We have a 300-workstation network with a Windows 2000 server, two domain controllers, a SQL 2000 database server, Linux Web server and ISA firewall. We’ve been asked to segment the database server ...

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, makes setting up an office network simple, but several minor drawbacks come with that simplicity. One common issue you may encounter is the difficulty of ...

Once you've identified your needs, it's time to take that next step: actually setting up your network. In this tutorial we'll start with a basic network: two laptops, connected by Ethernet cable to a ...

You've picked out your hardware and set up the basics, and configured your network to perform at its best and fastest. Now it's time to open the gates to the outside world. In this lesson, we're going ...

After all, there's a place for everything and everything in its place ...

Private Relay is an iCloud+ feature designed to deflect marketers, advertisers, and other parties interested in tracking you across the internet without your direct consent. The service, which remains ...

In a previous article, we explained how you can use the sendfile() syscall to reduce the overhead of data transfer from a disk to a network. Now, we’re going to cover another aspect of network ...

I just started a small medical practice, and we just moved into our new location. We have about five PCs in the office and one printer. We don’t have an Internet connection, but I would like all of ...

Internet networking involves a lot of alchemy, and I confess to occasionally dropping an eye of newt (or an IP of newt) into a boiling pot to fix problems on my local network. There’s a particular ...