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PACKET CAPTURE / Week of January 7-9, 2026
Summerset Banks
January 09, 2026
FYI
🥳 Happy New Year! Packet Pushers is back to publishing this week. Be on the look out on YouTube to see your favorites hosts in action. We’re moving shows from audio only to audio and video this year. Check out the Heavy Networking episode with Jeff McAdams and see if you should EVPN All the Things, too!
Meet the host! Holly Metlitzy will be at NRF on this coming Monday and Tuesday, January 12-13. Look for her at the HPE area.
JOB ALERTS
Current postings from the Packet Pushers Slack Group
Sr. Network Engineer Campus Switching & Data Center at Laketec Communications
NGINX Evangelist at F5
Sales Engineer at XKL
NEW PODCASTS
 | EP 291 | JANUARY 7, 2026From Politics to Machine Learning and AI EngineeringMarina Wyss, Senior Applied Scientist at Twitch, joins Kyler and Ned to discuss her unique path from political science to AI Engineering. She offers practical advice for engineers who want to incorporate data science, AI, and machine learning into their work. She digs into the importance of model selection when building products for different use cases, and talks about the value that the social sciences can bring to product development. She also stresses the importance of self-directed projects over certifications. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 046 | JANUARY 8, 2026In-Band vs. Out-of-Band ManagementEthan and Holly discuss the major differences between In-band and Out-of-band (OOB) management and the pros and cons of both. They explore how to implement a proper OOB network and critical use cases where OOB is required. They also explain the differences and roles of the data plane, the control plane, and the management plane. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 191 | JANUARY 8, 2026IPv6 Predictions for 2026Will Microsoft’s CLAT bring widespread adoption rates for IPv6? Will there be significant advancements in corporate and cloud adoption as well? Will this finally be the year we see the fix for the RFC 6724? Ed Horley, Tom Coffeen, and Nick Buraglio make their predictions for the new year in the first IPv6 Buzz of 2026. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 809 | JANUARY 9, 2026EVPN All the Things!Heavy Networking welcomes Jeff McAdams to let him make his case to "EVPN all the things!" Is he kidding? Only a little bit. Jeff gives details on how VXLAN and EVPN work; talks about use cases in the data center, the enterprise campus, and the WAN; and discusses the benefits of these technologies. | LISTEN NOW |