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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A subnet allows the flow of network traffic between hosts to be segregated based on a network configuration. By organizing hosts into logical groups, subnetting can improve network security and ...

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 ...

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 ...