Nt2640 Unit 1

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Stacie Rollins Monday , December 15, 2014 Nt 2640 Unit 1 Assignment 1 Network IDs used to be divided into classes, which were Class A, B, and C. These classes were allowed to have a range of addresses. This class-based system would work well for a while, but the rapid growth of the Internet it becomes evident that this addressing scheme had to be changed in order to support the many networks that were being created. A class full system would be created and still used the IP addressing fundament of a classless system. This 32-bit IP addressing system is subdivided into two portions; the network address space are the host address space. Class A addresses were created for a very large network with few logical network segments and many hosts that have the high-order bit set to zero. The first octet is used to define the network ID. Class A address cannot be greater than 127 because a value of 128 would require the left-most bit be set to 1. Class B addresses always have the first two high-order bits that are set to 10 and are used for medium-sized networks that have a moderate number of hosts connected to them. The Class B network ID, will utilize the first two octets for the network ID, which allows more network IDs and fewer hosts than a Class A network, because it uses an additional octet for the network. Class C addresses are for small networks with few hosts. These addresses have the first three high-order bits set to 110, because Class C addresses use the first three octets for the network ID and the last octet for the host ID, used for individual IP multicast

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