Heavy Networking

Heavy Networking is an unabashedly nerdy dive into all things networking. On air since 2010, it’s the flagship show of the Packet Pushers podcast network.

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HN778: Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Selector (Sponsored)

Posted April 25, 202500:50:47

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a very new protocol that provides a standard way to link AI models to a variety of data sources and tools. As the industry...

HN777: Overlay All the Things?

Posted April 18, 202500:52:01

Today’s Heavy Networking is all about overlay technologies, their history, development, and current state, both from engineer and vendor perspectives....

HN776: Security Platforms: Balancing Efficacy, Ops, and Emerging Threats (Sponsored)

Posted April 11, 202500:49:33

Network security has evolved from stateful perimeter firewalls with maybe some IDS/IPS to a complex stack delivered as numerous unique tools, which...

HN775: How To Train Your Very Own AI-Enabled Slackbot

Posted April 4, 202501:03:59

On today’s Heavy Networking, we’ll discuss building a Slackbot wired to an AI and trained on your own organization’s knowledge. The potential...

HN774: Who Put These OT Risks In My IT Ops? Fortinet Has Answers (Sponsored)

Posted March 28, 202500:46:53

IT and infosec professionals are used to operating and protecting mission-critical infrastructure; servers, databases, load balancers, and so on. But...