EP 478 | MAY 13, 2024

More AI Assistants Emerge; Dell Tracks Hybrid Workers’ Office Attendance

We begin the episode with some follow-up on edge AI chips, whether Packet Pushers should start a dedicated AI channel, and a clarification on AWS and VMware. On the news front, we discuss latest AI announcements, Akamai’s acquisition, Drivenets’ Broadcom Qumran 2C+ ASICs support, Nvidia’s Palo Alto Firewall DPU support, 800G Inifiniband, and Dell’s new attendance tracking system. | LISTEN NOW

EP 027 | MAY 14, 2024

Radiation and Other WLAN Challenges at Nuclear Power Plants

Evaluating wireless use cases at a nuclear power plant is a little bit different than your average industrial job, starting with the stripdown to put on plant-provided clothing. Ferney Munoz joins us today to talk about his experience working as a wireless consultant at nuclear power plants. Obviously, radiation interference is a heightened issue, as is security. Forget about RF attenuation in some areas. Plus, you work with some pretty unique, and vital, tools: tritium sensors, dosimeter networks, spent fuel sensors, etc. Ferney explains how good wireless fundamentals can be translated to even the most unique, challenging sites. | LISTEN NOW

EP 014 | MAY 14, 2024

Good Threat Hunting

Have you ever noticed “threat hunting” in vendor products and wondered exactly what it means? James Williams is here to explain: Threat hunting is the R&D of detection engineering. A threat hunter imagines what an attacker might try and, critically, how that behavior would show up in the logs of a particular environment. Then the threat hunter has to parse out if those logs would be significantly different than normal use logs, because no one wants false alarms all the time. James explains how this process works within vendor companies, as well as how you can threat hunt on your own– those pesky false alarms being a great place to start. And yes, you will hear the portmanteaus “thrunt” and “thrunters” quite a bit in this episode. Prepare yourself. This episode was recorded live at RSA Conference 2024 in San Francisco. | LISTEN NOW

EP 063 | MAY 15, 2024

The Team Behind Nautobot (Part 2) – The Benefits of Technical Writing

Curious about what it takes to write a technical book as a network engineer? You’re in luck. The team behind Nautobot is also the team behind the book “Network Automation with Nautobot: Adopt a network source of truth and a data-driven approach to networking.” Jason, Ken, and John tell us about their writing process, timeline, and approach. They also talk about how writing about their open source project helped them more clearly see both its benefits as well as gaps that needed to be filled. This is the second episode of our two-part interview. | LISTEN NOW

EP 151 | MAY 16, 2024

What Changed Alexandra Huides’ Mind about IPv6

Alexandra Huides didn’t like IPv6 on her first encounter with it. Today she is globally renowned for spreading the IPv6 gospel and helping AWS customers adopt it. Alexandra joins the show today to share what changed her mind about IPv6 and what she sees change the minds of network engineers every day: Greater client traffic visibility, no subnetting stress, clearer forensics, and easier merging of networks. Plus, she gives advice for anyone who isn’t sure where they should start with IPv6. | LISTEN NOW

EP 734 | MAY 17, 2024

Russ White Hour Part 2: Snowflakes and Network Automation

In Part 2 of our interview with Russ White, we start our conversation with a listener question about VXLAN/EVPN which acts as a springboard for what Russ really thinks about network engineering these days. He defends network snowflakes, championing their power in business use cases. He questions the merit of standardized data models. And he insists that architecture must trump process in the journey toward network automation. We talk YANG, OpenConfig, GitOps, privacy, security, pipelines, and what Russ thinks a network automation certificate program should look like. | LISTEN NOW