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 ...

A few tips on how to make sure the DHCP infrastructure issuing IP addresses isn’t a single point of failure. Redundancy is essential for dealing with both planned and unplanned outages, and that ...

The next version of the popular DHCP server Kea is gradually maturing, but before that, the manufacturer is releasing extensions as open source and for testing. The Kea-DHCP software package, which is ...

As I prefaced in my previous article “Free Migration Tools to Windows 2008 R2” about these free migration tools from Microsoft that help organizations migrate from Windows 2003 and 2008 servers and ...

How does one "shake off" some dhcp leases where I don't know who has the IPs?<BR><BR>Scenario: I had some VoIP phones on the staff LAN that snared some IPs from my DHCP server. But I find my self ...

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