Heavy Networking

Heavy Networking


Latest Episodes

HN803: How to Start a Networking Meetup
October 31, 2025

On todays episode, we take a break from ones and zeros for a discussion about starting a networking meetup. Our guest is Steinn Steinzi rvar, who recently founded the ISNOG, a network operators

HN802: Unifying Networking and Security with Fortinet SASE: Architecture, Reality, and Lessons Learned (Sponsored)
October 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

HN801: Will a Natural Language Interface (NLI) Replace Your CLI?
October 17, 2025

Could an LLM or some kind of an AI-driven language model, such as a natural language interface, someday replace our beloved CLI? That is, instead of needing to understand the syntax of a specific

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

Todays show is one of those Were 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 networ

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

If youve got an Autonomous System Number (ASN) and an IPv6 block, you too can multi-home IPv6 to your home lab! Sounds easy, right? Well, maybebut today were going to discuss why youd want to and

HN798: Fortinet Offers a SOC Every Org Can Grow Into (Sponsored)
September 26, 2025

On todays Heavy Networking: the Security Operations Center, or SOC. When I think of a SOC, I picture a miniature version of NASAs mission control: lots of computers, lots of people, some big boa

HN797: What To Do When The Business Asks for “AI”
September 19, 2025

When someone from the executive suite starts an AI initiative, what does that mean to you, the network engineer? The executive suite probably doesnt know what their AI idea might mean for i

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

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

HN795: Adventures In Latency
September 05, 2025

Monitoring and troubleshooting latency can be tricky. If its in the network, was it the IP stack? A NIC? A switch buffer? A middlebox somewhere on the WAN? If its the application, can you, the net

HN794: How the Bundle Protocol Enables Interplanetary Networking
August 29, 2025

How might we get network traffic from Earth to a lunar base? Or Mars? Or to spaceships carrying astronauts or probes exploring space? And how do we get it back? The problem, among other things, is