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IP address - (3)

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Internet Protocol Address (IP address) - 3  Summary on What we have studied in last Tutorial  ? :- class A  will have 2 24  -2 = 16,777,214 number of host (IP) addresses available to assign to the devices except for two reserved host addresses in each network. Reserved host addresses are one for network address and another for broadcast address. First byte of Class A specifies Decimal Values from 0 to 127.  Class B will have 2 16  - 2 = 65,534 number of host (IP) addresses available to assign to the devices. Class B provides 16 reserved network address blocks for private addresses. Hence, the remaining 16,368 network address blocks are used for assigning address to various organisations. (2.3)  Class C IP Addressing  :-       Class C addresses consists of 24-bit network ID and 8-bit host ID; as show in ...

IP address - (2)

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Internet Protocol Address (IP address) - 2 Summary on What we have studied in last Tutorial ? :- An IP address is a Unique Address assigned to a device in a network. An IP address is a 32 bit address which is divided into various Classes, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D, and Class E. To make the IP address easier to read and interpret, they are written in decimal format where a point is separated by a  Byte. (2.1) Class A IP Addressing   :-             Class A consists of 8-bit Network ID and 24-bit Host ID, as show in the figure below;          So, each network in class A  will have  2 24  -2 = 16,777,214  number of host (IP) addresses available to assign to the devices except for two reserved host addresses in each network. Class A can be divided into 128 network blocks (  number of Networks ) where the first...

IP address - (1)

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Internet Protocol Address (IP address) - 1 Tutorial Objectives :-   Explaining IP address Identify different classes of IP address Explain Subnet Mask Assign IP address to a PC Statically or Dynamically Explaining Different types of IP address Special IP address IPv6 IP address          (#) Introduction   :-      A device on the network needs an IP (Internet protocol) address to communicate with the other devices. IP address is a unique 32-bit logical address assigned to each device which is connected to a network. An IP address is used to communicate with various networking devices and operates at Network layer. IP address is similar to a telephone number which is unique. (1)  IP address  :-                    A unique address mostly used by computers to communicate over a network that uses IP as its basic protocol is known as I...