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 ...

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 ...

If you have ever needed to survey a large group of systems to find out which of them supported some particular service, such as ftp, telnet, ssh or some other particular application, you have probably ...

Are you trying to ping at the IP level, or the Ethernet level? Some devices (for various reasons) aren't going to respond to a ICMP ping.

From Network World Community Editor Julie Bort Cisco Subnet as the best independent Cisco community on the Web, Leung was also the founder of Network World’s Microsoft Subnet, the premier community ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the most prevalent problems with IP networks occurs when IP subnet masks are incorrect.

If computers in an open network talk freely with one another and two computers start talking at the same time, you have a “data collision.” Collisions may be arbitrated via Carrier Sense Multiple ...