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IPB183: Measuring IPv6 and IPv6 Statistics Sep 17, 2025

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Today we talk about measuring IPv6 and IPv6 statistics. We talk about why it’s useful to measure IPv6, how to track v6 deployment initiatives, and tools to help with your measurements. Episode Links: Google IPv6 – Google IPv6 Global Statistics Dashboard IPv6 Enabled – Hexabuild Episode Transcript: This episode was transcribed by AI and lightly... Read more »

PP078: Using Free Tools for Detection Engineering Sep 16, 2025

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You can build effective, scalable detection pipelines using free and open-source tools like Zeek, Suricata, YARA, and Security Onion. Today on Packet Protector we welcome Matt Gracie, Senior Engineer at Security Onion Solutions — the team behind the open-source platform used for detection engineering, network security monitoring, and log management. Matt has over 15 years... Read more »

HS112: Standardizing NaaS Service Definitions Sep 16, 2025

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Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) promises enterprises the ability to set up and configure connectivity and network security with a couple of clicks. But for NaaS to truly transform enterprise networking, one thing has been missing: standards. Enter Mplify (formerly the Metro Ethernet Forum), a non-profit focused on standardizing NaaS service definitions. Mplify’s CTO, Pascal Menezes, joins Johna... Read more »

N4N038: Well Actually 02 – OSPF Multi-Area and LSA Types Sep 15, 2025

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We got some interesting listener feedback from our series on OSPF, so today’s N Is for Networking is another “Well actually” episode where we dig into that feedback. In particular, we’ll cover a defense of OSPF multi-area deployments, and dig into OSPF LSA types. Episode Links: OSPF Basics – N Is For Networking Episode 38... Read more »

NB543: Splunk, ServiceNow Announce AI Agents; Data Center Spending Runs Amok Sep 15, 2025

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Take a Network Break! We start with a listener correction on Cisco’s history of wireless certifications, then dig into a couple of red alerts on Microsoft Defender and a backdoor in Outlook. On the news front, Cisco announces new AI agents and SoC packages for Splunk; F5 spends $180 million to buy an AI security... Read more »

TNO041: From Ansible to AI: Jeremy Schulman on the Evolution of Network Automation Sep 12, 2025

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Jeremy Schulman has been working at network automation for much of his professional life. On today’s Total Network Operations, host Scott Robohn talks with Jeremy about his ongoing quest to get the network engineering bottleneck out of production. They discuss the early days of network automation when engineers tried to adopt tools from the compute... Read more »

HN796: The Why and How of Making Your Infrastructure Quantum-Safe (Sponsored) Sep 12, 2025

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Your production IT operations are almost certainly using cryptography libraries that are not quantum-safe, and the time to begin planning a cryptography overhaul is now. But this is likely to be a daunting project because it touches everything: clients, servers, apps, network devices, middleboxes, and so on. Daunting, but doable. We talk with Richu Channakeshava, Principal... Read more »

D2DO282: Simplifying Complex Kubernetes Deployments With kro Sep 10, 2025

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Kubernetes is flexible and customizable, but it can also be notoriously complex and difficult to deploy to. On today’s Day Two DevOps we learn about kro (Kube Resource Operator), an open-source tool that helps simplify complex application deployments. Our guest is Islam Mahgoub, a Solutions Architect at AWS focused on building kro. We talk about... Read more »

HW060: CNAE – A New Wired Networking Certification From the CWNP Sep 09, 2025

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The CWNP offers vendor-neutral certifications for wireless networking professionals. This summer, the organization rolled out a wired certification, the Certified Network Administrator and Engineer (CNAE). This cert is aimed at wired and wireless network engineers to ensure they have a solid grounding in switching, routing, cabling, and wired protocols. The CWNP says the cert isn’t... Read more »

PP077: News Roundup–Drift Breach Has Long Reach; FCC Investigates Its Own IoT Security Program Sep 09, 2025

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Is any publicity good publicity? On today’s News Roundup we talk about how Salesloft, which makes the Drift chat agent that’s been used as a jumping-off point for credential harvesting and data breach attacks against a bunch of big-name companies, is testing that proposition. We also discuss bugs affecting industrial refrigeration controllers, and Microsoft making... Read more »

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