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 ...

A software interface between the transport protocol (layers 3 and 4) and the data link protocol (layers 1 and 2) in the protocol stack. The interface provides a protocol manager that accepts requests ...

How hard to you want to "limit" here? I wasn't trying to limit specifically but did have the issue in #90 of the Mac tricks thread of SMB traffic getting routed incorrectly. I dealt with it via ...

Linux systems provide a lot of useful commands for reviewing network configuration and connections. Here's a look at a few, including ifquery, ifup, ifdown and ifconfig. There are a lot of commands ...

The ip command has a lot to tell you about the configuration and state of your network connections, but what do all those words and numbers mean? Let’s take a deep dive in and see what all the ...

There are numerous problems that can interfere with your access to a system — everything from the system being down to problems with name servers and routers. In today’s troubleshooting tale, we’re ...

Intel has developed a software interface as its proposed standard method that developers should use to create communications routines for its IXP network processors. The move is a bid to kick-start a ...

Interface packet loss provides indications of link problems that shouldn’t go ignored. But then you have to decide on an alerting threshold that indicates a problem without creating too many false ...

Microchip Technology Inc. announced that the MOST® Cooperation released its MOST150 technology coaxial physical layer specification. This new industry-standard specification enables Microchip to ...