IP Address

• IP Address
• Types of IP address
• IP version 4 address format
• Specifically addresses
• Classes of IP Address

IP Address

• Specifies the host address, host location in the network, routing to achieve

Types of IP address

1. Public IP (Static), unique on the internet
2. Local IP / Private, unique only within a network. According to ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers), local IP range:

• 10.0.0.0 -10,255,255,255;
• 172.16.0.0-172.31.255.255;
• 192.168.0.0.-192.168.255.255

Version 4 IP address format

• 32 Bit
• 4 segment
• Consisting of network ID and host ID

Specifically addresses

1. Network Address

• Indicates the address of a network
• IP Address in the network is the smallest

    2.  Broadcast Address

• Used to send packets to all hosts on the network
• IP Address in the network is the largest

    3. Loopback

• Local address of each computer that is worth 127.0.0.1

Classes of IP Address

Classes range of IP:

• Class A: 1.0.0.0 IP sd 126 255 255 255 = 16,777,214
• Class B: 128.0.0.0 sd = 65 534 191 155 255 255 IP
• Class C: 192.0.0.0 IP sd = 254 223 255 255 255
• Class D: 224.0.0.0 s.d 239 255 255 255