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 ...

Supernetting was created as a way to solve the problem of routing tables growing beyond our current ability to manage the exhaustion of Class B network address space. Much like one area code ...

Hey all, I'm looking for an easy funtion that I can use in a BASH script (preffered a bash function) to calculate the IP Range/CIDR based off an IP and SUBNET Mask ...

A subnet allows the flow of network traffic between hosts to be segregated based on a network configuration. By organizing hosts into logical groups, subnetting can improve network security and ...

Subnets are used for many AWS tasks (like creating an EC2 VM), so Brien Posey sheds some light on common errors to end some of the frustration around subnetting. There are any number of tasks within ...

If computers in an open network talk freely with one another and two computers start talking at the same time, you have a “data collision.” Collisions may be arbitrated via Carrier Sense Multiple ...

In recent days, I’ve had a couple of engineers express some confusion about the “mask” part of IP addressing. It is a little arcane, being sort of a bolt-on fix for limitations of the original dotted ...