WHAT IS NETWORK ADDRESS OR IP ADDRESS?
- IP Address
-is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing.
IP addresses are usually written and displayed in human-readable notations, such as 172.16.254.1 in IPv4, and 2001:db8:0:1234:0:567:8:1 in IPv6. The size of the routing prefix of the address is designated in CIDR notation by suffixing the address with the number of significant bits, e.g., 192.168.1.15/24, which is equivalent to the historically used subnet mask255.255.255.0.
- Examples of IP address
- 172.16.254.1
- 192.168.1.1
- IP versions
Two versions of the Internet Protocol are in common use in the Internet today. The original version of the Internet Protocol that was first deployed in 1983 in the ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet, is Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4).
The rapid exhaustion of IPv4 address space available for assignment to Internet service providers and end user organizations by the early 1990s, prompted the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to explore new technologies to expand the addressing capability in the Internet. The result was a redesign of the Internet Protocol which became eventually known as Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in 1995. IPv6 technology was in various testing stages until the mid-2000s, when commercial production deployment commenced.
Today, these two versions of the Internet Protocol are in simultaneous use. Among other technical changes, each version defines the format of addresses differently. Because of the historical prevalence of IPv4, the generic term IP address typically still refers to the addresses defined by IPv4. The gap in version sequence between IPv4 and IPv6 resulted from the assignment of version 5 to the experimental Internet Stream Protocol in 1979, which however was never referred to as IPv5.
HOW TO GET BINARY DIGIT/ HOW TO MAKE NETWORK ADDRESS?
BINARY DIGIT HAS A TOTAL OF 255
IP CLASSES
Steps on how to create an IP address:
- right click network places
- click properties
- right click local area connection
- click properties
- click TCP/IP
- click properties
- click OK
- right click network places
- click properties
- right click local area connection
- click properties
- click TCP/IP
- click properties
- click OK
- Steps on how to configure your IP Address:
- click start button
- click run
- type cmd
- type ipconfig
- type ping [IP address]
