After you’ve got a well-documented network, all you have to do is sit back and wait for problems to occur. Spurious as that may seem, it’s true. Sometime, some day, when you least expect it, something out of the blue will knock a server offline, disable a printer, and so on. If you have good […]
The following shows an example of using a switch/router to connect to the Internet through a cable or DSL modem.
In this example, the Internet service provider (ISP) has assigned an IP address to your connection (296.34.81.5). This might be a permanent assignment (known as a static IP address) or the ISP might periodically change the […]
It you use a broadband connection to the Internet, you’ll probably have a switch/router appliance connecting your small LAN to the cable or DSL modem. These inexpensive devices allow your LAN to share a single Internet connection (that is, a single IP address) on the Internet, while providing for separate addresses for each computer on […]
