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Hello all! I'm half the IT Dept for a medium-sized law firm, which means I wear a lot of hats - especially since I tend to be the server/network engineer - on top of being the help desk guy, the guy...
View ArticleStrange Windows XP networking issue - "remote procedure call failed"
One of our clients has had a SSL VPN working between 3 XP pro machines for several years. One is acting as server for the other two (remote locations) for their accounting system. The simply need file...
View ArticleHow network bonding saved my sanity and made me an IT hero
This is the 186th article in the Spotlight on IT series. If you'd be interested in writing an article on the subject of backup, security, storage, virtualization, mobile, networking, wireless, DNS, or...
View ArticleFind a spammer on the network
I've received a report that one of my external IP addresses is being used to send spam. What's the quickest way to find the machine that is doing it?
View ArticleRuckus University is May 16th in NYC-free event sign up now!
Free Event: Once again, we're taking Ruckus Wi-Fi is taking Ruckus University on the road, sharing our crazy huge knowledge base with our friends across North America. If you didn't join us on our...
View ArticleUniversal Cable Management Arm suggestions
We have Dell Racks/ Cabinets however we have several different type of server and devices (Dell, SuperMicro, EMC, Buffalo, etc.). Does anyone know of any cable management arms that connect to the Rack...
View ArticleLooking for Excel 48-port Switch diagram
If anyone can share a good excel template diagram of a 48 port switch which I can use to map ports to vlans, that would be awesome.
View ArticleEXTREMELY annoying vps issues
Hey guys so i have just gotten a vps and for some odd reason it wouldnt let me log in to it, i had everything set the way it should be so i just added an option to the .default.rdp file so i wouldnt...
View Articlenetwork switchs
ok i am trying to quote out switches and i keeps seeing L2+ switches. we are having a new phone system being put in the next two to 3 months. and they had ask for L3 switch. it a shore tell system so...
View ArticleFortigate-50B Multiple Networks.
Hey Spiceheads, So we just had a new ISP installed and their contract came with a Fortigate-50b firewall service which is managed by a separate re-seller. Our problem is that in one of our locations...
View ArticleSlow wall port.
Hi All, I am having a 100 Mbps workstation speed on a Gigabit network and tested wall port with another laptop currently running at Gigabit speed. Then the laptop also dropped down to 100 Mbps with...
View ArticleNeed wireless bridge/repeater advice
Here's the deal: I'm needing to connect to a shared and presumably insecure wireless network. I've got a Belkin 150N wireless router and a spare PC. I'm considering putting a wireless card in the PC...
View ArticleSwitch POE - how is power allocated?
I've got a switch (Cisco SG200-24P) that can deliver 100 watts. Does this mean I can connect different devices with different power draws to the POE ports as long as the total power draw of all...
View ArticleStrange Internet Problem with AB Tutor
We are having some difficult time with internet/intranet. We are using windows 7 and AB Tutor 6.8/9. Its appeared last week some computers can access all shared resources but can't open intranet or...
View ArticleHost multiple servers on 1 external IP address
Hey guys (first post, wooo!) I'm a little new to this, but here goes! - Here's what I'm trying to do... We've got multiple servers running and what I'm looking to do is to use 1 external IP address...
View ArticleHey Everyone - I need ideas for a gigabit ethernet fiber switch.
I'm looking to increase the speed of my campus backbone from 100MB to Gigabit. Ideally I'd like a 8 or 16 port fiber switch with all LC connectors. It will be a busy switch so it needs some "guts". A...
View ArticleCDMA Ad-hoc connection
Can a Sierra Wireless - AirLink Raven X connect directly to a proprietary wireless transmitter? Ideally what I want to do is go from a laptop, with an aircard, to the Raven X. Then have the Raven X...
View Articleremote destop and anyconnect
i have this contract where i am using Cisco any connect on my laptop that i usually use for my network since i was having network issue i had to create a vm use that vm for the contract with any...
View ArticleCan prtg see ip addresses from a switch
Hello. I have installed prtg and I am trying to set all my switches up on it. Is there a way for it to see the IP address that is going to the client computer from the port on the switch??
View ArticleMeraki/Juniper ipsec errors
So I have just recently deployed a meraki MX80 at our corporate office and part of the migration would be to bring our remote Juniper SRX's to connect to the meraki instead of our Juniper SRX200 we...
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