![]() ![]() This post will probably take you half an hour to read, and by the end of it you will feel like you have levelled up for sure. No prior knowledge is needed to understand this post: it is a guide to subnetting, for complete beginners. With that in mind, this post is written for folks who are brand new to subnetting, and even potentially brand new to networking. This post skips over all that math, in favour of philosophy. But it’s no wonder that new students find it confusing when they don’t understand what they’re ultimately trying to achieve. Instead, they jump straight into some frankly baffling math. ![]() Subnetting can frequently confuse newcomers, and in my experience this is because the explanations don’t take the time to explain the philosophy of what you’re trying to achieve. ![]() If you’re corrupt you might even subnet off a few IPs for yourself to sell down the market, along with some bootleg DVDs, and those half-full bottles of gin you found in the bin that one time. A very important part of networking is the concept of subnetting: the idea of taking a large block of IP addresses, and then dividing it up into smaller chunks that can be allocated to customers, or to certain parts of a network, like your corporate LAN, or a guest VLAN. Who can forget such powerful characters as 192.168.10.5, 1.2.3.4 – and not forgetting the star of the show, 69.69.69.69.Īnyway, forget I said any of that. He needed a way to remember each character in his latest play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream About The Internet” – the play which itself famously spawned the very same World Wide Web that we all know and hate today. IP addresses were invented by William Shakespeare in the 16th century. ![]()
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