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 ...

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 ...

my employer is running out of (private) IP addresses. Because there were some rather bad decisions made during the set up of the network (like using the 129.122.0.0/16 subnet....) I do not want to add ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Table 1. This table illustrates subnet masks. The number after the “/” in the CIDR notation ...

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 chapter, you will learn about the addressing used in IPv4 and IPv6. We'll assign addresses of both types to various interfaces on the hosts and routers of the Illustrated Network. We'll ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Broadcast and video production systems are moving rapidly into the IP realm. Therefore, understanding IP basics is now part of the engineer’s toolkit. To understand how IP works, we need to understand ...