But needs a solid 20 minutes to cool at the window

Cisco Wireless - Pronounced (?):
- Mer-ah-key (as in "car key")
- Mer-a-ki (as in "lackey")

#networking:

🥷 Be a BGP master
🏎️ 2 Gig via Pi 5 on Wi-Fi 7
📚 H100 AI DC guide
🤖 Deep water for Internet Cables
⛑️ Kiro replaces VSCode
📝 Vibe Coding is Tech
👍 NLX is UX

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Will draw a winner out the proverbial hat this week...

Two Pizza Team Tuesdays We're only paying on Two-for-Tuesday deal days

Network Slicing + Two Pizza Teams = Double-stuffed RJ45 Ports

#networking:

🌐 AWS NAT Gateway interactive blog
🗺️ D2 to visualise networks
🎓 k8s for Network Engineers
🤔 Is Cisco NDFC really ACI?
🐍 BGP on ceEOS with Python
🤘 fck-nat for AWS VPCs
💀 Knowledge work is dying

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The Fonz goes IPv6 AAAA(y)

Only on App'y Days could IPv6 Fonz use his historic catchphrase: AAAA(y)

#networking:

📖 Win O’Reilly Arista book
🛜 How EVM impacts Wi-Fi signal
🌐 Use Internet without IPv4
☁️ Hands-on with NetDevOps in AWS
💰 How much to spend on o11y
🖥️ The Network is the Computer

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Who Wants To Be A Network Engineer Ask the Computer is stuck waiting on DHCP

Who Wants To Be A Network Engineer - Where "Phone a Friend" depends on whether you QoS'd the SIP Trunk

#networks:

🤪 Traffic meter ASN filters
💰 Business Case for IPv6
🚗 Move 400 TB long
🎓 From Doing to Knowing
🤘 Notepad.exe gets updated
📊 NVIDIA overtakes Cisco sales

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This is great just needs more legacy types like X2, XFP and GBIC

O'Reilly Arista Warrior book

Network Engineer interested in Arista? Fancy a free copy of a great book for barely any work?

Just subscribe to the Reload in 10 Network Engineer Newsletter at reloadin.net and tag a fellow Pipe Plumber in the comments below and maybe you can hide from the AI slop in a solid read 👇

Props to @tracketpacer.bsky.social for VqLAN, new one on me...

HappAI Meal We'll take 6 QoS'kn Nuggets and the Cage Bolt Remover toy

Nowadays, DDoS attacks feel more like Ethernet speeds - next 10, 25, then... 😰

#networking:

🆓 IPv6 curriculum for free
🚛 netlab 2.0.0 brings SRv6
☎️ VqLAN is not VXLAN
🤖 Become the AI Network Engineer
⛪️ Inside the Stargate Data Centre
🥊 MCP vs API
🤘 Leave with Intention

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