On the network at my school we use DHCP to get ip addresses (which change every 4 hours or so, and you can't ask them to give you a static address). I was wondering if it would disrupt the network at ...

IP reservation is the process of assigning a specific IP address to a device, such as a computer, so it ... Continue Reading ...

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 ...

Hello friends.<BR><BR>I'm in the process of deploying a DHCP server. I've setup a scope, activated it, authorized it within the DHCP tree, and made a reservation for a test client.<BR><BR>I entered ...

An IP address is a unique identifier for a specific device on your network. Your router assigns them to these devices using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). As you connect new devices to ...

The DHCP Lookup Failed problem indicates that your PC was unable to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server. To interact with the router and the internet, each device requires an IP address. DHCP ...

System Center 2012 SP1's Virtual Machine Manager IP pools offer the same zero-effort IP addressing experience that desktop administrators have enjoyed for years. System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine ...

* Static vs. DHCP IP: Which is faster? By Steve Blass Q: Did you really mean to say, in an earlier column, that using a static IP address will make file transfers go faster than using DHCP IP ...

Internet networking involves a lot of alchemy, and I confess to occasionally dropping an eye of newt (or an IP of newt) into a boiling pot to fix problems on my local network. There’s a particular ...