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Rack Studs series II

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date May 22, 2020

Gonna try these out for mounting equipment in a rack with square holes. www.rackstuds.com

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Is your web-site running HTTPS? if not, it should

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date February 5, 2020

If you have a website, but do not have https as your default or are even running https then this is the article for you.

  • Categories Servers

Interesting Network Monitoring tool

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date February 1, 2020

NAV (Network Administration Visualized) is a free software program to monitor networks

  • Categories Servers

PHPIPAM upgrade 1.3.2 to 1.4 error and fix

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date January 24, 2020

Tonight I was upgrading PHPIPAM from version 1.3.2 to version 1.4 and ran into an issue. 

  • Categories equipment Networking Servers WISP xISP

Everything you wanted to know about NTP

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date January 19, 2020

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a service that can be used to synchronize time on network connected devices.   Before we dive into what NTP is, we need to understand why we need accurate time. The obvious thing is network devices …

  • Categories Servers

How to install windows server 2019 on VMWare

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date January 18, 2020

How to install Windows Server 2019 from Microsoft on VMWare. https://www.sysnettechsolutions.com/en/server2019/install-windows-server-2019-vmware-workstation-14/

  • Categories Networking Servers xISP

The importance of Network Monitoring Systems (NMS)

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date January 17, 2020

One of our open tickets on MidWest-IX is a member reporting slow speeds on their exchange port. After having them send us some data and a few e-mails back and forth we began looking at their switch port on the …

  • Categories Servers

Running our own mail server? SPF, DMARC primer

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date December 16, 2019

Are you running your own mail server?  If so, check out this primer from the folks over at MX Toolbox.

  • Categories Networking Servers xISP

How does DNS work for the ISP?

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date December 2, 2019

If you are not familiar with how DNS and how an ISP uses it works please watch the following video

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CentOS Time Lines

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date November 18, 2019

Are you running CetOS in your network? If so you should be aware of the following dates.

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