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  • Hardening your router in 9 easy steps

    For most enterprise LANs, the router has become one of the most critical security appliances in use. Configured properly, it can keep all but the most determined bad guys out, and if you want, it can even keep the good guys in. But an improperly conf...  Tip

  • Router Expert: Standard interface configuration for a WLAN proxy server

    Our router expert continues his series on building a secure WLAN with a Linux base. This article covers standard interface configuration of the http proxy server.  Tip

  • Cisco router security

    Network infrastructure is critical to our country and our businesses, and poor router security could have catastrophic consequences. Updating your router IOS is only the first step in ensuring a secure environment.  Tip

  • Router Expert: Building a WLAN proxy server, Part 2

    Part 1covered the basic Linux distribution install, secure VTY and http text client -- Part 2 is a step by step process to build the kernel.  Tip

  • Router Expert: Building a WLAN proxy server, Part 1

    Our router expert walks you through building an http proxy server for a wireless network segment using Linux. The construction of the proxy server is quite involved so we'll cover the process over a few articles. This month we specifically cover the ...  Tip

  • Practical configurations, Part 2

    Router management is one of the most basic duties of a network administrator. The second part in this series examines the configuration of distribution devices; STP, HSRP and OSPF.  Tip

  • Practical configurations, Part 1

    This is the first in a small series of articles designed to help the common network engineer with some of the most basic configurations.  Tip

  • How (and why) to turn a Linux server into a router

    Author Peter Harrison explains why Linux can reduce the cost of routers and how to make that happen.  Tip

  • Rapid Spanning Tree

    Improve failover with the ues of Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol.  Tip

  • Tasks for initial router configuration

    What you need to do to get the router up and running.  Tip

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