When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Figure 1. A screen capture of an exchange between a desktop computer and a DHCP server. Click ...

If Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) didn’t exist, network administrators would have to manually parcel out IP addresses from the available pool, which ...

A few months back, I put together a big fat guide on how to configure DNS and DHCP on your LAN the old-school way, with bind and dhcpd working together to seamlessly hand out addresses to hosts on ...

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 ...

DHCP is a networking protocol used to assign an IP address to your Apple device. Here's how to force a new IP address on macOS. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) allows a network device to ...

I have a question for the networking gurus here. I've inherited a network here at work because I seem to be the computer geek. Getting to the question, our internet and network setup has our server ...