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14Dec 2018 by William Mweemba

Find Top Talkers on your Network-With 4 Easy Commands

Which Users are pulling the most Bandwidth on your Network? Find Top Talkers on your Network-With 4 Easy Commands. A slow sluggish network is one of the most frequent complaints received by network administrators. The most common cause of this a slow user experience is Link Saturation, or link chocking. Wether it’s an Internet link that is being used to full capacity or a Remote Branch link that has been maxed out, we often experience poor performance on the LAN because of over-utilization of one of our links. A quick easy way I have found to pinpoint which user on your LAN is abusing your network resources (often someone downloading Torrents) is to use the ‘Top-Talkers’ and the ‘Flow’ feature on your CISCO router. Top-Talkers will allow you to collect…

4 Steps to setup CISCO IPSEC VPN

Configuration

After completing these 4 easy to follow steps, you will have your Secure VPN tunnel up and running. If you are new to Computer Networking, A VNP can be thought of as a secure tunnel That runs across the internet from one location to another. It allows you to to build a secure path through the internet so that the data you transfer remains private and more importantly remains safe. Yes… It’s possible to configure an IPSec (IP Security) Site-to-Site VPN using only 4 key steps. It may sound a little far-fetched, but in the next few minutes, I will walk you through the process of configuring a fully functional IPSec VPN from scratch. At every step I will show you the commands needed to make it happen. I will…

The 1 thing you need to know to become a Cloud Network Engineer

Big Picture-Career

Cloud Network Engineering, what is it and How relevant is it in today’s World? let’s start by understanding what the cloud is, and why it’s so important in today’s world. The cloud is a collection of computer resources (physical and virtual) that are located remotely and made available over the internet. Because these resources are available over the internet, you don't need to purchase and own expensive server or network hardware. Instead you simply access these resources using an internet connection and get them as a service. You might think it's expensive to pay for resources over the internet rather than purchase the sever once and getting using it over and over again. The reality is that owning massive, expensive servers comes with a-lot of overhead and financial burden. Furthermore,…