DHCP

Gnomie Zombie Ryushu writes:
I had a friend come over to my house the other day and, for the life of me, he couldn’t negotiate with my DHCP server. He was running Vista. I did some searching and found out that Vista, by default, has some bizarre flag turned on that breaks DHCP for a lot [...]

Any server running the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service must be configured with at least one active scope before it can lease Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to DHCP clients. A scope is a range, or pool, of IP addresses that can be leased to DHCP clients on a given subnet. If there are multiple [...]

In the previous installment, you learned some of the basics of IP addressing. There is another tidbit of information that might come in handy when you are tasked with troubleshooting connectivity on a TCP/IP network. DNS (Domain Naming Service) is a server/protocol that maintains a list of specific computer names (Fully Qualified Domain Names, FQDNs) [...]

Troubleshooting connectivity problems on a TCP/IP network is probably the most frequent troubleshooting process that any desktop administrator or home user will go through. Having a basic understanding of how TCP/IP works can make the troubleshooting process slightly easier for you.
Computers running Windows Vista (and earlier versions) default to TCP/IP as the networking protocol. [...]