So… today I learned (again) that accidentally connecting to a passive 24V PoE interface with a USB Ethernet adapter will release the magic smoke that makes it go. 🤷‍♂️ #NetEng #Doh

Tempted to add "Compensated" to my "Network Anarchitect" title... for reasons. #NetEng #DCC

Thinking that I need to clean out my office a bit more often. #CCNP #CCIE #NetEng #TheBeforeTimes

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to fix a network that a customer broke by following an LLM’s advice. 2/2 #Farpotschket #NetEng

The A in the current iteration of #AI really needs to stand for Augmented. Asking an #LLM to help us do something when we don’t have the first clue what we’re asking for is not a good recipe. 1/2 #Farpotschket #NetEng

I loved building large ISPs with my sys and neteng knowledge.

but I'll NEVER go back into the industry.

it has become way too greedy and full of techbro bullshit.

I'm done.

This is the way we've always done it. I question the value of this position. 3/3

#Enterprise #EnterpriseGrade #NetEng #StatusQuo

I don’t normally impulse buy things, but I’m a recovering NetEng who’s been meaning to upgrade for a while, and in the time it took me a Buy it Now they went from 12 left in stock to 10 to 8.

But I got one. :D

Advanced BGP monitor in 408 lines of Python. Watches your prefixes via RIPEstat, alerts on hijacks to ntfy. For AS operators and neteng. https://www.valtersit.com/python/bgp-route-announcement-monitor/ #bgp #python #infra

The "TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1" book has been helpful to me, as a fellow not neteng doer, for deeper dives into network protocols when troubleshooting

every neteng job posting:

- 10+ yrs exp
- master’s degree in: ee, compsci, quantum physics
- expert in BGP, MPLS, EVPN/VXLAN, CLOS/spine arch, ECMP, python, ansible, AWS, NIST
- intimate knowledge of all network monitoring software in existence
- exp w all network vendors
- salary: 100k, seattle/LA

honestly this is senior neteng positions im seeing but the insanity still stands IMO

Or the flipside, recruiters being impressed with your neteng chops so they want to know if you want the $20/hr desktop support gig thats only a 6mo contract, requiring you to move to like Philly or some shit without relocation help

And then there’s the rando nursing ones because of your *C*CNA

From here, BGP will be enabled tomorrow evening, and with any luck our BGP peer will be up, ready to deal with traffic as we migrate Layer3 interfaces from the old switching platform.

#NETENG #EXTREMENETWORKS #FABRIC

As part of my current fabric deployment, we are moving layer 3 services including upstream peering from the old to the new.

With that in mind, I have created the following BGP config. This customer has 5 VRF's running, and this is the secondary circuit. We'll be prepending private AS

#NETENG

@neteng-ian.bsky.social
now, I don't want to brag, but made a big bgp change and did not wipe out the internet as we know it

Just 30 days until our meetup. ~10 days left to submit your talks!

Looking forward to seeing everyone and announcing what's next.

Tickets are free! Grab yours via tornog.ca

#NetEng #Networking #Community #Meetup #Local #NOG #TORNOG #Toronto

Our fall meetup is happening Nov 12th! Speaker submissions are open for a few weeks. Come join us for a night of networking, talks, and an optional social.

Grab your tickets and submit your talks using the links at tornog.ca

#NetEng #Networking #Community #Meetup #Local #NOG

Tomorrow's the big day for @chinog.bsky.social

We are wishing everyone an excellent session!

#CHINOG #NOG #NetEng