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 ...

Typically, an Internet connection is created using a dynamic IP address. This means that when your computer connects to the Internet, it uses one of any number of IP addresses, so that each time you ...

In a wide-area network that uses the static IP addressing method, a computer may have multiple static IP addresses to identify it across all the sub-domains of the wide-area network. Large ...

Internet protocol addressing (IP addressing) is the use of unique identifiers in a data packet that are assigned to a particular device or portion of a device (such as a port) within a system or a ...

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 ...

Canonical has changed the way we configure static IPs in Ubuntu. Jack Wallen shows you how it’s done. From the office of, “If it’s not broken don’t fix it” comes this: In Ubuntu Server, there’s a ...

As I'm ramping up with IPv6 here I keep running into plenty of "how should this be done?" moments. End user subnets are easy, enable SLAAC, some DHCPv6 for DNS and let the hosts pick their own ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of giving a standard user sudo privileges so they can set a static IP address on Debian server. Debian is one of the most reliable operating systems on the ...

Have you ever tested your VPN service or noticed the IP address you were assigned after connecting to a server? If you have, chances are you saw a different one the next time you looked. There’s a ...

A permanent numeric identification assigned by the network administrator to a node in a TCP/IP network. Static IP addresses are used for shared resources such as Web servers, printers, telephone PBXs ...