Ip Addresses
Some more precise terminology, relative to yesterday:
Parts of an IPv4 address are referred to as octets, and there are 4 of them. I suppose they’re called octets because they’re represented by 8 bits.
The network identifier (denoted by Y below) and host identifier (denoted by Z below) together make up the address, and the number of octets that each identifier has differs depending on the class.
| Class | IP |
|---|---|
| A | YYY.ZZZ.ZZZ.ZZZ |
| B | YYY.YYY.ZZZ.ZZZ |
| C | YYY.YYY.YYY.ZZZ |