Stupid Networking Tricks

I'm a coder, a coder who hates IT, and a coder who really wishes he wasn't distracted by IT. But like all coders who did the simple Linksys "network-in-a-box" home-based network, I've been drafted at times to be the de facto "network guy." Since I don't particularly like this job, I decided I would put up some of the tricks I learned so that others in my situation wouldn't have to suffer the way I did.

I know that for anyone who even has half a networking certification, all of the following are laughingly simple things to do, but that's what happens when you make coders in charge of IT. :) This list will grow as I convert more of my hand-written and MS Word based notes into HTML.