High speed internet and security are keys to boost productivity

In this decade, high speed internet connections become our need.  Why?  Because all of the content of  the best websites contain multimedia streaming, such as video, audio, voip, radio internet and much more.  They need more bandwidth resources.  We can see video at youtube smoothly without break time.  or If we can upload many photo fast with high speed internet.   The solution is broadband internet.

If we can get high speed internet connection with cheap price, it boost our productivity.  We can work remotely from home.   We can reduce transportation cost, time, and office space, it reduce overal cost.  Others, we need protection from hacker or unauthorized person.   We have to protect our private local area network from hacker, virus, spam, spyware and other malicous code.  We can activate firewall feature in ADSL Modem.  Tips : activate antivirus, antispam and antispyware in each personal pc or notebook.

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Broadband Internet and Home Network Architecture

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Force End User to using Proxy Services at Endian Firewall

If you have installed endian firewall, you can force end users to using proxy services,  end users no need to setup proxy’s setting in their browser client.  It is named Transparent Proxy.  It is one of best feature that owned by squid proxy.

This is step by step to activate tranparent proxy at endian firewall :

1. Login as admin to endian firewall web admin.

2. Click Proxy–> HTTP

3. Tick Tranparent on Green at Endian 2.1.2 or older version.  If you use Endian Firewall 2.2, choose Tranparent on Green interface at  Endian 2.2

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Endian Firewall 2.1.2 or older

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Port Forwarding in Endian Firewall 2.1.2

By default, firewall will deny unauthorized requests from internet to access the services in the internal LAN. But sometimes we want to access mail server, or our internal web server from the internet, port forwarding is one of them so that people from internet can access mail service and our internal web server. Port Forwarding is a service that will allow limited access to our LAN from outside the base port that we want to open. We have to  map ip address and port.

Following steps should be done based on scenario like this : we will open the smtp service (port 25), pop3 (port 110), webmail (port 80) and the secure website (port 443).

  1. Open the Firewall menu>> Port Forwarding

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Learning Computers in the Forum discussion

Many ways to learn information technology, whether through books, magazines, and internet. I get a lot of knowledge on the internet. Here, a lot of information that we got, both free and paid. However, the most available type is the first. Media information that can we learn there are various. We can learn through ebook, blogs, discussion forums and many other media.

The most popular way : searching the information  via search engines.  The most popular search engine at this time is google. Google’s search engine is the most formidable in the world. Google search-based content-centric. With google, all kinds of information we can get quickly and easily. Starts from books, software, computer store, online, tutorials, online courses, artists, movies, games, encyclopedia, history and how to make bombs.

If we are interested in the discussion we can apply to the forums on the internet. Many types of discussion forums on the internet, from the discussion forum about flowers, pets up to about the latest technology. Overall there. Registration is very simple. We are only filling out the registration form. Generally, the required is your name, email address, and age. The email address must be a valid email address. Because the notification and the confirmation email will be sent via email that we fill in the registration form.

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Cacti Plugins

The advantages of the cacti are having many plugins that is provided by a wide community of cactiusers.org.

List of available cacti plugins:

  • Boost: To increase cacti performance
  • Clogs: To add a view tab to view  cacti log
  • Discovery: auto discovery to detect the SNMP devices on the network with diferent subnet.
  • Docs: To create a document in cacti
  • Flowviewer: Viewer to see the flow of data dicapture by netflow on cisco router.
  • Host Info: Displays information about the server cacti’s version
  • Login Mod: To change the cacti login page
  • Mac Track: track a MAC Address and Port on the device to enable the SNMP
  • Monitor: monitors the condition of up/down from the monitored device, is also accompanied by sound alerts.
  • Ntop: shows ntop application on cacti tab
  • Realtime: Displaying graphs in realtime cacti every 5 seconds.
  • Router Configs: backup display configuration and router
  • Settings: Settings and configure cacti
  • SSL: SSL access with cacti
  • Syslog: Displays syslog cacti database
  • Thold: Showing up down from the host
  • Tools: Tool to check the service HTTP, FTP, POP3 and SMTP
  • Update: Showing all the plugins installed and check for updates

You can download torrent of full CactiEZ and their plugins in here.

CactiEZ is a self installing Linux Distribution based off CentOS that sets up and configures a customized Cacti install. Everything is designed to be completely automated and working directly out of the box. This compact distro is loaded with extra features such as Syslog and Netflow data collection, Weathermaps, Reports, Auto Discovery, Router Config backup, Nagios, and much more! Both 32 Bit and 64 Bit installations are possible from the same CD.