Hubs Questions


Cisco 7606 Vs. the compitition, Foundry XMR series or other.
My company is looking to purchase a new router, we are looking at expanding our cable tv division down the road with video/ video on demand and need to upgrade our current router due to bandwidth constraints, my question is does anyone have a different router good or bad. All answers are welcome and encouraged. [...]

Answer Question   |  December 2, 2005  9:22 AM
Availability, Bandwidth, Budgeting, Business/IT alignment, Cabling, Cisco, DataManagement, Foundry, Hardware, Hubs, Networking, Nortel, Project management, ROI & cost justification, Routers, Storage, Switches, Vendors
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15 pts.

VPn solution required for remote IP telephony
We would like to have remote ip telephony connectivity for our office so that it will be helpful for our remote users and our Royal customers to have ip soft phone which will be connected to our network through VPN tunnel to our IP PABX and dial out locally. We are having ADSL modem connectivity [...]

Answer Question   |  November 27, 2005  11:40 AM
Application security, Availability, Cabling, Database, Encryption, Exchange, Firewalls, Forensics, Hardware, Hubs, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Network security, Networking, Nortel, Routers, Secure Coding, Security, Switches, VoIP, VPN, Wireless
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ARP, Layer 2 Broadcasts, Switches and NICs
How does ARP work with layer 2 broadcasts? What I mean is, if an IP address is not yet in its cache, ARP broadcasts an ARP request in order to discover the corresponding MAC address, right? Does that mean that the hardware address of the Ethernet frame that encapsulates the ARP request is ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff? Also, [...]

Answer Question   |  December 6, 2005  9:11 AM
Cabling, Hardware, Hubs, Networking, Routers, Switches
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Setting Up VLAN across WAN link for Testing
I am trying to setup a Vlan via a WAN Link. Local End has already 4 VLANs. Remote End doesn’t. Remote end needs to access VLAN id 4 via the WAN link. Local Gateway router = Cisco 3660 Remote Gateway Router = Cisco 3660 Local Switch = Cisco 3750 Remote Switch = Cisco 2924 What [...]

Answer Question   |  December 5, 2005  12:21 AM
Availability, Bandwidth, Cabling, Cisco, Hardware, Hubs, IPv4, Network monitoring, Network protocols, Networking, Performance management, Ping, Routers, Switches, TCP
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Stop bit problem: USB to Serial Converter attached to motion controller, unable to set for 7-E-2
I have three different USB to Serial converters, one of them an isolated converter from B&B. One brand of motion controller I work on uses EVEN parity / 7 data bits / 2 stop bits as its default. I find that none of my converters will work on the controller in this configuration. If I [...]

Answer Question   |  November 22, 2005  5:36 PM
3Com, Active Directory, ActiveX, Administration, Apache, Automated, Availability, BASIC, Benchmarking, Business Objects, C, Cabling, Cape Clear Cape Connect, Career development, Cisco, Clustering, Cognos, Crystal Reports, Data analysis, Data Junction, Data management and storage, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing applications, Database, DataCenter, DB2, Dell, Desktop management applications, Desktops, Development, DHCP, Distribution/logistics applications, DNS, Enterprise Desktop, Ethernet, Fault isolation, Fax and print management, FDDI, File, Frame Relay, Functional, H.323, Hardware, Hardware selection and management, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett-Packard Application Server, Hubs, Hyperion, IBM, Informatica, Information Builders, Interoperability, Lifecycle development, Linux, Lotus Domino, Management, Manufacturing applications, Microprocessors, Microsoft Systems Management Server, Microsoft Windows, Migrations and upgrades, Monitoring, NCR, NCR/Teradata, Network applications management, Network connectivity, Network management software, Network monitoring, Network protocols, Network testing, Networking, Networking services, NIC, Novell IPX/SPX, Oracle, OS, Performance and availability, Performance management, Performance/Load, Ping, Power management, Printers, Programming Languages, Protocol analysis, Remote management, Routers, SAP, SAS Institute, Security, Servers, Software, Software testing, Software testing tools, SPSS, SQL Server, standards, Storage, Switches, Systems management software, TCP, Tech support, Thermal controls
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RIP Timers
Dear all, I am confused on RIP timers. Especially, Hold-Down timer. Can someone de-brief me with an example sceanrio that how each timer in RIP behaves and the co-relate with each other?

Answer Question   |  November 6, 2005  3:38 AM
Cabling, Cisco, Hardware, Hubs, IPv4, Routers, Switches
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Problem with Cisco Static nat rules
Hi you guys, We are currently in the process to replace our firewall with a Cisco pix 515. I?ve set it up in a testing environment in order to make a replica of the network so I can test everything. The way the network is setup right now we use NAT to translate the internet [...]

Answer Question   |  November 3, 2005  5:16 AM
Cabling, Cisco, Hardware, Hubs, Routers, Switches
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Trunking (router + vlan) and security
We have a switch with two VLAN. One VLAN is on the firewall/Internet side, the other VLAN is on the LAN side. The switch is connected to a router, like this http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/50a.jpg The router is connected to an MPLS cloud through another router. The job of the router is to route the traffic from/to the [...]

Answer Question   |  October 28, 2005  5:53 AM
Cabling, Cisco, Firewalls, Forensics, Hardware, Hubs, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, Networking, Routers, Security, Switches, VPN, Wireless
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Will we really save money having users shut down computers at end of day?
The article below caught my attention. It says that 217 million dollars a year is wasted just in the UK alone by employees leaving computers on overnight. I never shut mine down…my old mentor thought it was actually harmful. Needless to say, we don’t have a policy about shutting down computers here at the end [...]

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2010  12:21 AM
Budgeting, Business/IT alignment, Cabling, DataCenter, Desktops, Hardware, Hubs, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Power management, ROI & cost justification, Routers, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Switches, Tech support
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15 pts.

NTP not functioning – Segmented Management VLAN
I’m configuring a building wide network of layer2 and layer3 ciscos to use NTP but I’m not getting ntp updates from the ntp servers. Drawing a picture of this would have a Collapsed Core of 2 4500s and 2950 Access switches are 2950s setup based on Cisco’s typical building block network diagram. The only deviation [...]

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2005  10:25 PM
Cabling, Cisco, Hardware, Hubs, Network protocols, Routers, Switches, TCP
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simple remote administration
hey y’all… is there a way to do the following remotely? change passwords create a share on a server hard drive I have the adminpak installed on my workstation which allows me to do it. I want to be able to do it from ANY computer on the network. I have Win2k3 servers only, and [...]

Answer Question   |  November 26, 2007  10:41 AM
Active Directory, Biometrics, Cabling, DataCenter, Desktops, Development, DHCP, Digital certificates, DNS, Ethernet, Hardware, Help Desk, Hubs, Identity & Access Management, LDAP, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Network management software, Network protocols, Networking, Networking services, OS, provisioning, Remote management, Routers, Security, Security tokens, Servers, Single sign-on, SQL Server, Switches
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Wiring/Krone connectors
Forwarding question: What are the implications of connecting 2 wire copper test equipment to the permanent wiring side of Krone connectors over the top of existing wires? My belief is that it can cause noise by spreading the blades to far apart. Is there an alternative connector that can be used for testing purposes that [...]

Answer Question   |  October 18, 2005  6:56 AM
Cabling, Hardware, Hubs, Routers, Switches
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What does “DB” mean, in DB-9 serial port?
Posted on behalf of Ben: What does “DB” mean, in DB-9 serial port?

Answer Question   |  May 29, 2012  11:29 AM
Cabling, Hardware, Hubs, Network protocols, Networking, Routers, Switches, Tech support
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225 pts.

Why do IT projects fail?-3
Hi, I’m a Computer Engineering at CSU Chico. I’m conducting a research paper on “Why IT Projects Fail”. If someone could give me an example of a failed projects, “failed” meaning that it didn’t get finished on time, or the final project did not meet the requierments. Also if you could give a quick description [...]

Answer Question   |  September 30, 2008  3:10 PM
390, Cabling, Career development, Data analysis, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing applications, Database, DataCenter, DB2, Desktops, Development, Hardware, Hubs, Linux, Mainframe, Management, Manufacturing applications, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Oracle, OS, Patch management, Project management, Routers, Security, Servers, Software Quality Assurance, Software testing, SQL Server, Switches, Tech support
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Why do IT projects fail?-2
Hi, I’m a Computer Engineering at CSU Chico. I’m conducting a research paper on “Why IT Projects Fail”. If someone could give me an example of a failed projects, “failed” meaning that it didn’t get finished on time, or the final project did not meet the requierments. Also if you could give a quick description [...]

Answer Question   |  October 10, 2005  3:10 PM
390, Business/IT alignment, Cabling, Career development, Data analysis, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing applications, Database, DataCenter, DB2, Desktops, Development, Hardware, Hubs, Linux, Mainframe, Management, Manufacturing applications, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Oracle, OS, Patch management, Routers, Security, Servers, Software Quality Assurance, Software testing, SQL Server, Switches, Tech support
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File Synchronization
In a server 2003 environment, we sync our My Documents folder to the server. One user’s account, when logging off, takes an enourmous amount of time to complete syncronize and he gets these errors repeatedly in the error log: offline files [servernameusersusermy docs]UNABLE TO MAKE READING.mdb available offline. Any suggestions as to what I can [...]

Answer Question   |  October 5, 2005  12:38 PM
Cabling, Cisco, Dell, Desktops, Hardware, Hubs, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Network monitoring, Network protocols, Networking, OS, Performance management, Routers, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Switches, VoIP
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Looking for a UNIQUE KVM Solution
I’m looking for something unusual in the way of a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) system, and have no idea where to find such a thing – so I’ll describe it. In this case, I’ll happily take brand names, since this would be a commercial product. As part of my business, I visit sites which are [...]

Answer Question   |  October 28, 2005  4:25 PM
Cabling, DataCenter, Dell, Desktops, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard, Hubs, Interoperability, Linux, Management, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Routers, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Switches, Tech support, Windows, Wireless
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1,070 pts.