Tuesday, April 30, 2013

IP v 4 Address (Version 4)



IP v 4 Address (Version 4)
Ajay, E
                 
                     TCP/IP provides a unique logical addressing scheme called IP address. It uniquely identifies each device on the internetwork. It is a 32 bit address commonly written as four octets. Each octet have a value ranging from 0-255. Eg:- 10.0.0.1
IP Address Classes
                IP addresses are divided into 5 classes and each ip address contains two parts. The first portion is for network address and second portion for host address. The IP classes and network numbers.
A CLASS – 1.0.0.1  to 126.255.255.255         INTERNETWORK
B CLASS – 128.0.0.1 to 191.255.255.255                    
C CLASS – 192.0.0.1 to 223.255.255.255                                  
D CLASS – 224.0.0.1 to 239 .255.255.255    MULTICASTING
E CLASS – 240.0.0.1 TO 255.255.255.255     RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTS
Class A, B and C are used for internetwork communication. Class D is reserved for multicasting technology and Class E for research and experiments. 127 range of ip address are called loop back address and it is used for checking proper functionality TCP/IP protocol.
SUBNET MASK
                Subnet mask is another 32 bit representation. It is used to identify the network portion of an ip address. By default the following subnet mask are used.
CLASS A
NETWORK  (255)
HOST (O)
HOST (O)
HOST (O)

CLASS B
NETWORK (255)
NETWORK (255)
HOST (0)
HOST (0)

CLASS C
NETWORK (255)
NETWORK (255)
NETWORK (255)
HOST (0)

Note:-    All host bits ‘0’ is network Address
All host bits ‘1’ is Broadcast Address.

Private and Public IP Address
                An intranet is an internal network that uses internet technology. IP addresses which are used in intranet are called Private IP address.
                To communicate over an internet a device must have a Public IP address which is provided by IANA (Internet Assigned Number Authority). They will also provide addresses for private addresses for private network in each class as follows.
Private Address Range in each Class
Class A                    10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255
Class B                    172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255
Class C                    192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255

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