Question

What are the components of an ip address explain various classes of ip address?

Answer 1

The IP address is a familiar term for most computer users. An IP address is the unique numerical address of a device in a computer network that uses Internet Protocol for communication. The IP address allow you to pinpoint a particular device from the billions of devices on the Internet

An IP address consists of four numbers; each can contain one to three digits. These numbers are separated with a single dot (.). These four numbers can range from 0 to 255.

 

Types of IP addresses

The IP addresses can be classified into two. They are listed below.

1) Static IP addresses

2) Dynamic IP addresses

Answer 2

it uniquely identifies this machine on your network. For all hosts on your network, the network part of the IP address will be the same and host part will be changing. The IP hierarchy contains many classes of the IP addresses. ... All the five classes are identified by the first octet of the IP address.