This Homework Is Due By 11:59 PM on Sunday September 14, 2014

  1. Given the following IP addresses (In Hexadecimal), identify (a) the Class, (b) the Network ID, (c) the Host ID of the following IP Addresses, and (d) write each address in dotted decimal notation:
    1. D548C7AB
    2. 6F7C4B27
    3. 954278CE
    4. 4F2E2D9D
    5. C7894FFA
    6. A18EF3D1
    7. B8C657BE
    8. D9A57E4B
    9. 2F9862CD

  2. Exactly how many class A, B, and C networks can exist? Exactly how many hosts can a network in each class have? How many possible addresses are possible in each class? Be careful to allow for broadcast as well as class D and E addresses.

  3. How many IP addresses would be needed to assign a unique IP address to every house in the USA? The world? Is the IP address space sufficient? (Search the internet for reasonable numbers of households in the USA and the world).

  4. Describe the message routing activity that we did in class with the index cards.

Please submit the completed assignment on Blackboard as a Microsoft Word file or a PDF file. No other forms of submission will be accepted.