This week bridging BGP Visibility with Cloudflare ☁️; Network Traffic Generation with MCP 🤖; configure Routed IPv6 in Docker 🚢; end-to-end SR-TE with OSPF lab 🧪; Deep Learning for Network Engineers 👨💻; 2025 Guide to Prompt Engineering 📚; streaming gNMI from Arista cEOS into kubernetes 🛜 and Broadband providers selling off their networks 😎. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
Bringing connections into view: real-time BGP route visibility on Cloudflare Radar brings all the functionality of a BGP Looking Glass, Route Server, BGP.tools and more into one central place 🔎
How to configure routed IPv6 in Docker without bridging or NATing to the Container IP Network, then this is for you and covers a bunch of IPv6 fundamentals as well 🎁
The Control Plane Highway: Networking’s Hidden Infrastructure gives some ideas about how you might visualise the workings of BGP and other control plane nodes throughout the Internet, or any SP Network 🔭
Next Gen Network Testing with Open Traffic Generator MCP Server brings together topics around AI, LLM, Traffic Generation (hello, iPerf!), IMIX, stress testing and more 😎
The Downstream Dilemma | Why Network Operators Struggle to Diagnose Ethernet Port Issues explains the far-side problem of running Ethernet p2p circuits and understanding Link Loss Forwarding and Detection ⏭️
End-to-End SR-TE in a OSPF (with NSSA) multi-area environment dives into Segment Routing with OSPF in a variety of topologies and gotchas 🛜
Network Redundancy from On-Premises to Azure VMware and VNETs builds on the article we shared last week and helps you shore up those ExpressRoute and VNET Gateways to optimise transit into Azure 💪
Ever wondered how data flows across networks? well this post breaks it down in one of the most succinct diagrams we’ve seen for this analogy - turn on that tap! 🚰
Learning and Tools 🎓⚒️
ACI MCP Vibe Ops for the Software Defined Data Center
(Video, 15 mins, Beginner)Deep Learning for Network Engineers
(eBook, $10+)Building 5G and FTTP Networks in Remote Rural Locations
(Video, 30 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 Design Engineer @ Network Rail, UK, Manchester
🇺🇸 Senior Wireless Network Engineer @ Anduril Industries, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Developer @ CoreWeave, USA, NJ/NY/CA/WA
🇲🇽 Network Engineer @ Plata, Mexico, Mexico City
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Howdens, UK, York
NotEng 🤔
After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain but not before remembering how to remember again, let me ask ChatGPT how to do that… 🤖
2025 Guide to Prompt Engineering in your editor for Software Engineers also applies to those of us in Network Engineering and the Infrastructure space and has some solid gold GPT nuggets 🥇
Cisco is worth $200 billion - so where’s the money for CCIEs? explores changes in industry landscape for those of us with CCxx credentials, and what we might need to do in future to keep earning 💰
Querying Vulnerability Data from the NIST Database Using Python and nvdlib if you want to improve your Network Development platform and automate ILM and other Lifecycle Management tasks 🤖
Run: Streaming gNMI Telemetry from cEOS in Kubernetes is a deep dive into getting Network Telemetry (Streaming Telemetry) working in a k8s environment using gNMI and Arista cEOS 🪣
How to Build an Agent from scratch using Go and some other interesting AI and LLM components to really get to grips with all things Agentic AI in practice 🕵️
A practical guide to building agents from the folks at OpenAI builds on this even more with curated tips, tricks and gotchas when working with Agentic 🔖
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
RMISC, Colorado, 28 - 30 May 2025
MORE-IP, Amsterdam, 4-5 June 2025
NANOG 94, Denver, 9 - 11 June 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
SwiNOG 40, Switzerland, 24 June 2025
NetUK2, London, 7 - 8 July 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
BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025
Industry 🏭
Monitoring network traffic in AWS Lambda functions if you’re in the AWS ecosystem and looking for a different way to interrogate the innards of your FaaS flows 📉
Human error and power glitches to blame for most outages but you’ve no need to thank, ohh what’s that cable doing there, let’s just *yoink*… 💥
BT to carve out International in next step of B2B grand plan — report, Global Services we hardly knew ye for your MPLS and DWDM backbones 😭
Network data hygiene: The critical first step to effective AI agents is always cleaning up after yourself and data sets like VLANs, IPAMs and others are no exception 🧹
Optimize Amazon VPC Flow Logs analysis with Cribl Stream sampling as Cribl is so hawt right now darrrrrrrrrling, it’s the new Kafka so we’re told 🔮
Germany’s Fragmented Broadband Model: A Hidden Opportunity in the AI Era probably makes more sense if you live in Germany, but is an interesting delve into the DE Broadband ISP market 🇩🇪
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 💬.