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		<title>CCNA &#8211; One Year Later</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/ccna-study/ccna-one-year-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CCNA Study]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In May of this year, I marked the one year anniversary of obtaining my CCNA certification by passing the composite exam. The following are my thoughts, opinions, and observations one year out. Use it or loose it! As far as knowledge is concerned, I am a firm believer that what you do not user you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISC DHCP &amp; Microsoft RIS</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/systems/isc-dhcp-microsoft-ris/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/systems/isc-dhcp-microsoft-ris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Systems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our organization made the switch from a Microsoft based DHCP solution to an appliance based DHCP solution (Linux based). Recently, someone went to use Microsoft Remote Installation Service (RIS) and noticed that the process was broken. The initial report was that the computer could not obtain a DHCP lease using PXE boot, which I found to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juniper SRX Static NAT</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/firewalls/juniper-srx-static-nat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Firewalls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Static NAT is a function that is commonly used when you want to offer services on the Internet from a server that sits on a protected subnet that uses a private address scheme (RFC1918). In a previous article, I detailed the process of creating static NAT entries on a Fortigate 800 using the web interface. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1-Port Power Injectors @ 1Gbps</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/hp-procurve/1-port-power-injectors-1gbps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/hp-procurve/1-port-power-injectors-1gbps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HP Procurve]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I ran into an issue when the need arose to provide temporary wireless connectivity for a single room in one of our buildings.   The task was easy enough: use one of our spare HP MSM422 access points along with a 1-port power injector since this building has older (non-PoE) switching equipment. Against my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BES + Windows 2008 + Exchange 2003</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/systems/bes-windows-2008-exchange-2003/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/systems/bes-windows-2008-exchange-2003/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Systems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Problem: You are trying to build a new Blackberry Enterprise Server on top of Windows Server 2008 and your mail server is running Exchange 2003. The BES prerequisites state that you need to install the Exchange 2003 management tools on the BES, but they will not install on Windows Server 2008 Solution: Follow this link [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCNA Voice IIUC 640-460 Notes</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/ccna-voice/ccna-voice-iiuc-640-460-notes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/ccna-voice/ccna-voice-iiuc-640-460-notes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CCNA Voice]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hiddenone.net/?p=242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The past month I have been slowly going through the test material for the CCNA Voice exam (640-460). You can take the CVOICE exam to obtain the CCNA Voice certification, however since I did not have much knowledge of voice topics I stuck with the 640-460 track. The Official Exam Certification Guide was just what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCNP Changes</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/ccnp-study/ccnp-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/ccnp-study/ccnp-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CCNP Study]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After much anticipation, the changes to the CCNP certification track have been officially announced. You can view the official certification options on Cisco&#8217;s website. Essentially the information that has been floating around the Internet (and covered here) regarding the changes has been spot on. Pre-orders for some of the Cisco Press books have started popping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Procurve Switch Recovery with Xmodem</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/hp-procurve/procurve-switch-recovery-with-xmodem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/hp-procurve/procurve-switch-recovery-with-xmodem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HP Procurve]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hiddenone.net/?p=235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the long weekend, I caught up on some much needed network maintenance at several of our buildings. I was able to upgrade most of the switch software without any trouble, but there is only that one bad apple! The culprit switch started acting odd after I copied the current software image (which was stable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pictures From Work</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/general/pictures-from-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/general/pictures-from-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to uploading some of the pictures I took at my current place of employment. They are not great quality, since I took them with my Blackberry. Below are a few of my favorites and the stories behind them. You can view the rest of the pictures here. First up is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware Whitebox Build</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/virtualization/vmware-whitebox-build/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/virtualization/vmware-whitebox-build/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I talked about building a VMware whitebox to run VMware ESX on inexpensive equipment. That was over a year ago and a few things have changed, so I figured an update was in order. For the whitebox build I purchased a new motherboard, processor, and memory. This was based on the requirements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boot that ISO!</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/network-tools/boot-that-iso/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/network-tools/boot-that-iso/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Network Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to break the news to those of you with spindles filled with hundreds of blanks CD’s, but optical disc is dead! While this statement may be a bit dramatic, it holds true for me. Sure discs are still a means of cheap retail content delivery (Software, movies, etc), but for a network administrator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internal DNS Reverse Lookup Zones</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/general/internal-dns-reverse-lookup-zones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/general/internal-dns-reverse-lookup-zones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently while sifting through some logs at work, I discovered some odd traffic coming from our DHCP server. The server appeared to be sending DNS updates to external DNS servers. This traffic never made it out of our network since our egress policy was not expecting to see DNS traffic from the DHCP server, so [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>802.1q Trunks for Cisco &amp; Procurve Switches</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/hp-procurve/802-1q-trunks-for-cisco-procurve-switches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/hp-procurve/802-1q-trunks-for-cisco-procurve-switches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HP Procurve]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hiddenone.net/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first thing I would like to do is clarify that this article discusses how to configure an 802.1q VLAN trunk between a Cisco switch and an HP Procurve switch. From here on out any references to trunking refer to an 802.1q tagged VLAN trunk. I am making that distinction now because in the Procurve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCNP Version 6.0</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/ccnp-study/ccnp-version-6-0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/ccnp-study/ccnp-version-6-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CCNP Study]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hiddenone.net/?p=197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that those of us studying for our CCNP certification have some decisions to make. For some time rumors have been floating around about an update to the CCNP exam (currently version 5.0). About one week ago, information that looked to be targeted to Cisco Network Academy partners was leaked. This information seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rancid &amp; HP Procurve Equipment</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/hp-procurve/rancid-hp-procurve-equipment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/hp-procurve/rancid-hp-procurve-equipment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HP Procurve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The underlying goal at work this month is to get some much needed insight and auditing abilities into our network. I have looked at Rancid before, and after doing some research I finally decided to take the plunge and implement it into our network. The steps below assume that you are running Ubuntu Server 8.04.3 LTS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solarwinds Orion: Custom Links</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/network-tools/solarwinds-orion-custom-links/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/network-tools/solarwinds-orion-custom-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Network Tools]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hiddenone.net/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At work we recently converted from a network monitoring package that was provided by our switching vendor, to Orion Network Performance Monitor from Solarwinds. Shortly after installing and configuring Orion, I configured a Linux server running Rancid for configuration management. In my eyes, both Orion and Rancid fall under the network monitoring/management category, so I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tools for the Daily Grind</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/network-tools/tools-for-the-daily-grind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/network-tools/tools-for-the-daily-grind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Network Tools]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hiddenone.net/?p=175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many tools that can make the life of a network administrator easier. The following is a list of programs that I use on a daily basis to make management of the network easier. As a bonus, all of these programs are available free of charge. A few of these tools I use mainly for organization, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cabinets Vs. Closets</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/design/cabinets-vs-closets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/design/cabinets-vs-closets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a perfect world every MDF and IDF would have its own dedicated room with limited access. Since most of us live in the real world, compromises must be made. About one year ago the organization I work for went through a complete network infrastructure upgrade in one of our buildings. Since space was limited [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bookshelf Update</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/site-updates/bookshelf-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/site-updates/bookshelf-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Site Updates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hiddenone.net/?p=159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I finish reading DNS &#38; Bind, I started looking through my Amazon wishlist for a few more titles that I could add to my collection. I choose two titles that I think will tie well into some projects that I am involved with at work. The first is Campus Network Design Fundamentals, a Cisco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fortigate Static NAT Configuration</title>
		<link>http://www.hiddenone.net/firewalls/fortigate-static-nat-configuration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hiddenone.net/firewalls/fortigate-static-nat-configuration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Firewalls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous article, I covered how to configure NAT overload, or PAT, on a Fortigate firewall. This time around I will cover how to configure static NAT. Static NAT is used to map one IP address to another. This is typically used to perform translations from public address space to private address space. Many [...]]]></description>
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