Ars Technica

DHCP in new subnet - how to get clients to get new address

OK, so I have a subnet (192.168.11.0) that currently has all servers and clients on it. It's running out of addresses. So, I create a new subnet (192.168.12.0) and change my DHCP server (Fortigate ...
Ars Technica

What's a "self-assigned" DHCP address, and how can I banish it?

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 ...
The Next Web

Facebook is so insanely big, it had to design a brand new DHCP server

You can tell a lot about the direction of a company by looking at its tech stack. A great example of this comes from Facebook, which today announced the creation of a brand new open-source DHCP server ...