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 ...

George Ou explains IP subnetting using his own graphical approach. It's a great primer for students and a nice refresher for others. IP subnetting is a fundamental subject that’s critical for any IP ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bits in the mask identify both hosts and subnets. The more hosts, the fewer subnets; the more subnets, the fewer hosts can be individually addressed. These bits become a tradeoff based on the ...

I am using a strongSwan IPSec gateway for Windows 7 and Server 2008 based clients on the same subnet. The Windows VPN client requires a virtual ip address to be assigned by the IPsec gateway. What I ...

If Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) didn’t exist, network administrators would have to manually parcel out IP addresses from the available pool, which ...

To monitor the number of existing ad-hoc clients on a wireless LAN, to identify devices that have set their own fixed addresses in the DHCP range or to take inventory of the devices currently ...