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 ...

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 ...

If you are experiencing trouble with your network connection and have it configured to DHCP, figuring out your IP address can be quite a task. Using a Static IP Address helps avert IP address ...

If you're looking to segment a TCP/IP network, subnetting is not your only option. CIDR, or supernetting, is another way to accomplish the task and offers some unique solutions. Here's how to use ...

I set up a l2tp over ipsec vpn for a mac os x client. I can connect fine and I get an address, but the subnet mask is wrong (and corresponds to the class..). If I manually set the IP address and ...

Whenever you browse your favorite website or use your internet-reliant apps, your router automatically assigns you an IP address. This changes every time you connect to the internet, so for every ...

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 ...

Today, the standard methods for moving the network/host address boundary are variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) for host addressing and routing inside a routing domain, and classless interdomain ...