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Networking
Wireshark 101: The 2025 Beginner’s Guide
If you are like me, when you manage networks, whether in the home lab or production environment, you probably use tools like ping, traceroute, netstat, etc. These are great tools and can help you diagnose…
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Virtualization
Upgrade firmware Equallogic multiple member group
I put together just a few notes after going through a recent project of an upgrade firmware Equallogic multiple member…
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Software
Remote Desktop Connection Manager Replacement
I don’t typically write up a lot of posts about admin software unless I find something that I feel is…
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home lab
Windows cannot be installed to this disk 4K drives
With the recent SuperMicro server build, I am utilizing Seagate ST8000NM0065 drives. High density 4K drives are starting to come of…
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home lab
Mount Virtual Media SuperMicro IPMI
In the previous post here, I walked through the SuperMicro IPMI management interface and a few of the options that…
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home lab
Supermicro IPMI management walkthrough
If you are utilizing Supermicro in your lab environment, there is a great feature that comes with Supermicro boards that…
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Security
Add Cloudflare IPs Amazon EC2 Security Group
If you are utilizing Cloudflare as your DNS/CDN provider for your website and you are utilizing an Amazon EC2 instance…
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Networking
TCP Auto-tuning slow network performance
Starting with Windows Vista, there were improvements made to the network stack including a little known feature called TCP Window…
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Networking
Design Considerations LACP LAG
Link Aggregation Groups are multiple connections between two switches that allow the switch to aggregate links/bandwidth between them. LAG’s are…
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Security
Windows 2012 R2 NPS log files location configuration
After a bit of frustration working on a project recently with a Windows 2012 R2 NPS RADIUS server, I had…
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Networking
Cisco VIRL 1.1.1 Upgrade
Well after running Cisco VIRL for a while it has definitely grown on me and with each release it gets…
