DNS over VPN
We use Microsoft PPTP as our VPN solution at work. Although PPTP is not robust as a IPSEC based vpn, it is a lot easier to...
Networking
Cacti – Installing on Windows
Cacti is a great tool to graph network utilization. I discovered it during my previous job to create some utilization graphs of satelite links. I highly...
MSFT Windows : Offer Remote Assistance
My team uses the “Remote Assistance” functionality offered in Windows XP pretty extensively. One of the problems with the tool for the tech support personnel is...
DNS Tools
Good site to do DNS queries from an independant node on the Internet. I use it a lot at work to check if DNS records have...
IPSec – What is it??
This is a great write up by Stephen Friedl about the IPSec suite of protocols. Highly recommend reading it. On a side note, I finally updated...
RRDTOOL – How to remove spikes
We use Cacti at work to graph the usage of our clients links. It is a pretty popular feature with our customers. A problem (well not...