Jeffreys Ruminations - Network Blog

I’ve been waiting a bit too long to update here and missed a few things…
First, Joseph Davies (aka “The Cable Guy” on Technet) has released the entire TCP/IP Fundamentals for  Microsoft Windows in PDF format.
Click here for the ebook
More to come later today or early tomorrow…

In my absence, I have missed the past few Cable Guy articles over at Technet:
June 2007 – The Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol
This article from TechNet Magazine describes how the Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) uses the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) over secure sockets layer (SSL) for remote access virtual private network (VPN) connections across network [...]

Joseph Davies (of the Windows Server Networking team and also known as the Cable Guy) has recently released a new online book entitled TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows that is available on Technet.
From Joseph’s posting on the server networking newsgroup:
This online book is a structured, introductory approach to the basic
concepts and principles of the Transmission [...]

During my extended absence (ugghh), I missed some Cable Guy archives:
May 2006 - Configuring IPv6 in Windows Vista
April 2006 - Connecting Wireless Networks in Windows Vista
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There’s a new Cable Guy article entitled “Changes to IPv6 in Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn” that was posted yesterday…
I’ll learn a bit more about this tomorrow at the Network Drill-Down day at the MVP Summit… So hopefully I can post a bit more later this weekend if I am able to due [...]

The August 2005 edition of The Cable Guy involves the new encryption standards that will be included in the WPA (WiFi Protected Access) implementations. This article is good if you want specific details on the Encryption and Integrity aspects of WPA2.

Tags: CableGuy, WPA2

This month’s Cable Guy article is an overview of NAP (Network Access Protection), which stands for Network Access Protection. NAP is set to be included “server”-wise in the Longhorn Server release (parts of it was supposed to be in R2, but they were dropped a few months back), and client wise in Windows XP [...]

In my (recurring) downtime, I missed the past two magnificient Cable Guy articles.
In March: Troubleshooting IPV6
This article describes the techniques and tools that you can use to help identify a problem at successive layers of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol stack that is using an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) [...]

The December edition of The Cable Guy is out.. This issue is packed with information concerning networking and security improvements that are contained in Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 1. I have been playing around with this for some time as this is the never-ending beta, but I haven’t mentioned much due to [...]

In my absence, I missed posting about a few of the newer Cable Guy articles. In case you haven’t seen them, here is a list. The October one is particularly relevant as NAT is the cause for many of our SOHO networking woes…

October 2004 – Problems with Using Network Address Translators
Learn about the [...]