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Mastering Windows Server 2016
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Mastering Windows Server 2016

by Jordan Krause
October 2016
Beginner to intermediate
416 pages
11h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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DHCP versus static addressing

IP addresses on your network are sort of like home addresses on your street. When you want to send a package to someone, you write their address on the front of the package and set it in the mailbox. In the same way, when your computer wants to send data to a server or another device on a network, each of those devices has an IP address which is used for the delivery of those packets. We know that DNS is responsible for telling the machines which name resolves to which IP address, but how do those IP addresses get put into place on the servers and computers in the first place?

Static addressing is simply the process of configuring IP addresses on your system manually, using your own hands as the configuration tool ...

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