Private and Public IP Addresses Explained

Public IP Addresses What is Public IP address Public IP Addresses (also known as Static IP Addresses) are IP addresses that are visible to the public.Because these ip addresses are public, they allow other people to know about and access your computer, like a Web server.In some cases, you do not want people to access […]
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Keeping your System clock current, automatically via Network Time Protocol (NTP)

NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is used to keep computer clocks accurate over the Internet, or by following an accurate hardware receiver which interprets GPS, DCF-77, NIST or similar time signals. ntpdate is a simple NTP client which allows a system’s clock to be set to match the time obtained by communicating with one or […]
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Debian Networking for Basic and Advanced Users

The basics for any network based on *nix hosts is the Transport Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) combination of three protocols. This combination consists of the Internet Protocol (IP),Transport Control Protocol (TCP), and Universal Datagram Protocol (UDP).
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