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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Subnetting divides a larger network into smaller subnets, optimizing IP address allocation and improving traffic management. It requires understanding IP addressing, subnet masks, CIDR notation, and ...

One of the most prevalent problems with IP networks occurs when IP subnet masks are incorrect. This seems to happen frequently because the concept of the subnet mask is not understood accurately. In ...

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, makes setting up an office network simple, but several minor drawbacks come with that simplicity. One common issue you may encounter is the difficulty of ...

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 ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots 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 ...