IP Addressing
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IP Addressing
• Basic Addressing
• Working with Addresses
• Summarization & Subnets
• VLSM
• Working with VLSM Networks
• Classful Addressing
• Working with Classful Addressing
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Basic Addressing
• IP addresses are
written in dotted
decimal format.
• Four sections are
separated by dots.
• Each section contains
a number between 0
and 255.
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Dots separate the sections
10.1.1.1
Each section
contains a number
between 0 and 255
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Basic Addressing
• Why is each section a
number between 0 and 255?
• Computers operate in
binary, humans operate in
decimal.
• Computers treat IP
addresses as a single
large 32 digit binary
number, but this is hard
for people to do.
• So, we split them up into
four smaller sections so
we can remember and
work with them better!
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Dots separate the sections
10.1.1.1
Each section
contains a number
between 0 and 255
Why????
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Basic Addressing
10.1.1.1
• 32/4 == 8.
•
28
= 256.
• But, computers
number starting at 0,
so to make a space of
256 numbers, we
number from 0 to 255.
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00001010 00000001 00000001 00000001
8
8
8
8
32
Each 8 digit group
represents a number
between 0 and 255
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Basic Addressing
• Each device on a network
is assigned an IP
address.
• Each IP address has two
fundamental parts:
Host
• The host portion, which
identifies the host on
that wire.
00001010 00000001 00000001 00000001
Network
• The network portion,
which describes the
physical wire the device
is attached to.
10.1.1.1
• How can we tell the
difference between the
two sections?
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Basic Addressing
• The network mask shows
us where to split the
network and host sections.
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Host
• Each place there is a 0 in
the network mask, that
binary digit belongs to the
host portion of the
address.
00001010 00000001 00000001 00000001
Network
• Each place there is a 1 in
the network mask, that
binary digit belongs to the
network portion of the
address.
10.1.1.1
11111111 11111111 11111111 00000000
255.255.255.0
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Basic Addressing
10.1.1.1
• An alternative set of
terminology is:
00001010 00000001 00000001 00000001
• The host portion of the
address is called the host.
• The network mask is
expressed as a prefix
length, which is a count of
the number of 1’s in the
subnet mask.
Host
Prefix
• The network portion of
the address is called the
prefix.
11111111 11111111 11111111 00000000
8
+
8
+
8
= 24
10.1.1.1/24
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Basic Addressing
• The network address is
the IP address with all
0’s in the host bits.
• The broadcast address
is the IP address with
all 1’s in the host bits.
• Packets sent to either
address will be
delivered to all the
hosts connected to the
wire.
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00001010
1
1
000000011 00000001
prefix
0/24
00000000
host
these bits are 0, so this is the network address
10
00001010
prefix
1
1
000000011 00000001
255/24
11111111
host
these bits are 1, so this is the broadcast address
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Working with Addresses
• Two of the most
common questions
you are going to face
when dealing with IP
addresses are:
192.168.100.80/26
????
• What’s the network?
• What’s the host?
• How dow we figure
this out?
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Working with Addresses (The Hard Way)
• Divide by two, farm out the
remainder on the side.
• The bottom is the binary
MSD, the top the binary
LSD.
48
24
12
6
3
1
0
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remainder
0
remainder
0
remainder
0
remainder
0
divide by 2
divide by 2
divide by 2
divide by 2
remainder
divide by 2
remainder
divide by 2
remainder
divide by 2
remainder
Right
• Work with one octet at a
time.
96
divide by 2
0
0
1
1
Left
• First, convert the IP
address into binary. This
is easier than it looks.
192
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Working with Addresses (The Hard Way)
Write down the IP
address.
11000000 10101000 01100100 01010000
192
168
100
80
If you have a prefix
length, just wrote
down the number of
1’s. If you have a
network mask,
computer the binary
as with the IP
address.
11111111 11111111 11111111 11000000
8
+8
+8
+2 == 26
AND these two.
11000000 10101000 01100100 01000000
Convert back to
dotted decimal. This
is the network
address.
192
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168
100
64
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Working with Addresses (The Hard Way)
Write down the IP
address.
11000000 10101000 01100100 01010000
192
168
100
80
If you have a prefix
length, just wrote
down the number of
1’s. If you have a
network mask,
computer the binary
as with the IP
address.
11111111 11111111 11111111 11000000
8
+8
+8
+2 == 26
NOR these two.
00000000 00000000 00000000 00010000
Convert back to
dotted decimal. This
is the host address.
0
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0
16
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Working with Addresses (The Hard Way)
128
1
128
• To convert from
binary to decimal, use
a simple chart.
64
0
0
32
1
32
16
0
0
• Add the number
indicated for each 1
set in the binary
number.
8
1
8
4
0
0
2
0
0
1
0
0
168
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Working with Addresses (The Easy Way)
• First, if you are using a
network mask, convert it
to a prefix length.
192 == 11000000
• For each octet in the
network mask that is 255,
add 8 to the prefix length.
255.255.255.192
8 +8 +8 +2 == 26
• For the one octet that isn’t
255, convert to binary and
add the right number of
bits--or use a chart!
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Working with Addresses (The Easy Way)
• Take the prefix length and
divide by 8.
• Take the resulting number,
and ignore those octets
out of the IP address-these are all part of the
network address!
• We’re going to use the
remainder to find the
fourth octet of the network
address.
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192.168.100.80/26
These three
octets are
part of the
network
26/8 == 3 (remainder 2)
The remainder tells us
what the network address
in the fourth octet is
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Working with Addresses (The Easy Way)
• Take the remainder, and
find the corresponding
“multiple” on the chart; in
this case, 64.
• The largest multiple of 64
that will fit into 80 is 64, so
the network is 64.
• Add the three octets we
“set aside” earlier, and the
network (prefix!) is
192.168.100.64/26.
• 80 - 64 == 16, so the host
address is 16.
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Remainder == 2
8 7 6 5 4
3
2
1
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
64 x 1 == 64
64 x 2 == 128
Network is 64!
192.168.100.64/26
80 - 64 == 16
16 Hosts!
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Working with Addresses (The Easy Way)
• How many hosts are in this
network? The remainder tells
us there are 64 addresses,
minus the network and
broadcast addresses, so 62
hosts.
• To find the broadcast
address, subtract 1 from the
number of hosts, and add
that number to the network
address.
• The key is to work in octets,
rather than trying to work
with the entire IP address at
once!
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Remainder == 2
8 7 6 5 4
3
2
1
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
64 addresses
64 - 2 == 62 hosts
64 + (64 - 1) == 127
192.168.100.127 is the
broadcast address
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Working with Addresses (The Easy Way)
• What if the prefix length is
less than 24?
• Take the prefix length and
divide by 8.
• Take the resulting number,
and ignore those octets
out of the IP address-these are all part of the
network address!
• We’re going to use the
remainder to find the third
octet of the network
address.
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192.168.100.80/22
These three
octets are
part of the
network
22/8 == 2 (remainder 6)
The remainder tells us
what the network address
in the third octet is
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Working with Addresses (The Easy Way)
• Take the remainder, and
find the corresponding
“multiple” on the chart; in
this case, 4.
• The largest multiple of 64
that will fit into 80 is 64, so
the network is 64.
• Add the two octets we “set
aside” earlier, and make
any octets after the
network 0’s (the fourth
octet).
• The network (prefix!) is
192.168.100.0/22.
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Remainder == 6
8 7 6 5 4
3
2
1
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
4 x 25 == 100
4 x 26 == 104
Third octet is 100!
Set the fourth octet to 0.
192.168.100.0/22
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Working with Addresses (The Easy Way)
• To find the number of
hosts, take the number of
octets set to 0, which is 1
in this case (the fourth
octet), and multiply by
256.
• Next, take the number
relating to the remainder
from the chart, and
multiple this by the
number we just found
above.
“0” octets == 1
1 x 256 == 256
Remainder == 6
8 7 6 5 4
3
2
1
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
4 x 256 == 1024
1024 – 2 == 1022 hosts
• Subtract two.
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Working with Addresses (The Easy Way)
• The key is to work in octets, rather than
trying to work with the entire IP address at
once!
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10.1.1.8
10.1.1.7
10.1.1.4
• A single network address
(prefix!) represents a set
of hosts attached to a
wire.
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Summarization & Subnets
• We can abstract this, and
simply say that a prefix
represents a set of
reachable addresses.
• We can say that we’ve
“summarized” information
about the hosts attached
to the physical wire by
referring to the entire
group as a single network.
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Summarization & Subnets
• In effect, we’ve shortened the
network part of the address
(prefix!), and lengthened the
host portion of the address,
in effect describing more
hosts (destinations) in a
single address.
• If we can shorten the prefix
length to describe multiple
hosts with a single network
address, why can’t we
shorten the prefix length so a
single network address
describes two networks?
• We can! It’s called address
summarization, or just
summarization.
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10.1.1.2/32
10.1.1.4/32
10.1.1.7/32
10.1.1.8/32
10.1.1.0/26
10.1.1.64/26
10.1.1.0/25
These
host
addresses
are
described
by this
network
These
networks
are
described
by this
network
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Summarization & Subnets
10.1.1.0 through
10.1.1.31.
10.1.1.32 through
10.1.1.63.
10.1.1.0 through
10.1.1.63, so it’s the
same space!
00001010
10
11111111
00001010
10
11111111
00000001
1
11111111
00000001
1
11111111
00000001
1
11111111
00000001
1
11111111
00000000
0
11000000
01000000
64
11000000
00001010 00000001 00000001 00000000
10
1
1
0
11111111 11111111 11111111 10000000
Changing the mask bit from 1 to 0, which shortens the
prefix length, means the bit in the two networks that
distinguish them from one another are now considered
host bits!
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Summarization & Subnets
• A network which is a part
of another network is
called a subnet.
• There is another term, the
supernet, but it’s
definition depends on
whether you are using
VLSM subnetting, or
calssful subnetting, so it
will be defined in the next
two sections.
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10.1.1.2/32
10.1.1.4/32
10.1.1.7/32
10.1.1.8/32
10.1.1.0/26
10.1.1.64/26
10.1.1.0/25
These
host
addresses
are
subnets of
this
network
These
networks
are
subnets of
this
network
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VLSM
• VLSM: Variable Length
Subnet Masking
• It simply means that the
entire IP address space is
treated as one flat address
space.
• Any prefix length is
allowed in the network at
any point.
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10.1.1.0/24
10.1.2.0/25
10.1.2.128/26
10.1.2.192/27
All of these are valid in
the same network!
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VLSM
• At this point, you pretty much already know
VLSM! You already know how to find the network
address, broadcast address, and number of
hosts in a network.
• Two other common problems in working with
VLSM networks remain:
• Building summary addresses from groups of
networks. We won’t cover this here (maybe later in
routing).
• Building network addressing schemes from a given
number of hosts and networks.
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Working with VLSM Networks
• You have 5 subnets with the following numbers of hosts
on them: 58, 14, 29, 49, 3
• You are given the address space 10.1.1.0/24.
• Determine what subnets you could use to fit these hosts
into it.
• How to solve this:
• Start with the chart!
• Order the networks from the largest to the smallest.
• Find the smallest number in the chart that will fit the number
of the largest number of hosts + 2.
• Continue through each space needed until you either run out
of space, or you finish.
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Working with VLSM Networks
• 58, 14, 29, 49, 3: reorder to
58, 49, 29, 14, 3. Start with 58.
• Smallest number larger than
(58 + 2) is 64. 64 is 2 bits.
• 24 bits of prefix length in the
address space given, add 2
for 26.
• First network is 10.1.1.0/26.
• The next network is 10.1.1.0 +
64, so we start the next
“round” at 10.1.1.64.
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8 7 6 5 4
3
2
1
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
32 < (58 + 2) < 64
24 + 2 == 26
10.1.1.0/26 takes
care of the first 58
hosts
Start the next block
at 10.1.1.64
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Working with VLSM Networks
• Next block is 49 hosts.
• Smallest number larger than
(49 + 2) is 64. 64 is 2 bits.
• 24 bits of prefix length in the
address space given, add 2
for 26.
• We start this block at
10.1.1.64, so network is
10.1.1.64/26.
• The next network is 10.1.1.64
+ 64, so we start the next
“round” at 10.1.1.128.
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8 7 6 5 4
3
2
1
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
32 < (49 + 2) < 64
24 + 2 == 26
10.1.1.64/26 takes
care of the next 49
hosts
Start the next block
at 10.1.1.128
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Working with VLSM Networks
• Next block is 29 hosts.
• Smallest number larger than
(29 + 2) is 32. 32 is 3 bits.
• 24 bits of prefix length in the
address space given, add 3
for 27.
• We start this block at
10.1.1.128, so network is
10.1.1.128/27.
• The next network is
10.1.1.128 + 32, so we start
the next “round” at
10.1.1.160.
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8 7 6 5 4
3
2
1
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
16 < (29 + 2) < 32
24 + 3 == 27
10.1.1.128/27
takes care of the
next 29 hosts
Start the next block
at 10.1.1.160
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Working with VLSM Networks
• Next block is 14 hosts.
• Smallest number larger than
(14 + 2) is 16. 16 is 4 bits
(actually equal, but it still
works!).
• 24 bits of prefix length in the
address space given, add 4
for 28.
• We start this block at
10.1.1.160, so network is
10.1.1.160/27.
• The next network is
10.1.1.160 + 16, so we start
the next “round” at
10.1.1.176.
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8 7 6 5 4
3
2
1
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
(14 + 2) == 16
24 + 4 == 28
10.1.1.160/28
takes care of the
next 14 hosts
Start the next block
at 10.1.1.176
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Working with VLSM Networks
• Last block is 3 hosts.
• Smallest number larger than
(3 + 2) is 8. 8 is 5 bits.
• 24 bits of prefix length in the
address space given, add 5
for 29.
• We start this block at
10.1.1.176, so network is
10.1.1.176/29.
• This is the last block of
hosts, so we’re done!
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8 7 6 5 4
3
2
1
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
4 < (5 + 2) < 8
24 + 5 == 29
10.1.1.176/29
takes care of the
next 14 hosts
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10.1.2.128/25
10.1.2.128/26
subnets
10.1.1.0/24
10.1.2.0/24
subnets
10.1.0.0/23
subnet
supernet
• A supernet is any network
which covers a larger
space than a given
network, including the
space covered by the
network.
supernet
• A subnet is any network
which is “part of” a larger
network space.
supernet
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Classful Addressing
• Classful subnetting is similar to VLSM,
with two more rules:
• The IP address space is divided into
“classes,” with each class having a specific
“natural” prefix length. Each block of
address space is called a “major net.”
• You cannot have more than one prefix length
within a major net.
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Classful Addressing
Network Class
Beginning
Digits in
Binary
Natural Range of
Prefix
Addresses
Length
Example Major
Networks
Class A
10XX
8
1.0.0.0/8
through
126.0.0.0/8
11.0.0.0/8
100.0.0.0/8
120.0.0.0/8
Class B
110X
16
128.0.0.0/16
through
191.0.0.0/16
130.1.0.0/16
148.45.0.0/16
190.100.0.0/16
Class C
1110
24
192.0.0.0/24
through
223.0.0.0/24
193.1.3.0/24
193.1.4.0/24
192.2.5.0/24
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Classful Addressing
• It’s illegal to have multiple
network masks within a
single major network.
• There cannot be a mix of
/24’s and /25’s in the
10.0.0.0/8 major network.
• There cannot be a mix of
/25’s and /26’s in the
11.0.0.0/8 network.
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10.1.2.0/24
10.1.3.0/25
10.1.3.128/25
two different
prefix lengths
in the same
major network
11.1.1.0/25
11.1.1.128/26
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Working with Classful Addressing
• You can find the network address,
broadcast address, and number of hosts
as we described earlier.
• You can find the number of networks by
subtracting the network mask from the
natural mask, and then using the chart.
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Working with Classful Addressing
• 10.1.1.0/25 is in the
10.0.0.0 class A major
network.
• The natural prefix length
for a class A network is /8.
• Subtract the natural prefix
length from the actual
prefix length.
10.1.1.0/25
10.0.0.0/8 is class A
25 – 8 == 17
17/8 == 2, 1 remaining
• Divide by 8, holding the
remainder on the side.
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Working with Classful Addressing
• Find the remainder in
the power of two’s
chart.
• Multiply the result,
256, and the number
from the power of
two’s chart.
10.1.1.0/25
10.0.0.0/8 is class A
25 – 8 == 17
17/8 == 2, 1 remaining
(256 x 2) x 128 == 65536
8 7 6 5 4
3
2
1
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
• Subtract 2.
65536 – 2 == 65534 networks
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Working with Classful Addressing
• Subnet 0
• The network with
all the between the
host and the
natural major net
set to 0.
• This only exists in
classful
addressing
schemes.
10
00001010
0
00000000
natural
network
natural
host
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0/24
00000000
configured
these bits are 0, so this is subnet 0
network
10.0.0.0/16
Yes
10.0.1.0/16
No
172.31.0.0/24
Yes
172.31.1.0/24
No
192.168.100.0/25
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00000000
Yes
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Working with Classful Addressing
• Broadcast Subnet
• The network with
all the bits
between the host
and the natural
major network set
to 1.
• This only exists in
calssful address
schemes.
10
00001010
255
11111111
natural
network
natural
host
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0/24
00000000
configured
these bits are 1, so this is the
network
broadcast network
10.255.0.0/16
Yes
10.255.0.0/24
No
172.31.255.0/24
Yes
172.31.255.0/25
No
192.168.100.128/25
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11111111
Yes
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Working with Classful Addressing
• You have 5 subnets with the following numbers of hosts
on them: 58, 14, 29, 49, 3
• You are given the address space 10.1.0.0/22.
• Determine what subnets you could use to fit these hosts
into it.
• How to solve this:
• Start with the chart!
• Find the largest set of hosts.
• Find the smallest number in the chart that will fit the number
of the largest number of hosts + 2.
• Use that prefix length for all the subnets (remember you
cannot have different subnet masks within the same major
network).
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Working with Classful Addressing
• A subnet is any prefix with
a prefix length longer than
the natural prefix length of
the major network.
• A supernet is any prefix
with a prefix length
shorter than the natural
prefix length of the major
network.
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172.18.1.0/24
Subnet
10.2.0.0/9
Subnet
172.34.0.0/15
192.168.44.64/25
192.168.44.0/23
Supernet
Subnet
Supernet
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Private & Special Address Space
Address Space
Range of Addresses
10.0.0.0/8
10.0.0.0 through 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0/19
172.16.0.0 through 172.31.0.0
192.168.0.0/16
192.168.0.0 through 192.168.255.255
Network Class
Beginning Digits in Binary
Range of Addresses
Class D
(Multicast)
11110x
224.0.0.0 through
239.255.255.255
Class E
(Experimental)
11111x
240.0.0.0 through ....
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Cisco IOS Show IP Route
2651A#sho ip route
....
Gateway of last resort is not set
two different prefix
lengths under the
same major
network
C
208.0.12.0/24 is directly connected, Serial0/2
....
S
208.1.10.0/24 [1/0] via 208.0.12.11
....
144.2.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 2 subnets, 2 masks
S
144.2.2.0/24 [1/0] via 208.0.12.11
S
144.2.3.0/29 [1/0] via 208.0.12.11
C
208.0.7.0/24 is directly connected, Serial0/0
C
208.0.6.0/24 is directly connected, FastEthernet0/0
C
208.0.0.0/24 is directly connected, FastEthernet0/1
S
208.1.0.0/16 [1/0] via 208.0.12.11
a supernet and natural
mask in the same
network address space
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