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Book Review – Armada

December 2, 2019
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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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Packet Fragment: Windows Blocking an SSID

November 27, 2019
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| Blog, Microsoft, Packet Fragment, troubleshooting, War Stories, windows
A car with the hood up.

Recently I got brought in on a ticket where the colleague couldn’t connect to our wireless network. Even manually adding the SSID to the computer was met with an error of “Your network administrator has blocked you from connecting to this network.” But why would Windows block an SSID? As I said in a previous […]

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2019 IT Blog Awards

November 22, 2019
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My humble little blog has been chosen as a finalist in the 2019 IT Blog Awards. Please consider taking a look at all of the finalists and voting for me under the Certification Journey category. Good luck to all that are in the running. There are a lot of great blogs out there. You can […]

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Book Review – Ready Player One

November 18, 2019
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Photo of a mosaic alient on a wall.

For this book, I went even farther away from my steady diet of Cisco Press books. Ready Player One is a great read. I’m thankful that I took the time to read this book before seeing the movie. TL;DR the book is better. The book is set in a dystopian future where a virtual reality […]

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Packet Fragment: ASA SCP Permission Denied

November 14, 2019
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Puzzle with a missing piece.

Today I was configuring a new ASA in my lab environment. I had also fired up a brand new Ubuntu VM to be my SCP server. When I tried to copy files from Ubuntu to the ASA, it would give me the error “permission denied”. Of course, this sent me looking to see why my […]

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Book Review: The Phoenix Project

November 11, 2019
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This review of the book The Phoenix Project will be the first in a new series on PackIT Forwarding. Earlier this year I realized that I hadn’t read any books without the Cisco Press imprint in quite a long time. This was one of the books that have so far made it to my reading […]

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Cisco Live Latin America – Day 3

November 4, 2019
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All good things must come to an end and so too did Cisco Live Latin America 2019. The final day of the conference was a mix of technical training, a great keynote and partying. Colonel Chris Hadfield’s keynote was an inspiring keynote about transformation. Through the lens of his story from a little boy watching […]

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Cisco Live Latin America – Day 2

October 30, 2019
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Today I spent most of my time in break out sessions. As usual they were extremely well done presentations. The first one was on the ongoing game of cat and mouse between security professionals and hackers. As usual it is an ongoing arms race. I don’t see that ending anytime soon based on the material […]

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Cisco Live Latin America – Day 1

October 29, 2019
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Cisco Logo at the beginning of the keynote.

Today the classes and summits began. Unlike the traditional Cisco Live US hour to two hour break out sessions, most people, including myself, were in much longer summits devoted to various verticals and topics. It became clear that Cisco wants to make security part of everything it does. Cyber Security Summit I was torn between […]

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Cisco Live Latin America – Day 0

October 28, 2019
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I’ll call this day 0 since the main conference starts in earnest tomorrow. Today is similar to Sunday at Cisco Live US where it is mainly purchased labs and techtorials. Location, Location, Location Cisco Live Latin America is being held this year at the Moon Palace resort in Cancun, Mexico. I’m fortunate to be here […]

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Ben Story @ntwrk80

Ben Story @ntwrk80

Ben Story is a network engineer for a multi-state hospital system. 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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