Each time a computer, smart phone or another device accesses your local network, the router assigns an Internet Protocol address to the device. Most Linksys routers come with a default setting of 50 ...

Many administrators forget—or don't even realize—that they can configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) on Cisco IOS routers and switches. David Davis discusses the pros and cons of this ...

When it comes time to add a new device to your network, there are two different methods by which you can obtain an IP address: either manually using a static address or automatically by using your ...

After installing RH8.0 I noticed that it didn't work with my internet connection and eventually found out that the default RedHat DHCP client, "dhclient" didn't receive any dhcpoffers from my ISP's ...

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 ...

As I prefaced in my previous article “Free Migration Tools to Windows 2008 R2” about these free migration tools from Microsoft that help organizations migrate from Windows 2003 and 2008 servers and ...

Over the last year I’ve been running my DHCP services in my MX84 because of some issues with when we deployed a new VOIP phone service. Needless to say, I’ve been trying to clean up a few things. It ...