From the course: Introduction to Network Routing
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Binary and hexadecimal
From the course: Introduction to Network Routing
Binary and hexadecimal
- [Instructor] IPV4, also known as the fourth version of the internet protocol, is the protocol that routes most of the internet traffic. This is going to be a connectionless protocol, which means that the state of the connection is not preserved and the data is transmitted to the receiver without ensuring that the recipient is going to be available. So in order to send data where it is going to be available and it is assured, we need to add another protocol on top of it, such as TCP or transmission control protocol. IPV4 uses 32 bit addressing, and that allows for over 4 billion addresses or two to the 32nd power. Some addresses are going to be reserved for public and private and government networks. An IP address consists of four octets and they're separated by a period, which is also known as a dotted decimal notation. Oct in this case means eight and it's used because the value of the octets is two to the eighth power.…
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