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 ...

Internet Protocol (IP) addresses take the form xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx (an octet) is a number from zero through 255. There are public IP addresses and private IP addresses. Public IP addresses are ...

Last time, we explained Ethernet and switches. It was a mechanism for delivering frames within the same LAN using a "staff ID number" called a MAC address. This time, we will enter "IPv4 Addressing." ...