How Do I Find/Change My IP Address?
Jan17

How Do I Find/Change My IP Address?

KB ID 0000208 What’s an IP address? An IP address is the address used on a network to find your PC, Server, Laptop, or Printer etc. It’s the networking equivalent of your house number and post code (or Zip Code for visitors from over the pond). Do you want your PUBLIC or PRIVATE IP address? As we started to run out of addresses, there were a number of solutions that we came up with, one you will see below (DHCP) the other...

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Windows Server – Change a DHCP Scopes Subnet Mask
Apr17

Windows Server – Change a DHCP Scopes Subnet Mask

KB ID 0001177  Problem You have probably tried to do this and found he option ‘greyed out’ because in the DHCP management console you can’t change the subnet mask of a scope.  I needed to change a clients DHCP scope because I was changing their subnet from /24 to /16. I could have simply deleted and recreated the scope, but they has a lot of custom settings for their phone system, and hundreds of reservations (which...

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GNS3 – Assign an IP Address to Linux Microcore QEMU Guest

KB ID 0000932  Problem The whole point of having these guest machines is for testing communications, putting an IP address on them so you can ping things, is a pretty basic step. Solution 1. Console in, and execute the following commands, obviously change the IP addresses to the ones you require. sudo su ifconfig eth0 10.10.10.10 netmask 255.0.0.0 up route add ip default gw 10.10.10.1 route add default gw 10.10.10.1 Related Articles,...

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