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- ARIN CEO reminds: be prepared for Internet numbering expansion
- Thank youAppreciate it, Joe. Will new routers work?I have a fairly new router, but in all of the screens it only shows IPv4 addresses :(. Any idea what the state of home routers is?I imagine mixed systems will still be possible - as long as your router is capable of...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- WinGate 6.6.4 build 1338 (Windows)
- WinGate is a sophisticated integrated Internet gateway and communications server designed to meet the control, security and communications needs of today's Internet-connected businesses. WinGate's comprehensive range of license options provides you the flexibility to choose the features and capabilities that best match your needs and budget, whether you need to...
- Software downloads 2009-10-14
- HomeCamera Client 5.0 (Windows)
- HomeCamera makes it easy and affordable for you to monitor your home, your child, your pets, the elderly, your office, and more, using the webcam you already own and any Windows PC. We make video monitoring easy. The service has been designed for non-technical users and does not require...
- Software downloads 2009-09-01
- IP Relay Server 3.6 (Windows)
- IP Relay Server is a program that mapping the incoming connections to a predetermined IP address at real time. This allows Guest to connect a Host PC from the outside without special configurations (Private/Public, Router/Firewall/Proxy Network). IP Relay Server is a software package that can be configured to provide Network...
- Software downloads 2009-07-17
- OneWorld Translator 1.3 (Mobile)
- OneWorld Translator features the results of any translations can be sent via email to a contact in your address book, transfers from Google are compressed, a searchable Phrasebook to which the user adds commonly used phrases in order to save on typing, translations which have been stored in the Phrasebook...
- Software downloads 2009-07-14
- Enabling End-to-end IP Visual Communication by Securely Traversing Firewalls and NATs with TANDBERG Expressway
- TANDBERG's Expressway is the right solution for secure firewall and network address translation traversal. While there are a few solutions available, many are expensive, not secure, not available everywhere, restricting of feature sets, not ISP-friendly and not scalable.This paper identifies alternative solutions and compares them to the TANDBERG Expressway solution...
- White papers 2009-06-17
- Cisco Catalyst 6500: Building IPv6-Ready Campus Networks
- The Internet has grown so rapidly that the IPv4 standard can no longer support the number of users and functions. Features such as Network Address Translation NAT can help overcome address-space limitations, but they also make bidirectional communication for primary triple-play (data, voice, and video) applications more challenging. ...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Linksys WRT400N Simultaneous Dual-Band Wireless-N Router
- If you're in the market for a dual-band router and most of your computers are wireless-capable, the Linksys WRT400N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router makes for a sound buy, especially since you can get it for around only $130. Design-wise, it's much like Linksys WRT610N router, minus USB and Gigabit...
- Product reviews 2009-03-26
- Cisco IOS patch day covers multiple vulnerabilities
- Cisco has shipped a batch of patches to cover multiple vulnerabilities affecting IOS, the software that powers the vast majority of Cisco's routers and switches. In all, the company released 8 separate advisories with warnings for information disclosure, privilege escalation, denial-of-service vulnerabilities. The...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- CIERS2 - CCIE 360 R&S Prep Boot Camp 2
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis Boot Camp-style class is the sequel to CIERS1 and is designed to provide practice in a timed setting for completing multiple issue spotting and analysis with assessed labs that are equivalent in difficulty to the actual CCIE practical lab....
- Training 2008-11-01
- Apple mega-patch covers 34 Mac OS X security issues
- Apple has shipped another mega-update to address security vulnerabilities affecting Mac OS X users, warning that the most serious issues could lead to arbitrary code execution attacks. The update, available for Tiger and Leopard, addresses a total of 34 documented vulnerabilities, some in third-party components like ClamAV,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
- A spamming vendor known as the SET-X Corporation, has recently launched the distributed SET-X Mail System, a sophisticated managed spamming service available for rent on a monthly basis starting from $2000, promising to achieve "spamming speed" of 5000 to 7000 emails per minute and over 1 million spam messages per...
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- KSSWare ICQ Sniffer.NET 3.1.3149 (Windows)
- The powerful utility for extraction of ICQ-messages from the network stream in real-time. This software is written using the most secure and reliable technology in the world for Windows-based servers .NET, and doesn't require any drivers. Sniffer captures all traffic passing through TCP/IP stack and supports any network device. To...
- Software downloads 2008-08-15
- Transitioning the Public Internet to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
- IPv6 was developed to improve on its predecessor protocol, addressing many of the limitations that became apparent as the Internet grew. However, to generate improvements, a completely new protocol that was not backwards-compatible with the existing IPv4 specification was required. This created a technological hurdle that few have been willing...
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Migrating to IPv6 on the Solaris OS
- The biggest difference between IPv4 and IPv6 is addressing, because IPv6 uses 128 bits for addressing compared to IPv4, which uses 32 bits. IPv6 can be used to specify 2 128 (about 3.4 x 10 38) addresses or about 5 x 10 28 unique addresses for each of the 6.5...
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Birth of IPv6
- Well tonight's the night. For the first time, IPv6 domain resolution will be possible from a root server. Just a few addresses mind you, according to this article. You may ask "what took so long?". The answer is that we did not really need it. IPv6 bakes...
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Leibniz Computing Center Delivers IT Innovation to Its 100,000 Users With F5's BIG-IP Solution
- The Leibniz Computing Center in Munich, Germany provides general IT services for Munich's universities and for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The challenge was to handle increasing web site traffic, to solve Network Address Translation issues and to maintain a leadership role in IT innovation. It deployed F5...
- Case studies 2008-01-12
- Network+ Boot Camp
- View Available Dates and Locations Certifications provide a proven framework for mastering complex topics in IT, complete with industry-standard exams that deliver an impartial assessment of your skills. CompTIA's Network+ is the premier vendor-neutral networking certification. Our Network+ Boot Camp is designed to provide the...
- Training 2008-01-01
- Four reasons why: Skype is minor bandwidth hog compared to torrents and file-hosters
- Germany-based Internet traffic management systems solutions provider ipoque has found that in much of the world excluding North America: via BusinessWeek Skype accounts for 95 percent of all VoIP traffic, but that in the evening hours, Peer-to-peer accounts for more...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- EFF wants to saddle you with metered Internet service
- Updated 12/8/2007 - The EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation last week publicly joined Free Press and Public Knowledge in recommending a metered Internet service as the alternative to Comcast's BitTorrent throttling. The extremist "Net Neutrality" crowd that wants to regulate the Internet with bans on per-user charges/contracts for Enhanced QoS are...
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
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