Internet Protocol (IP) addresses take the form xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx (an octet) is a number from zero through 255. There are public IP addresses and private IP addresses. Public IP addresses are ...

Breaks down the five IP address classes in order to explain how they manipulate TCP/IP protocol functionality Before two or more computers can communicate with each other, a set of rules has to be in ...

You find yourself at a remote broadcast site and you need to assign a static IP address for one of your devices. But no one at the site can tell you about the router or its IP address. Engineering ...

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 ...

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 ...