If your company network is having problems and you need to troubleshoot it, you also need to know some basic information about the computers on the network. Internet Protocol is the underlying ...

Today, the standard methods for moving the network/host address boundary are variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) for host addressing and routing inside a routing domain, and classless interdomain ...

George Ou explains IP subnetting using his own graphical approach. It's a great primer for students and a nice refresher for others. IP subnetting is a fundamental subject that’s critical for any IP ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The last editionof this column discussed subnet masks and the nature of IP addressing. In this ...

Before we can go into a detailed discussion of how to calculate the number of network hosts on a network, it is important to have a satisfactory level of understanding about where the whole concept of ...

Have you learned to think and dream in hex yet? That is what you are going to have to look forward to as we transition to using IPv6. Because we will be working in hexadecimal numbers we may need a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The last edition of this column talked about subnets and introduced folding paper as an ...