Jeffreys Ruminations - Network Blog

On the topic of Cable Guys articles - there’s a new one for July… From Joes Blog:
The July 2004 TechNet Cable Guy article is titled “Path Maximum Transmission Unit (PMTU) Black Hole Routers” and describes TCP connection problems caused by PMTU black hole routers (that silently discard packets that must be fragmented for [...]

I guess in my haze of constant work the past two weeks with office construction and server migration, I missed Joseph Davies announcement for his new blog. For those of you who don’t know Joseph, he is the head honcho on networking technical writing at Microsoft for the Windows platform (and is the wonderful [...]

Late I know, but:
The Cable Guy article for May 2004 describes the group policy settings used to control the new Windows Firewall as well as ICS (Internet Connection Sharing).
The article is fairly short, but is succinct.
Go here for the article.

I missed the posting for the new Cable Guy article at Technet:
Configuring Routing and Remote Access for RADIUS Authentication and Accounting
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/default.mspx
I actually met the technical writer for the Networking Team who writes the Cable Guy articles (as well as authoring some excellent networking books for MS Press) today at the product group [...]

OK..� I missed this article during my extended absence… The February Cable Guy article is about how to configure ICF that is proposed to be included in XP SP2… In general, I find the ICF included in the SP2 builds I have seen to be excellent and I use them all the time, even [...]