If you have been working as a network administrator for quite some time, you probably already know about switches. Switches are essential blocks of any network environment. When they associated with computers, they are responsible for receiving and transmitting traffic over a network. However, do you really know how computers communicate? What tools do they use when you are dealing with […]
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When you are dealing with MAC addresses or IP addresses, it is very likely that you will be dealing with hexadecimal numbers at some point. However, humans are not used to think in hexadecimal, it is easier for us to deal with decimal numbers. Hexadecimal, as its name describes, is a representation of a number in base 16, meaning in
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CIDR, standing for Classless Inter-Domain Routing, is a network notation used in order to allocate IP addresses and masks over a network. Contrary to classful IP addressing used in the early days of Internet, CIDR is used to describe an IP with the number of bits assigned to the network portion. As an example, the IP 194.125.26.24/8 means that eight bits are assigned
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