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 ...

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 ...

I'm running into something my predecessor left me that I don't understand, and I'd like to know if either I'm wrong, or it shouldn't be set up this way. Pretty standard setup in our NSW office.

This tip is excerpted from "Network troubleshooting and diagnostics," Chapter 4 of The Shortcut Guide to Network Management for the Mid-Market, written by Greg Shields and published by ...

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 ...

For one to be able to create multiple logical networks within a Class A, B, or C network, one needs to know the principle of subnet. Without using subnets, one could only use a single network no ...

Ok. guys I'm new in networking. I just read about the tcp/ip chapter in MCSA of William Panek. This line really confuses me. I think something is wrong. "What happens if you need eight subnets in your ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve written about IPv6 address design previously, and in that post I briefly touched on the fact that our long-ingrained habits of IPv4 address design can lead us astray when working with IPv6. I’d ...