By zrydento, on December 16th, 2009
When a device on a TCP/IP network starts up and is not configured for a static IP address, it needs to receive an IP address before it can communicate with other devices on the network. A standard computer with a hard disk can be enabled for static configuration but a diskless device that does not have
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By zrydento, on December 11th, 2009
For those of you who have heard of Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and think that Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) is its complement, they are totally off track. RARP is a computer networking protocol used by a host computer to request for an IPV4 address from another host computer if it does not have one used (not statically assigned), the
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By zrydento, on December 2nd, 2009
The are many special types of IP address that we seldom come across as they are only used in special cases. We will go through each of them in the overview below:
1. Limited Broadcast IP address
In this type of an IP address all the 32 bits of the IP address are set to 1′s. The address
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