How to calculate IP addresses in IPv6
I know how to calculate IP addresses under IPv4. How do I calculate addresses in IPv6?

Answer Question   |  February 11, 2011  7:02 PM
IP address, IP addressing, IPv4, IPv6, IPv6 addressing, WAN

Transitioning to IPv6 with few resources
How can a small to medium-sized organization (SMB) with limited resources prepare for the transition to IPv6? What’s our best bet to transition to IPv6 cheaply?

Answer Question   |  October 11, 2010  6:56 PM
IPv6, IPv6 rears its head, IPv6 transition, SMB, SMBs, WAN

Introductory IPv6 book and website recommendations
Hi, Can you recommend a few good websites or books to get started with IPv6? Thanks.

Answer Question   |  October 12, 2010  6:52 PM
IPv6, IPv6 how-tos and resources, IPv6 rears its head, IPv6 Training, WAN

leased Line with public IP’s
i have a lease line with Huwaei SmartAX unit ,The ethernet interface directly connected to the firewall.The public IP’s  assigned for this lease line not reaching the firewall after ISP .Is it compusory have a Router to have public IP’s .

Answer Question   |  October 11, 2010  6:52 PM
Ethernet, Firewalls, Leased line, Public IP, Routers

IT Book Giveaway: Unified Communications for Dummies
This week’s free IT book giveaway, Unified Communications for Dummies, will help you find out how to make communication effective, global and available through multiple technologies seamlessly. Want it? Simply answer one of the questions provided here, then leave a link to your answer in the discussion area below. Answering multiple questions gives you multiple [...]

Answer Question   |  October 18, 2010  2:24 PM
Cloud Computing in 2010, Contests, Exchange performance, Giveaways, IT Books, Routers, SaaS in 2010, SLA agreements, Windows Server 2008 R2

Setting up a large home network
I have a large home and the setup looks like this.  Cable Modem | Dynex Router – 192.168.1.1 – 255.255.255.0 | Belkin Wireless Router 192.168.2.1 – 255.255.255.0 My problem is that the Belkin works very well in all rooms except the far end of the house.  So I purchased a second Belkin Router 192.168.3.1 – 255.255.255.0 and [...]

Answer Question   |  February 23, 2011  7:43 PM
Network connectivity, Network design, Routers, Wifi

Unable to Connect to MOCHASOFT W32 TN3270
Hi, I’ve downloaded Mocha Soft W32 TN3270. But when I’m trying to connect its asking for IBM Host name or IP address. I’m unable to connect it through my IP address. Please help me out with this issue. Thanks Rahul

Answer Question   |  November 11, 2011  8:23 AM
Mainframe connectivity, MochaSoft, TN3270

Private LAN Server on
Since our college blocks access to p2p file sharing services (torrents, limewire, etc) the people on my floor in the dorms want to set up a server so we can share all of our media with each other. We came up with the idea of getting a server and just loading all of our music/video/etc [...]

Answer Question   |  October 11, 2010  8:26 PM
LAN, LAN Setup, Network Server, P2P blocking

Connecting a database in a linux system from a windows system through oracle 10g
hello sir/mam i have a linux server loaded with oracle 10g with so many databses. i want other windows systems to access the databases of server through oracle 10g. could u please explain me in detail how to make this set up.

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2010  7:25 PM
Database connectivity, Linux, Linux servers, Oracle 10g, Remote connection, Windows connections

High School Computer Lab Network set up to prevent cheating
I am trying to set up the network in my classroom to prevent students from stealing, renaming, deleting, etc. other students’ work on the shared folder. Before the teacher’s computer died, I was able to set up the permissions as write only, but the smart student could still rename someone’s file if it stayed in [...]

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2011  6:10 PM
Network security, Network Shared Folder, Permissions and settings, Security in 2010, Shared folders, Windows XP Professional

Purpose of having multiple public IP
Whats is the use of having multiple public IP addresses and would I need certain network device to cater its services?  

Answer Question   |  October 9, 2010  5:31 PM
IP Addresses, Netgear, Netgear GSM7328S, Public IP

Virtual Machine disconnects from network
Have a strange issue. A couple of VM’s(on the same host) get disconnected from the network. Rebooting the VM or checking/unchecking the “Connected” and “Connected at power ON” option may sometimes work or may not. When it does not, vmotion the VM’s to a different host and the moment the task completes 100% they are [...]

Answer Question   |  October 7, 2010  1:21 PM
Virtual machine management, Virtual Machine Performance Management, Virtualization, VLAN, VM, VM Connection

Active Directory integration
how can i began with active directory for my network

Answer Question   |  April 18, 2011  11:16 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory Installation, Active Directory Integration, Network Configuration, Networking

WOL and New Windows 7 Computers
How does WOL work with newer computers? If it is enabled in bios then why doesn’t a super packet wake the machine up?

Answer Question   |  November 6, 2010  8:12 PM
BIOS, BIOS settings, LAN, Local area networks, Wake on LAN, Windows 7, wol

setting up Windows server 2003 to 2008 vpn
How do we set up a windows 2003 to 2008 vpn for the rest of the network to transfer files via? What else needs to be purchased? Do we need additional licenses?

Answer Question   |  October 6, 2010  4:59 PM
file sharing, VPN, VPN configuration, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008

OKIT400 printing from AS400
I have a direct thermal printer OKIT400 from OKI Printing Solutions on a LAN with an ip address. I also have an AS400 RPGLE to print labels to it. The program works just fine on the AS400 but the spooled files (labels) ARE NOT printing at all. Not even a beep or blinking error light of any [...]

Answer Question   |  October 7, 2010  4:40 PM
AS/400 IP address, AS/400 printing, AS/400 Spooled Files, LAN

FVS318 VPN password policy
My VPN does not ask for a password when I logon. I have changed the password and if I let it time out it asks me for the name and password, but if I close and reopen my browser I can get back in without it asking for my password. I have changed the IP [...]

Answer Question   |  October 12, 2010  4:24 PM
NETGEAR FVS318, Password policy, VPN, VPN password, VPN security

Inter VLAN
i have 1 switch that i had install vlan 1 and vlan 2. i also have 1 router to connect to the switch through the server. how to make vlan 1 and vlan 2 can access each other? please help me. i’m still new in networking field..

Answer Question   |  February 16, 2011  3:26 PM
Networking, Switches, Switching, Virtual LAN, VLAN

In measuring the downtime of a server does it matter if it is a planned or unplanned downtime
If I wanted to measure the downtine of my servers would it make a difference if the downtime is planned or unplanned. I have heard somesay downtime is downtime.

Answer Question   |  December 8, 2011  6:24 PM
Network diagnostics and measurements, Server administration, Server management, Servers

When a client server machine failsover does its computer name go to the receiving server
I client server machine in server A has a computer name that is part of the instance of the operating system. If it becomes necessary to failover to server B does the computer name go with the application or does it stay with server A?

Answer Question   |  October 6, 2010  6:16 PM
Application deployment, Client server software, Client-server computing, Server failover