Good News Everyone.  I have my Cisco router working with my ADSL2+ connection. Well my Netgear router finally gave up the ghost… no smoke, just a few blown capacitors.  It has had a good life, it was originally bought as an ADSL1 router and firmware flashed to be ADSL2+ capable.  Well this forced me to [...]

Well it seems that what I have is never enough. I am expanding again. No, I didn’t eat too much Chocolate at Easter. I am adding more servers and services to my network and still one external IPv4 addresses is not enough. I am trying to sort out some services and web hosting. I have [...]

Well I have got my act together and configured a mail server for my domain. I am not handing out addresses just yet. I do have a couple of minor things I want to learn about my mail service before I announce to everyone that they can send me emails. It is always easier to [...]

I am moving forward again… Yes! This weekend I attempted to setup a DNS and with some success I think, I have made it! In the previous weeks I have experienced some set backs as you may have read in a previous post. So after giving myself some time off and not focusing too heavily [...]

I have started to use the Cisco 877 Router.  The Command Line Interface is the same as most of the other Cisco devices I have ever had the chance to play with.  You can log in using console cable and do the configuration as per normal.  However I have stumbled across what is shaping up [...]

There is a considerable challenge in installing and maintaining a fully functional network and network services.  After making a couple of changes to my main server, I proceeded to find that the changes had an adverse effect on the rest of the network.  So after rectifying the disruption I was prompted me to re-design my network [...]