Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I absolutely adored my Sony Ericsson K800i. What a phone; everyone's had one or used one at some point. Given that they're quite long in the tooth now, you'd be hard-pushed to have not come across someone that had/has one.
So when the K850i came out, I was quite eager to ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
First thing's first: AAAAAARGH!!! *waves arms in the air maniacally*
I've spent the evening getting my RoutITX project off the ground and into service. But to do this, I needed an ADSL2+ modem. So, rather than persist with using my Netgear DB834GT, I thought I'd try out a P660R-D1 from Zyxel. ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Recently, I've been charged with investigating into faster-than-gigabit networking, in an effort to switch our VM hosts away from local storage to an NFS-based NAS system. There are a few reasons for doing this; the greatest of which is Sun's ZFS file system.
ZFS, for those of you who aren't familiar, ...
Posted in Networking, Storage | No Comments »
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
I'm having a tough time getting this to work, so expect a few revisions to this.
I'm confused as to why this is so difficult. Below is my post to the Cisco NetPro forum. I'm hoping they'll be able to help eventually, but I thought I'd include it here for the ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
I've written a short guide on how to configure a Netgear DB834GT (and possibly other variants of the DB834) to forward a device to a TFTP server, via the router's built-in busybox/linux-based udhcpd server. I've recently been setting up a Cisco IP phone at home, and this functionality has proven ...
Posted in Negear, Networking, VOIP | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Update: I've since realised (after doing this on another machine) that if you enable the RRAS (Routing and Remote Access) service under Server 2003, it actually does behave in the correct manner.
Why can Linux just do this out of the box, eh?
Running multiple NICs, on different networks, is not something ...
Posted in Networking, Windows | No Comments »
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Recently, the company I work for has been looking for a way to simulate poor or slow connections to the server component of their next software product. I'm sure you'd all agree that it's important to know how well your server compensates for those with less than ideal Internet connectivity, ...
Posted in Gentoo, Networking, m0n0wall | No Comments »
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Update: On my last trip to the hosting facility where this router's stored, I took the opportunity to test the theory of a non-Cisco CF card knobbling the successful restart of a router. I was sure I'd checked already, but I wanted to be sure.
Thankfully, it restarted without a hitch. ...
Posted in Cisco, Networking, VOIP | 6 Comments »
Saturday, July 21st, 2007
I've decided that due to the immensely impressive way in which my network setup at home has turned out, it should be forever-stripped of that horrid, derogatory phrase, 'wireless'.
Any systems adminstrator, network engineer or even anyone with a slight technical strain in them will most-likely tell you to avoid wireless ...
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
It's taken a little time, but this Saturday saw the installation of a BT land line in my flat. It's not going to be used for calls though, no, this is purely for Broadband. And that means, the best broadband I can lay my hands on.
I had originally anticipated ordering ...
Posted in General, Networking | No Comments »