This week Vyatta; The award-winning open source network operating system providing advanced IPv4 and IPv6 routing made the move under Brocade. Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (BRCD (NASDAQ)) is an American technology company specializing in data and storage networking products. What does this mean to those of us who use and are customers of Vyatta. In […]
Tag: Networking
Issue: I am unable to connect to a VPN server hosted as a guest on VMware ESXi 5.5. After much troubleshooting it seems that the issue with my PPTP connections is that GRE isn’t making it to my server. In my logs I found the following: vyatta pptpd[2777]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed […]
Here are some steps I used to restore my saved HP ProCurve configuration file to my new switch using USB and the console cable. Connect your console cable to a computer Load up a program such as putty. Change the connection type to Serial then click Open Your screen will turn black. Press enter 2 […]
Looking to change the network profile of my public facing adapter from Public to Private I recently found out I can use the PowerShell command Get-NetConnectionProfile to return the the connection profile associated with one or more physical network adapters. Once I have this information I can then modify the NetworkCategory to what I wish by […]
Microsoft Message Analyzer is the successor of Microsoft Network Monitor. Microsoft released their third and final Beta of Microsoft Message Analyzer which will be followed up by the official release in the fall. In addition to the new features and functionality, they improved performance and reduced the memory footprint. Here is a list of the new […]
NTttcp is used to profile and measure Windows networking performance. This tool was for ‘internal-only’ use for the last five years at Microsoft until now. You can download it here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/NTttcp-Version-528-Now-f8b12769 Description Optimizations added for 10GigE interfaces Increased platform support: x86, x64 and ARM Simplified usage (e.g. sender and receiver functionality determined with a simple […]