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NIC Teaming, also known as Windows Load Balancing or Failover (LBFO), is an extremely useful feature supported by Windows Server 2012 that allows the…
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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 supp…
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Different Linux systems can be used in many ways. This is the main idea behind operating different services at different operating levels. For example, th…
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File & folder security is a big part of any operating system and Linux is no exception! These permissions allow you to choose exactly who can access…
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It's time to start creating our zone files. We'll follow the standard format, which is given in the DNS RFCs, in order to keep everything neat and less co…
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This article covers the main TCP/IP network configuration files used by Linux to configure various network services of the system such as IP Address, Defa…

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