I have a setup where there is a comcast modem and a firewall. The firewall is acting as the DHCP server and handing out ip addresses. The comcast modem is only acting as a modem. The firewall had a ...

Does a static IP address make file transfers go faster than using DHCP IP addresses? No, Dr. Internet says. Did you really mean to say, in an earlier column, that using a static IP address will make ...

Systems administrators differ on the helpfulness of assigning static IP addresses for networked printers. Leaving the printers set to Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, would be the ...

[2] The NETGEAR FSM726 network switch comes in three hardware versions. Versions 1 and 2 have a default password of 1234 ...

I have a problem whereby client machines booting via PXE will only get a DHCP address in WDS on specific network ports. Every network port results in the client getting an IP address for PXE and ...

Create a superscope to solve the problem of dwindling IP addresses Your email has been sent This article is also available as a PDF download. The growth of the young ...

Rich Long found that he could not get his MacSense XRouter Pro (MIH-130A) to work with DHCP and Mac OS X 10.0.2. But he found a solution. He writes: "The symptom I saw was that the Mac would receive ...

In this article, we will show you how to change DHCP Lease Time in Windows 11/10. When you connect your device to the internet, your Internet Service Provider assigns an IP address to it. This is a ...

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 ...