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Fundamentals of IP Address

IP Address:



Internet Protocol Version 4: (Standard: RFC 791)

This Protocol uses a 32 bit Number to identify computers connected to the internet. Computers do all the internal calculations using a binary number system in which each digit is either a 0 or a 1, corresponding to a state of either OFF or ON.  IP Version 4 allows more than 4 billion different addresses, as 2³² = 4, 294,967,296. When a router breaks a message into packets before sending it onto the internet, the router marks each packet with both the source & destination IP addresses of the message. Each IP address appears as 4 numbers separated by periods specified under the dotted decimal notation system, & each of the 4 numbers is an 8 bit number. In networking applications, an 8 bit number is called an octet, & in binary, an octet can have values from 00000000 to 11111111, & the decimal equivalents of these binary numbers are 0 and 255 respectively. As each of the 4 parts of a dotted decimal number can range from 0 to 255, IP addresses range from 0.0.0.0 (32 zeros in binary) to 255.255.255.255 (32 ones in binary).
IP4 is a connectionless protocol to be used on packet switched networks, & it operates on a best effort delivery model, wherein it does not guarantee delivery, nor does it assure proper sequencing or avoidance of duplicate delivery. These aspects along with data integrity are taken care of by an upper layer transport protocol, called as Transmission Control Protocol.

Internet Protocol Version 6: (Standard: RFC 2460)

colon hexadecimal system'. Hexadecimal numbering system uses 16 digits, viz. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,&f.
An example is: AB17:0000:2222:0000:3434:CD56:F9889:76D2, & to save space, the zeros can be omitted to: AB17:2222:3434:CD56:F9889:76D2.
IP6 is an internet layer protocol for packet switched networks and provides end to end data transmission across multiple IP networks, adhering to the design principles of IP4.

IP Address Allocation:

The IP address management tasks were originally with "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)", which then delegated the allocation of IP address blocks to (1) American Registry for Internet Numbers for USA, Canada, Antarctica, & some parts of Carribbean, (2) African Network Information Center for Africa, (3) Asia-Pacific Network Information Center for Asia, Australia, New Zealand & adjacent countries, (4) Latin America & Carribbean Network Information Center for Latin America & parts of Carribbean, & (5) Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Center for Europe, Russia, Middle East, & Central Asia. 

IP Address Subnetting:

As the demand for IP addresses increased due to use of mobiles, tablets, laptops, & other wireless devices, techniques to stretch the supply of IP addresses were devised, & the best out of all was subnetting. Three IP4 address ranges have been reserved for private networks, & these are not routed through the internet, & thus their use need not be coordinated with IP address registry. If required, these private networks typically connect to the internet through network address translation. Morefully, in subnetting, a computer called network address translation converts those private IP addresses to normal IP addresses when it forwards packets to the internet from those computers.
    
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