When your sign up for Internet access on behalf of your company or purchase Web hosting for your company's Web servers, you will purchase either a dynamic IP address, a single static IP address or a ...

Administrators almost always rely on the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol service to automatically make IP address configurations available to clients. Though DHCP is an essential service on most ...

Network professionals recognize the importance of correctly configuring IP addresses on network nodes. IP addresses -- and their related subnet masks -- are critical to network communications. Most ...

This post was published published on September 16, 2013 and may be out of date. Pocketables has been around for over 20 years, so there's a lot of content out there. At seven or more years since ...

I just got a Zyxel Modem from Century Link and 5 usable Static IPs in a block of 8. I configured the modem for "transparent bridging" and configured the PPOE credentials on a DD-WRT router and now it ...

In most situations, an internet service provider (ISP) assigns a single external IP address to a customer. That address can be dynamic, in that it changes based on the needs of the ISP, or static, ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

When you need a Linux system to have a static IP address rather than one that is set dynamically by DHCP, all that's required is some configuration changes and a restart. Follow these steps to make ...

When a network router doesn't have enough network ports to connect all the necessary devices, a switch can be used to add additional ports. In the case of business networks, switches are often ...

I am releasing an nftables configuration generation kit to reduce unnecessary access to Linux servers. Since this uses a ...