Nt2640 Week 1 Assignment 1

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Adam Odegard NT2640 Weak 1 INFORMATION ON IP ADDRESS CLASSES In order for systems to locate each other in a distributed environment, nodes are given explicit addresses that uniquely identify the particular network the system is on and uniquely identify the system to that particular network. When these two identifiers are combined, the result is a globally-unique address. IP address is a code made up of numbers divided by three dots that finds particular computers on the internet. They are 32-bit binary numbers, consisting of 2 sub identifiers, which identify the host and network. It is four octets of numbers from 0-255 represented in decimal form. Class A always has the first bit of their address set to 0. They have an 8 bit network mask that is why they leave it zero so they can have 7 bits for the network portion. They have 128 possible networks. Class B addresses always has the first bit set to 1 and their second bit set to 0. Since Class B addresses have a 16-bit network mask, the use of a leading 10 bit-pattern leaves 14 bits for the network portion of the address, allowing for a maximum of 16,384 networks. Class C addresses have their first two bits set to 1 and their third bit set to 0. Since Class C addresses have a 24-bit network mask, this leaves 21 bits for the network portion of the address, allowing for a maximum of 2,097,152 networks. Class d is used for multicasting, hardly ever used. RFC 1918 It describes a set of network ranges set aside for private use. They are used for home, office, and enterprise local area networks. It was made to conserve ipv4 before it was

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