I turned my old laptop into a DIY NAS earlier this year. It later grew to become my media server and general-purpose homelab server. After setting it up as a headless server, one of the first problems ...

There comes a time when you might have to configure Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution with a static IP address. While you can't change your external static IP address, since it's the one your ...

If you've ever needed a computer or device on your network to always be reachable at the same address, you need that machine to be static. Here's why. IP addresses are like opinions… everyone has one.

When you need a Linux system to have a static IP address rather than one that is set dynamically by DHCP, all that's required is some configuration changes and a restart. Follow these steps to make ...

A static IP address gives a fixed address to your computer on the local network at your business. Port forwarding is used by computers on the Internet to connect to a specific device on your internal ...

IP addresses are a crucial component of network configuration. Humans rely on hostnames and switches to manage traffic with MAC addresses, while routers and hosts use IP addresses to make networking ...

Typically, an Internet connection is created using a dynamic IP address. This means that when your computer connects to the Internet, it uses one of any number of IP addresses, so that each time you ...

One of the things I have learned here is to keep everything set for DHCP on my home network. This is for simplicity and reliability while eliminating the need to muck around with static ips. But I ...

In recent issues of this and the Convergence newsletters (see the Convergence newsletter archives), we opined that there were few reasons why you would need a static IP address for a residential ...