Chapter 8. Hexadecimal and Binary Numbering and IP Addressing

This chapter helps you understand the structure of IP addresses and how to use subnetting and supernetting, a newer concept, to more effectively control major network address space. The chapter is broken into the following sections:

• Binary numbering versus decimal numbering

• Hexadecimal numbering versus decimal numbering

• Introduction to the 32-bit IP address

• Understanding subnet masks, subnetting, and supernetting