Network Addressing

Network Addressing One thing all network nodes have in common is that in order for their addresses to be considered proper network addresses, they must have two parts present: a host address and a network address. The host address portion identifies the individual node. The network address portion identifies the network or network segment on which the host address can be found. MAC addresses, which are Data Link layer addresses, differ from Netowkr layer addresses. MAC addresses are flat addresses in that they identify only the node with which they are associated and have no relationship to any other netowkr elements. In many ways, MAC addresses are like Social Security numbers for NICs, identifying only one NIC at a time. A MAC address consists of a 48-bit or 6-byte hexadecimal number. It's represented in the form of six two-digit numbers separated by dashes. The first 24 bits of the MAC address contain a code assigned by the IEEE to uniquely identify the manufacturer of the card, and the 24 bits are a number uniquely assigned by the manufacturer. Here are two points relating to MAC addresses that you're likely to see on the test: ARP (Address Resolution Protocol): Uses broadcast messages to learn the MAC or Ethernet address of a known IP address. The node with the broadcasted IP address responds with its MAC address, completing the set. Reverse ARP (RARP): Broadcasts messages to learn the IP address corresponding to a known MAC address. This requires the presence of a RARP server on the network. An example of where this procedure is used is booting a diskless workstation. An IPX address is 10 bytes (80 bits) long. Four bytes is the network number and 6 bytes is the node number. The node number is normally the MAC address of the node. Remember Unlike IP addresses IPX addresses are not structured into classes. It's not uncommon for the network number not to use the entire 6 bytes. any zeros at the beginning of the network address are dropped.

The 32-bit IP address is broken up into four octets, which are arranged into a dotteddecimal notation scheme. An octet is a set of 8 bits. Converting to Decimal

The positions of the binary number represent powers of two: 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 Placing a 1 in one of the binary positions turns on that value and adds it into the decimal number representation. A zero in any position turns off the value in that position and it doesn't add into the number representation. Example 1 Binary number 1111 1111 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Result is: 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 255 Example 2 Binary number 1011 1110 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 128 0 32 16 8 4 2 0 Result is: 128 + 0 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 0 = 190 IP addresses are divided into five classes, each of which is designated with the alphabetic letters A to E. For the exam, forget about Classes D and E. Class D addresses are used for multicasting, and Class E addresses are reserved for testing and some mysterious future use. IP Address Class Assignments Class First Octet Value Class A 0-127 Class B 128-191 Class C 192-223 Network and Host Representation by IP Address Class Class Class A

Octet1 Octet2 Network Host

Octet3 Host

Octet4 Host

Class B Class C

Network Network Host Network Network Network

Host Host

Special IP Addresses Network Address 0's 0's 1's Network Addresss 127

Host Address 0's Host address 1's 1's anything

Description Default Cisco route Local network hosts Broadcast to local network Broadcast to network address Loopback testing

Example 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.115 255.255.255.255 192.21.12.255 127.0.0.1

Subnet Mask The function of a subnet mask is to determine whether an IP address exists on the local network or whether it must be routed outside the local network. The subnet mask is applied to a message's destination address to extract the network address. If the extracted network address matches the local network ID, the destination is located on the local network. However, if they don't match, the message must be routed outside the local network. The process used to apply the subnet mask involves Boolean algebra to filter out non-matching bits to identify the network address. Working with subnet masks, you need only four basic principles of Boolean algebra: 1 and 1 = 1 1 and 0 = 0 0 and 1 = 0 0 and 0 = 0 The process of combining binary values with Boolean algebra is called anding. There are default standard subnet masks for Class A, B and C addresses. The commonly used subnet masks for each IP address class are: Address Class Class A Class B Class C

Subnet Mask 255.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 255.255.255.0

Verifying an IP Address

IP addresses are verified using PING, Trace and Telnet. For the exam it's important that you know that PING is used to verify IP address connections to the Network layer and that Telnet is used to verify network IP address connections to the Application layer. Cisco PING Response Codes Response ! (exclamation mark) . (period) U | (vertical bar) ? (question mark) C & (ampersand)

Meaning Success Timed out waiting for reply Destination unreachable Ping process interrupted Unknown packet type Congestion-experienced Time to live exceeded

Cisco Trace Command Response Codes Response * !H N P U

Meaning Timed out router received packet but did not forward it network unreachable protocol unreachable port unreachable

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