June 2005 - Posts

09 June 2005
Trashed tcp on your nic?

Have you suffered a slow xp start and no working nic? Ipconfig will not work? Have you ever suffered a nic that would not repair in XP? You get errors suggesting that it cannot see the tcp. I started disabling antivirus services with no joy. I found this comment at http://www.bangsar.net/mt-archives... Read More...

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04 June 2005
Sending email frustrations and black hole routers

I had an account that was having a hard time sending email using web based interfaces like Yahoo. They spent some time with the isp and I think they ended up calling Microsoft when they got no satisfaction. It ended up being a blackhole router. This article explains the concept pretty well. http://www... Read More...

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03 June 2005
Exchange settings to reduce traffic, lessen spam attacks or relay attacks.

I am a user of Trend CSM which does a pretty good job of killing viri and spam. You still suffer some traffic/overhead dealing with ndr and directory lookup when you are getting spammed. I have a guide Microsoft Exchange 2003 by William R. Stanek which has some things to reduce some of this hassle. Les... Read More...

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