Networking Foundations: IP Addressing

Learn about the basics of IP addressing in networking, from how IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are formed to how to configure DHCP.

Introduction

• Welcome to this course
• What you should know

1. IP Addressing Basics

• The IP address and its purpose
• Expressing IP addresses
• IP addressing structures and functions
• IP addressing examples in modern networks
• Challenge: Examining IP addresses
• Solution: Examining IP addresses

2. IP Address Components

• Classful addressing
• Subnet masks
• Subnet addressing
• VLSM
• Broadcast addressing
• IPv6 addresses
• Challenge: Subnet masks
• Solution: Subnet masks

3. CIDR and Aggregation

• IP address prefixes
• IP address aggregation
• Challenge: IP address aggregation
• Solution: IP address aggregation

4. Special Use Addresses

• IPv4 to IPv6 translators
• Multicast addressing
• Anycast addressing

5. Some IP Services

• Introducing DHCP
• Configuring DHCP
• Introducing DNS
• Configuring DNS
• RFC 1918 addressing
• Introducing NAT
• Challenge: IP services
• Solution: IP services

Conclusion

• Next steps