Back in October we set readers a challenge to learn TCP/IP in 24 hours. We launched a competition to pick two winners who would review the book Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 hours – 4th Edition, written ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Subnetting a Class B network can involve some serious thought! As a network administrator, you'll have to know it and know it well. Todd Lammle walks you through clear instructions and simple examples ...

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 ...