IP Addressing & IP Subnetting

IP Address as a  32-Bit Binary Number

Binary & Decimal Conversion

IP Address Classes 

IP addresses as Decimal Numbers

Hosts for Classes of IP Addresses 

Class A (24 bits for hosts) 2²⁴ - 2^* = 16,777,214 maximum hosts

Class B (16 bits for hosts) 2¹⁶ - 2^* = 65,534 maximum hosts

Class C (8 bits for hosts) 2⁸ - 2^* = 254 maximum hosts

^* Subtracting the network and broadcast reserved address

Network IDs & Broadcast Addresses

An IP address such as 176.10.255.255 that has all binary 1's in the host bit position is reserved for the broadcast address

Private Addresses 

IP Subnetting .... to be continue