Just ask any economist: When a commodity is in short supply, several things happen. The price goes up, rationing begins, and people start scrambling for substitutes. Globally unique Internet addresses ...

Before connecting a printer to a local area network, to prevent problems from occurring down the line, businesses should make sure that their networking, hardware and software setups will allow the ...

The Class A networking address scheme is designed for the government and large institutions needing a great deal of unique nodes. Although the Class A network has only 254 unique network addresses, it ...

Subnetting a Class C network can be a tricky process to master. From MCSE to CCNA to RHCE to CNE, you'll have to know it and know it well. Todd Lammle walks you through clear instructions and ...

As with the MAC sublayer, devices need to determine what packets are destined for them and where they came from. However, routing in the network layer is often hierarchical. In other words, the ...

IP addresses on your company network consist of three parts: the network address, the host address and the subnet mask. The network address identifies your broad network, and host addresses identify ...

IPAM, IP Address Management, used to be one of those things that network engineers didn’t think about too much. Most companies have implemented some form of automated IPAM. And even as vendors ...

Some Windows users, who use an Ethernet port in multiple computers may receive an IP address conflict Network Error – Another computer on this network has the same ...

A MAC Address or Media Access Control Address is a unique identifier assigned to every Network Interface Card. In this post, we will see what is MAC Address and how do you change a MAC Address in ...

At one time, a typical Mac user would no more have connected a couple of computers to the Internet via a local network than they would have extracted their own kidney. If you just mentioned the word ...