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Special Purpose Network Addresses Every System admin need to know

January 25, 2011

Different types of Classes of Network Class A Addresses Class A address must be between 0 and 127 network.node.node.node Class B Addresses Class B address must be between 128 and 191 network.network.node.node Class C Addresses Class C address must be between 192 and 223 network.network.network.node Network Addresses: Special Purpose Some IP addresses are reserved for special purposes, [...]

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Cisco Layer 2 Switch Functions

January 25, 2011

Layer 2 switch is A network device that forwards traffic based on MAC layer (Ethernet or Token Ring) addresses. Bridging technology has been around since the 1980s (and maybe even earlier). Bridging involves segmentation of local-area networks (LANs) at the Layer 2 level. A multiport bridge typically learns about the Media Access Control (MAC) addresses [...]

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Setting Port Security on a Cisco Catalyst Switch

January 25, 2011

If you want to ensure that only a certain device—for example, a server—is plugged into a particular switch port, you can configure the MAC address of the server as a static entry associated with the switch port. Configure port security Configuring the Port Security feature is relatively easy. In its simplest form, port security requires [...]

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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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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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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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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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Little about DNS Queries in Windows Server 2003

January 21, 2011

There are two sides to DNS.  Firstly, registration which adds resource records such as Host (A) into the DNS database.  Secondly there are queries where clients seek those resource records, for example where is BigServer?  Back comes the reply from DNS: BigServer IP = 10.10.55.21. Authoritative DNS Servers The goal of a DNS query is [...]

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Little about DNS Zones in Windows Server 2003

January 21, 2011

When you plan a DNS installation, be sure that you choose the most suitable type of zone.  For instance, if your goal is to install a Windows Server 2003 domain, then investigate Active Directory Integrated Zones.  Also decide how many zones to configure, it is easy to focus on the forward lookup zone, but overlook [...]

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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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10 things About Cisco Access list

January 21, 2011

What is an access control list? In the Cisco IOS, an access control list is a record that identifies and manages traffic. After identifying that traffic, an administrator can specify various events that can happen to that traffic. What’s the most common type of ACL? IP ACLs are the most popular type of access lists [...]

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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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Inter-VLAN Routing Configuration on Cisco Router

January 18, 2011

Requirements: You have to make sure that your router support the frame tagging technology used between the switches. Before jumping into the router configuration, you have to configure a port in the switch that will be connected to the router to be a trunk port. And keep remembering the VLAN tagging method that you configured [...]

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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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ISDN Dialer Profiles Configuration On Cisco Router

January 18, 2011

If you are implementing ISDN between two nodes only, you probably do not need to use this procedure. What the dialer profiles do is that it maps a dial string along with username to a certain destination. This way, the router knows what number to dial for different ISDN destinations using the same link. The [...]

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