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Article: Know the Lingo of the IP Address.(Feature)
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- Security Dealer & Integrator
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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Know the Lingo of the IP Address
By Mark S. Fischer
Become more fluent in IT language
More and more security devices being designed to communicate over local area networks (LAN) and the Internet. In smaller installations the security dealer is going to probably be responsible for making sure all aspects of the system work together. In larger installations the security dealer will probably be dealing with a LAN administrator. In either case the dealer needs to have a basic understanding of routers, IP addresses and configurations such as NAT and Port Forwarding.
An IP address is a set of four numbers in the range of 0 to 255 separated ...