Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

Daylight Savings Time: 2007 Update

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

I would imagine at this point, those of us who would be affected by the Bush Administration's Daylight Savings Time change have been swamped by the obligatory onslot of users, confused by 1-hour off system clocks and M$ Office Calendar appointment chaos. My situation was rather grim, as previous system rollouts ...

Linux Modem Configurations

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Setting up a standard V.90 modem is supposed to be a no brainer... especially for Linux. Yet, I ran into a few hurdles along the way. First off, always be 100% certain you dont have a faulty cable: if you can see the device, you sure aren't going to communicate with ...

Expectations when you RMA a Cisco PIX-501

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Sweetser has many residential locations that are connected to our network via VPN tunnels through cable and DSL connections. One location in particular we had been having issues with for a couple months - the connection would drop randomly, for hours at a time, and then be good again for a ...