Computer Networks

As in classful addressing, some blocks of addresses or some addresses in each block have been reserved for the special purpose & that’s why they are termed as special IP addresses. The special addresses of classful addressing were inherited by the classless addressing when it was introduced in 1996. There can be an entire block of addresses reserved for special … [Read more...] about Special IP Addresses in IPv4

Classless addressing is a concept of addressing the IPv4 addresses. It was adopted after the failure of classful addressing. The classful addressing leads to wastage of addresses as it assigns a fixed-size block of addresses to the customer. But, the classless addressing assigns a block of addresses to the customer according to its requirement which prevents the wastage of … [Read more...] about Classless Addressing in IPv4

Classful addressing is a concept that divides the available address space of IPv4 into five classes namely A, B, C, D & E. Nowadays, this concept has become obsolete and has been replaced with classless addressing. IP addresses, before 1993 use the classful addressing where classes have a fixed number of blocks and each block has a fixed number of hosts. In this section, we … [Read more...] about Classful Addressing in IPv4

Connection oriented and Connectionless services are the two data transmission services provided by the network layer protocols and transport layer protocols. The Connection oriented services establish a connection prior to sending the packets belonging to the same message from source to the destination. On the other hand, the connectionless service considers each packet … [Read more...] about Connection Oriented and Connectionless Services