Zusammenfassung der Ressource
IP Address Rules
- IPv6: Next generation of IP addressing
- Needed because IPv4 addresses exhausted
- Expressed in binary and dotted decimal forms
- 32 bits
- 128-bit long addresses: 2128
- Migration to IPv6 has taken over decade and still in process.
- IP defines many functions that work together with one ultimate goal: To send data from one host to another
host through any TCP/IP network.
- Creating end-to-end physical paths through TCP/IP network by interconnecting physical networks
- Identifying individual hosts and groups of hosts using IP addressing
- Separate 32 bits into 4 groups of 8 bits each