Network Layer:

Logical Addressing

Dr. Kunwar Pal

Dept. of CSE
NIT Jalandhar
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 19-1 IPv4 ADDRESSES

An IPv4 address is a 32-bit address that uniquely and

universally defines the connection of a device (for
example, a computer or a router) to the Internet.

Topics discussed in this section:

Address Space
Notations
Classful Addressing
Classless Addressing
Network Address Translation (NAT)

19.2
 Note

An IPv4 address is 32 bits long.

19.3
 Note

The IPv4 addresses are unique

and universal.

19.4
 Note

The address space of IPv4 is

232 or 4,294,967,296.

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Figure 19.1 Dotted-decimal notation and binary notation for an IPv4 address

19.6
 Example 19.1

Change the following IPv4 addresses from binary

notation to dotted-decimal notation.

Solution
We replace each group of 8 bits with its equivalent
decimal number (see Appendix B) and add dots for
separation.

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 Example 19.2

Change the following IPv4 addresses from dotted-decimal

notation to binary notation.

a. 111.56.45.78
b. 221.34.7.82

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 Note

In classful addressing, the address

space is divided into five classes:
A, B, C, D, and E.

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 Figure 19.2 Finding the classes in binary and dotted-decimal notation

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 Example 19.4

Find the class of each address.

a. 00000001 00001011 00001011 11101111
b. 11000001 10000011 00011011 11111111
c. 14.23.120.8
d. 252.5.15.111

Solution
a. The first bit is 0. This is a class A address.
b. The first 2 bits are 1; the third bit is 0. This is a class C
address.
c. The first byte is 14; the class is A.
d. The first byte is 252; the class is E.
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 Table 19.1 Number of blocks and block size in classful IPv4 addressing

19.12
 Note

In classful addressing, a large part of the

available addresses were wasted.

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 Table 19.2 Default masks for classful addressing

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 Note

Classful addressing, which is almost

obsolete, is replaced with classless
addressing.

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 Note

In IPv4 addressing, a block of

addresses can be defined as
x.y.z.t /n
in which x.y.z.t defines one of the
addresses and the /n defines the mask.

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 Note

The first address in the block can be

found by setting the rightmost
32 − n bits to 0s.

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 Example 19.6

A block of addresses is granted to a small organization.

We know that one of the addresses is 205.16.37.39/28.
What is the first address in the block?

Solution
The binary representation of the given address is
11001101 00010000 00100101 00100111
If we set 32−28 rightmost bits to 0, we get
11001101 00010000 00100101 0010000
or
205.16.37.32.
This is actually the block shown in Figure 19.3.
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 Note

The last address in the block can be

found by setting the rightmost
32 − n bits to 1s.

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 Example 19.7

Find the last address for the block in Example 19.6.

Solution
The binary representation of the given address is
11001101 00010000 00100101 00100111
If we set 32 − 28 rightmost bits to 1, we get
11001101 00010000 00100101 00101111
or
205.16.37.47
This is actually the block shown in Figure 19.3.

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 Note

The number of addresses in the block

can be found by using the formula
232−n.

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 Example 19.8

Find the number of addresses in Example 19.6.

Solution
The value of n is 28, which means that number
of addresses is 2 32−28 or 16.

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 Example 19.9

Another way to find the first address, the last address, and
the number of addresses is to represent the mask as a
32-bit binary (or 8-digit hexadecimal) number. This is
particularly useful when we are writing a program to find
these pieces of information. In Example 19.5 the /28 can
be represented as
11111111 11111111 11111111 11110000
(twenty-eight 1s and four 0s).

Find
a. The first address
b. The last address
c. The number of addresses.
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 Example 19.9 (continued)

Solution
a. The first address can be found by ANDing the given
addresses with the mask. ANDing here is done bit by
bit. The result of ANDing 2 bits is 1 if both bits are 1s;
the result is 0 otherwise.

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 Example 19.9 (continued)

b. The last address can be found by ORing the given

addresses with the complement of the mask. ORing
here is done bit by bit. The result of ORing 2 bits is 0 if
both bits are 0s; the result is 1 otherwise. The
complement of a number is found by changing each 1
to 0 and each 0 to 1.

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 Figure 19.4 A network configuration for the block 205.16.37.32/28

19.26
 Note

The first address in a block is

normally not assigned to any device;
it is used as the network address that
represents the organization
to the rest of the world.

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 Figure 19.6 A frame in a character-oriented protocol

19.28
 Note

Each address in the block can be

considered as a two-level
hierarchical structure:
the leftmost n bits (prefix) define
the network;
the rightmost 32 − n bits define
the host.

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 Figure 19.7 Configuration and addresses in a subnetted network

19.30
 Figure 19.8 Three-level hierarchy in an IPv4 address

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 Example 19.10

An ISP is granted a block of addresses starting with

190.100.0.0/16 (65,536 addresses). The ISP needs to
distribute these addresses to three groups of customers as
follows:
a. The first group has 64 customers; each needs 256
addresses.
b. The second group has 128 customers; each needs 128
addresses.
c. The third group has 128 customers; each needs 64
addresses.
Design the subblocks and find out how many addresses
are still available after these allocations.
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 Example 19.10 (continued)

Solution
Figure 19.9 shows the situation.
Group 1
For this group, each customer needs 256 addresses. This
means that 8 (log2 256) bits are needed to define each
host. The prefix length is then 32 − 8 = 24. The addresses
are

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 Example 19.10 (continued)

Group 2
For this group, each customer needs 128 addresses. This
means that 7 (log2 128) bits are needed to define each
host. The prefix length is then 32 − 7 = 25. The addresses
are

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 Example 19.10 (continued)
Group 3
For this group, each customer needs 64 addresses. This
means that 6 (log264) bits are needed to each host. The
prefix length is then 32 − 6 = 26. The addresses are

Number of granted addresses to the ISP: 65,536

Number of allocated addresses by the ISP: 40,960
Number of available addresses: 24,576
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 Private Address

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 Figure 19.10 A NAT implementation

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 Figure 19.11 Addresses in a NAT

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 Figure 19.12 NAT address translation

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 Table 19.4 Five-column translation table

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 19-2 IPv6 ADDRESSES

Despite all short-term solutions, address depletion is

still a long-term problem for the Internet. This and
other problems in the IP protocol itself have been the
motivation for IPv6.

Topics discussed in this section:

Structure
Address Space

19.41
 Note

An IPv6 address is 128 bits long.

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 Figure 19.14 IPv6 address in binary and hexadecimal colon notation

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 Figure 19.15 Abbreviated IPv6 addresses

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 Example 19.11

Expand the address 0:15::1:12:1213 to its original.

Solution
We first need to align the left side of the double colon to
the left of the original pattern and the right side of the
double colon to the right of the original pattern to find
how many 0s we need to replace the double colon.

This means that the original address is.

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IPv4 Addressing Concepts
and Their IPv6 Equivalents
IPv4 Address IPv6 Address
Address Length – 32 bits 128 bits
Address Representation - decimal hexadecimal

Internet address classes Not applicable in IPv6

Multicast addresses (224.0.0.0/4) IPv6 multicast addresses (FF00::/8)

Broadcast addresses Not applicable in IPv6

Unspecified address is 0.0.0.0 Unspecified address is ::
Loopback address is 127.0.0.1 Loopback address is ::1

Public IP addresses Global unicast addresses

Private IP addresses (10.0.0.0/8, Site-local addresses (FEC0::/10)

172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16)
Autoconfigured addresses (169.254.0.0/16) Link-local addresses (FE80::/64)

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IPv6 Packet Format
IPv4 Header Structure

■ basic IPv4 header contains 12 fields.

■ each field of the IPv4 header has a specific use.
■ Shaded field are removed in IPv6.
IPv4 Header - Review
IPv4 Header - Review
■ Version (4 bits)
■ Indicates the version of IP and is set to 4.
■ Internet Header Length (4 bits)
■ Indicates the number of 4-byte blocks in the IPv4 header.
■ Because an IPv4 header is a minimum of 20 bytes in size, the
smallest value of the Internet Header Length (IHL) field is 5.
■ Type of Service (4 bits)
■ Indicates the desired service expected by this packet for delivery
through routers across the IPv4 internetwork.

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IPv6 Packet Format
IPv4 Header - Review
■ Total Length (16 bits)
■ Indicates the total length of the IPv4 packet (IPv4 header + IPv4 payload)
and does not include link layer framing.
■ Identification (16 bits)
■ Identifies this specific IPv4 packet.
■ The Identification field is selected by the originating source of the IPv4
packet. If the IPv4 packet is fragmented, all of the fragments retain the
Identification field value so that the destination node can group the
fragments for reassembly.
■ Flags (3 bits)
■ Identifies flags for the fragmentation process.
■ There are two flags—one to indicate whether the IPv4 packet might be
fragmented and another to indicate whether more fragments follow the
current fragment.
■ Fragment Offset (13 bits)
■ Indicates the position of the fragment relative to the original IPv4 payload.

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IPv6 Packet Format
IPv4 Header - Review
■ Time to Live ( 8 bits)
■ Indicate the maximum number of links on which an IPv4 packet can travel
before being discarded.
■ Originally used as a time count with which an IPv4 router determined the
length of time required (in seconds) to forward the IPv4 packet,
decrementing the TTL accordingly. When the TTL equals 0,an ICMP Time
Expired-TTL Expired in Transit message is sent to the source IPv4 address
and the packet is discarded.
■ Protocol (8 bits)
■ Identifies the upper layer protocol.
■ For example, TCP uses a Protocol of 6, UDP uses a Protocol of 17, and ICMP
uses a Protocol of 1.
■ The Protocol field is used to demultiplex an IPv4 packet to the upper layer
protocol.

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IPv6 Packet Format
IPv4 Header - Review
■ Header Checksum (16 Bits)
■ Provides a checksum on the IPv4 header only.
■ The IPv4 payload is not included in the checksum calculation as the IPv4
payload and usually contains its own checksum..
■ Source Address ( 32 bits)
■ Stores the IPv4 address of the originating host.
■ Destination Address (32 bits)
■ Stores the IPv4 address of the destination host.
■ Options (multiple of 32 bits)
■ Stores one or more IPv4 options.

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IPv6 Packet Format
IPv4 vs IPv6 Header

IPv6 Packet Format

IPv6 Header

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IPv6 Packet Format
IPv6 Header Fields
■ Based on these rules, RFC 2460 defines the following IPv6 header fields:

1. Version (4 bits)
■ 4 bits are used to indicate the version of IP and is set to 6

■ Traffic Class (8 bits)

■ same function as the Type of Service field in the IPv4 header.

1. Flow Label (20 bits)

■ identifies a flow and it is intended to enable the router to identify
packets that should be treated in a similar way without the need
for deep lookups within those packets.
■ set by the source and should not be changed by routers along the
path to destination.
IPv6 Header Fields
4. Payload Length (16 bits)
■ With the header length fixed at 40 bytes, it is enough to indicate the
length of the payload to determine the length of the entire packet.

5. Next Header (8 bits)

■ Indicates either the first extension header (if present) or the protocol
in the upper layer PDU (such as TCP, UDP, or ICMPv6).

6. Hop Limit (8 bits)

■ In IPv6, the IPv4 TTL was appropriately renamed Hop Limit because it
is a variable that is decremented at each hop, and it does not have a
temporal dimension.

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IPv6 Packet Format
IPv6 Header Fields
7. Source IPv6 Address (128 bits)
• Stores the IPv6 address of the originating host.
8. Destination IPv6 Address (128 bits)
■ Stores the IPv6 address of the current destination host.

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IPv6 Packet Format
Values of the Next Header Field

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IPv6 Packet Format