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Following my post on Installing Mikrotik RouterOS in VirtualBox , here is some basic configuration setup if you want to play around with R...

Below are the basic steps for installing GNS3 v0.8.6 on Linux Mint 15 ( should also work for other similar flavors ) using the excellent wo...

There are many ways, using command line in LINUX, to see the motherboard model of the computer.  You can use lshw  or  dmidecode . Read ...

I recently needed a file server to keep boot images and configuration files to be transferred on switches and routers. I decided to use ...

MikroTik RouterOS is a Linux based operating system that runs on proprietary hardware (RouterBOARD), or on standard x86-based computers. S...

Below some material found on the web ( webinars, application notes, white papers, articles etc.) on DSL troubleshooting , mostly from comp...

You can create SSH Tunnels using different kinds of forwarding like a) Local Port Forwarding,  b) Remote Port Forwarding, c) Dynamic Por...

I have a Cisco 3550 and  want to apply rate limit on the interfaces for both ingress and egress.  As per Cisco documentation in Understan...

Command Line calculator how to perform standard calculations on the command line including addition, subtraction, multiplication, divisio...

I was googling around to find a way to post source code in the blog pages that look better compare to the default. I run into these : ...

Configuring DHCP IOS DHCP server Sequence of DHCP messages : Client sends a broadcast DHCPDISCOVER message to the server The DHCP se...

I post below some useful SSH commands Secure Copy File Transfer SCP copies files between hosts on a network. It uses ssh for data tran...