Chapter 1

Addressing and Subnetting Basics

IP Address Basics

IPv4 addressing is used to assign a logical address to a physical device. That sounds like a lot to think about, but actually it is very simple. Two devices in an Ethernet network can exchange information because each of them has a network interface card with a unique Ethernet address that ...

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