The IP Terminology
IP Address is one of the most important parts of the Network we can’t imagine a network without the ip addresses. It is a numeric identifier assign to each machine to communicate each other through the network. An IP address is the software address. The important term define in the ip address-
1. Bit-A bit is one digit that is 0 or 1.
2. Byte – The group of eight bit known as byte.
3. Octet-An octet is made up of 8 bits, it is the term that completely interchangeable with the byte.
4. Network Address-It is a special address that refers to the network and this address cannot be design to the device. It is only used for the identification of the network. Within the range of the network the lowest address is reserve for the network address this address indicate the zero of each host bit.
5. Broadcast Address-The address used by the host in the network to send the information to all nodes on a network is called the broadcast address. Example of the Broadcast Address is 172.16.255.255 which is all subnets and host on the network 172.16.0.0.
Unlike the network address this address is used to communicate to the entire host on the network. The Broadcast address is the highest address of the network range and in this the bits in the host portion is all 1s.
6. Host Address-In IP V4 address we assign the value between the network address and the broadcast address to the devices in the network. These addresses are called the host address.
IP Address consists of 32 bits of information. These bits are divided into the four section called octets and each octet containing 8 bits.
Subnet Mask-
The Subnet Mask is a 32 bit value used with the IPV4 address that specifies the network part of the network devices. The Subnet Mask uses 1s and 0s to indicate which bits of IPV4 address are network and which bits are host bits.