IP addressing refers to assigning a 32-bit binary numerical label to all the devices connected to a network that communicates to the internet. The 32-bit IPv4 address is subdivided into 4 x 8-bit segments, which are known as octets. As only a few users work with 32-bit IPv4 addresses, the IP address is generally expressed in the dotted-decimal format. Here, each octet is assigned to an equivalent decimal number and the four decimal values are separated using periods. Typically, the eight binary bits can represent any number from 0 to 255. This means that each of the parts of the dotted-decimal in an IPv4 address can be any decimal from 0 to 255. Although IP addresses are broken into four[…]