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July 31, 2013Networking, Windows Technologies

How to use automatic TCP/IP addressing without a DHCP server

SUMMARY This article describes how to use automatic Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) addressing without a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server being present on the network. The operating system versions listed in the "Applies to" section of this article have a feature called Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA). With this feature, a Windows computer can assign itself an Internet Protocol (IP) address in the event that a DHCP server is not available or does not exist on the network. This feature makes configuring and supporting a small Local Area Network (LAN) running TCP/IP less difficult. MORE INFORMATION A […]

July 26, 2013Networking

IP addresses starting with 127 are not valid because they are reserved for loopback addresses

[FTR] ————————— Error ————————— IP addresses starting with 127 are not valid because they are reserved for loopback addresses. Please specify some other valid value between 1 and 223. ————————— OK —————————

November 22, 2012Networking

Understanding IP Numbers

What is an IP number (IP address)? Every computer (host) on the Internet is identified by an IP number Every IP number is different – if two computers had the same IP number, the network would not know which one to deliver data to! An IP number is a 32-bit binary number, that is, a string of 32 ones and zeros. For convenience of writing, we break IP numbers into four 8-bit pieces and convert them to decimal, with a period between each part: e.g. IP number: 00001010100010111100101110000011 / / 00001010 10001011 11001011 10000011 Decimal version: 10 . 139 . […]