Chapter 8. Hexadecimal and Binary Numbering and IP Addressing
This chapter helps you understand the structure of IP addresses and how to use subnetting and supernetting, a newer concept, to more effectively control major network address space. The chapter is broken into the following sections:
Binary numbering versus decimal numbering
Hexadecimal numbering versus decimal numbering
Introduction to the 32-bit IP address
Understanding subnet masks, subnetting, and supernetting
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