What is an IP Address ?

Hi, everyone on today we are going to learn about IP address and it's types.

IP address (Internet Protocol Address) : 

• It is a unique identifying number or logical number for which each and every hardware (such as, PCs, Switch, Router and Printer) within a network based on TCP/IP.
• It is the core component on which the networking architecture is built.
• It has 32 bit address consist of 4 blocks.
• Each block 4 which is made of octets (i.e.,8 bits) and each octet has 4 segregated by dot(.)

Example: 10.0.0.1 (Decimal format)

                00001010.00000000.00000000.00000001 (Binary format)

*IP address ranges from 0 - 255.

IP address has 2 types:

1. Classfull IP address which divides the whole IP address pools into 5 distinct classes A,B,C,D and E.
2. Classless IP address has an arbitrary length of the prefixes.

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