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 ...

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 ...

I have an Excel spreadsheet containing IP addresses and subnet masks. I need to derive the subnet of each IP address in the spreadsheet.<BR><BR>Example: IP (column A): 10.1.230.84, Subnet Mask (column ...

The last edition of this column talked about subnets and introduced folding paper as an illustration of how subnets can be understood. This will be very useful as we proceed. MORE IPv4 SUBNETTING ...

They say a picture paints a thousand words, well this picture paints three, dubya tee eff.<BR><BR>How can the WAN interface have a 32 bit subnet mask? When we called the ISP they said that this was ...