Showing posts with label linksys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linksys. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Cheap Data Switches with Gigabit Ports.

This is a nice network switch, model SRW2024, which I have had the opportunity to install at customer's offices. 24 switch ports and each can do 10/100/1000. Even if you don't have much need for GB networking to the desktop right now. Most all desktop being shipped now have GB network cards installed in them. Every server I have seen has gigabit network cards as standard. Great bang for the price. Netgear makes some good switches too. I'll get a review in as soon as I can. I'm waiting to checkout some of their new gear.

These switches were added into a proposal to replace 2 48 port Cisco switches that cost over 10,000.00 dollars. These were way cheaper and can do VLANs.
More Features:
  • The switch brings gigabit Ethernet speeds affordably to your network, addressing the needs of high bandwidth applications and those of power users
  • Increases internal network security; user control is secured via 802.1x port authentication and MAC address filtering
  • Enables the entire connected network to be optimized for networked applications, including voice, video and data storage
  • Provides intelligent traffic management with rate limiting, policing, shaping, and multicast support
Comes with WebView ready to use. It is a browser based configuration utility that makes it easier to deply and use some of the advanced features.
For computer remote control software for online desktop remote control and web based pc remote support, there are alternatives to the brand name products that give techs a tool and utility to for providing support to clients and end-users remotely.
Many remote support products require the tech to use the same computer to provide remote support from and if chanegd will require another purchase. Others require them to use the same network and if they need to change, charge them to change the network. A hostname can be used but then that leaves the tech vulnerable for another layer of the solution that could go give them a problem in the future.

Monday, January 23, 2006

Remote Computer couldn't connect to Citrix Server.

Remote Computer couldn't connect to Citrix Server.

 

A remote computer couldn't connect to Citrix server. There was a Linksys router that was on the LAN that someone decided to use for the switch ports and not for routing. The outer features on the Linksys can't be disabled and the IP address had been changed but for some reason, either manually or by some other trigger, the Linksys defaulted to it's out-of-box  IP address which happens to be the same as our production PIX. Some computers were having trouble connecting to the internet. Others were ok.


One the device removed

 One the device was removed the problem went away. The remote computer is used by a telemarketer from home and was unable to connect to the citrix server through the VPN  tunnel. It happens that the server she was connecting to for the published app was one of the systems having trouble with routing because of the second router being online with the same IP address. I used PC anywhere to connect to her desktop pc system and remote control it to see what she was experiencing and not my online pc remote support software that I usually use.
 
 



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