COMPUTER NETWORKS

CS610
Lecture-25
Hammad Khalid Khan
 Review Lecture 24
 Addresses for Virtual Internet

 The IP addressing Scheme

 The IP Address Hierarchy

 Original Classes of IP Addresses

 Computing The Class
Of An Address

 Whenever it handles a packet, IP software needs to separate

the destination address into a prefix and suffix.

 Classful IP addresses are self-identifying because the class

of an address can be computed from the address itself.
Computing The Class
Of An Address
 Dotted Decimal Notation

 Dotted decimal notation is a syntactic form, the IP software

uses to express 32-bit binary values when interacting with
humans.

 Dotted decimal represent each octet in decimal and uses a

dot to separate octets.
Dotted Decimal Notation
 Classes And Dotted Decimal Notation

 In class A the last three octets correspond to a host suffix.

 In Class B the last two octets are the host octets.

 Class C only has one octet to represent the host.

 Classes And Dotted Decimal Notation

 The range of decimal values found in the first octet of each

address class.
 Division Of The Address Space

 The IP class scheme does not divide the 32-bit address space
into equal size class and the classes do not contain the same
number of networks.

n
2
n
2
 Division Of The Address Space
 A prefix of n bits allows unique network numbers, while
a suffix of n bits allows host numbers to be assigned on
a given network.
Division Of The Address Space
 Authority For Addresses

 Throughout the internet, each network prefix is unique.

 Networks obtain their network numbers from their Internet

Service Provider (ISP).

 The Internet service providers coordinate with The Internet

Assigned Number Authority to obtain their network
numbers.
 Classful Addressing Example
 Here we have a private TCP/IP network which consists of four
physical networks.
 The first step is to assign IP addresses.
– Usually assigned class C addressed.
 Network administrator computes the ultimate size of each
physical network and assigns a prefix.
 Classful Addressing Example

Class B Class B

Class A Class C
 Summary

 Computing the Class of an IP Address

 Dotted Decimal Notation
 Classes & Dotted Decimal Notation
 Division of the Address Space
 Authority For Address
 A Classful Addressing Example