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 ...

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 ...

The following summarizes how networks, subnetworks and hosts are identified in the TCP/IP protocol. An IP address is first divided between networks and hosts. The host bits are further divided between ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whenever you browse your favorite website or use your internet-reliant apps, your router automatically assigns you an IP address. This changes every time you connect to the internet, so for every ...