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Ip Addressing 1
Ip Addressing 1
Note:
For Class A: Have a first dotted decimal number in the range 1-126
For Class B: Have a first dotted decimal number in the range 128-191
For Class C: Have a first dotted decimal number in the range 192-223
For example:
The address (binary) - 10000000 00000111 00001111 00000001
has the DECIMAL DOT NOTATION: 128.7.15.1
It belongs to Class B addresses.
Its Network-id is: 128.7
Its Host-id is: 15.1
_| first one bit is used to determine the class to which an address belongs to
for Class A address.
|_______| 7 bits are used for Network address. Therefore, the number of
class A networks can be 2 7 = 128. Number 0 is not used, and number 127 is
used for testing loopback for each host. There are 126 potential Class A
network numbers, which have a first dotted decimal number in the range 1 to
126.
|________________________| 24 bits are used for host address. Therefore,
each Class A network can have 2 24 = 16,777,216 hosts.
Class A is not available to the general public, and it is restricted to special
uses.
Class A final format:
|_|_______| |________________________|
7 bits 24 bits
Network Host
Part Part
Summary:
|__| first two bits are used to determine the class to which an address
belongs to for class B address.
|__|______|________| |________________|
14 bits Network part 16 bits Host part
Summary:
|___| first three bits are used to determine the class to which an address
belongs to for class C address.
|________| 8 bits are used for host address. Therefore, each Class C
network can have 2 8 = 256 hosts.
Summary:
These problems are being addressed by the ROAD (Routing and Addressing)
working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). They are looking
for a scheme that:
• It will improve the problem of address depletion,
perhaps by moving to a larger address, 160-bit address!
• Classless addresses.
• Implementation of new routers, without requiring
changes to the end-systems (the hosts).
We don't know what technique will be adopted by the IETF to overcome the
problems of address depletion. However, according to them, whatever happens, the
changes should not have any near-term effect on your hosts, and IP addressing will
be same at least for some time.
The InterNIC assigned the University of Windsor one class B Network address, which is
137.207.0.0 with network number part 137.207. The Host number part is left to be
assigned by the local management - The Computing Services)
Now the system (router or server) will look for a network number of 137.207.192.000
instead of a network number of 137.207., then the router (or the server) will locate the
host (workstation) from its table, and adds the corresponding machine number to get
137.207.192.003. To increase the host number from 254, a different mask number could
be used for less subnetworks and more hosts.