Possible Broadcast Storm or DoS?
Hi, I work in a school with approx 900 devices. We have about 60 switches most of which are Netgear GS724T, a couple of GSM models e.g. GSM7224 and GSM7328S and a few various Netgear PoE switches for...
View ArticleCost Effective L3 Switch - Existing Dell L2
Working with an office that hat an existing 2848 Gbit L2 Proconnect.. Will be implementing a vlan or two as well as some new switches... 2 additional 48 port switches are being implemented at this...
View ArticleBuffalo Linkstation NAS drive disconnects and reconnects mapped drive on PCs
I am having a problem with a Buffalo Linkstation that is disconnecting and reconnecting it's mapped drive on the client PCs. Replaced the Linkstation with another unit and still have the problem. I...
View ArticleSMTP connection to our mail server
Hey Spiceheads, We just moved to a new building and with it all our servers. The issue is that we cannot receive incoming emails. We can send out or internally but not receive from external. Our spam...
View ArticleCan't connect to Internet on RHEL6
Greetings, Have a simple problem, I can't quite solve. We have a RHEL6 server that suddenly lost Internet connection and also cannot be accessed from a remote office subnet. Nere the...
View ArticleVLAN Setup on DrayTek 2850n
Hi Guys, I'm Setting up VLANs on a Draytek Vigor 2850n to enable traffic priority, as it's going to be used in a high demand video steaming environment, and need to insure the media servers gets...
View ArticleBillion IPSEC VPN knocks off Internet
I am using using 2x Billion 7402GX Routers to setup an IPSEC VPN between my Head & Branch Office. The VPN connection itself works fine, but after the VPN has been connected for an hour or so, the...
View ArticleSwitches VS Individual Cables
Hello Everyone! Working on rebuilding the network in a small business (You may remember my question from a week or so ago) and I have a few new questions. In the process of ordering a new server, a...
View ArticleMicrosoft E-Learning
Hi all I have been trying to access my Microsoft E-Learning page as am studying my Microsoft MCITP and MCSA training and then do the exams, and every time I log in with my email address and password,...
View ArticleOne-way high ping
Hello all. We have a three-server Citrix farm running Win 2003 64-bit with XenApp 4.5 (planning to migrate to 6.5 within a month). These are Dell servers R710s. We are seeing high one-way pings from...
View ArticleLink Aggregation: Current Firewall or FatPipe?
We're looking at moving to Office 365 this year and in preparation for that want to set up a redundant internet connection since our day to day work will then be relying on it. We currently have a...
View ArticleConfiguring New Printer in Sco Unix
Setting up a new label printer on our Sco Unix Server. In the guide available to me for this procedure, I get to the step below: /usr/lib/hpnp/hpnptyd –m /dev/ptypNN –x (IPADDRESS) –k o Where NN is an...
View ArticleA Tale of Two LAN Cables
It was a fine Saturday morning in the metroplex. I woke up to a brisk 64 ° and decided it would be a good day to head into the office and take care of some important details before the teachers...
View ArticleReplacement/Backup Firewall
Hello Spiceheads, I wanted to get your thoughts on a Firewall replacement. Currently I am running the Sonicwall TZ170 in house and it seems to be holding it's own. I wanted to start shopping around...
View ArticleNetwork Vlan Redesign
Hi Guys Okay so I have been given this amazing opportunity to redesign our College network using VLANS. I have a design in mind and would just like some pointers and input. First let me give you some...
View ArticleMax Throughput for a Single Port
We currently are having 100's of dropped packets per second and I need to determine if it's a switch or something else. We currently have 65 HD cameras where the bandwidth for each camera is 3-5mbps....
View ArticleConnecting FE switches to GE switches
Quick question... I'm wondering if I have a gigabit switch as our "backbone" and fastethernet switches for our clients, can I hook one FE switch up to the gigabit switch twice, providing a total of...
View ArticleLaptop won't connect to external Citrix
Strange happenings here. Background: I am based in a school, a company has sent a woman with a laptop which should have a VPN connection to their office. After putting in the schools proxy settings,...
View ArticleFree VPN?
This question probably gets asked a lot, and I've Googled it a few times with little to no avail. So, my question is, are there any free VPN services worth using? My primary use for this will be...
View ArticleRemote PXE Suggestions?
I have been struggling to find a PXE solution for sometime so I thought I would post what I have going on and see if anyone has any ideas. I have 60 locations across the US that I need to be able to...
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