Windows® 7 Inside Out, Deluxe Edition by Ed Bott & Carl Siechert & Craig Stinson

Author:Ed Bott & Carl Siechert & Craig Stinson [Ed Bott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Windows Workstation
ISBN: 9780735656918
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Published: 2011-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

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For detailed technical information about APIPA, including instructions on how to disable it, read Knowledge Base article 220874, “How to Use Automatic TCP/IP Addressing Without a DHCP Server” (w7io.com/220874).

Static IP Addressing By entering an IP address, subnet mask, and other TCP/IP details in a dialog box, you can manually configure a Windows workstation so that its address is always the same. This method takes more time and can cause some configuration headaches, but it allows a high degree of control over network addresses.

Static IP addresses are useful if you plan to set up a web server, a mail server, a virtual private network (VPN) gateway, or any other computer that needs to be accessible from across the Internet. (New features in Windows, such as Teredo and Windows Internet Computer Name, make it possible to access a computer over the Internet even without a static IP address, however.) Even inside a local network, behind a router or firewall, static IP addresses can be useful. For instance, you might want to configure the router so that packets entering your network on a specific port get forwarded to a specific computer. If you use DHCP to assign addresses within the local network, you can’t predict what the address of that computer will be on any given day. But by assigning that computer a static IP address that is within the range of addresses assigned by the DHCP server, you can ensure that the computer always has the same address and is thus always reachable.

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