@JaredBusch said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@JaredBusch said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@connorsoliver said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

How common is MAN?

It's just a term. One that they thought would be common, but isn't. Really no one used it and it's just silly. LAN and WAN still describe all of the real types that matter. The idea of a MAN is kind of meaningless. So while they kind of exist regularly, no one talks about them.

It is also implied that it is something managed by the ISP (aka telcos back when it was a term actually used).

Used to imply, yeah. Today it is often down by owned wireless. But the first MAN I worked on was one we built privately in DC. No telecoms involved. That was early 2000.

First one I worked with was in some Citibank offices in the mid-late 90's in St. Louis. Telecoms involved only as far as providing the clean pairs of copper. Otherwise, Citi did it all themselves also.

I was similar. AT&T provided the fiber in case, but we managed everything else.

The only scenarios I've seen are:

PPPoE / DSL Jumbo Frames VPNs

@wrcombs said in Changing Lana number:

@scottalanmiller said in Changing Lana number:

@plainfool said in Changing Lana number:

@wrcombs

As far a I know post win7 there is no other way to do it other than how you are at the moment.

fun days ahead when all those xp machines are retired!

If they are ever retired, lol.

Well they have been around this long. . . Why not another decade with no support? LOL

Exactly. At this point, there is no trigger coming down the pike to push people off of them. If you are okay with them today, you'll be okay with them in twenty years.

Isn't that what they say in Texas...the more bigger, the more better...(sarcasm emoji)

Before you can get in to what OS to run the clients on, do you have to ask what apps the business needs to run? If they need some kind of CAD package and it's only offered on Windows, the linux client goes out the window. (pun intended)

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

If you only have Samba controllers, hell it might work.

that's the normal way to use it. Mixing it in would just be weird. Lots of companies run on just it, it works great from what I hear. I've never heard of a shop that had issues after moving to it. It's full AD with all the bells and whistles. You can even manage it from Windows and GPOs work great too.

I saw somewhere online someone set up an environment that way and used RSAT from a Windows 7 computer to do GPO and users/computers.

@thanksaj said:

Not often, but my LAN connection goes from my dock to a switch through Powerline adapters to my other main 8-port switch and then to the router. If something fails at any number of points along that way, it's handy to have the failover.

Congrats on intentionally disabling a setting that is designed to make your system work better.