Alex Ankers

Not playing with AI? AI is playing with you... But who is really winning?

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

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Two wrongs make a right Post wrong questions, get results

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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

AI for Networks, Networks for AI Corporate wants you to find the difference

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

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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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