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I can name more Carriers than I can doughnuts, the shame... π©
#networking
π Wi-Fi is down?
π© Bakerβs Dozen on the Tier 1 Carriers
π₯½ Down with the βWβ of Optical Networks
ποΈ ISE Upgrade day at the gym
βοΈ Terramaid for Terraform diagrams
π€ 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
20.10.2025 16:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The only thing more weekly than Reload in 10 is another vendor CVE announcement π©Ή...
#networking:
πͺ Magic 168.63.129.16 Azure IP
π«· Shrink the VPC in AWS
π Accelerate DDI Migration
π Secrets to keep up
π Back to basics on Optical
π± 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
13.10.2025 19:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"He's a double-d, i-n-g... eBPF bear"...π»
#networks:
π΅πͺ pwru to eBPF filter packets
π‘ Dual-5 GHz Radios on Wi-Fi
βοΈ Anycast IPs with Azure Global Load Balancer
π₯ How fragile the DNS root is
π 32 free Cisco CE Credits
π°οΈ Packets in Space
π¦― Host a website on a Vape stick
reloadin.net/p/paddington...
This week in #networks:
π Wi-Fi 6 GHz improves high density
π Journey to CCIE Network Automation
π₯ Avoid Azure Private Subnet IPageddon
π£οΈ Broadband with <0.1 dBm/km
π₯ Replay historical BGP Events
π€ Compare MCP vs RAG for AI work
π How Appleβs CarPlay actually works
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Unix Epoch? Sure, but Network Engineers really fear 1 March 1993... π³
#networking:
π¦Έ Avoid the Hero Trap in Networks
π¦Ύ Automate a Network Lab with MCP
π§ Peer into Google's future AI Network
π 13 Software Engineering Laws
π§βπ¬ LLM Course
βοΈ You can't validate an email
reloadin.net/p/epochalyps...
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
25.08.2025 19:15 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In Reload in 10's 100th Episode π:
π Uber test-drive the benefits of SD-WAN
π Arista CloudVision in 40 pages
βοΈβπ₯ Roleplay with BGP in RFC9234
π₯ Dual-stack your DNS NS for IPv6
β° Your parents advice is outdated
π Production MCP Servers at scale
πΎ Meganaut 1000 DC Speed Run
reloadin.net/p/episode-100
There's 2.4 reasons you should only use 5 or 6 GHz in your Wi-Fi:
#networking:
π§ Cisco Live network and NOC
π€ 2.4 GHz in the Enterprise
π CDN coup in Italy
π€ͺ No need for a CCIE...
π Malware in DNS TXT records
π€ Rethink CLI interfaces for AI
πͺ Make stand-ups useful
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Interviewing a Network Engineer? Ditch the CCIE questions - get them to setup Quake III in LAN mode to actually work π°.
#networking:
π° Flow Control in networks
π₯ NAT on OCI Firewall
π BFD help
π€ 59 free Cisco CE Credits
π§ Spot Base64 instantly
π§βπ» Donβt review Vibe Code
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Remember the "You've got mail!" noise? Soz, afkbbl
#networking:
π΅ DCI back in AOLβs day
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Solve TCP issues with eBPF
π GCP Cloud Network exam gold
π€Ό somo as an alternative to netstat
π Await the AI Crash
π§ History of BIRD routing
π₯§ WLAN Pi Go for Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi 7
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Normally flat lines on a graph are bad...
#networking:
π» MCP Servers for Junos and NetBox
π Perfect 95% flat line on a link
π€Ώ Dive into Ansible AWX
π€ FE80::1 is valid IPv6
π«£ tcpulse to stress the WAN
π§ Compression culture is stupid
π Fear about OpenAI Agents
Read: reloadin.net/p/flatlining...
This is "grass vs grass" all over again, but I'll go - it definitely rhymes with a π
20.07.2025 13:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Cisco Wireless - Pronounced (?):
- Mer-ah-key (as in "car key")
- Mer-a-ki (as in "lackey")
#networking:
π₯· Be a BGP master
ποΈ 2 Gig via Pi 5 on Wi-Fi 7
π H100 AI DC guide
π€ Deep water for Internet Cables
βοΈ Kiro replaces VSCode
π Vibe Coding is Tech
π NLX is UX
Read: reloadin.net/p/pi-fi-7-is...
Will draw a winner out the proverbial hat this week...
14.07.2025 21:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Network Slicing + Two Pizza Teams = Double-stuffed RJ45 Ports
#networking:
π AWS NAT Gateway interactive blog
πΊοΈ D2 to visualise networks
π k8s for Network Engineers
π€ Is Cisco NDFC really ACI?
π BGP on ceEOS with Python
π€ fck-nat for AWS VPCs
π Knowledge work is dying
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Only on App'y Days could IPv6 Fonz use his historic catchphrase: AAAA(y)
#networking:
π Win OβReilly Arista book
π How EVM impacts Wi-Fi signal
π Use Internet without IPv4
βοΈ Hands-on with NetDevOps in AWS
π° How much to spend on o11y
π₯οΈ The Network is the Computer
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Who Wants To Be A Network Engineer - Where "Phone a Friend" depends on whether you QoS'd the SIP Trunk
#networks:
π€ͺ Traffic meter ASN filters
π° Business Case for IPv6
π Move 400 TB long
π From Doing to Knowing
π€ Notepad.exe gets updated
π NVIDIA overtakes Cisco sales
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This is great just needs more legacy types like X2, XFP and GBIC
30.06.2025 16:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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 π
Props to @tracketpacer.bsky.social for VqLAN, new one on me...
22.06.2025 08:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Nowadays, DDoS attacks feel more like Ethernet speeds - next 10, 25, then... π°
#networking:
π IPv6 curriculum for free
π netlab 2.0.0 brings SRv6
βοΈ VqLAN is not VXLAN
π€ Become the AI Network Engineer
βͺοΈ Inside the Stargate Data Centre
π₯ MCP vs API
π€ Leave with Intention
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Neighbor write erase?
#networking:
π‘ IPTTH ISP Transit to your house
π Goodbye, ACI?
π΄ββ οΈ All the Cisco Live BRK slides
βοΈ Azure Network Security Workbooks
π Understand AI + LLMs as a Network Engineer
π¦ Traffic engineering for AI Fabrics
π€ Avoid in your Performance Review
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Just in case you haven't heard of Awesome Lists on Github github.com/sindresorhus... - highly curated community based lists of the best stuff
04.06.2025 16:51 β π 32 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Hate On Call? This one cool trick stops Incident Managers dead in th-AI-r tracks... π
#networking:
π³οΈ 2025 State of Network Automation
βοΈ Build IPv6 in AWS
π RP vs PoE for inline power
β‘οΈ First 100 Tbps Switch
π Function calling LLMs in life
βοΈ Breaking up with On-Call
reloadin.net/p/ai-has-joi...
TCP-over-Airmiles you say?
#networking:
π Migrate a Cisco WLC with NSoT
βοΈ ExpressRoute, FastPath and UDRs
π DevNet Expert journey in 7-parts π
βοΈ PySkyWiFi using Airmiles as TCP
π§ ASICs for Network Engineers
π₯ Fibre smashes 400 Tbps
πΏοΈ NUTS Network Unit Testing
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No ICA for Shitrix? I know where I'd rank that...
25.05.2025 08:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This #networking week:
βοΈ BGP Visibility with Cloudflare
π€ Network Traffic Generation with MCP
π’ Routed IPv6 in Docker
π§ͺ End-to-end SR-TE with OSPF
π¨βπ» Deep Learning for Network Engineers
π 2025 Guide to Prompt Engineering
π Streaming gNMI from Arista cEOS into k8s
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If OpenAI had been a Web Development agency, they'd have called him Sam Titleman instead π₯
#networking:
π€ Agentic AI and your Network
π Avoiding bad IPv6
π΅οΈββοΈ Monitor Arista with gNMI
π Intelligent Network Mandate
π Run Python in production
βοΈ Automate Diagrams with MCP
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