Learning Objectives for CS 332, Chapter 21

Students will be able to...

• Differentiate between the role of a MAC address and the role of an IP address.
• Explain the need for a universal addressing scheme (IP addresses).
• Identify the two parts of an address, the network part and host part (or the "prefix" and "suffix"), and describe the importance of each.
• Differentiate between class A, class B, and class C addressing.
• Design a subnet addressing solution for a company with a specific number of networks and hosts.
• Express IP addresses in dotted-decimal notation.
• Explain the role of a subnet mask.
• Compute whether a host is on a specific network, given the subnet mask.
• Explain the motivation for CIDR (classless addressing).
• Write a subnet mask in CIDR notation.
• Compute how many hosts can be assigned to a /m network.
• Identify a "Directed Broadcast Address", "Limited Broadcast Address", "This Computer Address", and "Loopback Address".
• Explain why IP addresses are assigned to interfaces on networks (not ports, not hosts, not devices).
• Explain what a multi-homed host is.