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This time find out why AS-SETs still matter 🤨; explosive growth of IPv6 in 2026 🚀; VASI for VRF makes routing easier 🤔; Git in Practice for Network Engineers 🧑💻; 16 free Cisco CE Credits to learn AI 🤖; NetClaw as a CCIE agentic pal 🦀; the BGP clock and o11y ⏱️; post the wrong answer to get the right response 💡; something big is happening 😧 and Cisco launches an AI chip to take on NVIDIA 🥊. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
Monitoring AS-SETs and why they matter but not that one that involves Confederation of ASNs, the other one you wrangle with in your IRR, RIPE and ARIN portals to advertise prefixes to the Interwebs 🌎
IPv6 Adoption in 2026 is growing way, way more than you think; if you haven’t yet got a plan on IPv6, you’re quick to becoming as behind as by not using the letters “A” and “I” in every second sentence you type for money 📈
Demystifying VASI - It’s easier than you think! and we’re ashamed to admit, were not even aware there was a way of getting Prefixes between tables without Route Replication or Route Leaking 🚰
Don’t Trust Packet Captures on Firewalls always verify, and in many cases have a TAP network in place to SPAN that stuff to for a second opinion 🤔
What’s The Deal With Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance? and should you even bother learning about it or will you even end up deploying it in production anytime soon? 💡
Wireless PCAP I/O Graph Analyzer shows the power of vibe coding for a specific issue, and how it can quickly get you from 0 to problem solved with not too much effort; as long as you know the domain at hand 🦾
Git in Practice - Version Control For Network Engineers is a sublime, simple and yet detailed walkthrough of how to apply to magic of Git to your NetEng change, config and implementation workflows 🎛️
GTP-U Decapsulation: Isolating Subscriber Traffic in Mobile Networks is a different kind of networking from the IP/Ethernet stack you might be used to; if you’ve heard about 3GPP and LTE and wondered what the difference is, it’s this ☎️
Book Club 📚
AI Networking Cookbook by Eric Chou
Full Stack Network Automation by Shahzad Qadir
Training 🎓
🏦 Cisco U CE Credits
💡 Re-certify your CCNA (40 CE Credits) or CCNP (80 CE Credits) with these free Cisco U courses using Continuing Education (CE) credits:
Cisco AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH)
(Course, 8 CE Credits, 15h 30m)Cisco AI Business Practitioner (AIBIZ)
(Course, 8 CE Credits, 16h 30m)Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
(Course, 16 CE Credits, 29h)Advanced Automation with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLAPI)
(Course, 8 CE Credits, 8h)Introduction to Network Simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLLAB)
(Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)Administering Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLADM)
(Course, 5 CE Credits, 4h 30m)
🪚 Tools
NetClaw: A CCIE-level AI network engineering coworker
(MCP, OpenClaw, AIOps)
🎓 Learning
The BGP Clock and the BGP Observatory: Hunting Stuck Routes
(Video, 30 mins, BGP)Cisco AI Summit: The AI Factory
(Video, 45 mins, NVIDIA x Cisco)Cisco AI summit: Enterprise and AI
(Video, 30 mins, Anthropic x Cisco)Redefining Netflix BGP Architecture
(Video, 45 mins, VoD)
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 Implementation Engineer @ Google, Australia, Sydney
🇩🇪 Network Engineer @ Syserso Networks, Germany, Hanover
🇮🇳 Network AI Delivery Manager @ Ford Motor, India, Chennai
🇮🇪 Junior Network Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin
🇳🇱 Network Engineer @ Booking.com, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇵🇱 Senior Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Poland, Warsaw
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Waymo, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Gymshark, UK, Birmingham
🇺🇸 Director of Network Planning @ JP Morgan, USA, NJ/TX
🇺🇸 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Avangrid, USA, Boston, MA
NotEng 🤔
Post the Wrong Answer: Why Your First Draft Should Be Imperfect is both an old XKCD favourite and a timeless reminder that’s it’s faster to get right by being wrong and waiting to be corrected 🤬
Agentic anxiety brings FOMO to coding and development, but actually in a good way, well maybe - as long as you don’t want to be left behind 🏃♂️
Spiderman Phishing Kit Mimics Top European Banks With A Few Clicks is a timely reminder that AI accelerates both sides of the fence; a rising tide lifts all boats, even the annoying pirate ones that want to watch the world burn 🏴☠️
Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI presumably they don’t listen to their own streams while awaiting the AI to compile the PR, otherwise that’s some sort of recursive loop? 🔂
Something Big Is Happening and you know it’s true whether you want to admit it or not; head up, out the sand, embrace it all, because it’s coming AI-nyway, so you may as well benefit from it 💪
Why I Think Curiosity is an Important Trait for Engineers because the learning never really stops, it just changes pace, place and how much you’re willing to stay in the race 🥇
A spoiler for the future - Bitcoin is over 12 years old but is playing out depressingly close to this prediction 🔮
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
NetBCN March 2026, Barcelona, 4 March 2026
NL Network Automation Meetup, Amsterdam, 20 May 2026
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
IETF 125, Shenzhen, 14 - 20 March 2026
Upperside World Congress, Paris, 24 - 26 March 2026
FutureNet World 2026, London, 21 - 22 April 2026
SwiNOG, Geneva, 28 April 2026
RIPE 92, Edinburgh, 18 - 22 May 2026
Cisco Live USA, Las Vegas, 31 May - 4 June 2026
AusNOG 2026, Brisbane, 3 - 4 September 2026
BalticNOG 2026, Riga, 23 - 24 September 2026
Cisco Live APJC, Melbourne, 9 - 12 November 2026
Industry 🏭
Rev Up to Recert: GenAI - From AI Possibilities to Real-World Impact gives you 16 Cisco Continuing Education (CE) credits towards a CCNA or CCNP, is entirely free and runs until Mar 26 2026 so go, go, go! 🎓
Cisco launches AI networking chip to compete with Nvidia and Broadcom was a slightly left-field move, but then again, there’s a reason the 800-pound gorilla Cisco just keeps getting that slow, steady growth 🦍
How CNAME Ordering in RFC Specs Caused Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Outage answers the chicken and egg DNS conundrum with a bang 💥
Adopting IPv6 to your existing Amazon VPC walks through how to retrofit v6 into your v4-”only” AWS VPC Network topologies with worked examples to follow 👌
CVE-2026-24061 reminds you that if you’re still using Telnet to do stuff, there’s a good chance you’re stuffing do wrong 😑
Openreach Publish UK Pilot Pricing for FTTP Broadband Speeds to 8500Mbps faster to your house than you likely get to your workplace for probably a fraction of the cost 💸
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 💬.