Decimal notation describes numbers using the digits 1 through 10. Binary notation describes them using just two digits, 1 and 0, where each bit in a string represents a power of 2. The right-most bit ...

An IP address is a 32-bit unsigned integer. It’s usually written as four numbers separated by dots, as in: 212.227.196.186. This format is knows as the “dotted decimal notation”. Applications use ...

I ended my post on IPv6 address design saying I would follow up by showing you a few simple tricks for working with hexadecimal numbers. Then the long-predicted depletion of the IANA pool of IPv4 ...

In my past two columns I’ve talked about why implementing IPv6 on your network is a good idea, and delved deep into the IPv6 header. I’ll now conclude this series with a detailed look at IPv6 ...

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