Just ask any economist: When a commodity is in short supply, several things happen. The price goes up, rationing begins, and people start scrambling for substitutes. Globally unique Internet addresses ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...

IP reservation is the process of assigning a specific IP address to a device, such as a computer, so it ... Continue Reading ...

Most networks use the Internet Protocol to handle local area network addressing, which is how the network determines what information goes to which devices. While many companies decide to use ...

Before connecting a printer to a local area network, to prevent problems from occurring down the line, businesses should make sure that their networking, hardware and software setups will allow the ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Every engineer working with media these days should understand the basics of network addressing, ...

Knowing how an IP address identifies a host on a network can be confusing. Before you begin calculating various addresses, you should know the fundamentals of IP addressing. Todd Lammle describes this ...

To understand how subnetting works, you first must have a good basic understanding of IP addresses. An IP address is set of binary octets broken into quads. That definition may not have made any sense ...

I set up WOL on my kid's computers to make my life easier when they need maintenance, and found kind of a weird problem. I'm using AquilaWOL for GUI ease-of-use, and discovered that the host display ...