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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…

Web Application Vulnerability Scanners

Acunetix Enterprise: Find Website - Web Applicati…

Security researchers disagree about the percentage of vulnerable websites, but most concur that it’s way too high. Despite their long history, attackers continue to use cross-site scripting (XSS), SQ…

Linux - Unix

Configuring Linux to Act as a Firewall - Linux IP…

What exactly is a firewall? As in the non-computer world, a firewall acts as a physical barrier to prevent fires from spreading. In the computer world too, the firewall acts in a similar manner, only…

Network Protocol Analyzers

Improve Network Analysis Efficiency with Colasoft…

Troubleshooting network problems can be a very difficult and challenging task. While most IT engineers use a network analyzer to help solve network problems, when analyzing hundreds or thousands of p…

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

Installing The ‘Unsupported’ Profilic USB-to-Seri…

Thanks to the absence of dedicated serial ports on today’s laptops and ultrabooks, USB-to-Serial adapters are very popular amongst Cisco engineers as they are used to perform the initial configuratio…

Cisco Switches

Installation of a Cisco Catalyst 4507R-E Layer 3…

Driven by our thirst for technical material and experience, we thought it would be a great idea to start presenting various installations of Cisco equipment around the globe, especially equipment tha…

Routing

OSPF - Part 3: OSPF Adjacency & Neighbor Forming…

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…

Network Fundamentals

Measuring Network Performance: Test Network Throu…

Measuring network performance has always been a difficult and unclear task, mainly because most engineers and administrators are unsure which approach is best suited for their LAN or WAN network. A…

Routing

Routing Information Protocol - RIP

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is a distance-vector routing protocol that is commonly used in small to medium-sized networks. It is one of the oldest routing protocols still in use today, h…

VLAN Networks

Static VLANs

VLANs are usually created by the network administrator, assigning each port of every switch to a VLAN. Depending on the network infrastructure and security policies, the assignment of VLANs can be im…

Cisco Wireless

Complete Guide: How to Download & Deploy The Cisc…

This article covers the deployment of the Cisco WLC 9800-CL cloud-based controller on the VMware ESXi platform. We explain the CPU, RAM and storage requirements, provide URLs to easily download and i…

Linux - Unix

Installing & Configuring VSFTPD FTP Server for Re…

Vsftpd is a popular FTP server for Unix/Linux systems. For thoes unaware of the vsftpd ftp server, note that this is not just another ftp server, but a mature product that has been around for over 12…