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Alex Ankers
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Network Expert Engineer at a Big Blue Bank
Founder of https://reloadin.net Newsletter
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spoofnet.bsky.social
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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Malbec makes a fruity subsea cable
Not just wine in that glass
reloadin.net
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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...
GeoIP your Out of Office at work
Yes, MaxMind, this Cable ISP /32 is really based at Office HQ...
reloadin.net
November 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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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The "B" in BGP is for Baking?
Must be a bout a dozen ASNs in the Doughfault-Free Zone
reloadin.net
October 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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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TODO.md + AGENTS.md = Out of Office on
You look like you need some serious Markdowntime
reloadin.net
October 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
"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...
Paddington eBPF filters from pwru
No, that isn't a typo
reloadin.net
October 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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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Co-Hi, Co-Lo, Co-Co
Do-Re-Mi never looked so Fa
reloadin.net
September 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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...
Epochalypse now... later?
No time like the present
reloadin.net
September 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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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Episode 100
The one where we're too lazy to do a proper title
reloadin.net
August 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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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2.4 Wi-Fi's and counting
Flick the switch or scratch the 6 GHz itch?
reloadin.net
August 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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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QoSake: Rack Rail Gun
Where's the BFD when you need it?
reloadin.net
August 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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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You've got mail
The DCI is 25 years old with AOL
reloadin.net
August 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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...
Flatlining the Network Graph
When 95th percentile is the lower bounds
reloadin.net
July 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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...
Pi-Fi 7 is 2 Gbps
But needs a solid 20 minutes to cool at the window
reloadin.net
July 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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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Two Pizza Team Tuesdays
We're only paying on Two-for-Tuesday deal days
reloadin.net
July 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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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The Fonz goes IPv6
AAAA(y)
reloadin.net
July 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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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Who Wants To Be A Network Engineer
Ask the Computer is stuck waiting on DHCP
reloadin.net
June 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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
June 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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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HappAI Meal
We'll take 6 QoS'kn Nuggets and the Cage Bolt Remover toy
reloadin.net
June 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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

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Can't spell Network without CLI
Take the CLI from these display set | match "cold"|"dead"|"hands"
reloadin.net
June 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Reposted by Alex Ankers
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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
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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June 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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

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AI has joined the Call
But at least you didn't get out of bed at 3 AM again
reloadin.net
June 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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

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Go NUTS for NATs
Bring that Cat5 to get this squirrel out of here already
reloadin.net
June 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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

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I need to BGPee!
Just Hold Timer it in, son...
reloadin.net
May 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
spoofnet.bsky.social
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

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USB-to-Weetabix Cereal Adapter
Not full fat milk in my Console Port again!
reloadin.net
May 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
spoofnet.bsky.social
If Baddiel And Skinner "Unplanned" had been about NetDevOps... 🧔‍♂️

#networking:

🔎 Network Threats with PCAPs
🆓 Book: Modern Network Telemetry
📘 IPv6 Guide for Engineers and Operators
🍿 1h EVPN Fundamentals
🥧 TinyPilot Raspberry Pi as a KVM
🏊 Diving deep into MCP for AI

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ITIL never work
AI isn't going to raise an Incident to triage those Problem Records
reloadin.net
May 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM