Hi everyone... back from a hiatus of sorts. Not that I expect anyone to have noticed... Anyway, I work with PCs that have multiple bits of equipment attached to them via Ethernet. I try to put each ...

In recent days, I’ve had a couple of engineers express some confusion about the “mask” part of IP addressing. It is a little arcane, being sort of a bolt-on fix for limitations of the original dotted ...

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 ...

Charlene, They are technically not the same. However, in practice, often they are implemented as if they were equivalent. A VLAN is created by grouping devices based on their hardware or mac addresses ...

We have a physical subnet that contains a group of Linux systems with IP addresses from multiple IP subnets, which all share the same default router gateway setting. When any two of these machines ...