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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Remember Visual Basic? Wonder if AI can do a better job of placing that Submit button on this form than I can... #networks ⚒️ NetFlow Config Generator ✂️ Who is cutting the Internet cables? 🤩 Awesome AI NetDevOps 👴 Twelve Years no VPN 🤖 Azure SRE Agent for Networks reloadin.net/p/p-o-n-spel...
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P-O-N spells PON, PON, PON
Gooooooo Netsters!
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Whatever you do, don't name your Wireless Network "Packet Dump 💩" #networks: ⏰ Time for IPv6 💩 Emojis for Wireless SSIDs ⚡️ Who pays who to peer on IX? 🤖 Complete guide to Kimi K3 🔐 Microsoft brings Encrypted DNS 💰 Gateway 10 Gig play router 📅 The mythical Agent Month reloadin.net/p/change-man...
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Change Management hates this one little trick
AI ain't gettin' on no CAB, fool
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If 60% of the Internet is bot traffic, does that mean robots.txt is the new index.html? #networks ☎️ DNS GoDaddy to Cloudflare ⚡️ Optimise ExpressRoute 🔥 10 Gb without melting SFP ☁️ Flat is replacing fat in AWS 🤖 Bot traffic overtakes humans 🔌 LLMs as a Staff Engineer reloadin.net/p/60-of-the-...
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60% of the time, it's Bot traffic every time
IPv6 vs IPv4 ain't got nothing on this fight
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Doesn't load for me?
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Roll your own on a VPS from someone like Vultr for a few dollars a month: www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/openc...
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Set Up OpenConnect VPN Server (ocserv) on Ubuntu 22.04 with Let's Encrypt
This tutorial is going to show you how to install OpenConnect VPN server (ocserv) on Ubuntu 22.04 with trusted Let's Encrypt TLS certificate.
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"This network is bound to be tasteless, This network is dull as can be, But I am the Rat of the Information Superhighway, And this network belongs to me!" reloadin.net/p/rat-of-the...
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Rat of the Information Superhighway
Stand(ards) and Deliver(y)!
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"AI-driaaaaaaaan!" 🥊 This time in Networking: 🦾 RoCE delivers lossless AI network 🛜 9800 WLC differs from AireOS 🔄 Count to 13 with DNS 🕵️‍♂️ APMonitor.py is your Layer 2-4 NOC 🗼 OnlyRANs is absolutely filthy 🤖 You are probably behind with AI 🦀 Build and live OpenClaw reloadin.net/p/roce-i-plu...
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RoCE I plus RoCE II is AI's revenge!
AI Bart best check his Roman Numerals
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
99.99% sure on that one; in 5 mins I'll be 99.999% sure #networks: 🤖 CLI to AI with VibeOps ☁️ BGP for Cloud Connectivity 🧐 Let go of Certs, not skills ⌛️ Senior Engineers in a decade 🚦 All about AI traffic patterns 🌏 Region hop with just DNS 🕊️ Leadership is kinda a “V” reloadin.net/p/engine-eng...
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Engine, engine, 99.99
On the SLA and Uptime Line
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
There was an English man, an AI-rish man and a Scots... 🤖 #networks 💪 Network Devices with ZTP 🔥 Reduce HIP with AI for Firewalls 🧑‍💻 VXLAN as Code 🤝 Network Signal Control 🌈 How to tune a DWDM optic 🎭 SShiD for covert over Wi-Fi 💻 Shell Tricks 💼 Career post AGI reloadin.net/p/an-ai-walk...
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An AI walks into a busbar
The Networkers of DC are shocked by the result
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Lost a lot of time and virtual cable on that boat... #networking: 🌎 Wirewiki to explore Internet ⛴️ Submarine cable laying boat game 💾 Multi-homed AS with GREs, Vultr 🦀 netclaw docs 6 days of itself 🛜 Layered Wi-Fi Troubleshooting guide 🦶 Kafka isn’t always the answer reloadin.net/p/not-playin...
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Not playing with AI? AI is playing with you...
But who is really winning?
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Two wrongs make a right
Post wrong questions, get results
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Ever posted something wrong and been instantly corrected online? Fast Pass 🎫 #networks: 🤨 AS-SETs still matter 🚀 Explosion of IPv6 in 2026 🤔 VASI for VRF = easy routing 🧑‍💻 Git for Network Engineers 🤖 16 free Cisco CE Credits 🦀 NetClaw as a CCIE agent 😧 Something big is now 🍟 Cisco launches AI chip
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
If AI copies the phrase "AI for Networks, Networks for AI" does it pay copyright or...? 🤔 #Networks: 🤖 Cisco lossless AI in Enterprise 🤔 Less APs on the Wi-Fi 📞 Gigabit over PSTN ↔️ DNS transfer from NetBox 🌎 prefixd for Internet DDoS 🦾 Use AGENTS.md 💪 800 Gig Ethernet reloadin.net/p/ai-for-net...
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AI for Networks, Networks for AI
Corporate wants you to find the difference
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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 reloadin.net/p/just-got-1...
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Just got 10 Meg Half Duplex'd
The ultimate office network punishment
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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 reloadin.net/p/new-year-n...
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New Year Network Resolutions
Not just DNS doing the hard work resolving stuff
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
🎶 "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 reloadin.net/p/sql-clause...
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/latte-to-t...
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Latte to the AI vibe coding party
Mocha of that what you will
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/when-the-c...
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When the CDN flares up, you go down
Is there an ointment for that?
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/malbec-mak...
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Malbec makes a fruity subsea cable
Not just wine in that glass
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/geoip-your...
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GeoIP your Out of Office at work
Yes, MaxMind, this Cable ISP /32 is really based at Office HQ...
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/the-b-in-b...
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The "B" in BGP is for Baking?
Must be a bout a dozen ASNs in the Doughfault-Free Zone
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/todomd-age...
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TODO.md + AGENTS.md = Out of Office on
You look like you need some serious Markdowntime
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
"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 reloadin.net/p/paddington...
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Paddington eBPF filters from pwru
No, that isn't a typo
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/co-hi-co-l...
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Co-Hi, Co-Lo, Co-Co
Do-Re-Mi never looked so Fa
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/epochalyps...
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Epochalypse now... later?
No time like the present
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/episode-100
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Episode 100
The one where we're too lazy to do a proper title
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/24-wi-fis-...
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2.4 Wi-Fi's and counting
Flick the switch or scratch the 6 GHz itch?
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/qosake-rac...
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QoSake: Rack Rail Gun
Where's the BFD when you need it?
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/youve-got-...
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You've got mail
The DCI is 25 years old with AOL
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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 Read: reloadin.net/p/flatlining...
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Flatlining the Network Graph
When 95th percentile is the lower bounds
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
This is "grass vs grass" all over again, but I'll go - it definitely rhymes with a 🔑
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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 Read: reloadin.net/p/pi-fi-7-is...
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Pi-Fi 7 is 2 Gbps
But needs a solid 20 minutes to cool at the window
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Will draw a winner out the proverbial hat this week...
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/two-pizza-...
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Two Pizza Team Tuesdays
We're only paying on Two-for-Tuesday deal days
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/the-fonz-g...
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The Fonz goes IPv6
AAAA(y)
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/who-wants-...
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Who Wants To Be A Network Engineer
Ask the Computer is stuck waiting on DHCP
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This is great just needs more legacy types like X2, XFP and GBIC
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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 👇
O'Reilly Arista Warrior book
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Props to @tracketpacer.bsky.social for VqLAN, new one on me...
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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 reloadin.net/p/happai-meal
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HappAI Meal
We'll take 6 QoS'kn Nuggets and the Cage Bolt Remover toy
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Neighbor write erase? #networking: 🏡 IPTTH ISP Transit to your house 👋 Goodbye, ACI? 🏴‍☠️ All the Cisco Live BRK slides ☁️ Azure Network Security Workbooks 🎓 Understand AI + LLMs as a Network Engineer 🚦 Traffic engineering for AI Fabrics 🤘 Avoid in your Performance Review reloadin.net/p/cant-spell...
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Can't spell Network without CLI
Take the CLI from these display set | match "cold"|"dead"|"hands"
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Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech · 04/06/2025
Just in case you haven't heard of Awesome Lists on Github github.com/sindresorhus... - highly curated community based lists of the best stuff
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GitHub - sindresorhus/awesome: 😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics
😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics - sindresorhus/awesome
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hate On Call? This one cool trick stops Incident Managers dead in th-AI-r tracks... 💀 #networking: 🗳️ 2025 State of Network Automation ☁️ Build IPv6 in AWS 🔌 RP vs PoE for inline power ⚡️ First 100 Tbps Switch 🌍 Function calling LLMs in life ☎️ Breaking up with On-Call reloadin.net/p/ai-has-joi...
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AI has joined the Call
But at least you didn't get out of bed at 3 AM again
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
TCP-over-Airmiles you say? #networking: 🔀 Migrate a Cisco WLC with NSoT ☁️ ExpressRoute, FastPath and UDRs 🎓 DevNet Expert journey in 7-parts 📚 ✈️ PySkyWiFi using Airmiles as TCP 🧙 ASICs for Network Engineers 🥂 Fibre smashes 400 Tbps 🐿️ NUTS Network Unit Testing reloadin.net/p/go-nuts-fo...
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Go NUTS for NATs
Bring that Cat5 to get this squirrel out of here already
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
No ICA for Shitrix? I know where I'd rank that...
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This #networking week: ☁️ BGP Visibility with Cloudflare 🤖 Network Traffic Generation with MCP 🚢 Routed IPv6 in Docker 🧪 End-to-end SR-TE with OSPF 👨‍💻 Deep Learning for Network Engineers 📚 2025 Guide to Prompt Engineering 🛜 Streaming gNMI from Arista cEOS into k8s reloadin.net/p/i-need-to-...
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I need to BGPee!
Just Hold Timer it in, son...
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Alex Ankers @spoofnet.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
If OpenAI had been a Web Development agency, they'd have called him Sam Titleman instead 🥁 #networking: 🤖 Agentic AI and your Network 🙈 Avoiding bad IPv6 🕵️‍♂️ Monitor Arista with gNMI 🎓 Intelligent Network Mandate 🐍 Run Python in production ✏️ Automate Diagrams with MCP reloadin.net/p/usb-to-wee...
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USB-to-Weetabix Cereal Adapter
Not full fat milk in my Console Port again!
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