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Step-by-Step Guide: Deploying SSTP Remote Access

Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol SSTP is a new form of VPN tunnel with features that allow traffic to pass through firewalls that block PPTP and L2TP/IPsec traffic. SSTP provides a mechanism to encapsulate PPP traffic over the SSL channel of the HTTPS protocol. The use of PPP allows support for...

Tags: PPP, Traffic, Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol, Microsoft Windows, VPNs, Networking, Network Security, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Security, Telecommunications, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2007-12-01

Design Considerations for Wireless WAN Drivers for Windows

Wide Area Network WAN devices have historically connected to the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems through the NDISWAN driver, using the Telephony API TAPI for connection management and the Remote Access RAS components for Point to Point Protocol PPP. This white paper discusses the advantages of exposing Wireless WAN...

Tags: PPP, Wireless WAN, Microsoft Corp., WANs, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Network Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2005-06-08

PPP Font Viewer (exe)

Purple Parrot Font Viewer provides information about the screen and printer fonts installed on your computer. The program also provides the ability to view different sizes and effects for each font, and the ability to view text that you type to see how it appears. In addition, the program gives...

Tags: PPP, Font, Purple Parrot Font Viewer

Software downloads 2005-06-03

PPP Migration: A Technique for Low-Latency Handoff in CDMA2000 Networks

In the CDMA2000 standard, a Packet Data Serving Node PDSN acts as an IP gateway to the Internet. Mobile Nodes MN connect to a PDSN using a Point-to-Point PPP session and IP packets are tunneled over the PPP session from the client to the PDSN which then routes the packets...

Tags: Technique, PPP, Mobile, Network, Migration, CDMA2000 Network, Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2004-11-08

Tasman Networks Case Study: MASERGY

Based in Dallas, Texas, MASERGY is a privately-held company that provides outsourced network services over its own MultiProtocol Label Switching MPLS-based network to hundreds of medium to large businesses in the U.S. and multi-national companies around the world. When MASERGY began selling its services, the network service provider offered two...

Tags: Tasman Networks, PPP, QoS, MPLS, Network, Network Service, Frame Relay, Networking, Network Technology

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Black Hat Vegas '08: Sneak peek at some of the interesting attacks we will unveil

Black Hat Vegas '08: Sneak peek at some of the interesting attacks we will unveilUnhackable: ssh with publickey passwordless loginA well-equipped Windows XP machine includes reducing the attack surface area by minimizing open ports. Installing Cygwin and configuring openssh with publickey passwordless login is the most secure option. ...

Tags: Operating systems, SSH, Linux IT-Consultant, Black Hat Vegas, Sneak Peek, attack, Black Hat

Discussion threads 2008-06-07

Windows is a glacier and glaciers don't melt overnight

Windows is a glacier and glaciers don't melt overnightMessage has been deleted.Little more than wishful thinking from the competition.Look, can Windows stand improvment and to be slimmed down? Of course it can. Does that in anyway mean people are chucking it in favor of something else? Not...

Tags: Operating systems, No_axe, glacier, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Windows IS, Microsoft Windows NT

Discussion threads 2008-04-11

Cisco patches IOS vulnerabilities

Cisco patched multiple vulnerabilities on Wednesday with the most important fixes covering data-link switching, IPv6 and VPN flaws. Among the highest rated patches (all rated 7 or above on a 10 scale): Cisco patched multiple vulnerabilities in the Data-link Switching DLSw feature in its...

Tags: Cisco IOS, Device, Vulnerability, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Apple Time Capsule (1TB)

Apple's new Time Capsule is one of only two devices we know of that incorporates both a wireless router and a hard drive into the same product. The other, a year-and-a-half-old router from Asus, offers neither the same high-speed wireless bandwidth nor as much storage capacity as the Time Capsule,...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Wi-Fi, backside, Apple Inc., Time Capsule, router, hard drive

Product reviews 2008-03-04

Sun completes MySQL buy, guns for Microsoft ... but not Oracle?

Sun completes MySQL buy, guns for Microsoft ... but not Oracle?Nah, they do it for the pay checkWhat recognition does an open source programmer get? None! They are just one of large number of contributers. If you want recognition you write proprietary software that you sell as your own business....

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Like Linux, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft SQL, My-SQL, MySQL, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

Gmail disabled, eggs in one basket, etc.

Gmail disabled, eggs in one basket, etc.LOLComputing in the 'cloud' makes your head spin, doesn't it?Or maybe the it's cloud-computing spin-machine....This is why I cringe at thin clients......because it doesn't matter how good your backups are, if the server goes down nobody can work. Unless, of course, you can get...

Tags: E-mail providers, Google Gmail, IMAP, KMail, backup

Discussion threads 2008-02-20

Sure bet for 2008: More Apple lawsuits

Sure bet for 2008: More Apple lawsuitsWMA is a dead format.It just does not seem to know it yet.Heck, Microsoft's own Zune does not play WMA-DRM9.I am all for opening things up, but the existing Lawsuit is so full of errors and lies, it is funny. This lawsuit will...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, WMA, Apple Inc., lawsuit, Sure bet, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-04

ICND2 - Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices 2

View Available Dates and LocationsThis hands-on Authorized Cisco course builds on the foundation provided by ICND1 (Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices 1), providing a technical foundation for the rest of the Authorized Cisco curriculum. Whether your goal is to familiarize yourself with Cisco technology or to become a...

Tags: Dallas, Certification, Schaumburg, Washington, Toronto, CCNA, New York, Ottawa, Cisco Systems Inc., Chicago, Networking

Training 2008-01-01

CCNA Boot Camp v2.0

View Available Dates and LocationsBased on our Cisco ICND1 and ICND2 courses, our CCNA e-Camp is an intensive program, designed to help you achieve your CCNA certification in the shortest period of time possible. Instruction includes instructor-recorded training and hands-on labs where you'll learn to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot...

Tags: Dallas, Schaumburg, Washington, Network, Toronto, CCNA, Instruction, Chicago, Networking

Training 2008-01-01

AT&T DSL setup hell - where did my public IP go?

One of the things I've noticed in recent years is how a lot of people I know were getting pigeon holed in to non-public IP addresses by their broadband provider.  Oh sure you can do your typical web surfing and you could probably even put up a router to share...

Tags: DSL, Internet, Router, AT&T Corp., IP, IP Address, Computer, Modem, PPPoE, Modems, Network Technology, Networking, Routers & Switches, Hardware, Components, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-10-25

Jobs woos developers: Third party app iPhone kit coming in February

Jobs woos developers: Third party app iPhone kit coming in FebruaryToo little too late...iPhone has already failed. Applications for it will not help. Windows Mobile is the only mobile phone OS worth owning and using. Without native Word and Excel, there is no point to a phone. I had an...

Tags: job, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, Leopard, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

Device Monitoring Studio (Serial Monitor) (exe)

Serial Monitor is a monitoring application, which allows you to view, log, and analyze serial port activities. Program attaches itself to the serial port driver under Windows 2000, XP, 2003 server, Vista and monitors all activity that any software performs via serial ports. Utility is equipped with built-in protocol analyzer....

Tags: Monitor, Monitoring, Utility, Serial Port, Serial Monitor

Software downloads 2007-09-24

Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the Web

Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the WebEconomic growth in the 21st century“Norvig doesn’t expect AGIs to suddenly appear overnight. The U.S. Gross Domestic Product index, for example, shows constant exponential progress but it doesn’t seem like any great acceleration can be seen OR PREDICTED due to technology, Norvig said....

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Google Inc., Web, HBE, Peter Norvig, GDP Growth

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

Fine Packet Builder (jar)

With "Fine Packet Builder", user can create, edit, copy, encode, and decode packet constructed by any protocol stack; use packet database to save and manage at external media, communicate on L2. And popular script APIJython of each feature, support screen and wizard of each feature, environment for edition, management, implementation...

Tags: API, Feature, Fine Quality Technology, Networking, Tcp/Ip

Software downloads 2007-08-27

Security Update 2007-005 released

Apple today released their fifth security update for Mac OS X this year.The 30.2MB universal binary download patches 13 areas of OS X including alias manager, denial of service vulnerabilities in BIND, integer overflow vulnerabilities in PDF, fetchmail password disclosure and other nastiness.Security Update 2007-005 is recommended for all users...

Tags: Security, Software, Software Update

Blog posts 2007-05-25