Let’s assume that you have a small office with ten or fifteen computers, and all the machines have different IP addresses. Or, let’s presume that you have a big office and you have more than fifty or ...

If you weren't aware, the "IP" in IP address stands for "internet protocol." Basically, it's like a set of rules for accessing and utilizing the internet, though in practice, it's more like a virtual ...

When you really need to know what’s going on with your network, give one of these free monitors a try. Monitoring your network can be a real pain. First and foremost, what tool should you use?

With the help of GFI.com’s Talk Tech To Me blog, we’ve compiled a list of 10 free software downloads designed to help router and IP administrators handle their tasks with as little cost as possible.

NetCrunch Tools is an application for Windows Networking professionals that can help them troubleshoot and manage their network. It combines 11 troubleshooting tools, including DNS Audit, Ping Scanner ...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Nmap, the open-source network mapping tool that became the standard used by many IT professionals, but that can be a bit much if you only need to do general ...

My home and home lab network are a mess. Over the years, connecting my lab's physical and virtual machines (VMs), SAN, NAS, and other projects using various network switches, and routers have become a ...

The de facto standard for port scanning always has been the venerable Nmap program. The command-line tool is indeed very powerful, but I've only ever seen it work with Linux, and every time I use it, ...