Network Layer:
Logical Addressing
19-1 IPv4 ADDRESSES
An IPv4 address is a 32-bit address that uniquely and
universally defines the connection of a device (for
example, a computer or a router) to the Internet.
Topics discussed in this section:
Address Space
Notations
Classful Addressing
Classless Addressing
Network Address Translation (NAT)
Note
An IPv4 address is 32 bits long.
Note
The IPv4 addresses are unique
and universal.
Note
The address space of IPv4 is
232 or 4,294,967,296.
Figure 19.1 Dotted-decimal notation and binary notation for an IPv4 address
Example 19.1
Change the following IPv4 addresses from binary
notation to dotted-decimal notation.
Solution
We replace each group of 8 bits with its equivalent
decimal number (see Appendix B) and add dots for
separation.
Example 19.2
Change the following IPv4 addresses from dotted-decimal
notation to binary notation.
Solution
We replace each decimal number with its binary
equivalent (see Appendix B).
Note
In classful addressing, the address
space is divided into five classes:
A, B, C, D, and E.
Figure 19.2 Finding the classes in binary and dotted-decimal notation
Example 19.4
Find the class of each address.
a. 00000001 00001011 00001011 11101111
b. 11000001 10000011 00011011 11111111
c. 14.23.120.8
d. 252.5.15.111
Solution
a. The first bit is 0. This is a class A address.
b. The first 2 bits are 1; the third bit is 0. This is a class C
address.
c. The first byte is 14; the class is A.
d. The first byte is 252; the class is E.
Note
In classful addressing, a large part of the
available addresses were wasted.
Table 19.2 Default masks for classful addressing
Note
Classful addressing, which is almost
obsolete, is replaced with classless
addressing.
Example 19.5
Figure 19.3 shows a block of addresses, in both binary
and dotted-decimal notation, granted to a small business
that needs 16 addresses.
We can see that the restrictions are applied to this block.
The addresses are contiguous. The number of addresses
is a power of 2 (16 = 24), and the first address is divisible
by 16. The first address, when converted to a decimal
number, is 3,440,387,360, which when divided by 16
results in 215,024,210.
Figure 19.3 A block of 16 addresses granted to a small organization
Note
In IPv4 addressing, a block of
addresses can be defined as
x.y.z.t /n
in which x.y.z.t defines one of the
addresses and the /n defines the mask.
Note
The first address in the block can be
found by setting the rightmost
32 − n bits to 0s.
Example 19.6
A block of addresses is granted to a small organization.
We know that one of the addresses is 205.16.37.39/28.
What is the first address in the block?
Solution
The binary representation of the given address is
11001101 00010000 00100101 00100111
If we set 32−28 rightmost bits to 0, we get
11001101 00010000 00100101 0010000
or
205.16.37.32.
This is actually the block shown in Figure 19.3.
Note
The last address in the block can be
found by setting the rightmost
32 − n bits to 1s.
Example 19.7
Find the last address for the block in Example 19.6.
Solution
The binary representation of the given address is
11001101 00010000 00100101 00100111
If we set 32 − 28 rightmost bits to 1, we get
11001101 00010000 00100101 00101111
or
205.16.37.47
This is actually the block shown in Figure 19.3.
Note
The number of addresses in the block
can be found by using the formula
232−n.
Example 19.8
Find the number of addresses in Example 19.6.
Solution
The value of n is 28, which means that number
of addresses is 2 32−28 or 16.
Example 19.9
Another way to find the first address, the last address, and
the number of addresses is to represent the mask as a 32-
bit binary (or 8-digit hexadecimal) number. This is
particularly useful when we are writing a program to find
these pieces of information. In Example 19.5 the /28 can
be represented as
11111111 11111111 11111111 11110000
(twenty-eight 1s and four 0s).
Find
a. The first address
b. The last address
c. The number of addresses.
Example 19.9 (continued)
Solution
a. The first address can be found by ANDing the given
addresses with the mask. ANDing here is done bit by
bit. The result of ANDing 2 bits is 1 if both bits are 1s;
the result is 0 otherwise.
Figure 19.4 A network configuration for the block 205.16.37.32/28
Note
The first address in a block is
normally not assigned to any device;
it is used as the network address that
represents the organization
to the rest of the world.
Table 19.3 Addresses for private networks
19-2 IPv6 ADDRESSES
Despite all short-term solutions, address depletion is
still a long-term problem for the Internet. This and
other problems in the IP protocol itself have been the
motivation for IPv6.
Topics discussed in this section:
Structure
Address Space
Note
An IPv6 address is 128 bits long.
Figure 19.14 IPv6 address in binary and hexadecimal colon notation
Figure 19.15 Abbreviated IPv6 addresses
Example 19.11
Expand the address 0:15::1:12:1213 to its original.
Solution
We first need to align the left side of the double colon to
the left of the original pattern and the right side of the
double colon to the right of the original pattern to find
how many 0s we need to replace the double colon.
This means that the original address is.
Table 19.5 Type prefixes for IPv6 addresses
Table 19.5 Type prefixes for IPv6 addresses (continued)
Figure 19.16 Prefixes for provider-based unicast address
Figure 19.17 Multicast address in IPv6
Figure 19.18 Reserved addresses in IPv6
Figure 19.19 Local addresses in IPv6
