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Cisco Switches

Forcing A Cisco Catalyst Switch To Use 3rd Party…

Many companies are seeking for Cisco SFP alternatives to help cut down the costs on these expensive modules. A frequent customer problem with Cisco's new line of Catalyst switches is that they do no…

Windows Workstations (XP, 7, 8, 10, 11)

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Domain Name System (DNS)

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This section will help you understand how the DNS queries work on the Internet and your home network. There are two ways to use the domain name system in order to resolve a host or domain name to an…

Cisco CallManager-CCME

Cisco Small Business SPA500 IP Phone Series Admin…

Firewall.cx readers can now access and freely download the Cisco Small Business Administration Guide for Cisco SPA500 series IP phones. The Administration Guide for Cisco SPA500 series IP phon…

Windows Servers

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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a UDP protocol that uses port 161 to monitor and collect detailed information on any network device supporting the SNMP protocol. All Windows servers supp…

Routing

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This is the thrid article of our 6-part OSPF series (see below) that describes how OSPF routers perform neighbor relationship and adjacency. We’ll examine how OSPF discovers neighbors by sending Hell…

Windows Servers

New Upcoming Features in Hyper-V vNext - Free Tr…

With the release of Hyper-V vNext just around the corner, Altaro has organized a Free webinar that will take you right into the new Hyper-V vNext release. Microsoft Hyper-V MVP, Aidan Finn and Micros…

Domain Name System (DNS)

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The previous article covered the DNS Query message formats. In the article we analysed them in great detail and showed how various options are selected by the host using the Flags/Parameters field.&n…

Windows Servers

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Our previous articles covered basic concepts of Virtualization along with the installation and monitoring of Windows 2012 Hyper-V. This article takes the next step, which is the installation of a gue…