When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Table 1. This table illustrates subnet masks. The number after the “/” in the CIDR notation ...

An IP address is a way for every device on a network to be seen. Without IP addresses, it would be impossible for those devices to be located. Think of your computer's IP address like your house's ...

Rather than layering security onto networks, the networks themselves and carefully managed authorization policies can hinder attacks, but at an administrative cost. Why is it that over 90% of ...

When you set up the first network for a small business, you may not give much thought to how the company's growth will affect your IP addressing scheme. By planning ahead at the beginning, you can ...

Many a time IT admin needs to set up multiple IP addresses to the same network adapter. Situations such as hosting multiple SSL sites can speed up traffic exchanges, which can bypass the gateway in ...

Ron Nutter helps a service tech address a client’s odd IP configuration I work for a copier service in Virginia and was sent on a call to connect a new copier to a network that had just been sit up in ...

In an upcoming blog I expect to write about configuring a home router, which requires logging on to it. This, in turn, requires knowing the IP address of the router. Non-techies typically don’t know ...

I have a user who's machine is not pingable on our network, using computer hostname or associated IP. However, in troubleshooting this, I see that the IP the machine actually has does not resolve to ...

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 ...

Automating the process of finding and configuring IP addresses in input/output devices can potentially reduce downtime for manufacturers. icture a maintenance technician on the night shift. A device ...