I recently purchased an ASA 5505, which I'm beginning to configure for a home network, for hobby and added security (hopefully). The network is a simple one, an "inside" network for a few wired ...

IPv6 offers several ways that aren’t possible in IPv4 to assign IP addresses, and DNS set-up has differences as well. As IP technology has matured, the range of devices that the internet protocol ...

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) simplifies networking by allowing a DHCP server -- any device with a DHCP server role, such as a modem or a router -- to assign Internet Protocol (IP) ...

I have a setup where there is a comcast modem and a firewall. The firewall is acting as the DHCP server and handing out ip addresses. The comcast modem is only acting as a modem. The firewall had a ...

Years ago, I used to be a network administrator for an organization that had some rather odd security policies in place. One of the existing policies when I got there was that all computers had to be ...

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, makes setting up an office network simple, but several minor drawbacks come with that simplicity. One common issue you may encounter is the difficulty of ...

If you are experiencing trouble with your network connection and have it configured to DHCP, figuring out your IP address can be quite a task. Using a Static IP Address helps avert IP address ...

Computers may be assiged a static IP addressor assigned one dynamically. Typically a server will require a static IP while a workstation will use DHCP (dynamic IP assignment). The Linux server ...