This week we orchestrate MCP Servers for Junos and NetBox 🎻; get a perfect 95% flat line on an NMS 📉; dive deep into Ansible AWX 🤿; find that FE80::1 is actually valid IPv6 🤔; learn why in a free IPv6 text book 👍; use tcpulse to stress test the WAN 🫣; find out why compression culture is making us stupid 🧐; and get scared about OpenAI Agents 🏃. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
Orchestration of MCP Servers provides a tutorial using a Junos and NetBox example to bring agentic AI to Network Discovery tasks, worth a look 👀
The Perfect Line uses NVIDIA AIStore to get a perfect flat-line throughput of 95% of the link speed of their AI Network Fabric, we’ve only ever seen that as a percentile not the actual goodput, wowsers 🚀
Troubleshooting FCS and RX Errors: What They Mean and How to Fix Them on Your Network Gear is a brief refresher on stuffs like CRC and frame errors, what they are, why they are and how to stamp them out 🦶
Network Analytics at IETF 123 in Madrid summarises the many goings on for Network o11y at the event, including some cool stuff on YANG data models and draft standards around BMP for BGP 🧐
Ansible AWX: Deep Dive covers everything from including it in Git, RBAC and some gotchas to get you used to the Ansible ecosystem; even handy for those of you running AAP at your workplaces 👍
Chapter 1: Think Logically, Automate Confidently deconstructs what happens when computers follow exact instructions rather than inferred ones, including an example about a peanut butter sandwich that’ll make you think 🥪
FE80::1 is a perfectly valid IPv6 Default Gateway Address it’s just a different way to the concepts that IPv4 uses 🤔
A free and open source IPv6 textbook covers all sorts of things in IPv6 you didn’t even realise were things (maybe the above article perhaps?) and is completely free and full of info ℹ️
Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️
Cilium Up and Running manifests, scripts and configurations
(GitHub, Repo, NetDevOps)IPB179: IPv6 DNS Gotchas
(Podcast, 23 mins, Intermediate)IETF 123: Network Modeling (NETMOD)
(Video, 2 hours, Intermediate)tcpulse is a concurrent TCP/UDP load generator written in Go
(GitHub, Tool, Go)Making Network Automation Consumable: Junior Engineer's Perspective
(Video, 23 mins, Beginner)Arista AVD and Containerlab with Lima VM
(Video, 53 mins, Intermediate)
Hiring 💼
📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.
It’s also free to list a job if you’re hiring and want to let us know 👂
🔥 This week’s Hot Hirings
🇬🇧 Network Automation Engineer @ Opticore, UK, Newbury
🇨🇦 Senior Principal Network Architect @ Equinix, Canada, Toronto
🇸🇪 Network Implementation Engineer @ GlobalConnect, Sweden, Copenhagen
🇺🇸 Senior Staff Core Network Engineer SRE @ Google, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Avionics Network Integration Engineer @ Blue Origin, USA, WA
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Cloudflare, UK, London
🇮🇳 Content Engineer @ Cisco, India, Bangalore
🇩🇪 Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) @ Arista, Germany, Remote
🇬🇧 Principal Private 5G Network Consultant @ Verizon, UK, London
🇮🇪 Network Deployment Engineer @ Meta, Ireland, Dublin
NotEng 🤔
What kind of work I want (in 2025) might give you pause for thought of what it is you want from work-life balance in reality, and for some of you, what the meaning of work itself even means 🏠
Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting as the answer to life isn’t always in the (summary) destination, it’s often in the learning (journey) 🥾
Everything I’ve Learned so far About OpenAI’s Agents even includes a cheat sheet of applications they can and can’t interact with, the future is scary 😧
Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away as you can’t outsource your crown jewels without some compromises here and there 👑
LLMs are mirrors of operator skill makes “garbage in garbage out” relevant for the AI age; there’s no such thing as a bad prompt, but if you don’t know if it was bad in the first place… 🤪
Self.so lets you host your own CV online without the walled entry bloat of LinkedIn and might get your name out there easily
How AI Chatbots are built (behind the scenes look) goes behind the scenes of what makes up a ChatGPT application anyway 🫣
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
FrOSCon, Sankt Augustin, 16 - 17 August 2025
AfPIF African Peering Forum, Lagos, 19 - 21 August 2025
Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025
AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025
European Peering Forum, Bucharest, 15 - 17 September 2025
FutureNet Asia, Singapore, 16 - 17 September 2025
Juniper AI-Native NOW, Copenhagen, 23 September 2025
Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2025
BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025
NLNOG, Amsterdam, 30 September 2025
OpenInfra Summit Europe, Paris, 17 - 19 October 2025
RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025
ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025
DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025
EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025
AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025
Industry 🏭
Scaling beyond IPv4: integrating IPv6 Amazon EKS clusters into existing Istio Service Mesh provides useful k8s updates for AWS in their mission to make IPv6 a first class citizen 📢
Inspection Patterns in Hub-and-Spoke and vWAN Architectures covers the various options in Azure to do this, from VNET Peering, through VHubs and vWAN, there’s a lot here ⚙️
Starlink outage: Service returns after over two hours down makes us wonder how many motors in those dishes burned out scanning the skies trying to find a working LEO satellite to lock on to 🔥
Google Cloud outage brings down a lot of the internet as it becomes ever-more intertwined with the big three players (sorry, Bid Red Database company, we know you’re there too…) ⛔️
Help Us Map The State of Kubernetes Networking is a plea from Isovalent to help understand the CNI and k8s networking ecosystem actually in use 🐝
That’s all for this week, but if you have any tip-offs, blogs, events or job posts you’d like us to feature then please feel free to let us know at newsletter@reloadin.net 📮 and we’ll see if we can add them in 💬.