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 ...

Howdy,<BR><BR>I am somewhat of a neophyte when it comes to networking and making it all work. However, I've recently come into a situation at work where some more ...

I have a networking situation where some tools can or can't communicate between two devices on the same LAN but differing subnet masks (it's an error, will be corrected). The question is why do some ...

To connect some copiers or multi-function printers to a router, you may need to know the subnet mask value for the network. A subnet mask defines the value range of IP addresses used in a workgroup.

There are thousands of commands and subcommands available to configure a Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance, and as you gain knowledge of the appliance, you will find yourself using more and more of ...

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 ...

Here’s a guest post sent to me by Don Crawley, author of The Accidental Administrator book series. It is an excerpt from his latest:The Accidental Administrator: Cisco ASA Security Appliance: A ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the last two articles, we talked about IPv4 basics (Part IV) (Part V). We introduced the ...