Many in the industry realize that as we migrate to IPv6 there will be a day when IPv4 is not needed anymore. However, that transition seems daunting and may take decades. In the meantime, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm looking for more information about having IPv4-only devices (embedded, legacy, etc) on a network that is otherwise IPv6-only, with IPv6-only Internet access. It's academic at this point, but I can ...