At the rate the radio industry is going, within 10 years the most common connection on the back of a piece of audio equipment won’t be an analog or digital XLR but an Ethernet RJ-45. Multicast DHCP ...

I've taken the liberty of decorating my room with a set of DMX controlled fixtures. The intention is to control the lights with an app on my phone through WiFi or through the interface of a computer.

In this chapter, you will learn about the addressing used in IPv4 and IPv6. We'll assign addresses of both types to various interfaces on the hosts and routers of the Illustrated Network. We'll ...

Not too long ago, there were real fears that we’d run out of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for our networks. That’s not likely to happen with IPv6. THE TCP/IP PROTOCOL SUITE will save us from the ...

IP Multicast is a bandwidth-efficient method for broadcasting data, in particular streaming audio and video, across a network. In this primer we’ll discuss how IP Multicasts works, its pros and cons, ...

Unlike unicast addressing, which is handled by the Routing Registries and IANA (Internet Assigned Number Authority), initially there was no multicast address registration at all. Early MBone ...

Like it or lump it, you're going to need to add IPv6 to your network. Here's how to start. Some people still think they don’t need to worry about the growing shortage of Internet IPv4 addresses and ...

Although IPv6 adoption seems to be moving at a snail's pace, there's no outrunning it. Brien Posey demystifies some of the addressing issues many admins are still trying to figure out. [Editor’s note: ...