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Class D (Multicast) : Class Leading Bits Bit Field Size of Size of Rest Field
Class D (Multicast) : Class Leading Bits Bit Field Size of Size of Rest Field
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
A
B
C
D (multicast)
E (reserved)
Leading
bits
0
10
110
1110
1111
Size of
network
number
bit
field
8
16
24
not defined
not defined
10.10.0.0
0.0.255.255
Size of rest
bit field
24
16
8
not defined
not defined
a classless network
breaks the rules by
using more than the
'allowed' network
number field
example:
this is classless.
Number
of networks
128 (27)
16,384 (214)
2,097,152 (221)
not defined
not defined
Addresses
per network
16,777,216 (224)
65,536 (216)
256 (28)
not defined
not defined
0000
1000
1100
1110
0000
0000
0000
0000
bit start
0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0111
1011
1101
1110
1111
1111
1111
1111
bit end
1111 1111 1111
1111 1111 1111
1111 1111 1111
1111 1111 1111
1111
1111
1111
1111
1111
1111
1111
1111
1111
1111
1111
1111