I woke up today to find that I’m a network administrator. I have a fairly strong background in the PC environment – HW/SW but would appreciate any information that would help me understand the specific path of network traffic as determined by IP addresses. Each device in our network (server, router, bridge, workstation, etc..) has an IP address. What sources are available, preferably on-line, that would explain how the traffic gets routed from the server, to the destination PC? It appears that these devices are softrware configured with static addresses. Is it really that simple?
