Network Discovery is feature in Windows Vista and if you enable this feature, your Vista computers can see and discover other computers, other computers will be able to see this Vista computer as well. After enabling this feature, the discovered network devices will be displayed in Network Map.
In order for your self-hosted external DNS server to service requests for a particular internet domain name, it is necessary to set up a forward lookup zone on the server for the domain to be serviced.
Many newer network cards have the ability of taking some of the network processing load off of the processor and performing it right on the card (much like Hardware T&L on most new video cards).
Some Network Interface Cards (NICs) have an option to allow Windows to turn off the device to save power. While this seems like a great, green power saving idea, it can cause some real problems.
If you’re on a network but you can’t send or receive data, use any network resources, or visit the Internet, the culprit may be a problem with your DHCP-assigned IP address. The simplest way to fix it is to renew the IP address – get rid of the old one and ask the DHCP server to send along… Read More »
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a decentralized naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the internet or a private network. It translates easily memorizable domain names, like “example.com”, into numerical IP addresses, which are used by computers to identify each other on the network.
To be proficient at troubleshooting name server problems, you’ll need a special tool to make DNS queries, one that gives you complete control. We’ll cover nslookup in this tutorial because it’s distributed with Windows Server 2003 and with many other operating systems. We’ll also cover another query tool, dig, that isn’t part of Windows. It provides similar functionality… Read More »
This tweak allows you display error statistics on the Network Connection Status page for LAN and WAN connections. This information may be useful in diagnosing the network reliability.
To disable certain IPv6 components in Windows Vista, follow these steps: Note:- If the DisabledComponents entry is unavailable, you must create it. To do this, follow these steps: Type any one of the following values to configure the IPv6 protocol, and then click OK: Now You must restart your computer for these changes to take affect.
CIDR is a new addressing scheme for the Internet which allows for more efficient allocation of IP addresses than the old Class A, B, and C address scheme.