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PP123: Using Gridctl to Keep MCP Configs From Leaking...

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2026/08/25

If you’ve been spinning up AI tools — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Copilot, and so on — there’s a decent chance that API keys, credentials, and access tokens are sitting in plaintext on your laptop. With MCP, every quickstart guide tells you to paste your credentials right into a config file. That was a bad habit... Read more »

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27:12

HW086: High Density Wi-Fi Part 2

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2026/08/25

By popular demand, Keith is joined once again by Ferney Muñoz and Tom Hildebrand to answer listener questions and to dive deeper into designing high-density Wi-Fi for large-scale events. Together they share practical insights on managing DHCP scopes, the realities of client isolation, and more.

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30:44

NB588: Active Threats Target Siemens PLCs; IBM Chills...

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2026/08/24

Take a Network Break! It’s a Red Alert double feature for Oracle’s Internet Directory LDAP server and Cisco’s Secure Workload Software. In tech news, US law enforcement and intelligence agencies release a joint advisory warning of active threats against Siemens PLCs, Marvell wins a deal to make chips for Google that could bring billions in... Read more »

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1:04:38

HN838: Meet Mr. Packets – Building Your Own Agentic...

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2026/08/21

What does it take to build your own AI agent that could help with day-to-day network tasks? Hank Preston, a Distinguished Architect at Cisco, asked himself that question. He developed a presentation that walks through all the elements one might need to build such an agent, as well as the risks to consider. On today’s... Read more »

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26:24

IPB206: Do IPv6 Mandates Work?

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2026/08/20

Nick Burgalio and Tom Coffeen discuss a Reddit post that had what appeared to be new federal guidance on IPv6 adoption. While it seems the timelines and guidelines haven’t changed, the post raises questions about the effectiveness of mandates in driving IPv6 adoption. They posit that enabling IPv6 is not just a technical requirement but... Read more »

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44:28

NAN129: How Do We Make Network Engineering Cool Again?

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2026/08/19

Known across the industry for making network engineering cool again with her highly relatable tech content, Alexis Bertholf is a powerhouse when it comes to combining technical expertise with personal branding. Eric Chou sat down with Alexis at AutoCon 5 to chat about Alexis’ career, the art of storytelling in 60 seconds or less, the... Read more »

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1:02:18

PP122: Using Burp Suite to Understand How Apps...

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2026/08/18

Zack Whittaker is a journalist for TechCrunch and author of the newsletter “This Week In Security.” He recently wrote a post describing how he uses Burp Suite, an open source penetration testing tool, to see what data apps are collecting from users, and what other sites those apps share that data with. Zack joins JJ... Read more »

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42:27

HS140: AI and Technical Debt – Boon or Bane?

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2026/08/18

Does AI increase or reduce technical debt? Join Johna Johnson and John Burke as they discuss how to make strategy in environments in which AI fuels untrammeled growth in enterprise complexity–but also points the way to automated optimization (and concomitant technical debt reduction). Episode Links: Watch this episode on YouTube The AI Technical Debt Crisis:... Read more »

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35:37

NB587: US Calls for CyberSec Privateers; Oracle To...

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2026/08/17

Take a Network Break! Our red alert goes to cluster of CVEs for Canonical’s LXD Linux Container system. On the news side, Palo Alto Networks adds AI-powered security evaluations as a service engagement, SonicWall introduces an endpoint security agent for SMBs, and the White House outlines a plan to authorize private companies to conduct cyber... Read more »

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1:10:11

LIU020: Ricki Cook: Reaching the Top and Walking Away

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2026/08/13

What do you do when you get your dream job and it’s not as fulfilling as you thought it would be? Ricki Cook speaks with Alexis and Kevin about navigating between career achievement and personal satisfaction. Ricki discusses his transition from traditional network architecture to touring systems engineering, the realities of maintaining real-time networks under... Read more »

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1:04:49

TCG081: Network Automation Forum: From Simple Survey...

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2026/08/05

William Collins is joined by guest co-host Eric Chou as well as Network Automation Forum founders Scott Robohn and Chris Grundemann to discuss how their community emerged from a simple question: Why haven’t we seen full adoption of network automation, yet? They discuss the growth of AutoCon and how its practitioner-focused, vendor-neutral approach has fostered... Read more »

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45:19

NAN128: Beyond RAG: Making Network AI Truly Agentic

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2026/08/05

Eric Chou welcomes Juulia Santala, a Solutions Engineer at Cisco, to discuss her transition from traditional network programmability to cutting-edge AI research. They explore how she moved beyond simple RAG to make AI truly agentic, while solving some hallucination problems in production configurations. They also cover the number one skill network engineers need by 2027,... Read more »

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1:01:59

PP120: News Roundup—AI Giants Praise Open Weight...

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2026/08/04

Packet Protector uncorks another News Roundup! We talk about attackers capturing hotels’ captive portals to steal Microsoft credentials, and the OpenAI-attacking-Hugging Face story and how it ties into a broader industry effort to keep the US government from blocking access to open weight AI models from China. Nvidia and the Linux Foundation launch separate AI... Read more »

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33:58

HS139: When “One Cloud to Rule Them All” is NOT the...

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2026/08/04

IT folks spent a lot of time in the last 20 years creating globe-spanning infrastructures that maximize performance while minimizing the number of data centers or cloud instances they operate. More recently, the steady rise of regionalized data sovereignty requirements has created counter-pressure. AI regulations are now adding to that pressure to ditch a single... Read more »

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24:59

NB585: Anthropic Models Bad Behavior; Orbital Data...

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2026/08/03

Take a Network Break! We start with red alert for a serious vulnerability in HashiCorp’s Terraform MCP server. In the news, Anthropic, not wanting to be one-upped by OpenAI, reveal that its own models are also ‘leet’ hackers. We also consider whether OpenAI and Anthropic have broken the law by not preventing their models from... Read more »

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49:08

PP119: Automating Firewall Ops To Stay Ahead of AI...

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2026/07/28

There’s always been a gap between the discovery of a security issue and the time it takes to remediate. Now AI models can autonomously find weak points and chain together actions to exploit them. How does AI change the notion of “fast enough” for network defense? On today’s sponsored episode we dig into how FireMon... Read more »

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26:00

HW084: Spatial Reuse in Wi-Fi

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2026/07/28

Jake Snyder joins Keith Parsons to explain the mechanics of spatial reuse in Wi-Fi. They discuss practical implementation, the trade-offs involved in increasing signal detection thresholds, and why effective RF design remains the primary method for optimizing network performance. Episode Links: Jake Snyder’s Website

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32:11

NB584: OpenAI Agents Mug Hugging Face; Fortinet Picks...

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2026/07/27

Take a Network Break! Scott Robohn steps in for Johna this week. We start with some followup on 3M and then tackle the news. Arista catches up to the rest of the market on a “branch in a box” approach with new security capabilities in its VeloCloud SD-WAN, Cisco announces the Antares family of Small... Read more »

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40:59

IPB204: Tayga and IPv6 Translation

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2026/07/23

Andrew Palardy joins the hosts to discuss how Tayga, the open-source NAT64 daemon for Linux, is being updated to ensure it is up to date with all the current RFCs. Andrew explains how recent RFC compliance and UDP checksum fixes help resolve connectivity issues and how the new eBPF CLAT support arriving in NetworkManager promises... Read more »

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1:02:27

N4N060: Your First Wi-Fi Network Part 1

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2026/07/23

Have you ever wondered how data actually travels through a Wi-Fi network? Holly and Ethan break down the fundamentals of wireless networking, including radio frequencies and channel planning. They also address the complexities of roaming, how the Wi-Fi space has changed over the years, and share advice on how to design and maintain a home... Read more »

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