Ip Addressing and Subnetting
Ip Addressing and Subnetting
Ip Addressing and Subnetting
Version4 (IPv4)
& Subnetting
Strategy
By: Earl Lawrence B. Pelayo, MIT
The Internet Protocol (IP)
The Internet Protocol is the corner-stone of the TCP/IP
architecture. All computers in the Internet understand IP.
The main tasks of IP are:
The addressing of the computers, and the fragmentation of
packets.
Public address:
This address considered as any valid address assigned to any
user, and the organization who is responsible for registering IP
ranges called Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and this address
will be unique.
Private Address:
Any number or address assigned to a device on a private TCP/IP
Local Area Network that is accessible only within the Local Area
Network.
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
SIPP (Simple Internet Protocol Plus)
• Maintains good features of IPv4, discards bad ones.
• Main features:
Class E: reserved for future use. From 240 to 255 and the
255.255.255.255 used for broadcast to all the subnet.
Cont..
One of the benefits of classful addresses is that they provide a hierarchy to
the network through the use of the network ID. This translates into an
efficient routing environment because it is easy for a router to determine
what networks can be grouped together and treated as a single routing
entry.
Strategies to Conserve Addresses
Several strategies have been developed and implemented to
help the Internet community on how provides a good
managing of IP addresses. These strategies help reduce the
load on Internet routers and help administrators use globally
unique IP addresses more efficiently. There are two common
strategies, which are:
Private Addressing
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
Private Address
It means If the internetwork is limited to one organization, the IP addresses
need only be unique within that organization. Only networks that interface
with public networks such as the Internet need public addresses. Using
public addresses on the outside and private addresses for inside networks is
very effective.
Private Addresses:-
RFC1918 designates three ranges of IP addresses as private:
10.0.0.0 through 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 through 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 through 192.168.255.255
Cont…
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There are two ways to convert the private address to public address:
1. Network Address Translation (NAT).
This technique has been used to convert the private address to public address,
the NAT allowing us to access the internet and get services. The basic idea, is
that technique used pool of public addresses and assign for each private
address one public address. Thus, this way is inefficient due to the fact that
there are cost and delay associated with this operation. The table and the figure
below show how the NAT make the mapping.
Private Address Public Address
192.68.5.1 200.1.1.2
192.68.5.2 200.1.1.3
192.68.5.3 200.1.1.3
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2. Port Address Translation (PAT).
It’s another technique used to convert the private address to public. During PAT,
each computer on LAN is translated to the same IP address (public), but with a
different port number assignment. This way is much better than the NAT because
we can use one public address to translate any private address, therefore we saved
the cost. The table below shows the process of the PAT
The port address will be any random number in the allowed range, that the
device created it when wants to access the internet.
The packet will contain the port number that assign to the device that wants to
access the internet and through this port number, the router when get the
response message will translate it and make map this message to it is private
address based on the port number.
Addressing without Subnets
If we have a class B with a Flat Network, the number of host will be more
than 216=65536 hosts,
So the problem is here, that managing this network with this number of
host is too tricky and the performance of this network will get down
because of the heavy load. In other word, any single broadcast can
slowdown the network.
The first three octets represent the network part and the last octet represent the host
part.
Cont...
There three important things that should be taken into our account when we
thinking about subnetting:-
As well as, to find the number of hosts per subnet. We can use formal 2x -2,
where (x) is the number of unmasked bits (0’s) .
Cont...
For example, in 11000000, the number of zeros gives us 26 – 2 =62 hosts.
In this example, there are 62 hosts per subnet and we make subtract
because the first IP address reserve for the network address and the last one
for the network broadcast.
While when we want to find number of networks, we can use this formal 2y
When you receive a block of addresses from an ISP, what you get will
look something like this: 192.168.10.32/28. This is telling you what your
subnet mask is. The slash notation (/) means how many bits are turned on
(1s).
The Class A default subnet mask, which is 255.0.0.0. This means that the
first byte of the subnet mask is all ones (1s), or 11111111. When referring
to a slash notation, you need to count all the 1s bits to figure out your mask.
The 255.0.0.0 is considered a /8 because it has 8 bits that are 1s—that is, 8
bits that are turned on
Subnetting Class C Addresses
In a Class C address, only 8 bits are available for defining the hosts
that subnet bits start at the left and go to the right without skipping
bits. This means that the only Class C subnet masks can be the
following:
No. Subnet address First valid address Last valid Address Broadcast address
1 216.21.5.0 216.21.5.1 216.21.5.30 216.21.5.31
2 216.21.5.32 216.21.5.33 216.21.5.62 216.21.5.63
3 216.21.5.64 216.21.5.65 216.21.5.94 216.21.5.95
4 216.21.5.96 216.21.5.97 216.21.5.126 216.21.5.127
5 216.21.5.128 216.21.5.129 216.21.5.158 216.21.5.159
6 216.21.5.160 216.21.5.161 216.21.5.190 216.21.5.191
7 216.21.5.192 216.21.5.193 216.21.5.222 216.21.5.223
8 216.21.5.224 216.21.5.225 216.21.5.254 216.21.5.255
Cont…
216.21.5.33--62
216.21.5.1--30 216.21.5.129--158
216.21.5.97--126
216.21.5.65--94
Example 5
Example 6
Example 7
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