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What is router

Asked By: firdossiddiqui | Asked On: Jun 17th, 2010

Answered by: Pranav on: Feb 26th, 2013

Router is a layer 3 device in a network used to transfer data b/w no. of host with the help of IP address. It forms a route table to forward the packet.

Answered by: Sharmas on: Jan 31st, 2013

Router is used to Transfer data from one Network to another Network.
(OR)
It is used to Communicate between two Networks.

Role of active directory

Asked By: ravila23 | Asked On: Feb 21st, 2008

Explain what active directory is and what role it plays in a windows network.

Answered by: Sharmas on: Jan 31st, 2013

Active Directory is a Directory service created by Microsoft, which stores all Information about Users,Computers,and Shared resources ect.. on a Network.

Answered by: bharat singh on: Feb 23rd, 2012

Active Directory is a hierarchical database, it contains info about all the objects like users, computers, groups, printers of forrest. Provides information services to its clients.

How will you check if router goes down?

Asked By: Anil | Asked On: Aug 31st, 2011

As a engg, in client place router goes down & client do not know anything about it, how will you check it & how you will make it up (by siting in your office)? What are all precheck you will do in client place & what cmd you will use to check it?

Answered by: manoj on: May 21st, 2012

by connecting console cable to pc and using Hyper terminal logging in router ,check the logs other wise the router gets restart often.

Answered by: Paapu159 on: Sep 3rd, 2011

Every router has a LED to indicate whether the connection to the internet is healthy/not. If the connection is healthy i.e. smooth n going.... then the LED glows Green If the connection is unhealthy i...

What is the advantage of subnetting an ip address?

Asked By: toori | Asked On: Jul 16th, 2008

Answered by: Francis.S on: May 9th, 2012

For Easy Management, To Reduce the Traffic, To Reduce the wastages of IP address and by concerning Security.

Answered by: bharat singh on: Feb 23rd, 2012

It makes easy to IP distribution.

Networking questions

Asked By: dravikumar | Asked On: Jan 8th, 2012

What is stub area? what is mean by area 0 ? what is cost of osPF ? what is vpn ? what is vlan what is gre ? what is hsrp? tell me diffrence between isdn & atm ? what is mean by dtp?

Answered by: ankushmahajan on: Apr 5th, 2012

See this I hope it works for u

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc940476.aspx

What is static ip and dynamic ip ?

Asked By: nitin_daundkar | Asked On: Oct 24th, 2011

Answered by: mahesh on: Mar 26th, 2012

static IP address- administratively assignment of IP address.
dynamic - assigning the IP address dynamically by using DHCP.

Which intermediary device regenerates data signals ?

Asked By: Ruhani Chawlia | Asked On: Aug 14th, 2011

When intermediary devices only direct data flow and do not generate or change data content, how can they regenerate data signals ? If they do so, which is the intermediary device that can regenerate data signals ?

Answered by: Bharat Singh on: Feb 23rd, 2012

Its Repeater, it can amplify the signals strength.

Answered by: UMESH SINGH MEHTA on: Dec 8th, 2011

Basically when our signal is weak (on a network) then we should have a repeater device. This device used to regenerate the weak signal.

What is picking and packing in computer networking

Asked By: Ajay Kr. Sharma | Asked On: Feb 9th, 2012

Answered by: Lokesh M on: Feb 12th, 2012

As far as I know this term is used for items that needs to be picked from various locations in a warehouse whenever a customer fills the shopping cart and & submits the list for purchase.

What are port numbers for telnet , ftp, http and rpc

Asked By: srigokulkumar | Asked On: Jun 17th, 2008

Answered by: ljohns on: Jan 11th, 2012

Port is registered with IANA for the application = Official Port is not registered with IANA for the application = UnOfficial Telnet = port - 23(Official) FTP = port - 20(Data Tx), 21(Command), 22(S...

Answered by: Shriniwas on: Oct 22nd, 2011

Telent : 23
FTP : 22/21
HTTP: 80
RPC : 135

Iis server backup

Asked By: hiddi | Asked On: Sep 26th, 2011

How to take iis server backup ?

Answered by: Laxmikant C K on: Jan 6th, 2012

Hi,
Its too simply to IIS backup. Take the system state backup in that only IIS will be consider, if the server is IIS.

You want to connect a cable modem to a switch. Which cable would you use?

Asked By: faith | Asked On: Aug 17th, 2007

Answered by: UMESH SINGH MEHTA on: Dec 8th, 2011

For connecting the Switch to Modem we use standard cable in any version of UDP (cat 1.2.3.4.5.5e.6)

Answered by: suneel on: Nov 17th, 2011

Straight cable.

If we use different devices we can use straight cable.
If we use same devices we can use cross cable

What is difference between ipv4 & ipv6 ?

Asked By: mithuparmar | Asked On: Sep 19th, 2011

Answered by: Asif Ali on: Oct 12th, 2011

Ans :-There is major difference between IP V.4 and IP V.6 such as – 1.In IP V.4 is a 32 bits IP Address but IP v.6 128 bits IP Address. 2.IP v.4 is a Decimal Format, but IP V.6 is Hexa-Decimal Numbe...

Answered by: DT on: Sep 20th, 2011

IPv4 means Internet Protocol version 4, whereas IPv6 means Internet Protocol version 6. IPv4 is 32 bits IP address that we use commonly, it can be 192.168.8.1, 10.3.4.5 or other 32 bits IP addresses....

What is shADOw copy and subnet mars ?

Asked By: rajnishkmr092 | Asked On: Sep 13th, 2011

How does dora process works in dhcp

Asked By: Santhosh Kumar Darshanam | Asked On: Aug 8th, 2011

Answered by: Aswins on: Sep 4th, 2011

DORA stands for Discover Offer Request Ack When there is request been sent from the client and there should be a response should be sent from the the server, So the process discovering the request b...

Can infrastructure master and GLobal catalog be on same domain?

Asked By: sunilbaglur | Asked On: May 5th, 2011

Answered by: Stan on: Aug 23rd, 2011

no because Infrastructure master performs its task by comparing its state against the state of a GC - and updates other DCs in the same domain based on the outcome. Effectively, the update would never took place since no differences would be detected.

Mac address and ip address

Asked By: msasi84 | Asked On: Jan 16th, 2008

Why we want mac address as well as ip addresswhy one address is not enough in net work

Answered by: Stan on: Aug 23rd, 2011

This is because different types of devices use different ways of communicating to hosts. Routers for example use the IP or logical address whereas level 2 switches and older HUBS use the MAC address to communicate.

Answered by: bhatia.tanu on: Dec 11th, 2008

IP Address : Its a 32-bit unique numeric identifier assigned to every host on the network. Its a logical address of any TCP/IP host or a machine (computer).IP address helps a system to be uniquely ide...

Internet connection issue

Asked By: Rob Doyle | Asked On: Jul 12th, 2011

If someone finds that their internet connectivity is down, how would you fix the problem?:

Answered by: Stan on: Aug 23rd, 2011

If someone is using a laptop they may have accidentally turned their wifi connection off. This is fixed by:

Looking for the wifi connection button on the top row of the keyboard. It looks similar to the letter A surrounded by parenthesis. Push it to turn the wifi connection back on.

Answered by: Lokesh M on: Jul 13th, 2011

I would ask them to do the following steps.

Step 1. Reset / Restart the Modem.
If no connection then

Step 2. Reset Network Connection / Restart the PC
If not connection then

Step 3. Call up the Internet Service Provider and log a complaint.

A user can log on to the network but has no internet connection? Explain what could be the problem.

Asked By: ramraje | Asked On: Mar 4th, 2011

Answered by: ashbhatt on: Aug 20th, 2011

First check the user account's membership in AD
if account is allowed to access internet check proxy settings
if proxy settings are all ok update the group policy of the client machine and rerun the login script if does not work reinstall the client software

Answered by: ash on: Aug 20th, 2011

First of all check weather the user account has appropriate membership on the domain to access internet if that is OK please check the proxy settings of the web browser if that is OK too try to refre...

Ethernet

Asked By: shashankkapoor | Asked On: Jul 3rd, 2008

What is the differnce b/w ethernet and internet?

Answered by: panditume on: Jul 6th, 2011

Ethernet is a physical and data link layer technology for LANs. IP use Ethernet as their transmission medium. Data travels over Ethernet inside protocol units called frames. The Internet is a glob...

Answered by: rrsain on: Aug 4th, 2008

Internet is global network or in other words we can say it is WAN. But Ethernet is a medium that is used to connect computers in a LAN. These computers may be hosts or clients.

Acl and firewall

Asked By: preeti thirumalaiswamy | Asked On: Mar 13th, 2009

How does a firewall differ from acl?

Answered by: citizen0100 on: Mar 10th, 2011

A ACL is a Active Control List - So you specify a rule in a list of rules that data on a certain ip and or port can access another port and or ip address.  In essence its more like a rule in a ro...

Answered by: Raahul29 on: Sep 15th, 2009

ACL Manager lets you control routers and firewalls from your PC . Deploy the same access list to different device types such as Cisco and Juniper. Save time and money in router ACL management. Manage thousands of routers from a single application. Minimize errors in ACL deployment.

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