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What are some network related command line tools within Windows?

This is a great question.  The latest list (when this was written) is: Arp – Displays and modifies entries in the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) cache, which contains one or more tables that are used to store IP addresses and their resolved Ethernet or Token Ring physical addresses. There is a separate table for each Ethernet […]

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Where we are in the USF?

In short, things are advancing quickly. Readers may also be interested in watching the Senate hearing on the subject. http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord_id=fc757765-b147-4f14-9e01-754721a5cffd&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=b06c39af-e033-4cba-9221-de668ca1978a   Further, I offer the following: Dear OPASTCO Member, Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) delivered its first Notice of Inquiry (NOI) and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on the recommendations concerning the high-cost

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Where can I find the information on securing a home network?

This procedure has moved from our Online School and is now described in an article at this site. We actually have several articles! Here is the original article: click here. Here is an article on securing Wi-Fi in your home or small business:  Click here to browse the article! I hope you find this article

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Where can I find information on writing secure code?

Great question received just before the holidays. The security of software is paramount, especially in any communications systems (routers, switches, servers).  We are all fimiliar with “patch Tuesdays” as efforts to thwart security holes in software are a constant. Surprisingly, few Computer Science majors include skills on secure coding.  Furthermore, policies and procedures to ensure

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What commands can you run from the Windows Start> Run> CMD?

Here is my quick list of commands you can run from the Windows Command Line: (START> RUN> CMD) ADDUSERS Add or list users to/from a CSV file ARP Address Resolution Protocol ASSOC Change file extension associations ASSOCIAT One step file association AT Schedule a command to run at a later time ATTRIB Change file attributes

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What are the wireless speeds for 802.11n 802.11ac and 802.11ad?

This is a very common question.  First, we must warn of the difference between theoretical speed and actual speed.  You have probably heard this a million times, but there are so many factors that can affect wireless throughput.  I won’t go into them here so I can stay on the subject. 802.11n is a three-spatial-stream

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Should everything be “Virtualized”?

We have met many people who are considering virtualization of servers in a number of different scenarios. Some of these folks are just getting started with virtualization, which can be a big change in light of shrinking budgets and limited supporting infrastructure such as shared storage. Some folks have already done some virtualization and are

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Neighbor Discovery (ND) Table in IPv6 Windows, Linux and MAC Machines

Check out these additional IPv6 Resources: Our IPv6 overview course at Udemy Our IPv6 Custom Profiles for Wireshark Our IPv6 classes at the Online School A great question I was asked in class was: “If Neighbor Discovery processes have replaced ARP in ICMPv6, how do you look at the equivalent of the ARP cache?” Great

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How do you Remote Desktop from Windows to Ubuntu?

This is a great question. First, you have probably learned that you can use Ubuntu’s APPLICATIONS > INTERNET> TERMINAL SERVER CLIENT program to remote desktop to Windows machines.  Going the other way is a bit more challenging. You need to have two things in place: 1. You must enable remote desktop connections in Ubuntu.  You

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