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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 Continue reading Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP)
Booting your host from the network without the need to rely on the local operating system or hard disks is a technology that is not used very often in the corporate environment today with some people never having heard that such a thing is possible. With the way things are moving today with virtual machines, virtual Continue reading Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
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 Continue reading Reverse ARP is not the reverse of ARP
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 Continue reading Special types of IP addresses |
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