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IP addresses range from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255, with the numbers 0-255 represented in each of the four segments of the address. This results in a total of 4,294,967,296 possible addresses. Note that many addresses are reserved for private or multicast use. Therefore, the actual number of available addresses is much lower than the 4.3 billion theoretical addresses.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 9y agoThere are a total of 4,294,967,296 addresses available in the IPv4 address range (and 281,474,976,710,656 in the IPv6 address range) but as for the number of addresses declared as private, they do not consume as much space as he seems to think. Private IP address ranges are restricted to and defined as:
10.0.0.0 through 10.255.255.255 (16,777,216 addresses)
172.16.0.0 through 172.31.255.255 (1,048.576 addresses)
192.168.0.0 through 192.168.255.255 (65,536 addresses)
The total amount of these addresses is only 17,891,328, only a drop in the bucket when compared to over 4 billion. In fact, to do the math, that lowers the number of publically available addresses from 4,294,967,296 to 4,277,075,968. If we also take out the link-local address range of 169.254.1.0 through 169.254.254.255, then that removes another 65,024 addresses, still leaving 4,277,010,944 addresses for public use on the internet.
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How many Mac addresses are possible?
This 48-bit address space contains potentially 248 or 281,474,976,710,656 possible MAC addresses.
Why do you have to activate a DHCP scope?
A DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) scope defines the valid pool of IP addresses that can be assigned to the network. You need to activate a DHCP scope so that the IP addresses that are issued (or leased) to the client devices will be compatible with the network configuration. If a client is issued an invalid IP address it will not be able to communicate on the network.
How do you connect five computers in a network without TCP-IP addresses if the operating system on all the computer is Windows 98SE?
Make sure your workgroup is the same and use peer to peer (server asigned ip address) on all machines
How many operas have been written in all of history?
It is not possible to know. Hundreds, at least.
Which two components are configured via software in order for a PC to participate in a network environment?
IP address
3 Why do the number of possible IP address decrease as you step down from Class A to Class C IP addresses?
The number of possible IP address decreases as one steps down from Class A to Class C IP addresses because the availability of usable hosts. There is a decrease in the number of usable hosts from Class A to Class C IP addresses.
How many IP addresses are available for a single Class A IP license?
How many possible host addresses are there in a Class A range?Class A range is 0 - 1270.0.0.0 and 127.0.0.0 are not "routable" IP addresses. One defines all networks and the other is the loopback. We have a total of 126 usable networks and 16,777,214 usable hostaddresses per network.
Does class A IP addresses offer the largest possible pool of host addresses?
out of all the classes, yes
IP ADDRESS occupies how many bytes?
IPv4 addresses are 4 bytes. IPv6 IP addresses are 16 bytes.
How many Class of IP Addresses are there?
6
How many IPv6 address are possible?
In theory there are 264 available network allocations in ipV6. It is not known how many are actually in use at this time. For a very clear comparison, in IPv4 there is a total of 4,294,967,296 IP addresses. With IPv6, there is a total of 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IP addresses in a single /64 allocation.
The IP addresses available to the Internet are called?
Public IP addresses
How many ip addresses will ipv6 provide?
IP is the internet protocol that uniquely identifies a system on a network and there are 2^128 addresses in IPv6 (IP version 6).
How many potenial IP addresses are there?
4.3 billion with ip version 4 with ip version 6 ( which is not out yet) their will be enough ip addresses so everyone in the world will be able to have 16,000 address
Under what circumstance would it be appropriate to use private IP address?
The usual reason to use private IP addresses is when you have to share a single public IP address (or a few public IP addresses) among a larger number of computers. Nowadays, this situation is quite common - it is no longer possible to assign a public IP (version 4) address to each and every computer; IP addresses are starting to get scarce. In the scenario mentioned above, private IP addresses according to RFC 1918 are used in combination with NAT (network address translation).
Who transmitts IP addresses?
Any system in an Ethernet IP network will transmit IP addresses.
What are IP addresses that are not assigned from an available pool of IP addresses?
They are static.
