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- PACKET CAPTURE / Week of Feb 17 - 23, 2024
PACKET CAPTURE / Week of Feb 17 - 23, 2024

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JOB ALERTS
💼 Fresh job postings from the Packet Pushers job board.
Network Deployment Engineer at Cloudflare
Network Administrator at The Brooklyn Museum
Principal Network Engineer at NVIDIA
Senior Network Architect at NVIDIA
Senior RF Engineer at CommScope
Senior Network Engineer at World Wide Technology
Senior RF Engineer, Network Performance at American Tower
NEW PODCASTS
EP 002 | FEBRUARY 20, 2024The Tricky Biz Of Secrets ManagementsWe look at secrets management and privileged access management from the perspective of a network engineer. How do you and your team securely store sensitive data including passwords, SSH keys, API keys, and private certificate keys, while still being able to work nimbly? What Privileged Access Management (PAM) practices can help put guardrails in place? | LISTEN NOW |
EP 021 | FEBRUARY 20, 2024The State of the Wi-Fi Industry with Claus HettingWi-Fi increases the GDP of entire countries, yet its tech community still has a grassroots feel. The COVID-19 work-from-home trend grew residential Wi-Fi like never before, yet it is still competing with 5G inside homes. Guest Claus Hetting, CEO of Wi-Fi NOW, joins host Keith Parsons to talk about the paradoxes, successes, and challenges in the current Wi-Fi landscape. | LISTEN NOW |
EP 234 | FEBRUARY 21, 2024What to Do About VMwareBroadcom’s acquisition of VMware has generated a lot of anxiety among VMware customers. Guest Justin Warren from PivotNine joins Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks to sort out what the future holds for VMware customers.| LISTEN NOW |
EP 145 | FEBRUARY 22, 2024Internet Reconnaissance and IPv6Are you on the IPv6 hit list? Tom Coffeen and Scott Hogg discuss what enterprise networks and home users should be thinking about when it comes to internet reconnaissance and IPv6. | LISTEN NOW |
EP 066 | FEBRUARY 23, 2024The Holy Grail: A Functioning Tech StrategyIt’s rare for strategists, executives, and technologists to all get on the same page in order to create, execute, and adjust an organization’s tech strategy, much less do it well. But it is possible. Johna and Greg discuss their experiences of seeing through some consultants’ smoke and mirrors, honestly evaluating an organization’s capability to implement a strategy, and arguing in meetings (mostly Greg).| LISTEN NOW |
EP 722 | FEBRUARY 23, 2024Ivan Pepelnjak’s Netlab Eliminates the Tedious Bits of LabbingIvan created netlab to do all the “lab exercises” for him so he (and now, you) can jump ahead to the good stuff. Ethan has Ivan walk him through netlab, and the two also squeeze in time to briefly cover Ivan’s newest creation, BGP Labs. | LISTEN NOW |
HOT VIDEOS
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FRESH BLOG POSTS
MICHAEL LEVAN | FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Value-Driven Platform Engineering
There are three principles to drive success with Platform Engineering: Developer Experience (DevEx), Customer Service MindseT, Understanding Customer Need | READ NOW
DREW CONRY-MURRAY | FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Meter, a NaaS Startup, Lands $35 Million in Series C Round
Check Point Software's new AI assistant is designed to help security teams write policies and investigate incidents. I was briefed by Check Point on the new product, and here’s what I took away from the conversation. | READ NOW
ETHAN BANKS | FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Classful Routing Has Little Meaning In Modern Networking
Classful routing is a point of historical interest only. It offers context for modern terminology, but not really much else. | READ NOW