A couple months ago, a customer of mine was kind enough to donate some decommissioned Cisco Catalyst 3750G’s to me. I was happy to accept them as my test lab was growing in size and I had the need for multiple network segments. With the switches capable of doing Etherchannel, VLAN Trunking & Stacking I finally had a large-scale network infrastructure which in all honesty is probably overkill f ...
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Unmasking the Subnet
If you’ve connected a computer to the Internet, you’ve probably heard of an IP address. Most people, however, quickly gloss over IP’s little brother, the often forgotten and sorely misunderstood, Subnet Mask. You’ve seen him, but probably never knew his name. He usually looks like this.
While this is the Subnet Mask you’ll most often see, you may run into others that look very differ ...
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Awesome Linux Command-Line Tools – Network Edition
Here’s a list of Network tools for the Linux admin whose only resources are a keyboard, a terminal and whatever brains they can muster. No GUI’s here people. These are all tools I’ve found invaluable or at the very least, super cool to play with. Who hasn’t watched movies like The Net or Live Free or Die Hard and thought, “That’s awesome. I wanna do that.” Pwn with the terminal I mean, not ...
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Should I Build My Own Router?
If you’re the average user who’s happy with your basic wireless router or is possibly looking to upgrade your aging N-router or…*gasp*…G-router with a shiny new AC-router, building your own router is probably not the road you want to venture down. If, however, you have the need for multiple network segments, want the added functionality of enterprise-class routers without the high cost of comm ...
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Faster Internet? Yes, Please
“Another victim of budget cuts”
Backstory
A few weeks ago, I had a customer who was having some issues with their Time Warner phone service and their fax machine. Yes folks, fax machines are still alive and well and have outlasted the likes of the Beeper and Floppy Disk. Anyway, while on the phone with one of their customer support reps, I was told about new Internet packages they were offer ...
