Network engineering insights, IPAM best practices, and product updates.
A plain-language guide to addressing point-to-point network links. When to use a /30, when to use a /31, and when to skip numbering altogether.
A long-form, plain-language tutorial that designs a complete IP address plan from scratch using a fictional mid-size company. Covers aggregation, site allocation, VLAN conventions, cloud carving, and when to use a VRF.
A plain-language reference to the 10 IP address ranges set aside for special use: private networks, carrier-grade NAT, loopback, link-local, documentation, multicast, and more.
How to track and manage IP address space across AWS, Azure, on-premises data centers, and colocation facilities from a single source of truth.
Still managing IP addresses in a spreadsheet? Here are five clear signs your team has outgrown manual IP tracking and needs a real IPAM solution.
A hands-on tutorial for automating IP address management with curl, Terraform, and Ansible using the IPCraft REST API.
A plain-language guide to how IP addresses are divided into networks, what the /24 actually means, and how to pick the right subnet size.
Spreadsheets were never designed to manage IP addresses. Here's what that workaround is actually costing your team in time, mistakes, and outages.
A plain-language guide to VLANs and VRFs, when you need each, and how they let you reuse the same IP ranges safely across different parts of your network.