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2019 In Review, and 2020 in View2019 In Review, and 2020 in View

December 31, 2019December 31, 2019| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 11:59 pm

2019 Another year is coming to a close and it seems to be the in thing to do a review....

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Cisco IOS/IOS-XE FN: 70489Cisco IOS/IOS-XE FN: 70489

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 8:26 am

On December 17th, 2019, Cisco released a Field Notice that could ruin a lot of people’s holiday vacations. The Field...

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Book Review – ArmadaBook Review – Armada

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 4:33 pm

A few weeks ago I wrote about Ernest Cline’s first novel Ready Player One, this week I’m writing about his...

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Packet Fragment: Windows Blocking an SSIDPacket Fragment: Windows Blocking an SSID

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019| 2 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 1:39 pm

Recently I got brought in on a ticket where the colleague couldn’t connect to our wireless network. Even manually adding...

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Ben Story @ntwrk80

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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  1. Ben Story on HopMatrix – Network DiscoveryOctober 20, 2026

    It will show visually the last hop that was responding. Kick the tires and give us feedback.

  2. Chris Lang on HopMatrix – Network DiscoveryOctober 11, 2026

    Network discovery write-ups only help when they name the hop path that actually failed. Curious which segment HopMatrix flagged first…

  3. HopMatrix - Network Discovery - PackIT Forwarding on HopMatrix – Is It Up?September 24, 2026

    […] Earlier in this series, we explored the core discovery module in HopMatrix through ping scanning. Now we’ll dive a…

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