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 ...

IP addresses on your company network consist of three parts: the network address, the host address and the subnet mask. The network address identifies your broad network, and host addresses identify ...

Subnet Mask divides the IP address into two segments and informs the computer which part is the network bit and which one is the host bit. For example, if there is an IP address: 192.168.0.1, it will ...

I have a networking situation where some tools can or can't communicate between two devices on the same LAN but differing subnet masks (it's an error, will be corrected). The question is why do some ...

Class A subnetting is a form of network addressing typically reserved for the government and larger institutions. It can have a large number of unique nodes, which can prove quite a challenge. Here, ...

Supernetting was created as a way to solve the problem of routing tables growing beyond our current ability to manage the exhaustion of Class B network address space. Much like one area code ...