Articles tagged with network_administrator

1. Tired of ISP Traffic Shaping? Beat It!

   Posted on January 31, 2008 in Networking

   I've written a lot of posts about various methods for blocking <acronym title="Peer-to-Peer">P2P</acronym> traffic, especially with Cisco's Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR). Although these posts are probably of interest to smallish Internet Service Providers and administrators of business networks, they don't have much use for the average …

2. How Do You Want Your DS3? Scrambled?

   Posted on May 28, 2007 in Networking

   DS3 (also known as T3) scrambling is not an issue that comes up very often. It's something every network administrator should know about, though. After all, it just might save your bacon.

   Some physical layer protocols depend on the transition from 1 to 0 in a frame to maintain clocking …

3. Implement a Sensible Naming Policy in Cisco IOS

   Posted on April 10, 2007 in Networking

   It used to be that access lists in Cisco IOS were numbered. Not only were they numbered, but the numbers were significant to what kind of access list they were. Now access lists (and just about everything else) can be named rather than numbered. Although this seemingly innocuous change has …