This week 2025 State of Network Automation Survey 🗳️; traffic meter for ASN filtering 🤪; the Business Case for IPv6 💰; moving 400 TB across the country 🚗; the move from Doing to Knowing 🎓; Notepad.exe gets a bunch of updates 🤘 and NVIDIA overtakes Cisco sales 📊. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Traffic meter per ASN without logs filters Apache-type logs (also Proxies like ProxySG) by BGP ASN to aggregate at the network level and inference who is hitting your resource 🤔
Demystifying Natural-Language Networking: Beyond “Chatting with Your Router” has some thoughts on NLX (think UX/UI but for chat interfaces) and MCP approaches to this 🤖
The Business Case for IPv6 gives you the ammunition you need to help make IPv6 a reality in your network 💰
Moving 400TB Across The Country involves a different kind of network that most people have probably been stuck on at one point or another 🚦
SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award is announced and worth a read for what is going on in the more theoretical side of Networking 🎓
So, you want to be a Network Engineer? reminds us that we don’t know what we’re getting into, at all, at any given time, and this thing is more like a rollercoaster than a job 🎢
Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️
junos-mcp-server A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Juniper devices
(GitHub, Tool)Internet Infrastructure Map
(Website, Tool)TCP Analysis Cheatsheet
(Google Drive, PDF, Cheatsheat)Learning Labs Containerlab tutorials
(GitHub, Tutorials)
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 Deployment Engineer @ Meta, Ireland, Dublin
🇮🇪 Network Engineer @ Abbott, Ireland, Dublin
🇨🇦 Senior Network Manager @ Equinix, Canada, Toronto
🇩🇪 Network Administrator @ Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Dusseldorf
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Opticore, UK, London
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Equifax, USA, MO
NotEng 🤔
From Doing to Knowing: The mind shift that creeps up on you opines on what it means to work your way op from just closing Tickets to instead opening minds 🤘
The resume is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun is what happens when you encapsulate human-speak in AI speak to decode back to human-speak, en masse, all over again 💼
In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you” and don’t even get us started on the tab feature, the second-most used app after MSPaint.exe for professional Network Diagrams 🎨
Learnings from two years of using AI tools for software engineering proves time flies when you’re h-AI-ving fun and, erm, [prompt here]? 🦾
On the objectivity of data-driven decisions is a short piece on what this approach really means, and if it’s even worth having the data to back it up 📊
Cloudflare: AI Poses ‘Existential Threat’ as Publisher Traffic Collapses and the content flywheel becomes more like a wheel of dying flies and regurgitated AI slop 🤮
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
📢 Conferences
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 🏭
Cisco fixes two critical make-me-root bugs on Identity Services Engine components so get patching the hole in your NAC, dear Liza, dear Liza, there’s a hole in your NAC… 🎶
Exclusive: Intel explores sale of networking and edge unit, sources say as it doubles-down on CPUs and core business 🍟
Multiple NICs in Google GCP Compute is a new thing apparently, exploitable for all manner of NVA fun 🤩
Microsoft is about to retire default outbound access for VMs in Azure the only Cloud provider where not connecting an Internet Gateway meant you got one anyway, now removes the implicit Interweb access 💥
NVIDIA passes Cisco and rivals Arista in datacenter Ethernet sales proving it’s not just GPUs they’re great at, AI is coming for Networks in more ways than one ☝️
Nokia expands IP routing portfolio to utilities with new platforms to boost smart grid modernization reminded us that Nokia do Industrial Ethernet and IIoT gear ⚙️
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 💬.