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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Ou explains IP subnetting using his own graphical approach. It’s a great primer for students and a nice refresher for others. IP subnetting is a fundamental subject that’s critical for any IP ...

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 ...

Class A subnet masks must start with 255.0.0.0 at a minimum, because the whole first octet of an IP address (the IP address describes the specific location on the network) is used to define the ...

The way you combine the /24 subnets is to change the subnet mask to a /22. (ie. 255.255.252.0) This makes it all one contiguous address space. Just change the subnet mask to 255.255.252.0 and ...