Retired Techie
Getting older, not necessarily wiser!
Getting older, not necessarily wiser!
There are a variety of reasons you might want to have static or dynamic Internet Protocol (IP) addresses on your Local Area Network (LAN). In this post I will be considering some of the reasons why to set either static or dynamic IP address. (more…)
I had occasion to set up a persistent static IP address on an Arch Linux installation a few days ago. So I turned to the Arch Wiki, which did have instructions for setting a non persistent static IP address. (more…)
Network Address Translation or NAT is a process that allows a private network segment to use a single public IP address for all internal clients, while hiding the client private IP address. There are a number of different ways to achieve this, but we are going to stay away from overly detailed technical discussions of the various options. Instead, we will focus on the fairly standardized outcome of the process. (more…)
I was recently exposed to something called Carrier Grade Network Address translation (CGNAT or just CGN for short). I have sort of heard about/known what it was in the back of my mind. However I recently ran up against it with my new Internet Service Provider (ISP). And of course I could find no reference to this on their web site (to many advertisements I guess). (more…)