Networking Basics IP Address Part1

05 08 2021
IP Address
-uniquely identify a device in network
-logical address
-all communication with ip address only
-IPv4 and IPv6
-IPv4 Address
-32bit
-we write / assign ipv4 in Dotted Decimal format
-2^32 = 4,294,967,296 ~ 4.3 Billions
-32bit – 0000 0000.0000 0000.0000 0000.0000 0000 =0.0.0.0
1111 1111.1111 1111.1111 1111.1111 1111 =255.255.255.255
-0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255
-32/4=8bit –octet
–OCTET 8bit – 0000 0000 -1111 1111 =0-255
-1st octet. 2nd octet. 3rd octet. 4th octet = w. x. y. z

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