I have a maddening intermittent problem on my home network, in which all machines (macs) which use DHCP suddenly have "self-assigned" IPs which are totally invalid for the network. I try wiping the ...

All Windows Server operating systems support Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) that businesses can use to assign IP addresses to computers on the company network automatically. DHCP lets ...

Years ago, I used to be a network administrator for an organization that had some rather odd security policies in place. One of the existing policies when I got there was that all computers had to be ...

I have a dummy (fake MAC Address) DHCP reservation, that I had configured for say 10.0.1.2. MAC 0000000000. I have an important system that is statically assigned that IPADDRESS on my LAN. Today I got ...

System Center 2012 SP1's Virtual Machine Manager IP pools offer the same zero-effort IP addressing experience that desktop administrators have enjoyed for years. System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine ...

One common issue that has affected OS X systems is when network interfaces are issued a self-assigned IP address. Here is how to address this problem. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

A few people have reported getting self-assigned IP addresses after installing OS X 10.6.8 on their systems, which should be easily fixed by resetting the system firewall. Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

You may encounter issues when configuring the network settings of your server if there is a bug in your OS’s version. Even though there is no official confirmation ...

IP conflicts occur when two computers on a network have the same IP address. This can lead to problems when you are attempting to send data to one of those computers, and it may lead to one or both ...

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 ...