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Little about Windows Registry

February 1, 2011

Description of the registry Registry is a central hierarchical database used in Microsoft Windows 98, Windows CE, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and WindowsXP used to store information that is necessary to configure the system for one or more users, applications and hardware devices. The Registry contains information that Windows continually references during operation, such as [...]

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Basic things about Data Encryption

January 26, 2011

Please click on this link-  Little about Data Encryption

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How to determine serial numbers for cisco router and Catalyst switch

January 25, 2011

For Cisco Routers If you want to know the chassis serial number for your router use the following command Router> sh inventory Output NAME: “2821 chassis”, DESCR: “2821 chassis”PID: CISCO2821  , VID: V04 , SN: FCZ10231VG NAME: “WAN Interface Card – Serial 2T”, DESCR: “WAN Interface Card – Serial 2T”PID: WIC-2T   , VID: V01, SN: [...]

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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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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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Little About Dynamic Routing

January 24, 2011

Dynamic routing performs the same function as static routing except it is more robust. Static routing allows routing tables in specific routers to be set up in a static manner so network routes for packets are set. If a router on the route goes down the destination may become unreachable. Dynamic routing allows routing tables [...]

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Little about BOOTP Protocol

January 24, 2011

BOOTP (Boot Protocol) may be used to boot remote computers over a network. BOOTP messages are encapsulated inside UDP messages and therefore its requests and replies are forwarded by routers. BOOTP is defined by RFCs 951 and 1542. The drawing below illustrates the data encapsulation: The diskless system reads its unique hardware address from its [...]

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Windows Server 2003 DNS Troubleshooting

January 22, 2011

1) Start Troubleshooting with Ping Can you ping the target machine? a) By IP address. Ping 10.1.0.100 b) By Hostname. Ping BigServer c) By fully qualified domain name. Ping BigServer.guybay.com Examine the replies for clues, for example is the reply BigServer or BigServer.domain.com. Depending on the results from Ping, check the Default Gateway and Subnet [...]

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DNS Resource Records in Windows Server 2003

January 21, 2011

It all started with Host records.  In the beginning there were just flat text files with a list of servers and corresponding IP addresses.  When that got cumbersome and a pain to update, a proper database called DNS (Domain Name System) was invented by Paul Mockapetris in 1983. Since then the DNS types of records [...]

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DNS Names in Windows Server 2003

January 21, 2011

Introduction to DNS Names The purpose of DNS is to provide a connection when we type a name.  Now that name could refer to a server, a host, a web site, or a UNC path.  Always remember that computers prefer to use an IP address and that the role of DNS is a database 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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How to configure EIGRP on your Cisco router

January 18, 2011

Nots: EIGRP is a Cisco proprietary protocol. So, either all the routers in the Internetwork must be Cisco routers, or the routers should be EIGRP capable. Before starting, if you have not set the bandwidth of the interfaces, set them now. For correct routing decisions, you need to set the bandwidth for the serial interfaces [...]

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