Cisco Networking Foundations: IP Addressing

Learn the basics of IP addressing, including IPv4 and IPv6, in this course on foundational Cisco networking skills.

Introduction

• Learn IP addressing
• What you’ll learn

1. IPv4 Addressing

• Converting from binary to decimal
• Converting from decimal to binary
• Binary practice exercise #1
• Binary practice exercise #2
• IPv4 address format
• IPv4 address classes
• Public vs. private IPv4 addresses
• IPv4 unicast, broadcast, and multicast
• The need for subnetting
• Calculating available subnets
• Calculating available hosts
• Subnetting practice exercise #1
• Subnetting practice exercise #2
• Calculating usable ranges of IPv4 addresses
• Subnetting practice exercise #3

2. IPv6 Addressing

• Hexadecimal numbering
• IPv6 address format
• Shortening an IPv6 address
• IPv6 address shortening exercise
• IPv6 global unicast
• IPv6 multicast
• IPv6 link local
• IPv6 unique local
• IPv6 loopback
• IPv6 unspecified
• IPv6 solicited-node multicast
• EUI-64 address
• IPv6 autoconfiguration
• IPv6 traffic flows

Conclusion

• Next steps