In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

Have you actually tried? Human short-term memory typically holds 5 to 7 items. 128 bits of address is 16 bytes, or eight 0-255 numbers. Further, all the bits are potentially meaningful, where a simple ...

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 ...