The bits in the mask identify both hosts and subnets. The more hosts, the fewer subnets; the more subnets, the fewer hosts can be individually addressed. These bits become a tradeoff based on the ...

My book I'am reading IP fundamentals has gotten a bit confusing when getting combining several subnets which uses more bits for it's subnet number into one single subnet such as combining four /24 ...

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 ...

In one of our buldings we are running out of IP addresses. Lets say for example we are using 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 - so that give us 254 usable addresses.<br><br>They want to add like 10 - 20 more ...