Have you learned to think and dream in hex yet? That is what you are going to have to look forward to as we transition to using IPv6. Because we will be working in hexadecimal numbers we may need a ...

Good engineering practices dictate that when we prepare to build something we must plan for the long-term operations. Having the ability to properly manage the technology after it is deployed will ...

Today, the standard methods for moving the network/host address boundary are variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) for host addressing and routing inside a routing domain, and classless interdomain ...

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 advent of TCP/IP was such a good thing that it took the world by storm. Everyone wanted to get in on the TCP/IP action. For a while the protocol's acceptance was so popular that there was a fear ...