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Month: December 2019

2019 In Review, and 2020 in View

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New years resolutions

2019 Another year is coming to a close and it seems to be the in thing to do a review. Twenty-nineteen has been a renewal for me. Branding In January I rebranded my personal brand and started blogging again under the PackIT Forwarding banner. Since then I have written dozens of articles and used the […]

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Cisco IOS/IOS-XE FN: 70489

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Photo of a bug on a leaf by Jimmy Chan from Pexels

On December 17th, 2019, Cisco released a Field Notice that could ruin a lot of people’s holiday vacations. The Field Notice says that any IOS device prior to 15.6(03)M07, 15.7(03)M05, 15.8(03)M03, or 15.9(03)M; and IOS-XE prior to 16.9.1 has a bug with the self-signed certificate. The bug is that they are set to expire on […]

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Book Review – Armada

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A book lying open on a table.

A few weeks ago I wrote about Ernest Cline’s first novel Ready Player One, this week I’m writing about his second novel Armada. The two novels are stand-alone, but they are definitely in the same vein. Ernest Cline’s ability to weave pop culture references throughout the novel takes the reader on a nostalgia trip along […]

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Ben Story @ntwrk80

Ben Story is a network security engineer for a solution provider. He has been working with networking since 1998, his Freshman year at Truman State University, when he worked for a small dial-up ISP managing their Shiva LanRover modem bank. His random bits and bytes can be found on his blog at https://packitforwarding.com or on Twitter @ntwrk80.

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