VLAN's & NETWORKING? Any tips for my new project?
So I will be creating VLAN's on our network to hopefully help alleviate some slowdown and to further my understanding of IT best practices. I will be working with 2 HP 1810 48 port switches and 1...
View ArticleGuest network access and Outlook Web Access
Hi all, Hoping someone can give me some ideas here. I have a wireless guest network setup that is not allowed to talk to any devices on our production network. It does have internet access and uses...
View ArticleFacebook getting into the hardware game with switches?
check this out...quite interesting. Not sure I would trust facebook with layer 2/3 devices... would...
View ArticleTellabs CIsco
Hi everyone I need serious help with this. My telephone line which is then connected to a small box that changes the phone line to RJ-45 goes to a tellabs 8110 CTE-2 router, connected cisco router...
View ArticleUpgrading Core Network Switches: Netgear Stackable "2nd Gen" Switches Any Good?
It's been awhile but we're finally looking at upgrading our core network equipment. I was looking at getting three to four Netgear 48 port stackable switches thanks to recommendations by SAM, but I...
View ArticleNew network layout
I am making changes to my network because of our new phones and internet coming inhttp://www.gliffy.com/go/publish/4576699 What do you all think? I am using SIP trunks and also Vlan 150 for guest...
View ArticleSwitches in too large range with DHCP
Hi folks, I have too much switches without identification on my network and they have DHCP in range 169.254.1-254.1-254, this range is too huge to Spiceworks search, a scan can leave months to finish,...
View ArticleUsing wireshark to analyze for broadcast storm
Had a case where a portion of the network was losing connectivity at the voip phones and internet at the computers. This portion of the network was through an unmanaged switch to a few other smaller...
View ArticleNAT in a Proxmox server - Forwarding incoming ports to internal VMs
Helo ppl !!I have an issue with Debian Proxmox x2.3 with 2 bridged NICS, vmbr0 (public IP) and vmbr1 (10.10.11.0/24). There are 4 VMs going outside through NAT without any problem. All network is...
View ArticleNetwork Security Audits
I want to no all info you can give me about security audits How do you do them? What software to use free or paid? Why are they done? If its a company that is under hippa then is there anything...
View ArticleUnable to ping the asset behind the fortigate firewall through site to site vpn
Hello all, We are having couple of office in our country... we placed a forigate firewalls in each offices 1. 60c and 2. 40c boxes. We establised site to site VPN and it gets pinging only the firewall...
View ArticleMonitor websites visited on a network
Hi, I don't think our router has the facility to log actual URLs visited, and no way to "pull" data from it to do the same. So, does anyone know of some software, preferably free/low-cost, that can...
View ArticleShare internet bandwidth from HQ to branch?
Hi everyone, Like to check on this possibility. Let's say I have this. HQ - 50MB dedicated line Branch - 10MB DSL line (not dedicated but go through few hops) Now both HQ and Branch are connected via...
View ArticleVLAN config and routing in a network with multiple L2 and l3 switches
Hello, I have a network where I have several managed / unmanaged layer 2 switches and some managed layer 3 switches installed. I wish to configure network for 3 different VLANs. i.e 192.168.1.x...
View ArticleHow to create a vpn with Draytrek 2850
Help please, I need some advice, I've got a Fortigates firewall on my HQ and a Draytek 2850 in one of my branch. Any adive on how I can create a VPN link between the two firewall/router please, any...
View ArticleAdding Devices from a Remote Network: total Noob
Our network is currently being monitored by Observium, but I find that the alert process, is limited even though there are nice charts and graphs. Also, I am new to using any of this kind of software,...
View ArticleCisco 2504 WLC and Windows 2008 R2 RADIUS NPS issue.
I've been pulling my hair out with this one. I have a Cisco 2504 WLC that is configured to authenticate against my 2008 R2 domain controller with Network Policy Server. I have my CA and certs in...
View ArticleSlow and disconnect network issues after creating a domain
I recently just switched a 15 person company from a workgroup setting to a domain and am having some issues. There is one server that is the DC, DNS, does file shares. The server has 16gb RAM and a...
View ArticleVLANs.... buzzword?
Seriously, why has "VLANs" become such a buzz word, especially around here, every other post in the networking forum seems to be "VLANs, I don't understand them but I need them, please help". How on...
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