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1. What is an address of 0.0.0.0 used for?

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2. What is the default subnet mask for a Class B IP Address?
To send messages to all hosts on the network at the same time.
Private Use Class B
1-126 (00000001--01111110 binary)
255.255.0.0

3. What is the default subnet mask for a Class E IP Address?
Class E (11110000--11111111 binary)
N/a
Class A (00000001--01111110 binary)
Experimental Use

4. What is 127.0.0.0 reserved for?
Loopback
240-255 (11110000--11111111 binary)
Private Use Class A
Class C (11000000--11011111 binary)

5. What is the characturistic of a network address?

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6. What is the IP address range for Class B?
Class D (11100000--11101111 binary)
224-239 (11100000--11101111 binary)
128-191 (10000000--10111111 binary)
The last octet is 255. (Verify)

7. What is the IP address range for Class D?
Routers connected to the Internet typically filter messages within these ranges and prevent them from being propagated to the Internet.
Experimental Use
Loopback
224-239 (11100000--11101111 binary)

8. What are the two parts of an IP address?
Network address & Host address
Class B (10000000--10111111 binary)
The Host address on the local network?
Class E (11110000--11111111 binary)

9. What do you get if you set the Host address to all one?
The network address is first followed by 0's. examples: Class A network address: 115.0.0.0 - Class B network address: 154.90.0.0 - Class C network address: 221.65.244.0
The last octet is 255. (Verify)
Routers connected to the Internet typically filter messages within these ranges and prevent them from being propagated to the Internet.
The Broadcast address for the associated network.

10. What are Class D addresses reserved for?
Loopback
The Broadcast address for the associated network.
Multicast groups
Class B (10000000--10111111 binary)

11. If the first bits of the first octet are '1111' what type of address is it?
240-255 (11110000--11111111 binary)
Class E (11110000--11111111 binary)
Experimental Use
Multicast groups

12. What is the IP address range for Class E?
240-255 (11110000--11111111 binary)
Private Use Class C
192-223 (11000000--11011111 binary)
Loopback

13. What is 127.16.0.0 to 127.31.255.255 reserved for?
Class A (00000001--01111110 binary)
192-223 (11000000--11011111 binary)
The Broadcast address for the associated network.
Private Use Class B

14. What is the default subnet mask for a Class A IP Address?
255.0.0.0
To send messages to all hosts on the network at the same time.
255.255.255.0
Private Use Class C

15. What is the IP address range for Class A?
1-126 (00000001--01111110 binary)
N/a
192-223 (11000000--11011111 binary)
Class C (11000000--11011111 binary)

16. What is the Broadcast address used for?
255.0.0.0
1-126 (00000001--01111110 binary)
To send messages to all hosts on the network at the same time.
Multicast groups

17. If the first bits of the first octet are '110' what type of address is it?
Class E (11110000--11111111 binary)
Class C (11000000--11011111 binary)
Loopback
Private Use Class A

18. In addition to setting the Host address to All 1s - what other formats/short cuts might you see for hosts on this network?

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19. What is the IP address range for Class C?
192-223 (11000000--11011111 binary)
Network address & Host address
Used by routers to specify the 'default' route. Generic value reduces the number of routing table entries. Some older routers use this address as a broadcast address.
To send messages to all hosts on the network at the same time.

20. What does the subnet mask and/or the address class specify?
To send messages to all hosts on the network at the same time.
Network address & Host address
The range of IP addresses available to be assigned to network hosts.Example: Class A 115.0.0.0=host range 115.0.0.1 to 115.255.255.254. Class B 154.90.0.0=host range 154.90.0.1 to 154.90.255.254. Class C 221.65.244.0=host range 221.65.244.1 to 221.65
The Host address on the local network?

21. If the first bits of the first octet are '1110' what type of address is it?
Class D (11100000--11101111 binary)
The Broadcast address for the associated network.
Experimental Use
240-255 (11110000--11111111 binary)

22. If the first bit of the first octet is '0' what type of address is it?
The range of IP addresses available to be assigned to network hosts.Example: Class A 115.0.0.0=host range 115.0.0.1 to 115.255.255.254. Class B 154.90.0.0=host range 154.90.0.1 to 154.90.255.254. Class C 221.65.244.0=host range 221.65.244.1 to 221.65
Loopback
Class A (00000001--01111110 binary)
The last octet is 255. (Verify)

23. What is the default subnet mask for a Class D IP Address?
N/a
Routers connected to the Internet typically filter messages within these ranges and prevent them from being propagated to the Internet.
Class E (11110000--11111111 binary)
Class B (10000000--10111111 binary)

24. If the first bits of the first octet are '10' what type of address is it?
Class B (10000000--10111111 binary)
224-239 (11100000--11101111 binary)
Private Use Class B
Class C (11000000--11011111 binary)

25. What is 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255 reserved for? reserved for?
Loopback
255.255.0.0
Private Use Class C
Class C (11000000--11011111 binary)

26. What are Class E addresses reserved for?
Class C (11000000--11011111 binary)
Experimental Use
Private Use Class C
The Broadcast address for the associated network.

27. What is the default subnet mask for a Class C IP Address?
255.255.255.0
Class C (11000000--11011111 binary)
Private Use Class A
Multicast groups

28. What do you get when you set the Network portion of the address to 0s?
Class C (11000000--11011111 binary)
Multicast groups
Loopback
The Host address on the local network?

29. What is 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.55 reserved for?
192-223 (11000000--11011111 binary)
Private Use Class A
The Host address on the local network?
The range of IP addresses available to be assigned to network hosts.Example: Class A 115.0.0.0=host range 115.0.0.1 to 115.255.255.254. Class B 154.90.0.0=host range 154.90.0.1 to 154.90.255.254. Class C 221.65.244.0=host range 221.65.244.1 to 221.65

30. How do routers generally handle Private use addresses?
Routers connected to the Internet typically filter messages within these ranges and prevent them from being propagated to the Internet.
The last octet is 255. (Verify)
255.255.255.0
Class A (00000001--01111110 binary)

31. What do you see in a Broadcast address regardless of format?
The range of IP addresses available to be assigned to network hosts.Example: Class A 115.0.0.0=host range 115.0.0.1 to 115.255.255.254. Class B 154.90.0.0=host range 154.90.0.1 to 154.90.255.254. Class C 221.65.244.0=host range 221.65.244.1 to 221.65
Class B (10000000--10111111 binary)
224-239 (11100000--11101111 binary)
The last octet is 255. (Verify)