Explore your network for free

How to explore your network ?

First you have to find your IP address. All IP addresses are unique in the internet. Go to www.robtex.com and you can find your IP address of home page or use www.whatismyipaddress.com. After getting your IP address you can visually tracerout using your IP to find where you can access network around the world.

What is robtex.com? (freeware Net tools)

Robtex is a software developer which was founded in 1989 developing all kinds of software.
currently the most popular has been free tools like rbls.org and network explorer.
those tools are now merged closer and is called "Robtex Swiss Army Knife".

They provide

RBL checks multible RBL

DNS checks

IP-number checks

C-net checks an entire c-network

whois lookup checks

route checks a specific routed prefix

AS numbers checks information

BGP announcements checks

AS macros checks

Reverse DNS lookup

Domains

Graph

Shared




Blacklists



Analysis



Any suggestions and comments are appreciated.

How to test web hosting

How to test and select best web hosting provider before buy?

The main purpose of Web hosting is not only hosting your html or some kind of pages from your hosting server. When some provider offers unlimited hosting and they will try to be stable and get some trafic much more.

If your idea is to host with world famous web hosting companies, they will provide some additional features and stable services for you. But we won't pay too much for same resources.

Some web hosting companies have 10GB, 1GB, Dedicated line and they offer your to your public uplink is 100Mbp/s and actively they will give it to your? Most cheep web hosting service providers purchase one IP with 100Mbp/s and one dedicated server and share that 100MB link with hundreds of websites. When some one's website using maxium bandwidth (100Mbp/s) others web sites cannot usable with that moment.

Most web hosting companies offer to test their bandwidth without registering.

Speed test result for hosting company with 100Mbp/s





www.singlehop.com

100MB---0.38.91 S


www.zen.co.uk

100MB---2.15.87 S


www.tailoredservers.com

100MB---1.16.39 S


www.800hosting.com


100MB---3.46.43 S


www.fdcservers.net


100MB---1.00.65 S


www.leaseweb.com


100MB---4.01.60 S


www.cachefly.net


100MB---0.17.85 S


www.000webhost.com


10MB---0.11.18 S

CISCO vs Open Networking with Vyatta

Cisco is the worlds largest manufacturer of Routers, Switches and Firewalls. They sell their products and services for a higher price.

e.g.:

• Cisco single-port Fast Ethernet NIC for $639
  
• REALTEK Fast Ethernet NIC PCI Card just for $6 - $10.
  

What are the deferences between those hardware? They were made to do the same functions using same Standards (IEEE - ISO). Routing is a function not a hardware service. So Vyatta offers the customer to use open routing softwares and if you want you can use there hardware . It's simple. You can select what you want to do with your router.

Vyatta5 greatly expands Vyatta's security feature set, adding SSL-based OpenVPN, intrusion prevention system (IPS), and web URL filtering among many other improvements. When user chose Vyatta, the user's average cost savings are 50 to 80 percent. As IT professionals and network administrators around the globe are seeking affordable networking alternatives, they find that Vyatta delivers the features, performance, and services they need without the severe price-penalty of proprietary offerings.

Vyatta VC5 Features

OpenVPN

provides high levels of site-to-site and remote access security and great interoperability even in the presence of NAT, which protocols like IPSec find challenging

Antivirus

ClamAV and provides filtering of data objects retrieved through a number of different protocols

Web Caching

cache web objects so that they do not have to be retrieved multiple times by separate clients. This can help decrease WAN bandwidth requirements

URL Filtering

Vyatta can be configured to example all unencrypted web requests and filter requests using a categorization database and user-specified filtering policies

DNS Forwarding

Vyatta can be configured to act as a DNS proxy for clients receiving DNS server information via DHCP. This is most useful when DNS servers are specified to an organization from a service provider using DHCP and may change in the future

Dynamic DNS

Vyatta can be configured to register an refresh a DNS registration with a DynDNS service provider such as DynDNS.com. Multiple service providers are supported. This allows small business and home users with DHCP-addressed connections to receive inbound traffic to a DNS name.

Synchronous Serial Cards

Vyatta now provides full CLI support for Sangoma A142 and A144 synchronous serial cards. These cards provide support for external CSU/DSU using V.35, X.21, RS-422, or EIA530 interfaces. Previously, these cards could be configured in the system outside the CLI. This support adds full CLI support as with the current T1/E1, T3/E3, and DSL cards.

Experimental Support for Ethernet Link Bonding

Vyatta now allows users to configure multiple Ethernet links in a bonding group. This provides both increased performance and higher availability in the face of link failure. This feature is compatible with 802.3ad. Currently, this feature is experimental.

Experimental Support for 3G Modem

Vyatta now supports 3G USB wireless modems. This feature can provide a convenient wireless backup link in for remote Vyatta nodes.

For more info, visit http://www.vyatta.com.