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 ...

To connect some copiers or multi-function printers to a router, you may need to know the subnet mask value for the network. A subnet mask defines the value range of IP addresses used in a workgroup.

The bits in the mask identify both hosts and subnets. The more hosts, the fewer subnets; the more subnets, the fewer hosts can be individually addressed. These bits become a tradeoff based on the ...

Howdy,<BR><BR>I am somewhat of a neophyte when it comes to networking and making it all work. However, I've recently come into a situation at work where some more information would definitely help ...

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 ...

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 ...

If computers in an open network talk freely with one another and two computers start talking at the same time, you have a “data collision.” Collisions may be arbitrated via Carrier Sense Multiple ...

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 ...

The following summarizes how networks, subnetworks and hosts are identified in the TCP/IP protocol. An IP address is first divided between networks and hosts. The host bits are further divided between ...

The last edition of this column talked about subnets and introduced folding paper as an illustration of how subnets can be understood. This will be very useful as we proceed. MORE IPv4 SUBNETTING ...