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 ...

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 ...

In the last two articles, we talked about IPv4 basics (Part IV) (Part V). We introduced the concept of folding a sheet of paper to understand subnetting. Each fold of the paper is a bit borrowed from ...

I'm not sure I've got the right terminology but here's the crux:<BR><BR>Server A: 192.168.0.5<BR> <BR>Server A's Workstations: in the range of 192.168.0.100 to 0.150<BR><BR>Current Subnet mask for the ...

This is the first of many technical blog posts I’m going to post on IPv6 architecture and implementation for a Microsoft Windows-based environment. I started off with a basic introduction of the IPv4 ...

You don't need a router. If you set the subnet mask on all of the PCs to be 255.255.0.0, then they should all be able to ping each other. Basically, opening up the subnet mask puts all of the PCs on ...

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 ...

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 ...