Classes of IP Addresses

Overview

Goals

The aim is for students to know how to identify classful IP addresses and to determine its network address and broadcast address.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the session, the students will learn: -The process of identifying the classful IP addresses (i.e. Class A, B or C) -The process of determining the network address and broadcast address

Context

Students have difficulty in identifying the correct classful IP address class leading to incorrect network and broadcast addresses. This creates problem to further understand the needs to design network using some popular network schemes.