StaticNAT

Whether you have been a part of the networking community for years or are stumbling across this post in a search for a way to identify how much traffic your server or network connection is using, Paessler Router Traffic Grapher is for you. Historically if your were trying to get a handle on traffic, CPU utilization, Memory utilization, Process Count and countless other SNMP counters over a historical period you would use MRTG, HP OpenView, WhatsUP, Orion or CiscoWorks. But with all those solutions you run into one or both of the following problems. Read the rest of this entry »

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If your already checking out StaticNAT.com, then your probably wondering when something of use will actually show up here. Hopefully that will be by this weekend. As you can clearly see on the homepage I am having some CSS and HTML issues with the sidebar in conjunction with my Ads. Also I’m beginning to wonder if this is the right design for ease of use with both content and Ads. But I’m going to try to make it work and go from there. I did update the About page to include my background. Over time I am sure I will add more there but for now its a start. Well if your reading this I would like to encourage you to bookmark StaticNat.com or add me to your RSS reader. I promise over the next few months you will see lots and lots of config examples and project notes from real world and in some cases current projects. I would also encourage you to go ahead and register with the site so your able to post comments. Any input you have now or in the future is welcome and I look forward to bringing you great content.

Well if you have not yet figured it out this site is going to be dedicated to the networking community. I have been part of this community now since 1996 in some capacity. Currently I am a Networking Consultant for an upscale integrator in Columbus, Ohio. I am spinning this site up for several reasons.

1. I would like to chronicle my path from a network administrator up through my certification process for Cisco and other networking Vendors.

2. I would like to share the information I learn along the way. This is a career field in which you must never stop learning. There is simply to much to begin with and it just keeps growing. I strongly believe that we in the Enterprise Networking/IT field do not live in a vacuum. Very few network shops ever are the first to do something. For that reason I think it is important that there is an easy to use resource to find the solutions to a problem that others have already concurred or at crossed paths with.

3. Because doing something new (ie. This Blog) never hurt anyone and it will help me grow my skill set.

4. I hope to shed light on little known products and/or solutions that I have come across in an effort to not only ease the pain of network administration for other but to give credit to those who work hard to create solutions (both free and commercial) for us.

I might get off to a somewhat slow start we will have to see. But over time I plan on adding lots of features to this site. Shortly I will have a Guestbook and I encourage anyone visiting this site to not only register and comment on what find here but to also sign into the guestbook with a public email address and some information about yourself and your specialty. Networking is not a purely technical endeavor, but social as well. As a group we are a influential and vast repository of information as an individual we are nothing more than a host in a sea of routers.