Our tech guy just stopped by my office to run something by me: it seems the company we work for owns a "class B network" (or posseses a license to use it, or whatever). At least we think it's a class ...

The bits in the mask identify both hosts and subnets. The more hosts, the fewer subnets; the more subnets, the fewer hosts can be individually addressed. These bits become a tradeoff based on the ...