Tonight I decided to go on the magical journey of upgrading my ESX 3.5 environment to vSphere using the Host Update Utility. I’m usually a firm believer in ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!’ but this time I decided to take the plunge and see what happens.
A few months ago, I ran through the [...]
A few weeks ago, I installed Vyatta Open Source as a router internal to my network to see how it handled traffic between multiple subnets. To put it plainly, it worked like a champ! I put the router in place, assigned IP addresses to the NICs (network interface cards), and let the system do its [...]
Windows 7, along with Windows Vista, both have issues interacting with Buffalo Terastation and similar Buffalo products. This is due to updated NTLM security settings in both Windows 7 and Vista. The un-patched behavior is continued prompts to log in / authenticate to the NAS.
Buffalo has released a registry patch that allows Windows 7 and [...]
I’ve been running multiple subnets in my lab, and been dealing with the pain of having to VPN into each separate subnet when needing to make a change, test something, or deploy something. It’s been a learning experience and I’ve configured both OpenVPN and ISA Server 2006 VPN’s and successfully bounced around the various networks [...]
A few years ago, I wanted to try out a free network and system monitoring package so I decided to download and try to setup Nagios. Since I’m no Linux guru, though working with Linux has started to change lately, it took me quite a while to get Nagios setup and configured. After doing so, [...]
Host Headers are the answer!
YES! IIS can manage multiple web sites on the same port (properly port 80) without having to do extraneous configuring. This can even be done with MOSS and WSS implementations.
I’ve always considered it to be common knowledge that ‘host headers’ could be used to allow IIS to handle multiple web sites [...]
About a year ago a good friend, Bobby Shea, introduced me to Untangle. I finally got around to implementing it on my network and I’ve found it to be an amazing system.
Untangle is an open source scaled down Linux implementation that can turn your old throw away PCs into commercial grade network appliances. Why spend [...]