SQL CLAUSE is coming to town
With a lump of col sort for naughty boys and girls
This episode we power a PoE AP from a USB-C battery pack 🔌; simplify SR-TE with mesh templates 📝; fix pesky GeoIP databases with RFC9092 📍; check the Internet DFZ in the 2025 Tier 1 Analysis Report 🌏; audit our DNS records with DNSAudit.io 📖; use Beads for extra vibe coding memory 🐿️; watch as AI destroys our Universities from inside 🎓 and test our servers with OWASP AI pen testing techniques 🥷. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
How to power any 802.3bt Wi-Fi access point using standard USB-C battery pack takes a battery pack, some Sugru (yes, it was new on us too), an RJ45 lead and provides PoE on the go to an AP 🛜
Branch Office WAN Congestion: Is it still a Valid Concern in Modern Networks? or should you just chuck more and more bandwidth at it? Read on 🫓
Simplifying SR-TE with mesh templates uses built-un IaC-like features to make some of the Segment Routing setup a little easier and a lot more consistent ䷓
Cisco 9800 WLC GUI Not Loading? Here’s the Real Fix and it’s easier than just hammering it and trying again or messing with your browser cache 💡
Geolocate much? because it turns out there actually is a standard or two - RFC9092 and RFC9632 - to take control of bad GeoIP location and put the pin back where it actually belongs 📍
Why Every ISP Should Have a PeeringDB Listing, Even If They’re Not in a Data Center and maybe even some of you Enterprise and End User organisations who run a BGP ASN or two 🌏
Subnet peering and ExpressRoute is a slightly new way of doing things at a lower-level of granularity in Azure VNETs and SDCI than you may be used to in your Landing Zones 🛬
2025 Tier 1 Analysis Report covers a bunch of interesting stats from the Internet DFZ - think ASNs, Bogons, Connectivity, v6 adoption… read on for fascinating insights into the Interwebs 🕸️
Book Club 📚
Training 🎓
🏦 Cisco U CE Credits
💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses Continuing Education (CE) credits:
Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
(Course, 25 CE Credits, 33h)
🪚 Tools
pyNTM Network Traffic Modeler
(Python, PerfMon, Benchmarking)nossl.sh doesn’t support a secure connection (and we like it)
(Web, HTTP, Testing)DNSAudit.io DNS Checker
(Web, DNS, Vulnerability Testing)
🎓 Learning
Ansible roles to deploy Ubuntu servers
(DevOps, Ansible, Orchestration)# Writing a good CLAUDE.md
(DevOps, AI, Vibe Coding)
🎥 Videos, Papers, Surveys
BGP Blackhole Survey
(BGP, ISP, IX)Agentic DevOps: Will AI Replace DevOps Engineers?
(Video, 30 mins, AI)Getting 1+ Tbps from an x86 server
(Video, 30 mins, Optimisation)
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 👂
🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings
🇫🇷 Network Engineer @ AXA, France, Paris
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Chevron, India, Bengaluru
🇮🇪 Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Ireland, Dublin
🇵🇹 Infrastructure Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Portugal, Lisbon
🇬🇧 Senior Network Design Engineer @ Sky, UK, London
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ Viasat, Australia, Remote
🇨🇦 Network Automation Developer @ TELUS, Canada, Edmonton
🇩🇪 Network Systems Engineer @ Serco, Germany, Darmstadt
🇮🇳 Network Site Reliability Engineer @ NVIDIA, India, Hyderabad
NotEng 🤔
OWASP AI Testing Guide project is an open-source initiative that you can use to gain an insight through the attackers eyes as to how all this AI stuff hangs together, or doesn’t… 🚳
Beads is a memory upgrade for your coding agent and while we don’t understand it enough yet, hopefully it’ll be as good as the Memory Expansion pack was on the Nintendo64 🍟
Google’s Antigravity beats VS Code at its own game and brings some agentic tweaks to the IDE you (probably) know and love 🧑💻
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself is a long piece about how modern University is an act of paying to convert money to AI, which gets graded by an AI and converted back to Professor, and costs a small house or two in the process 🏠
Everything’s Fake Now and can’t be enjoyed; this is why we can’t have nice things (but if you do want some, for just 5 down-payments of $9.99…) 💰
Opus 4.5 Collapsed Six Months of Development Work Into One Week and proved value to this guy with perhaps the best surname ever given his role as a Developer 🚢
UK Chamber Covers is where you need to go if you’ve ever wondered what’s under a manhole cover on a UK Street; some of them aren’t as obvious as the label says ☎️
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
London Network Automation Meetup, London, 29 January 2026
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
LeNetDevOps, Toulose, 27 January 2026
APRICOT 2026, Jakarta, 4 - 12 February 2026
Industry 🏭
A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official so those of you with Internet-facing environments might want to read up on how RSL will impact your web traffic from now on 🤖
React2Shell flaw exploited to breach 30 orgs, 77k IP addresses vulnerable meaning any React, Vue or related Internet-facing web apps you’re responsible for are gonna get a teensy bit busier over the next few days 🔫
29.7 Tbps DDoS Attack Via Aisuru Botnet Breaks Internet With New World Record, and given access speeds on broadband are now shooting up above 1 Gbps, expect this to only worsen over time 📈
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 💬.