Jason Gintert

Networking Field Day 40 - Tech Field Day

Stoked to be a delegate again for #NFD40! Tune in April 8–April 10, 2026 to see presentations. Help us delegates ask the tough questions about their announcements. Use #NFD40 day of on your social platform of choice and we'll get your questions asked.

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Heading to NANOG96 in a few weeks? Let’s connect! DM me to coordinate a meetup. Should be a good one!
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Autocon4: Network Automation Gets All Grown Up The network automation market hit $15 billion this year. It'll double to $30 billion by 2028. Those numbers would've seemed absurd a decade ago when we were still arguing whether using Ansible and Pyt...

Network automation: $15B now, $30B by 2028. #Autocon4 showed the industry has grown up. Proven ROI, real frameworks and honest talk about what's actually holding teams back. The tech works. Now it's psychology. bitsinflight.com/autocon4-network-automation-gets-all-grown-up/

Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

This is pretty big news and likely cements MCP as the open standard for integrating data with AI. www.anthropic.com/news/donatin...

I don’t think there’s any stopping it now 🙂

Got my brand spankin new #Autocon challenge coin! It got an upgrade, this guy is thick. I just can't put into words how much I enjoy this conference. The community that rallies around this organization, event and mission is remarkable. #networkautomationforum #autocon4

Damn, 4?! Is that all of em? Did they have one at AC0?

Hoping to get another one of these babies this week! Also anticipating some amazing presentations and conversations.

Anyone else going to Network Automation Forum’s #Autocon4 in Austin?! If so, let’s meet up! Send a DM and we’ll connect. I’m attending Weds-Fri and am so excited.

Lessons from a Network Engineering Journey The year 2025 marks my 26th in data networking as a profession and over 30 years since I started experimenting with networks. As I find myself between engagements, I've had time to reflect on where…

Tech layoffs making this piece from earlier this year hit different. Key lesson: Every opportunity for me came through helping others without keeping score. Your real network isn't your follower count, it's the people you've actually helped along the way. www.bitsinflight.com/lessons-from...

AI Won't Replace Network Engineers After spending some time working with model context protocol (MCP) servers that integrate with select systems, I've gotten very familiar with what GenAI can and can't do for network troubleshooting.…

I've spent a few months building AI integrations for network monitoring systems and learned a thing or two that I share here. If you're a network engineer wondering about your career trajectory in an AI world, you might want to check this out. www.bitsinflight.com/ai-wont-repl... #Networking #AI

Applying AI to Networking | Laketec Insights Discover how Laketec applies AI to networking, enhancing performance, security and efficiency in modern IT environments.

I'd argue that AI isn’t just the future of networking, it’s the present. We’re already seeing production systems that let you interact with a network in plain English, across tools and vendors, without logging into a dozen dashboards. Read here:
www.laketec.com/2025/09/16/a...

Scanning Activity on Palo Alto Networks Portals Jump 500% in One Day GreyNoise detects 500% spike in Palo Alto login scans, linking it to recent Cisco ASA exploit trends.

I'm wondering if we are going to have an announcement from Palo Alto Networks regarding a new zero day exploit for Global Protect? Has anyone else noticed an impact to their Global Protect infrastructure? thehackernews.com/2025/10/scan...

Today's soundtrack: Cloakroom's Dissolution Wave 🎵 This album has owned my ears for 3 years straight and I'm still not tired of it. If you're new to Cloakroom, start with "Dissembler" from this album.

What's in your rotation right now? I'm always hunting for the next album to obsesses over.

‼️Running Cisco ASAs / Firepower? You need to check this out to see if you are affected.‼️ CISA has issued Emergency Directive 25-03 regarding a widespread zero-day campaign targeting Cisco ASA and Firepower devices. It’s pretty bad, patch now.

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Wonder what the @usnua.com is all about? I had the opportunity to talk about it in the spring at #NFD37. Here's a run down from @networkingnerd.net with a video of the presentation. Thanks to Tom and @techstronggroup.bsky.social for the platform to spread the word! techstrong.it/itsm/meeting...

Yessir! Connecting this to another hub definitely required a cross over cable 🙂

Behold, the Cisco FastHub 108T from 1997 - when 100Mbps shared bandwidth was cutting-edge and we lived without VLANs or auto-negotiation. Almost 30 years later, this single collision domain relic really shows how spoiled we've become with modern networking. (Yes, that's an OUI transceiver on top 🙂)

Open models by OpenAI Advanced open-weight reasoning models to customize for any use case and run anywhere.

Big OpenAI news:

- They have open source models! Pretty stoked to give oss-gpt-20b a shot on my machine. openai.com/open-models/

- ChatGPT 5 is being released during a livestream at 10a PT today. www.theverge.com/news/720114/...

AI advancement marches on!

HPE warns of hardcoded passwords in Aruba access points Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is warning of hardcoded credentials in Aruba Instant On Access Points that allow attackers to bypass normal device authentication and access the web interface.

⚠️ Aruba Instant-On users: Critical vulns in AP firmware ≤3.2.0.1 - via hardcoded passwords + command injection. Patch ASAP. Awkward timing with HPE having to divest this under DOJ's Juniper deal terms.

Details: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

ChatGPT"s GPT-5-reasoning-alpha model spotted ahead of launch GPT-5 might be just a few days or weeks away, as we've spotted references to a new model called gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13.

GPT 5, coming soon!

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...

Happy Friday, everyone!

🎶 Currently spinning: "Low on Foot" LP by Slow Mass, a recent favorite of mine. Look at that beautiful speckled vinyl!

Any tunes brightening your day? Share top picks below!

Wishing you all a fantastic end to the week and hope your summer has been awesome! 🌞

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Re...

Anyone else notice @cloudflare.social’s DNS service down for a bit for 1.1.1.1 on Monday 7/14?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, everyone should be this open and transparent so that folks in the community can learn from these sorts of events.

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HPE Networking’s Inflection Point The last week of June 2025 was pretty transformational for HPE networking. While most of us were still processing the stuff we learned at HPE Discover 2025 (June 23-26), two more bombshells dropped…

Wow, HPE Networking has been busy. Their Agentic AI Mesh announcement at HPE Discover, a strong position in the Gartner MQ and DOJ approval of the Juniper buy are some major highlights. The question remains: will they capitalize on their championship window? www.bitsinflight.com/hpe-networki...

(OH)NUG - Cleveland Summer Event 2025

COME HANG OUT WITH ME! (OH)NUG Cleveland is this Thursday 7/10 at the Wild Eagle, 5001 E Royalton Rd, Broadview Heights, OH 44147. Free food, free drink and a big helping of network knowledge. Sign up here: www.usnua.com/ohnug-clevel.... Space is filling fast! #OHNUG #USNUA @usnua.com

It’s official! That was a long leak cycle www.arista.com/en/solutions...

US DOJ settles antitrust case for HPE's $14 billion takeover of Juniper The U.S. Department of Justice has settled its lawsuit challenging server maker Hewlett Packard Enterprise's all-cash acquisition of Juniper Networks for $14 billion, according to court filings.

Big news! HPE’s acquisition of Juniper is going to proceed. I’m sure HPE would have preferred this news dropped before Discover but at least they didn’t have to wait until mid July 🙂 Buckle up everyone! Looks like a wild ride ahead. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

You at HPE Discover? Hey, me too! Let’s hang.

Message me and let’s see if we can connect. #HPEDiscover2025 #HPE #Aruba

Long overdue, with this I might actually consider an iPad again. Lack of just working like a friggin laptop was always my barrier to use and why I don't currently have one. I've had many and they always ended up collecting dust until I gave them away.

So here's a rare personal post where I wanted to share a little bit of a backyard performance from my daughter Eliza's band. They're called Learner and they're really good. If you dig em, you should go see them if they end up near you. Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/learner.oh/. So proud 🥺

So awesome to join Phil and Phil on this episode. School networks are different but so rewarding!