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2019 IT Blog Awards2019 IT Blog Awards

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 3:29 pm

My humble little blog has been chosen as a finalist in the 2019 IT Blog Awards. Please consider taking a...

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Book Review – Ready Player OneBook Review – Ready Player One

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 8:00 am

For this book, I went even farther away from my steady diet of Cisco Press books. Ready Player One is...

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Packet Fragment: ASA SCP Permission DeniedPacket Fragment: ASA SCP Permission Denied

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 9:59 am

Today I was configuring a new ASA in my lab environment. I had also fired up a brand new Ubuntu...

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Book Review: The Phoenix ProjectBook Review: The Phoenix Project

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 8:00 am

This review of the book The Phoenix Project will be the first in a new series on PackIT Forwarding. Earlier...

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

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

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