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 ...

There's certainly no shortage of network mapping and monitoring tools. There is one lightweight package I recently discovered and finally got around to testing. LAN Orangutan (what a name) quickly ...

DHCP is great for getting machines on the network with a minimum of fuss. However, it can also make remote administration a pain because you never know which IP you’re supposed to be SSHing into.

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