Direct Broadcast Address (DBA)

With directed broadcast, all recipients are always addressed within the target network. A combination of the number of the target network and the setting of all host bits to 1 produces the broadcast address in this case. If the destination is not located in its own (sub-) network, a router forwards the data packet. Read More …

Error “The RPC server is unavailable” – Part 2

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is an inter-process communication technique to allow client and server software to communicate on a network. The RPC protocol is based on a client/server model. The client makes a procedure call that appears to be local but is actually run on a remote computer. Read More …