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Understanding Subnetting: Boost Security and Performance in Your Network

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 ...
Network World

Subnetting: Brushing up on the fundamentals

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 ...
Redmond Magazine

Using Microsoft Office to Build a Network Diagram 2

In the previous article, I explained that if you want to build a detailed network diagram using Microsoft Visio, then one of the first things that you should do is to create an Excel spreadsheet ...
Ars Technica

How to get a diagram of an existing network

I would like to ask the network gurus, if there is any way to get a network diagram from the existing network. For example, if it is only a modem, router and a couple ...
Ars Technica

How To Make a Proper Network Diagram

I've been tasked with doing a network diagram of our offices (8 in total) across two different cities. Our network is all on a single flat subnet (10.1.X.X / 255.0.0.0) and all sites are connected by ...
Redmond Magazine

Using Microsoft Office to Build a Network Diagram, Part 1

Keeping documentation is a great way to ease your future hardware refresh and have what you need for insurance purposes. I recently completed a massive hardware refresh in which I updated nearly all ...