On Feb. 3, 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that the last remaining Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) IP addresses had been allocated, although it may ...

When you set up the first network for a small business, you may not give much thought to how the company's growth will affect your IP addressing scheme. By planning ahead at the beginning, you can ...

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 ...

Imagine for a moment that there were a nation-wide shortage of phone numbers. The 10-digit numbering scheme just isn’t cutting it anymore. The powers that be decide to expand the scheme, but rather ...

These guidelines will help your organization prepare for the transition from the IPv4 addressing scheme to the more expansive IPv6 model. Many organizations may end up running both IPv4 and IPv6 for a ...