The document discusses IPv4 addressing and logical addressing in computer networks. It covers the following key points:
- IPv4 addresses are 32-bit addresses that uniquely identify devices connected to the internet. The total address space is 232 or approximately 4.3 billion addresses.
- Addresses can be written in binary or dotted-decimal notation. IPv4 addresses are divided into classes based on the first bits of the address.
- Classful addressing wasted a large portion of addresses. It was replaced by classless addressing which allocates address blocks of variable sizes.
- In classless addressing, a block of addresses is defined as the network address, subnet mask, and number of hosts. The first and last