
card.” The business owner can then assign his individual computer connections the numbers as shown in Figure 51.
Internet | 192.77.43.2 | 192.77.43.3 | 192.77.43.4 | 192.77.43.5 |
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Figure 51: IP addresses assigned to individual computer connections
A large organization like a university might apply for a class B network, in which the first two bytes are assigned and the last two bytes are available to the university to assign up to 64 thousand computers in
A very large entity might require a class A network that would allow over 16 million individual IP address assignments. Table 11 gives the ranges of IP addresses IANA reserves for specific purposes.
HNS customers have already acquired IP address ranges and supply these as needed to HNS installers.
Note, however, that many organizations of various sizes now use private IP addressing (see Private IP addresses below). These organizations do not need to assign a unique public IP address to each computer (or "host") on their networks.
Table 11: IP Address ranges
Category | Lowest address | Highest address | Example or comment |
Class A network | 0.1.0.0 | 126.0.0.0 | 9.*.*.* for IBM Corp. |
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Class B network | 128.0.0.0 | 191.255.0.0 | 170.15.*.* – a university |
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Class C network | 192.0.1.0 | 223.255.0.0 | 192.77.43.* – small business |
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D – multicast | 224.0.0.0 | 239.255.255.255 |
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