Today afternoon my friend, Binoy, called me up and asked about Cloud Computing. I was taken by surprise by this question. Even though I heard about it many times, I couldn’t explain it properly. When I came back to desk, the first thing I did was to google about Cloud Computing.. The explanations are messy in most [...]
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IPv6 Address configurations
Just thought of summarizing some key points about IPv6 ( Internet Protocol Version 6 ). Key points about IPv6 It has been designed to replace the age old, reliable IPv4. IPv4 has been very good. Has done its job.. It just cant take the current load. IPv6 is efficient and more secure. Let me start with [...]
How do I find MAC address ?
Finding MAC Address (Hardware address, Physical Address) is pretty easy. Try the command. C:\>getmac If you want to know the MAC address of a system whose IP you are aware of, you could try this. C:\> ping <destination ip> If you are able to ping successfully then issue C:\> arp -a