Subnetting and creating subnet masks is often outsourced to consultants, but doing it yourself can be both challenging and rewarding. In the IT world, specifically in networking, there aren’t many ...

We are almost all graphic workstations, servers with large files moving through our network regularly. I need to get more IPs, but our ISP wants a reason why we dont use subnetting. Real IP is easy, I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 things. So I turn ...

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 ...

In this next episode of NetworkChuck’s you SUCK at Subnetting course, we dive a bit deeper into how RFC1918 and NAT saved the internet from crumbling due to IP address exhaustion. So don’t miss out as ...

When you use your computer to go on the internet, this task cannot be accomplished without an IP address. You could try if you want, but the results will always be the same, which is, no internet ...

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 ...

In the context of IP networks, the phrase “quality of service” (QoS) has a specific meaning, describing the quality of the network with regard to the following: These are all particularly important ...