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Little about Active Directry

January 26, 2011

What is an Active Directory and How Does It Work? An active directory is a service that is provided by Microsoft that stores information about items on a network so the information can be easily made available to specific users through a logon process and network administrators. By using an Active Directory it is possible [...]

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Basic things about Data Encryption

January 26, 2011

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How to configure Cisco SPAN Ports

January 25, 2011

The following example will demonstrate how to configure a single SPAN session on a Cisco Catalyst switch. The specifics are different between different switch models, so be sure to check the Cisco documentation. You must first configure source ports. Source ports are ports whose data will be copied, and sent to the destination, or SPAN [...]

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NetBEUI

January 24, 2011

NetBIOS, NetBEUI, and SMB are Microsoft Protocols used to support Microsoft Networking. The NetBIOS stack includes SMB, NetBIOS, and NetBEUI which are described in the table below. The following are parts of the Microsoft networking stack: Name Network Layer Description Redirector Application Directs requests for network resources to the appropriate server and makes network resources [...]

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User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

January 24, 2011

User Datagram Protocol (UDP) supports the network at the transport layer. User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is an unreliable connection-less protocol and is defined by RFC 768 and 1122. It is a datagram service. There is no guarantee that the data will reach its destination. UDP is meant to provide serivce with very little transmission overhead. [...]

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Address Resolution Protocol

January 24, 2011

ARP and RARP Address Translation Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) provides a completely different function to the network than Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP). ARP is used to resolve the ethernet address of a NIC from an IP address in order to construct an ethernet packet around an IP data packet. This must happen in order [...]

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Again Domain Name Service (DNS)

January 24, 2011

Host Names Domain Name Service (DNS) is the service used to convert human readable names of hosts to IP addresses. Host names are not case sensitive and can contain alphabetic or numeric letters or the hyphen. Avoid the underscore. A fully qualified domain name (FQDN) consists of the host name plus domain name as in [...]

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Virtual Private Networking (VPN)

January 24, 2011

The most confusing part of VPN is that many acronyms show up. This is partly because VPN requires data encryption to be “private” and there are many encryption techniques and terms. Also there are many complicated security issues relating to VPN concerning encryption and user authentication. This section will first explain the concept and methodology [...]

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Broadcasting and Multicasting

January 24, 2011

Network interface cards are usually programmed to listen for three types of messages. They are messages sent to their specific address, messages broadcast to all NICs, and messages that qualify as a multicast for the specific card. There are three types of addressing: 1. Unicast – A transmission to a single interface card. 2. Multicast [...]

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Access list types

January 21, 2011

There are three basic types of IP access lists: standard, extended, and dynamic extended. Standard access lists use source addressing for applying rules and provide very basic forms of filtering. Extended access lists use both source and destination addresses for filtering and even allow filtering by protocol type. This allows a more granular method of [...]

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Communication Devices in Computer Network

January 21, 2011

An electronic device that can send and receive data on the network is called the communication device. The communication devices are used on both ends of the connections. Most of the communication devices have the ability to convert the digital signal of computer into analog signal so that the signals can be transmitted on the [...]

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BRI ISDN Configuration On Cisco Router

January 18, 2011

There are two ways to configure ISDN in a Cisco router. The first one is to setup the ISDN connection to be always on. This method will be very costly because most ISDN service providers charge not only by monthly subscription, but by the amount of data that you transfer. Having the connection opened 24/7, [...]

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How to Configure Site-to-Site VPN in Routers (CISCO)

January 18, 2011

When would you need this: When you want to create a secure tunnel to transfer data between two sites without the use of VPN concentrator or other security devices. Special Requirements: The routers used must support IPSec. Most of Cisco routers do. Another need is that both sides use a static public IP address to [...]

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Little about ISO/OSI layers

January 18, 2011

If you want to remember the sequence of the OSI layers model name then the following two sentences can help you a lot for this purpose.“All People Seems To Need Data Processing”. Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is developed by ISO (International organization for standardization) in 1984. OSI reference model is a logical framework for [...]

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