This article gives an introduction to NAT – Network Address Translation, explains why NAT is required, gives an introduction to NAT Traversal (required for certain streams like SIP/H.323) and lists...
Tag: active network components
This article gives a short introduction to Syslog and Syslog server, how they help in monitoring of the network devices by storing and retrieving the logs generated by the network...
This article explores the options available for high availability in network switches at the device level, operating system software level, Quality of Service and configuration changes, notification level. Gone are...
This article elaborates on what is port mirroring, what are its applications, some of the features of port mirroring, advantages and dis-advantages of port mirroring in network switches. We also...
This article presents a small introduction to LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol – explaining what it is and why you need to implement LDAP directory in an enterprise/organization. It...
This article discusses about VLAN’s, why they are required, types of VLAN, IEEE 802.11q tagging, what is IEEE 802.10 (FDDI) & how it inter-operates with Ethernet VLAN’s, need for Inter-VLAN...
This article is to explain what is IPv6, how does it differ from IPV4, what was the necessity to come up with IPv6, a basic IPv6 address and its compositions,...
This article is to introduce the Infiniband technology (which is commonly used in High Performance Computing for Inter Process Communication to enable server consolidation) and discuss the advantages of the...
This article is to give and introduction to the technologies that are up against each other to provide high performance computing. We look at Ethernet, Fiber channel, Infiniband and the...
This article gives an overview of the most popular active components in an IP Network – The Network Switches and Routers. This article discusses why they are exciting in a...