Chapter 7
IP Addressing
THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA NETWORK+ EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
✓ 1.4 Given a scenario, configure the appropriate IP addressing components
- Private vs. public
- Loopback and reserved Default gateway
- Virtual IP Subnet mask
- Classful
- Classes A, B, C, D, and E
- Classful
- Address assignments DHCP
- DHCPv6
- Static
- APIPA
- EUI64
✓ 1.3 Explain the concepts and characteristics of routing and switching
- Properties of network traffic
- Broadcast domains
- Broadcast
- Multicast
- Unicast
- Addressing
One of the most important topics in any discussion of TCP/IP is IP addressing. An IP address is a numeric identifier assigned to each machine on an IP network. It designates the specific location of a device on the network.
An IP address is a logical address, not a hardware address—the latter is hard-coded on a network interface card (NIC) and used for finding hosts on a local network. IP addressing was designed to allow hosts on one network to communicate with...
