More and more security devices being designed to communicate over local area networks (LAN) and the Internet. In smaller installations the security dealer is going to probably be responsible for ...

Every computer connected to the Internet has a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address that identifies the device to other computers, allowing the user to browse the Web and access other online services ...

IP reservation is the process of assigning a specific IP address to a device, such as a computer, so it receives the same address each time it (re)connects to the network, such as when you restart it ...

Private networks are formed by computers connected to each other but not to external networks or the Internet. Each computer in a private network occupies a private IP address space, meaning that no ...

You’ve heard about it before: an unknown online assailant has been inundating someone in your town with bothersome messages. Luckily, even though that person’s profile may be devoid of identifying ...

After some recent upgrades, I now have two WRT54Gs acting in WDS mode on my home network. I have the latest DD-WRT firmware installed on both routers, and I use DHCP to assign IP addresses to most ...

How can I use Address Resolution Protocol (or something else) to detect if the IP address I was assigned is unique without causing all other hosts to update their cache and lose communication with the ...

In an upcoming blog I expect to write about configuring a home router, which requires logging on to it. This, in turn, requires knowing the IP address of the router. Non-techies typically don’t know ...