Principles Digital Communication System & Computer Networks (Charles River Media Computer Engineering)

You can use the procedure described in Exercise #1 of Chapter 15 to obtain the IP address of your computer.

In class B IP address format, 14 bits are used for network ID and 16 bits for host ID. Hence, 2¹⁴ networks can be addressed, and each network can have 2¹⁶ hosts.

In class C IP address format, 24 bits are used for network ID and 8 bits for host ID. Hence, 2²⁴ networks can be addressed and in each network 2⁸ hosts.

The maximum number of addresses supported by IP Version 6 is 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456.

You can obtain the RFC from the site http://www.ietf.org.