Tag: Networking

PRTG: A Network Monitoring Tool for your Computer Networks

Computer networks are being the target of many attacks in addition to abuse from internal users making network and systems engineers life harder.

Over the years I tried many open source network monitoring solutions but none could satisfy all the needs and requirements of my network environment.

PRTG is a commercial network monitoring software that is powerful and easy to use. I downloaded it and installed a free trial for 30 days. The setup was very easy and the configuration guru helped me auto-discover the devices on the network and it was running in almost no time. Continue reading PRTG: A Network Monitoring Tool for your Computer Networks

Is Your Business Ready to Move to IPv6?

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is a version of the Internet Protocol that is designed to succeed Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) that has been in operation since 1981. The main reason for the redesign of the Internet Protocol was the IPv4 address exhaustion. As of January 2011, a report projected that the IPv4 address pool would be exhausted before the end of 2011.

IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It uses a 128-bit address, whereas IPv4 uses only 32 bits. This expansion provides considerable flexibility in allocating addresses and routing traffic. It also eliminates the primary need for network address translation (NAT), which was deployed in order to alleviate IPv4 address exhaustion. Continue reading Is Your Business Ready to Move to IPv6?