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HN800: Root Cause Analysis for the Entire Stack (Sponsored) Oct 10, 2025

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Today’s show is one of those “We’re living in the future” episodes, where we talk about using AI to perform root cause analysis of a performance issue. But not root cause analysis for just the networking part of the stack. The full stack. Why? Because it’s not good enough to say “it’s not the network”.... Read more »

IPB185: When IPv6 VPN and DNS Don’t Cooperate Oct 09, 2025

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Sometimes weirdness occurs within DNS if you’re on an IPv4 network and you connect to a dual-stack or v6-only VPN. Maybe the browser doesn’t connect, but you can still send pings, or vice versa. Is the OS getting confused about which stack and which order of interfaces to request services? Is the weird behavior being... Read more »

N4N040: Mock Interview for a Network Administration Job Oct 09, 2025

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The job interview is an inescapable part of a career journey. Today on N Is For Networking, we conduct a mock interview with a candidate who’s applying for a junior network administration role. The goal is to give Toni Mrowetz, our candidate, feedback. At the same time, we hope this helps anyone listening who might... Read more »

D2DO284: AI, MCP, and the Identities that Tie Them All Together Oct 08, 2025

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AI is developing at an incredible pace. With that development comes questions. For instance, how do you connect your resources to agents? How do agents connect with each other? And how do you keep it all secure? Our guest Christian Posta is here to guide us through AI, MCP, and the concept of workload identities.... Read more »

PP081: News Roundup – BRICKstorm Backdoor Targets Network Appliances, GitHub Unveils Supply Chain Defense Plans Oct 07, 2025

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From a massive SIM farm takedown to dealing with supply chain attacks targeting npm, our news roundup provides context and commentary on a fresh crop of security news. We discuss exploits against Cisco firewalls and switches, a SonicWall firmware update to remove a rootkit targeting its SMA 100, and GitHub’s plans to harden npm packages.... Read more »

HW062: Designing Access Points For the Enterprise Oct 07, 2025

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When vendors design and build enterprise Wi-Fi access points, they must balance performance and cost. With the help of guest Rosalie Bibona, Product Management Director for Wireless Hardware at Extreme Networks, we get a peek into the technical decisions that go into creating enterprise Wi-Fi access points. We talk about how every choice, from radio... Read more »

NB546: Meta Mulls GPU Startup Purchase; Indirect Prompt Injection Exacerbates AI Risks Oct 06, 2025

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Take a Network Break! We start with a two-part listener follow-up and sound alarms about a serious flaw in Termix and tens of thousands of still-vulnerable Cisco security devices. Alkira debuts an MCP server and AI copilot for its multi-cloud networking platform; Cato Networks releases a Chrome-based browser extension to help secure contractor and personal... Read more »

Tech Bytes: Building a UEC-Supported AI Data Center Fabric With Nokia (Sponsored) Oct 06, 2025

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The network plays a key role in AI model and inference training. On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Nokia, we talk about why you need a high-performance network for AI training workloads, essential technologies such as RoCE v2 and others that make Ethernet suitable for scale-out networking, the role of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium... Read more »

TNO044: Inside a Global Enterprise Data Center Network Migration (Sponsored) Oct 03, 2025

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Today we get an inside look at a major data center migration that Nokia is undertaking. Nokia is our sponsor for today’s episode. The company is moving legacy sets of data center networking equipment to its own Event Driven Automation (EDA) solution. We go behind the scenes of Nokia’s own IT department, which is supporting... Read more »

HN799: Multi-Homing IPv6 to Your Home Lab Oct 03, 2025

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If you’ve got an Autonomous System Number (ASN) and an IPv6 block, you too can multi-home IPv6 to your home lab! Sounds easy, right? Well, maybe…but today we’re going to discuss why you’d want to and how you can do that with guest Anton Lönnerbro. Anton is a solutions architect at a managed service provider... Read more »

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