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Understanding

IP Addresses
and Subnetting
for Network
Configuration
Mathieu Filippone
Basics of IP
Addresses
• An IP address is like a home
address for your device on the
internet and or local network.
This allows other computers to
find each other to share data
What is an IP
address?
• An IPv4 address is made up of
4 parts which are called octets
such as: 192.168.0.1. Each
part of the octet can be any
number from 0-255. Usually
the first part tells you the
network and the other parts tell
you about the device itself

How is an IPv4
address
structured?
• Public IP addresses are used
to identify devices on the
internet. While Private IP
addresses are used inside a
network and cannot be
What are Public and accessed from the network.
Private IP addresses Private ranges can be:
10.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x, and
192.168.x.x.
IP Address
Classes
Class A: For big networks
(0.0.0.0 all the way to
127.255.255.255)

What are the


main classes Class B: For medium sized
networks (128.0.0.0 to
of IP 223.255.255.255)
addresses?
Class C: For smaller
networks (192.0.0.0 to
223.255.255.225)
• They were created to make it
easier to divide up/organize
the internet into different
networks or different sizes.
Why do these
classes exist?
Class based
addressing isn’t
always efficient
CIDR
• CIDR is a newer way of giving
IP addresses that doesn’t rely
on the old class system.
Instead, it uses a number
after a slash kinda like: /24
this is to show how many bits
What is CIDR? are used for the network part.
• It helps tell devices which
part of an IP address is the
network and which part is the
device itself

What’s a subnet
mask?
How does
CIDR help? It helps save some IP
addreses because it allows
more flexibility in how they
are assigned
Subnetting and
Why It’s
Important?
• Subnetting divides a large
network into a bunch of
smaller networks called
subnets/ This helps improve
network performance and
security.
What is subnetting?
How does
subnetting help
large
organizations?
It makes things more manageable,
organized and improves security.
How does
subnetting
prevent IP
address It allows for more efficient
use of IP addresses meaning
we don’t waste IP addresses
exhaustion?
Part 2. Product
Creation
Introduction to
IP Addressing
and Subnetting
• IP address is a way of identifying devices on a
network, with IPv4 addresses structured into 4
parts (octets) which consist of a network portion
and a host portion. IP addresses are divided into
3 classes A, B, and C. A is for large networks B is
Summary on IP for medium networks and C is for small
networks. This system wastes address space

addresses, IP and to solve this issue we can use CIDR. This


uses flexible subnets to divide networks better.
Subnetting adds onto CIDR by breaking down
classes, CIDR, networks into smaller portions that are easier to
organize, improve security, and helps prevent IP

and Subnetting. address exhaustion. Together IP addresses,


CIDR, and subnetting makes everyone’s life
easier.
Subnetting the IP range
(192.168.10.0/24)
• The company uses an address
range of (192.168.10.0 to
Practical 192.168.10.255) which will be
Scenario and divided into 3 subnets
Solution • I’ll use a /26 subnet which has
4 subnets with 64 addresses
each.
• Subnet mask: 255.255.255.192
• Starting IP: 192.168.10.0
• Ending IP: 192.169.10.63
• Usable IPS: 192.168.10.1 to
192.168.10.62
Subnet 1 HR
• Subnet mask: 255.255.255.192
• Starting IP: 192.168.10.64
• Ending IP: 192.168.10.127
• Usable IPS: 192.168.10.85 to
Subnet 2 192.168.10.126
Marketing
• Subnet mask: 255.255.255.192
• Starting IP: 192.168.10.128
• Ending IP: 192.168.10.191
• Usable IPS: 192.168.10.129 to
Subnet 3 IT 129.168.10.190
• CompTIA. CertMaster Learn
for Network+ (N10-009).
CompTIA, 2024.

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