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How to know if two IP

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Published on August 2, 2019

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So many times in networking specially during the technical discussion

we get confused with a very simple question that is "whether these two
IP addresses are in same network or in different network? I myself did
get confuse several times. So today I am just going to explain in a very
simple way to identify whether the two IPs are in the same network or
different .

Let’s come back to the very basic of networking and discuss the classes
of IPs.

TCP/IP defines five classes of IP addresses: class A, B, C, D, and E.

Each class has a range of valid IP addresses. The value of the first octet
determines the class. IP addresses from the first three classes (A, B and
C) can be used for host addresses. The other two classes are used for
other purposes – class D for multicast and class E for experimental
purposes.

The system of IP address classes was developed for the purpose of

Internet IP addresses assignment. The classes created were based on the

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very large number of hosts, the Class A was created. The Class C was
created for numerous networks with small number of hosts

Classes of IP addresses are:

For the IP addresses from Class A, the first 8 bits (the first decimal
number) represent the network part, while the remaining 24 bits
represent the host part. For Class B, the first 16 bits (the first two
numbers) represent the network part, while the remaining 16 bits
represent the host part. For Class C, the first 24 bits represent the
network part, while the remaining 8 bits represent the host part.
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on two different IP networks? Unfortunately, it isn’t as easy as it is with
street addresses to see which part of an IP address that is the IP network
and which part belongs to the host addresses.

The answer is within

something called a Subnet
Mask. An IP address is always
combined with a Subnet Mask,
and it is the Subnet Mask that
determines which part of the
IP address that belongs to the
IP network and which part
that belongs to host addresses.

The answer is within something called a Subnet Mask. An IP address

is always combined with a Subnet Mask, and it is the Subnet Mask that
determines which part of the IP address that belongs to the IP network
and which part that belongs to host addresses.

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Before going through the example please have a look into the
subnetting of class C address.

192.168.1.14 /24 mask 255.255.255.0 would be on the same

network as 192.168.1.128/24 mask 255.255.255.0. But if the mask
was 255.255.255.128 that is /25 then they would not.. the last host

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of the first subnet would be .126.If the mask was only 255.255.0.0
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then 192.168.1.? and 192.168.254.? would be on the same network.

10.50.120.7 – Since this is a Class A address, the first number (10)

represents the network part, while the remainder of the address
represents the host part (50.120.7). This means that, in order for
devices to be on the same network, the first number of their IP
addresses has to be the same for both devices. In this case, a device
with the IP address of 10.47.8.4 is on the same network as the
device with the IP address listed above. The device with the IP
address 11.5.4.3 is not on the same network, because the first
number of its IP address is different.

172.16.55.13 – because this is a Class B address, the first two

numbers (172.16) represent the network part, while the remainder
of the address represents the host part (55.13). A device with the IP
address of 172.16.254.3 is on the same network, while a device
with the IP address of 172.55.54.74 isn’t.

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The system of network address ranges described here is generally
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bypassed today by use of the Classless Inter-Domain Routing
(CIDR) addressing.We will be discussing the Classless and Classful
addressing in our next article.

Special IP address ranges that are used for special purposes are:

0.0.0.0/8 – addresses used to communicate with the local network

127.0.0.0/8 – loopback addresses

169.254.0.0/16 – link-local addresses (APIPA)

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Is there any article covering IPV6 for the same topic? How will we know if two IPV6
addresses are in the same network?

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You have cleared my query, Thank you

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