145 episodes listed below
Network talk with operational teeth.
The Everything Feed gathers Packet Pushers conversations across networking, security, IPv6, DevOps, wireless, and network operations. Its best moments turn announcements, standards work, and field problems into sober questions about what operators should actually build, patch, measure, or avoid.
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The Everything Feed is the broadest Packet Pushers lane: a single stream of network engineering, security, automation, IPv6, DevOps, wireless, and operations conversations. It is dense by design. The show moves quickly from standards language to field practice, then from field practice to the organizational mess that decides whether the clean architecture ever survives contact with production. A Heavy Networking episode can turn the phrase "network service" into a real framework question for operators and automation teams. N Is For Networking can step back and answer listener corrections on multicast, routing protocols, and RFC 1918 with a more teaching-forward cadence. IPv6 Buzz gets granular about privacy and temporary addresses, host provisioning, link-local behavior, ULA, and global unicast details. Day 2 DevOps brings application security and open source malware into the same operational frame as NPM compromises, AI-driven infiltration, and malicious agent skills. Packet Protector puts networking and security side by side, especially around SASE, threat research, NAC, shadow IT, and policy projects that fail when they start too restrictive. Heavy Wireless asks whether Wi-Fi certification can prove real user experience instead of merely producing a one-off speed result. Network Break treats industry news as something to test for blast radius, including energy-system attacks, AI infrastructure switches, Cisco and Cato announcements, and the lingering risk of connected infrastructure. Total Network Operations brings architecture discipline to automation language, standards habits, and the slow work of getting engineers to mean the same thing by the same words. Across formats, the feed has a consistent bias. Claims get qualified. Acronyms are allowed to stand. Hype is inspected for load-bearing value. The result is a practical, sometimes sardonic editorial current for people who live near the machinery of modern networks and care less about launch language than about consequences.
Made for: Built for network engineers, infrastructure architects, security practitioners, DevOps operators, and technically literate IT leaders who already know the acronyms and want the consequences. It is especially useful for people responsible for designing, automating, measuring, or defending production networks.
What sets it apart: Its breadth comes from many Packet Pushers formats, but the center holds: each conversation pushes past announcements into operations, architecture, risk, and implementation tradeoffs. Even sponsored episodes are framed through what engineers can verify, deploy, troubleshoot, or reject.
Every single podcast we publish in one convenient feed. This is a LOT of content. Hours of audio each week.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A technically serious feed connecting network architecture, automation, security, vendor news, and enterprise AI strategy to real operational consequences.
The Everything Feed - All Packet Pushers Pods turns network engineering into a set of practical arguments about how systems should be designed, secured, automated, and paid for.
Virtual donuts and AI agents asking permission: your network-change anxieties have found some company.
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A practical RSA 2026 sponsored discussion of threat research, product security, and policy built around what the network actually reveals.
Recorded at RSA 2026, this sponsored HPE Networking conversation ties threat research and product security back to the work of the combined Juniper and HPE Aruba Networking teams.
A brisk operator-focused roundup of AI risk, energy-system attacks, and switch-hardware skepticism.
The episode lays out a brisk tour of technology and infrastructure risk, moving from an AI vulnerability-finding apocalypse to attacks on energy systems, then through announcements from Cato and Cisco, a new Ethernet switch startup, and a bit of space networking.
A grounded, skeptical discussion of AI spending, automation claims, and enterprise strategy if AI turns out to be a bubble.
Heavy Strategy tests AI optimism against a question enterprise IT cannot neatly answer: what if AI is a bubble? Jonna Johnson and John Burke frame the issue without pretending it can be settled outright, then move through circular investment, the familiar promise of faster and…
Architecture talk that stays anchored in operator reality.
The episode treats Network Automation Forum's architecture work as a careful conversation about language, teaching, and the order in which ideas should settle before the mechanics harden.
AI fits network automation best when human approval and reversible controls stay in place.
Heavy Networking asks a timely question: how much should an LLM be allowed to touch before engineers stop trusting the network? Ethan Banks and Drew Conroy-Murray talk with David Gee, CEO of Curvia, about orchestration, access, and where useful automation starts to become risky…
A grounded enterprise check on AI plans built to survive either a bust or continued expansion.
The AI bubble question lands here as an enterprise planning problem. Jonna Johnson, CEO of Nemertis, and John Burke, CTO of Nemertis, focus less on calling the top than on what IT teams can do when no one can prove whether a bubble exists or when it might burst.
Cisco's record quarter and a practical look at why network engineering still matters.
The episode opens on a CISA demand tied to a mission-critical exception before turning to Cisco's Q2 2026 results, and the business side is presented with clean, easy-to-track numbers.
Host Jack Rhysider narrates true hacking, breach, and privacy stories from the people involved.
David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
David Sparks and Stephen Robles dig into Keyboard Maestro, Shortcuts, and Mac automation weekly.
This sponsored episode explores the journey of transforming network operations from manual processes to a scalable cloud automation platform through an interview with network engineer Eric Fetty.
Bradley Wegner discusses the inspiration and process behind his 'Build Your Own Access Point' project, which started from conversations at WLPC and aims to provide hands-on hardware experience for networking enthusiasts.
This episode features an interview with Joshua Markle, Head of Hardware at Meter, discussing the design and development of networking hardware prototypes and the details behind physical components like heat sinks and power supplies.
This episode covers tech news including new Juniper routers for AI and cloud traffic, Anthropic's conflict with the Defense Department, wireless vulnerabilities, and financial results from Dell and NVIDIA.
Jonna Johnson and John Burke of Nemertis examine whether AI is a bubble and how enterprise IT should prepare.
Drew Convery-Murray and Jonna Johnson host a network news episode covering major tech updates.
Ethan Banks and guest Mark Prosser discuss defining what a network service is and its implications for network operations and automation.
This episode revisits IPv6 basics to explain privacy and temporary addresses, focusing on how interface identifiers are assigned for host devices and addressing common misunderstandings.
This episode of N is for Networking deviates from the usual format to address listener feedback and comments on networking topics like multicast, routing protocols, and RFC 1918.
This episode discusses how malware is evolving to target open source software through methods like NPM compromises and AI-driven infiltration, featuring an interview with Jen Geil, co-founder of Open Source Malware.
Packet Protector records live at RSA 2026 with Mundani Adjali of HPE Networking.
This episode explores Ookla's Speed Test Certified program, a network connectivity verification initiative for venues like hotels and stadiums, focusing on how it measures real-world Wi-Fi performance beyond just speed tests.
Drew Connery-Murray, John O'Johnson, and John Burke open with a loose network break and a pile of infrastructure news.
Recorded live from NANOG 96 in San Francisco in February 2026, Total Network Operations sits down with Damian Garros.
Jonna Johnson and John Burke on Heavy Strategy ask whether AI is a bubble and what enterprise IT should do if the market cracks.
Heavy Networking takes up AI-aware network automation.
This episode features an interview with Andreas Bechtel about his open-source project Wingpy, which simplifies network automation for engineers without requiring advanced Python skills.