Every engineer working with media these days should understand the basics of network addressing, and most of them do. But, network addressing is one of those simple things that quickly grows much more ...

About to embark on deploying IPv6? First, you need to know some key differences in IPv6 address formats. Don’t be deterred by the intimidating appearance of those long IP version 6 (IPv6) addresses.

This is the first of many technical blog posts I’m going to post on IPv6 architecture and implementation for a Microsoft Windows-based environment. I started off with a basic introduction of the IPv4 ...

From the OSI and TCP/IP models to subnetting, commands, and real-world fixes, understanding networking fundamentals is key to building, maintaining, and troubleshooting secure, efficient systems. By ...

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 ...

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 content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Thanks to on-going increases in processor performance, the number of Virtual Machines per server blade is ...

Software defined networking (SDN) has evolved from the slick new technology only a network geek could love to a key pillar in new strategies designed to simplify and automate network configuration and ...