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Advantages of IPv4 over IPv6
In theory, how IPv4 is better than IPv6? I need only advantages of IPv4 for study purposes.
In another words - what are the pros of IPv4?
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What is a correct monitoring strategy for network services?
Take for example a host which monitored with nagios and check_mk. Now there are http and ssh servers running on it. What is the best monitoring strategy:
Monitor that sshd & apache process are ...
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What is theoretical maximum of TCP traffic over GigaEthernet?
What is theoretical maximum of TCP traffic over GigaEthernet ?
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Release Management for Infrastructure
Does anyone use release management principals for system administration of infrastructure in the same way it is done for software development?
I have been in the system administration field for more ...
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HFS theory: What else is there to a system other than a root filesystem?
I'm grokking the HFS linux standard documentation, and I can't move beyond this concept.
The concept I don't get can be demonstrated by the following quote:
The contents of the root filesystem
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Troubleshooting a network interruption
My company is pretty much entirely a Windows shop: Microsoft firewall, all Windows servers, etc etc. The hardware is mostly Cisco or Cisco-like.
For about three weeks, we've experienced "random" ...
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What if a computer with Ethernet
I'm just revising for an exam on Networks and Data Communications, and there's one thing I don't get about CSMA/CD and Ethernet. It's supposed to be fairly stable, for instance if a computer drops out ...
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Transaction Log a part of the server or database?
In practice (and in general) is a transaction log a part of the database server or is it a part of the database itself? I've not been able to locate information in this domain anywhere. I need the ...
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Radiation hardend systems on the cheap
Aside form the "buy really costly NASA stuff" solution, what can be done about running a system in high radiation environments like space? (This is mostly a thought experiment.)
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