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    Any Good Reason to Use Frame Relay vs VPN??

    Haha, I know the feeling all too well, for most, a T1 isn't enough bandwidth w/ all the streaming services and cloud applications. Although there are many customers I help that a T1 will provide sufficient bandwidth, especially in areas where fiber builds are cost prohibitve. Believe it or not...
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    Any Good Reason to Use Frame Relay vs VPN??

    Like most have said, the biggest advantage to any MPLS service is the SLA provided with it. While frame relay networks are on the way out the door right now, the frame relay encapsulation still has a useful purpose. Look up Multi-Vrf CE, Cisco has some great documentation on it. With Multi-Vrf...
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    Why Are Commercial Rackmounted Servers So Long?

    Depending on your needs, you might look at a Dell R210 or R220. I have a buddy that has installed them as file servers, and I've also seen them installed as bandwidth testing servers w/ 10gb interfaces. They are only 16 inches, so they might work out pretty well. I also know that SuperMicro...
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    Configuring SNMPv3

    This is what I'm using for my snmpv3 implementation. I'm using Nagios to monitor interface / environmental statistics on my routers, Cacti to monitor my subinterface utilization, and a custom shell script for when I need to push config changes out to my devices. access-list 50 remark Permit...
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    Can you ID and endpoint from a Cisco Switch

    Well there could be several different issues going on, the simplest way to help us figure out what is going on, would be to post a sanitized config of the switch. Reason being is that you could be running trunk's, the port could be set to the incorrect vlan, or one of a million different...
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    Gigabit network options for older laptop

    I looked a few years back, and the only Gigabit Ethernet cards for laptops that you will find are going to be expresscard. The reason being that the older add-on cards for laptops just don't have the bus speed to push gigabit ethernet. If anything, you may wan't to look into the other factors...
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    Need a bit of help with RDP settings win2k

    If anything, and if I'm remembering correctly, you should be able to save the password into the RDP profile on the machine you are connecting from.
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    Cisco VPN config Issue?

    After briefly looking at your config, my first guess would be that your vpn ip range exists inside of your inside ip range. This may present some issues, you may want to look into using a different range for your vpns, possibly 192.168.2.0/28.
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    Cisco Nat over EZVPN Question?

    So I am working on this project to try and consolidate some of the equipment that we have in the field, and I was wondering if it is possible to have a Cisco 1841 configured so that it will accept NAT traffic on it's outside interface (which is inside a clients network), and then forward that...
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    Cisco 1811 & SDM

    I hope you mean downgrade....
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    Cisco 1811 & SDM

    As with everyone else, I also recommend just hitting the CLI and going that way. Although what I have done that is always nice for some of the more advanced stuff is to set it up with the SDM, and then look and see what it has done. The reason the SDM is probably not working for you may be...
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    Question About RJ12 Keystone Jacks

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJ11#RJ11 For line 1, just carry the wires over to the second connector as normal. For line 2, just wire t2 and r2 to where t1 and r1 are on the other jack. Hopefully it should be fairly straightforward.
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    Cisco gear expected life

    Where I am, we have several hundred 1700 series routers in the field. They've been going strong since 1999. The biggest issue that I have seen with them are the power connectors when a user touches the router and causes it to reboot. Always nice when on a support call. "Ooops, looks like you...
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    Netgear UTM's anyone ?

    Yea, it's been long enough I don't remember what any of the pricing was. For the VLANS, what I could tell is all you have to do is assign a different one to each interface, kinda retarded.
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    Netgear UTM's anyone ?

    The Netgear UTM's are pretty decent for the price, the subscription price is also quite nice. If I remember right, it does support VLAN's although it is probably a little quirky to set up, I'm not 100% sure if it supports VLAN tagging (yes I know, a little on the asinine side). The normal VPN...
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    Post Your Connection Speed

    My business internet connection, paying for 10/768k. My parent's connection on the same piece of copper, although docsis 3.0 Not too shabby, I guess I need to upgrade my modem to 3.0, although i'm unsure if it would help since I don't think they are bonding business connections yet.
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    CSU/DSU and firewall

    Ah, a state project, I feel your pain. Configuring the cisco to work with the firewall like that shouldn't be bad at all, and if by chance do you have any funding become available, putting a t1-wic in the 1700 would at least get the csu/dsu out of there. Those 1700's are decent routers for the...
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    CSU/DSU and firewall

    The ethernet port on the csu/dsu is only for snmp/telnet management according to the document below. http://www.interlinkweb.com/systemics/assets/product_images/PDN/7112.pdf With the age of that equipment, you may considering replacing it with an 1841 & T1 interface for connectivity upstream...
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    Looking to get a new cable modem

    You may also just give your provider a quick shout, and make sure that whichever modem you decide to go with is on their approved list. If not, you can have issues from not having proper support from the headend.
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    Distance between modem and router?

    As long as it's within the ethernet spec of 100 meters you shouldn't have an issue. Although ideally it is always nice to have the modem right there with the rest of the network gear.
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    Syslog with Apple Time Capsule

    Installing it as a service just makes it so the program will start without having to log into windows, it also allows it to run under a different account and a few other things. If your print server is on all the time, I would make sure it has a static IP and then point the syslog traffic to it...
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    Syslog with Apple Time Capsule

    Your best bet is Kiwi Syslog, it is quite awesome, just grab the free version from solarwinds for basic functionality.
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    added switch to my network but cant see other computers?

    Can all the computers get to the internet?
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    Basic Networking for At-Home Job

    Just run wires, it'll be the best bet. If your router is in the room next to the computer, you can always just run the cable along the baseboard, and poke a small hole through the wall to get the cable between rooms.
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    How to share files without a internet connection

    If anything what you may look into doing is plugging the other computer into the router if they have one, and then blocking all internet traffic from it.
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    Intel 1000GT not connecting at 1Gb to a netgear switch GS608v2

    I've had issues with the smaller netgear switches before, I was using some expressport gigabit adapter for my laptop (Sonnet I think). When attaching to my netgear it would only autonegotiate at 100mbps, if I forced it, I think it worked. Although whenever I plugged it into a different switch...
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    Anyone using SmoothWall, m0n0wall or pfsense here?

    I'm running m0n0wall on an Alix board right now, and I love it, bare essentials, my only real wish for it is the ability to run xuath, but I've been making due. For VLAN tagging, m0n0wall supports it as long as the network card being used supports it, I know when I was running m0n0wall on my...
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    routing dual subnets?

    With how your sheet is worded I do kinda wonder if your available LAN IP Addresses, are routable addresses. I've seen a few ISP's that assign internal addresses that are not routable to make it easier for mom and pop places. If anything it's just how that sheet is worded that bugs me a bit.
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    routing dual subnets?

    I'm not too sure how the best way to accomplish this in untangle is, I know on most routers, this is pretty much just putting a second address on the interface. I did look online though, and one possibility may be adding a second network card to the server for internet connectivity, and using a...
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    Home network went "KABOOM" Easy way to reset all sharing/network settings in W7?

    Ok, are both on wireless, if so a feature called wireless isolation may be turned on in your router. In theory this is supposed to keep clients from talking to each other over wifi, a quick way to check this out would be to plug at least one computer (preferably both) into the back of the...
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    Home network went "KABOOM" Easy way to reset all sharing/network settings in W7?

    Doh, just re-read your post, and I'm betting you may have an encryption error if one or both of them is on wifi. I would go into the list of saved wifi connections on both computers, and delete the connection you are trying to use, after that I would rejoin the network and see if everything is...
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    Home network went "KABOOM" Easy way to reset all sharing/network settings in W7?

    Network & Sharing Center -> Troubleshoot Problems? It's on the bottom of the page, I have used it before to help get a client back online over the phone.
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    It's COMCASTIC!

    I will say that a little bit of credit can be given to the very first response from the comcast technician about replacing your modem. Just last week, both of my modems at the house (Business & Residential on Cox) began dropping about every 5 to 10 minutes. I called Cox, and spoke w/ a rep, we...
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    IPv6 Tunnel Brooker service behind Cisco PIX

    Alright, I had a feeling it would work, just wanted to ask and make sure I wasn't thinking out my rear before I wasted time on it.
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    IPv6 Tunnel Brooker service behind Cisco PIX

    So I have a Cisco PIX 506e that I've modified a bit, but am quite happy w/ when it comes to performance and configuration (I can actually set up the VPN server w/o too much thought.) I also have a Mikrotik Routerboard 750, I'm no longer using it as my router due to a few config issues I had plus...
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    Simple drive sharing question in a work group network

    Personally I would look into getting a dedicated server to run your file sharing tasks, especially for 30 computers. In fact for that many machines, I would investigate setting up a domain for management and what not, but that is another story in itself. On the connection limit, a quick google...
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    PS3 NAT Issue

    I would leave the modem in bridged mode, in its default setting you will be double nating stuff, which can cause some fun issues as you've seen. So I'm guess after putting your modem back into bridge mode everything seems to be working?
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    PS3 NAT Issue

    What type of router are you trying to use?
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    Looking to upgrade my home network

    Try searching ebay for powerconnect 2716, it looks like they can be had for about $50 shipped. I'm not too sure what you would want for wireless, but I know I'm happy w/ my Cisco aironet 1200, it does ABG, and I paid about $50 for it on ebay.
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    Experience with foritgate VPN?

    It depends on how you want to access it, most likely you will want to turn on rdp on your work desktop, and then use Remote Desktop to remote in from home.
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