Episodios

  • HN809: EVPN All the Things!

    HN809: EVPN All the Things!
    Jan 9 2026
    It’s been over a decade since the first Packet Pushers podcast on EVPN. Now, guest Jeff McAdams can legitimately suggest that we “EVPN all the things.” Hosts Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray dig into Jeff’s stance on EVPN/VXLAN. They look at how VXLAN and EVPN work; talk about use cases in the data center, the... Read more »
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    1 h y 9 m
  • HN808: Is IT a Young Person’s Game?

    HN808: Is IT a Young Person’s Game?
    Dec 12 2025
    Is the ideal IT employee just leaving college or a veteran with years of experience? Russ White joins Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray to discuss the complexities of this question. Younger professionals just out of college are more willing to work longer hours or unpopular shifts, learn new tools and skills, and take risks. Older... Read more »
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    51 m
  • HN807: A ‘CLI Lifer’ No More

    HN807: A ‘CLI Lifer’ No More
    Dec 8 2025
    Andy Lapteff once considered himself a ‘CLI lifer.’ As a network engineer he wasn’t interested in Python. He didn’t want to learn to code. He had no desire to embrace any of the developer-like processes and tools creeping into the profession, particularly around network automation. That’s changed. On today’s Heavy Networking, Andy shares the professional,... Read more »
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    52 m
  • HN806: Let’s Get NUTS!

    HN806: Let’s Get NUTS!
    Nov 21 2025
    Unit testing is a software development practice for checking that an individual component of code works before integrating that unit with other components in a larger program. A new open source project called Network Unit Testing System, or NUTS, brings the same concept to network automation. The big idea is that by incorporating unit tests into... Read more »
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    46 m
  • HN805: The Past, Present, and Future of NANOG

    HN805: The Past, Present, and Future of NANOG
    Nov 14 2025
    NANOG, or the North American Network Operation Group, is an organization committed to the continuing advancement of an open, secure, and robust Internet. At the NANOG Conference 95 in late October 2025, Ethan Banks chatted with Steve Feldman, a member of NANOG’s Board of Directors. Steve has been involved with NANOG since the very first... Read more »
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    48 m
  • HN804: How Prisma SASE Builds on Public Clouds for Scale, Resiliency (Sponsored)

    HN804: How Prisma SASE Builds on Public Clouds for Scale, Resiliency (Sponsored)
    Nov 7 2025
    How do you architect a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to provide critical security services to millions of endpoints distributed across the planet? How do you build such a service for scale, performance, and resiliency? One option is to build your own PoPs or use colocation facilities, run your own infrastructure stack, and connect everything... Read more »
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    56 m
  • HN803: How to Start a Networking Meetup

    HN803: How to Start a Networking Meetup
    Oct 31 2025
    On today’s episode, we take a break from one’s and zero’s for a discussion about starting a networking meetup. Our guest is Steinn “Steinzi” Örvar, who recently founded the ISNOG, a network operators’ group in Iceland. We quiz Steinzi about what worked and what didn’t. We also pick his brain for the nitty-gritty details about... Read more »
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    59 m
  • HN802: Unifying Networking and Security with Fortinet SASE: Architecture, Reality, and Lessons Learned (Sponsored)

    HN802: Unifying Networking and Security with Fortinet SASE: Architecture, Reality, and Lessons Learned (Sponsored)
    Oct 24 2025
    The architecture and tech stack of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution will influence how the service performs, the robustness of its security controls, and the complexity of its operations. Sponsor Fortinet joins Heavy Networking to make the case that a unified offering, which integrates SD-WAN and SSE from a single vendor, provides a... Read more »
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    59 m
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