Windows Server 2003 makes it easier to obtain IP addressing information. Previously, to find out the IP address for a Windows NT or Windows 2000 system, you had to use the IPConfig command-line tool.

Rather than layering security onto networks, the networks themselves and carefully managed authorization policies can hinder attacks, but at an administrative cost. Why is it that over 90% of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Table 1. This table illustrates subnet masks. The number after the “/” in the CIDR notation ...

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

In this chapter, you will learn about the addressing used in IPv4 and IPv6. We'll assign addresses of both types to various interfaces on the hosts and routers of the Illustrated Network. We'll ...

The internet relies on a system of addresses that treats every computer, tablet and smartphone as a distinct device, allowing all of them to communicate with each other. Because many kinds of devices ...

IPv6 increases IP address space to 128 bits, thus increasing the pool of addresses from IPv4's 2^32 to 2^128, or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...

Private networks are formed by computers connected to each other but not to external networks or the Internet. Each computer in a private network occupies a private IP address space, meaning that no ...

If Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) didn’t exist, network administrators would have to manually parcel out IP addresses from the available pool, which ...