This Week's Secret My challenge is for you to abandon the old DOS box and try PowerShell instead.  You will find that old friends such as 'ipconfig /all' and 'Ping ServerName' behave virtually identically.  While other utilities such as 'NetSh' behave badly...

prompt window and entering the ipconfig /all command. You should get a screen similar to Figure 8, in which I’ve highlighted the wireless network adapter MAC address information. Figure 8: Type in ipconfig /all to find the MAC Address (click image to enlarge)...

their IP address information automatically, or if you'd rather, you can set the addresses manually. Once everything's connected, you might have to Repair the connection on WinXP systems or use winipcfg or ipconfig to perform a manual DHCP release and renew,...

to get a different NIC. Client DHCP Issues Check with the appropriate utility for your operating system to determine whether a PC has a proper IP address. (ipconfig on Windows, System Preferences on Mac OS X, ifconfig for 'nix and BSD distros) Make...

options (left side) Figure 24: DHCP server options (right side) Fixed IPs (also called "reserved") are assigned using the MAC (Media Access Control) address of each client's network adapter. Windows users can just open a command prompt and enter ipconfig...

load network drivers and supply it with TCP/IP configuration data, WinRE can’t do what WinPE does automatically with commands such as arp, ipconfig, net, netsh, nbtstat, netstat, ping, pathping, print, route, and tracert. To me, this means you’ll...