When you really need to know what's going on with your network, give one of these free monitors a try. Monitoring your network can be a real pain. First and foremost, what tool should you use?

Managing a small business network can involve a lot of time-consuming grunt work. And while you can find networking software and services that make performing a given task faster and more efficient, ...

My home and home lab network are a mess. Over the years, connecting my lab's physical and virtual machines (VMs), SAN, NAS, and other projects using various network switches, and routers have become a ...

If you weren't aware, the "IP" in IP address stands for "internet protocol." Basically, it's like a set of rules for accessing and utilizing the internet, though in practice, it's more like a virtual ...

Advanced IP Scanner enumerates the used IP addresses on your network and also allows limited remote control. Free IP scanners abound, and most will tell you what’s attached to your network. But if you ...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Nmap, the open-source network mapping tool that became the standard used by many IT professionals, but that can be a bit much if you only need to do general ...

A lightweight, simple IP scanner, Angry IP Scanner uses a multithreaded scanning technique to offer speedy scans with results that can be saved to CSV, TXT, XML, or IP-Port list files. Offering a ...

Imperva is the latest security company to offer a free scanner to detect Internet of Things devices infected with or vulnerable to Mirai malware, the malicious code behind the massive distributed ...

Need a quick and no-fuss way to list every device on your network, including the IP address and other information about each? Then give this small, free, simple-to-use utility a try. Advanced IP ...