Behind every laptop or tablet that goes online, behind every web address, behind every stack of servers, there's an IP address. These strings of numbers and dots act as unique identifiers for the ...

Many of our readers are no doubt familiar with the basics of IP address: They provide a network address that’s used to reliably route Internet traffic to your PC, smartphone, or other device. The ...

The few blocks of Internet addresses yet to be allocated under the old IPv4 protocol seem to be home to some “hotspots” of unwanted traffic that anyone who gets the addresses would have to pay for, a ...

By replacing ad-hoc runbooks and manual procedures with consistent automation, IPXO reduces operational risk while making ...

In this chapter, you will learn about the addressing used in IPv4 and IPv6. We'll assign addresses of both types to various interfaces on the hosts and routers of the Illustrated Network. We'll ...

The following is a guest blog written by one of Canada’s most prominent technology visionaries Bill St. Arnaud.There has been a lot of buzz in the press about the recent news of Nortel selling some of ...

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We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...