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Signamax 065-7840 24-Port 10/100/1000BaseT/TX Managed Switch
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Class D and E:
Class D is a class with the first 4 MSB (Most significant bits) set to 1-1-1-0
and is used for IP Multicast. See also RFC 1112. Class E is a class with the first 4
MSB set to 1-1-1-1 and is used for IP broadcast.
According to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), there are three
specific IP address blocks reserved and able to be used for extending internal
network. We call it Private IP address and list below:
Class A 10.0.0.0 --- 10.255.255.255
Class B 172.16.0.0 --- 172.31.255.255
Class C 192.168.0.0 --- 192.168.255.255
Please refer to RFC 1597 and RFC 1466 for more information.
Subnet mask:
The Subnet mask is the sub-division of a class-based network or a CIDR
block. The subnet is used to determine how to split an IP address to the network
prefix and the host address on a bitwise basis. It is designed to utilize IP addresses
more efficiently and provide an easier to manage IP network.
For a class B network, 128.1.2.3, it may have a subnet mask 255.255.0.0 in
default, in which the first two bytes contain all 1’s. This means more than 60
thousand nodes in a flat IP address can reside on the same network. It’s too large
to manage practically. Now, if we divide it into smaller networks by extending the
network prefix from 16 bits to, say, 24 bits, that’s using its third byte to subnet this
class B network. Now it has a subnet mask 255.255.255.0, in which each bit of the
first three bytes is 1. It’s now clear that the first two bytes is used to identify the
class B network, the third byte is used to identify the subnet within this class B
network and, of course, the last byte is the host number.
Not all IP addresses are available in the sub-netted network. Two special
addresses are reserved. They are the addresses with all zero’s and all one’s, plus
the host number. For example, for an IP address of 128.1.2.128, what will the IP
addresses reserved look like? All 0’s mean the network itself, and all 1’s mean IP
broadcast.
10000000.00000001.00000010.1 0000000
128.1.2.128/25
25 bits
1 0000000
1 1111111
All 0s = 128.1.2.128
All 1s= 128.1.2.255
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