Filed in archive Tutorials
by paul on January 16, 2006
Here's a good article that discusses in detail some of the issues surrounding the adoption of IPv6. From the intro:For some years now the general uptake of IPv6 has appeared to be "just...
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Filed in archive Reviews
by paul on January 16, 2006
Netgear has a strong reputation for delivering quality networking products at competitive prices. They recently sent me one of their GS724T Gigabit switches to use in my testing lab. The best...
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Filed in archive General
by paul on January 16, 2006
Found this article on Citrix and whether it has peaked as a company over on Geeks with Blogs.Has Citrix reached the top of this cycle? Will the monopoly implode?......
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Filed in archive Tools
by paul on January 16, 2006
I recently found a link to NTOP, an open source tool for monitoring the performance of your network. NTOP can do things like: Sort network traffic according to many protocolsShow network traffic...
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Filed in archive General
by paul on January 16, 2006
The goal of this blog is to provide information that would help a networking pro or manager do their job. I hope to provide links to new product information, news announcements, product reviews, tips...
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Filed in archive Reviews
by paul on January 12, 2006
When you're at work there's probably a firewall between you and the nasty Internet protecting you from all those malicious hackers. ZyXEL introduced this product at CES to help when...
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Filed in archive Reviews
by paul on January 12, 2006
While CES had lots of cool gadgets and toys there were a number of vendors showing products in the networking space. ZyXEL showed several diferent products including this one. From their press...
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Filed in archive Interviews
by paul on January 11, 2006
Latif Ladid is founder of the IPv6 Forum and responded to a few questions I asked on the future of IPv6. What are the biggest barriers to IPv6 implementation?`- Ensuring that all products support v6....
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Filed in archive Quickies
by paul on January 10, 2006
Windows Vista will include Native support for IPV6. The channel9 site has a video interview with the Windows Vista networking team that drills down to the nitty gritty details. The video is also...
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Filed in archive by paul on January 10, 2006
Paul Ferrill has been writing in the computer trade press for almost 20 years. He got his start for PC Magazine writing networking reviews of products like LANtastic and early versions of Novell...
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Filed in archive by paul on January 09, 2006
Microsoft released a security bulletin on January 5th to address the latest Windows vulnerability along with a patch. This is a nasty hole that can cause problems even on systems with XPSP2...
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