Nt1310 Unit 1 Network Analysis

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Components on a network need their own addresses, because you need a way to uniquely identify each component on the network, also components interact with each other, so their needs to be different addresses to distinguish one component from the other. A network needs a specific address to provide routing, like that traffic can be sent to different interfaces depending on address.
A network address identifies a specific network to which a host is linked, it is the address of the component. A host address uniquely identifies a host within a network it is the name of the device on the network.

A public IPv4 address is a globally unique IP address which can be assigned to a unique device by an internet service provider. A public IPv4 address
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You usually always need default getaway since it is an IP address of the router which provides communication with another subnet.

Subnet mask is a 32-bit number that masks an IP address and divides them into network addresses and host addresses, it is generally a net of numbers used for routing traffic within a subnet. Subnet mask is created by setting network bits to all ones and setting host bits to all zeros, this process is called subnetting. It is used to separate a large network in smaller multiple networks which is required for reorganization and security purposes. Subnet masks separates network addresses from host addresses, then by preforming bit-wise logical AND operation we get a product with a network address.

A routing tables is a set of rules that is presented in a table format, it is used to resolve where packets of data is traveling through an IP network. A routing table is present on all IP nodes like routers and switches. Routing table contains information about IP networks and how they can be reached and forward data in packages in the best path from source to