Chapter 1: Making the Most of IPv4
In This Chapter
Getting a grip on the IP address structure
Understanding IP network classes
Working with special IP addresses
Understanding subnetting
Updating your knowledge with Classless InterDomain Routing
Internet Protocol (IP) version 4 (IPv4) is the current standard “IP” protocol used with TCP/IP — Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol — which is the protocol for Internet addressing. In this chapter, you see how IP addresses are structured and broken down into categories and then further broken down for management. None of this information should strike you as too difficult, especially if you have already made your way through Book I.
In this chapter, when I refer to IP, I mean IPv4. I discuss IP version 6 (IPv6) (the new standard that is just starting to be rolled out as of this writing), in detail in Chapter 4 of this minibook. ...
