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The Quandary of Event Notification: SNMP Traps

Newcomers to IT network operations are often confounded by the complexity of managing, controlling, monitoring, diagnosing and repairing their networks. As we are all inclined to select the simplest tool, to a networking newcomer, the simplest tool for staying on top of network operations would be an event report …

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IWL Announces New Patent Licensing Program

IWL today announced a new patent licensing program for manufacturers and end users who use the technology of the Maxwell Patent. IWL is the owner of US patent number 7,310,316. The Maxwell Patent is directed to a test device placed between two or more nodes, in which the nodes communicate in conversations according to a predetermined protocol such as TCP/IP …

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Replacing Your Shunra (now HP) Network Simulator?

Several years ago, an Israeli company called Shunra Software, offered a network simulator product. The product’s purpose: to help IT staff verify the performance of apps and devices, prior to deployment in production networks. In 2016, HPE sold the “software division”, including the HP Network Simulator, to MicroFocus.

So where does that leave HP Network Simulator? …

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GRAV "Gateway Timeout" Issues

About a year ago we begin switching our various websites to use content management systems (CMS) that did not require SQL databases, or any database for that matter. We looked at GRAV and Hugo. The latter is highly portable and very fast, but for our more dynamic websites we decided to use GRAV.

In general we have been quite happy with GRAV, but recently we encountered a problem in which users began to see "Gateway Timeout" errors …

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Avoiding Internet Timer Synchronization

The internet is a complex distributed process in which computers interact with one another over pathways that introduce delays and errors. There are many feedback loops. Some of those loops are simple to identify, such as the handshaking between the end points of a TCP connection. Other loops are harder to identify, such as the interaction of timers in ARP (address resolution), DNS (domain name system), and routing protocols (such as OSPF and BGP) …

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Flat File Content Management Systems : A- / B+

When it was time for IWL to update its website look, information flow, and content, we realized that we needed to revisit our CMS decision, as well. Modern websites use Content Management Systems (CMS) to support the management and content of web pages in a structured and organized manner. We reviewed and ultimately used a new "bleeding edge" type of CMS: a Flat File CMS …

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