Just ask any economist: When a commodity is in short supply, several things happen. The price goes up, rationing begins, and people start scrambling for substitutes. Globally unique Internet addresses ...

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 ...

IP reservation is the process of assigning a specific IP address to a device, such as a computer, so it ... Continue Reading ...

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Whether you are an end user, OEM or system integrator, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses within your Industrial Automation and Control System (IACS) application may need to be reused. Whether you are ...

When the IPv4 address pool was depleted in 2011, some of the most impacted companies were internet service providers (ISPs) that needed these IPv4 addresses to grow their businesses. Less impacted, at ...

Many of our readers are no doubt familiar with the basics of IP address: They provide a network address that’s used to reliably route Internet traffic to your PC, smartphone, or other device. The ...

Every network adapter has what is called a Media Access Control address that uniquely identifies it. Think of it as an ID. Having to manually go to every computer on the network, and taking the time ...

Knowing your IP address can help protect your home network and data from prying eyes. Here's how to find it. Trey Paul was a CNET senior editor covering broadband. His 20+ years of experience as a ...

IP addresses 172.17.x.x cannot be reached from outside our network, and that's how it's supposed to work, right? I'm in a nasty argument with one of my customers, and one of us is acting like a total ...