As the Internet is a network of networks, addressing, is particularly important. This section provides an initial overview of the addressing problems through the first generation IP protocol IPv4 and IPv6 new generation.Internet machines have an IPv4 address represented on a 32-bit integer. The address consists of two parts: a network identifier and an identifier of the machine to the network. There are four classes of addresses, each for encoding a different number of networks and machines: • Class A: 128 networks and 16,777,216 hosts (7 bits for networks and 24 for hosts); • Class B: 16,384 networks and 65,535 hosts (14 bit and 16 for networks for hosts); • Class C: 2,097,152 networks and 256 hosts (21 bits for networks and 8 for hosts); • Class D: group addresses (28 bits for the hosts belonging to the same group). These addresses are detailed in Figure. The IP addresses were defined to be processed quickly. Rou...
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