Alex Ankers
@spoofnet.bsky.social
Network Expert Engineer at a Big Blue Bank Founder of https://reloadin.net Newsletter
Remember Visual Basic? Wonder if AI can do a better job of placing that Submit button on this form than I can... #networks ⚒️ NetFlow Config Generator ✂️ Who is cutting the Internet cables? 🤩 Awesome AI NetDevOps 👴 Twelve Years no VPN 🤖 Azure SRE Agent for Networks reloadin.net/p/p-o-n-spel...
P-O-N spells PON, PON, PON
Gooooooo Netsters!
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Whatever you do, don't name your Wireless Network "Packet Dump 💩" #networks: ⏰ Time for IPv6 💩 Emojis for Wireless SSIDs ⚡️ Who pays who to peer on IX? 🤖 Complete guide to Kimi K3 🔐 Microsoft brings Encrypted DNS 💰 Gateway 10 Gig play router 📅 The mythical Agent Month reloadin.net/p/change-man...
Change Management hates this one little trick
AI ain't gettin' on no CAB, fool
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If 60% of the Internet is bot traffic, does that mean robots.txt is the new index.html? #networks ☎️ DNS GoDaddy to Cloudflare ⚡️ Optimise ExpressRoute 🔥 10 Gb without melting SFP ☁️ Flat is replacing fat in AWS 🤖 Bot traffic overtakes humans 🔌 LLMs as a Staff Engineer reloadin.net/p/60-of-the-...
60% of the time, it's Bot traffic every time
IPv6 vs IPv4 ain't got nothing on this fight
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"This network is bound to be tasteless, This network is dull as can be, But I am the Rat of the Information Superhighway, And this network belongs to me!" reloadin.net/p/rat-of-the...
Rat of the Information Superhighway
Stand(ards) and Deliver(y)!
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"AI-driaaaaaaaan!" 🥊 This time in Networking: 🦾 RoCE delivers lossless AI network 🛜 9800 WLC differs from AireOS 🔄 Count to 13 with DNS 🕵️♂️ APMonitor.py is your Layer 2-4 NOC 🗼 OnlyRANs is absolutely filthy 🤖 You are probably behind with AI 🦀 Build and live OpenClaw reloadin.net/p/roce-i-plu...
RoCE I plus RoCE II is AI's revenge!
AI Bart best check his Roman Numerals
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99.99% sure on that one; in 5 mins I'll be 99.999% sure #networks: 🤖 CLI to AI with VibeOps ☁️ BGP for Cloud Connectivity 🧐 Let go of Certs, not skills ⌛️ Senior Engineers in a decade 🚦 All about AI traffic patterns 🌏 Region hop with just DNS 🕊️ Leadership is kinda a “V” reloadin.net/p/engine-eng...
Engine, engine, 99.99
On the SLA and Uptime Line
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There was an English man, an AI-rish man and a Scots... 🤖 #networks 💪 Network Devices with ZTP 🔥 Reduce HIP with AI for Firewalls 🧑💻 VXLAN as Code 🤝 Network Signal Control 🌈 How to tune a DWDM optic 🎭 SShiD for covert over Wi-Fi 💻 Shell Tricks 💼 Career post AGI reloadin.net/p/an-ai-walk...
An AI walks into a busbar
The Networkers of DC are shocked by the result
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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 reloadin.net/p/not-playin...
Not playing with AI? AI is playing with you...
But who is really winning?
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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
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 reloadin.net/p/ai-for-net...
AI for Networks, Networks for AI
Corporate wants you to find the difference
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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 reloadin.net/p/just-got-1...
Just got 10 Meg Half Duplex'd
The ultimate office network punishment
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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 reloadin.net/p/new-year-n...
New Year Network Resolutions
Not just DNS doing the hard work resolving stuff
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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 reloadin.net/p/sql-clause...
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 reloadin.net/p/latte-to-t...
Latte to the AI vibe coding party
Mocha of that what you will
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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 reloadin.net/p/when-the-c...
When the CDN flares up, you go down
Is there an ointment for that?
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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 reloadin.net/p/malbec-mak...
Malbec makes a fruity subsea cable
Not just wine in that glass
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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...
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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 reloadin.net/p/the-b-in-b...
The "B" in BGP is for Baking?
Must be a bout a dozen ASNs in the Doughfault-Free Zone
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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 reloadin.net/p/todomd-age...
TODO.md + AGENTS.md = Out of Office on
You look like you need some serious Markdowntime
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"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
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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 reloadin.net/p/co-hi-co-l...
Co-Hi, Co-Lo, Co-Co
Do-Re-Mi never looked so Fa
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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
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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 reloadin.net/p/episode-100
Episode 100
The one where we're too lazy to do a proper title
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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 reloadin.net/p/24-wi-fis-...
2.4 Wi-Fi's and counting
Flick the switch or scratch the 6 GHz itch?
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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 reloadin.net/p/qosake-rac...
QoSake: Rack Rail Gun
Where's the BFD when you need it?
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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 reloadin.net/p/youve-got-...
You've got mail
The DCI is 25 years old with AOL
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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
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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
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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 reloadin.net/p/two-pizza-...
Two Pizza Team Tuesdays
We're only paying on Two-for-Tuesday deal days
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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 reloadin.net/p/the-fonz-g...
The Fonz goes IPv6
AAAA(y)
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