Changing network adapter properties can be a chore the more machines you have, and the more numbers you have to punch in. Script out the process, instead. A common practice that many IT professionals ...

Many an IT administrator has needed to modify network interface settings in the past, usually via the graphical user interface (GUI). Besides just setting the IP address, if a system is statically ...

Like it or lump it, you're going to need to add IPv6 to your network. Here's how to start. Some people still think they don’t need to worry about the growing shortage of Internet IPv4 addresses and ...

Unix sysadmins routinely use the “ifconfig -a” command to list network parameters associated with their systems. In particular, they use this command to determine the IP address, netmask and broadcast ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

Popular npm library netmask has a critical networking vulnerability. netmask is frequently used by hundreds of thousands of applications to parse IPv4 addresses and CIDR blocks or compare them. The ...