If your company network is having problems and you need to troubleshoot it, you also need to know some basic information about the computers on the network. Internet Protocol is the underlying ...

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 information would definitely help things. So I turn ...

Subnet Mask divides the IP address into two segments and informs the computer which part is the network bit and which one is the host bit. For example, if there is an IP address: 192.168.0.1, it will ...

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 ...

One of the most prevalent problems with IP networks occurs when IP subnet masks are incorrect. This seems to happen frequently because the concept of the subnet mask is not understood accurately. In ...