To understand how subnetting works, you first must have a good basic understanding of IP addresses. An IP address is set of binary octets broken into quads. That definition may not have made any sense ...

I'm having an issue pinging IP addresses from Windows when using a fully qualified 8-bit value. Namely, if I try to execute: ping 010.011.005.039 Ping request could not find host 010.011.005.039.

Knowing how an IP address identifies a host on a network can be confusing. Before you begin calculating various addresses, you should know the fundamentals of IP addressing. Todd Lammle describes this ...