From the course: Career Essentials in System Administration by Microsoft and LinkedIn
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IP structure
From the course: Career Essentials in System Administration by Microsoft and LinkedIn
IP structure
- [Instructor] IPv4, also known as the fourth version of Internet Protocol, is the core protocol that routes most of the internet traffic. This is a connectionless protocol, which means that the state of the connection is not preserved, and the data is transmitted to the receiver without ensuring that the recipient is available. IPv4 uses 32-bit addressing, which allows a total of over 4 billion IP addresses. Some addresses are reserved for public and private networks. An IP address consists of four octets, which are separated by a period, which is also known as dotted decimal notation. Oct, meaning eight is used because the value of the octets is two to the eighth power. For example, the IP address 192.168.000.001 represents four octets. Our IP addresses are made up of these eight bits. You can see a representation here. They can all be ones or zeros or any combination. These ones and zeros have decimal numerical values.…
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