It's imperative for sys admins to manage IP addressing properly, even in simple networks. Routers, firewalls and monitoring tools all use IP addresses to uniquely identify and organize network devices ...

A temporary numeric identification assigned to a node in a TCP/IP network. When a computer, smartphone, tablet, printer, scanner, TV or any other network-connected device is turned on for the first ...

James Sentman has released a utility allowing users with a dynamic IP connection to maintain the same DNS name, regardless of when or how often your IP address changes. Dynamic DNS Client 2.0b1 is the ...

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a network management protocol used to dynamically assign an Internet Protocol (IP) address to any device on a network so it can communicate. DHCP ...

What does the router do when it has identified a packet that doesn’t belong on your local network? It passes it along to another router which, it hopes, does know how to send it to its destination.

This section starts with a general overview of dynamic addressing, along with a short history of the development of dynamic addressing protocols. For IT Professionals: Understanding RFCs To understand ...

IP, short for Internet Protocol, is a unique string of numbers that identifies a device on a network, much like a mailing address identifies a house. Every device connected to the internet, whether it ...