When your sign up for Internet access on behalf of your company or purchase Web hosting for your company's Web servers, you will purchase either a dynamic IP address, a single static IP address or a ...

To understand how subnetting works, you first must have a good basic understanding of IP addresses. An IP address is set of binary octets broken into quads. That definition may not have made any sense ...

A subnet mask is a number that specifies which parts of an IP address represent the host and network portions of the address. These masks are 32 bits in IPv4 networks and 128 bits in IPv6 networks. A ...

Whether you need an IP subnetting cheat sheet or you're preparing for a Cisco Certified Network Associate, or CCNA, exam, this article shows you how to calculate a subnet mask, break down IP address ...

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 I started working as a network engineer, the first terms I 'thought I understood' were 'subnet mask' and 'CIDR'.The notation 192.168.1.0/24 that you often see in configuration files. Have you ...

One of the most prevalent problems with IP networks occurs when IP subnet masks are incorrect. This seems to happen frequently because the concept of the subnet mask is not understood accurately. In ...

Yes. In fact, this is a good place to do it. Internet addresses (called IP addresses for short) are node addresses that identify their location within the Internet. IP addresses play an important role ...