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Policy Based Routing

Policy based routing is the process of altering a packets path based on criteria other than the destination address, commonly referred to as ‘policy routing’. PBR (Policy Based …

The History of PING

Anyone that has touched a computer these days has probably heard of ping. But very few know of its true origins these days. The following is based off the original developer, Mike …

Using /31 subnets for point-to-point interfaces

Recently a “colleague”, I use that term very loosely here, was reviewing my recommendations for changes on his network. Since they’re rather tight on public IP space, and require …

The Holy Hackintosh Build

This is a follow up to my previous Hackintosh post chronicling the build and setup of my ‘Hack Pro’. My original goal was to …

The Road to Hack…intosh

Over the past couple months, the lack of desktop here at home has driven me up the wall. Turning to my laptop time and time again, hooking it up to an external monitor while …

IOS ACL Resequencing

This is one of those tricks you wish you learned about 10 years ago, but never did. You know how easy it is to mess up a nice looking access list. You get one setup on the router, …