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There are umpteen reasons why your Windows Server 2012 R2 decides to present you with a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) or the stop screen. As virtual machines become more prominent in enterprise environ…
Windows Workstations (XP, 7, 8, 10, 11)
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Not many people are aware that Windows 7 has built-in capabilities that allow it to be transformed into a perfectly working access point so that wireless clients such as laptops, smartphones and othe…
Routing
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Our previous article explained the purpose of Link State Update (LSU) packets and examined the Link State Advertisement (LSA) information contained within LSU packets. We also saw the most common LSA…
Network Fundamentals
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Linux - Unix
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When you are using Vim, you want to know three things - getting in, moving about and getting out. Of course, while doing these three basic operations, you would like to do something meaningful as wel…
Routing
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This article explains how OSPF uses Link State Advertisement (LSA) to exchange information about the network topology between routers. When a router receives an LSA, it is stored in the Link-State Da…
Linux - Unix
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Windows Servers
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Ethernet Protocol, CSMA/CD, Collisions
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CSMA/CD stands for Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection. It refers to the means of media access, or deciding "who gets to talk" in an Ethernet network.
A more elegant term for "who…
SASE & SD-WAN Networks
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Enterprises have been successfully running WAN optimization appliances at their many distributed sites for years. The devices have done a good job of helping businesses squeeze as much capacity as po…
Web Application Vulnerability Scanners
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Acunetix has refreshed its online web and network vulnerability scanner, Acunetix Online, with a massive update. The new Acunetix Online now incorporates all the features found in its on premise offe…
Cisco Switches
Spanning Tree BPDU Guard and Errdisable Interface…
Running Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) in a large network environment can be a challenging task especially when features/enhancements such as BPDU Filter and BPDU Guard need to be configured to help ST…
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