To understand how subnetting works, you first must have a good basic understanding of IP addresses. An IP address is set of binary octets broken into quads. That definition may not have made any sense ...

If your company network is having problems and you need to troubleshoot it, you also need to know some basic information about the computers on the network. Internet Protocol is the underlying ...

This is the first of many technical blog posts I’m going to post on IPv6 architecture and implementation for a Microsoft Windows-based environment. I started off with a basic introduction of the IPv4 ...

I am using a strongSwan IPSec gateway for Windows 7 and Server 2008 based clients on the same subnet. The Windows VPN client requires a virtual ip address to be assigned by the IPsec gateway. What I ...

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, makes setting up an office network simple, but several minor drawbacks come with that simplicity. One common issue you may encounter is the difficulty of ...