TCP/IP is one of the most important elements of Internet technology and is the element that makes intranets so easy to set up and use. The TCP/IP is actually a whole family of protocols, which provides the foundation to the Internet. TCP, meaning Transmission Control Protocol, and IP, meaning Internet Protocol, is the first thing that you can do before you can connect to the internet or do anything with your workstations. The …showed first 75 words of 1020 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1020 total…from the first three classes. It has a first bit value of 1, second bit value of 1, third bit value of 1 and fourth bit value of 1. The other 28 bits are used to identify the group of computers the multicast message is intended for. Class E accounts for 1/16th (268,435,456) of the available IP addresses. Broadcast - Messages that are intended for all computers on a network are sent as broadcasts, these messages always use the IP address 255.255.255.255.