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Network Address Translation - NAT

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Routing

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Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a popular routing protocol developed for Internet Protocol (IP) networks by the Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force…

Cisco Routers

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Our previous article covered how to fix the Cisco Configuration Professional display/window problem where the CCP application is displayed in about one third of the browser’s window. Users looking fo…

Network Cabling

1Gigabit 802.3ab -10GBase (10Gigabit) 802.3an Eth…

The 1000Base Ethernet standard, also referred to as Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1GigE) is defined by the IEEE 802.3-2008 standard and provides 10 times faster transfer speeds of 100Base Ethernet. Gigabi…

Supernetting & CIDR

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Palo Alto Networks

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Discover the ins and outs of using Palo Alto Networks’ Software NGFW (Flex) credits to seamlessly renew your cloud-based or virtualized software NGFW devices! Dive into this exciting guide where we u…

TCP - UDP Protocol Analysis

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This page will closely examine the Sequence and Acknowledgement numbers. The very purpose of their existence is related directly to the fact that the Internet, and generally most networks, are packet…

Windows Servers

Free Webinar: Migrating from Hyper-V to VMware

If your organization is planning to migration from a Hyper-V virtualization environment to VMware then this FREE webinar is just for you. Aimed toward Hyper-V and VMware admins this webinar will cov…

Cisco Routers

How To Configure DNS Server On A Cisco Router

The DNS protocol is used to resolve FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Names) to IP addresses around the world. This allows us to successfully find and connect to Internet websites and services no matter w…

Virtualization & VM Backup

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VLAN Networks

The VLAN Concept - Introduction to VLANs

We hear about them everywhere, vendors around the world are constantly trying to push them into every type of network and as a result, the Local Area Network (LAN) we once knew starts to take a diffe…

Windows Servers

Windows 2012 Server NIC Teaming – Load Balancing/…

NIC Teaming, also known as Windows Load Balancing or Failover (LBFO), is an extremely useful feature supported by Windows Server 2012 that allows the aggregation of multiple network interface cards t…